Our Amazing Board

Girls Unite's leadership brings a wide range of professional backgrounds. As a fully volunteer board, Girls Unite greatly benefits from their insights and collaboration behind the club program scene.

Ann Hadley

President, Girls Unite Board of Directors

Ann is the current Chair/President of the Girls Unite Board of Directors a role she’s held for several years. She spends time on the soccer field assisting with Weee Kickin it and plans to coach micro soccer. She started playing soccer as an adult after years as an athlete in multiple other sports. She was a D1 collegiate varsity athlete and stays active sailing, climbing, and playing pickleball.
Ann has years of leadership experience in Information Technology, working with firms such as General Motors, Sony Music Entertainment, Palantir, Fitbit, and Google. Her areas of expertise include privacy and security governance, risk and compliance; software/hardware development; business process engineering and organizational change management with extensive experience in fast growth and start-up entities. She is an advisor for Playbook Five, a virtual reality solution that provides coaches and athletes with an instructional solution to augment field time.

Jim Morris

Treasurer, Girls Unite Board of Directors

Jim is an original member of the Girls Unite board and has been the Treasurer for the past 5 years. He’s committed to creating an environment where the Girls Unite non-profit mission can thrive. Jim’s been involved in the San Francisco soccer scene for 15 years as a coach, parent, team manager, board member, referee, and player.

Professionally, Jim is a technology consultant working with companies to create world class user experiences. He's a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with over two decades of experience including an IPO and a buyout. He also lectures at UC Berkeley in Product Management.

Matt Koidin

Secretary, Girls Unite Board of Directors

Matt joined the entrepreneur ranks while still an undergraduate at Stanford University, founding a company called Justarrive, one of the first e-ticket companies. That experience hooked Matt on being an entrepreneur and since then his journey has included stints at four startups, Mozilla, Microsoft, and strategy consulting with Deloitte. He is currently the CTO at BreakAway Data, empowering athletes to achieve their full potential by aggregating and analyzing their performance, fitness and health data.

Matt also serves on the board of the Drew School in San Francisco and was a founding co-chair of the Presidio Knolls School. He is a recipient of the Fuqua Alumni Impact Award for his role as co-chair of the Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network.

Matt believes in building community and loves being part of the Girls Unite family. In his free time, you’ll find Matt chasing his daughter, Lauren, around at various Bay Area soccer fields, working on his annual reading goals and cheering on his Boston sports teams from afar (and the local Bay Area ones … when they aren’t facing his beloved Beantown favorites).

Lan H. Nguyen

Girls Unite Board of Directors

Lan Nguyen serves as a Board Member for Girls Unite. She is a marketing, strategy and communications professional with extensive experience bringing innovative healthcare and technology solutions to market. She holds a BA in sociology from UC Berkeley and an MBA Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

As an athlete in her youth and mother of two children who play soccer, Lan believes in the power of sports to build confidence, leadership skills, and community among young women. With a focus on marketing, communications and fundraising, Lan is dedicated to amplifying Girls Unite's mission and expanding our impact.

Stuart (Stu) Berman

Girls Unite Board of Directors

Stuart Berman combines executive leadership experience with a deep passion for soccer and community building. As Vice President of the NPS Loyalty Forum at Bain & Company, he led a global network of senior executives focused on building customer and employee loyalty across industries.

A dedicated soccer advocate, Stu served as President of the San Francisco Coed Recreational Soccer League, managing over 500 players. His commitment to the sport earned him recognition as the San Jose Earthquakes' Community MVP in 2011, where he has been a season ticket holder since 2008. He continues to support the growth of women's soccer as an inaugural Bay FC season ticket holder.
His professional journey includes leadership roles at eBay, Intuit, and various technology startups, bringing strategic thinking and operational excellence to Girls Unite. An accomplished photographer in his spare time, Stu holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Wesleyan University.

Stu's extensive network in the soccer community and his commitment to creating positive impact align perfectly with Girls Unite's mission to empower young women through soccer.

Rachel Bell

Girls Unite Board of Directors

Rachel Bell is a member of the Girls Unite Board of Directors. Previously, she was on the boards of two other not-for-profit organizations and is currently on the Dean’s Council of the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health. Professionally she completed a thirty year career in global risk, accounting, and audit. Most recently she was the Head of Global Risk and Internal Audit at Airbnb and the Vice President, Controller at Virgin America, where she led the Accounting and Tax department. Her professional journey also included leadership roles at global accounting and consulting firms. She was a Certified Public Accountant with the Maryland State Board of Accountancy (inactive). As a parent of a Girls Unite player, she is grateful for the club’s inclusive and supportive community and aspires to lend support where she can.

Steve Malloy

Girls Unite Board of Directors

Steve is an accomplished executive, entrepreneur, and board advisor with over three decades of experience driving innovation, strategy, and operational excellence across diverse industries. A seasoned entrepreneur, Steve co-founded and successfully exited multiple startups, including PlanetTran, an eco-friendly transportation company pioneering hybrid vehicle use, and Cachet Solutions, a fintech company revolutionizing corporate payments for the banking industry. Steve holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Political Science from Carleton College. Known for his forward-thinking approach, he combines his expertise in innovation, sustainability, and strategic planning to deliver impactful results for organizations and communities.