Held a managerial position at Blue Cross Insurance Company where she supervised 55 employees.
Owner Real Estate Office in Oakland
Owner and Manager Cobbler’s Restaurant
Member Harmony Missionary Baptist Church, Oakland Community Housing Resource Board, Oakland Board of Realtors, Associate Real Property Brokers, and and Cal-Pak Association
Created the Oral Lee Brown Foundation – 1987
Named Woman of the Year for the year 2000 by Senator Don Perata and Assembly member Audie Bock
Honored at the Black History Month Awards sponsored by Union Bank of California and KQED
Selected as among the “Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area”
Diamond of the Bay Award for Community Service by the National Basketball Wives Association
California Lottery Award
The Pioneer Achievement Award by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Humanitarian Of The Year by the East Bay Agency for Children
John Stanford Education Heroes Award by the U.S. Department of Education.
The Minerva Award 2010, Bank of the West Community Award(2011)
Inducted into Alameda County Hall of Fame (2102)
Featured in People, Glamour Magazine (3) times, Ebony and Essence magazines
Seen on ABC Later Today, NBC Nightly News, Extra, CNN, Courage, and Channels 2, 4, 5, & 7
Associate of Arts degree from Laney College
Bachelor of Science from the University of San Francisco
Bachelor of Arts degree from Hawaii
Honorary Doctorate from Columbia College, Merrimack College in Boston and University of San Francisco
Geraldine Ashley – Secretary
Retired Educator, Oakland, California
Phyllis Opara
Oral Lee Brown Foundation, Oakland, California
Board of Directors
Philip Palmer
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. Commercial Real Estate Agent, Oakland, CA
Desiree Shaw
The University of San Francisco, Pleasanton, CA
Phyllis Opara
Director – OLBF, Oakland, CA
Advisors
David Osborne
BSEE San Jose State
MBA Santa Clara University
Board of Directors nLight Photonics Corporation
Board of Directors OLB Preparatory Charter School
Chairman of the Board Oz Foundation
JDS Uniphase
996 – 1998Vice President Business Development
1995 – 1996 Vice President and General Manager Solid State Lasers
1992 – 1995 Vice President International
Member of road show team for initial public offering
1984 – 1992 Vice President Sales and Marketing
Osborne Associates 1981 – 1984
Wrote business and marketing plans for start-ups.
Spectra-Physics 1973 – 1981
Development engineering and marketing of bar code scanners and component lasers.
Storage Products 1969 – 1973
Start-up founded by Alan Shugart. Developed disk drive systems. The company was acquired and became the disk drive business for Memorex.
IBM: 1961 – 1969
Developed LAN systems and disk drive systems.
Georgia J. Osborne
1966 B.A. San Jose State University
1967 California Teacher’s Credential – Elementary Education
1979 Co-Founder – Hicklebees – a children’s book store in San Jose
1983 – 1987 Teacher – St. John Vianney
1987 – 2001 Teacher – Santa Clara School District
1998 Established Oz Foundation – a non-profit focused on educating children from low income families