Lorene Arey
President
The Clara Fund

Lorene Arey is founder and President of the Clara Fund, a philanthropic organization whose goal is to help women achieve economic independence. The Clara Fund focuses in two areas to achieve its goal: education for girls and micro finance for women.

Before joining the public sector, Arey was the head of Worldwide Corporate Communications at Cisco Systems where she was responsible for Cisco’s worldwide media relations, public relations and executive communications. Since joining Cisco in 1993 she played a key role in shaping and positioning Cisco’s public image. The accomplishments of her team were spotlighted in the Wall Street Journal in 2000 when Cisco was recognized as the company with the best publicity across all industries for 1999.

Arey serves on the Board of Directors for Count Me In, on the Board of Trustees for the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and on the Board of Educate Girls Globally. In the private sector, Arey serves on the Advisory Boards for TransAria, Inc., and 463 Communications. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.