North Bay Leadership Council

Cynthia L. Murray - President & CEO

Cynthia Murray is President/ CEO of North Bay Leadership Council (NBLC). NBLC is an employer-led public policy organization which represents the leading employers in the North Bay. NBLC’s goals are regional prosperity and improving quality of life by focusing on education, economic competiveness, transportation, and sustainability.

Murray served eight years on the Marin County Board of Supervisors and seven years on the Novato City Council, including one term as Mayor, where she led the reuse of Hamilton Army Air Field, the first transfer of a military base to private hands in the nation.

Murray received the 2010 Women in Business award from the North Bay Business Journal for her achievements in economic development. She serves on: Executive Committee of Bay Area Council Economic Institute; Bay Area Water Forum; Sonoma County Innovation Council, REAL Coalition, California Forward’s Business Advisory Committee, Dominican University’s Business Advisory Committee, and others. Murray is a graduate of Rutgers University and spent 20 years in sales and marketing.

Sonia Tanner - Executive Business Administrator

Sonia shares her multi-faceted skills and experience with NBLC in a P/T Business Administration capacity.  Her experience includes working with high level executives locally and internationally and she enjoys working collaboratively to make exciting things happen and move goals forward.  Sonia has in-depth knowledge of the North Bay and its public policy challenges having worked intensively on many local and regional candidate and issue campaigns.  Sonia has a strong working relationship with elected officials.  Her work on local initiatives where she helped build coalitions of diverse groups in the North Bay is greatly respected.  In addition, Sonia is well known for her experience and style in the production of small and large scale community events and programs.  In 2007, Sonia received the Novato Women in Business award for her leadership and community contributions.

In addition, Sonia has drawn on her mastery of technology to teach hundreds of business executives around the country how to maximize Microsoft Office programs.  Her creativity and graphic ability is an invaluable in-house asset as NBLC enhances our website, newsletter and other traditional and social media communication tools and marketing collateral to better serve and inform members and community leaders, as well as to enhance NBLC branding and community recognition.