Executive Team

Mark Cloutier, MPP, MPH  | Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Officer
Mark Cloutier became CEO of Caminar on January 31, 2019. Mark has dedicated his career to increasing access to quality health and supportive services for underserved communities and improving the overall health and well-being of individuals and families. He brings to Caminar extensive experience in organizational leadership, fundraising, financial and talent management, public policy, and strategy development. Prior to joining Caminar, Mark held leadership roles in major health organizations and foundations, including Horizons Services, the San Francisco Foundation, the Center for Youth Wellness, Kaiser Family Foundation, and San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

As CEO, Mark leads a $45M organization of close to 500 employees that served more than 18,000 people last year in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.

A longstanding Bay Area resident, Mark is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College and earned his Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Health degrees at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored a number of articles and recently co-authored “Prevent, Screen, Heal: Collective Action to Fight the Toxic Effects of Early Life Adversity.”

Mark also serves on the Board of Directors of Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.

Mary Dunbar, CFRE | Chief Development Officer
Mary is a development and communications professional with 17+ years of experience in the nonprofit sector and is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). She has worked for several well-known Bay Area agencies, including Project Open Hand, Samaritan House of San Mateo, Mercy Housing California, Rubicon Programs, The Commonwealth Club of California, and Glide Foundation. Mary has extensive experience in strategic partnership development with individuals, corporations, foundations, and civic and community-based organizations. Mary is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Golden Gate Chapter (AFP-GGC), the Northern California Planned Giving Council, the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners, and she serves as a Patient Family Advisory Council member for the San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical Center and as a Regional Patient Centered Care Peer Advisor for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Previously, she served as an Advisory Board member for Oasis for Girls in San Francisco, the Chair/Co-Chair of the AFP-GGC Mentoring Program, an Advisory Council Member of AFP's Multicultural Alliance Program, and a Board member of the Friends of Sharon Art Studio. Mary lives in San Francisco with her husband, Tod, and two kitties, Buster and Banzai.

Audrey Klein, PhD, MBA | Chief Clinical Officer
Audrey joined Caminar in March 2023. She has held leadership roles in a variety of organizations focused on the treatment of behavioral health challenges. Earlier in her career, she led the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. She and her team were responsible for program design and implementation, clinical outcomes measurement and analysis, and owning the strategy for using science and evidence-based practices to provide quality care for individuals living with substance use disorders. More recently, Audrey held clinical leadership roles in 2 digital health startups. At Pear Therapeutics, she helped build and evaluate patient-facing mobile applications to treat substance use disorders. At Mindstrong, a telehealth startup up focusing on treatment of serious mental illness, she led the clinical program design, implementation, and operations functions.

Audrey is a graduate of Kenyon College and earned her doctorate in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology from Case Western Reserve University. She also earned her MBA from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is a proponent of using evidence-based treatments and measurement-based care to help and support individuals living with mental health and substance use challenges.

Audrey was born in Northwest Ohio and lives in San Mateo with her husband Terry and their 3 dogs Buddy, Buster, and Sadie.

Sherita Nzali, MBA, MS, PHR | Chief People and Equity Officer
Sherita Nzali joined Caminar in August 2023. Sherita has over 15 years of human resources (HR) experience and a deep commitment to driving a world-class HR organization focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sherita comes to Caminar with a proven track record of significant impact as a senior HR leader across several industries, working with companies such as Netflix, Apple, Cloudera, and Facebook. Sherita holds both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management, is a Certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR), and has several other professional certifications.   

Personally, Sherita is a member of the prominent, internationally recognized organization Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and a member of NAAAHR, NBMBA, SHRM, and Toastmasters International. She lives in the East Bay with her husband and their sons.

Richard Williams | Chief Financial Officer

Monica “Nikka” Gaviola | Chief of Staff
Nikka joined Caminar in 2011 and worked as corporate administrative support until 2012, and then she transitioned to human resources administration. She returned to corporate administration in 2016 as executive assistant to the CEO.  She brings over ten years of customer service and relations experience and over six years of personnel management, executive administration, and board management experience. Nikka is a gifted and proactive collaborator in all of Caminar’s work. She is an evolving thoughtful leader. She has a track record of strong performance in high-volume, high-pressure environments.

Nikka has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Guidance and Counseling from St. Scholastica’s College Manila, Philippines.

Brad Brunner | Executive Director, Butte County Services

Brad Brunner is an accomplished leader with a diverse background in behavioral health care, vocational training, and sales management. He has over 20 years of experience in delivering high-quality services and achieving positive outcomes for individuals and organizations. He is currently the Butte Region Executive Director at Caminar. In this role, he oversees all program operations in the Butte Region, including budgeting, contract negotiation, quality assurance, and grant management. He also serves as a member of the Butte County Continuum of Care Council, a collaborative effort to address homelessness in the county.

Brad began his career at Caminar as the Vocational Coordinator for the Pro-Touch Vocational Training Program, where he managed the day-to-day operations of the program, liaised with the Department of Behavioral Health, provided coaching and training to crew members, and facilitated referrals to DOR. Prior to that, he worked as a District Sales Manager for HIBU, where he managed multiple district sales offices in Northern California and Northern Nevada.

Brad lives in Chico, CA, with his wife, Jennifer, and her three children. Brad has three grown children, two of whom serve in the United States Army, and a third is a Registered Nurse. He also has four grandchildren.

Amanda Russell, PsyD | Executive Director, Intensive Specialty Mental Health Services (Solano & San Mateo County)
With over 20 years of experience in the behavioral health field, Amanda has worked with various populations and settings: from young children with developmental delays to adolescents with trauma backgrounds to adults in crisis.

She has held various leadership roles for non-profit and for-profit organizations. As vice president for a large non-profit agency in California, Amanda oversaw such programs as adult and adolescent crisis residential facilities, Veterans programs, homeless and housing programs, outpatient alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and jail programs, intellectual disability residential and outpatient programs, and county and managed care mental health crisis stabilization programs.

Amanda has experience in program development and implementation, budget management, compliance, and clinical oversight and training. She has served on the board of a start-up program for foster care youth and has recently worked with the County of Marin in the emergency operation center as the care and shelter chief working with the social service response to COVID-19.

Michael Schocket  |  Director of Jobs Plus
Before becoming Director of Jobs Plus, Michael served in numerous leadership positions during his tenure at Caminar, including Job Developer, Assistant Director, Director of a Residential Rehabilitation Program, and Mental Health Counselor.  With his extensive leadership experience in managed health care, he has experience in working with health care providers, public hospitals, state agencies, county agencies, and outreach programs. Michael has a far-reaching knowledge of government administration, vocational counseling, sales and marketing, human resources, training, and public relations.

Michael has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Cal State Hayward and is a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner. 

Daryl Tilghman, PhD | Executive Director, Mild to Moderate Services

Drishti Verma, MA, LAADC | Executive Director, Substance Use Treatment Services

Drishti joined Caminar’s Family and Children Services of Silicon Valley (FCS) division”s Substance Use Treatment Services in 2012. Drishti brings over 15 years of experience in Substance Use programs, which offer a full continuum of outpatient services.

Prior to her promotion to Executive Director in 2021, she held progressively responsible positions in Substance Use Treatment Service Programs. Drishti managed a program for individuals involved in the federal court system and outpatient treatment services. Drishti has achieved certification as a Licensed Advanced Alcohol Drug Counselor (LAADC), the highest level of certification awarded by the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP). Ms. Verma focuses on developing strategy and engaging teams across Substance Use Treatment Service Line.

Drishti, who also has experience working as a domestic violence advocate, on a crisis hotline, and as a mental health counselor, earned her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Mumbai and her Master’s of Counseling from the University of Notre Dame in Perth, Australia.