Charmaine Detweiler brings nearly 40 years of experience in financial leadership in a wide variety of financial institutions from large, multinational corporations to community banks to start-ups. She is also a founding council member of the Smith College Business Network. A long-time supporter of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, she serves on the Women’s Leadership Council, which she founded and chaired until 2020. She is a former board member of United Way Bay Area and Garth Fagan Dance.

Charmaine supports Rocketship because she has seen the striking impact Rocketship makes on the communities and children it serves. She strongly believes education is the most precious gift we can bestow on our children, and all children should have access to the highest quality education irrespective of the community in which they reside.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from Smith College and an MBA from University of Chicago.