Max Straube

Director – Corporate Work Study Program

Professional Background: Prior to joining ICA in 2009, Max spent over 20 years in the financial services industry, including a general partner position with OCG Ventures, a $220 million venture fund focused in communications infrastructure investments. Prior to OCG Ventures Max was Head of Equities at WR Hambrecht + Co. Max also held senior investment banking roles with Volpe, Brown, Whelan & Company, UBS Securities, and Robertson Stephens. Max started his career in New York with Salomon Brothers.

Educational Background: Max received a Masters Degree in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Growing Up: Max grew up in Portland, Oregon and attended Jesuit High School (before they admitted girls). Without realizing it at the time, this is probably when the seeds of “the benefits of single-gender education” were planted in Max’s psyche.

Courtney Philbin

Assistant Director - Corporate Work Study Program
(415) 568-2796
cphilbin@icacademy.org

Educational Background: Courtney received her Bachelors Degree in Communications from Boston College and tends to get overexcited when ICA seniors are accepted to her alma mater.

Best part of Courtney’s day: Shaking hands with 60 young women at 7:45 am and sending them off to work.

Growing Up: Courtney grew up in Bolton, Massachusetts: a rural town outside of Boston. While she thinks that Fenway Park is Heaven on Earth, she loves San Francisco and ICA, where, much like Bolton and Cheers, everybody knows your name.

S. Lilly Fitzpatrick, O.P.

Corporate Work Study Program Coordinator

(415) 568-2795
slilly@icacademy.org

Professional Background: Prior to entering the Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose, S. Lilly travelled the world. She ventured to India, Japan, Egypt, Thailand, Australia and Kenya before landing in San Francisco where she worked in the commercial property management business.

Educational Background: S. Lilly received her Bachelors Degree in Religious Studies from Holy Names University and, as of May 2011, she holds a Masters Degree in Pastoral Ministries Holy Names University.

Marathons: S. Lilly thinks they’re fun. She has run eight in total with a time of 3:31 in the Portland, Oregon being her best… to date.

Rachel DeBruin

Corporate Work Study Program Coordinator

(415) 824-2052
rdebruin@icacademy.org

Professional Background: I am returning to the CWSP for the third year. Starting with ICA as a Dominican Volunteer, I have continued to return because I love what our school is for students. Our corporations give the girls real work, so they in turn can get a real education. I know from watching two classes graduate, that ICA is a unique school. I look forward to ICA Cristo Rey continuing it's mission and love to hear about our girls succeeding in the work place.

A fun-filled fact about me: I love the colors blue and yellow, as especially seen by my favorite baseball team, the Milwaukee Brewers.