Board
“
85% of people who live in the Bay Area have never been out on the Bay. We’re trying to change that one kid at a time. It’s very satisfying to watch new crew become experienced hands through their hard work and practice.
-Mark Caplin, Pegasus Captain

MEG ARNOLD
Board Chair
Meg Arnold joined the Board in 2023 and became Chair in 2024. For 20+ years, she has worked in the Sacramento region, and also briefly in Los Angeles, where she has served in senior leadership roles at nonprofit organizations focused on climate change action and clean technology, in service of economic and community development objectives. Her roles have encompassed program design, implementation and management; personnel management; fundraising, financial oversight and budgeting; and Board development and engagement.
She is also skilled at partnering across peer organizations to achieve shared goals and optimize each partner’s strengths. Currently with Seabright Ventures, she is an impact investor working to accelerate efforts to mitigate climate change. She has been a sailor since age eight, raced during college, now cruises for part of each year, and is one of Pegasus’ newer crew members.

ELISA WILLIAMS
Board Member
Elisa Williams is a communications strategist whose work has supported major consumer, business, technology and non-profit brands, including Siemens, Wells Fargo, VISA, Levi Strauss and West Marine. As a journalist, she has covered business and consumer trends in the US and the UK. Her writing has appeared in magazines including Newsweek, Inc., Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens and a number of trade and travel publications.
She has worked to drive community engagement and visibility at a number of nonprofits, including Visit Oakland and Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay. Past board experience includes the Altarena Playhouse, the longest continuously operating community theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s been a volunteer crew member on Pegasus since 2007.

PAUL MARBURY
Board Member and Captain
Paul began sailing at age 6 on his family’s 18’ wood sloop. He progressed to a 15’ Snipe which he was able to sail by himself & make as many mistakes as he could. In high school he began teaching sailing to younger kids and racing small boats at the local yacht club. After moving to San Francisco, he started to sail and race keel boats from 25’ to 50’ and to crew on coastal voyages and on a delivery trip from Hawaii to Guam and another from England to Gibraltar.
He found the Pegasus Project shortly after the program was founded and has been a volunteer crew member ever since. “There’s nothing else that gives me as much peace and pleasure as being aboard a well trimmed boat, even on the windiest summer San Francisco afternoon. The joy of sharing that with my experienced crew and with youth who join us, most of whom have never been out on the bay, is the reason I’ve continued to volunteer for the last 30 years.”

MARK CAPLIN
Board Member and Captain
Mark likes to say that he has been with the Project since “day minus one,” before the project started. He found out about the project while learning to sail at OCSC. He worked his way up from basic crew member to Captain, Training Officer and, eventually, a Board member.
He has a background in medicine, having worked as a paramedic in Alameda County for twenty years, and now as a Physician Assistant. He served in the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman aboard ship and served with the US Marine Corps. He works part time at the California Maritime
Academy in Vallejo as a Medical Officer aboard the Training Ship Golden Bear. He holds a Masters License from the US Coast Guard and has taught in PA programs at Stanford and Cal State Monterey Bay.

BOB KINGSTON
Board Member, Senior Captain, and Program Manager
Bob is the organization’s program director and senior captain. With over 20 years of maritime experience, along with an intimate working knowledge of our flagship vessel Pegasus, he is well suited to his role. Bob joined the Board in 2021, bringing fresh ideas and perspectives to the table, and has been instrumental in the leadership transition that the organization has undergone. He has had varied life experiences, from commercial fishing in Alaska to years living, sailing and working with underserved youth in South America, all of which lend themselves to his role on the Board. As program director, he reports directly to the board to ensure that critical aspects of our organization and programming run smoothly.

ELISA WILLIAMS
Board Member
Elisa Williams is a communications strategist whose work has supported major consumer, business, technology and non-profit brands, including Siemens, Wells Fargo, VISA, Levi Strauss and West Marine. As a journalist, she has covered business and consumer trends in the US and the UK. Her writing has appeared in magazines including Newsweek, Inc., Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens and a number of trade and travel publications.
She has worked to drive community engagement and visibility at a number of nonprofits, including Visit Oakland and Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay. Past board experience includes the Altarena Playhouse, the longest continuously operating community theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s been a volunteer crew member on Pegasus since 2007.
Peter Hayes
Founder, Board Member, and Captain
Peter is a Pegasus captain who with his partner Lyuba Zarsky established the Pegasus Project in 1994. He is Honorary Professor, Center for International Security Studies, Sydney University, Australia and Director, Nautilus Institute in Berkeley, California where he works at the nexus of security, environment and energy policy problems. Peter has worked for many international organizations including UN Development Programme, Asian Development Bank, and Global Environment Facility. He was founding director of the Environment Liaison Centre in Kenya in 1975. He has traveled, lived, and worked in Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. He grew up in Australia where he learned to sail.
His awards include the Condon Award, Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association (SF Bay Area) November 6 2022 for “distinguished and self-less promotion of sailing, particularly for young people; Building Bridges Award, Pacific Century Institute, March 2019 for “exemplifying PCI’s vision of building bridges of understanding;” MacArthur Fellowship (2000) “for combining rigorous multidisciplinary training and technological knowledge with cultural sensitivity, policy acumen, and diplomatic skills…including non-governmental diplomacy of the highest order.”