Dickson Louie
Board Treasurer
Dickson is principal of Louie & Associates, a Bay Area consultancy providing strategic planning, competitive analysis and executive development services to startups, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies. He is co-founder, president and CEO of Time Capsule Press, a publishing imprint focusing on creating books from archival material.
He has over 25 years of professional management experience in news media, having worked as a planning and business development executive at the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Mercury News in San Jose. He helped to oversee launch of the Ventura County and Valley editions at the Times and the Viet Mercury Vietnamese-language weekly at the Mercury News. On the Times Mirror corporate staff, he oversaw finances of its $2 billion newspaper division.
He was a research associate at Harvard Business School, where he authored over 20 management case studies for the second-year MBA course.
He is an adjunct at UC Davis Graduate School of Management and the Executive MBA Program at San Francisco State. He has a bachelor’s in business administration from California State University, East Bay, and an MBA in finance, marketing and statistics from the University of Chicago. He is on the Maynard Institute board.