Christine Hughes

The business career of Christine Hughes includes more than 25 years in executive strategic marketing positions including Sr. VP Marketing & Business Development for Secure Computing Corporation (1996-99), Sr. VP Corporate Marketing Worldwide for Novell (1994-96); VP of Marketing for Xerox U.S. Operations (1991-94); Vice President, Gartner Group (1983-89). 

Over the past 12 years Hughes has been active in non-profits in the areas of public policy, education and the arts.  She serves as a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley since 1996 and has chaired the Development committee’s fundraising for its Annual Fund; a director of Pacific Research Institute (2006-present), a free market think tank on policy solutions and chairs the Development Committee; Vice Chair of Public Technology Institute (2001 to present), a best practices solutions resource for local governments and municipalities in Washington, DC. 

Hughes is a Presidential Appointee (2004-2009) to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, serving on the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts and a White House appointee to serve on the Secretary of the Navy’s Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History (2004-present). 

Previously, Hughes was Chairman of Highway One (1999-2001) in Washington, DC,  a non-partisan educational resource on information technology for Congress and Federal agencies and board member from 1996-99.  She also was a development consultant to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.S. Pavilion, World Expo Aichi, Japan (2004-2005), securing in-kind support from major corporations. 

In the political arena, Hughes was elected Chairman of the Republican Party for the City and County of San Francisco January 2007 through March 2008.    She was a board member of Citizens for a Better San Francisco, promoting individual responsibility and fiscal soundness to benefit citizens (2006-2008) and a board member of the Lincoln Club of Northern California (2006-2008).   Hughes was a member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee of George W. Bush during the 2000 Presidential campaign.   In July 2008 , Hughes was appointed a commissioner to the City of Rancho Mirage Speaker Series commission. 

She holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from San Francisco College for Women in English and Journalism.  Hughes is a full-time resident of Rancho Mirage, California with her husband, Abraham Ostrovsky.