Elaine Cortez Schroth is the Executive Director of the Leadership San Ramon Valley program. She is very passionate about the San Ramon Valley community and the LSRV program, having completed the class in 2004. Elaine is also the Program Manager for the TRAFFIX program, a Measure J Congestion Relief Agency for the San Ramon Valley.

An active community member, Elaine has served as a Chairman of the Board and board member for the Danville Area Chamber of Commerce, is a past board member of the San Ramon Valley YMCA, and is an involved board member of her HOAs. Elaine is the current VP of Philanthropy of National Charity League Rolling Hills, a mother/daughter organization that empowers members to be well-rounded and socially aware contributors in their communities.

Elaine recently retired as a Danville business owner, where her two businesses, Bay Building Maintenance and Langenwalter Carpet Cleaning and Dyeing have provided commercial janitorial and carpet cleaning services to Contra Costa and Alameda county businesses and residences since 1987.

Elaine and her husband Gary, a biochemist, reside in Danville and have three children, two of them graduates of Cal High and UC alumni, and a daughter who will begin her sophomore year at Monte Vista High school.