Gulf Coast Community Foundation recently announced it elected Ping Faulhaber to its board of directors. Faulhaber began a three-year, four-month term on the Gulf Coast Board on March 1.

An engineer, nonprofit executive, and longtime Sarasota County philanthropist, Faulhaber currently serves as executive director of Suncoast Science Center/Faulhaber Fab Lab, a nonprofit hub of experiential learning in science, technology and engineering that she founded with her late husband, Dr. Fritz Faulhaber, in 2014. Previously, she was managing director and CEO of Micromo Electronics. She also serves as director of the Faulhaber Family Foundation. She previously served on the board of directors of the Education Foundation of Sarasota County.

Other members of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation board of directors are Rod Hershberger (chair), David Green (vice-chair), Anne Essner, Tracy Knight, Lisa Krouse, William L. Mehserle Jr., Anand Pallegar, Mark Pritchett (Gulf Coast Community Foundation president and CEO), David Sessions, Peter Soderberg, Susan Sofia, Joe Stephan and Pauline Wamsler.