SFRA Commissioners

Rick Swig, President
Appointed: 10/24/2007
Re-Appointed: 11/25/2008
Current Term Expires:  09/03/2012

Rick Swig operates RSBA & Associates, which was founded in 1986.  Since that time, Mr. Swig has provided advisory services to both major hotel operating companies, as well as owners of individual hotels and portfolios.  Along with his asset management and consultancy work associated with RSBA & Associates, he has also been an investor in hotels since 1989, including currently the Harvest Inn in Napa Valley, California and the Sheraton Hotel in Pleasanton, California.  His past background also includes a career with Fairmont Hotels, where he rose to be the Vice-President and Managing Director of the Fairmont Hotel Management Company.

RSBA & Associates is a consultancy firm for the hospitality industry.  Primary activities include hotel operations reviews, asset strategy development, general operational troubleshooting, and asset management.  Clients include individual and institutional asset owners, as well as hotel operating and management companies.  Engagements have included work on hotels with both urban and resort locations with business and/or leisure services. 

Rick Swig is currently a member and Vice President of the Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA) and a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC) of which he is past Chairman.  He is the former Chairman of the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Board of Directors.  He also serves on advisory committees for the University of San Francisco Hospitality Management Program, The Collins School of Hospitality Management at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, and City College of San Francisco.  He is a graduate of Stanford University.

Darshan Singh, Vice-President
Appointed: 10/10/1995
Re-Appointed:  10/08/2003 and 03/27/2008
Current Term Expires:  09/03/2011

Mr. Singh is a Partner and Director in an import business. President of the San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations, Member of the Department of Corrections Prison Industry Board for the State of California, Director of the Outer Sunset Merchants and Professionals Association, Member Board of Director of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Advisor to the Federation of Indian Associations of Northern California. He has served as a Parking Authority Commissioner, First Chairman of the Parking and Traffic Commission, Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Asia of the Economic Development Commission for the State of California, President of Irving Street Merchants Association. Mr. Singh has a Masters of Science Degree from San Francisco State University, Bachelors of Business Administration from Golden Gate University, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from the Delhi School of Economics.

Miguel Bustos, Commissioner
Appointed: 12/10/2009
Current Term Expires:  09/03/2013

Miguel was born and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco.  He attended St. Peter's Elementary School on 24th and Florida Streets and Archbishop Riordan High School. 
 
Most of Miguel’s career has been as an appointed official to local and national elected officials: first as Policy Advisor for President Clinton and Vice President Gore at the White House; Deputy District Director for Congresswoman Barbara Lee; Director of Boards and Commissions for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom; and most recently Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for Mayor Ronald V. Dellums.
 
Miguel was recently appointed as Senior Program Manager for the Americas for the Levi Strauss Foundation.  He holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science for Holy Names University and a Masters in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from the School of International Service at the America University in Washington, DC.
 
Miguel loves his city and still lives in his childhood home in the Mission.

Francee Covington, Commissioner
Appointed:  04/26/2005
Re-appointed: 09/04/2008
Current Term Expires:  09/03/2012

Ms. Covington is a television producer, director and writer with more than thirty years of broad-based experience in major market television stations around the country.  She has produced top-rated programs at WBZ-TV Boston, WCBS-TV New York, and KPIX-TV San Francisco, and been project manager on more than 400 shows and segments for broadcast and corporate television.  She founded her own company, Francee Covington Productions, in 1987. 

Her professional recognition includes five Emmy nominations, a Cable Car Board of Directors Special Award, the National Commission on Working Women News Feature Award, and the Associated Press Best Feature Award.  Ms. Covington is active in the San Francisco community, having served on the board of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Mayor’s Film Advisory Council, the Fleet Week Executive Committee and as a Big Sister with Big Brothers/Big Sisters.  She is former Vice Chairman of the Fort Mason Foundation, President of the Korean Immersion Program Parent Teacher Organization (KIPPTO), and Executive Committee member of the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Parks Group.  She currently serves as Chair of the Program Committee and the Shulte Grants for the Arts and Crafts for the Fort Mason Foundation.

Leroy King, Commissioner
Appointed: 08/19/1980
Re-Appointed:  11/07/2006
Current Term Expires:  09/03/2010

Mr. King is the past Northern Regional Director of the International Longshoremen"s and Warehousemen"s Union (ILWU) and was a union official for over 30 years. Mr. King is a long-time civic and public affairs leader in San Francisco. His memberships include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Western Addition Co-op Council, the San Francisco Labor Assembly for Community Action and the Black Trades Union, State Democratic Party for the last 30 years. He is also one of the founders and past presidents of St. Francis Square, a cooperative housing development in the Western Addition.