Malin Burnham (Chair)

As of January 2008, Malin Burnham is the retired chairman of John Burnham & Company Insurance and Burnham Real Estate and has been involved with these organizations since 1949. In addition to his involvement with the Burnham Companies, he has been active as a board member of several major corporations and 16 firms, in total. His present involvements include Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation Chairman’s Competitiveness Council, the San Diego Hall of Champions Foundation, UCSD Foundation and Rady School of Management. 

Burnham has chaired nine major non-profits and has co-founded 14 organizations in his career, most providing direct benefit to San Diego and the nation. He is a native San Diegan who graduated from Stanford University in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.

After more than 50 years of community service in the San Diego region, leading to honors including “Mr. San Diego” and “Philanthropist of the Year,” Malin Burnham founded the Burnham Center for Community Advancement (BCCA) in 2021. Malin had a clear purpose when creating BCCA: create a platform that would bring people together to move our community forward, driving positive impacts big and small, for the betterment of the entire region’s quality of life.