Todd Rydstrom

Wanting to make a direct, impactful difference in people’s lives motivated Todd toward a career in local government.

Since December 2014, Todd has served as the Deputy Controller of the City & County, where his leadership duties include Information Technology, Administration, Audits, Human Resources, Payroll, Records Management, Disaster Preparedness and Refuse Rates Administration following San Francisco voters’ passage of Prop F (June 2022). Prior to serving as Deputy Controller, Todd served as the Assistant General Manager & CFO of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, where he managed a $1B Operating Budget, $7B Ten Year Capital & Financial Plans, and lead a team of 300 Customer Service, Information Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Fleet Management, Records Management and Assurance & Internal Controls staff for over six years. Before that appointment, Todd served as Director of Budget, Analysis & Accounting Reconciliation in the Controller’s Office, where he managed San Francisco’s then $6.1 billion Budget, Revenue, Property Tax, Accounting Reconciliation and Economic Analysis Office, for over six years.

For 10 years, ending in March 2023, Todd served in various volunteer leadership roles on the Supervisory (Audit) Committee and as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Federal Credit Union, concluding service as Board Chair. The San Francisco Federal Credit Union is a $1B+ not-for-profit, member-owned, certified Minority Depository Institution with a mission to provide its members with higher earnings on deposits, lower interest rates on loans and fewer fees than banks.

Todd has over 30 years of experience in investment and government finance. His work experience includes private sector investment operations and international business development with The Principal Financial Group, a Fortune 500 financial services provider, as well as other public sector finance and budgeting with Bay Area governments including the City of Emeryville and the City of Oakland.

He earned his undergraduate degree in Finance from Iowa State University and his Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was awarded the Smolensky Prize for Outstanding Advanced Policy Analysis. In 2006, Todd was awarded San Francisco’s Public Managerial Excellence Award for outstanding public service, and in 2015, Todd was invited to the White House to present on the San Francisco Water System Improvement Program’s Disaster Resilience and Ratepayer Accountability, Outreach & Affordability initiatives.