Kenan Simmons – previously a vice president with New York City-based Leading Hotels of the World – is the executive director of sales & marketing at The Grand Del Mar, San Diego’s only Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond resort.
Craig “Spike” Decker is the owner and CEO of Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation
lifford W. Colwell Jr., M.D., is medical director of the Shiley Center for Orthopaedic Research and Education at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, and holds the Donald and Darlene Shiley Chair in Orthopaedic Research.
He has authored 350 research publications, patented 15 inventions, and edited 13 books. Dr. Dennis was named an inaugural Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1984
Jerry Gold, Ph.D. MBA, was named San Diego County’s 2012 Mental Health Person of the Year by the County Mental Health Recognition Team. As administrator of the behavioral health clinical care line for Scripps Health, Dr. Gold oversees behavioral health throughout the system.
Joe Satz, a retired attorney and a trustee of the Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, grew up in Brooklyn New York. After obtaining a juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School and a master’s in taxation from New York University Law School, he spent 12 years in private practice and was a partner in his law [...]
Director Francine Garton, ARAD, AISTD, began dancing at an early age and at the age of 14 won a scholarship to the prestigious Legat Russian Ballet School in southern England. She then continued her training at the Northern Ballet College where she graduated as a dancer and qualified dance teacher gaining honors in her examinations. [...]
When Jennifer Dreyer joined the debate team at San Diego State University in 1992 she had no idea that it would lead her to the love of her life — not once, but twice.
Alex Shahabe, chairman of PC Housing and president of Signature Furniture, is a natural-born entrepreneur as he has always creatively pursued business development. In Germany, at 14 years old, Shahabe began stringing tennis racquets for his peers, then later tennis clubs. In high school and later in college, he began teaching tennis.
After working with gang members for five years, Reality Changers founder Christopher Yanov felt that it was not right that most inner-city teenagers today know more people who have been shot or killed in the street than people who are on the road to college.
As a response, Reality Changers began in May 2001 with four eighth-grade students at the Hispanic Presbyterian Church near downtown San Diego with the hope of building first generation college students.
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