Board of Directors
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Steve Schoger, Chairman
Steven C. Schoger, Psy.D., attended Southern Oregon University where he majored in Psychology, earning a Bachelor of Science. He then received a Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Azusa Pacific University. Later he attended California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University where he earned a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology. For many years, Steven served as COO of Grace Church, a large church in Orange County. In 1992, he founded Grace Counseling Group. This Non-profit mental health clinic specializes in counseling low and no-fee clients at their four locations. Later, he founded Interface Psychological Services (IPS) as an outreach to homeless or at-risk children and families in Orange County. Besides counseling homeless families through their MediCaid benefits, IPS develops collaborative partnerships with direct service agencies that help underserved children and families. IPS provides these collaborative partners with the ability to "plug in" mental health services at existing sites where families in need already go. Along with training and supervising graduate students in mental health, Dr. Schoger is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Psychology Department at Azusa Pacific University.
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Ron Ainsworth, Vice Chairman
Ron E. Ainsworth has over thirty years of investment banking experience andhas recently retired as president from Trenwith Group, an investment banking firm that he cofounded in 1981. Within Trenwith, Ron has worked with counterparts in Latin America, Canada, India and China to develop the international merger and acquisition, and corporate finance business. In addition, Ron has overseen more than 400 transactions totaling over $15 billion across an array of industries including food services, healthcare, manufacturing, apparel and technology. Ron has pursued his passion for the welfare of children and young adults for many years. He was a founding member of the Admiral H. G. Rickover Foundation, an active member and contributor to City of Hope, contributing sponsor to CHOC and is on the board of directors of the Court Appointed Special Advocates, or "CASA" where he developed the "One Child at a Time" concept to corporate sponsors thus giving the program a personal touch.
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Lawrence Haynes, Treasurer
Lawrence Haynes graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). and is currently a student in the Healthcare Executive MBA Program at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California Irvine. Lawrence is a project manager for Science Applications International Corporation where he has worked for the last 16 years with the Training and Healthcare Business Units. He holds a Project Management Professional certification and has developed customer management systems, planning systems, and has worked with subcontractors to develop new products. He participated in the development of medical devices that went through FDA approval; a Hospital Information System (including a Master Patient Index) that is used in all US military medical facilities, from small clinics, to on-board ships, to large medical centers; and hand held devices for use in ambulances and hospitals for remote access of patient information.
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Aiko Tan, Secretary
Aiko Tan was a senior neuroscience research associate at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute and Brain Research Institute for 15 years before retiring and becoming an avocado farmer in San Diego County. Aiko graduated from University California, Los Angeles, with a B.S. degree in Biology and from California State University, San Marcos with a Certificate in Biotechnology. Aiko has co-authored several peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. Healthcare represents a second career for Aiko; she is currently a student in the Healthcare Executive MBA Program at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California Irvine.
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Paul Leon, Executive Director
Paul M. Leon RN, PHN, obtained his Bachelor degree in Nursing and Public Health Nurse Certificate at the University of Phoenix and is currently enrolled in the Health Care Executive MBA program at the University of California, Irvine. Paul has been a Registered Nurse for 16 years. His experience includes emergency, home health, critical care, administration, and public health nursing. He served as the Director of the Critical Care Units at San Clemente Medical Center, and developed a Nurse Preceptor Program for the Intensive Care Unit. Paul's affiliation with the USC County Medical Center in the early 1990's planted the seed of desire to work with the homeless population. He volunteered his clinical services and spearheaded drives that served the Los Angeles Mission. As a Public Health Nurse for the County of Orange, Paul has sparked a grass roots effort to provide health care and other services to the homeless. For the past year he has used his skills in case management, health teaching, outreach, and advocacy to provide public health nursing services as well as bring together public and private agencies.
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Sonia Chevallier
Sonia Chevallier graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a BA in Elementary Education. After teaching Reading and Language Arts to fourth, fifth and sixth graders for several years, she took the next 18 years to help raise her four grown children. Ever involved in the bettering the lives of children, Sonia remained active by joining committees, volunteering with Educational Programs and Parent Teacher Associations; she was the President of the PTA for San Onofre School and worked directly with the teachers on special projects within the classroom. She currently works as the Patient Liaison for Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, San Clemente where her focus is customer service and working with the patients and or their families.
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Michael Haynes
Mike Haynes ran a successful CPA firm as a partner in Comoglio & Haynes CPA. GT Bicycles was a client Comoglio & Haynes, with $4mm in sales. After selling his practice in 1989, Mike was recruited to GT Bicycles as the Chief Financial Officer where he was instrumental in the growth of sales from 47 million to 245 million per year while at GT. As the CFO of GT, Mike was responsible for all financial aspects of the company and had direct line management of HR, Technology operations & Warehouse systems. In 1995, Mike teamed with the President of GT to take the company public in October, 1995.
In July of 1996, Mike Haynes was promoted to the role of CEO of GT Bikes, where he successfully led the company until 1999 when GT was sold to the investment firm Questor, owner of Schwinn who later went on to purchase Pacific Cycles.
In March of 2001, Mike was approached by Specialized Founder & President, Mike Sinyard to join the Executive Management team of Specialized as the CFO. This was during a time of financial crisis for Specialized, and over the next three years Mike Haynes proved to be an invaluable leader in the turn-around of the Specialized organization. In 2007, Mike Haynes was promoted to the role of COO, and a new CFO was hired. Mike Haynes continues to be a key Executive leader in the organization today.
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John Huynh
John Huynh graduated with a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the Pepperdine University School of Business Management. His educational background includes biology, psychology, and IT from UCLA and UCSD. Professionally, he has many years of experience with project management, business analytic, and software development. Most of his career was focused on researching, designing, and building web applications, enterprise wide systems, and complex databases that help companies achieve their overall strategic business objectives. Those projects include online patient database that can be accessible via personal held device (PDA), supply chain management system, billing software, cash management system (CMS), instantaneous wire transfer system, lead management system (LMS), customer relationship management system (CRM), and many more. He is now working at MYCSOURCE INC (www.mycsource.com), a design and software development company.
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Sohayla Kharrat
Sohayla Kharrat, BSN, is currently working at the UC Irvine Family Health Center community clinic in Santa Ana and has worked at the Martin Luther Hospital in the City of Anaheim for 20 years. She received her nursing degree from the Tehran College of Ashraf Pahlavi, Iran in 1977 and immigrated to the United States shortly thereafter. Her area specialty is post partum, new born nursery.
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Gregory Pena
Gregory Pena is a Senior Vice President in the Irvine, California office of Risk Strategies Company, a Boston, Massachusetts based insurance and risk management company. He began his insurance sales career in San Diego, before moving to Long Beach and joining Josi & Dold Insurance Services. In 1994, Greg became the President/Chief Executive Officer, and eventually merged this company into Dodge, Warren & Peters Insurance Services. He continued as a Senior Vice President after Dodge, Warren, and Peters was sold to USI Insurance Services in 2000, before moving to Risk Strategies Company. Greg became a board member for the Past Finance Counsel, Catholic Big Brothers and Big Sisters, and the Long Beach Community Medical Center, and is also a member of the St. Simon & Jude Catholic Church.
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Patricia Riba
Patricia Riba, MD., attended the University of Southern California where she majored in Biology and minored in Sociology. She received her Master degree from Boston University from the Department of Anatomy before being accepted to medical school at Boston University. She completed her resident training in general pediatrics from Children's Hospital of Orange County. During her residency she received a CATCH grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics for the Orange County Adolescent Wellness Program she developed for the Laguna Beach Community Clinic where her continuity clinic existed. After completing her residency she was recruited and worked for Juvenile Hall and Orangewood Children's Home. Driven to begin reaching children before crises she became the first full time Pediatrician at the Huntington Beach Community Clinic. There she came face to face with the staggering obesity epidemic. Her impoverished patients had no treatment programs available to them so she created Dr. Riba's Health Club in 2004, a multi-disciplinary team designed to treat children with serious medical, nutritional, psychological, and socio-economic problems.
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Barbara Scheinman
Barbara Scheinman, MSW, has been a Social Worker for the past 33 years. She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland in 1976, and following years of being a Medical Social Worker, attended UCLA to achieve her Masters of Social Work in 1984. She later became credentialed as an LCSW in the state of Connecticut. Barbara's experience has included specialization in Women's Issues in the 1970's, HIV/AIDs throughout the 1980's, and Homelessness during the past 15 years. While residing in Connecticut, Barbara ran groups for Domestic Violence offenders through the State of CT Court system. She also maintained a counseling private practice and was a public speaker on the topics of AIDS, Domestic Violence, and Women's Issues. She has trained volunteers for many organizations, including AIDS Project/Hartford and The American Cancer Society, and she has mentored and supervised Social Work students from many colleges. Barbara now advocates and speaks on behalf of the homeless. She continues to work as a Medical Social Worker at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center/San Clemente.
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Jack Toan
Jack holds a MBA degree from UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business and a graduate member of the Southern California Leadership Network.Jack is the Regional Vice President for the Wells Fargo Foundation in Orange County. As part of Wells Fargo's Social Responsibility Group, Jack is responsible for managing the Foundation's $2.1 million charitable giving program and the company's volunteer activities in Orange County. In addition, he helps market community lending and investment programs that support financing for affordable housing, small businesses, commercial development, community stabilization, and area revitalization programs throughout the region.Jack is very active in the community and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the St. Anselm's Cross Cultural Community Center, Team Kids, and on various advisory committees such as the Concordia School of Education, UC Irvine's Vietnamese American Community Ambassadors and the Orange County Homeownership Preservation Collaborative. He is a member of the Orange County Funders Roundtable and is also the program director of a children's self-defense and safety awareness program in partnership with the Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance.
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Rebecca Tomlinson
Rebecca Tomlinson, MD., graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in Biological Sciences before attending medical school in New Orleans at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. There she joined other students at LSU and Tulane in establishing medical clinics for the homeless at the New Orleans Mission. She moved to Orange County, CA, in 2000 for residency training in Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. She has been awarded the Stephen M. Thompson Physician Corps grant for her service in medically underserved areas in California. Currently, she is the medical director of Clinica Medica de Ella, providing a full scope of services including pediatric, obstetric, family planning, and general medical care for families in Santa Ana. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor with UCI and volunteers internationally for medical missions with The Order of Malta.
Special Advisors
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Imran Currim, Chancellor's Professor, The Paul Merage School of Business, UCI
Professor Currim is a world renowned expert in marketing research, customer choice, and the design and marketing of products and services. Professor Currim's main research interest is assessing the impact of competitive product and service features and marketing efforts on consumer choice and market share. Such assessments are used to aid managerial decision making on design and marketing of products and services. For this work he received the American Marketing Association William O'Dell Award for "most significant five year contribution to marketing theory, methodology, or practice". He has applied this work in companies such as Altiris, AT&T, Baxter, Dell, Elcam (Israel), Inabata (Japan), Johnson and Johnson, Northrop Grumman, The Orange County Register, St. Joseph's Hospital, Times Mirror, Twentieth Century Fox, and Warner Brothers. Professor Currim teaches courses on Marketing Management and Strategy, and Marketing Research at The Paul Merage School of Business. He recently received the American Marketing Association/Houghton Mifflin Award for Distinguished Teaching in Marketing.
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Paul Feldstein, Professor and Robert Gumbiner Chair in Health Care Management, The Paul Merage School of Business, UCI
Paul J. Feldstein has held this position at the University of California, Irvine since 1987. Professor Feldstein is a nationally recognized authority on the economics of health care. His previous position was at the University of Michigan as Professor in both the Department of Economics and the School of Public Health. Before that, he was Director of the Division of Research at the American Hospital Association. Professor Feldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Howard Mirowitz
Howard Mirowitz is retired from the world of high-tech business development and venture capital and currently serves as a community volunteer as Treasurer of the Mental Health Association of Orange County. Howard is also a member of the Measure M Taxpayers Oversight Committee of the Orange County Transportation Authority and is President of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Orange County. Previously Howard served on the 2006-2007 Orange County Grand Jury as Foreman Pro Tempore and was Co-Chair of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District's Measure A Citizens' Oversight Committee.