Board of Directors
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Michael Haynes, Chairman
Mike Haynes ran a successful CPA firm as a partner at Comoglio & Haynes. After selling his practice in 1989, Mike was recruited to GT Bicycles, a former client, to serve as CFO. At GT, he was instrumental in increasing annual sales from $47 million to $245 million. In 1995, Mike teamed with the President of GT to take the company public. The following year, Mike was promoted to CEO of GT Bikes, where he successfully led the company until 1999 when GT was sold to the investment firm Questor, owner of Schwinn. In March of 2001, Mike joined the executive team of Specialized as the CFO. This was during a time of financial crisis for Specialized, and over the next three years Mike proved to be a key member in the company’s turn-around. In 2007, Mike was promoted to the role of COO and continues to be a key executive leader in the organization today.
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Jack Toan, Vice Chairman
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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Paul Cho, Treasurer, CFO & Co-Founder
Paul Cho is a licensed acupuncturist and chiropractor. These healthcare fields represent a second career for Paul who was previously an investment banker. Paul spent 16 years in investment banking working for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. After working in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul, Paul retired as a Managing Director in 2003 to pursue his second career. Paul graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. degree in Economics and received his Doctor of Chiropractic and Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine degrees from Southern California University of Health Sciences. He also received his MBA degree at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California Irvine.
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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 recently received her Healthcare MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California Irvine. Currently, she oversees all recuperative care operations for the Illumination Foundation.
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Paul Leon, CEO & President
Paul M. Leon RN, PHN, obtained his Bachelor degree in Nursing and Public Health Nurse Certificate at the University of Phoenix. 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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Ripu Arora
Dr. Ripu Arora is the Director and Founder of the Peninsula Interventional Pain Management Center with offices in Southbay and Victorville. He has been providing chronic and acute pain management services in the South Bay for over 15 years and has eight years of experience in the training and practice of orthopedic and general surgery. He began his medical career in Baltimore in Saint Agnes Hospital in 1981. Prior to that he received post graduation medical training in England. Ripu is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and the sub specialty of Pain Management by the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is a Diplomat at the American Academy of Pain Management and also a qualified Medical Examiner. Most recently, Ripu received his Healthcare MBA from University of California, Irvine, receiving Beta Gamma Sigma Honors.
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Mark Austin
Mr. Austin is a partner at Rutan & Tucker, where his practice focuses on business litigation and municipal law, with emphases on real-estate, land-use, and environmental litigation. Mr. Austin began his career in Rutan & amp Tucker's Government & Regulatory Law Department, where in his initial years he focused on litigation for and against public entities, with cases including complex land-use matters, employment and discrimination disputes, constitutional claims, and wrongful-death tort matters. Mr. Austin is a member of the State Bar of California and the Orange County Bar Association, as well as a member of the American Business Trial Lawyers' Association. Mr. Austin received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 2000, graduating with high honors as the 10th highest ranked student of his class. While at Loyola, Mr. Austin was the Senior Production Editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Before law school, Mr. Austin graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Ecology and emphases on criminal justice and psychology.
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Lawrence Haynes
Lawrence “Larry” Haynes is a graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his Healthcare MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California Irvine. Larry 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. Larry 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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Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly is the Assistant Area Director of Public Affairs for Kaiser Permanente Orange County starting his tenure in April 2010. In his duties with Kaiser Permanente, Scott is actively involved in community, media, government and public relations. Previously, Scott was with the Los Angeles County Fair Association in Pomona as the Director, Community and Government Relations. Born and raised in Southern California, Scott earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Redlands and his MBA from California State Polytechnic University Pomona. He resides in Claremont and has worked in youth sports for 25 years as a coach and volunteer.
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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 is a past board member for the Saints Simon and Jude Catholic Church 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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Virginia Ripslinger
Virginia “Ginny” Ripslinger, RN, MBA, has almost 40 years of experience working within acute healthcare. She joined St. Jude Medical Center, a Ministry of St. Joseph Health System in 1974 as a staff nurse. Ginny advanced her career as Director of Nursing by providing strategic direction and supervision for a wide range of medical/surgical and ancillary services. She expanded her role to include supervision of the hospital’s cost accounting system for the purpose of integrating clinical and financial information. In 2007, Ginny joined the Health System in her current role as AVP for Knowledge Management. Her broad experience with hospital operations and clinical informatics provides strategic planning, business development, operations analysis and process improvement services to hospitals throughout SJHS. Ginny’s most recent work with other hospital leaders to sustain a Strategic Quality Initiative utilizing evidence based practice standards creates an enthusiasm within the SJHS’ clinician base to achieve best practice and zero defect patient care. Ginny supports her community as President of Fullerton Creek Association and is a sustaining member of the Fullerton Assistance League’s auxiliary ALPHA and Damas de Caridad.
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Barbara Scheinman
Barbara Scheinman, MSW, has been a Social Worker since 1975. She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland and achieved her Masters of Social Work at UCLA. She later became credentialed as an LCSW in the state of Connecticut. Over the years, Barbara’s experiences have included specialization in Women’s Issues, HIV/AIDS, and Homelessness. While residing in Connecticut, Barbara was Hartford Hospital’s AIDS Social Worker, and she ran groups for Domestic Violence Offenders through the State of CT Courts 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 organizations including AIDS Project/Hartford and The American Cancer Society, has mentored and supervised college Social Work students, and has been on the Board of organizations in NY, CT, and CA. 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.
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. He currently serves as the volunteer Treasurer of the Mental Health Association of Orange County and as the Co-Chair of the Orange County Transportation Authority Measure M Taxpayers’ Oversight Committee. Howard is a past President of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Orange County and currently serves as co-Chair of the Orange County Jewish Federation’s Finance Committee. Previously Howard served as Foreman Pro Tempore of the 2006-2007 Orange County Grand Jury and was Co-Chair of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s Measure A Citizen’s Oversight Committee.