New Member Profiles
Christina Connett Brophy
Christina Connett Brophy has built a decades-long career as a museum executive with extensive curatorial experience and demonstrated success in…
Lex Gillette
Elexis “Lex” Gillette is a blind Paralympic athlete from Raleigh, North Carolina who competes for the United States in T11…
Jonathan Yackley
Association-Rise Up Industries
Jonathan is the Executive Director of Rise Up Industries, an organization whose mission is to minimize gang involvement by providing…
Anjuli Dayal
Anjuli was born and raised in Overland Park, KS. Here parents emigrated from New Delhi, India in the 1970’s, and…
Paul Marcus
Paul Marcus obtained his BA and MA from Boston University and RPI, respectively, and originally hails from Portland, Maine. Just…
Nancy Rohland-Heinrich
Nancy Rohland-Heinrich graduated from St. Cloud State University with a BA in Sociology and Social Work, from National University with…
Vino Pajanor
Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Appaswamy “Vino” Pajanor’s family traditions led him toward a professional career as an attorney,…
Charles Baylis
Charles started his career in the semiconductor industry, working for Applied Materials in Santa Clara. He and a co-worker at…
Natasha Bliss
Natasha Bliss serves as Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Partnerships within San Diego State University’s Division of Research…
Meredith Munger
Meredith Munger is a loan officer at CrossCountry Mortgage with a focus on helping families to buy, build, renovate and…
New Member Profiles
Museum-Automotive Leonard “Lenny” Leszczynski is the CEO of the San Diego Automotive Museum. Lenny was born and raised in San Diego; he was born in Poway, grew up in La Jolla, spent his twenties in Point Loma and Pacific Beach, and started his family in East County. He has worked in the non-profit sector his…
Consultant-Non-profit Development, Additional Active Valerie Attisha owns her own philanthropic consultant business. She is Chaldean and her first language is Aramaic, which is the language she still speaks to her parents with. Her family immigrated to the US in the 1970s and first settled in Detroit. Eventually, they moved and were one of the very…
Investment- Wealth Management, Additional Active Rick Brooks is a Principal and the Director of Investment Management at Blankinship & Foster, LLC. He oversees their investment analytics and serves as Chairman of the firm’s Investment Committee. Rick was born in Texas and raised in Maryland. He earned a BA in Political Science from Duke University and…
Painting – Residential Jon Ray is the owner of PaintGreen, a full-service painting company based here in San Diego since 2006. As an entrepreneur and community organizer, Jon has found that happy balance between the two different worlds. Jon started a 501c3 that supports local artists. They hold an annual 4 day and 3 night…
Analytics-Business Justin Rajah is the Demand Generation Manager at Wrike, a work management platform. He was born and raised in Santa Clara County, CA by a single mom, who taught him to love all things Disney and country music. A first generation college grad, Justin received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in 2017 from…
Education-State University-Development, Additional Active Alessandra Costigliola serves as the Development Officer for the College of Sciences at SDSU. In her role, she is responsible for qualifying prospects for the College of Sciences and soliciting gifts of $25K and higher. Born and raised in Sacramento (yes, she is a Kings fan), Alessandra moved to San Diego…
Education-State University-Development Corey Polant is the Associate Directory of Development at San Diego State University. He is originally from Long Island, New York and he says if you catch him on a good day you’ll still hear parts of that accent when he speaks-even though he has spent 9 years trying to lose it. He…
Real Estate Sales-Commercial, Additional Active Tom Turner is a Commercial Real Estate Broker and Vice President at CBRE. Born in North Carolina, Tom and his military family moved around quite a bit. He finished high school in Japan then attended college at UCLA. Without a definite career plan after college, the self-proclaimed “beach bum” ran…
Real Estate-Investment Ben Alev is a real estate investor and manager for 58-Twelve, LLC. His specialty has been working in distressed assets and low income housing, where programs are implemented to encourage compassion and community involvement. In his extensive real estate career, Ben has bought and sold properties in over 38 states. Originally from Chicago,…
Social Service & Welfare – Options For All Ken Barnes is the President & CEO for Options For All, a 35-year-old firm that provides services to adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Ken is native Californian, being born in San Francisco and raised in Sacramento. (If you see him wearing a lot of purple,…