New Member Profiles

Bob Lehman

Bob Lehman is Executive Director of the San Diego Museum Council. He is Vice Chair of the San Diego County…

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Sean Meer

Sean Meer is the owner of Cleantech, where eco-friendly meets commercial cleaning excellence across San Diego & Riverside Counties. With…

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Daisy Gonzales

Daisy Gonzales, Ph.D., is a student-centered leader whose life-long commitment to social justice, equity and inclusion is guided by the…

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Ben Schuster

Benjamin “Ben” Schuster is a Partner for Comfort Capital where he leads Capital Formation and Investor Relations. Prior to joining…

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Monte Jones

Monte Jones serves as President and CEO of the Logan Heights Community Development Corporation, a position he has held since…

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Tobias Haglund

Tobias Haglund is currently the Director of Development and Area Developer for Young Life San Diego. He started his ministry…

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Cathy Lloyd

Cathy Lloyd is Senior Vice President of Sales at iHeartMedia, a leading global media and entertainment company specializing in radio,…

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Terry Kraft

Terry Kraft, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret) is President and CEO of the USS Midway Museum. He is responsible for…

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Andrea Brito-Bokosky

Andrea Brito-Bokosky is a retired registered nurse and childbirth educator. She was born and raised in Point Loma, and started…

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Richard Perlman

Richard Perlman is a retired hand surgeon whose private practice primarily involved reconstructive surgery for problems with the hand and…

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New Member Profiles

Falon Leszczynski

February 22, 2024

Associations-Home of Guiding Hands Falon serves as the Vice President of Operations for Home of Guiding Hands, overseeing the functionality of 28 residential group homes and a 25,000-square-foot resource center located in El Cajon. Her responsibilities extend to managing the transportation department and supervising the entire IT network supporting over 800 employees across office, remote,…

Veronica Perondi

February 4, 2024

Education-State University-Program Manager Veronica Perondi currently serves as the Assistant Director of A.S. Programs for Associated Students at San Diego State University. In this role, she’s dedicated to empowering students through leadership and engagement programs. She earned an undergraduate degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University where she was was actively involved in…

Tom Herman

January 25, 2024

Education – Private University – Professor Tom Herman is a teacher and journalist. He is the tax columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s wealth management section. After graduating from Yale, Tom joined the news staff of The Wall Street Journal in New York, where he was given the food beat. Tom wrote for The Wall…

Dale Gray

January 25, 2024

Associations – Institute of Reproductive Grief Care In February of 2023, Dale Gray took over the role of Director of Mission Advancement at the Institute of Reproductive Grief Care. Prior to joining the Institute, he served at the university level as the Director of Philanthropy, and has over 23 years experience before that driving sales…

Kristine Smith

January 14, 2024

Social Services and Welfare – Neighborhood House Association Kristine is the Senior Director of Nutrition Services for the Neighborhood House Association where she has worked for sixteen years. Originally from Seattle, WA, Kristine joined the Navy right out of college, then received her BS in dietetics from Kansas State University, and later her Master of…

Mary Dawe

December 14, 2023

Retired-Law Mary Dawe is a retired Senior Staff Attorney of California State of Appeal, where she served for 27 years. She grew up in Southern California, graduated from UC Riverside, and later went to Law School at USD with the support of her late husband Jim, while they were raising three young children. Mary says…

Amie Brown

December 14, 2023

Associations-Meals on Wheels Amie Brown is the Chief External Affairs Officer for Meals on Wheels San Diego County. She came to Meals on Wheels in 2018 after working in the nonprofit sector for more than 25 years, with a strong emphasis in healthcare for the underserved. She has extensive experience with growing nonprofit organizations, earned…

Tad Parzen

December 7, 2023

Associations-Burnham Center for Advancement Tad Parzen is the President and CEO at Burnham Center for Community Advancement, as well as the San Diego Business Journal 2023 Nonprofit CEO of the year, and former presenter at San Diego Rotary Club. Tad’s career began as a litigation and trial attorney as a partner in the firm of…

Paul Gothold

October 26, 2023

Classification Pending Paul Gothold recently retired his appointment of San Diego County Superintendent of Schools after serving six years in that role, providing educational leadership while administering mandated services, and thirty two years in education overall. His first teaching position was educating adjudicated youth in East Los Angeles where he started to realize that young…

David Bejarano

October 12, 2023

Retired – Law Enforcement David Bejarano was an honorary member of San Diego Rotary Club from 1999-2009 when he transferred his membership to the Chula Vista Rotary Club. David was in law enforcement for over 35 years; 25 years with the San Diego Police Department, five of which he served as Chief of Police. After…