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Alexandra Mars Airth
Co-founder & Secretary Pretend City
Member
Mars Foundation Board
Alexandra holds a BA from Duke University and an MBA from the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management and has held senior
level positions at several international advertising agencies.
MEMBERS
Gigi Barto
Educator
Family Foundation Director
Gigi is a mother of five, catechism teacher, and former docent. With her children, Gigi has traveled worldwide visiting and learning about the educational offerings of children's museums and science centers. She is the wife of Craig Barto, President of Signal Hill Petroleum, Inc. Gigi earned her BA in Sociology from UCLA.
Jill Bertea
Senior Member Major Accounts
Fidelity National Financial
Jill attended the University of Southern California where she earned her B.A. in Psychology. After graduating from USC, Jill began her 10-year career in title insurance at Fidelity National Financial. She is a Senior Member of the Major Accounts group headquartered in Newport Beach. Her duties include new business development, account management, and operations.
Jeff Cannon
Corporate Managing Director
Studley
Jeff holds a B.A. from the University of Arizona. Having a strong background in industrial commercial real estate in Orange County and the Inland Empire, Jeff oversees Studley's Orange County Industrial service Group. Prior to joining Studley in 2005, Jeff was a founding partner of ZCA, a commercial real estate firm in Orange County.
Charlene Davidson
Senior Managing Director
RSMEquico
Charlene Davidson has more than 20 years of global corporate and investment banking experience, advising entrepreneurs, principals and corporations on an array of business transactions, including strategic planning, capital raising, and M&A. She has executed comprehensive capital structure strategies for public and private companies as well as provided advisory roles for capital raising, liquidity access, investment management, cross border banking and global corporate finance activities.
Hirad Emadi, P.E.
Co-founder and President
Innovative Construction Solutions (ICS)
Hirad earned his civil engineering degree from the University of California, Irvine in 1992 and is a licensed professional civil engineer, registered in the State of California. Hirad established ICS in 2000. The company provides soil and groundwater remediation, facility decommissioning, demolition and general construction services for projects complicated by environmental and regulatory issues. Hirad is the father of two young children.
Reesa Emadi
Philanthropist
As a youth, Reesa lived in Spain and visited various types of museums every chance she got. Later, Reesa moved to Irvine and attended Cal State Fullerton, where she studied Biology and Spanish. For three years she taught in a Montesorri school. She is now the mother of two young children and is very active on the Parent Council of Newport Coast Preschool.
William Habermehl
County Superintendent of Schools
OC Department of Education
Bill has 34 years experience in teaching, coaching, site and district administration as well as 23 years of work with the senior management team of the Orange County Department of Education as Associate Superintendent of Instruction, Technology, Child Development and Outdoor Education Services. He received an MA in Education Administration.
Bill H. Lyon
President
William Lyon Homes
Bill, son of General William Lyon, has worked full time with William Lyon Homes since November 1997. He has been a member of the board of directors of William Lyon Homes since January 2000. Bill received a dual BS in Industrial Engineering and Product Design from Stanford
University.
Liset Mereulo
Educator
Philanthropist
Liset holds a BA in Child Development and a MA in Educational Administration from the University of Cal State Los Angeles. She has worked for the Los Angles Unified School District and Newport-Mesa School District as a teacher for 10 years, and is bilingual in Spanish.
Scott Meserve
Development Manager
The Koll Company
Scott is responsible for identifying development opportunities, project entitlement, and construction management. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and is a member of NAIOP, the trade association for developers, owners, and investors in industrial, office, and related commercial real estate.
Ethan Morgan
Vice President
Wells Fargo Private Client Services
Ethan assists Orange County's high-wealth individuals in merging personal lending, investing, risk hedging, and estate planning to structure comprehensive financial solutions.
Steve Muzzy
Vice President
Wells Fargo Commerical Banking
Steve develops and manages the credit and deposit relationships of a portfolio of Orange County middle market companies. He earned a BA in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Sandy Peffer
Co-founder, Pretend City
Marketing Manager
Screen Printers Resource, Inc.
Sandy provided Pretend City's vision and served as the first Executive Director. She received a BS degree in Hospitality Management from California Polytechnic University, Pomona.
EX OFFICIO MEMBER
Pamela Shambra
President
Pretend City
Pam has 26 years of professional experience: 16 years
experience in museum development, management, marketing
and capital campaign fundraising. Pam also has
10 years experience in television production, advertising
and public relations. Prior to joining Pretend City, Pam
was the Vice President of Marketing at Discovery Science
in Santa Ana having worked on the project from concept
to opening and subsequent three years of operations.
Pam holds a BA in Broadcast Communications from
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA.
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