Board of Directors

George Granger is President, AT&T – Oregon. Before coming to Oregon, George was Executive Director of External Affairs – California where he managed a team of professionals in a five county area. George previously served as Director of External Affairs for Cingular Wireless where he led the company’s legislative and regulatory agenda in eight states. Earlier in his career, George worked as an aide to California legislators at the state and federal level. George was an elected official, serving as a member of the Castro Valley School Board from 1994 to 2013. George has represented AT&T as a board member for a number of leading business and community organizations including: the Oregon Business Association, the Technology Association of Oregon, the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, the East Bay Regional Park District Foundation, and the Chabot Space and Science Center. In past years, he also served as Chairman of the United Way Giving Campaign in Alameda County and as President of the Alameda County School Board Association.

Stephen Graham is Managing Partner of the Seattle Office of Fenwick & West LLP, which he founded in 2008. Stephen concentrates in the areas of private and public mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements and corporate governance matters, including advising boards of directors and audit, compensation and nominating/corporate governance committees, preparation and filing of periodic SEC reports and other securities law compliance, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act matters and disclosure issues with respect to Rule 10b-5 and Regulation FD. His diverse practice is focused on the representation of emerging and established high growth companies, essentially serving as an extension of the senior management teams and boards of directors. Stephen has represented companies and investment banks in numerous initial public offerings, a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions and private offerings of debt and equity.

Stephen has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the top corporate and M&A lawyers in Washington. He is also a “Super Lawyer” award recipient, 2000 – 2019, is listed in Who’s Who in America by Marquis Biographical Reference, has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America, and is a member of the political science honorary, Pi Sigma Alpha.

In 2019, Stephen was elected to the board of directors of Washington Federal, Inc., a bank holding company (NASDAQ: WAFD). In 2011, Stephen was appointed co-chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and served in that position until fall of 2017. He currently serves on the SEC’s Advisory Committee for Small Business Capital Formation. He is active in community affairs, currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (chairing both the Institutional Conflict of Interest Committee and the Individual Conflict of Interest Committee for more than 12 years), the Institute for Systems Biology and Life Sciences Washington, where he serves on the Executive Committee, and the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee.

Stephen received his B.S. from Iowa State University and his J.D. from Yale University School of Law.

Prior to joining Fenwick & West, Stephen was a corporate partner with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he became chair of the global Corporate Practice Group after founding the Seattle office in 2000.

Greg Goodwin is chairman of the Kuni Foundation, one of Washington State’s largest private foundations. The Kuni Foundation funds advanced research in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as well as funding supported living programs for adults with intellectual delays.

Greg retired in 2016 from his position as Chief Executive Officer of Kuni Automotive, a Vancouver-based network of fifteen automobile dealerships in five states. He received his education from the University of California at Santa Cruz, majoring in Political Science.

Today, Greg is active in the Vancouver/Portland metro area, currently as Immediate Past Chair of Friends of the Children National, and previously as Vice Chair of the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington, board member of the Classic Wines Auction, the Randall Children’s Hospital Foundation, and the YMCA of Columbia Willamette. He also serves on the board of PDX Pharmaceuticals, a biomedical research company, based in Portland, Oregon. He and his wife, Michele, co-chaired the Great Adventure Auction for Medical Teams International and the capital campaign to build Randall Children’s Hospital. They have also worked on the campaign to build Unity Center for Behavioral Health and have served as local fundraising champions for the Friends of the Children expansion campaign in Southwest Washington.

Greg and Michele Goodwin were named Philanthropists of the Year for 2017 by the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington, and as recipients of the VINI Award for 2019 from the Portland Classic Wines Auction.

Since 2020, Greg and Michele divide their time between Vancouver, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona.

Michael Feldser is a retired executive from the metal packaging industry in which he spent 40 years. He retired in 2016 from Ball Corporation of Westminster, CO, as Senior Vice President of the company and Chief Operating Officer of the Food and Household Products Division. He served on the Executive Management Council of the company and was active in several industry trade associations in Washington DC. During his career with Ball, Mike helped lead the companies' efforts in the areas of sustainability and diversity/inclusion. In managing the global division Mike assisted with acquisitions that expanded the business in Europe and Mexico. He earned his BS degree from Miami University of Ohio in 1973 and an MBA from Xavier University in 1979. Mike recently relocated to Malvern, PA.

Duncan Campbell’s passion for helping society’s most vulnerable children grew from his own experience as a youth living in a distressed area of Portland, OR. Those experiences eventually led to his founding of four children’s organizations: Friends of the Children, The Institute for Children, The Children’s Course, and Youth Resources. Early on in Duncan’s career, Duncan worked with juvenile offenders and later served as a member of the Governor’s Agenda for Children, as Chairman of the Multnomah County Juvenile Services Commission, and was a founding board member of Children First. In 1997 he was a delegate to the President’s Summit for America’s Future in Philadelphia. As founder and Chairman of The Campbell Group, Duncan has more than 30 years of timberland investment and forest industry experience. He holds a BS degree and a JD degree from the University of Oregon, is an attorney-at-law and a CPA. Duncan devotes his life to serving vulnerable children and families and has been closely involved with Friends of the Children since its inception in 1993.

Erica Borden Baird is a retired partner of PwC, where she was Deputy General Counsel. As a member of PwC's Office of General Counsel, Erica gave advice to leadership teams and partners around the world on matters relating to legal, reputational, and business risks, governance, and the development of global and US assurance and risk management policies and procedures. Prior to joining PwC in 1984, Erica was a litigation associate at Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher in New York and a staff attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Erica graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University and earned her JD from New York University School of Law. She is a co-founder of Lustre, a blog devoted to retired career women. Erica is a member of both the New York and National Boards of Friends of the Children.

Yi-Chin Chen serves as the Executive Director of Friends of the Children – Boston, an organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by providing youth facing the toughest challenges with 12.5 years of relentless professional mentoring from kindergarten to high school graduation, no matter what. She is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organization and managing the day-to-day operations. Since joining Friends – Boston in late 2015, Yi-Chin has led the effort to successfully elevate the organization’s public profile as the ONLY organization in the state of Massachusetts making a long-term, unconditional, commitment of support to children facing the toughest challenges utilizing a professional mentoring model.

Yi-Chin began her career in youth development nearly two decades ago as a school counselor with the GEAR UP Program at Thomas Edison Middle School and Brighton High School. While working at both institutions, she helped develop and deliver college and career preparation and exploration curriculum to Boston Public School middle and high school students. After receiving her Master’s degree in Social Work from Boston University, she joined the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) where she served as an integral member of the organizational leadership team, including serving the roles of both the Deputy Director and Interim Executive Director. During her twelve-year tenure, she was behind the creation of several award-winning programs, including the Paths to College and Career Program. Her written case study of HSTF’s youth community development model was printed in the book “Youth-Led Community Organizing” published by Oxford University Press in 2007 and used as a required course reading for first year MSW students at Boston University’s School of Social Work. In 2011, Yi-Chin received the Hubie Jones Urban Service Award from BUSSW Alumni Association in recognition of her work with youth in Boston. In the same year, she was one of the HSTF leaders recognized by Bank of America as a Neighborhood Builder. She is often invited to speak on panels to share her expertise on topics of organizational leadership, youth engagement, education advocacy and racial and gender equity.

As an immigrant born and raised in Taiwan, Yi-Chin is a strong advocate for building a pipeline of leaders of color in the city of Boston. She currently serves on several city and state-wide boards and committees, including Boston Children’s Hospital Community Advisory Board, Massachusetts Nonprofit Network Board of Directors, and Boston University School of Social Work Alumni Board. As a graduate of Institute for Nonprofit Practice (INP), she serves as a Senior Fellow and a mentor to several up and coming nonprofit leaders through INP. In her spare time, Yi-Chin volunteers with several animal rescue organizations as a foster home evaluator and as a volunteer portraiture photographer for events such as Help-Portrait

Karie Conner is Vice President and General Manager of the Men’s Division for the Jordan Brand, based in Portland, OR. She’s a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she received her B.S. in Business Management and played for the Women’s Basketball Team.

After graduation, Karie launched her career in sales in Pittsburgh, PA, where she was a Territory Sales Manager for Philip Morris U.S.A. She later moved to Cincinnati to work for Johnson and Johnson as a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative where her team received Regional Sales Team of the year for growing their territory by 35% in a highly competitive marketplace. Karie then moved to New York City to join Nike Inc. and held various roles in sales starting as a Regional Account Executive managing $9M in annual revenue and worked her way to a Strategic Account Executive on the Footlocker business which won National Sales Team of the year and managed over $1B in revenue.

In 2013, Karie moved to Nike World Headquarters to assume the role of Category Sales Director and worked on Nike Basketball and Nike Sportswear across multiple distribution channels over the course of three years. Karie then returned to New York as the Strategic/Regional Sales Director for the Jordan Brand where she grew the business by 20% in three years. Three years later, Karie was promoted to Senior Director of Marketplace at Nike’s World Headquarters where she joined the Global Nike Sportwear Team focused on Athletic Specialty and played a pivotal role in returning that business to profitable growth. Karie has been recognized in Sole Collector by a trusted retailer for having made a significant impact on the sneaker industry for creating distribution and sales strategies in some of the most influential markets in the U.S. and across the globe.

In Karie’s free time, she loves to travel with her husband, SirAllen, and two children Layla and Champ. She also prides herself on mentoring those who aspire to achieve their career goals.

Ellen Frawley, a partner at GMMB and Senior Communications Strategist, has led successful public education and behavior change campaigns that have saved lives, connected families to nutrition support, helped the uninsured gain health coverage, and assisted military service members in making smart financial decisions. Ellen’s clients have ranged from large foundations, such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, to government agencies, such as the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. Ellen’s work outside of GMMB includes serving as the National Director of Strategic Communications at City Year, an AmeriCorps program with thousands of young people serving full-time in communities across the United States, Europe, and South Africa. She worked on the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future and helped launch America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth in 1998. At the US Department of Education, Ellen led an initiative to engage corporations, nonprofits, and community organizations to collaborate on education issues. Ellen is a graduate of Villanova University and lives in Arlington VA, with her husband and three sons.

John joined Campbell Global in 1982, just after its formation, and serves as Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chairman of the Board of Managers until acquisition of the firm by J.P. Morgan Asset Management in 2021. He is the Chairman of the Allocation and Compensation Committees, Vice-Chairman of the Investment Committee, and serves on the Responsible Investment Committee for the firm, plus multiple investment boards. John also serves as Chairman of the Board of OneFortyOne Plantations ("OFO"), an Australian/New Zealand forest products company, and as the Chair of OFO's People Committee, and serves on the OFO Health, Safety and Environment Committee as well.

John has extensive expertise in the capital markets and investment arena on behalf of the firm and its clients and was among the handful of entrepreneurs involved in the formation of the Timberland Investment Management asset class. John has performed virtually all executive functions while at Campbell Global, including acquisitions, business development and market planning, proposal development, contract design, fee setting, product design, tax structure, and strategic planning for the firm in addition to his traditional functions as CEO.

Prior to joining Campbell Global, John was an audit specialist at Deloitte & Touche, formerly Touche Ross & Company. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a member of the Oregon Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs, among other associations, including the Australian Institute for Company Directors and the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).

John holds a B.S. in Business, Accounting, and Finance from Oregon State University. He is a Board Trustee and the Board Treasurer of the Catlin Gabel School, served on the boards of the Portland Chapter and National organization of Friends of the Children in multiple roles over their inaugural decades

Thomas Keller, PhD, is the Duncan and Cindy Campbell Professor of Children, Youth, and Families in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. He directs the PSU Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring and the Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research. He also is Co-Principal Investigator of the BUILD EXITO initiative, a major NIH-funded project to support undergraduates from traditionally under-represented student populations in preparing for graduate studies in biomedical and health sciences research. His research interests include the development and influence of mentoring relationships, social networks in mentoring interventions, evaluation of program innovations and enhancements, the professional development of program staff, and the mentoring of undergraduates in science, biomedical, and health fields. Dr. Keller’s projects have been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation. Previously, Tom was a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration where he earned its highest teaching award in 2003. He holds a BS from Stanford University, and an MPA and PhD from the University of Washington.

Sharon Maghie served as a Director at Microsoft Corporation through her retirement in 2000. Sharon’s responsibilities included the design and management of Microsoft’s stock option plan, 401(k) Plan, and domestic benefit plans, as well as the management of all programs in Human Resource Operations. Under her leadership Microsoft, in partnership with Smith Barney, created and deployed the first online tool allowing employees to exercise their stock options from their desktop. In 2000 Sharon co-founded the Seattle Chapter of Friends of the Children and has been actively involved in the growth and development of this vibrant organization. Sharon has also been instrumental in her work with the Microsoft Alumni Network and the Microsoft Alumni Foundation since her retirement from the company. She has served on the boards in several capacities, and is currently Board Secretary of both organizations. Sharon graduated from the University of Washington with a BA and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy.

Peggy Maguire provides leadership and strategic direction to several key areas at Cambia, including ethics, compliance, strategic planning, corporate performance, enterprise risk management and corporate social responsibility. She also serves as president and board chair of Cambia Health Foundation, where she works with a wide range of stakeholders to enhance quality and improve access to palliative care through Sojourns, the Foundation's signature program. Peggy joined the company in 1997 as an associate general counsel and has held several posts, including chief of staff to the CEO, vice president of Legal Services, and director of Litigation & Risk Management prior to being promoted to her current position. Previously, Peggy worked as an attorney at Garvey Schubert & Barer, and served as a judicial extern to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Passionate about the health, education and wellbeing of all children in our community, Peggy lends her time and talent to several nonprofit organizations. Peggy is Chair of Start Making a Reader Today (SMART), and Executive Vice President of Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation Board. Peggy was honored by Dress for Success Oregon with its Athena Award in 2016. She was also recognized by the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington as a Woman of Distinction in 2015, and with an Orchid Award from the Portland Business Journal as a Woman of Influence in 2014. Peggy is a senior fellow of The American Leadership Forum of Oregon. She received her bachelor's degree in philosophy and anthropology from Lawrence University and her law degree from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College.

John is a venture capitalist and a managing director at Pivotal Investments, focused on investing in companies developing clean technologies for the sustainable economy. He is the former President of Intel Capital, Intel’s strategic investment arm, and was an Intel Corporate Vice-President. Prior to leading Intel Capital, John was instrumental in facilitating Intel's entry into new market segments as an Intel Vice-President and General Manager of the Communications Products Group, the Enterprise Server Group, and General Manager of Intel's desktop motherboard and PC building-blocks business. He joined Intel in 1983. John is a former director of the board of LSI Corporation and currently serves on three private boards, in addition to numerous community activities. He holds a BSEE from Tulane University and MBA from the University of Oregon.

Henry Morriello is a partner and Head of the Structured Finance Practice and Transportation Finance at Arnold & Porter, LLP in New York City. Henry represents clients in US and international term securitization and commercial paper conduits involving residential and commercial mortgage loans, corporate loans, equipment leases, student loans, aircraft loans and leases, auto paper, trade receivables, home equity loans, intellectual property royalties, and esoteric assets. He has represented global financial institutions in groundbreaking governmental financial assistance transactions, troubled financial asset portfolio sales, and liquidations. He has been active in representing investment funds and financial institutions in the purchase and financing of financial assets. Henry is a frequent lecturer at conferences across the country and abroad on topics that include asset/mortgage securitization, structured product workouts and restructurings, transportation finance, real estate finance, and alternative investments.

Bryan Parker is co-founder and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based Legal Innovators, an end-to-end, technology-enabled, talent management solution that has innovated the way in which new attorneys come into the practice of Big Law, and partners with top-tier law firms and corporate legal departments to place lawyers in a two-year apprenticeship style experience. This two-year placement program often results in permanent placement with these prestigious companies and law firms. His company recruits and hires high-quality law school graduates from more than 45 partner law schools using its unique “Money Ball for Lawyers” approach, which helps ensure quality and drives greater diversity, equity and inclusion in the practice of Big Law. Legal Innovators has received a great deal of press around its innovative process and approach, including coverage in The American Lawyer, Bloomberg Law, Law 360 and Above the Law. Its clients include the law firms Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Morrison & Foerster, Orrick, and Shearman & Sterling, as well as corporate clients like Bechtel and Raytheon Technologies. Bryan is a frequent speaker on innovation, data and efficiency, mental health, and diversity, equity and inclusion in the practice of Big Law.

Mr. Parker began his career with Shearman & Sterling as a lawyer on the mergers and acquisitions team, and also spent time as an Investment Banker with Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Prior to helping co-found Legal Innovators, Bryan served as the CEO for a San Francisco, California, venture-backed, community-based marketing technology company (subsequently acquired by Cvent). Mr. Parker also led the Internal Growth and Real Estate operations at DaVita, a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Parker transformed his division from an underperforming $400 million business to a profitable $1 billion enterprise. In recognition of his corporate leadership, Bryan was selected for membership in the Executive Leadership Council, a national organization of African American CEOs and senior executives at Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that experience, Mr. Parker served as the COO of venture-backed Affinity Media. There he took a money-losing operation and helped transform it into a $200 million thriving enterprise operating in the United States, China, and Korea. He led world-wide operations at Affinity Media, and his accomplishments include leading a $60 million round of financing and completing three M&A transactions.

Outside of the workplace, Mr. Parker is very involved in his community. Recently, he was appointed to the prestigious Board of Counselors at Equal Justice Works. The Board includes a broad cross-section of leaders in Big Law, such as public company General Counsel, law firm Managing Partners, and company CEOs. He is also on the National Board of Friends of the Children, an organization seeking to empower children who face obstacles in life and has as its mission to help eradicate poverty. On this board, Mr. Parker serves as Co-Chair of the Racial Equity Committee. Prior to these involvements, Bryan served as an appointed Commissioner with the Port of Oakland, California, where he led fiscal reform efforts, including reducing the Port's debt, cracking down on financial fraud, revitalizing the Oakland Army base (including the consideration of a stadium for the Oakland Athletics), and job creation through smart land use. Before that appointment, Bryan served as the Chair of Oakland's Workforce Investment Board, as a board member of the University of California (at Berkeley) Alumni Association, as a Member of the Board of Trustees for Holy Names University, and as a board member of the Bay Area Chapter of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Mr. Parker is also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and spent several seasons coaching football at Castlemont High School in Oakland.

Bryan attended the University of California at Berkeley (BA), New York University School of Law (JD), and is now completing (at night) a Master of Divinity degree at Howard University. He is a member of the California and New York Bar Associations.

Dan Saltzman has recently retired from his fifth term as a Portland City Commissioner. In his nearly 25 years of public service to Multnomah County and the City of Portland he has been the Commissioner in Charge of over 15 city bureaus and offices. He most recently oversaw Portland Fire & Rescue, Portland Bureau of Emergency Management, Bureau of Emergency Communications, Fire & Police Disability and Retirement Fund, Portland Children's Levy, and the Gateway Center for Domestic Violence Services.

Dan was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Beaverton High School, received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent many years in the private sector as the principal in an environmental engineering firm. He also served as a staff assistant to Congressman (now Senator) Ron Wyden.

Dan served as Multnomah County Commissioner from 1993-1998 and has also served on the Board of Directors for Portland Community College. Dan's focus continues to be the well-being of our children and families, protecting Portland's natural and economic environment to achieve a more sustainable future, as well as enhancing public safety and opportunity for all Portlanders.

Bruce Schoen, now retired, was the Chief Financial Officer of Anthem Memory Care providing operational and programmatic support to the company. He actively participated in setting Anthem’s financial strategy as well as overseeing the accounting staff and providing leadership in financial administration, business planning and budgeting activities, as well as risk management and human resources. Prior to his semi-retirement, Bruce was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Encore Senior Living, which operated 15 senior living communities throughout the country. He was a founding member of Encore and serves on its Board of Directors. Bruce has over 35 years of experience in the senior living and health care industry. Prior to the formation of Encore, Bruce served as Senior Vice President of Brim, Inc. (Encore’s predecessor company) and directed the implementation of strategic acquisition plans to acquire hospitals, senior living facilities, and other health care related facilities. Bruce has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA degree in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the University of Oregon. He is married with three children and five grandchildren.

A servant leader of the mentoring movement for more than 20 years, David Shapiro has dedicated his career to working across sectors and driving equity through the power of relationships. His movement-building expertise has been recognized by leading organizations including the Social Impact Exchange, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Barr Foundation, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and his thought leadership has recently been featured in publications including The Hill, The 74 Million, and Thrive Global. Shapiro is a frequent speaker around the country on diverse topics ranging from youth mental health, education, workforce development, and civic engagement centering on the power of social capital and relationships as drivers of healthy development, diversity, and equitable support and opportunity.

During his leadership as the head of MENTOR, the organization has partnered with global brands including the NBA, NFL, Nike, Starbucks, LinkedIn, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Microsoft to expand the mentoring movement through cause elevation; grown its national footprint to include 24 local Affiliates nationwide providing on the ground expertise; and worked extensively with the Obama Foundation to center mentoring through My Brother’s Keeper. In 2014, MENTOR was selected by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to establish and lead the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC), a comprehensive resource for mentoring tools, program and training materials, as well as access to no-cost training and technical assistance for mentoring programs across the country. Recently, Shapiro has engaged MENTOR as a founding partner in national coalitions supporting young people in the wake of the pandemic, including READY SET and the COVID Collaborative. In 2021, MENTOR was selected by Mackenzie Scott and Dan Jewett to receive the largest individual gift in the organization’s history. Some of MENTOR’s other key philanthropic partners include American Student Assistance, Schultz Family Foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, EY, and AT&T.

Prior to leading MENTOR, Shapiro served as CEO of MENTOR’s Massachusetts Affiliate, Mass Mentoring Partnership, and held leadership positions with the U.S. Golf Association Foundation and the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay. He serves as an emeritus board member of the Mass Nonprofit Network and Common Impact, and is on the boards of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, America’s Promise Alliance, The Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport, and the national board of Friends of the Children. In 2022, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appointed him to the board of trustees of Bunker Hill Community College, the largest community college in Massachusetts.

Shapiro and his family reside in Boston. He is a husband, father, mentor, and youth baseball coach.

Amanda has been the Executive Director for Friends of the Children – Klamath Basin since late 2016. She just returned to the chapter after a year of sabbatical that she spent traveling the US in a motorhome with her family. Amanda has been thrilled to watch the growth of the National network and has led the Klamath Basin in its own growth plan to increase total youth served by 40% by 2020. While she has a degree in Communication: Theater, Amanda’s professional outlook changed after having children, deciding to focus on education. When she moved to Klamath Falls in 2012, she took on the role as Education Director at the Ross Ragland Theater, teaching local youth about the performing arts. This leadership role and community partnership eventually lead her to Friends of the Children – Klamath Basin. Amanda has continued to be a long-time advocate for youth, participating at the table with organizations such as Klamath Promise (Steering and Executive Committees), the Ross Ragland Theater (Board Member), Chiloquin First Coalition, the Citizens Police Advisory Team (CPAT), and Every Child Oregon, in addition to working with various state agencies that impact children (e.g. Department of Health Services). Amanda resides in Klamath Falls with her husband, Phillip, and two children, Hazel and Callum.

Shane Wall is the recently retired Chief Technology Officer and the Global Head of HP Labs. In this role, Shane drove the company’s technology vision and strategy, new business incubation and the overall technical and innovation community. Shane was at HP for over ten years, spanning two waves a decade apart. He has held engineering and management roles leading peripheral development, ASIC development, embedded systems, product and platforms, before moving to Intel. At Intel, Shane spent over ten years as an executive in the areas of corporate technology, channel platform solutions and mobile communications. He was also directly responsible for ventures and investments during his time with Intel Capital. Shane holds a passion for the start-up community and is an active angel investor, serving on several startup and technology boards. Shane was the cofounder of venture-backed PrintPaks, a pioneer in multimedia imaging. He is a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and has a B.S., Computer Engineering from Oregon State University. He holds multiple patents in the image and compute area.

Don Washburn has served as the Executive Vice-President for both Northwest Airlines, Inc. and the Marriott Corporation. He was Chairman and President of Northwest Cargo and Chair of Northwest Aerospace Training Corporation. Currently, he serves on several non-profit and for-profit boards, including the Portland Citizen’s Crime Commission, the Portland Citizen’s Commission on Homelessness, the Oregon Business Association, Stand for Children, and four publicly traded business corporations: LaSalle Hotel Properties, The Greenbrier Companies, Key Technology, Inc., and Amedisys, Inc. Don earned his J.D. from the School of Law at Northwestern University in 1977, an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management in 1973, and his B.B.A. from the School of Business at Loyola University of Chicago in 1970. He also completed post-graduate work at the Harvard Business School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and the University of Chicago.

DJ Wilson is the founder of DJ Wilson Consulting specializing in executive and life coaching, strategic communications and leadership training.

Wilson is a veteran media professional with four decades of media experience including nearly two decades in general management of publicly traded broadcast stations in multiple markets. Most recently, Wilson was the president and general manager of the TEGNA owned media operating unit in Portland, Oregon; the KGW Media Group, a position she held from 2007–2018.

Wilson started in the industry holding various sales and sales management roles at KIRO TV in Seattle. Wilson was also the VP assistant GM/station manager at KING TV in Seattle and the president and general manager of KREM TV and KSKN TV in Spokane. Wilson has also been a VP of Sales in the FOX owned and operated station group working at FOX stations in the Atlanta, Detroit, and Birmingham markets.

Wilson is a past Board Chair (2016-2017) of the Portland Business Alliance (the combined business economic development group and Chamber of Commerce for Portland, OR). Wilson is also a past chair of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, the Classic Wines Auction (a Wine Spectator top ten wine auction) and the Edward R. Murrow Professional Advisory Board at Washington State University where she also served two terms on the Board of Governors. Wilson also chaired the board for Farestart in Seattle, WA.

Wilson has served on the Board of Trustees for the Portland Art Museum, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Dorenbecher Children’s Hospital, SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), Boys and Girls Clubs, and the Citizen’s Crime Commission. Wilson also served on the national Television Advertising Bureau Sales and Marketing Advisory Committee, and on an NBC Jay Leno project advisory group.

In 2012, Wilson was inducted into the Edward R. Murrow Hall of Achievement and was the recipient of the Portland Business Alliance “No Glass Ceiling” female leadership award. Wilson is also a past Portland Business Journal Women of Influence recipient. In 2017 DJ was named Broadcaster of the Year by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters and in 2018 DJ was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) awaded their highest honor into the Silver Circle.

Wilson holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communications at WSU and has completed several masters’ level classes in Communication Leadership at Gonzaga University.

Wilson resides between her homes in Portland, Oregon and Whitefish, Montana.

Vanessa Wilkins is an expert on sparking and scaling innovation in schools everywhere so that all kids can be prepared for their future. She consults with funders and organizations focused on innovation in education and youth development. Most recently, Vanessa served as North America Community Impact Director at Nike, leading a statewide education initiative in Oregon, managing key national and local partnerships, and engaging Nike leaders to innovate in education. Her work re(launching) and implementing the Nike School Innovation Fund was recently documented in a Harvard case used to teach shared value and scaling impact in a joint program between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School. Prior to Nike, Vanessa co-founded Partners in Scale, a consulting firm to mission-driven organizations, where she worked with innovative education models in developing countries, conducted a study on charter school funding in Oregon, and advised global NGO’s on organizational development. Previously, she served as VP for Worldwide Human Resources at EF Education and Managing Director at Friends of the Children, where she now serves on the National Board of Directors. She also worked in Venezuela for Empresas Mendoza. Vanessa received a B.S. from Boston University and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Don Washburn has served as the Executive Vice-President for both Northwest Airlines, Inc. and the Marriott Corporation. He was Chairman and President of Northwest Cargo and Chair of Northwest Aerospace Training Corporation. Currently, he serves on several non-profit and for-profit boards, including the Portland Citizen’s Crime Commission, the Portland Citizen’s Commission on Homelessness, the Oregon Business Association, Stand for Children, and four publicly traded business corporations: LaSalle Hotel Properties, The Greenbrier Companies, Key Technology, Inc., and Amedisys, Inc. Don earned his J.D. from the School of Law at Northwestern University in 1977, an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management in 1973, and his B.B.A. from the School of Business at Loyola University of Chicago in 1970. He also completed post-graduate work at the Harvard Business School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and the University of Chicago.

John joined Campbell Global in 1982, just after its formation, and serves as Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chairman of the Board of Managers until acquisition of the firm by J.P. Morgan Asset Management in 2021. He is the Chairman of the Allocation and Compensation Committees, Vice-Chairman of the Investment Committee, and serves on the Responsible Investment Committee for the firm, plus multiple investment boards. John also serves as Chairman of the Board of OneFortyOne Plantations ("OFO"), an Australian/New Zealand forest products company, and as the Chair of OFO's People Committee, and serves on the OFO Health, Safety and Environment Committee as well.

John has extensive expertise in the capital markets and investment arena on behalf of the firm and its clients and was among the handful of entrepreneurs involved in the formation of the Timberland Investment Management asset class. John has performed virtually all executive functions while at Campbell Global, including acquisitions, business development and market planning, proposal development, contract design, fee setting, product design, tax structure, and strategic planning for the firm in addition to his traditional functions as CEO.

Prior to joining Campbell Global, John was an audit specialist at Deloitte & Touche, formerly Touche Ross & Company. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a member of the Oregon Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs, among other associations, including the Australian Institute for Company Directors and the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).

John holds a B.S. in Business, Accounting, and Finance from Oregon State University. He is a Board Trustee and the Board Treasurer of the Catlin Gabel School, served on the boards of the Portland Chapter and National organization of Friends of the Children in multiple roles over their inaugural decades