 Jeffrey Sitcov
760-505-7077
Jeffrey Sitcov is Founder & President of Photocharity. Jeffrey, a Physical Therapist for 18 years, suffered a career ending injury while treating a patient in 1998. After much soul searching, he decided to volunteer his life & help youth make better choices in their lives. He interviewed over 100 non-profit San Diego organizations that empowered youth to make better choices for themselves. One of those organizations was the Storefront. He spent 5 hours on the streets with the Storefront Outreach Program and was shocked to find there were over 2000 youth under the age of 18, and 4000 more between the age of 18 to 24, that were homeless in San Diego County. After this experience Jeffrey realized he must help Save Homeless Youth and Photocharity was born.
Jeffrey is an award-winning Photographer. His first break photographing music concerts and celebrities came when Bill Silva asked him to be the House Photographer at San Diego State Open Air Theater. Jeffrey’s relationships with Billy Joel, Elton John, BB King and others, facilitated the donation of guitars, keyboards, and drumheads that were signed and sold, raising over $600,000 for Photocharity.
Jeffrey has committed to spearhead fundraising efforts for a new shelter called the “House of Hope”. It will be the first shelter in San Diego for 18-24 year olds. There are presently 4000 plus homeless youth between the ages of 18 to 24 and no shelter to serve them. The Vision is that the “House of Hope” will be a template for other communities & countries to duplicate.
Jeffrey’s newest venture is “Arts for Hope, Empowering Homeless Youth”. He will partner with ex homeless youth and mentor them in Sales, Marketing, and PR in a for profit business selling Art, Photography & Music. Jeffrey’s goal is to teach them how to be financially secure so they in turn will mentor other ex homeless youth.
Jeffrey has received awards locally & nationally by being a semifinalist for Volvo For Life Awards, Channel 10 Leadership Award, & Jewish Family Service Volunteer of the Year Award.
 David Mirisch
David Mirisch is recognized as one of the top producers of celebrity fundraising events in the United States. He has done more than 2,500 events around the world that have raised over $30,000,000 for non-profit organizations. He is also a member of the Mirisch motion picture family that has produced 72 motion pictures, won 24 Academy Awards including three Best Picture Oscars.
david@dmirisch.com
www.davidmirisch.com
 Jeffrey Becker, CIHM, President
(858) 444-2290 / jeff@pegasuscleanroom.com
Mr. Becker, Certified Industrial Hygiene Manager and the founder of Pegasus Cleanroom Services. Pegasus Cleanroom Services is an ISO 9001:2000 registered company that provides critical cleaning services for controlled environments such as electronic and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, medical device manufacturers, GMP facilities, data centers and other mission critical environments.
He formed Pegasus Cleanroom Services from his experience and knowledge in the overall maintenance of controlled environments, as well as general building service contracting and business management.
Mr. Becker holds a Certificate in Cleanroom Management from the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) and has been published in Contamination Control Magazine, and Cleanrooms Magazine.
Additionally, Mr. Becker sits on the IEST RP-18 Committee, which is currently revising the recommended practices for cleaning and sanitizing cleanrooms.
 Steve Bram
Steve’s affordable housing experience over the last 10 years consists of the development and construction of 444 single family lots, 38 homes, the rehabilitation and sale of over 75 HUD homes, the acquisition, rehabilitation, and management of over 1,602 multi-family housing units and 25 homes, the new construction of 776 multi-family housing units and the construction of 2 parks. Currently, Steve is developing a new 90 unit affordable senior apartment project. Most of these projects provide rents that are one half of what they would be for a market rate apartment. This serves to fill a huge need for people and families trying to have safe and decent housing who would otherwise not be able to do so. An example of who this benefits would be a family of 4 that makes $37,500 or less annually.
In addition to Steve’s participation in affordable housing, he has donated his time to further building education as Chairman of the University of California San Diego’s Architectural and Construction Department and has volunteered and contributed to rehabilitate family housing shelters, including participation with the Building Industry Association.
Steve has also assisted another non-profit teen homeless shelter organization to develop a facility in the Inland Empire and supported foster care providers. Steve has run, volunteered and donated funding each of the past 5 years to Providence Place, which is a program that helps women who have been incarcerated to get back on their feet and stay out of trouble. Steve has also been the Nation Chief for the YMCA and responsible for running their Annual Giving Campaign for the Coyote Nation, as well as leading approximately 300 dads and children in this dads and daughters program.
Steve is married to Wendy Deaver Bram, an elementary school teacher. They have 3 children ages 8 (twins) and 9. When Steve isn’t working, he is a full time Dad who is very involved in his children’s activities including the YMCA’s father daughter Indian Princess program, Dads Club, coaching his girls youth soccer teams, supporting other activities like swimming and dance, and supporting their education.
 Shauna M. Aguirre
Shauna has been with Photocharity since it’s inception. She has served on several non-profit boards for the last 13 years, including “Bravo San Diego” a non-profit with an annual event raising over $200k for local arts and theatre organizations; “SummerQuest,” an organization raising money for pediatric aids.
Currently she has decided to focus all of her charity time on Photocharity.
“My time with PC has been an amazing journey. It has brought enormous fulfillment to my life to participate in an organization that has had such a dramatic impact on my local community, To witness the change PC has brought to so many children’s lives and be a part of that change is a true honor.”
Shauna currently is the restaurant manager for Humphrey’s Restaurant.and Talent Buyer for Humphreys Backstage lounge. In 2007 she was awarded the “Golden Fork Award” by “Women Chef’s & Restauranteurs” for top female restaurant manager in the country.
 Marc Makebakken
Mr. Makebakken is the Manager and Chief Investment Officer of Southwest Fund, L.P. He is the owner in MS Development Holdings, LLC, a full service development company headquartered in Phoenix, AZ. MS Development Holdings LLC has 15 entity LLC's under its management umbrella. Mr. Makebakken is a 25-year veteran of the real estate and construction industries, with experience directing all disciplines associated with the management and execution of real estate based businesses. Mr. Makebakken began his career as a principal of a general contracting firm specializing in retail construction, which has constructed over 500 single tenant buildings. Makebakken has successfully constructed over 500 buildings for national credit tenants and developed over 1.5 million square feet of commercial real estate over the past 20 years and with a construction value of more than $125 million. He maintains a proven and fortified alliance with many national and regional credit tenants. Mr. Makebakken also has several institutional and national lending relationships. All of these relationships are an integral part of SWF's ability to secure needed financial backing on mutually beneficial assets. In 25 years, Marc has preserved investors principal and has consistently produced average annualized IRR¹s of 16-35 percent and an average ROI of at least 192 percent. Mr. Makebakken has sat on several boards in his career including, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Regional Board of Directors, National Conference of Community and Justice (NCCJ) and the Leukemia Society of America. Mr. Makebakken is presently an Advisory Board Member of Goldwater Bank based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mr. Makebakken has enjoyed many athletic accomplishments during his career including National Top 10 Rankings in the sport of Triathlon. As a global giver, Mr. Makebakken supports many NGO's around the world including his support of the International Rescue Committee's lifesaving work in Darfur, Sudan and in neighboring Chad, where approximately 200,000 Sudanese refugees have fled.
Lauren Mesch
Lauren Mesch is an expert on how cutting-edge integration and payment solutions can help companies enhance customer service and work proactively to provide billing and payment strategies. Experienced in operations management, client relations and sales, Ms. Mesch began her career in the banking industry. Today, she continues to work with a large and diverse client group to implement strategies that help them achieve departmental and corporate goals for revenue, bankruptcy management and profitability. This client base includes utilities like Duke Energy, Florida Power and Light, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Pacific Gas and Electric, AGL Resources, and others. With more than 25 years of experience in the payments industry, Lauren has spent the past 20 years working with utility clients to help them to optimize their electronic payment solution offerings. She has a proven track record in assisting utilities with optimizing payment solutions in a real-time environment and increasing consumer use of automated channels. Her experience and understanding of client issues and experience in collaborative planning combine to make her a true Global Business Payment expert.
Rhonda Migliaccio –
CFO/Director of Client Relations-Cavallo Motor Sports
David Demergian
Fitzmaurich and Demergian – Attorney at law
Brenda Swenson-
Senior V.P. Business Development-RBC Correspondent Services
Michael Hardwick |
