The Organizational Success Working Group is made up of community leaders with a high level of expertise in nonprofit management and organizational effectiveness, oversees grantmaking and donor engagement strategies to meet the most critical needs of San Diego’s nonprofits and creates partnerships and initiatives to support those strategies.

Current Working Group Members
Douglas G. Hegebarth, Chair	Terry Loftus
Jacqueline Ibrahim , Vice Chair	James Reardon
Douglas Burke	Raymond W. Smilor
Gerald E. Hoffmeister	Kent Swedell

Douglas G. Hegebarth, Vice Chair
Entrepreneur and Business Leader
With over 30 years of business and technology leadership in San Diego, Doug brings a wealth of experience and energy to the San Diego Foundation Board of Governors. Beginning with a successful eighteen year career at SAIC he has continued building his expertise by creating, operating, and rescuing a number of Internet and software companies most recently as CEO of Anzus, Inc. In addition Doug provides strategic consulting and mentoring to early stage and emerging technology companies throughout San Diego.

In his sixth year volunteering at The San Diego Foundation he is currently Chair of the Organizational Success Program Working Group as well as a member of the Board of Governors Strategic Planning Committee. In addition to his other activities Doug is a volunteer member of the Executive Mentor program for MBA students at the Rady School of Management (at UCSD). The Executive Mentor Program, a collaboration between local executives, the Rady School, and MBA students, was created for the express purpose of developing these students into future leaders for innovation-driven organizations. Doug is also a member of various business and technology associations, most notably the Corporate Directors Forum. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from National University.
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Jacqueline Ibrahim, Vice Chair
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Douglas Burke
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Gerald E. Hoffmeister
Gerald (Jerry) Hoffmeister, former Chairman/CEO of GEA America, Inc., a German high technology engineering company, joined the Organizational Success Program Working Group in 2001. Jerry is a former executive of Rockwell International and Amcast Industrial Corporation. He is also is a member of The San Diego Foundation’s Science and Technology Working Group, Community Partnerships Committee and The San Diego Foundation's Board or Governors.

As a community leader, Jerry serves as member of the Board of Directors of Del Mar Village Association, San Diego Social Venture Partners, Friends of the Powerhouse, Advanced Monitors Corporation and Ebert Composites, Inc. He is Past Chairman and member of the San Diego Chairmen’s RoundTable and Past Chairman of the San Diego Corporate Directors Forum. Jerry is a former executive of Rockwell International and Amcast Industrial Corporation. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University.
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Terry Loftus
Terry Loftus, Esq. joined the Organizational Success Program Working Group in 2004. He is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in the State of California, and his areas of practice have included criminal defense, civil litigation, real estate, bankruptcy, and corporate law.

He has been a member of San Diego Downtown Lions Club for over 20 years, during which he has served as past President and former Board Member. He is also past President and former board member of San Diego Lions Welfare Foundation and the Boys and Girls Foundation. He volunteers for San Diego Campfire Girls, Blind Community Center, Association for Retarded Children, Camp Jack, and the Police Athletic Association. He is a lecturer for nonprofits on subjects of organization, preservation and conflicts of interest on boards of directors.

Terry served in the Unites States Air Force’s Intelligence Division with top secret codeword clearance. He attended the University of California, San Diego and Western State University (now Thomas Jefferson University) in San Diego.
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Raymond W. Smilor, Chair
As an author, public speaker, investor, consultant and teacher, Ray Smilor is an internationally recognized expert in entrepreneurship. He joined the Organizational Success Program Working Group in 2001. Ray is president of the Beyster Institute for Entrepreneurial Employee Ownership, which operates internationally as the Foundation for Enterprise Development. The Institute/Foundation is headquartered in La Jolla, California with offices in Washington, D.C., and Moscow, Russia.

He is a sought-after motivational speaker, her taught and lectures internationally, and has provided regular commentaries on the nationally syndicated radio show Entrepreneurs: Living the American Dream. He was selected as an Entrepreneur of The Year 1990.

Ray was vice president of the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri from its startup in 1992 through 2000, helping to build one of the most prominent organizations promoting entrepreneurship in the United States.

He made the entrepreneurial leap to the Kauffman Center from The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in U.S. History. At UT, he became a tenured professor in the Graduated School of Business, and served for seven years as executive director of the university's internationally recognized think-tank,the IC2 Institute.
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Kent Swedell
Kent Swedell joined the Organizational Success Program Working Group in 2001.
He has worked in a variety of positions in the organization development and human resources functions. He has served as an internal consultant in several international transportation, energy and manufacturing organizations where he has worked on a variety of projects aimed at increasing organizational effectiveness and performance. He is recently retired from Solar Turbines, Inc. in San Diego in the human resources development area.

Kent spent several years on the Board of the Oakland Ballet where he got his first exposure to nonprofits. Kent feels that promoting organizational effectiveness requires the skills of a missionary, sales person and coach. He has also taught organizational behavior at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and in the school of business at San Francisco State University. He received his MBA from Indiana University in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior.
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