San Diego Regional Disaster Fund Board of Directors
The San Diego Regional Disaster Fund Board of Directors is composed of volunteers with diverse professional backgrounds who are involved in many community and charitable activities.
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Ted Chan, M.D., CHAIR
Medical Director of the Emergency Departments at both UCSD-Hillcrest Medical Center and the Thornton Hospital in La Jolla.
Ted Chan completed both medical school and an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Prior to that time, Dr. Chan had worked in Washington, DC in the Office of the Assistant Surgeon General, and in the state capitol at the California State Senate. He completed his training in Emergency Medicine at UCSD in 1996 where he served as chief resident in his final year. Dr. Chan joined the faculty in July 1996 and is board certified in Emergency Medicine. He is active in health policy initiatives in San Diego and has worked with a number of community health and law enforcement agencies. Dr. Chan serves as Medical Director for the Metropolitan Medical Strike Team for San Diego County. His research interests include ED crowding and efficiency, informatics in health care, and tactical, disaster and prehospital medicine. He has received research grants from the NIH, US Dept of Justice, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Chan is editor of the Cardiology section of the Journal of Emergency Medicine; and has authored and edited 3 textbooks: Atlas of Emergency Procedures, ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care, and Sudden Deaths in Custody.
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Barry Ingalls Newman, Esq., VICE CHAIR
Retired Banker and Attorney
Barry Newman received his BA from Alfred University and his JD from NYU School of Law. He is an active member of the Bars of California and New York, an inactive member of the Ohio Bar, and is admitted to the Bar of the US Supreme Court. A retired banker, he was the past Chairman, President and CEO of the Security Pacific Finance Group (headquartered in San Diego); and was Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Great American Bank. Since 1988, he has been a solo legal practitioner with a professional practice focusing on general business, and real estate, transactions; Government and Non-Profit Law; and complex commercial arbitration and mediation. He is a Judge Pro Tem for the San Diego Superior Court, sitting in both Traffic and Small Claims Departments.Currently, Mr. Newman serves, since 2000, as a member, and Past President, of the San Diego County Civil Service Commission; and Chair, since 1995, of the San Diego County Treasury Oversight Committee. He is a member of the County’s Audit Committee; Vice Chair of the City of Escondido’s Planning Commission; and serves on the City of San Diego’s Independent Rates Oversight Committee (“IROC”) and, since 1999, on the Board of the San Diego Foundation, and on its Executive Committee. He is also Chair of the Foundation’s Community Partnership Committee and Vice Chair of both its Disaster Board and its Charitable Real Estate Fund.
He is a Past President and current member of the executive committee, of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association; and sits on the Board of Directors of the San Diego/Imperial County Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is also the First Vice President of the Corporation Board of Directors of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego and has been, since 1989, a Licensed Lay Eucharistic Minister in that Church.Representative past community activities include having served for 9 years as Treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. He was also a member of the City of San Diego Public Utilities Advisory Commission; Foreman Pro Tem of the 1999-2000 County Grand Jury; Chairman of the Board of the California Center for the Arts - Escondido; Vice Chair of the regional Metropolitan WasteWater Programs Oversight Committee; Vice Chair of the Citizen’s Blue Ribbon Committee to review the local Chapter of the American Red Cross; President of the Past Grand Jurors’ Association of San Diego County; President of the University Club of San Diego; Chair, for 14 years, of the San Diego County Capital Asset Leasing Corporation (“SANCAL”); and he was the Chair of the San Diego Region Citizens’ Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Restructure (“SANCoGER”), a Blue Ribbon Commission mandated by Proposition A approved by San Diego voters in November 1993. |
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Robert B. (Bob) Clelland, CIMA, TREASURER
President, Clelland & Company, Inc.
A nationally-known investment management consultant with over 20 years’ experience, Clelland was a member of The Foundation’s board from 1996 to 2005. He serves on the Professional Advisory Council, Investment Committee, and as treasurer of the San Diego Regional Disaster Fund. Director emeritus and past-president of the International Management Consultants Association (IMCA), he is also a member of its Legislative Critical Response Team and co-chair of the Wealth Management Committee. Clelland currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Investment Consulting, and has been active in our community as a speaker, volunteer and investment advisor to several of San Diego’s charitable organizations and community centers. He holds a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University, is a Certified Investment Management Analyst, and is listed in Who’s Who of Investment Management Consulting.
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Frank H. Ault
Chair, San Diego Regional Fire and Emergency Services Foundation
Frank H. Ault has served as a community volunteer since 1961 when he became a volunteer firefighter in Palm Desert, CA. He has been firefighting for 46 years at various volunteer fire departments including Palm Desert, where he served as the fire chief; Colonial Heights, VA; and most recently Mt Laguna, CA, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. Through his fundraising efforts for Mt. Laguna, the volunteer fire department has been able to raise $500,000 for two new fire engines to serve their community and all of San Diego County on a mutual-aid basis.
He joined the San Diego Regional Fire and Emergency Services Foundation in 1991 and has been the Board Chairman since 1995. The Fire Foundation has raised $1.3 million during its 17 years of existence and has granted that entire amount out to the 27 fire departments in San Diego County that have volunteer firefighters. This effort has significantly increased the ability of volunteer firefighters to effectively respond to fire and medical emergencies in the rural portions of San Diego County. He also serves on the San Diego County Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund Committee which grants about $400,000 per year to the County’s volunteer fire departments.
Frank joined the Board of Directors of the San Diego Foundation in 1986, stepping down after 16 years in 2003, including two years as Board Chairman. He continues his 21-year involvement with the Foundation as the Chair of its Scholarship Committee and member of the San Diego Regional Disaster Fund Board of Directors, a supporting organiztaion of The San Diego Foundation.
Frank worked for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)/Sempra Energy for 37 years. He served in various accounting positions from 1969-1981 and was Director of Internal Audit from 1981-1986. He became Vice President and Controller of SDG&E in 1986 and Sr. Vice President and Controller of Sempra Energy in 1998, when the company was formed by the merger of SDG&E and Southern California Gas. He retired from Sempra Energy in 2006. Sempra Energy is a fortune 500 company with $12 billion of revenues and $29 billion of assets in 2006 from its world-wide operations. In addition, he served on the Boards of Directors of SDG&E and Southern California Gas Co from 2002-2006.
Frank holds a master’s degree in business administration from United States International University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University. He served three years as an officer in the United States Army.
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Jim Bliesner
Director, San Diego Reinvestment Task Force (RTF)
Jim has served as Director for the San Diego Reinvestment Task Force since 1985. The Task Force is a quasi-public, trilateral agency authorized by the City and County of San Diego to monitor lending practices and develop strategies for reinvestment. The work of the Task Force has received national recognition as a model for encouraging partnerships among the lending industry, community non-profit organizations, and government agencies.
Jim has been a member of the board of the California Community Reinvestment Corporation. He has also served as a founding member of the California Reinvestment Committee. He has been an appointee of the Governor of California to his Office of Neighborhoods and of the Mayor of San Diego to the City Committee on Growth and Development, and the City Committee on Redistricting. Jim has also been a member of the faculty at the San Diego State University Community Economic Development Certificate Program.
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Janie DeCelles
Long Term Care Specialist
Janie has a diverse background in business, philanthropy and nonprofits. She has worked as a commercial real estate developer for Trammell Crow Company, started her own wine exporting company, and was a Regional Manager in long term care insurance for GE Capital. She currently works with LTC Resources as an independent broker specializing in long term care planning for both individuals and businesses.
One of her goals is to make more San Diegans aware of the many opportunities for making a difference in their communities through philanthropy. She has an ongoing opportunity to do so in her role as an advisor to her late aunt's fund at The San Diego Foundation. In addition to serving on The Foundation’s Environment Working Group, she is currently on the Board for the San Diego Foundation's Regional Disaster Fund, the San Diego River Park Foundation, the Friends of the Chula Vista Nature Center, the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of San Diego and is a member of CRES's Conservation Innovator's Council. Janie has extensive finance and marketing experience, and holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Craig M. Garner
Partner, Corporate Department
Craig M. Garner is a partner in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins LLP, where he has practiced since 1993. He is vice chair of the firm's Corporate Department in San Diego. Mr. Garner's practice centers on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general company representation in a broad range of industries.
In the corporate finance area, Mr. Garner represents issuers, venture capital providers and investment banks in public and private equity and debt offerings, restructurings and other financing transactions. He also represents public and private companies in a variety of merger and acquisition and corporate partnering transactions. In addition, Mr. Garner serves as regular outside corporate and securities counsel for a number of local companies.
Mr. Garner is an author of the Annual Meeting Handbook, which is published annually and distributed nationwide by RR Donnelley, and lectures on related corporate and securities topics. He is admitted to practice in California and is a member of the State of California and San Diego County Bar Associations.
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Edward W. Kitrosser, CPA
Moss Adams LLP - San Diego Office Managing Partner
Mr. Kitrosser graduated from the Bernard M. Baruch School of Business and Public Administration in New York with a B.B.A. in accounting in 1966, after which he worked in both the public and private accounting fields. Ed provides auditing and consulting services for a wide variety of enterprises, with an emphasis in not-for-profit organizations. He is a past member of the Private Companies Practice Section-Technical Issues Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the AICPA’s Not For Profit Organizations Committee and the California State Committee on Peer Review. He has also co-authored two educational courses related to not-for-profit organizations published by the AICPA, and the Practitioners 990 Deskbook, and published by Practitioners Publishing Company.
Mr. Kitrosser’s current community activities include service with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego, Jackie Robinson Family YMCA, San Diego Opera Association, San Diego Foundation, Cal State San Marcos College of Business Administration, and Downtown San Diego Rotary Club.
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Bob Kelly
President & CEO, The San Diego Foundation
Robert (Bob) Kelly has been President & CEO of The San Diego Foundation since 1994. Prior to joining The Foundation, Kelly was noted for his 15-year career with the American Cancer Society in San Diego and Southern California, and five years with Sharp Health Care, where he served as Assistant to the President and Senior Vice President and also Chief Operating Officer for the five Sharp Health Care Foundations.
Kelly’s community-service activities include present Board member of the International Community Foundation, San Diego Chamber Foundation, and San Diego Grantmakers; San Diego Dialogue, Community Foundations of America, Advisory Council member of LEAD San Diego; past member of Naval Training Center’s Advisory Committee; past President of the UCSD Alumni Association; past Board Chair of Youth for Progress; assistant coach of the Point Loma Little League and Basketball League. Kelly is a member of the Downtown San Diego Rotary and the San Diego Yacht Club.
A longtime San Diego resident, Kelly attended the University of California, San Diego, earning a BA degree in communications. He and his wife, Deborah, have two college-age sons, Kris and Ryan, and live in the Point Loma area.
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Captain David R. Landon
Retired Captain U.S. Navy
David R. Landon, a native of Guilford, Connecticut, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1975 with a BS in Business Administration. He entered the Navy in 1976 and retired as a Captain in 2006 after 30 years on active duty.
He completed pilot training and received his wings in 1977. Following flight training, subsequent sea duty and squadron assignments included HC-1 Det2 aboard the USS Midway (CV-41), HSL-34 aboard the USS Richard L. Page, USS Bowen (FF-1079) and USS John Hancock (DD-981), HSL-45 aboard USS Valley Forge (CG-50) and USS Fife (DD-991), and as the Air Boss aboard USS Essex (LHD-2). During his naval career he accumulated over 4,600 rotary and fixed wing flight hours and more than 1,100 small deck shipboard landings.
Staff assignments included, Commander Service Group Two as Flag Lieutenant, Head of the Officer Programs Section for the Chief of Naval Operations and Supreme Allied Commander (NATO) as Head of Current Operations.
He has commanded HSL-51 in Atsugi Japan, HSL-41 in San Diego California, Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility in San Diego and Naval Base Coronado which included NAS North Island, Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, NALF San Clemente Island, the Silver Strand Training Complex, La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Complex and OLF Imperial Beach.
Since transiting from the Navy, he is working as the Director of Military Recruiting for the International Recruiting Center, a division of SOS Staffing.
He and his wife Jean, currently reside in Coronado. The Landon’s have two sons, Matthew, a junior at USC, and John, a freshman at USC
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David R. Snyder
Partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw, Pittman, LLP
Mr. Snyder has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years, focusing on corporate finance and general corporate matters. Mr. Snyder’s practice has involved serving as lead counsel in numerous public offerings of equity and debt securities, representing NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange public companies in their ongoing SEC reporting obligations and handling private placement and public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He has counseled boards and special committees of directors in contested takeovers and in stockholder litigation in California, Delaware and federal courts.
Mr. Snyder has been a frequent speaker on matters of corporate securities law and has written annual updates on federal securities law matters for The Business Lawyer since 1988. He has been profiled in the last several editions of The Best Lawyers in America and in Chambers & Partners’ America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Mr. Snyder has served on the firm’s Managing Board since 1998, and was elected Vice Chair of the firm effective January 1, 2004. Affiliations: Registered Foreign Lawyer, The Law Society of England and Wales; Admitted to practice: State of California; Member of: American Bar Association, San Diego County Bar Association, ABA Federal Securities Law Committee
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James (Jim) Ziegler
Community Volunteer
A community leader with over 25 years experience of banking throughout California and as a small business owner, Ziegler contributes his expertise to The Foundation's Executive Committee, Fund Services Committee, which he has chaired since 2004, and The San Diego Regional Disaster Task Force. His leadership extends to current service on the board of AIDS Foundation San Diego and as a member of The San Diego HIV Funding Collaborative housed at The Alliance Healthcare Foundation. Previous community affiliations include board service for the La Mesa Chamber of Commerce, Mission Beach Precise Planning Board, Diversionary Theatre, El Cajon Boulevard Businessmen's Association, and The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center for which he as board chair in 2000. Ziegler earned his bachelor's degree from Miami University in Ohio, and is a U.S. Navy Viet Nam-era veteran. |
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