Long Range Planning Advisory Committee

The Long Range Planning Advisory Council advises the college on academic, enrollment and financial direction for its campuses located at multiple sites, as well as consideration toward future developments.
 
Marymount LPAC Member Greg Allen

Gregory E. Allen, PhD, MFT
Founder/Director, Freedom 4U
Palos Verdes Estates, CA

 

W. Graham Arader III
Arader Galleries (New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston,
King of Prussia)
New York, NY

  Joe Aro
President & CEO, South Bay Science Foundation
Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Marymount LPAC Member Randy C. Bowers

Randy C. Bowers
President & CEO, Malaga Bank
Palos Verdes Estates, CA 

 

Ray Bravo
Artist
La Habra Heights, CA

LPAC Member Daniel Chan

Daniel Chan
Founder, Paragon International Ltd.
Hong Kong

Marymount LPAC Member Peter Coffee

Peter Coffee
VP and Head of Platform Research, salesforce.com
Torrance, CA

Marymount LPAC Member Nicholas V. Colonna

Nicholas V. Colonna
Partner, Pacific Coast Capital Partners (PCCP) LLC
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Marymount LPAC Member Roger Bruce Conover

Roger Conover, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - School of Business and Management, Azusa Pacific University
Azusa, CA

 

Aldwyn Cooper
Chief Executive, Regent’s College London
London, United Kingdom

 

 

Kelly Cox
Retired. Former County Administrative Officer
County of Lake

Marymount LPAC Member Craig DeRoy

Craig DeRoy
President & CEO, Medeem LLC
Rolling Hills, CA
 

Marymount LPAC Member David DiBiase

David DiBiase
Director of Education, Industry Solutions, Esri
Redlands, CA

David DiBiase leads the Education Team within Esri’s Industry Solutions group. The Team promotes and supports the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to enrich teaching and learning at all levels, in formal and informal settings, domestically and internationally. David earned bachelors and masters degrees in cartography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining Esri in 2011, he founded and led the Penn State Online GIS Certificate and Masters degree programs. He served as lead editor of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Geospatial Technology Competency Model and University Consortium for Geographic Information Science’s GIS&T Body of Knowledge. He was UCGIS’ Educator of the Year in 2005. David continues teaching classes and workshops in professional ethics part-time.

 Marymount LPAC Member Michael DiVirgilio

Michael DiVirgilio
Hermosa Beach City Council, Former Mayor
Hermosa Beach, CA

Principal, Mailman Ink Public Relations
BS Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson University

 

Anthony W. Farrington
County Supervisor – District No. 4
County of Lake

 

Fran Fulton
Economic Development Manager
Sr. Management Associate
City Manager's Office
City of Torrance

  Mary Ellen Gozdecki, PhD
Educational Consultant
Pasadena, CA
Mike Grimshaw

Mike Grimshaw
Marymount Faculty Member, adjunct professor, Business Entrepreneurship

Mike Grimshaw has more than 30 years of senior level sales and management experience in the highly competitive technology industry with industry leaders IBM, Cisco, Nortel and Unisys.  He has successfully launched new strategic products and won numerous sales and recognition awards for his contributions. 

Mike was the founder and President of Pace Data and the US President of Israeli based RAD Network Devices.  Mike has proven success in the challenge of bringing innovative start-up companies - Equinox Networks, Cascade, Shasta Networks and Ellacoya to acquisition or IPO.

He is the president/co-founder of the South Bay Entrepreneurial Center, a business incubator/innovation center.  He is an Angel investor member of the Maverick Angels and LA Venture Association.

He serves on the business advisory boards at both Marymount College and California State University Dominguez Hills.  He is a certified executive coach through the Growth-Leadership Center.  He is a member of  the Southern California Chapter, Institute of Management Consultants. He is a member of the Southern California Chapter, Institute of Management Consultants and on the advisory board for California United Bank. Mike has served as a volunteer for Junior Achievement for 10 years.  His professional experience in small business has resulted in service with Congress member Janice Hahn’s Small Business Advisory Board; a counselor with the Small Business Development Centers; and a certified small business advisor with Apogee Center.

He has completed the course work for teacher education at California State University Dominguez Hills and has completed graduate studies at that same college and the University of Southern California.  He has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics from California State University Northridge.

 

Martin Griffin
Chief Academic Officer, Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District

 

Marymount LPAC Member Hoyt Hilsman

Hoyt Hilsman
Executive Director, Intentional Conversation Institute; Writer, Journalist, Critic Pasadena, CA

Hoyt Hilsman is an award-winning writer, journalist and critic, and a former candidate for Congress. He has written screenplays for studios and television networks, including Disney, Sony, New Line, ABC, NBC and CBS, and his stage plays and musicals have been produced in theaters around the country and abroad, and have won numerous awards. Mr. Hilsman has been a regular critic for Daily Variety, former President of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and chair of the PEN West drama awards. He has been an active participant in the national political scene, as a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention and later as a candidate for Congress in California. Mr. Hilsman has written hundreds of articles and op-eds for national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun and Los Angeles Magazine, and is currently a regular columnist for the Huffington Post. His novel, 19 Angels, a political thriller set in the Middle East, was published in the fall of 2010.

 

Nathan Jones
Board of Directors, USS Iowa, Pacific Battle Ship Center
Long Beach, CA

Marymount LPAC Member Robert Katherman

Robert Katherman
Owner, The Katherman Companies
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

LPAC Member Gila Katz

Rabbi Gila Katz
Executive Director, Klein Chaplaincy Service of the South Bay

 

As a chaplain for the Red Cross, Rabbi Gila Katz has traveled to major trauma centers in the wake of national disasters: New York City after 9/11, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and Hatiesburg, Miss., in 2011 to help tornado and flood victims.
 
Katz is a fixture in Hermosa Beach, where she visits police officers in the hospital and spends time with their families. She delivers food to first responders working on holidays and Katz developed the idea and led the drive to build the Hermosa Beach 9/11 Memorial, a donated wooden bench covered in 3,000 buttons, each one collected by Hermosa children and representing a victim of the terrorist attacks.
 
With more than two years of intensive training, Katz is a board-certified chaplain and a member of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains and Association of Professional Chaplains.  
She z was raised in Israel near the Lebanese border and came to the United States when she was 11. Growing up in a region of conflict, she became committed to compassion and helping others.

 

Marymount LPAC Member Sabrina Kay

Sabrina Kay, PhD
Chancellor & CEO, Fremont College
Los Angeles, CA

 
Ernest T. Klinger
Entrepreneur
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
 
Thomas D. Long
Former Mayor, City of Rancho Palos Verdes; Partner, Nossamon, LLP
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
 
Brian W. Marcotte
CEO, Titan Oil Recovery, Inc.
Rolling Hills, CA
Marymount LPAC Member Ashley Constable Neary
Ashley Constable Neary
Managing Director, RHI Executive Search, New York, NY

Ashley Constable Neary is a managing director specializing in senior level and C-suite retained searches across multiple industry sectors. As a member of the founding team for RHI Executive Search since 2007, Ashley has held numerous roles including senior associate, principal and managing director.

Ashley has worked with a wide variety of national and international clients to help them build their executive leadership teams. She has extensive functional experience in Financial Management, Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Communications, Technology and General Management at the C-level.

Whether working with start-up organizations or Fortune 500 companies, Ashley prides herself on providing her clients with a relationship driven, consultative search process.  Ashley's areas of experience include Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing and Distribution, Professional Services, Technology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Government, Real Estate Development, Education and nonprofit organizations.

Prior to RHI Executive Search, Ashley worked with a boutique executive search firm where she was a Senior Executive Recruiter specializing in Financial Services. Her clients were top-tier and regional investment banks as well as hedge funds that sought to fill corporate executive positions.  Ashley began her career at Sanford C. Bernstein in Institutional Sales.

Ashley is an active member of multiple philanthropic organizations in the New York area that mainly focus on underprivileged women and children. Additionally, Ashley teaches nutrition education to adults and children associated with nonprofit organizations and community centers.

Ashley is a graduate of Marymount College, Palos Verdes and New York University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors.

 
Joey Quinto
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, California Journal For Filipino Americans
Torrance, CA
 
Barry Samson
Co-Founder & CEO, Toy Box Entertainment
Burbank, CA
 
Scott Schroeder
Professor of Management, Chamaide University
LPAC Member Daniela Steiner

Daniela Steiner
President, Daniela Steiner Cosmetics S.r.L.
San Cassiano in Badia - Dolomites, Italy

 

Dr. Ann W. Tomlinson
VP of Administrative Services, Los Angeles Harbor College

  Jon Vein
CEO, Market Share Partners
  Do Q. Vinh
General Director, Vinh Hanh Investment & Trading Development LTD.
Hanoi, Vietnam
LPAC Member Mary Ann Walker

Mary Ann Walker
CEO, Walker Advertising
Palos Verdes Estates, CA

 
David L. Warren
President, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Washington, D.C.