Board of Directors
Tony Browne, Board President, is a management consultant experienced in working with and between community service organizations, assisting governing boards and senior executives to evaluate options, build relationships and achieve strategic objectives. His activities include affiliations and mergers, strategic planning, community and internal relations, governing board formation and training, and conflict resolution.
Ken Barnes is a Sacramento native and has owned a payment processing and banking services firm for the past decade. He has served on the boards of numerous community and civic organizations in California, as well as in New York City and Beijing during his residence in those cities. Ken and his wife Melanie have enjoyed a happy, healthy marriage for 14 years.
Ronald Cross is a Minister at Bayside Church of Citrus Heights. He is a former Director of Finance and Special Projects for Faith Fellowship Community Church, software developer and designer for the State of California, and is also a retired Air Force Officer.
Peter Dannenfelser II, AIA, Board Vice President, is the owner of Architectural Arts, with over 30 years experience in commercial Architecture. He has served on several boards including The Rotary Club of Sacramento, the Citizen's Advisory Board for the renovation of the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and the Sacramento Valley Soaring Society .
Elias Guzman, JD is an Attorney and Senior Associate at Singer & Associates, Sacramento. Guzman advises clients in family law matters in all areas of divorce and custody. Prior to joining Singing & Associates, he was a Deputy City Attorney for the city of Elk Grove, where he advised city staff on wide range of municipal law issues, and an Associate Attorney with Abbott & Kindermann, LLP, where he staffed on land use, environmental, litigation, and transactional matters.
Cheewa James is a professional Keynote speaker and corporate trainer, working across the United States and Canada. Enrolled with the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, she has authored three books dealing with Native Americans, including one on the Modoc people.
Leslie Sandberg, Board Secretary, is Chief Liaison Officer for Health and Technology, University of California, Davis Health System. She is a former Vice President in Pacific Bell's Health Care Market Group, CEO and Executive Director at the Center for the New West, a nonprofit and nonpartisan Denver based think-tank, and a former chair of the Health Care Working Group of the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT), a 65-member consortium of corporations, federal agencies, national laboratories and universities.
Catherine M. Van Erp, Board Treasurer, is a Certified Public Accountant with 16 years of experience in accounting and tax services in local, regional and national accounting firms. She has been a partner for the past 10 years in a local accounting firm, Boxler & Van Erp, LLP. (SHMP founding board member)
Jean Wiley directs her firm, Wiley Design Communications, in the creation of targeted sales and marketing campaigns. The print and online communications are developed for nonprofits, public agencies and small- to medium private firms. She’s served as President of the American Marketing Association Sacramento and three other professional board of directors and lectured at the AMA Chicago, CSUS Chico and Sacramento as well as UC Davis Extension guest lecturer on Branding.
