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Executive Director • Timothy A. Davis
(Executive Director; Housing and Operations Committee Head) is currently the Executive Director of the SCCDC, and its past and founding President. Mr. Davis spent 20 years in the US Air Force, serving in numerous positions in the United States, Asia, Pacific, and Europe. He held responsible positions as Flight Commander, Squadron Commander, and the HQ USAF manager for numerous upgrade and retrofit Command and Control equipment programs, valued at more than $2 Billion. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel and entered private business. In the corporate setting, Mr. Davis rose to President or General Manager of three Defense Electronic companies with annual revenues ranging from $20M to more than $150M per year. Mr. Davis is a graduate of Capital University, the Air Force’s Squadron Officer’s School, Air Command and Staff Course, and the Air War College. He is also a private pilot with more than 500 hours experience.

President • Mark T. Young
(President; Board Member) is an attorney in private practice. He was one of the founders of SCCDC in 1996, and has been a Board Member continuously since then. Mark has participated in City study sessions on homelessness and affordable housing issues; has appeared for the SCCDC at numerous meetings of the City Planning Commission, City Council, and Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority; has lead teams designing bylaws, rules and procedures; and has chaired the SCCDC committee designated to hear client grievances. Mark’s law firm Donahoe & Young LLP has offices in Valencia and Encino. Mark is admitted to practice law before all state and federal courts in California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mark received his B.A. from UCLA in 1976, and his J.D. from U.C. Davis School of Law (King Hall) in 1979. Mark is a 17-year resident of the Santa Clarita Valley, and lives in Saugus with his wife Sherry and their two teen children.

Vice President • Imre Andrew (Andy) Pattantyus
(Vice President; Board Member) is a management consultant in private practice. His firm Strategic Modularity Inc. is based in Valencia. Andy received his B.A. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981, and his M.S.M.E. from Virginia Tech in 1982. He received an M.B.A. from the Weatherhead School of Business at Case Western Reserve University in 1991. Andy has been a Board Member of the SCCDC since 2003. Andy has been instrumental in setting up the facilities program at the SCCDC, leading to the use of the portable modular structures that have been used since 2003.

Treasurer • David Day
(Treasurer; Board Member; Fundraising Committee Head) is a finance executive and CPA who has had extensive experience with systems, controls, accounting and auditing at small and large companies. He is currently head of finance for Spot Runner, a quickly growing, venture-backed advertising company. He previously led finance & accounting for Yahoo Search Marketing, a multi-billion dollar division of Yahoo!, and worked for the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in their entertainment and media practice. David received his B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University.

Secretary • Robin Binnie
(Secretary; Board Member) is currently a stay at home mother. She is a nationally certified Speech Language Pathologist who has worked in various hospitals, nursing homes, and schools in New Jersey, Connecticut and Minnesota. She received her BA from Bucknell University in Pennslyvania and her MS from Syracuse University. She recently relocated to Santa Clarita with her husband and two children and became involved with the SCCDC in January 2007 and has since joined the board. She is currently serving as the secretary for the SCCDC.

 
 

The mission of Santa Clarita Community Development Corporation (SCCDC) is to serve the needs of low-income and homeless individuals of the Santa Clarita Valley. The SCCDC seeks to achieve solutions by raising community awareness, providing services, and coordinating volunteer, city, county, state and federal services.

Early SCCDC: As one of the fastest-growing communities in the United States, the Santa Clarita Valley will continually be challenged to fund the social services required by a rapidly developing society. With public funds increasingly scarce for social programs, the SCCDC has taken a primary role in meeting the needs of the hungry and homeless in this community. Thanks to strong growth in our fundraising efforts, we have seen a substantial increase in our revenues. Combined with a broader array of support from the private sector and increased grant money, this will enable the SCCDC to achieve its objectives.

Our vision is to create a continuum of care, focusing first on emergency services and then adding support services. Key goals include the relocation of the temporary Shelter to a permanent rotation schedule of locations and a further expansion of services.

 
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Bret Wims • Board Member, TTI Committee Head
Chartered Financial Consultant with Financial Services Company Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a fortune 500 Company. He has served members of the Santa Clarita Valley since 1991. Thrivent Financial is a not-for-profit membership organization. Thrivent Financial also sponsors national outreach programs and activities that enable its members to demonstrate their care for others through support of congregations, schools, charitable organizations and needy individuals. Mr. Wims is also active with Habitat for Humanity and recently returned from a Habitat Build in Guatemala. A member of the Santa Clarita Valley since 1983, Mr. Wims is married and has three children.

Dana Zimmer-Mech • Board Member; PRAC Committee Head
President and founder of Ingenuity Marketing Services, which provides outsourced marketing to various companies around the world. Ms. Mech's expertise spans all facets of marketing and communications for many types of business including manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing, and service. Ms. Mech previously was the Director of Product Development and Marketing for an electronics firm and earlier a footwear company. Ms. Mech graduated from USC with degrees in both Political Science and Gerontology. Her MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management complements her seventeen years of dedicated marketing experience.

W. Randolph (Randy) Sain • Board Member
President of Studio Services, Inc which has been one of the largest equipment rental companies for the motion picture industry since 1977. Mr. Sain started as a volunteer at the Santa Clarita Emergency Winter Shelter 10 years ago and joined the Board of Directors in 2006. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee, Fundraising Committee and the Public Relations Committee. Mr. Sain has been involved in numerous civic projects in the Santa Clarita Valley over the past 25 years and is a member of the Leadership Team at Valencia United Methodist Church. He holds a BS degree in public administration from Appalachian State University and MBA in finance from National University.

Linda Malerba • Board Member
Area Director for Lutheran Social Services of Southern California in the North Los Angeles County. Ms. Malerba serves on the Board of Directors for the SCCDC and Thrivent Financial in Santa Clarita. She was also selected by Los Angeles County Supervisor, Mike Antonovich, to work on his SCV Homeless Shelter Task Force. In 2003, Ms. Malerba launched the LSS Community Care Center in the Santa Clarita Valley. She also has played a key role in opening the Santa Clarita Valley Cold Weather Shelter for the past 3 years and more recently served as the co-director for the Sylmar Emergency Winter Shelter in 2006. Through her client management program, she helped the shelter achieve a remarkable 38% success rate for permanent housing and gainful employment. Ms. Malerba holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Arts degree in Marriage/Family Counseling. Additionally, she has been licensed in the State of California as a Marriage and Family Therapist.

Esmeralda Roussel • T Board Member
Financial Services Professional with The New York Life Insurance Company where she heads her own investment and insurance practice serving the Santa Clarita Valley since 2005. Ms. Roussel is passionate about providing creative ways to achieve and maintain financial security and independence for individuals and their loved ones, as well as business owners and their employees. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is fluent in Spanish. She leverages her training in engineering and language skills to intelligently solve problems and reach as many people as possible. Esmeralda has lived in SCV for 18 years and she proudly contributes to the SCCDC as a Board Member and Fundraising Committee Member.

 
 
Rev. Lynn Jay Stephen K. Peeples Dan Morefield
Lois Juscksch Stephen C. Schmidt Frank J. Schiro
Michael G. McFadden    
 
* None of the SCCDC Board members receives any monetary compensation
(the Director of Operations and Project Manager are not Board members and do receive nominal compensation).