Claudia Sangster is Director of Philanthropy, Estate and Trust Services with Harris myCFO, Inc., a service of Harris Private Bank, and President and Executive Director of the myCFO Foundation, a public charity. Ms. Sangster is former president and current member of the Board of the Associated Women for Pepperdine University; current Board member of the Prostate Cancer Research Institute; a faculty member of the American Institute for Philanthropic Studies at California State University, Long Beach; a member of the state bar associations of Texas and California; and a member of the American Bar Association. She is former president and current member of the Planned Giving Round Table of Southern California.

Ms. Sangster graduated Summa Cum Laude from Pepperdine University and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Houston, College of Law.

Daniel T. Stetson
Trustee and Treasurer

Dan Stetson is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ocean Institute, a $9 million educational non-profit organization located on the ocean in Dana Point, California that provides inspiring marine science and maritime history immersion programs for over 100,000 K-12 students annually. Mr. Stetson joined the Ocean Institute in 1992 as Director of Maritime Affairs, and under his leadership, the living history programs became nationally renowned and won the inaugural Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education from the National Maritime Historical Society and the Sea Education Program of the Year award from the American Sail Training Association.

Prior to his tenure at the Ocean Institute, Mr. Stetson worked for the law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in Los Angeles and managed the mitigation and claims compensation of the largest oil spill in the history of Los Angeles Harbor. He has a B.A. in English from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA from California State University, Fullerton. He is a veteran of the US Coast Guard and has a 100-ton Master’s license. Mr. Stetson serves on the Boards of the American Sail Training Association and the Dana Point Theater Company.

Paula Tomei is Managing Director of South Coast Repertory, a theatre company in Costa Mesa, California. As Managing Director, she is responsible for the overall administration of South Coast Repertory. A member of the SCR staff since 1979, she has served in a number of administrative capacities including Subscriptions Manager, Business Manager and General Manager.

Ms. Tomei served on the board of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for theatre, from 1998-2006, as a member, Treasurer and President. She has also served as Vice President of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and has been a member of the LORT Negotiating Committee for industry-wide union agreements. In addition, she is a theatre panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the California Arts Council, a site visitor for the NE, and recently joined the board of Arts Orange County, the county-wide arts council. A guest lecturer in the graduate school of business at Stanford and the University of California, Irvine, Paula herself graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Economics and pursued an additional course of study in theatre and dance.

Robert Feller
Trustee

Robert Feller is Senior Vice President, Institutional Sales for James Alpha Management, which is dedicated to identifying and seeding best-in-class, emerging hedge fund managers with differentiated investment strategies. In this role, he oversees the firm's marketing efforts in North America across the family office, Registered Investment Advisor, and investment consultancy channels.

Prior to James Alpha, Robert was responsible for fundraising and investor relations for Armored Wolf LLC, which is a global macro hedge fund founded by renowned portfolio manager, John Brynjolfsson, that James Alpha seeded.

Previously, Mr. Feller spent 12 years with the Hartford Mutual Funds where he served as Western Divisional Manager and contributed to record asset growth for sub-advisory partners, Wellington Management Company, and HIMCO (Hartford Investment Management Company). During his tenure, the Hartford Mutual Funds were recognized as the fastest growing non-proprietary fund complex to reach $50 billion in assets under management.

Mr. Feller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and is a Registered Securities Principal.

He resides in Palos Verdes Estates, CA with his wife and two children.