Leadership
Meet Our Team

Carlos Salas
Chairman of the Board
Previously, Mr. Salas managed a New York-based private equity fund and was an investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mr. Salas is a member of the State Bar of California and practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. He has served on the boards of directors of several public and private companies. Mr. Salas is a graduate of The University of Chicago (J.D.) and New York University (B.A.).

Rev. Everett Bell
Chairman of the Advisory Board
As the National Organizer for PICO National Network, a faith-based organization with federations in 17 states, he is committed to organizing and creating a voice for the people of those marginalized communities.
Rev. Bell, an associate minister at Christ Our Redeemer African American Methodist Episcopal Church, promotes agendas important to African American and Latino communities by lending a faith-based response to policies of mass incarceration and gun violence. He is particularly interested in changing the legislative landscape around the issue of trauma and youth violence.

Mario DeTomasi
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. De Tomasi has sat on or currently sits on the board of several companies and non-profit organizations. Mario De Tomasi is a graduate of St. Mary’s College of California and when not working loves to be outdoors playing golf and spending time with family and friends.

Thedora Nickel
Executive Director
Nickel previously served in various leadership roles at Bank of America. In a career spanning more than 25 years, she served as SVP, Group Operations Exec where she directed and managed national research, resolution and reconcilement functions in support of the bank’s 5,200 bank centers, capture sites and cash vaults. Nickel is Six Sigma Green Belt Champion, Lean and Process Excellence certified. Nickel mentors MBA students at the University of California, Irvine and is a board member for The Whole Child in Whittier, California.

Pastor Jack Miranda
Community Board Advisor
Pastor Miranda serves on the boards of two faith-based organizations that capture the breadth of the exponential growth of the Hispanic Evangelical community in the nation; as an executive with the Southern Pacific District 345 member churches, and the general board of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference/NHCLC, representing over 40,000 churches. He is a founding member of the National Diversity Coalition, as well as on the advisory board of the Royal Business Bank. As a community engager, he has sat on many boards some of which include the La Mirada Chamber of Commerce, Straight Talk Counseling and the school superintendent’s cabinet.

Regina Grant Peterson
Community Board Advisor

Angie Miranda
Chief Risk Officer

Alex Anderson
Community Board Advisor
Mr. Anderson recently co-founded AAEE, a non-profit vehicle providing innovative solution to long standing social ills which would benefit from business development solutions. Earlier, he joined NuCapital Access Group, an innovative firm that provided venture funding, growth capital and acquisition financing to promising companies owned and operated by minorities and women utilizing CRA funds. He also co-founded the Black Economic Council (BEC), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the self-sufficiency and economic empowerment of African-American communities.
He has served as financial advisor, and consultant to the City of Oakland, startups and small- to middle-market companies. His experience includes client transactions and tenure with highly reputable firms such as Deloitte & Touche, Hambrecht & Quist, Prudential, Kaiser Hospital and IBM.

Kari Hallowell
Chief Financial Officer

Beatrice Stotzer
Community Board Advisor

Rev. Charles Dorsey
Community Board Advisor

Richard Ramos
Community Board Advisor
Early in his career he served as a correctional officer in state and federal prisons; a Juvenile Hall instructor and at-risk junior high and high school counselor; a co-founding direct or of a gang intervention/prevention community coalition; a director of a Latino youth and family teen center; and a founding director of the Interfaith Initiative of Santa Barbara County, which led the effort and changed the political opposition to affordable housing projects.
Since 2004, author and speaker Ramos has led the Latino Coalition to work in over 20 cities in eight states awarding over $28 million in grants to over 100 community and faith-based organizations. He has received numerous accolades and awards including recognition by the White House Administration, The United States Congress, and The California State Assembly.

Jim Sheriffs
Managing Director

Theresa Martinez
Community Board Advisor

Janet Hargraves
Chief Information Officer

Deatria Gates
Community Board Advisor

Martice Mills
Corporate Strategy

Gary Dunn
Community Board Advisor

Rhonda Brent
Community Board Advisor