Executive Advisory Board


Richard N. Barg, JD, MBA

Debi Beltramo

Debi Beltramo, born and raised in San Mateo, California, is the Foundation’s Executive Assistant. She manages www.lungblog.org which is the most comprehensive source of up-to-date information about lung cancer in the nation. Her passion to eradicate lung cancer runs deep as she lost her grandmother and great grandfather to lung cancer. After her mother-in-law, Bonnie, was diagnosed with lung cancer, she has dedicated herself to erasing the stigma around smoking and lung cancer, and spends just about every waking moment helping the Foundation to raise funding for early detection. Debi majored in Business Management at Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, California.

Jared Beltramo

Fred Bertetta, Jr.

Paul Broder

Rebecca Broder

Evelyn Gibson

Danielle Hicks

Steve Hicks

Nick Hodulik

Michael Jordan

Mike Jordan is a native Californian. He is currently one of the managers and Domestic Wine Buyer for K&L Wine Merchants in San Francisco. He has been in the wine business for eight years. Mike lost his father, Buck Jordan, in April 2006 to lung cancer. The eight month experience with his father motivated him to get involved with such an important issue.

Deborah Mattos

Andrea Parks

Dave Parks

Mary Beth Sammons

Mary Beth Sammons is an award-winning journalist, book author and women’s issues columnist whose work appears frequently in Family Circle, the Chicago Tribune’s lifestyle section and in leading consumer women’s magazines. She writes a daily column for RevolutionHealth.com’s (www.CarePages.com), which is the leading consumer health site specifically designed with the Family’s Chief Medical Officer — women and other caregivers — in mind. Mary Beth specializes in stories that inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things from a place deep in their hearts. She has written six books in the women’s self-help and mind/body/health field including: “We Carry Each Other: Getting Through Life’s Toughest Times featuring Bonnie J. Addario and other stories;” “My Family: Collected Memories,” “Gifts With Heart,” a collection of pay-it-forward stories from the publishers of “Random Acts of Kindness” and “InSPAration: A Teen’s Guide to Healthy Living Inspired by The Nation’s Top Spas.” She has received several industry awards, including first place from United Press International for best spot news coverage, a PR Silver Anvil Award and an undergraduate scholarship from The William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Mary Beth knows how to engage a subject and how to extract and weave together the fine details that differentiate a pedestrian story from a powerful story.

Mary Beth lives in Chicago’s suburbs with her three teen-age children. After-hours her new passion is competing in triathlons.

Thomas P. Sammons

Daniel P. Trump

Mr. Trump is a partner of Trump, Alioto, Trup & Prescott. He joined the law firm in 1988 after two years as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr Trump is a member of the National Network of Estate Planning Attoneys, and is devoted to the practice of business, estate and charitable tax planning. Mr. Trump has a wide range of experience and education in many sophisticated planning techniques, including revocable livint trusts, family limited partnerships, irrevocable life insurance trusts, private annuities, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, private foundations, grantor retained income trusts, buy-sell arrangements, and split-dollar insurance arrangements. Mr. Trump’s practice includes advanced business and asset protection planning through the use of corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and trusts, both domestic and offshore.

Mr. Trump is also on the Board of Directors of Golden Gate Senior Services, Inc., a California non-profit corporation that runs activities centers for senior citizens in San Francisco. Mr. Trump is the recipient of the Wiley W. Manual Award for Pro Bono Legal Service for voluntary provision of legal services to the poor and has been recognized for his pro bono activities by the State Bar of California and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Van and Eddi Van Auken

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