Edward Vincent
Executive Director 

Ed is the founding partner of Vincent Partners an entertainment marketing and communications company. Ed also serves on the Board of Directors of YES (Young Executive Support), a division of amfAR (American Foundation for Aids Research). He is the Director of The Kate Shea Foundation, a foundation dedicated to helping fight Leukemia.

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Ralph Lean
Chairman 

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Ralph Lean is on the Board of Directors of the EMI Group/Elliott International. A lawyer with the Canadian firm of Cassels Brock, Ralph has been hailed as one of Canada's most influential bus business people by the National Post newspaper.  Ralph also serves on the board of The Toronto International Film Festival.

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Derek Elliott   

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Derek Elliott is President and CEO of Elliott, a dynamic organization that encompasses the following divisions: Elliott Resort Services that includes, among many others, Sun Village Resorts, a company that owns the Sun Village Resorts in the Dominican Republic. Mr. Elliott serves as President for each of The Elliott divisions, and has built an impressive reputation in the world of investor funded real estate and resort management Republic and throughout the Caribbean.

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Louis Gossett Jr.

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Louis Gossett Jr. is one of the leading black voices in American cinema.  Born May 27, 1936 in Brooklyn, Lou was raised in the multicultural section of Sheepshead Bay.  The culmination of his work in the 70"s les led to an Emmy for his portrayal of Fiddler in "RootRoots".       

In 1982, Louis's ros role as a tough by-the-book drill sergeant in "An OAn Officer and a Gentleman" won won him a Best Supporting Oscar and affirmed his place in the Hollywood hierarchy.  He is a recipient of multiple Golden Globes, Emmy's, as, and People's Chs Choice Awards.  Organizations such as the NAACP, CARE, and the United States Armed Forces have used his likeness to add validity and integrity to their causes.

Currently, Lou is in the process of developing a nonprofit foundation aimed to create entertainment that brings awareness and education to issues such as racism, ignorance, and societal apathy.

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Randal Kleiser

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Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, Grease, the most successful movie musical ever made. A frequent seminar and symposium participant, he has lectured at the American Film Institute, California Institute of the Arts, the Los Angeles Film School, California State Universities, the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaii and the Tel Aviv University.    

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Judge Reinhold

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Judge is one of the world's favorite Hollywood actors and has been seen in over seventy-five motion picture and television projects. His many films include STRIPES, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, BEVERLY HILLS COP (1,2,3), RUTHLESS PEOPLE, and Disney's box-office hit THE SANTA CLAUSE (1 & 2). His cumulative box office average ranks him the 28th highest grossing actor of all-time. Judge received an Emmy nomination for his performance as the “close talker” on Seinfeld and was recently in Steven Spielberg's epic television western INTO THE WEST. He can be seen in Disney's, THE SANTA CLAUSE 3, now in theaters. The American Film Institute recently named FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and BEVERLY HILLS COP two of the top one hundred comedies of all time.

With his wife Amy, they recently wrote, directed and produced the documentary BE STILL for Twentieth Century Fox and are currently producing a feature film, CABRINI GREEN, with 2929 Productions, as well as a comic feature on the Bigfoot hoax, with Academy Award winning NARNIA producer, Mark Johnson.

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Munawar Hosain 

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Munawar Hosain has served as the Executive Secretary of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the past three years.  He has also served on several HFPA executive committees and worked in various aspects of the Golden Globe Awards. Munawar has been covering entertainment news, including exclusive Hollywood interviews and celebrity photographs, since 1993.    

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Fred Elliott  

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Mr. Frederick C. Elliott is both the Founder and Chairman of Elliott, a dynamic organization that encompasses the following divisions of Elliott Services which includes, Sun Village Resorts., the Turks and Caicos company that owns the Sun Village Resorts in the Dominican Republic; EMI Management Co.; EMI Financial projects on the island; EMI Development Co.; and EMI Marketing Co. Born in 1942, Mr. Elliott has been a successful entrepreneur in the financial services industry since 1967.

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Tim Hall  

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Tim Hall has enjoyed a varied career in media, publishing and public relations. Resident in Puerto Plata, he is president of the project management firm Sociedad de Gestiones Dominicana and proprietor of the well known Café Cito. He is a founding partner at Puerto Plata's El Faro newspaper and publishes The POP Report, a web based newsmagazine and regional portal.

Committed to regional development, he has served as director of the international committee of the local Rotary Club, is an active member of the Puerto Plata Strategic Planning Office steering committee and has served since 1988 as Honorary Consul for Canada for the north coast of the Dominican Republic.

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Jesse Ferrell

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Jesse Ferrell has been educating and energizing students, common folks, fellow educators, executives and senior executives for the past 25 years on how to get organized, stop procrastinating, take charge of your life and destiny, feel good about the gifts that you possess, working from a source of power that comes from within! An internationally recognized motivational speaker and life coach to corporate CEO's, Jesse is also VP of Elliott Motion Pictures.