Board of Directors

• Robert Brohim, CARICOM
• James Beran, Pacific Alliance Group
• Maria R. Cabedo Deslierres, Attorney
• Dan Frayssinet, DP Technologies, Thousand Oaks, CA
• Nancy Geshke, MSW, T.H.E. Clinic, Inc.
• Jenny Gross, MPH, Los Angeles County Office of AIDS Programs and Policy
• Shannon Kelly, Attorney
• Christine Murto, M.A., Director, AIDSail
• Eric Rasmussen, eBay

Advisory Board

• Walter Santos, MD, former Minister of Health, Brazil
• Oswaldo Adolfo Rada Londoño, Colombia
• Linda Rich, DCSW, LSW, CSAC, Salvation Army, Hawaii
• Gisele Biamby, MD, MPH, AETC, and NMAETC
• Gisele Maynard-Tucker, Ph.D.
• Nick Silberstein, F.R.A.C.G.P., M. Fam. Med., D.T.M. & H
• Stephanie Beran, MBT

Key Personnel

• Jefferson Sa, PhD, Executive Director
• Christine Murto, MA, Director, AIDSail Board Chair

Nicaragua Staff

• Silvia Jarquin Gonzalez, MD

• Dan Frayssinet, CEO DP Technologies
  Mr. Dan Frayssinet is the founding owner and CEO of DP Technologies, an industrial software company engaged in operations throughout the world. Mr. Frayssinet is a native of France, where he received a DEUG degree in Mathematics and a masters degree in manufacturing engineering from Institute National des Sciences Appliques. Mr. Frayssinet was named the Hero of U.S. Manufacturing by Fortune Magazine in 1998, as the developer for “Arcade” CAD software and “Esprit” CAM software. He has been featured on both NBC and the Learning Channel and is in the Marquis Who’s Who.
  

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• James Beran, SVP Pacific Alliance Group
  Mr. Beran is the Senior Vice President for Pacific Alliance Group which serves US and Asian companies in forming cross-border joint ventures and strategic relationships. He is the former appointed Associate Administrator for Operations and Industry Relations with the General Services Administration, overseeing the Regional Administrators for the third largest federal agency providing essential logistical, material, facility and other support to all agencies of the federal government. Mr. Beran was a Presidential appointee in both the Reagan and Bush administrations working with the Department of Commerce International Trade Administration, as liaison to the trade mission of the Minister of Petroleum of China, and on congressionally mandated program, The White House Conference on Small Business.
  

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• Nancy Geshke, MSW
  Ms. Nancy Geshke is currently Development Director for the T.H.E. Clinic, Inc., where has been instrumental in raising over $5,000,000 in the last three years. T.H.E. Clinic, Inc. is a primary health care clinic serving low income and uninsured persons in Los Angeles County. Formerly she served as Director of L.A. Shanti, the first AIDS Service Organization
  founded to serve persons with HIV and AIDS in Los Angeles. She also founded the first women’s residential drug treatment program for pregnant women and women with HIV in Ventura County, where she served as the Director for PROTOYTYPES Women’s Center/Ventura. Ms. Geshke has extensive experience in developing, implementing and researching HIV prevention programs, mental health services and primary care interventions. Ms. Geshke has a MSW from University California of Los Angeles where she graduated with honors.
  
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• Jenny Gross, MPH
  Ms. Gross has extensive experience in developing and delivering programs for youth regarding HIV/AIDS, both in the United States and in the Caribbean where she worked in Barbados and Guyana. Ms. Gross has experience in program management and development with the Los Angeles Free Clinic and AID Atlanta, and demonstrated experience in grant writing. Ms. Gross has an MPH from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.
  

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• Maria R. Cabedo Deslierres, Attorney
  Mrs. Cabedo Deslierres is a lawyer who holds her bacharel law degree from the University of Rio de Janeiro, Candido Mendes Law School, and is registered in both the Brazilian and the Portuguese Bars. She has completed extension courses in International Business and Intellectual Property at the Western State University and Immigration Law at the University of Southern California. Living in the USA since 1992, she has been exerting her activity in the area of international business and developing projects related to new products and inventions. She has been member of the Global Network group of entrepreneurs and WITI-Women in Technology International.
  

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• Nick Silberstein F.R.A.C.G.P., M. Fam. Med., D.T.M. & H
  Dr Nick Silberstein was a general practitioner in rural and remote areas of Western Australia for fourteen years prior to joining Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) in 1997. He first encountered AIDSail in Honduras in 2002 whilst working for MSF who have set up a comprehensive care H.I.V. clinic in the north of Honduras.
  Nick has been involved in the commencement of education about H.I.V. in the very remote Karamoja region of eastern Uganda working with the nomadic Pokot tribe. Other interests include prevention of maternal transmission of H.I.V., as well as issues related to drug abuse and addiction. Nick has broad experience of working in remote and difficult areas with limited facilities and resources.The time spent with M.S.F. has permitted Nick to work in conjunction with a wide variety of governmental, international and non governmental organizations.
  Nick is currently working in general practice in the Tower Hamlets area of east London.

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• Walter Santos, MD
  Dr. Santos is a physician and former Minister of Health and General Secretary for Brazil. Dr. Santos has also worked in international development with USAID, as the Director for the Preventative Medicine Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as a consultant to UNICEF in the area of nutrition, and as a guest speaker at the Chinese Medical Sciences Academy. Dr. Santos has been affiliated with the International Nutrition Planner Forum as Executive Secretary, and with the Brazil Nutrition Society as its president. Currently Dr. Santos works in nutrology and gerontology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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• Oswaldo Adolfo Rada Londoño
  Mr. Oswaldo Rada is an advocate for individuals living with HIV and is currently working with Vivir Mejor, an organization coordinating an international internet network for people living with HIV. Mr. Rada is an active and participatory member of GNP+ (Global Network of People with HIV/AIDS) in Latin America and is a member of REDLA to develop new strategies for HIV intervention in communities infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Mr. Rada has also been actively engaged as a human rights advocate in Colombia where he resides.
  

• Linda Rich, DCSW, LSW, CSAC
  Linda Rich is a social worker with expertise in Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment. She lives and works in Hawaii where she directs a continuum of substance abuse, HIV risk reduction and mental health services for pregnant and parenting women and their children. Currently, Ms. Rich is developing a community based outreach program to make domestic violence and perinatal services accessible to Asian and Pacific Islander women living in rural areas.
  Ms. Rich has been an advocate for women, involved in support to Vietnamese women working for or involved in intimate relationships with U.S. servicemen, as the founder of the first recovery group for Hawaiian women who were sexually abused in childhood, providing gender responsive treatment training regarding women in Oklahoma’s mental health system, and as a trainer in Hawaii’s Commission on the Status of Women.
  In 2002, Ms. Rich participated in the Heifer Project International, in Tanzania to study sustainable development including the Women in Livestock Development (WILD), as well as HPI’s work with HIV /AIDS and increasing access to family planning.
  

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• Gisele Biamby, MD, MPH
  Dr. Gisele Biamby is a physician with over 20 years of experience in infectious diseases and the AIDS/HIV virus. Dr. Biamby has been a forerunner in AIDS/HIV awareness and an active protagonist of preventative medicine. Currently, she is an AIDS trainer at the AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC), and a clinical instructor for the National Minority AIDS Education Training Center, (NMAETC), King- Drew Medical Center. As an advocate of the international awareness and treatment of the HIV virus, she has organized the cultural exchange of approaches to the treatment of AIDS with physicians in the West African region. She actively engages in the global treatment of patients in various countries, including El Salvador, South Africa, Uganda, and Ethiopia, through the use of telecom and web exchange. Dr. Biamby’s use of "Global-Medicine” continues her commitment to the use of innovative treatment methods for AIDS/HIV. She is a committee member of the International Health Institute, Charles Drew University of Medicine and has an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles.
  

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• Gisele Maynard-Tucker, Ph.D.
  Dr. Maynard-Tucker has extensive experience in research and evaluation of health programs, qualitative research, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, operations research. Evaluation and research about
  STDs/HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning, reproductive health, maternal and child health programs and quality of care of services, adolescents’ reproductive health, gender inequalities, women’s empowerment, men’s KAP and contraception and men’s and women’s behavior communication change (BCC).
  
  Dr. Maynard-Tucker has worked on projects in Benin, Bolivia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Senegal, and the USA. Some of the project she has worked on includes among othesr: Project CHANGE in Haiti, Project PRISM in Guinea, Community and Child Health Project in Bolivia, Integrated Family Health Education Program in Benin administerd by POPTECH and funded by USAID; and Proyecto Servicios Integrales para Adolescentes en Condicion de Pobreza in Guatemala and Appui aux Services de Santé in Cameroon administered by the Futures Group, and prevention of STDs\AIDS and investigation of barriers to the use of condoms among sex workers, a project of the World Bank/Futures Group International.
  
  Dr. Maynard-Tucker has shared her work in many medical and social science publications, and has extensive experience in reproductive health and training of health educators and evaluators in developing countries. She speaks French, English, Spanish, Haitian creole, Italian, and Quechua.
  

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• Jefferson Sa, PhD, Executive Director
  Dr. Sa is the Executive Director for SCCC, the coordinating agency for AIDSail for 12 years. He is a Brazilian native, educated in biomedicine with a specialty in immunology from Institute Vital Brazil. Dr. Sa received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Sa has worked with the UNDCP in harm reduction and has lectured internationally.

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• Christine Murto, MA, Director, AIDSail Board Chair
  Ms. Murto is the Director of the AIDSail project. She has a background in research design and implementation, with 15 years in corporate market research before entering the field of public health. Ms. Murto holds a BSBA in International Business and Marketing from the American University in Washington, DC and a Masters degree in anthropology with a special focus on medicine and HIV in women from California State University.

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