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Michael Silberman Michael Silberman - President
Mr. Silberman joined the Leonis Adobe Association Board of Directors in 2007. He is an active Advisor and Management Consultant to a number of businesses in a diverse range of industries. Mr. Silberman is best known as the Co-founder and former Chairman of the Audit Committee, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Quepasa Corporation, one of the world's largest, bicultural and bilingual Latino Social networks on-line. Mr. Silberman was formerly the President of UMB Commercial Capital and a Controller to various production companies in the entertainment industry. Mr. Silberman started his career as a computer programmer and software design engineer after an early career as a professional jazz musician. Mr. Silberman is actively involved in community service and is currently also the President of the Hidden Hills Community Association Board of Directors. Mr. Silberman earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and his MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Camille Stoddard - Vice President
Ms. Stoddard joined the Leonis Adobe Board of Directors in 2003. She attended the Sorbonne University in Paris, France and has a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from UCLA and a J.D. from Pepperdine Law School with a focus in International Law. She worked in the California State Assembly, San Diego City Attorney's Office and Lexis/Nexis a division of Reed Elsevier the global publisher and information provider. She currently resides and practices law in the Los Angeles area.
Don Adams Don Adams - Director of Marketing and Promotion (President XXXX-2007)
Mr. Adams Joined the Board of Directors in 1979 and has served as its President for the past four years. Although now retired, he enjoyed two exciting careers, both of which allowed expression of his passion for photography. After College and a stint in the U. S. Navy Air Reserve, He began his first career with Douglas Aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base as a "photo chase" photographer shooting motion pictures of prototype aircraft Douglas tested for the U.S. military. From this he moved into the advertising motion picture division producing motion picture travelogues for airline customers of Douglas Aircraft such as United, KLM, Japan Airlines and many more. He then produced and directed Quick Look newsreels of missile firings at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Base.

After travelling the world for sixteen and a-half years on behalf of Douglas, he was recruited by The Eastman Kodak Co. Motion Picture Division as a Sales & Engineering Representative based in Hollywood Ca. calling on Military accounts. When another opportunity presented itself, he became the Director of Marketing Communications Western Region Motion Picture Division also in Hollywood, California. For the last eight years of his Kodak career, Don was Director of Entertainment Marketing working with the major motion picture film distribution heads developing and implementing co promotion projects. Don is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinetographers.

During his time at Kodak, he taught basic Black and White photography at EI Camino College in Torrance Ca. every Monday night for twenty-five years and instilled in his students the same love of photography. Don parlayed his teaching ability to present photographic lectures on major cruise ships over a seven-year span.

Mr. Adams is responsible for most of the finest current still photographs of the Leonis Adobe and its grounds and serves as an outstanding ambassador for the Museum. Summing up his career Don States "Photography has been very good to the Adams Family"

Ray Phillips - President Emeritus
Bio coming soon!
Kathy Miller - Secretary
Kathy Miller joined the Leonis Adobe Association in 2003 and is presently serving as sec'y of the Board. She is one of the founding members of Arrow International, Inc. the world's largest charitable gaming manufacturer. For more than thirty years she has served in several capacities for Arrow from management to VP Sales in New York. She presently serves as sec'y for Arrow International, she also works as a consultant for 2 of Arrow's subsidiary companies for the past 11 years. Kathy Miller has been active in the Calabasas community, where she resides with her husband and 2 children.
Ruth Abel Ruth Abel - Treasurer
Mrs. Abel joined the Leonis Adobe Museum Board of Directors in 1971 and has been Board Treasurer since 1997. She is on the Board of Directors of the Southern California/Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ, and Chair of the Finance and Stewardship Committees; three time Moderator of the Woodland Hills Community Church, Chair of Trustees, Stewardship, Personnel and Pastoral Relations Board. She also serves on civic boards, including Chair 3rd Council District Planning Advisory Board, Woodland Hills; Elected Business Representative, Area 1, Woodland Hills/Warner Center Neighborhood Council. Further, Mrs. Able is Chair of APECA, Inc., the Association Promoting Education and Conservation in Amazonia, Iquitos, Peru and was a twenty-five year member of the Los Angeles Junior League serving on various civic promotion committees.

Mrs. Abel is a graduate cum laude from Denison University and holds a Graduate degree from Harvard University in Business Administration where she was later Assistant Director of the Volunteer Bureau, Boston , Massachusetts. She is owner of AOA Associates in Woodland Hills.

Dr. Gary Standke - Board Member
Dr. Standke is a senior partner with HealthCare Partners Medical Group, Board Member of the Adam Levanthal School of Metal Arts and Docent with Los Encinos State Historical Park. A native of the San Fernando Valley, he has been active with multiple local historic organizations in the field of historic interpretation with special interest in blacksmithing and other historic occupations.
Dennis Washburn - Board Member
Mr. Washburn joined the Leonis Adobe Association Board of Directors in 2008 and is a popular elected official, successful in electioneering, organizational development, public affairs, community building, intergovernmental relations amongst municipal, county, regional, state, federal and international entities. He is a founder, 4-term Council Member and 4-time Mayor of the City of Calabasas. He also is a Director and past president of the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, a Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commissioner, a Regional Councilmember of the Southern California Association of Governments, Founder and 3-time President of the Las Virgenes-Malibu Council of Governments, and current Division Representative to the State Board and Past President of the 88-city LA County Division of the League of California Cities. Mr. Washburn earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his MBA from San Diego State University.
Robert Gibbons - Advisor
Since March of 2002, Bob has been Director of Marketing and Communications for Kodak Digital Cinema, a new business area for the company's Entertainment Imaging division. In that position, he is responsible for developing and writing the marketing and communications strategies and materials to help guide Kodak to long-term profitable leadership as the digital cinema market evolves. It's a crazy business where today the cost of the ante is higher than the pot; some day, it may be the only game in town.

In his thirty-nine year Kodak career, Bob has managed Kodak's teams responsible for the company's photographic and video productions, audio-visual presentations, employee communications, and corporate sponsorships. He has written scripts for Kodak-sponsored television shows and major event movies, as well as for multi-image and business presentations. For six years, Bob served as the company's chief speechwriter, writing virtually all of the presentations delivered by Kodak's senior management team.

While learning to become a writer, Bob spent two years as an Army journalist, making Junction City, Kansas safe for democracy. He has a Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages from Notre Dame and a Master's of Science degree in Communications from Syracuse University. Many people think that Bob has the most interesting job at Kodak - and wish they could have it. On some days, Bob would give it to them.

Bob and his wife, Jeanne, have been married almost seventy-eight years - thirty-nine years each - and they have three children, Jennifer, Timothy, and Emily who have turned out to be remarkable people. Of all the titles Bob has had throughout his life, the only one that means anything to him is, 'Dad'.

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