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Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc.

To provide vision rehabilitation and eye health services that promote independence, to educate professionals, and to conduct research in related fields.

601 Southwest Eighth Avenue, FL 33130 · Ph: 305.856.2288 · Fx: 305-285.6967 · info@miamilighthouse.org

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Miami Lighthouse Board

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Miami Lighthouse Board of Directors is comprised of a diverse and dynamic group of volunteers, who provide leadership and support to ensure the vitality of the organization.

The Miami Lighthouse Board adopted a contemporary high-impact governance model in early 2007 which channels the energy and talents of board members in three areas of governance: monitoring, planning, and external relations. Further, it facilitates a close, enduring, and truly effective Board-CEO partnership which has a significant impact in organizational affairs.

Name:		Owen S. Freed, Esq.
Position:		Chairman of the Board
Profession:		Owen S. Freed, senior counsel at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson P.A. in Miami, was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc. on December 10, 2008. Mr. Freed has served as Chairman of the Lighthouse’s External Relations Committee for two years and has served on the Miami Lighthouse Board of directors since 2006. Mr. Freed’s practice has concentrated on international law, foreign investments and international transactions. He spent one undergraduate year as an exchange student in the University of Honduras and subsequently was a Rotary Foundation Fellow in the School of Law of the National University in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of Miami. Mr. Freed has served as president of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables and the Rotary Club of Miami. As a Rotarian he became interested and active in the Miami Lighthouse which was founded in 1931 as a joint venture of the Miami Rotary Club and the Miami Lions Club. Mr. Freed’s wife, Sheila Freed, is President of Temple Judea in Coral Gables. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Name:		Michael A. Silva, Esq.
Position:		Chairman-Elect
Profession:		Director of South Florida’s Tax and Trust and Estate Departments, Hunton & Williams, LLP

Name:		John H.B. Harriman
Position:		Treasurer
Profession:		Senior Director, The Standard Chartered Private Bank

Name:		William R. Roy, Ph.D.
Position:		Secretary/Immediate Past Chairman
Profession:		Senior Partner, Kelley Swofford Roy, Inc

Name:		Alan P. Levitt, O.D.
Position:		Board Director/Chair of Planning and Program Development Committee and Heiken Advisory Committee Member
Profession:		Doctor of Optometry

Name:		Ramon Casas
Position:		Board Director and Chair of External Relations/Resource Development Committee
Profession:		Principal, Wragg & Casas Public Relations

Name:		David M. Turner III, C.P.A.
Position:		Board Director and Chair of Audit Committee
Profession:		President, Turner & Associates, LLP

Name:		Agustin R. Arellano, Jr.
Position:		Chair of Performance Oversight and Monitoring Committee and Co-Chair Young Professionals of Lighthouse (YPOL)
Profession:		Vice President, Arellano Construction

Name:		Kent M. Benedict
Position:		Board Director and Co-chair Young Professionals of Lighthouse (YPOL)
Profession:		2nd Vice President of Trust and Administration, Northern Trust Bank

Name:		Donna R. Blaustein, Esq.
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Law Office of Donna R. Blaustein

Name:		Sander R. Dubovy, M.D.
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Physician/Associate Professor, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital

Name:		Pamela J. Garrison
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Community Leader and Philanthropist

Name:		Peter R. Harrison
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Senior Vice President, Transwestern Commercial Services

Name:		Edward J. Joyce
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		President of Miami-Dade County Division

Name:		Joanne Kundl, O.D.
Position:		Board Director and Heiken Advisory Committee Member
Profession:		Doctor of Optometry

Name:		Gloria Martin
Position:		Board Member
Profession:		Owner, Sherry’s Bag/Philanthropist

Name:		Charles J. Nielson
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		AFSB, Producer, President of Nielson and Company, Inc.

Name:		Louis Nostro, Esq.
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Managing partner of the Miami office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he also serves as chair of the Trusts and Estates Practice Group

Name:		Carol P. Russo
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Community Leader

Name:		Yolly Roberson, R.N., Esq.
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		State Representative, Florida House of Representatives, District 104/ Principal, Roberson & Associates

Name:		Scott K. Sime
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		President, Holly Sime Real Estate/TCN Worldwide

Name:		Bruce J. Winick, Esq.
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Professor of Law, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Miami School of Law

Name:		John Zamora, C.P.A.
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Partner/Florida Audit Practice Leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Name:		Teresa S. Zohn, GRI
Position:		Board Director
Profession:		Realtor, Esslinger Wooten Maxwell

HONORARY BOARD
Agustin R. Arellano, Sr.
Karl Bishopric
Alvaro M. Cabrera
Joseph E. DaGrosa, Jr
Joseph A. Fernandez, C.F.P.
Gary D. Fox, Esq.
John B. Henderson, Esq.
Lorenzo Jackson, Jr., Esq.
Susan P. Kelley
J. Megan Kelly
Donald W. Marx
David B. McCrea, Esq.
William L. Morrison
D. Alan Nichols
Audrey H. Ross, Ph.D.
H. Jack Ross
Donald J. Sackrider
Harold L. Young, Jr.

LEGAL COUNSEL
Rene Gonzalez-Llorens, Esq.
Anthony T. Golden, Esq.

LEGAL COUNSEL EMERITUS
Preston L. Prevatt, Esq.

President and Chief Executive Officer
Virginia A. Jacko