Jill Hammons, Chair
Jill Hammons is Director of Membership at the marvelous USS Midway Museum, providing excellent service and attentive care to almost 11,000 members located in all 50 states and 10 countries. Prior to that, she was the Director of Special Events at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she worked for almost 28 years. She proudly has done events for heads of state, royalty, and world leaders as well as celebrities, top scientists and noteworthy researchers. Jill is very community-service oriented, having served on the boards of Executive Women International, the International Special Event Society and Passionfish. She has received three special awards for her service:The Gina Cesena Gold Key Award, given by the Hotel-Motel Association; Event Solution Magazine's Spotlight Award for Samaritan Service; and the SD Business Journal's "Women Who Mean Business" Social Service Award. Jill's "thing" is kids as evidenced by her wonderful 14-year volunteer relationship with Paul Newman's famous camp, The Hole in the Wall Gang. As one of the founding members of ARTS, she has been on board since 2002, and completely believes in the organization's vision and mission: giving children and their families who are facing life's tough challenges A Reason to Survive!

Saundra Knight
Saundra Knight leads Marketing Operations at Kyocera Communications, Inc. where she is responsible for integrating Marketing efforts between Channel Marketing, Brand and Advertising, Marketing Communications and Public Relations, and serves as the liaison between Marketing and Sales, Business Development and Product Planning. Saundra has been involved with non-profit organizations since 1998, beginning in Monterey, CA, serving as an independent consultant providing CRM support for local children’s charities, serving on Board Committees for the Pacific Grove Arts Council, and operating as the publicity chair for the group’s annual fundraising efforts.

In 2001 Saundra moved to San Diego where she worked as the Community Relations Program Manager for Sempra Energy, managing the company’s Matching Gifts program, Volunteer Incentive program, scholarships for employee’s children and the employee-operated 501(c)(3) organization, Energy for Others. Additionally, Saundra was responsible for managing a number of relationships with San Diego charities including the San Diego Symphony, the Maritime Museum and Volunteer San Diego.

Having worked both for and with the non-profit community for a number of years, Saundra is passionate about maintaining an active role in philanthropy.

Rob Mills
Rob Mills was born in Champaign, Illinois in 1971. Rob loves to play sports and in high school he lettered in basketball, football, baseball, and golf. He went on to study at the University of Colorado where he received a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs. After graduating, Rob moved to Chicago and worked for two years at American National Bank. As a member of their exclusive Management Training Program, Rob gained experience in personal banking, investments, and banking operations.

Rob's desire to live on the west coast inspired a move to Tucson, Arizona where he spent a few years as a competitive pro golfer, playing one year on the Gateway Tour. Rob then decided that making money playing golf was far too difficult and in 2002 moved to San Diego. Attaining his California Real Estate license in 2003, he continues to pursue work as a realtor. Rob's mother Linda started the Mills Family Foundation in 2001 and sadly lost a long, hard-fought battle with breast cancer in 2006. Rob has since taken over the responsibility as President of his family's foundation and hopes to continue with his mother's dedication and commitment to helping others in the community.

Amanda Montgomery
Amanda Montgomery is an investment officer with the City of San Diego where she oversees public market investments in the city’s pension fund. She previously spent five years as a wealth advisor at Morgan Stanley. Amanda came to know ARTS while serving on the committee that selected Matt D’Arrigo as the fellowship recipient of a non-profit leaders program at Harvard Business School in 2008. With a BS in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Duke University on a Navy ROTC scholarship, Amanda spent five years as a Lieutenant in the US Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is an active board member of the school’s local alumni association. Amanda lives in Carmel Valley with her son.

Antoinette Raymond, Vice-Chair
Educated in industrial/organizational psychology and business administration at the University of San Diego and the California School of Professional Psychology, the focus of her consulting has been on creativity in the workplace. Her experience as an organizational psychologist has been as both an internal and external management consultant. She has worked with a variety of organizations ranging from: healthcare, finance and banking, government, retail, hi-tech/bio-tech, computing, academic/university, and professional services.

In 1994, she joined Saker Lynd as President of its US organization to continue her work advising national and multinational clients. Originally focused in the United States, she now splits her time between the US and the UK. In addition, Antoinette was the Director of the Leadership and Management Program for the UCSD Extension Department of Business and Management Education. She has also been an associate professor for the M.B.A. and Organizational Behaviors Graduate Schools of the University of Phoenix and the psychology department at the University of San Diego.

Woo-Jin Shim Woo-Jin Shim currently works in the Office of the Mayor and the Chief Operating Officer for the City of San Diego as a Labor Relations Officer where he serves as a labor negotiator and handles various employer/employee relation matters. From 2004-2008, Woo-Jin was a staff member in the office of San Diego City Council President Scott Peters as a policy/budget analyst where he served as the lead advisor on pension, budget, public safety and labor issues. Woo-Jin is part of the inaugural class of the recently-formed Herb Klein Leadership Foundation and serves as a member on the San Diego American Diabetes Association’s Father of the Year Board. He is also a board member of the San Diego Asian Business Association and a member of San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Committee. He is a LEAD San Diego graduate, where he was on the Leadership Action Team that helped develop a business plan proposal for the continued development of ARTS. Woo-Jin is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where he received his BA in political science. He enjoys volunteering in Mexico and supporting ARTS.

Craig Yates
Craig Yates is the President of Yates Financial Solutions (YFS), Inc. providing financial consulting expertise to businesses in the San Diego community. YFS is the primary financial consultant and contributor to I Love Schools, Inc. an innovative internet-based charity that provides teachers with the ability to create "wishlists" of needed school resources which donors can search using multiple criteria to make pinpoint new or used donations. Craig previously worked as a CFO for the nation's largest non-profit company providing real estate based SBA loans following a 9 year career at Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino, as Executive Director of Finance. During his tenure, Barona won numerous awards related to customer service, employer practices and ethics. Barona was also voted the #1 technology casino in the nation due in large part to its invention of the now ubiquitous "Ticket In Ticket Out" (TITO) slot payment system that has virtually replaced coin machines nationwide. Craig was instrumental in the development of TITO and is a co-writer of one of the filed patents. Craig joined the Board of ARTS in 2007, however, he was first involved with ARTS in 2003, where he was able to experience firsthand the tremendous value provided to his own young children when his 37 yr. old wife lost her battle with sinus cancer.