We believe in inclusion, mutual support and respect.
The Executive Board:
Tom Fuller
Tom Fuller, Project Manager,
Shiels Obletz Johnsen, Inc. A native Oregonian, Mr. Fuller grew up on a
family farm near McMinnville, graduated from McMinnville High School,
Yale University and the Pacific Coast School of Banking. He began his
professional career in banking. After 19 years he left banking to go to
work for the State of Oregon during the Neil Goldschmidt Administration
where he worked in the Departments of Corrections and Economic
Development. He left the state in 1991 to join the Portland-based
project management and development consulting firm of Shiels Obletz
Johnsen where he continues to work. He has served and continues to
serve on a number of nonprofit boards and is heavily involved as a
volunteer within the Portland community.
Marisol Levick
Marisol Levick has over
twelve years of business experience. Most recently she was a Director of
Market Development for management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. Over a
period of five years, she progressed from founding and running the
one-person marketing and business development department of
Portland-based executive leadership development firm, CDR International,
to overseeing marketing activities for the Oliver Wyman Executive
Learning Center in the US, Europe and Canada. Marisol’s areas of
expertise include marketing strategy, brand development, positioning,
external communications, sales pitch development and negotiation.
Marisol also spent a number of years in the adult learning field as a
corporate training and development professional where she developed and
gave courses in learning styles, communication and management.
Marisol’s academic background
includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from Santa Clara
University and a Master of Business Administration from University of
Washington. She currently lives in Hillsboro, Oregon with her husband
and two children.
Patricia Martinez
Patricia Martinez has over 20 years in the field of education. She has
been a bilingual teacher, elementary school principal and district-level
administrator. Patricia also served as the executive director for
Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement, a nonprofit organization for
Latino youth in Oregon providing educational services and workforce
development for middle and high school students. Currently, she is the
founder and principal for Leadership Centered Solutions, LLC, an
educational consultancy with focus on developing school leadership teams
for addressing achievement and equity. Patricia is a Senior Fellow of
American Leadership Forum of Oregon (ALF) Class IXX and is an adjunct
faculty member for the School of Education at Lewis & Clark College
and Associate Faculty at Marylhurst University.
Victor Merced
Victor Merced was appointed Director of OHCS September 5, 2006. Merced
has extensive public, private, and government leadership and management
experience. He worked as a Philanthropic Advisor and Organizational
Consultant to non-profit organizations and foundations. Prior to that,
he was a Senior Program Officer with the Meyer Memorial Trust, Oregon’s
largest private foundation. He also served as Deputy Administrator with
the Oregon Adult and Family Services Division; Executive Director of
Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement; Associate Attorney with
Cummings & Lockwood in Stamford, Connecticut; and Director of
Operations with People’s Development Corporation in the South Bronx, New
York.
Mr. Merced grew up in the Bronx,
New York. He graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree with
Honors from Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New
York, with a Major in Housing and Urban Development, and a Minor in
Political Science and Economics. He received a Juris Doctor from New
York University School of Law in 1985. He holds an honorary doctorate
for Law and Public Service from Herbert H. Lehman College.
Merced has been a National W.K.
Kellogg Foundation Leadership Fellow and has served as Chairman of the
Housing Authority of Portland. Most recently he served on the City of
Portland’s Blue Ribbon Citizen Commission to End Homelessness. He is
also a graduate of the Oregon American Leadership Forum (Class VII) and
currently sits on the national advisory board of the Local Initiative
Funding Partnership of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton,
New Jersey.
