Executive Board

Lisa Bruno  Chair

Strategic Development for CRATE interiors. Lisa became the first resident at the Four Seasons Villas in Punta Mita over 6 years ago and was instrumental in creating the look and feel of the first furnishings packages offered inside the gates of Punta Mita. British-born Lisa Bruno brings a decade of interior design and event planning expertise from her own former firm in Dallas, Texas and a distinctly local perspective on Mexican Resort living as a fulltime Punta Mita resident.
 

Paloma Auerbach

Paloma was born in Mexico City where she completed her graduate studies in international relations. A few years later she obtained a masters degree with Eastern University of Pennsylvania in non-profit management.  She has dedicated her professional carreer in the non-profit sector, mostly with World Vision International. She served two years as Executive Director of the Punta de Mita Foundation  for the 2008 -2010 period. She has been married for three years with Ignacio and has lived in Puerto Vallarta since 2007.

paloma@puntademitafoundation.org

 
Greg Stanton: Co-Chairperson

Greg Stanton was born in Mexico City of American parents and educated between Mexico and the USA making him truly bilingual and bicultural. He returned to Mexico 15 years ago when he accepted a position as Latin America Sales Manager for a Global leader in Beverage Paperboard Packaging. Tired of Traveling and having become a family man, Greg and his family moved to the Vallarta region 6 years ago. Prior to joining DINE he had been very active in the local real estate industry. In Nov. of 2006, Greg joined DINE as the Director of Operations and Resident Services at Punta Mita.
greg@puntademitafoundation.org

Juan Pablo Stone

Juan Pablo Finished Civil Engineering school in “ITESO” Guadalajara in year 1997. After finishing school moved to Puerto Vallarta to start his professional carrier and started  STONECONTRACTORS, a construction and development company with operations in  Puerto Vallarta and Punta Mita areas. His company is responsible for the construction of some of the North Shore's finest homes. Feeling a big responsibility to the local community JP joined the foundation hoping to provide help to the foundation and the members of the Punta Mita towns.

Ricardo Trueba: Treasurer

Ricardo is head of the Punta Mita Master Home Owners Association (HOA) and has being developing this position for the past six years. He has a degree in industrial engineering specializing in services. He has being trusted with managing funds his entire professional career. He and his newly formed family are developing strong ties to the area and are thankful for the opportunities found here.
ricardo@puntademitafoundation.org

Juan Carlos Yamin

Juan Calos Yamin graduated from the "Tec De Monterrey" where he was the president of the Business Class Student Body.  He was the founder and CEO of "Sistemas de Entrega", a shipping company with 500+ employees and offices in ten different states around Mexico.  He then moved to become the founder of SEMU and PVR-2000, two luxury real estate development companies that are active in the Vallarta and Bahia de Banderas regions including Punta Mita. He is currently President and CEO of Semu, serves on boards and committees within the community and is a part-time resident of Punta Mita.
juancarlos@puntademitafoundation.org 

An advisory board, which meets less frequently, is a body composed by certain persons in the region that can add to the Foundation through their experience and/or connections therefore they were offered an honorary position.

Charlie Ewell

Charlie Ewell is the founder of "The Governance Institute", a publishing business to provide education and research services to boards of directors and has contributed to the education of more than 100,000 board members in over 2,000 of America's hospitals and medical centers. He continues as chairman, after selling the organization in 2000. He and his wife Valerie have a home in Pontoquitos and spend much of the winter months in Punta de Mita.

Richard Kiy

Richard Kiy is President & CEO of the San Diego based International Community Foundation (ICF), a public charity dedicated to expanding charitable giving internationally. Since taking over the helm of ICF in 2001, ICF has grown to over $9.5 million in assets and has made granted totaling over $18 million to nonprofit organizations and other charitable causes in the regions that it serves with an empahsis in Mexico. Kiy serves on the Board of San Diego Grantmakers, the U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership and is a member of the Board of Overseers for the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Kiy is a former board member of Fundacion Internacional de la Comunidaad, Baja California’s first community foundation.

Peter Newton

Peter is semi-retired Canadian, who lives in Punta de Mita part of the year. He is the Founder/President of Champion Chemtech Limited, a specialty chemical manufacturer with plants in Europe, Asia, and North America and with distribution in over 100 countries. His volunteer experience in the developing world includes 16 years with Sleeping Children Around the World [SCAW]. Some of which were as part of the Advisory Committee. He has considerable experience working with Rotary Clubs in countries such as Bangladesh and India. He currently is Chair of the Get Ahead committee of the Leacock Foundation, where he heads up steer/monitor infrastructure projects at for Get Ahead schools in the Eastern Cape Province of Republic of South Africa.

John Youden

John is the publisher of the Vallarta Lifestyles Publishing Group. He has been an owner/resident in the Punta de Mita area for the past seven years and a resident of Puerto Vallarta since 1988. John introduced a Powerpoint Presentation in early 2007, which caught the attention of Grupo DINE as well as many residents in the area who also were concerned about the Punta de Mita and the surrounding communities. Both he and his company have been active for years supporting NPOs in the Vallarta region.
john@puntademitafoundation.org
 

Executive Director