Sandra Aispuro comes to Para Los Niños with over 25 years of experience in the financial community banking industry and a passion for volunteering for organizations that support underserved communities. She currently serves as Vice President Retail Operations Manager at City First Broadway in Los Angeles. Prior to this role, Ms. Aispuro has held various roles at Broadway Federal Bank, OneWest Bank, and First Federal Bank.

Ms. Aispuro serves Para Los Niños as a member of our Student and Community Services Workgroup, Diverity, Equity, Inclusion and Board Governance committees. She has also served as an Credit Building and Homeownership committee member for the FDICs Alliance for Economic Inclusion (AEI), has supported low-income families with tax preparation for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA), and provided guidance for residents to become U.S. Citizens through the NALEO Educational Fund.

Ms. Aispuro’s drive to be involved in the community comes from being born and raised in a low-income minority neighborhood by a single mother. Her family benefited from similar social and community programs and knows first-hand how impactful and necessary these programs are for the community. In spite of all the challenges, Ms. Aispuro has been able to build a successful banking career over the last 25 years.

Gabriel Robles, Vice Chair

Flagstar Bank

Ronnie Roy is a partner at RFZ Law, LLP, a firm with both corporate and litigation capabilities. He represents emerging growth and middle market companies in all phases of their lifecycle, from startup to sale. His practice encompasses corporate formation, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements, securities law, and corporate governance. Mr. Roy’s clients span a wide range of industries including digital media, e-commerce, mobile applications, gaming, SaaS, entertainment, hospitality, and AI. He also advises public and private companies and their boards on securities law, corporate governance, and related matters.

Mr. Roy is an active member of the South Asian Bar Association.

Mr. Roy graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.

Bill Burton is a renowned political and communications strategist who has served as a senior adviser to political leaders, corporations and nonprofits in California, Washington, D.C., and around the country. In California, Bill and his colleagues have experience consulting on political, litigation and public affairs projects of all different scales, working with everyone from individuals to some of the most recognizable brands in the world.

Bill was one of the earliest hires on President Obama’s first presidential campaign where he was the national press secretary beginning in January 2007. He served in the Obama administration as deputy White House press secretary and special assistant to the president. In that capacity, he traveled extensively, both domestically and internationally, advising the president, briefing reporters both on Air Force One and at the podium in the White House briefing room. After leaving the White House, Bill co-founded and served as senior strategist for the super PAC Priorities USA Action during President Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012.

During the 2006 electoral cycle, in which Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, Bill worked as Rahm Emanuel’s communications director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Before that, Bill served as a communications adviser to Democratic Leader Rep. Dick Gephardt, Senators John Kerry and Tom Harkin and others. Most recently, Bill has served as an advisor to Senator Amy Klobuchar’s presidential campaign and has worked with leading trial attorneys to build successful messaging campaigns around important cases and issue areas.

Since 2015, Bill has made Santa Barbara his home with his wife Kelly Ward Burton and two kids Oscar and Emma. Bill loves playing guitar and teaching his son to play basketball.

Susan Scheiber Edelman had a professional career as a litigation attorney at the Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher prior to making the decision to leave the practice to raise her three daughters, who are students at Stanford University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Marlborough School.

Mrs. Scheiber Edelman was a member of the Board of AYSO Region 76 Soccer for ten years, and has been an active volunteer at both Marlborough School, where she served as Parent Association Co-President, and the Center for Early Education, where she chaired numerous committees over many years. She and her husband, Scott, who is a partner at Gibson Dunn, are involved in the American Jewish Committee (AJC), Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, and the Alliance for Children’s Rights.

Mrs. Scheiber Edelman received a J.D. from Stanford Law School and clerked for Federal District Court Judge A. Wallace Tashima.

Dan Estes began his career as an elementary school teacher. Throughout his seven years in the classroom, Dan taught 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th grades in private and independent school systems. During this time, he also served as a Board Director for the Specialty Family Foundation. The Foundation seeks to alleviate the conditions that lead to persistent poverty. Serving as a Board Director filled Dan with a love for philanthropy and ultimately led him to leave the classroom and join the staff at Specialty where he currently serves as the Program Director for Education.

Mr. Estes also serves as a Board Director for FADICA, a Catholic philanthropic network of foundations and donors.

Mr. Estes is a double graduate of Loyola Marymount University: Bachelor of Arts (2009) & Master of Education (2014)

Cathy Hession

The Carol and James Collins Foundation

Murray McQueen

Northmarq Fund Management

Parker Morse

My Code Media Inc.

Jose studied Business Administration at California State University Northridge and has been in the financial industry for 20 years. Having held many positions in the field of banking for the last 11 years Jose worked in the mass affluent segment in the Private Banking division of a global bank. Although enthusiastic about financial planning and wealth strategy, his main passion has always been in lending and debt structure. Jose is a teacher by nature and annually delivers various lectures to high school age youth about financial literacy. He sits on the Board of Managers at the Mid-Valley YMCA, Para Los Niños, and serves as the Government Affairs Director for Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals. Jose is a published author and host of the Hispanic Wealth Matters Podcast.

Beth Tigay

Fineshriber Family Foundation

Beth Tigay has extensive experience in nonprofit management and education. A passionate advocate for youth and their families, Beth became a nonprofit leader in organizations focused on the empowerment of adolescents after two decades as an educator in Los Angeles. Beth has a degree in English from UCLA and holds an MBA from American Jewish University’s Graduate School of Nonprofit Management.

John Wasley is the Managing Partner at Wasley Associates. John founded the firm in 2023 after a 25-year career at several of the leading global executive search firms. Prior, John was a Senior Managing Director and Head of U.S. Search at Ferguson Partners. During his years of executive search work, John has served an extensive number of clients in the real estate and financial services sectors. John focuses on C-level positions, Board recruitment, and succession planning, and has represented a wide range of private, public, and private equity-backed companies.

Prior to joining Ferguson Partners, John worked for global executive search firms Spencer Stuart and Heidrick & Struggles within their real estate and financial services practices. John began his career in real estate at Wedgewood Investment Corporation, a Los Angeles-based real estate opportunity fund, and served as its chief financial officer. He entered the banking industry as part of restructuring team to recapitalize and re-charter a $8B California-based thrift, where he led the special assets, loan origination and real estate groups.

John received his Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA. He and his wife divide their time between Los Angeles and Boston and have three children. In addition to serving on the Para Los Niños Board, John is an active Full Member of the Urban Land Institute.

Cindy Winebaum was a commercial loan officer at Manufacturers Hanover Bank and an executive at Leisure Concepts, Inc, a publicly traded New York company that specialized in creating and representing children’s toy properties.  Upon moving to Los Angeles, she retired to focus on raising her children and getting involved in community organizations.  For the past 15 years, she was a board member at Women Helping Youth, a women’s giving circle that granted millions of dollars to dozens of non-profits in the Los Angeles area.  She has also served on the Boards of the Santa Monica Synagogue and the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.

Ms. Winebaum received a Bachelor of Science from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Malin Wong is the Manager of Portfolio Operations at Western Asset Management. Ms. Wong brings to Para Los Ninos over 28 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to moving to Los Angeles and joining Guggenheim Partners, Ms. Wong spent the majority of her professional career at various investment banks in New York, including Merrill Lynch & Co., Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital and Bank of America.

Ms. Wong graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a Specialization in Finance from the Sauder School of Business and is a Leslie Wong Fellow – an alumnus of the Portfolio Management Foundation. Ms. Wong is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Los Angeles.

Rick J. Caruso is founder and chief executive officer of Caruso, one of the largest, privately-held real estate companies in the US. A native of Los Angeles, Mr. Caruso has been an active civic leader for three decades, serving as a Commissioner for the L.A. Department of Water and Power and President of the L.A. Board of Police Commissioners.

Through the Caruso Family Foundation, he is heavily involved with not only Para Los Niños, but other organizations that better the lives of at-risk children and their families, including Operation Progress, St. Lawrence of Brindisi School (K-8), and Verbum Dei High School.

Caruso was elected as Chair of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Loyola High School, and is on the Board of Advisors of Pepperdine School of Law, and on the Boards for The Irvine Company, St. John’s Hospital, The California Medical Center, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation. Most recently, he endowed the Caruso Catholic Center and Our Savior Parish Church at USC.

Rick Caruso earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California and a Juris Doctor as a Margaret Martin Block Scholar from Pepperdine University.

*Emeritus Member