little kids rock staff

	David Wish, Founder and Executive Director   David Wish worked as an elementary school teacher for ten years. He also worked as a Spanish bilingual teacher and school music teacher. He founded Little Kids Rock in 1996 as an effort to make up for the lack of music education at schools in his area. David has left the classroom to devote all of his energy to Little Kids Rock. He also works as a professional musician by night, playing at nightclubs, charity benefits and corporate events.   dave@littlekidsrock.org
	Laura Subotky, Chief Operatiing Officer Laura has more than 10 years of experience in strategic planning, marketing and operations. Her background spans a broad range of industries and has included engagements at both large corporations and small businesses. Prior to joining Little Kids Rock, Laura worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearney and as a product manager for 3Com. Laura has also worked as an independent business consultant focusing on the social enterprise sector. She also holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and an MBA from the University of Michigan. laura@littlekidsrock.org
	Allison Neves, PR Director Allison has more than 8 years of public relations experience, providing strategic and tactical PR services for non-profit organizations and high-tech companies. Her experience includes work for corporate clients such as Hewlett Packard and for public relations agencies that focused on non-profit accounts and political affairs. Allison received a B.A. in Communications Studies from Sacramento State University. When she's not writing press releases, Allison spends her time traveling to exotic locales and scuba diving. allison@littlekidsrock.org

little kids rock board of directors

Shri Arora
Shri is President and CEO of RKS--the most innovative guitar and amplifier
manufacturer in the industry today. Launched in 2004, RKS is making waves
with its cutting-edge and supreme-quality instruments manufactured in the
United States. Prior to this, Shri served as Vice-President and General Manager of Gibson Labs, the technology division of Gibson Guitar Corp. Before joining Gibson, Shri held several engineering management and software engineering positions in the audio, computer, and digital storage industries.

Shri received a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University and
expects to receive a M.B.A. from the Kellogg School at Northwestern
University in 2005. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a former U.S.
ballroom dance champion, and loves running, watching cricket and basketball.

Karen Chakmakian
Karen Chakmakian is a marketing consultant (www.chakmakian.com) with a passion for kick-starting new ventures. She brings to Little Kids Rock more than fourteen years of experience providing leadership and direction to early-stage companies. Prior to her work as a consultant, she co-founded iPass (NASDAQ: IPAS), which delivers simple and secure enterprise connectivity services for mobile workers through a virtual network of hundreds of dial-up, wireless, and broadband providers in more than 150 countries.

Prior to iPass, Karen consulted to International Messaging Associates in Hong Kong, and held marketing and general management roles at two startups in the semiconductor industry. Karen holds an MBA from Santa Clara University. She is learning to play the guitar, loves adventure travel, kiteboarding, skiing, and discovering amazing wine.

Doug Camplejohn
Doug is the Founder and CEO of spyware security company, Mi5. He started his previous company, MyPlay, a digital music locker service, in 1999 and sold it to Bertelsmann in 2001. Doug has spent over 14 years in various Product Management and Marketing roles in Silicon Valley including Vontu, Epiphany and Apple Computer. Doug received his BSEE and MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University, and enjoys sailing, snowboarding, open water swimming, and playing guitar.

Mike Fernandez
Co-Founder of Little Kids Rock, Mike Fernandez has a passion for music and life. In his spare time, he plays guitar and practices yoga. Previously, Mike co-founded The Coffee Review, the world's leading guide to coffee ratings, and Great Coffee, Inc.
 
Mike earned a BSE from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his MPA from Harvard University. He also served as a Captain in the US Army and earned a black belt in Karate.
mike@littlekidsrock.org

Jeff Yasuda
Jeff Yasuda is the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Redwood Venture Partners. Previously, Yasuda worked in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers for several years focusing on technology financings within Equity Capital Markets. While in Equity Capital Markets, Yasuda worked on numerous initial public and follow-on offerings for software, hardware, computer services, semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, and telecommunications equipment companies.

Earlier in his career, Jeff worked at Arthur Andersen focusing on strategic consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and financial valuation within the Corporate Finance Group. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Jeff graduated with a BA in History from Dartmouth College and received his MBA from New York University Stern School of Business in Accounting and Finance. Jeff continues to be active in music studying jazz guitar and
performing with local funk band, Funky Stew.