OCBSA Board of Directors

Under the leadership of a volunteer board made up of Orange County’s top business and community leaders, the Orange County Council is the gold standard for non-profits in programmatic and financial strength.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD  DEBORAH L. HARRINGTON, Baker Tilly Financial, LLC
EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR DAN HAY, Premier Girls Fast Pitch, Inc.
COUNCIL COMMISSIONER STEVE BRADLEY, Retired
SCOUT EXECUTIVE | PRESIDENT RUSSELL ETZENHOUSER, Orange County Council, BSA
VICE CHAIRMAN – EDUCATION ALLIANCES DR. AL MIJARES, Orange County Dept. of Education
VICE CHAIRMAN – EXPLORING AL MURRAY, Political Consultant
VICE CHAIRMAN – FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES TERRY ADAMS, SA Recycling
VICE CHAIRMAN – MARKETING KEVIN ELLIOTT, Code Four
VICE CHAIRMAN – MEMBERSHIP IMPACT DENNIS COLE, Orange County Department of Education
VICE CHAIRMAN – OPERATIONS GREG BECK, Beck & Christian
VICE CHAIRMAN – OUTDOOR ADVENTURES STUART LOWE, TriVista
VICE CHAIRMAN –STRATEGIC ALLIANCES DENNIS HARDIN, Hardin Honda
COUNCIL TREASURER PETER REYNOLDS, Certified Public Accountant


PAST CHAIRMAN

MARK ENGSTROM, Deloitte & Touche LLP (Retired)

DR. JOHN HOVANESIAN, Harvard Eye Associates

ROBERT THIERGARTNER, Birtcher Anderson and Davis

ROBERT NEAL, Hager Pacific Properties

NATHAN O. ROSENBERG, Insigniam Performance

DAVID HIRZ, Smart & Final, LLC

PARKER KENNEDY, First American Title

ED LAIRD, Laird Coatings Corp.

GEORGE ARGYROS, Arnel & Affiliates


COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Terry Adams

Alan Airth

Lisa Argyros

Robert Batman

Greg Beck

Steven Bradley

Ron Cassell

Evan Chaffee

Dennis Cole

Kevin Elliot

Barney Ellis-Perry

Mark Engstrom

Robert Friedman

Victoria Gray

Dennis Hardin

Deborah L. Harrington

Dan Hay

Gordon Hill

John Holland

Dana Hopper

John Hovanesian, M.D.

Joe Koch

Kathi Koll

Ed Laird

John Lerch

Tom Ling

Stuart Lowe

Steve Mensinger

Dr. Al Mijares

Al Murray

Dana Myerson

Lan Quoc Nguyen

Nicholas-Viet Nguyen

John Nielsen

John Norment

JK Oldenburg

Bob Olson

Pat Posey

Deidre Pujols

Peter Reynolds

David Schmid

Dr. Stephen Skahen

Helen Stainer, Ed. D.

Michelle Steel

Phil Stump

Robert Thiergartner

Mark Wille

PAST COUNCIL CHAIRMAN

COUNCIL CHAIRMEN CHAIRMAN TENURE
ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL
Col. M.B. Wellington 1920-21
D. Eyman Huff 1922-23
G. William Finch 1923-25
Horace Van Dien 1926
Emerson Marks 1927-28
Col. M.B. Wellington 1929-31
Elmer Steffensen 1932
Harold Keirsey 1933-34
Col. M.B. Wellington 1934-39
Kenneth Morrison 1940-41
Clifford Allen 1942
Vernon Langenbeck 1943
ORANGE
EMPIRE AREA COUNCIL
Warren Hillyard 1944
James Merigold 1945-48
Kenneth Morrison 1949-50
James Gubbins 1951-53
Bob Fernandez 1954
E.C. (Al) Missildine 1955-56
O.W. (Dick) Richard 1957-58
Karl Lynn Davis 1959-60
Joseph Long 1961-63
Dr. Richard Kendall 1964-65
Robert McCurdy 1966
Milford Dahl 1967-68
W. Ed Crane 1969-70
George Hoag, II 1971-72
NOTHERN
ORANGE COUNTY/NORTH ORANGE COUNCIL
L.E. (Tex) Middleton 1944
Elmer Steffensen 1945-46
Robert M. Seamans 1947-48
J. Francis Addy 1949-51
Harold Browning 1952
Joseph Sowder 1953-54
Kenneth Knutzen 1955-56
Wayne Herbst 1957-58
Claude Owens 1959-60
R. Lee Luskey 1961
Adolf Schoepe 1962
William James 1963
Paul Morgan 1964
Dr. Merritt Seacord 1965
Marshall McFie 1966-67
Max Elaison 1968
M. Roy Knauft, Jr. 1969-70
S. Wayne Lynch 1971
Henry Yabrof 1972
ORANGE COUNTY COUNCIL
George Hoag, II 1972-73
Howard Bear 1974-75
William Hood 1976-77
James Maynard 1978-79
H. Wallace Merryman 1980-81
Richard Smith 1982-83
Peter Kremer 1984-85
Vern Curtis 1986-87
Gen. William Lyon 1988-89
George Argyros 1990-91
Ronald Foell 1992-93
Jack Linquist 1994-95
Edwin Larid 1996-98
Michael Harrison 1999-00
Parker Kennedy 2001-02
Stephen Scarborough 2003-04
David Janes 2005-06
David Hirz 2007-08
Nathan Rosenberg 2009 -11
Robert Neal 2012 -13
Robert Thiergartner 2014 -2015
John Hovanesian, M.D. 2016 -2017
Mark Engstrom 2018-2019