ADVISORY COMMITTEE
We are a group of artists, entrepreneurs, small business owners and lovers of the independent spirit

Selina Thomas
Selina Thomas is a 12 year resident of Santa Clarita. As a busy mother of three daughters, CEO and Founder of 6 Degrees HR Consulting, host of a podcast on…

Bret Lieberman
Bret Lieberman brings over 20 years of experience working as a mild/moderate special education teacher specializing in working with young adults on the autism spectrum. Lieberman holds a Master of…

Fred Arnold
Fred Arnold is a 30-year leader, speaker, coach and mortgage professional in the real estate and mortgage banking industry. Fred and his team have closed over a billion dollars in…

Adam Fisher
Armed with a background in business and production, Adam runs the day-to-day operations of Complete Production Group’s (CPG’s) West Coast office in Los Angeles where he currently serves as the…

Roy Anderson
Roy Anderson comes from a long line of whiskey makers…some of whom were bootlegers. Learning from his grandfather, Roy looked to the family business until later in life after first trying his hand as an auto mechanic to a scientist working on Ionic…

Scott Edwards
I’m Scott The Mortgage Doc, aka the MacGyver of the Mortgage Lending Industry! I find solutions to difficult loans. I specialize in DPA Loans, VA Loans, Standard Financing Products like Conventional and FHA Financing, along with your more unique type products like investor financing, bank statement loans, and self-employed clients.

Jeff Thompson
Jeffrey L. Thompson is a media executive at Oracle Corporation who has participated in and led operational, digital marketing, global business development and strategic initiatives across core business functions within…

Phil Lantis
Phil Lantis is the Arts and Events Manager for the City of Santa Clarita, where he oversees over one hundred City produced events a year including Concerts in the Park,…

Dennis Sugasawara
As a graduate of Cal State University Northridge, Dennis had a 17-year career in the entertainment industry as a producer of independent feature films. At one point it became necessary…

Jim Mangassarian
Jim Mangassarian has been a Real Estate professional since May of 1982, beginning his career initially with Coldwell Banker in Newhall, later recruited by Merrill Lynch who was bought out…

Emily Kathleen Ross
Emily Kathleen Ross, CPA is a certified public accountant with over twenty years of experience in tax and advisory services for individuals and small businesses.

Alan Brewer
Alan Brewer is an independent film & television producer and the President/Owner of New Brew Entertainment, a Los Angeles area production company with several feature films and television series on…