Get to know OUR TEAM

FOUNDER

Michael Tollin is a filmmaker and founder of Mike Tollin Productions (previously, Mandalay Sports Media). Mike has won four Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards. He has produced and directed more than a dozen feature films, many award-winning documentaries and hundreds of hours of television. Mike Executive Produced the documentary series THE LAST DANCE (Michael Jordan & the Chicago Bulls), His feature films include COACH CARTER, RADIO, DREAMER, HARDBALL, VARSITY BLUES, SUMMER CATCH, and BIG FAT LIAR, along with the Tollin-directed documentary HANK AARON: CHASING THE DREAM, which was nominated for an Oscar.

Erika Carley is a nonprofit operations strategist. In her 15-years of nonprofit development and management experience, she has implemented long-term strategies for business development, revenue generation, partnerships, and donor stewardship resulting in industry-leading retention rates. Over the course of her career, she has launched programs, campaigns, and events that have raised tens of millions of dollars to support overlooked and underfunded causes. Erika co-founded PACE with Mike Tollin in 2013 and has run operations ever since.

Kaythrn Busby is President of Original Programming for STARZ. Busby is responsible for leading the programming and development team for the global premium streaming platform and delivering on its programming mandate committed to narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences. Over the years, Busby has been named to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Women in Entertainment” issue and “Forces for Change” list, as well as Variety’s “Women’s Impact Report: LA” and CableFax’s “Most Powerful Women” list, among several others.

 

Pat Croce is a New York Times Best-Selling Author, a pioneer in sports medicine, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and the first person to ascend from the training room to the boardroom of a professional sports team.

Mitch Albom is a best-selling author, nationally -syndicated columnist, radio host, network television commentator, playwright, and screenwriter. He is the founder of S.A.Y. Detroit, the home of nine charities, and the director of Have Faith Haiti Mission, an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince.

Erik Moore is the founder and managing director of Base Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. Prior to Base Ventures, Erik spend 15 years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch. Erik currently serves as a board member for the East Bay College Fund, and was a board member for Oakland’s OK (Our Kids) Program.

John Boynton is an entrepreneur and investor who has co-founded several companies and invested in a number of others. His career was shaped by a trip to the Soviet Union during his Junior year in High School. He was studying Russian language at the time, and that 1983 trip inspired him to direct his entrepreneurial energy toward Russia after graduating from Harvard in 1988

Marva Smalls is the Global Head of Inclusion at ViacomCBS and Executive Vice President of Public Affairs, Kids & Family Entertainment Brands at ViacomCBS Networks. As Global Head of Inclusion she implements strategic. initiatives and fosters partnerships that promote and advance diversity, inclusion, and belonging for ViacomCBS Enterprise-wide. Smalls also oversees all corporate responsibility initiatives and relationships with external advocates and regulators for Nickelodeon

Hill Harper is an award-winning actor, best-selling author and philanthropist. Harper has earned seven NAACP Image Awards for his writing and acting and is a 4-time New York Times Best-Selling Author. Harper founded the Manifest Your Destiny Foundation and was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s cancer panel.

 

Peter Goldmark is an independent consultant in the areas of philanthropy, environmental policy, international affairs and development, and organizational development in the social change field. He previously directed the Climate and Air Program for Environmental Defense and was President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Lisa Parks is a Principal at Renewable Resources Group, an LA based private equity firm focused on sustainable agriculture, water management, habitat restoration and renewable energy. She is responsible for fund formation, investor relations, and formulating strategy for LP investment across multiple funds. Lisa earned her B.A. at the University of California Berkeley in Political Science and played on the Cal women's varsity tennis team.

Jim Lim is a managing partner at Greenspring Associates, a venture capital firm based in Owings Mills, Maryland and Palo Alto California. Currently, Greenspring Associates manages over $5 Billion for investors such as College Endowments and Not-For-Profit foundations, corporate pension funds and high-net-worth individuals and family offices.

 

Frank Marshall is an American film producer and director, often working in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy. In addition to Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment. In 1991, he and Kennedy Co-Founded the Kennedy/Marshall company.

 

Wrenn Chais is the General Counsel for a financial services company which provides capital for renewable energy, water conservation and climate disaster hardening projects.  She also served as legal counsel to Congressman Madeleine Dean.  Wrenn has served on numerous non-profit boards and has been a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for 10 years. 

David Rawle is the retired chairman of Rawle Murdy, a Charleston SC based marketing, advertising, and public relations firm he founded 42 years ago. He has been the man behind the scenes of Charleston’s most important happenings since 1975.

Bill Chais is a television writer-producer, having created and written on numerous network, cable and streaming shows. Prior to that, Bill was a criminal defense lawyer for the Los Angeles County Public Defender. Bill has worked with numerous philanthropic organizations, most of them dedicated to helping at-risk children, including CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) and Aviva, a residential facility for young women. He also works with Operation Mend, a non-profit dedicated to helping veterans dealing with physical and psychological trauma.