Leadership
Board Members
Bud Ozar
Co-founder, Director Emeritus
Bud is the co-founder of Friends of Kenyan Orphans along with his wife, Sue.
Sue Horrigan Ozar
Co-founder, Director Emeritus
Sue Ozar co-founded Friends of Kenyan Orphans with her husband Bud in 2009.
Andy Wiegand
Board President, Board Member
Andy is a Partner at Peninsula Capital Partners, an investment company that specializes in providing junior capital, either as a minority or control investor, to superior middle-market companies. He currently serves as the FOKO Board President.
Richard Horrigan
Treasurer, Board Member
Rich Horrigan joined the Board of Friends of Kenyan Orphans in 2013 and is the current Board Treasurer.
Betsy Horrigan Rathz
Secretary, Board Member
Betsy Horrigan Rathz joined the Board of Friends of Kenyan Orphans in 2011 and currently serves as Board Secretary.
Meg Starcevic
Assistant Secretary, Board Member
Meg joined the board of Friends of Kenyan Orphans in January 2020 with a passion to enrich the lives of young children and to provide basic life necessities to those that have so little.
John McManus
Board Member
John McManus joined the Board of Friends of Kenyan Orphans in 2013. He is a nationally recognized industrial real estate broker who has completed some of California’s most significant transactions, measured by both dollar volume and market significance.
Susan Montgomery
Board Member
Susan has been an active supporter of and volunteer with Friends of Kenyan Orphans since its inception and has been a Board member since 2013.
Kevin Ozar
Board Member
Kevin has been an educator for over twenty-two years, teaching every grade from sixth through senior year in subjects ranging from reading and writing, history, and leadership to drama and Shakespeare.
Sara Bingham Herriman
Board Member
Sara has spent the majority of her professional career in the world of nonprofit philanthropy including time in higher education, healthcare and children's services.
Michelle Shaker
Board Member
Michelle joined the Friends of Kenyan Orphans Board in 2020. She is a licensed social worker in the neuromuscular division at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Mercy Thuranira
Board Member
Mercy has witnessed the first-hand impact that FOKO has on so many marginalized young people in Kenya. She believes being on the FOKO board gives her an opportunity to give back.
Claudia White
Board Member
Claudia White joined the FoKO board in 2024. After 30+ years in the pharmaceutical industry primarily focused in Pharmacovigilance (drug safety), Claudia retired in 2017. She consulted the following two years, fully retiring in 2019.
Julie Alvin
Board Member
Julie Alvin has been a FoKO donor for over ten years and joined the board in 2024. She is a digital media executive and storyteller with expertise in reaching female audiences at scale.
Dan Scales
Board Member
Dan Scales became a FoKO board member in 2024. He is a highly experienced Food Industry Executive, with a career spanning 45 years at Fortune 500, privately held, and private equity-owned consumer products companies. He has extensive knowledge of company/industry boards, acquisitions, and divestitures, corporate turnarounds, and organizational development.
Staff
Heather Wiegand
Operations Manager
Since 2015, Heather has served as Friends of Kenyan Orphans Operations Manager and supports all of the operating activities of the organization.
Erin Walters
Data Manager
Erin joined Friends of Kenyan Orphans staff in April of 2019 as operations support.
Julie Krupp
Content Developer, Donor Relations Coordinator
Julie joined Friends of Kenyan Orphans team in 2021 as an independent contractor working as an operations associate helping to process donations and assisting the operations team as needed.