Board Members

John Ogilvie

John Ogilvie, Pres­i­dent has pro­vided finan­cial plan­ning, man­age­ment and fund rais­ing ser­vices to numer­ous profit and non­profit orga­ni­za­tions. With a master’s degree in Inter­na­tional Eco­nom­ics & Finance, he has served a diverse clien­tele while a Vice Pres­i­dent of Blythe, East­man Dil­lon on Wall Street, as a co-founder, Senior VP and Direc­tor of DRG Finan­cial Cor­po­ra­tion, and as an inde­pen­dent con­sul­tant. He is expert in real estate and cor­po­rate finance, busi­ness man­age­ment, and the plan­ning and suc­cess­ful imple­men­ta­tion of enter­prise growth strate­gies. He is cur­rently engaged by emerg­ing com­pa­nies in the education/multimedia realm, and is Chair­man of the newly cre­ated Dare Wright Media, LLC.
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Bar­bara Burger

Bar­bara Burger, Vice Pres­i­dent has been the Mar­ket­ing Direc­tor for the Santa Bar­bara Sym­phony for 26 years and founder of ARTCOM, which is now the Per­form­ing Arts League and also works with State St Bal­let and S B Choral Soci­ety. She cur­rently serves on many Santa Bar­bara boards includ­ing the Music and Arts Con­ser­va­tory, Vista Madera Asso­ci­a­tion, is the chair of Santa Bar­bara County Arts Com­mis­sion She has served on the Events & Fes­ti­vals grant com­mit­tee, Per­form­ing Arts Schol­ar­ship Foun­da­tion and the UCSB Music Affiliates.

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Jeff Hud­gins

Jeff Hud­gins, Sec­re­tary is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado with a degree in Film Stud­ies. He has worked in film ani­ma­tion, graphic design, web sites, as well as hav­ing a back­ground in act­ing and has spent time vol­un­teer­ing for youth nonprofits. Jeff  devel­oped our new logo and is respon­si­ble for devel­op­ing our web­site.
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Jan

Jan Gilbert is a cur­rent Board mem­ber of the Santa Bar­bara Sym­phony League and was one of the founders of The Santa Bar­bara Youth Sym­phony and their direc­tor for 37 years. She is an ExOf­fi­cio mem­ber of the Santa Bar­bara Sym­phony Asso­ci­a­tion and was a PTA, Vol­un­teer head librar­ian at a pub­lic ele­men­tary school.
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Suzy Kaufer

Suzy Kaufer was this year’s Jew­ish Fes­ti­val Coor­di­na­tor and has a local cable TV pro­gram on the Jew­ish Life as well as teach­ing a car­dio fit­ness class for mixed abil­i­ties. In Ojai she Co-Director, Co-Producer and Pro­moter for eight Annual Ojai Bowl­ful of Blues Fes­ti­vals. Suzy was also an exec­u­tive recruiter, a grad­u­ate of Uni­ver­sity of Col­orado and worked on Wall Street in the 80’s for some well known finan­cial advi­sory com­pa­nies in exec­u­tive capac­i­ties. She is cur­rently on the board of Hil­lel at UCSB.

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Jacque­line Kro­n­berg stud­ied with Viola Spolin, the “mother” of impro­vi­sa­tional the­atre, at Sec­ond City in Chicago.  She was the founder and direc­tor of the first Eng­lish the­atre at the Jerusalem Khan, in Israel  and taught in the the­atre depart­ments of both Tel-Aviv and Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ties. She taught pro­gram devel­op­ment and grant writ­ing in the Baltic States as an emis­sary of Free­dom House, a branch of USIA.  Jacque­line was the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Los Ange­les Arts Coun­cil and came to Santa Bar­bara over 13 years ago and as a “retire­ment” job, wrote grants for the Dream Foun­da­tion.
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