Board of Directors

Officers

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Chair

Phillip (PJ) Willis, Synovus Trust Company

Philip (P.J.) Willis is a Senior Trust Portfolio Manager for Synovus Private Wealth in South Florida. P.J. has over 20 years of experience managing over $700 million in client assets.

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Vice-Chair

Jesus McCarthy, Business Owner, Community Member

Jesus McCarthy is a local entrepreneur and community advocate, serving as Vice President of El Sol’s Board of Directors. As the owner of McCarthy Painting and Services, Jesus has built a successful business rooted in quality craftsmanship and customer service.

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Treasurer

Steve Hendrickson, Business owner

Steve Hendrickson is the retired founder of Christian Book Distributors (now ChristianBook), the leading mail order and internet company serving the Christian market (carrying over 100,000 products and employing 450 when he sold the business in 2004), and Hendrickson Publishers, a small publisher of classic reference and academic titles for the religious market. 

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Secretary

Leanna Landsmann, Editor

Leanna Landsmann, a nationally recognized education writer and editor, spent 35 years in children’s magazine and book publishing in New York City. She was founding president of TIME Magazine For Kids. 

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Members

Kelsey Burke

Attorney

Soraya Rozo

El Sol Workers Council President

Richard carroll

Business, Nonprofit Professional

Robert Male

Business Management

January Reissman

Policy and Non-profit management

Frank Walsh

Business Management

Theresa N Liddell

Program management, Education

Philip Weintraub

Health, Finance and Technology

Chair: Phillip (PJ) Willis, Synovus Trust Company

Philip (P.J.) Willis is a Senior Trust Portfolio Manager for Synovus Private Wealth in South Florida. P.J. has over 20 years of experience managing over $700 million in client assets. Most recently, P.J. was Senior Vice President and Investment Strategist for a Florida financial Institution. P.J. customizes investment strategies for individuals, families, and trusts helping them achieve long-term financial success. P.J. graduated with honors from Florida Atlantic University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance. He has also earned the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). P.J. is a native of South Florida and believes in helping his local community. He resides in Jupiter with his wife, Greta, and is the proud father of two girls, Ellie and Eva.

Vice-Chair: Jesus McCarthy Business Owner, Community Member

Jesus McCarthy is a local entrepreneur and community advocate, serving as Vice President of El Sol’s Board of Directors. As the owner of McCarthy Painting and Services, Jesus has built a successful business rooted in quality craftsmanship and customer service. A long time Jupiter resident, he has been actively involved in the community, volunteering with El Sol since 2008 and contributing to initiatives such as Habitat for Humanity and youth sports coaching. With a background in business entrepreneurship from Palm Beach State College, Jesus is passionate about supporting workforce development and fostering opportunities for local families. 

Jesus lives in Jupiter with his wife and three children. 

TREASURER: Steve Hendrickson, Business owner

Steve Hendrickson is the retired founder of Christian Book Distributors (now ChristianBook), the leading mail order and internet company serving the Christian market (carrying over 100,000 products and employing 450 when he sold the business in 2004), and Hendrickson Publishers, a small publisher of classic reference and academic titles for the religious market. He started the businesses out of his parents (Assemblies of God/Pentecostal ministers) home in Lynn, Massachusetts, at the age of nineteen in 1978, while attending Central Bible College, Springfield, Missouri, and graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sacred Music. Steve has been active with numerous non-profit organizations, including serving for many years on the Vestry, as Treasurer, and most recently, chair of the Investment Committee of Trinity Church (Episcopal), Boston, and the board of trustees of North Park University, Chicago. He currently serves as Investment Committee chair for Sherrill House (a 180 bed nonprofit skilled nursing facility with historic ties to Trinity Church), recently concluded six years of board service as Treasurer of Mother Jones, the San Francisco based news organization, and has worked with numerous Boston area organizations, from business education partnerships to local YMCAs. He has been active and involved with nonprofits and philanthropic projects in Croatia and East Africa, from education, women’s microenterprise, and building wells, to LGBTI friendly organizations in oppressed areas of Africa. His foundation funds many of the above charitable interests. Steve is an avid pilot with instrument, multi engine and jet ratings. He can cure most cases of insomnia with a discussion of airplane engines, plays a mean piano, and aspires to return to the golden years of mediocrity in his golf game. After a twenty seven year courtship, Steve married his long time partner, David McCord (also the son of a Pentecostal minister), in 2014. They live with their canine children, Bentley and Bea (Dachshund siblings) and Miss Marple (English Springer Diva), according to the season, in Florida, Boston and Vermont.

Secretary: Leanna Landsmann, Editor

Leanna Landsmann, a nationally recognized education writer and editor, spent 35 years in children’s magazine and book publishing in New York City. She was founding president of TIME Magazine For Kids. She continues to write a nationally syndicated column on school topics, A+ Advice for Parents. She has served on Presidential commissions concerning education and youth. Landsmann has a long track record of volunteer service. She launched “Principal for a Day” in New York City’s 1100 public schools in 1994 and was volunteer director for two years.  She served terms on the boards of The Teachers’ Network; Girls Clubs of America (Girls, Inc.) and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. She co-founded PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning) a forum to engage business leaders in school improvement.  She has worked for environmental causes and spent three Board terms on Canandaigua Lakes Watershed Alliance, including one as President. She served six years as co-chair of the Scripps Florida Council, a citizen’s group supporting the growth of a South Florida “bio-tech” belt. She served two terms on the board of the Jupiter inlet Lighthouse and Museum and is currently on the board of the Loggerhead Marinelife Center. She is also a board member of GreatSchools, a San Francisco-based organization that helps parents guide their children’s education. She joined Sustainable PBC “to help communicate the importance of sustainable solutions to all of Palm Beach County’s communities.