WICKENBURG COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Foundation Board Director
Christine has been a resident of Wickenburg for one and a half years. She served on multiple non-profit boards over the last 20 years in Orange County including;
All The Arts For All The Kids Foundation, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, & The National Charity League. She has spearheaded fundraising efforts in these organizations raising over $1,500,000 for children's art programming, cultural programs, and philanthropic organizations.
Claudia is from Detroit, Michigan where she completed a bachelor's degree in Business, resulting in a career as Special Project Manager for Ford Motor Company. Claudia is the recipient of a Telly Award (the marketing equal to an Oscar) for producing, directing and writing a non-commercial video for Ford Motor Company.
Job Titles:
- Foundation Board Director
Dr. Josh Jones is honored to be part of the Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. Being from a small town, he believes that being an active part of your community is important. Dr. Jones moved to Arizona to attend dental school, where he met his beautiful wife Miranda. They have been married for 11 years. After dental school, Dr. Jones completed a military-based hospital residency at Camp Pendleton where he treated Navy and Marine Corps service members and their families. He served two more tours before deciding it was time to come home and raise his already-growing family.
Ed retired in 2004 from his thriving distribution and manufacturing business, and has an educational background in mechanical engineering. Ed's mother once spent time at Wickenburg Community Hospital for over a month and was treated "in a manner that was so extremely special."
Job Titles:
- Foundation Executive Director
Erika was born into a military family and lived in several states before settling in Hawaii. She loved every moment of growing up there but moved to Colorado and raised a family with her husband, Chad, and their children, Jake and Joe. Family brought them to Arizona in 2019. They lived in Wickenburg and thoroughly enjoyed their time there.
Ernest has lived in Wickenburg since 2016, and has 45 years of experience in executive, business and technical management. His senior executive roles have included leadership at Computer Sciences Corporation, CAP Gemini Sogeti and Electronic Data Systems. He also founded E.J. Caimen, which over 20 years became the largest manufacturer of shelf merchandising strips for retail chains.
Hunt has been a resident of Wickenburg since 2011, moving from the Carlsbad area. Hunt has lived in Maryland, Nigeria, Jamaica, El Salvador, Guam, Florida, Colorado, California, and Arizona. After working in banking, sales and personnel, he went to work in information technology for the federal government where he remains today.
Jay retired to Wickenburg two-and-a-half years ago after having three different careers in ocean container shipping, software and technology, and as a small business owner.
As he was climbing the corporate ladder, Jay had ever-increasing responsibilities with jobs in Chicago; New Orleans; Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia; Copenhagen, Denmark; Dubai, UAE; Edison, NJ; Washington, D.C.; London, England; Berkeley, CA; Alameda, CA; San Jose, CA; Los Gatos, CA; and Redding, CA.
Job Titles:
- Foundation Board Director
Jerry has lived in Wickenburg for 12 years. Upon retirement in 2010, Jerry and his wife, Vicki, wanted to get back into a small-town environment. Their realtor suggested they look at Wickenburg and they were smitten.
Jerry was born in Wyoming and his family moved around the country following his father's work in heavy construction. They settled in a Los Angeles suburb called Sierra Madre. Jerry went on to attend the University of Santa Barbara and eventually graduated from UCLA with a degree in Economics. It was at UCLA that he met Vicki. They married in 1972 and moved all over the country while Jerry pursued a career in the savings and loan industry. He worked for Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments before starting a consulting firm working with small businesses on their customer and contact management systems.
Lea has been practicing medicine for over 30 years. Her career began serendipitously as a nursing assistant at Wickenburg Community Hospital. While working, she also completed Nursing School at Yavapai Community College in Prescott, Arizona. Then she entered the Primary Care/Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program at Maricopa County Hospital and became a Physician Assistant.
Richelle moved to Arizona in 2017 after living in seven states throughout various parts of the country. She was born and raised in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and studied at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Commonwealth University where she majored in accounting. After working for more than a decade as an accountant, Richelle went to work for the airlines, traveled the world, experienced different cultures, and met new people. After being furloughed from the airlines, she returned to finance and started working for a video game development company in California.
Ward is proud to be a member of the Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation board. He graduated in 1992 with dual degrees in Theatrical Production and Business. Since then, he's spent time living in New York, Los Angeles and San Diego County, CA.