Former director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and founding head of special collections at the Getty, Nicholas Olsberg currently consults with museums, art archives and collections around the world.

Jamie Fleming is a seasoned entertainment, marketing executive with a background in corporate alliances, operations, promotions and branding for major companies, museums and special events. From long-term management positions at both Disney and Universal Studios, Jamie has extensive experience with all facets of motion picture, consumer product and theme park marketing.

With a passion to help non-profit cultural arts organizations, Jamie has generously provided his expertise and time to The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, The Ojai Music Festival, Noise Within Theater, The Joffrey Ballet, The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, The Los Angeles Music Center, and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others.

Currently, Fleming represents Universal Studios Florida to the motion picture and television community in Hollywood and is the Executive Director of the Ojai Film Festival. Jamie, his beautiful wife Asunta and their talented daughter Olivia have made the Ojai Valley their home. Fleming received his MBA from the University of Southern California.

Ojai Valley Museum Director Michele Ellis Pracy began her museum career at the Oakland Museum in Oakland, CA, where she worked for six years. She has functioned in every museum role, including registrar, archivist, curator and director. She has been a corporate art curator, for such well-known corporate sites as the Transamerica Pyramid office tower in San Francisco. She owned her own art gallery, was an art dealer, and a consultant helping others open galleries across the country. She became Director of the Ojai Valley Museum in 2010

Carlos Grasso studied Music, Graphic Arts and Painting in Buenos Aires, Paris and Los Angeles. His multi-faceted creative career began as a professional musician (flute) in Paris in the late 70s and 80s, eventually evolving into graphic design and fine arts. His painting apprenticeship started with still-life and portraiture in the classical realistic Old Master's style under the guidance of Master Painter David A. Leffel. Later on, his artwork evolved towards pure abstraction, sometimes incorporating figurative elements within the abstraction, creating in these cases an interesting and new visual field of experience with the interpolation of these two worlds.
Grasso's work has been shown and represented by galleries throughout the United States, and is part of private collections within the US, Brazil, Argentina and France.

John Battel has held several positions throughout his career in the technology industry from sales and marketing at IBM, to Senior Vice President of Stack Computer, Inc. He is currently doing work in East Africa developing programs to deliver electricity to poverty areas in support of schools and clinics. He sits on the board of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA which focuses on wildlife conservation and community development in North Kenya. His passion for art has been ongoing since he could hold a crayon. He continues to be an avid artist, designer, and innovator of anything his mind can create.

Khaled came to the United States from Lebanon in 1970 to pursue his studies in Psychology. In 1982, he moved to Ojai and purchased the Ojai Playhouse, Ojai's small, one screen movie theater. In 1984, he opened the Primavera Gallery which today carries some of the finest work in American craft—glass, wood, and jewelry—and fine art. Through his years in Ojai, Khaled has been very active in the community. He served as both President and on the board of the Chamber of Commerce, and has served on the boards of the Music Festival, Rotary Club, and Montessori School. Among his many awards and recognitions, he was selected by the citizens of Ojai as their very first Living Treasure in the business community. More recently he was presented with the Fred Clapp Memorial Award for Ethics in business.

Kevin Wallace is Director of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts & Happy Valley Cultural Center in Ojai, California, where he curates exhibitions of work in a wide-range of media and oversees educational programming. Wallace has guest-curated exhibitions for several museums and art centers, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the St. George Art Museum, and the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. He has authored and co-authored numerous books on contemporary art and craft and is a regular contributor to numerous periodicals. His most recent book, created in collaboration with the artist Binh Pho, is Shadow of The Turning, published by Fine Arts Press.

Hallie and Stan Katz are owners of Human Arts Gallery in Ojai, now in it's 38th year. They are also artists - Hallie is a jewelry maker designing custom work in precious metals and gems, and Stan creates assemblages using found objects and recycled materials. Hallie is on the Ojai Visitors Bureau advisory board, and is chair of Ojai Village Merchants, a downtown business association.

Doug has spent over 25 years in the oil industry and has lived and worked in many of the world’s oil centers.  He received his BSME in Ocean Engineering from the University of Hawaii and his early engineering career was with Vetco Offshore, (Ventura Tool Company), one of the early pioneers in the offshore oil and gas industry.  After receiving his MBA, Doug moved into management consulting for the oil industry.  He cofounded his own company, The REACH Group in 1999.  Based in Houston, Texas and with offices around the world, The REACH Group is a leader in management consulting and organizational effectiveness to the upstream oil and gas industry.  His clients included all of the world’s largest oil companies and government organizations.

Now retired and no longer living on an airplane, Doug lives in Santa Barbara and consults part-time with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Synergy Business & Technology Center, the Entrepreneurship programs at SBCC and UCSB. Doug is also the new Executive Director of the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet (GEM), a joint venture between UCSB, The City of Goleta and the Goleta Chamber of Commerce.