Board of Directors
Janine Francolini, MA
Founder and Board Chair | Portland, OR
Through the creation of The Flawless Foundation, Janine has found the perfect vehicle to combine her professional experience with her passion to serve our most vulnerable children. She serves on the board of the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the USC Gould School of Law as well as many advisory boards of non – profits and corporations. Janine has a Masters’ degree from Columbia University and had a 15-year career in education as a teacher and admissions director in private schools throughout New York City. A sought after speaker and consultant, Janine collaborates with clients on fundraising, mental health advocacy and motivational techniques. Janine is also a frequent blogger for the Huffington Post. In addition, Janine has advanced training in Collaborative Problem Solving, the revolutionary and evidence-based method of working with children as described in the book, “Treating Explosive Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Approach” by Ross Greene, PhD and Stuart Ablon, PhD. In between frequent bicoastal trips, Janine practices yoga and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
Magnes Welsh, MBA
Secretary | Chicago, IL
Magnes Welsh has worked with global clients through her own communications and corporate social responsibility consultancy, Magnes Communications, since 1990. Prior to that, she served in senior communications and public relations positions for Kraft Foods and FedEx. She has a history of serving on charitable boards that support leadership for women and vulnerable children. Magnes currently is also a director of Evan’s Life Foundation and Gamma Phi Beta Foundation. Her passions include expanding consciousness, sharing and helping others share unconditional love, and traveling the world. She earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Memphis and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. It is a privilege to join the Flawless Board after serving on its Advisory Board for four years.
Susan Martin
Treasurer | Portland, OR
Susan splits her time between Portland Oregon and Germany. After a wonderful 22-year career at NIKE, she and her husband have established KOMA Consulting, which provides SAP services. Susan’s experience at NIKE fostered her entrepreneurial spirit and expertise in managing resources. Her true passion, however, is to inspire young people to reach their career and life goals. Grateful for the healing journey she has been on with her daughter who had learning and behavioral challenges and recently graduated from college, Susan is thrilled to join the Flawless Foundation.
Pierre Hauser, MA
New York, NY
Pierre Hauser is a long-time philanthropic activist. Along with his wife, Abigail Disney, he is co-founder and co-president of the Daphne Foundation, which funds programs that confront the causes and consequences of poverty in New York City and West Africa. He is also on the board of the North Star Fund (a community foundation that supports community organizing in New York City) and the Roy Disney Family Foundation (which backs efforts to protect the oceans). Having previously worked as a reporter, editor, and author of history books for young adults, he currently writes fiction and invests in films. He has a BA from Yale, an MA from Columbia, and an MFA from the New School. He is proud to be involved in Flawless as it confronts the urgent need to improve care for children with brain differences.
Robin Janis
New York, NY
Robin has been a student and teacher of yoga in both the Iyengar and Anusara styles for nearly 25 years. She owns a studio, Sole to Soul Yoga in NYC. She is a single mother to her spirited son, Jackson whom she guided though recovery from autism with the help of early intervention, and the abiding power of unfaltering love. She is also interested in complementary forms of medicine and education. Robin has been a Montessori teacher, an avid supporter of Waldorf schooling, and a strong advocate for today’s children to be given the time, the space and the support to carve out for themselves a path that is balanced, genuine and inspired. She is a huge fan of the work of Flawless, and is so grateful and humbled to offer her guidance and resources to not only see the glorious perfection in every child, but the beauty and good will in us all.
Jon Snyder, EdD
New York, NY
Jon Snyder is the Dean of Bank Street College of Education. His career has included work as a researcher and a teacher educator at numerous institutes of higher learning nationwide. For five years Jon served as a commissioner on the California Teacher Credentialing Commission and as a consultant to several states and national organizations on their teaching policy agendas. Jon has also worked with the Commission for Teaching and America’s Future in identifying exemplary teacher programs. More recently he was lead author on an extensive review of the research in the developmental sciences entitled, Principles and Exemplars for Integrating Developmental Sciences Knowledge into Educator Preparation. He considers it an honor to serve on the board of an organization that understands the inviolable necessity of treating all children and their families with abiding and profound respect.
Tyrrell Schmidt, MS
Philadelphia, PA
Tyrrell Schmidt is currently Chief Marketing Officer at CIGNA International. Tyrrell has over 20 years of marketing and general management experience in both the financial services and healthcare industries, enabling her to live and work in markets across Europe and Asia. She counts traveling as one of her passions, visiting more than 45 countries on six continents. She is also an accomplished runner, having participated in dozens of marathons and half-marathons all over the world. Tyrrell is pleased to be able to bring her professional experience in marketing to helping Flawless in its inspiring mission.
Scientific Advisory Board
J. Stuart Ablon, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor
Harvard Medical School/Mass. General Hospital
Boston, MA
Sigurd Ackerman, MD
President and Medical Director
Silver Hill Hospital
New Canaan, CT
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD
Former Chair, Department of Psychology; Professor of Psychology; Editor, Psychological Bulletin
University of California, Berkeley
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Michael A. Jenike, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Medical Director of the OCD Institute at McLean Hospital
Ajit Jetmalani, MD
Director of Training/Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University
Portland, OR
Owen Lewis, MD
Senior Vice President for Mental Health, External Relations and Public Policy
Turnaround for Children
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University
Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD
Senior Fellow
The ChildTrauma Academy
Adjunct Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University
Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital
Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Elyn Saks, JD, PhD
Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at USC’s Gould School of Law, adjunct professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine, and faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.
Advisory Board
Amy Aho, MBA
Director at Credit Suisse in Investment Banking Support
New York, NY
Barbara Bellafiore, MBA
Managing Director, Dun and Bradstreet
Pamela Carter, JD
Attorney, Philanthropic Activist
New York, NY
Christopher A. Folkestad, CPA
President
Christopher A. Folkestad, CPA PC
Portland, OR
Jon D. Kaplon, JD
Director
Associate General Counsel
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
New York, NY
Robert H. Klonoff, JD
Dean and Professor of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
Portland, OR
Lisa Sharkey
Sr. Vice-President and Director of Creative Development
Harper Collins Publishers
New York, NY
David Streicher, JD
Black Helterline LLP
Portland, OR
Liz Stern
CEO, Global Giving Advisors
New York, NY
Melissa Thompson, MBA
CEO and Founder, TalkSession, Inc.
New York, NY
Amanda Weil
CEO, Weil Studio
Board Chair, Creative Time
New York, NY
Claire Wurtzel, MS
Educational Consultant
Faculty Member- American Museum of Natural History
