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MEET OUR ADVISORS
NATIONAL ADDICTION RECOVERY ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Jack Alan Levine
Founder & President
Jack Alan Levine, addiction expert, coach & author, has spoken to thousands of people over the last 20+ years on dealing with and successfully overcoming addiction. A ten time author, his book My Addict Your Addict talks about his battles and victory over addiction. Another of his books Addiction And Recovery Handbook provides insight from multiple professionals in the addiction recovery field including psychologist, psychiatrist, sober home owners, therapists, treatment facility owners, faith-based long-term treatment programs, counselors, coaches and NA and AA. His articles on overcoming addiction have been published in Sober World Magazine and he has written for addiction blogs including Addictionland. Jack created and developed the "Free For Life" Overcoming Addiction online video program which helps addicts, employers and their families deal with the realities of addiction and outlines the clear paths and solutions available to overcoming addiction and truly finding Freedom for Life.
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Jack is a sought after treatment center speaker where his clear-cut message has helped many addicts seek and find the path to recovery and overcome addiction. He is also on the advisory board of the NOW MATTERS MORE Foundation, an organization dedicated to educating and helping those struggling with addiction. Jack worked for some of the top advertising agencies on Madison Avenue on large accounts including AT&T, The US Army and Dupont. He started his own Ad Agency in l985 and later founded a national television production company where he wrote, directed and produced hundreds of national television shows and thousands of commercials. He sold that company to devote more time to entrepreneurial activities and helping those battling addictions. He is the Founding Director of Voice of God Ministry, a 23 year old 501c-3 non-profit, and served on the Board of Directors at Oasis Compassion Agency, Changed Lives Church and now serves at Purpose Church Orlando.
Michael Lambert
VP/Sec/Manager Global Operations
Over the past 25 years Mike has been building and managing a group of 20+ creative professionals; maintaining a passionate and creative culture while producing both content and results in very fast paced, time-sensitive environments. A creative team leader, Mike utilizes this group of professionals and his vast network to manage multi million dollar projects with fortune 500 Companies and National Brands throughout the US & Canada.
Mike identifies, builds and represent products and brands that possess enormous potential for growth. He is an expert at finding new markets and unique verticals, or reorganizing existing assets to extract more revenue. In 2003, he drove the expansion of RMS Networks’ Retail TV Networks into Canada and in 2005 built a $1MM+ annual recurring revenue stream with Comcast Cable out of the Companies’ existing assets.
Having started four Companies, Mike possesses P&L Experience and consistently surpasses revenue, sales, & marketing objectives. He has participated in two IPO’s, securing $MM investors, and managed a staff through a 40% right sizing without adjusting existing Company output or revenue.
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Mike is a creative force with a keen business sense. With an MBA in Marketing he started his career in 1990 by writing, producing, directing, and then syndicating the KIDSPORTS TV weekly series. Mike anticipated an opportunity with new FCC regulations on Saturday morning kids programming, and had the only FCC “Kid-Friendly” show for sale that year at NATPE. He has produced a weekly women’s health TV Series for Lifetime TV – TODAY’S HEALTH, a daily show for WE – Women’s Entertainment, and produced a ½ hour National TV Special featuring the last couple to ever be married atop The Empire State Building, with Joan Rivers performing the ceremony right before her passing.
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He has a tremendous passion for those struggling with addiction and their families. Having friends and family members who have suffered and some who unfortunately lost the battle in this season of his life Mike is undertaken to win his successful business talents to helping NARA achieve their goals. Mike is dedicated and committed to finding a cure for addiction and helping those suffering struggling with the disease of drug and alcohol addiction
A. Wayne Gill
VP/Legal Affairs
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Wayne Gill is a business litigation attorney with over 28 years’ experience, representing and advising a plethora of the largest companies in the world as well as small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Among Wayne’s clients have been corporate titans such as Office Depot, AT&T, and American Express. He is also nonprofit counsel to The Florida Mental Health Counselors Association, and he’s the co-founder of the Oasis Compassion Agency, a 501(c)(3) charity that focused on restoring dignity to disadvantaged families throughout central Palm Beach County, Florida for nearly two decades. He’s the author of several books including, “This Business of Supplier Diversity,” “The Runner,” and “How To Know God’s Vision For Your Life.” Wayne has received many legal, business, and community service awards, including Northwood University’s Award For Outstanding Commitment To The Betterment Of Mankind.
The organization's officers and directors have been involved in the field of addiction recovery for over four decades. The company’s president and member of the Board of Director's has written two books on overcoming addiction (Addiction and Recovery Handbook, My Addict Your Addict) and created The Free For Life Overcoming Addiction online video series. He also has spoken at many conferences, religious organization events, businesses, colleges, schools, rehab centers and treatment centers on overcoming addiction and has appeared on numerous Television/radio/ internet shows as a guest expert on the subject.
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FOUNDING ADVISORY BOARD
Peggy Calhoun
Founding Advisor
Peggy Calhoun, an Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive (ACFRE), enjoys over 35 years of advancing philanthropy, marketing and volunteerism. Beginning her career as Executive Director of a crisis intervention agency serving three states, her extensive staff experience includes raising $3.7 million in nine months for an art museum, overseeing a $60 million national campaign for the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Alex Federation (Scientist)
Founding Advisor
PHD from Harvard University in Chemical Biology. Currently Co-Founder Talus Bio. Formerly Lead Bioinformatics Scientist and Pharma Alliance Manager at SEngine Precision Medicine. Research Fellow Altious Institute For Biomedical Sciences. Senior Data Scientist Navigating Cancer
Nicholas E. Goeders, PhD
Founding Advisor
Dr. Goeders is considered one of the world's leaders on the role of stress in drug addiction, and is a professor and head of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center Shreveport.
Dr. Kevin Murnane
Founding Advisor
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Kevin is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. He is the Director of Basic Sciences Research in the Louisiana Addiction Research Center. His research group is focused on the etiology and treatment of disorders of the central nervous system, with a particular focus on substance abuse.
Suzanne Tinsley, PhD, PT, NCS,
Founding Advisor
Suzanne is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Sciences and Neurology and the current holder of the Charles R. Parks Endowed Professorship at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center- Shreveport, where she teaches medical pharmacology and neuroscience in the School of Allied Health Professions. A Board Certified Neurologic Physical Therapist, Dr. Tinsley has presented both internationally and nationally on the topics of pharmacology and neurologic rehabilitation.
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She has also served on the ABPTS Academy of Content Experts. She is an author of a pharmacology textbook for McGraw-Hill Publishing and has been honored as a Visiting Scholar at the renowned Valens Rehabilitation Clinic in Valens, Switzerland.
Dr. Glenn Grossman
Founding Advisor
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Dr. Grossman has over three decades experience in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Grossman Graduated from Umdnj-robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1988. He is currently studying effects on addiction in children and pre-natal woman.
Dr. Jared Pingleton
Advisor
Dr. Pingleton is a dually trained and credentialed minister and clinical psychologist who has been in practice since 1977. A nationally recognized leader in the Christian mental health and recovery field, he is an international speaker who has authored or coauthored ten books and has served as Vice President of the American Association of Christian Counselors and as the Director of Counseling Services at Focus on the Family for several years. Jared also taught at several colleges, universities and seminaries, served on the pastoral staff of two large churches and founded and directed two Christian counseling centers.
For more information about Jared, his training background, specializations, developed resources, and contact information, go to drpingleton.com.
Lui Delgado
Advisor
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Lui Delgado is the founding director and chairman of the N.O.W. Matters More Foundation. Also known as “The Dope Doctor,” he is a certified addiction professional (CAP) and co-host of the Couch Live Radio Show. He’s a columnist for Brevard Live Magazine and a treatment service consultant for many clients and patients. He has his own story of twenty-eight years of recovery that he shares on his radio show weekly. He is married and the father of two wonderful girls. As an expert in addiction and recovery, he has been serving the recovery community for many, many years. N.O.W. Matters More, founded in 2011, is an awesome foundation and has helped numerous individuals and families navigate the difficult obstacles and road to recovery.
Dr. David Jenkins
Advisor
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Dr. David Jenkins is a psychologist and the director of the MA program in addiction counseling in the Department of Counselor Education and Family Studies at Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia. He has served as clinical director of the international board of Christian Counselors of the American Association of Christian Counselors and is on the executive board of the Society for Christian Psychology. Dr. Jenkins also served on the Executive Draft Committee to update the AACC’s Code of Ethics for Christian Counselors. With over 25 years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr.
Jenkins specializes in the integration of Christian faith and clinical practice. He has worked extensively with addictive, mood, and anxiety disorders in the context of individual, marital, group, and family therapy. Dr. Jenkins has provided education, consultation, supervision, and training for a variety of churches, ministries, and professionals. He is also a renowned author and speaker at conferences, seminars, and retreats.
Stephen de Kanter
Advisor
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Stephen's business career spans more than four decades and includes corporate level executive positions in US and international operations of two Fortune 100 companies.
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He was the President of Global Licensing for The Walt Disney Company from 1999 to 2001. This division generated nearly $1 billion in annual revenues. Prior to that, he managed Disney Consumer Products’ Latin American Region for more than 10 years. From 1979 to 1989, he woked at Heublein, Inc as Director of International Marketing, then as Vice President of Operations for the Western Hemisphere and finally as Vice President of the Brand Development Center, directing all of Heublein’s new product development.
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Stephen worked in the marketing department for Clairol, Inc from 1976 to 1979 and prior to that he founded and managed a restaurant company in Spain. Stephen also served his country as a Counterintelligence Agent in the Military Intelligence branch of the US Army in Germany.
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Since leaving Disney, Stephen has been active as an entrepreneur, investor and lecturer. He is a founding member of The Americas Group, a real estate and investment company with a focus on Latin America.
Sharon Gill
Advisor
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Sharon is a gifted leader and strategist who specializes in building org-
anizations (public and private) from the ground up. For more than 20 years,
Sharon has leveraged values-based leadership principles to enable fast-growth
organizations to identify, nurture and accomplish purpose-centered visions.
Sharon works to create company cultures and visions where team members
are developed, empowered, and freed to innovate.
She has proven expertise working with executive teams in the private sector and nonprofit Boards in the areas of Board development, succession planning, fund-raising, and leadership development. She is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Palm Beach Atlantic University with a degree in Leadership and Organizational Development. She is also a graduate of the Minority Business Executive (MBE) Program at Dartmouth College. She’s been recognized by The American Red Cross as a Good Samaritan for her nonprofit leadership work, Bank of America, Local Heroes Award and The Women’s Chamber of Commerce, of Palm Beach County’s, Women in Leadership Award.
She is the author of, “Comeback With Confidence,” a manual for those needing strategies to reenter the workforce after an unexpected job loss, “What Business Are You In?” for struggling female entrepreneurs and “The GORGEOUS Woman,” a faith-based study on how women can leverage their faith to reach their maximum potential.
Sharon is also a top leadership influencers on LinkedIn with over 120,000 followers. Her leadership videos, posts and insights receive multiple millions of views from around the globe, per year. She’s appeared in numerous magazines, podcasts, and television programs where she shares her leadership and organizational management expertise with the world.
Carl L. Foster
Advisor
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A 40 year Veteran of TV and Radio Broadcasting, Carl served our country faithfully in Vietnam and was the broadcast voice for American Forces Radio and Television. After his military service as complete he went on to build an illustrious and impressive career in broadcasting and business.
Currently founder and President of Foster Events Group, LLC, Carl has been at trailblazer in the creation of television shows and corporate and nonprofit branding events. His corporate and charity and fundraising golf and tennis events have attracted major celebrities. Always at the cutting edge was he first to market the blossoming sport of Pickleball and has
become a national figure in the Pickleball community by producing television shows, organizing events, tournaments and creating leagues. His expertise and knowledge has been at the forefront of Pickleball promotion and expansion.
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Now creator, producer and host of Inside Florida Pickleball, a weekly TV show that airs on FOX Sports Florida and other regional networks. His original concept has expanded to become INSIDE WORLD PICKLEBALL and features top players, Pickleball news and feature endorsed by national sponsors. Carl partnered with the APP Delray Beach Pickleball Open to produce and air the first South Florida professional event with the finals airing on CBS Sports Network. ​In 2022 he added two more APP Tour events building the largest national event in Boca Raton, Florida, with the APP Masters and over 1,000 players and finals airing on ESPN.
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He is currently and has been for 27 years the announcer and "Voice" of the ATV Delray Beach tennis tournament. Carl has served faithfully on the board of advisors of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Match Point Ministries.
His previous accomplishments and credits include: Event Director for the Inaugural Montel Williams Military Makeover Celebrity Golf Classic and Gala, a fundraising event for Thank You First Responder and ParklandCares.org.
VP of Corporate Development/COO for WORLD LEADERS Conference featuring 18 world renowned speakers:
Dr. Ben Carson, Ken Blanchard, Drew Brees, Dr. Henry Cloud, Wayne Huizenga, Jr., Suzy Welch, John Maxwell,
Tom Mullins, Urban Meyer, Joyce Meyer. Creator and producer of the UDECIDE Christian Talent Search competitions.
Director of Sports Marketing for the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships/Delray Beach Open (ATP Tour Event) securing event sponsorships with notable such companies as PNC Bank, Celsius, Comcast, Ducati Motorcycles, Porsche, New Balance, Walgreens, Publix and many more. Host of "Talk Sports" radio show with baseball great Pete Rose. Sports Director at REACH FM and Grace Net radio. At Reach FM, he created and hosted Good Sports Magazine Show . At Grace FM he hosted the Afternoon Drive Show, aka The RoadRunner, while also handling the station's role as Development Director. On air host and producer of the USTA National Tennis Championship TV specials. In his early years he was Director of Broadcasting and announcer for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and Executive Producer and host for the 10–TV regional sports network.
