Team Prime Time Board of Directors

David M. Carter, co-Chairman of the Board
David M. Carter is the Executive Director of the University of Southern California’s Sports Business Institute and is a professor of sports business at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Additionally, he founded the Sports Business Group in 1999 following more than ten years of consulting for the sports and entertainment industries. As a sports business consultant specializing in strategic marketing, Mr. Carter has consulted for corporations, sports organizations, sports and entertainment venues, law firms, municipalities, and individual athletes. Further, Mr. Carter regularly provides sports-business commentary to national media concerns. He has also authored three books about the sports business industry. Mr. Carter is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he obtained both a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in finance.

Vincent Hoenigman, co-Chairman of the Board
Vince Hoenigman began his career in high technology, helping found ibis consulting, a San Francisco based IT services company that merged into Proxicom Inc., a leading Internet Services Company. After retiring from Proxicom, he started Citymark Development, a real estate development company that develops urban-infill housing in Southern California and Nevada. He has served on the boards of Larkin Street Youth Services, Our Children’s Earth, The National Parks Conservation Association and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UCLA and master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Michigan. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two young children.

Peter Straus, Secretary
Peter Straus is the Founder and Executive Director of Team Prime Time, having held this position since the program’s inception in 2001. Under Peter’s leadership the organization has seen its outreach increase 80-fold — from 20 students in its first year to a record 1,600 in 2010. Peter is also the Founder and Executive Director of Prime Time Sports Camp, one of the largest privately owned sports and recreation programs for youth in Los Angeles. Peter is a graduate of UCLA, and is on the Board of Directors of the Isadore and Sadie Dorin Foundation, and a member of the Westcoast Sports Associates Advisory Board.

Robert Hinds, Treasurer
Robert Hinds is an Accountant for the Management (AthleteRepresentation) Practice at Wasserman Media Group. Additionally, he earned 3 Varsity Letters as a member of the UCLA Baseball Team and competed professionally with the New York Yankees.

He also served as an Assistant Coach for the UCLA Baseball Team. Mr. Hinds is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and of the University of San Francisco where he received a Master of Arts degree in sports management.

Jennifer Allen
Managing Director, PMK-HBH Public Relations

Victoria Camerini
Dr. Victoria Niklas is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the USC Keck School of Medicine and an Attending Neonatologist at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Niklas graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. She received her training in Perinatal and Neonatal Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also has a Masters Degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University. In addition to her clinical duties in the care of the ill newborn, Dr. Niklas directs a clinical research program devoted to understanding the role of intestinal immune system in the protection of newborns from bacterial infections in the intestine and in the pathogenesis of an often life-threatening disease of the newborn intestine called necrotizing enterocolitis. In addition to her professional activity in clinical neonatology and research, Dr. Niklas is actively involved in graduate and medical student education at the Keck School of Medicine. and has been a featured physician for programs on Discovery Health.

Claudia Caplan
Claudia is the Chief Marketing Officer for Mendelsohn Zien Advertising. During her tweny year career, she has moved from copywriter to Partner/Creative Director at Mendelsohn/Zien Advertising in Los Angeles. For her efforts, Claudia has received virtually every creative award the advertising industry has to offer.

On the client side, Claudia was Vice President of Brand Marketing at EarthLink, Inc. At EarthLink, she launched a national campaign branding the company as “The #1 Provider of the Real Internet.” Her efforts also extended to public policy as she led the company in championing internet privacy. Her efforts received coverage by virtually every major news outlet from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times to the major broadcast networks.

Claudia returned to her advertising agency roots at Mendelsohn Zien as Chief Marketing Officer. As such, she manages the agency’s new business efforts and develops strategy for existing clients. 

 
Helen E. Gaskin
Helen Gaskin is the Founder/Executive Vice President of Crimson Insurance Services, Inc. Additionally, she has founded and is Executive Vice President of the following companies: Crimson Services, Inc., Crimson Life Reinsurance Company Ltd and Topanga Reinsurance Company. Helen Gaskin graduated from the University of Southern California in Elementary Education with a specialty in Remedial Reading.

Mrs. Gaskin entered the financial industry and in 1989 was founder/Executive Vice President of a Third Party Administration Company that was sold in the year 2000 to a Fortune 1000 company. In 1990, She founded and became Executive Vice President of PLICO Reinsurance Company, Ltd., and its successor, Crimson Life Reinsurance Company, Ltd., which continues active operations today. She is a founding member of The Everychild Foundation, a member of women’s philanthropic group. She is also an active contributor of Westside Food Bank and a member of Women Helping Youth. Helen is married and has three children. Her oldest is a freshman at the University of Miami in Florida. Her twins are juniors at Palisades Charter High School.

Michael Herman
As a lawyer with more than 25 years experience, Michael Herman has conducted a broad practice in the areas of real estate, business and commercial transactions. Mr. Herman received his A.B. degree in History, with honors, in 1976 from Stanford University, where he served as student body president. In 1980, he received his J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, where he was on the editorial board of the Communications and Entertainment Law Journal.

As a practicing attorney, Mr. Herman is a member of the State of California and Los Angeles County bar associations, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Besides serving on the Board of Directors of Team, Prime Time, Inc., Mr. Herman is the past president of the West Los Angeles Little League and has coached Little League baseball for 19 years in the West Los Angeles and Beverly Hills programs.

Joel K. Kurtz
Joel Kurtz is a Senior Vice President for Bailes & Associates, Inc. a commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in representing both local and national office tenants.
Joel began his commercial real estate career as an investment specialist with C.B. Richard Ellis and later took over the management of this 60 person West Los Angeles office which specialized in the office, investment, industrial and retail areas of commercial real estate. Mr. Kurtz managed the office for 15 years and during that time the office was one of the top producing offices in the country.

Joel is a graduate of New York University School of Commerce where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting. Joel and his wife Eileen live in West Los Angeles and have three children and five grandchildren.

David Siegel
David is the Director of Ticket sales with the Los Angeles Dodgers and just completed his 13 season with the organization. He has the rare distinction of working for all three Los Angeles owners starting under Peter O'Malley, then News Corp and currently the McCourt Family. As Director of Sales he is responsible for the clubs largest revenue stream which this season has resulted in the number one attendance in all Major League Baseball. He has a bachelors degree of Communications from the University of California at San Diego where he was a three year letter winner as a member of the baseball team.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Susan Strick, City Attorney’s Office, NPP, Founding Board Member

Cheryl Quintana, Leader, President, Indivision Productions, Founding Board Member

Lana Ayeroff Brody, M.A., Educational Consultant

Joe Boucher, Producer

Bruce Corwin, Chairman & CEO, Metropolitan Theatres

Todd Greenbaum, President and CEO, Input 1, LLC

Artie Harris, Los Angeles Dodgers

Steve Harris, Actor

Jeff Marks, VP, COO, Premier Partnerships

Merle Price, Deputy Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District (retired)

Gil Romoff, RPM Business Solutions

Robert Teinowitz, President, Live Action Media

Derrick Taylor, Boys Varsity Basketball Coach, Taft High School

Lonnie White, Journalist, Los Angeles Times

Peter S. Waldstein, M.D., F.A.A.P.