Board of Directors
The Board supports the work of the CI Heath Foundation and provides mission-based leadership and strategic governance. While day-to-day operations are led by the CI Health Foundation Chair, the Board-Chair relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the members is both critical and expected.
We are always open to additional Board Members who have extensive professional experience with significant executive leadership accomplishments in business, government, philanthropy or the nonprofit sector.
Bryce Noll
Chair
Bryce Noll is the Director of Retail Services for Catalina Island Health and has been a resident of Catalina Island since 2006. He has 15 years of sales and more than a decade of managerial experience. He has dedicated much of his time to philanthropy as a Past President of the Avalon Rotary Club and a founder of the Catalina Island Chili Cookoff. He currently serves as an officer of the Catalina Island Health Foundation, Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce, and Avalon Rotary Club. He enjoys island life with his fiancé Jennifer, and the couple are currently furthering their education through Southern New Hampshire University.
Kelly Nelson Brown
Vice Chair
Kelly has consistently been the top producing agent and local expert for Catalina Island real estate since 2010. A realtor since 2006 and broker since 2012, Kelly enjoys helping others successfully navigate the purchase or sale of island property. In 1981, when Kelly first moved to Catalina Island, she expected to be here for two years. "I fell in love with the people and the lifestyle and I never left," she says. An active Realtor since 2006, Kelly's career has allowed her to blend the profession she loves, with the community and island location that captured her heart.
Ray McKewon
Treasurer
Ray served 30 years in the Navy, starting as a Navy diver, and achieving the rank of Captain along with the title, Commodore, as group commander for Naval Coastal Warfare. Ray also started a company in 1990 which, by the time of his retirement in 2005, had $1 Billion in sales and over $100 million in profit, with nearly 3,000 employees. Ray has also staged over 100 concerts in Catalina with such names as The Wailers, Smash Mouth, Michael Franti, and his tributes to Abba, Woodstock, Santana, the Rolling Stones, and many others. Prior to serving on the board of CI Health Foundation, he served on the board of the Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce.
Directors
Jason Paret (CEO)
Jason Paret has led CI Health since January 2016. In his 30+ years in healthcare, his leadership has helped organizations achieve significant operating and financial improvements. He also has substantial experience in facility construction, leading projects in the $20-$50 million range. In 2023 and 2024, Becker's Hospital Review named Paret one of its Community Hospital CEOs to Know. He holds an MBA from the University of Alaska Southeast and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Montana. Paret (pronounced “pa – ray”) and his wife Aimee, an Avalon school teacher, have a son and a daughter. Even before coming to Catalina, island life was not new to the Paret family, who've lived in Australia, Hawaii, and islands in Alaska.
Ritch Haynes
Ritch D. Haynes recently retired as Executive Vice President of HealthTrio, the leading supplier of internet portals to many of America’s preeminent healthcare payer and provider organizations.
With a master’s degree in mathematics, Mr. Haynes was an early developer of clinical and administrative information systems in the healthcare industry. In the early 1990s, Mr. Haynes founded Medical Communication Networks, Inc. (MCN), a joint venture of Integrated Medical Systems and UniHealth America. Mr. Haynes served as CEO and President. MCN was instrumental in deploying clinical and administrative functionality to over 77,000 physician desktops, over 200 hospitals, and many large payer organizations.
Previously, Mr. Haynes was Chairman, CEO and President of Professional Healthcare Systems (PHS). Originally a wholly owned subsidiary of American Medical International (AMI), PHS provided its best-of-class patient accounting, ADT, and medical record solutions to over 350 hospitals, including many of America’s leading medical centers and research institutions.
Mr. Haynes is a frequent national speaker and is a member of numerous professional organizations. He has served on many for-profit and not-for-profit boards of directors.
Shannon Hill
Shannon Hill brings a wealth of business experience after successfully opening and running four large insurance agencies in Central California. After relocating to Catalina Island in 2013, she saw the need for residents of the island to receive quality medical care and immediately offered the Foundation her assistance. Her passion for philanthropy is evident to every event the Foundation holds.
Jeff Aronson
Bio Coming Soon!
Andrew Pereira
Bio Coming Soon!
Staff
Neil Macready
Chief Development Officer
Makenna Lee
Administrative Assistant