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Board of Directors Candidates
The “official” slate of candidates, which includes many ACAP officers and directors from the past year, is shown below. Nominations for alternate candidates may be made by members present at the meeting, and election ballots will be distributed to all qualified members.
President
The Very Reverend John H. Park is Dean of the Anglican Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Miraflores. He has been on the ACAP Board since 2005 and has served as President for the past year.
He was born in 1945 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, of an American father and Canadian mother. He grew up in Beaver Falls, spending every summer in Harbourville, Nova Scotia, close to his mother's home. He received his BA from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, and his AM from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He attended Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, and received his MDiv from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas.
Since August of 2004 he has been Dean of the Good Shepherd. He has served on the Boards of Trustees of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, El Hogar Ministries (which he served as president), Honduras Hope Foundation (vice-president) and is currently the vice-president of the Board of the Anglican Diocese of Peru. Dean Park is married to Susan Delgado-Park, and they have two sons, Robert (19) who is currently studying in the U.S. and James (17), who is with them in Lima.
Treasurer
Tom Findley grew up in the U.S., Venezuela and Peru. He went to high school in the U.S. and graduated from Roanoke College in 1970 with a degree in business administration.
Tom joined Asarco Inc. in 1971, working in numerous locations, and became treasurer in 1990. He began regular travel to Peru in 1991, and in 1999 became chief financial officer of Southern Peru Copper Corporation, but shortly thereafter, the company came under new ownership and Tom found himself out of work.
He decided not to return to the corporate world, but to stay in Lima. After a short-lived effort at consulting, together with Gord Sanford, in 2002 Tom started a business in Lima to export high-end Peruvian arts and crafts to the U.S. and also opened a store in Tucson called Silver Llama Andean Designs. In early 2003,Tom also accepted the position of chief financial officer of Peru Copper Inc., a Canadian company that has the rights to the Toromocho copper deposit, and in October 2004, Tom took the company public on the Toronto stock exchange.
Tom has two children, Jackson (26) and Dan (23). His hobbies include travel, tennis, and publishing an annual dining guide called the Silver Llama Guide.
Alan LaRue moved to Lima from Vancouver, Canada in 1995. He has an arts degree from the University of Toronto and worked in Canada as a journalist and as an adult educator in immigrant communities. He is the founder and moderator of the Expatriate Mailing List and the Expatperu web page, two virtual communities for foreign residents living in Peru and he is the managing director of the "El Sol" Spanish language school. He is married to Shirley Manrique and together they have two young children, Alana (9) and Salvador (6). He has served on the ACAP board since 2003.
Bonnie moved here from Nevada. Although not born in Nevada, Bonnie considers it her home state. She lived there 44 years. She has a son and a daughter and 2 grandsons. She graduated from University of Nevada Reno with a bachelors in Music Education. She has taught Elementary General music, Middle school Chorus and Band, and Adult Choir at Community College of Southern Nevada.
She has also performed professionally in the western usa with various country and bluegrass bands. She has had the pleasure of working with several celebrities over her career such as Glen Camble, Doc Watson, and Zela Lehr. She has 4 recordings to her credit so anyone who is pining for country or bluegrass music just give her a shout. She was with the "High Strung" band based in Reno Nevada for 5 years before moving south to accompany her husband Bill who works in the mining business.
At present Bill works for Barrick Misquichilca as Gerente de Hidrologia for South America. Bill and Bonnie moved here in 2001 with a one year contract. 5 years later they consider Peru their home.
Bonnie fills her time here with various volunteer projects. Her favorite being San Franciso de Asis where she goes frequently to do music with the kids. That has evolved into being coordinator of fundraising for special needs at the hogar.
Bonnie loves to sing, scuba dive, ski, sew, and cook. She feels she has 7 more years to get in the difficult diving so vacations are planned around this idea.
G. Shad Prashad was born in Guyana South America and has been living in Canada since 1972. He has a Computer Sciences degree and an MBA, he has worked for many years as a telecommunications specialist, a Canadian International Development Agency officer for over 23 years, and has represented Canada as head of mission and Canadian Consul in Honduras. In 2002 after his posting in Honduras, Shad took a leave of absence from the Canadian Government to rejoin the private sector and is now the General Manager for a Canadian Junior Mining Company in Peru. The Peru operations (exploration project) is in the department of La Libertad close to Tayabamba in the Province of Pataz. Married to Joan for over 31 years, Shad and Joan have three children living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Marcel Tratner was born in Brussels, Belgium, and lived a large portion of his life in Manhattan, NYC, where he graduated as an electrical engineer with an MBA in international finance. In 1977 he was sent to Madrid as the local controller for the International Paper Company, and from there he went to work for ITT in Paris and with Honeywell's regional headquarters in Brussels and Hong Kong. He finished his career in the dairy industries working for Danone in Paris and Mexico, and managing the dairy business of the Peruvian group Gloria in Bolivia. He retired in 2000 and has chosen Lima as his permanent residence as his wife, Nelly, is Peruvian. At the moment he is coordinating with the international center of Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, VA and Child Focus, in order to create this type of organization in Peru as a pilot project for South America.
Connie Estrada was Welfare Director from 1982 to 1992, and again from 2003 to the present. She is from Binghamton, New York and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia she was a public health nursing supervisor before coming to Peru. Connie is one of the nurses in the U.S. Embassy Health Unit. She is married to Julio Estrada who is in the administration of Petro-Peru. Their three sons live and work in the United States
Eric Bertram is currently head of the Political and Public Affairs section of the Canadian Embassy in Lima. A career diplomat, his previous assignments include Trade Commissioner at the Canadian Embassy in Manila, Philippines, and Policy Advisor in the Environmental Relations Division of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. Prior to joining Canada's Foreign Service, he was a journalist with CBC Radio in Québec City. He hails from Manitoba, and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba. He also holds graduate degrees from l'Université de Montréal and from the University of Wales, where he was a Rotary Foundation Scholar. He is married to Christine Skladany. They have two children, who keep them pretty busy.
Michael M. DeBakey, 67, is a US citizen, resident in Lima, Peru for over 45 years, and is a graduate of the University of the South (B.A.), and the American Institute for Foreign Trade (M.F.T.).
At present, he is President de Inversions Paso Chico S.A.C, (operator of varios web sites such as www.peru-hotels.com, www.chile-hotels.com, www.argentina-hotels.com, www.Bolivias-hotels.com and others, which is a reservations and sales sysem for hotels in Perú, Bolivia, Argentina y Chile), and Managing Director of Fundo Paso Chico S.A.C, a large land development firm specializing in urban planned real estate developments on the outskirts of Lima. Michael has been active in business enterprises in various sectors of the economy in Peru. At present, Mr. DeBakey divides his time between Lima, and occasionally Houston, with his Peruvian wife Techi, and their 8 children and 15 grandchildren
Gary van Brocklin is the new Pastor of the Union Church of Lima. He has lived and worked in Latin America for seventeen years working in theological education and pastoral ministry. During those years he lived in La Paz, Lima and Miami. He was also a college professor for eight years in North Carolina. Gary was born in Hawaii and says that one of the most intelligent decisions he has made is to marry Marlene Madefind thirty years ago. They have one daughter. This is Gary's first year on the Board.
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