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Thanks to our staff, hundreds of volunteers and everyone who has contributed to the development of this foundation! There is no paid staff at iOrphan, all of us are volunteers. Please join us and make a difference today! See current volunteer opportunities or contact us directly.

Officers 
Kirill (Kira) Bogouslavski
Kirill (Kira) Bogouslavski
President & Founder
Education & Certifications
  • Project Management Professional (PMP); 2005
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA); 2000
  • MBA; The Ohio State University; 1997
  • MIS; The Far-Eastern State University in Vladivostok, Russia; 1994
    Experience
  • Since 2005: Principal, Business Intelligence Services, Hewlett-Packard (formerly Knightsbridge)
  • 2002-2005: President and Founder, Kira Solutions (IT Consulting)
  • 2001-2002: Director of Information Technology, Diamond Hill Capital Management
    Volunteer
  • Since 2003: President and Founder of iOrphan.org
  • Since 2004: Advisor to the Board, Past President (2004-2005) and Co-Founder of OrphanAct
  • Since 2004: Honorary member of Rotary Club of Kihei-Wailea.
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    Jonathan Soverns
    Jonathan Soverns
    Vice President of Operations
    Education
  • 1992-1994: American Institute of Banking: Analyzing Financial Statements and Accounting.

  • Experience
  • Since 2003: Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union
  • 1999-2002: Wells Fargo Bank
  • 1992-1998: National Bank of Alaska

  • Volunteer
  • Since 2004: Vice President of Operations of iOrphan.org.
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    Leanna Roberts
    Vice President of Business Development
    Leanna has been involved with OrphanAct since nearly its inception in 2004 and has served on its Board of Directors for the past seven years. She currently serves as the Executive Director of OrphanAct.

    Leanna’s professional experience includes the general management of hotel and resort properties. She also owned her own hospitality recruiting company for several years. In 2009, she resigned a resort management position in order to devote herself full time to OrphanAct.

    In 2011, she returned to the field of hospitality as the General Manager of a boutique hotel.  At the same time OrphanAct joined forces with iOrphan.org, an organization providing basic necessities to orphans and homeless children living in the former Soviet Bloc countries.  She currently serves as the organization’s Vice President of Development while continuing her responsibilities with OrphanAct. 

    Leanna’s true passion has long been trying to help provide assistance for children in need.  That enthusiasm began in the 1980’s with a position with the Girls Club of America.  Her passion accelerated in earnest with her involvement with OrphanAct and Rotary International.  She currently serves on the Board of the Vail Colorado Rotary Chapter.  Leanna is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder.
     
    Board of Advisors 
    Craig Walker
    Craig Walker

    Craig founded GrandCentral in November 2005 to solve the problem of having too many different phone numbers and voicemail systems.  Getting off a plane and having to check three different voicemail boxes, each with different key prompts, made him realize that this was a growing problem that needed to be solved.  Craig had been Senior Director of VoIP at Yahoo! after selling his prior company, Dialpad Communications, to Yahoo! in June 2005. 

    Craig was a founding investor in Dialpad in 1999 and was recruited by the Board to join the company as CEO in November 2001 to turn around the failing effort.  When he joined, Dialpad was losing $4 million per month and had burned through $80+ million in little over 18 months.  Craig successfully reorganized the company and changed the business model from a free service with advertising revenue to a pay service.  On less than $4 million of total investment in the new company, Dialpad was transformed into the most profitable VoIP company in the industry and was acquired by Yahoo! four years later.

    Prior to Dialpad, Craig was a venture investor at Sterling Payot Capital, where he focused on consumer Internet service opportunities. Prior to Sterling, Craig was both General Counsel and Associate at TeleSoft Partners, an early stage telecom focused VC fund, where he was the 4th member of what is now a $500 million global fund.  Craig began his career as a corporate and securities attorney in the Silicon Valley at the firms of Gunderson Dettmer, and at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, where he represented companies ranging from early stage start-ups to tier one venture capitalist to Cisco Systems.

    Craig received his B.A. from UC Berkeley, his M.B.A. from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. 

      
    Steve Moksnes
    Steve Moksnes
    Steve is the co-founder of OrphanAct. Steve has put his heart and soul in helping orphans all over the world!

    US Staff
  • Yuriy Bozhko - Russian Far East Project Coordinator
  • Jody Payne - Kostroma Kids Program Director
  • Angelina Zherevchuk - Gorlovka, Ukraine - Ukrainian Project Coordinator
  • Inna Dunaeva - Vladivostok, Russia - Project Coordinator
  • Priscilla Warren - Moldova Project Coordinator

  • iOrphan UK Staff (see iOrphan UK page for details)
  • Richard Peers - iOrphan UK, Director
  • Saul York - iOrphan UK, Secretary
  • Mary Peers - iOrphan UK, Treasurer
  • Evgenia Golomuz - iOrphan UK, Project Manager
  • Dean Hadley - iOrphan UK, Public Relations Manager and Events Coordinator

  • Volunteers
  • Julie Humphrey - Social Media and Project Coordinator
  • Raphael Gimashev - Web Development
  • Andrei Kersha - Communications
  • Aaron Harrison - Communications
  • Tom Michalski - Kostroma Kids Program
  • Vanessa Humphrey-Blanco - Graphic Design
  • Anna Bunin - Translator
  • Galina Bunin - Translator
  • Irina Ikatova - Translator
  • Natalia Orlova-Silberfarb - Translator
  • Katia Zhestkova - Marketing & Graphic Design

  • Our sincere thanks to hundreds of people volunteering with us over the years!
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