Board of Directors
Chairperson
Mr. John Kelleher Jr. '97
Mr. Bill Brown '84
Mr. Andre Martinez '96
Mr. Jeff Spinelli
Jeff Spinelli works as a Regional Manager of Bixby Knolls, East Long Beach, Los Altos and Rossmoor Farmers & Merchants Bank (F&M) offices. Spinelli started as a Teller and now has the privilege of being a Regional Manager. Spinelli is also a member and president of Advantage Certified Development Corporation, a member of the YMCA audit committee and the Community Development Financial Institutions-Loan Committee.
Twenty-six years of banking experience has enabled Spinelli to play an instrumental role in F&M’s growth and, more importantly, assist people with their banking needs. Helping people is what motivates him every day. His fondest memories with F&M are working with local small businesses and creating long-term relationships with every new customer that walks in the door.
Mr. Stephen W. Fillett
Mr. Fillet's business activities include 20+ years of commercial, corporate, merchant and investment banking working with Fortune and Global 500 companies as well as micro and mid cap public and private companies both in the United States and abroad. Mr. Fillet’s industry expertise includes technology and telecom, based on his initial work experience in the Sales and Systems Engineering Department of IBM and his founding of a software company for which he won a major national entrepreneurship award and which he built and later sold.
As a bank officer in the Corporate Banking Department of Bank of America in Los Angeles, Mr. Fillet’s portfolio companies consisted of many local middle market companies as well as many of the most marquis corporate and entertainment/media names of Southern California, each with individual commitments in the ten to one hundred million dollar range.
As an officer at BNP Paribas, Mr. Fillet worked in the Multi-National Corporate Department, performing analysis and underwriting, both as sole lender and as lead and co-syndicate member, for many of the world’s largest conglomerates across all industry sectors.In recognition of his fine work, Mr. Fillet quickly earned a promotion to the Leveraged Finance Group, where he worked in support of corporate acquisitions, on behalf of both financial and strategic acquirers, in the context of transactions involving consideration ranging from $100 million to $1 billion.After this, Mr. Fillet became a founding member of the Principal Investing Group, where he identified targets, prepared analyses, pitched, processed and arranged financing on behalf of acquisitions involving his firm as principal/stakeholder.The capstone of this effort resulted in the acquisition and taking private of a publicly-traded company with total capital deployed of greater than $100 million and equity financing provided by the predecessor to the current day Carlisle Group.
In the investment banking world, Mr. Fillet has served as a senior professional at Oppenheimer, Cruttenden Roth, CIBC and Roth Capital Partners. In his various capacities at these entities, Mr. Fillet was responsible for the closing of over 100 deals involving all levels of the capital structure, including private and public equity
Mr. Fillet is presently the Managing Partner of Jesteda Partners, a diversified merchant banking firm engaged, as both agent and principal, in corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions as well as an active trading operation which facilitates the sale, purchase, financing and movement of physical commodities around the world.
Dn. Mario Guerra
Mayor Mario A. Guerra is the Co-Founded Scanlon-Guerra-Burke Insurance Brokers ( SGB-NIA ) and has been President of the firm. His firm was recently named one of the Top 10 largest brokerage firms in Southern California by the Los Angeles Business Journal. They were also named as one of the Top 100 Brokers in the United States. He obtained the Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA) designation in 1990.
He has been honored as" Agent of the Year” by several trade organizations and he also received a lifetime service award from his peers and Insurance Journal magazine for his commitment and dedication to his industry.
He was ordained a Deacon, a member of the clergy, in the Catholic Church by Cardinal Mahony in 2002. He currently serves as Chaplain of the Downey Police Department and is a member of the International Conference of Police Chaplains. He was called and served in New Orleans and Houston after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
He serves in ministry at Saint Linus Catholic Church and as a stational Deacon at the Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels. He and his wife Ann are co-founders of Angel Tree for Downey which last year served over 275 children during the holidays. They also founded the Diakonia Foundation which gives scholarships to local High School kids for community service and outreach to others.
As Mayor he started and served as Chairman of Downey’s Green Task Force. He is proud to have promoted our city’s culture to bring economic development to Downey. Downey was one of the finalists for Most Business Friendly City several times. He is proud of helping to create over 6000 new jobs in Downey over the past 4 years. And he helped lead Downey to become a Character Counts community.
He has helped facilitated the revitalization and planning of Downtown Downey and has served on this vital sub-committee since he was first elected. He was instrumental in starting a Farmers Market in Downtown Downey. He believes that community involvement makes a difference and attended over 120 of the new neighborhood watch groups started in Downey in the past 3 years.
Mario, his wife Ann, and their five children have proudly made Downey their home for over 35 years.
Mr. Steve Vicencia '73
Steve Vicencia has been a licensed insurance agent/broker for over 29 years. He is President of Vicencia & Buckley Insurance Services, Inc., and is a licensed fire & casualty agent, broker, and surplus lines broker. Vicencia obtained the designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) in 1988, which is widely acknowledged to be the highest professional designation in the industry. Prior to entering the insurance business, Vicencia worked as Sales Manager for the Southland Corporation.
Vicencia has served as President of the Cerritos Chamber of Commerce, which honored him as “Business Person of the Year” in 2004. He has also served as President of the Mid Cities Chapter of Independent Insurance Agents, and was the organization’s “Agent of the Year” in 1987. In 2009 he was awarded the Doug Paddleford Memorial Award for outstanding community service. As a certified SCUBA Diver, Vicencia has participated in risk management seminars at the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association Trade Show. He has also authored several insurance articles and has conducted workshops on workers compensation experience rating.
Vicencia was appointed to the Los Angeles County Commission on Insurance by Supervisor Don Knabe in 2005.
Born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles County, Vicencia graduated from St. John Bosco High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from San Diego State University in 1977.
Mr. R Scott Jenkins
R. Scott Jenkins has been a Regional President since October 2006 when IBP acquired OJ Insulation, Inc., which he co-founded in 1984. During his 22 year tenure at OJ Insulation, as owner and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Jenkins was responsible for numerous strategic acquisitions and significant company growth. Since joining IBP, Mr. Jenkins has taken on the management of operations in certain key states, including Colorado, Washington, Oregon and California. Mr. Jenkins received a B.A. in Social Science from the University of California at Irvine and has been an active member of Vistage International CEO Organization since 2003.
Scott and his wife CeeCee are loyal contributors to St. John Bosco High School, participating in the school’s major events as lead sponsors for nearly twenty years. Their four sons, Griff (’98), Adam (’00), Daniel (’05), and Dennis (’05) all attended St. John Bosco High School.Scott and CeeCee continue to dedicate themselves to the mission of St. John Bosco as alumni parents as volunteer leaders and contributors. Scott and CeeCee reside in Long Beach.
Mr. Brian T. Kennedy '79
Mr. R. Scott Jenkins
R. Scott Jenkins has been a Regional President since October 2006 when IBP acquired OJ Insulation, Inc., which he co-founded in 1984. During his 22 year tenure at OJ Insulation, as owner and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Jenkins was responsible for numerous strategic acquisitions and significant company growth. Since joining IBP, Mr. Jenkins has taken on the management of operations in certain key states, including Colorado, Washington, Oregon and California. Mr. Jenkins received a B.A. in Social Science from the University of California at Irvine and has been an active member of Vistage International CEO Organization since 2003.
Scott and his wife CeeCee are loyal contributors to St. John Bosco High School, participating in the school’s major events as lead sponsors for nearly twenty years. Their four sons, Griff (’98), Adam (’00), Tyler (’06), and Clark (’08) all attended St. John Bosco High School.Scott and CeeCee continue to dedicate themselves to the mission of St. John Bosco as alumni parents as volunteer leaders and contributors. Scott and CeeCee reside in Long Beach.
