Operation USA

"Operation USA was the first Western aid group into Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after the overthrow of Pol Pot.

"In 1984 famine-stricken Ethiopia, it innovated the use of 747 cargo jets, doubling the aid delivered in a single shipment.

"Operation USA was awarded the President‘s Volunteer Action Award in 1983 for work as the first U.S. NGO licensed to provide relief to Cambodia and Vietnam after the Vietnam War (1979)."


 * Richard Walden - President and CEO

Board
Accessed March 2013:


 * Rick Allen - President and CEO, SnagFilms (Documentaries)
 * Julie Andrews - Actress
 * Dave Brubaker* - CEO and Founder, HealthWell Ventures, Board, USC/Norris Cancer Center
 * Rosario Dawson - Activist/Actress
 * Jonathan Estrin* - Television Writer/Producer
 * Jeff Franklin* - Film and Television Producer
 * Stanley Frileck - Physician/Surgeon
 * Peter Greenberg - Travel Editor, CBS Television Network
 * Drew Hagen - Founder/Executive Producer, InVision Communications
 * Gary Hart - Political Scientist
 * Larry Heifetz - Physician
 * Louis J. Ignarro- Nobel Laureate, Medicine (1996); Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, UCLA
 * Roland Joffé - Film Director
 * Bob L. Johnson* - Attorney/Entertainment Executive/Talent Management
 * Nola Kambanda - Aerospace Executive, The Boeing Company
 * Rosanne Katon-Walden - Community Activist
 * Gary Larsen* - Board Vice Chair, Business Investor – Real Estate; Foreign Service Officer (Ret.)
 * Michael Mahdesian* - Board Chair, President, Servicon Systems, Inc.; Former Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Response
 * Tom Moore, Jr.* - Health Policy, Benefit Programs and Information Systems Consultant
 * Jack Shakely - President Emeritus, California Community Foundation
 * Derek N. Shearer - Director, Occidental College International Policy Center, US Ambassador to Finland (1994-1997)
 * Lorin Stevenson - Philanthropist
 * Maria Mohiuddin Verjee* - Partner, Johal & Mohiuddin, Attorneys At Law
 * Richard Walden* - President and CEO, Operation USA
 * Skip Whitney* - CEO, Sanuk Mak (International Investing)
 * Julie Yannatta* - Music Executive, Founder, Be Why

IN MEMORIAM
 * Tony Adams
 * Blake Edwards
 * Shelley List
 * Piero Patri
 * Paul O'Rourke, MD
 * Leonard Vernon
 * Marjorie Vernon

(* Denotes Managing Board Member)

Contact
Web: http://www.opusa.org

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