BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Cheryl Robeson Piggott, is the Founder of World Orphans Day™ that is commemorated globally in 100 countries in 2022. She is the CEO of The Stars Foundation™. With over 30 years in philanthropic works, Cheryl has worked in cause related marketing campaigns including several in mass consumer retail markets. She worked with Garth Brook’s mother, Colleen, Vince Gill, Willie T. Ribbs, Bill Cosby, Geoff Bodine, Stella Parton, and Tanya Tucker. Cheryl has developed NFL Stadium National Anthem Performances and celebrity enhanced campaigns with Country Music Artists with support from NFL Coach Sam Wyche as our National Advisory Board member. Results driven for philanthropic work; she has spearheaded humanitarian aid contributions of goods-in-kind totaling $115,000,000 to non-profit partners worldwide.

Additionally, Cheryl helped facilitate bringing The Crosby Celebrity Golf Tournament with 300 celebrities to her home state of North Carolina, where the event brought in $13,000,000 dollars for charitable causes. Cheryl, along with husband Roger, also were production coordinators for the 10 City Rolling Thunder™ Flame of Freedom Ride to the National Mall with Geoff Bodine (NASCAR) as Grand Marshall for Veteran causes.

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Rebecca Holden. Rebecca is a singer, actress and entertainer. She was selected as a "Breck" girl on the popular hair products. Rebecca would appear on magazine covers, do some commercials, and then she headed for Hollywood which led to her most famous role as "April Curtis", the computer whiz on Knight Rider (1982), which is in syndication in the U.S. and 92 foreign countries. She is also the face of a new line of jewelry at Zales in a national campaign. Rebecca is welcomed as an Ambassador of Goodwill to The Stars Foundation, and is committed to join us at the United Nations and Gala events with a message of peace, hope and love for mankind.

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Mark D. Siljander, Former US AMBASSADOR TO THE United Nations, Board of Regents for The Stars Foundation,  Mark Deli Siljander is an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan. He also served our country as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during the Reagan administration. He authored the book A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman's Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide. Ban Ki Moon traveled with him to many nations in Africa for humanitarian purposed trips.

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Troy Miller, Board of Directors, TN World Orphans Day Chairman, Troy is the President of NRB TV and serves as the Chairman of the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. NRB TV has over 50,000,000 households in the USA. Troy A. Miller is a senior executive with more than 30 years of management and business experience. He spent six years with Coral Ridge Ministries, three of those as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer focusing on strategic direction and planning.

He has spoken at seminars on strategic business planning, information technology integration, organizational development, and Christian apologetics, as well as teaching pastors in the Far East. He has been married to Marsha for 32 years and has four adopted children. NRB TV offers free air time to The Stars Foundation for PSA’s and also select programming such as the commissioned Hearts on Fire TV series.

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Roger J. Piggott, Board of Directors is the CEO of Iceman Productions™, and with his 25 years of programming, Roger headed the sports marketing and sponsor procurement agency of record associated with Sports Canada, a branch of the Canadian government. His cutting-edge technical abilities coupled with blue chip corporate sponsorship relations, proved positive to a worldwide television audience. He was able to gain valuable expertise in all aspects of event management, television production, blue chip sponsorship marketing and syndicated broadcast. Achievements included: The Commonwealth Games, Summer and Winter Olympics, 1992 and numerous profiled “live and tape delayed” broadcast of national and international events and mass consumer driven campaigns and concerts. Piggott expanded his business into golf, ski, powerboat TV and concert productions, which were hosted at world-class resorts on the global stage. With more than 350 Iceman branded and produced Television episodes in worldwide distribution, he is highly respected among sports professionals and celebrities and proudly supports the American and Canadian Armed Forces. Roger, a renown sports promotion maverick originally based out of Toronto, Canada. Now with Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire, he is branding Iceman Golf and Iceman Extreme Sports channels on-line to enhance viewership while supporting a Fortune 500 client base.

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Robin Gordan, Since 1990, Robin has called Music Row home for his legal practice. He was first introduced to private practice as an associate with a well-known litigation and entertainment firm in Nashville, TN. During his early years, he represented artists such as George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Ronnie Milsap, and Garth Brooks. Robin has been a very strong director for The Stars Foundation for 15 years.

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Dr. Frank Kaufmann, Board of Directors, Board of Regents, is president of the Twelve Gates Foundation from which he continues his over 30 years of work internationally in the arena of religion and peace. He has worked with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, directors of several Vatican offices and commissions, and likewise with leaders from all the world’s religions both in urgent moments of war and peace, and in shepherding long term relations among the major communities of faith.

He is director of the Professor’s World Peace Academy, He is on the committee to help facilitate World Orphans Day being observed by the United Nations for The Stars Foundation.

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Dr. Lauren Patterson
Secretary to the Board of Directors

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Will Jordan, owner of The Legendary Kimbro’s, is owner of the newly renovated Mockingbird Theater in Franklin, TN. He is donating the space to The Stars Foundation as we need it. He is also a writer and photographer and interested in traveling to various countries with The Stars Foundation.