BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Dr. Frank Kaufmann 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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Stephen Wrench and Rhonda Wrench, A partial list of those Wrench has been associated with in some capacity as a producer or musician: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Toto, Loverboy, Missing Persons, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, Eddie and the Cruisers, Dr. Hook, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Bad Company, Bonnie Raitt, Tommy Tutone, Survivor, Rossington Collins Band, Rick Springfield, John Anderson, Starship, Darryl Worley, Dr. Hook, David Allen Coe, ABBA and Molly Hatchet. He also promotes songs through his company Musik and Film by getting musicians' recordings out to 250,000 radio stations.

He serves in many capacities with us on the Board of Directors, including Chairman of the Orphans AID event at Songbirds Museum in Chattanooga. His wife Rhonda also serves and is Co-Chair of the event for Orphans AID/Chattanooga.

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Tom Proctor - Board of Directors , Grand Marshall Ride for Life of The Stars Foundation,  Tom Proctor is an American actor. Proctor is best known for such films and television series as Lawless, Justified, the role of Biddee in 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, Looper, Touched by an Angel, and the role of Horuz in Guardians of the Galaxy. He has appeared in over 100 movies, doing stunts and character parts throughout his career in Hollywood. He is taking his band, Tom Proctor Band, on the road in 2022 with concerts for Veterans Suicide Awareness and Prevention.

He is Grand Marshall with Roger Piggott for the 3-week Ride for Life Across America for The Stars Foundation, advocating for veteran's Suicide Prevention.

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Thornton Cline Board of Directors, With over 1,000 published songs, 150 recorded songs, and twenty-six adult, YA, and children’s books published, Thornton Cline has been nominated multiple times for Grammy and Dove Awards. Cline’s songs have appeared on TV and in film. Cline has been honored with “Songwriter of the Year” twice in a row and received a platinum award for certified sales of over one million album units in Europe. He was recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He and Lacie Carpenter will spearhead the building of a 12-member Songwriters Council with The Stars Foundation.

Board of Regents -The Stars Foundation, Co-Chair of International Day of Peace Event -The Stars Foundation™

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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Billy Gaines- Ambassador of Goodwill and Orphans AID Celebrity Host, Two-time Dove Award winner, Billy Gaines and his late wife Sarah, garnered 6 number 1 hits on Contemporary Christian radio as well as a number 2 video on the BET video chart.
He is an R&B gospel trailblazer who has performed on recordings with CeCe Winans, Nicole C. Mullen, Peabo Bryson, Vanessa Williams, Amy Grant, DC Talk, and more.

He is the main lead actor playing Moses in the new movie soon to be released full feature movie called “The Way,” written and directed by the Today Show co-host Kathy Lee Gifford. Billy is committed to serving the Lord by taking the Gospel around the world with The Stars Foundation’s trips for the Flame of Peace Tour. 

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Chris St. John, Chris is a renaissance man with a thriving law practice. He’s a judge, and Founder of HALO MISSION, a charity he founded to help orphans by taking doctors to Africa and Central America to provide medical services and medical supplies. Now he is recording songs in Nashville with Legendary producer Stephen Wrench.

He will be instrumental in the humanitarian aid and service projects of The Stars Foundation in Europe, Native American Reservations, Central America, and Africa. He will also make appearances as a performer.

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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 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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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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Robin Gordon,  Bio Coming Soon

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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.

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Ted Perlman,  is an American musician, record producer, songwriter, and arranger. He has produced, arranged, recorded, and toured with major artists Whitney Houston, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Burt Bacharach, Ronald Isley, Alessandra Rosaldo, The Manhattans, Blush, Ringo Starr, Joe Cocker, Chicago, and Young MC.
Ted is the Music Director for the Orphans AID event in 2022 at Mockingbird Theater in Franklin, TN, and he will serve as Music Director at the UN events and Washington, DC events for The Stars Foundation

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Dr. Lauren Patterson
Secretary to the Board of Directors