Board

Rosemary McDermott, RN, OCN, President

Rosemary has been in the field of oncology for over 35  years working in Legacy Good Samaritan’s Oncology inpatient units, outpatient clinics. She worked as a Nurse Coordinator at Cancer Care Resources, a non profit providing informational, referral, counseling and guidance for cancer patients. She is now at Northwest Cancer Specialists clinic as a Patient Support coordinator. Her work has included early detection, screening, clinical research, inpatient and outpatient cancer care, cancer rehabilitation and as a chemotherapy infusion nurse.

David Walker, Treasurer

David Walker worked in a variety of directory publishing and management roles with Qwest Communication for 28 years. His database management skills have been invaluable to the organization. He is involved with Komak to make a difference in the lives of those who have been afflicted with cancer, suffering mental, emotional and financial hardships. In working with Komak, David is living out the wish of a very close friend who died of cancer, but hoped that an organization would be formed to assist people with the hardships he experienced.

Lisa Wisler, Secretary

Lisa is a former elementary teacher with over 15 years in the classroom. While teaching, she also did volunteer work with various national and community non profit organizations. After leaving the field of education, Lisa worked as the Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for Cancer Care Resources, a local non profit assisting families and individuals affected by cancer. These past opportunities have provided Lisa with a great deal of experience in non profit management. She is thankful for the opportunity to be involved with Komak. She sees this work as a way to honor her loved ones that have faced the battle against cancer.

Souzie Monshi, Director

Souzie Monshi spent 17 years working in high-tech marketing at Tektronix and Xerox Corporation. She is currently a marketing consultant for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Prior to her involvement with Komak, Souzie volunteered for Candlelighters, a non-profit organization that provides support and advocacy for children with cancer. Souzie also organized a fundraiser in 2006 with board member Erin Codazzi that raised more than $30,000 to pay for the medical bills and other expenses of a five-year-old boy with leukemia.

Barbara Jenkins, Director

Barbara Jenkins and her sister have owned Ritz Sisters Inc. for the past 31 years, running a restaurant, retail gift stores and a Rep Company in Seattle at the Pacific Market Center, which represents U.S. manufacturers of gift and home accessories. She has served on the boards of the Northwest Film Center and the Independent Sales Association in Seattle and has worked with the Boys & Girls Aid Society, the Oregon Peace Institute, and several other committees. Her commitment to Komak is her way of honoring her friends and family members who have battled cancer.

Tish Stoebner, Director

Dr Tish Stoebner is a graduate of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) where she also completed a two-year residency in cardiovascular medicine. After enjoying two years of private practice, she worked for NCNM as an attending physician overseeing intern patient shifts. Dr Tish is currently on sabbatical volunteering for Habitat for Humanity building homes, volunteering for the SMART program reading to children and volunteering for Komak helping individuals with cancer and their families experience a more peaceful journey.

Greg Lint

President of Oak Knoll Winery was born and raised in Hillsboro, Oregon.  His background has always been the bakery business, which he learned at an early age from his Grandmother as he and his siblings spent  many hours in the kitchen learning the basics of cake decorating.  Greg took this skill and expanded into sculpting and drawing which eventually took him to France as an exchange student where in gained experience in pastisseries and boulongeries.  Since that time Greg has had many experiences in bakery research and development, ran bakery operations for local upscale grocers, at one bakery  he combined 5 in-store bakeries into one main baking facility and developed the delivery programs to deliver fresh baked goods to the 5 stores on a daily basis.

He was asked to help a new start up company called Moonstruck Chocolatier and was the first Vice President of Marketing and Sales with a goal to go National in 3 years and International in 5 years.  This was exceeded and they were published in  “ A guide to the world’s most famous chocolates” within 5 years.  During this time he also started his own company called Dynamic Consulting, assisting companies grow to new levels by directing them and providing them with tools for success.   Somewhere in there Moonstruck Chocolates split and a merge occurred with Marsee Bakery.  He then worked full time as the Vice President and ran Dynamic Consulting simultaneously.  Life was good.

July 2001 brought his life to a halt, he was diagnosed with late stages of Type “B” large cell lymphoma.  The cancer was so widespread that there was little hope for survival and he had to drop everything he had going and give everything he had into fight for his future.  This was a battle of high dose chemotherapy, MANY surgeries, day after day of radiation and it ultimately came down to a bone marrow stem cell transplant and this whole process took more than 2 years

Why join Komak,  as he says his diagnosis and treatment took all of his savings. He was a single male and there really weren’t any resources for him financially.   “These people are Me”  and I want to be able to help someone else through their journey.

He is happy to say “I made it” .     After his recovery period his stepfather and stepbrothers appreciating his skills in running businesses asked if he would consider running the family business known as Oak Knoll Winery.   The founders were ready to retire and the stepbrothers were interested in making the wine and needed a President of the company to run the operations side.   The opportunity to grow an existing business, help family and do something different seemed like a challenge he was up for.  After all, any challenge now seemed like nothing compared to his 2 + year battle with cancer.