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Mindy Peters Arabian is an American-based breeding farm for Arabian horses located in Southern California and operated by former model, business woman, film producer and lifelong equestrian and horsewoman, Mindy Peters.

Location
The current stable is located on 120-acre farm near Santa Barbara where Ms. Peters, an equestrian and horsewoman, has a residence. The Santa Ynez breeding program gained prominence originally as El Capitan Ranch, which sits on a piece of coastal property that was part of a 1789 land grant from King Charles III of Spain.

Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger (born in Warwick, Rhode Island) is a former model, fashion designer of the eponymous high fashion brand Dee Ocleppo, mom to three biological children and four step children and married to Tommy Hilfiger.

Early Years
Mrs. Hilfiger's father is a Turkish-born radiologist and her mother is a British-born microbiologist. She is a first generation American. She received a BA in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and worked in finance in Manhattan before pursuing a modeling career.

Program History
The Farm's breeding program dates back 1957

Terry Maple (born in 1955) is an American scientist, wildlife conservationist, animal expert, former zoo director and popular author. He is most known for his 18-year tenure as director and later President and CEO of Zoo Atlanta. Maple is credited for revitalizing, re-branding and ultimately transforming the Atlanta Zoo, as it was once called, from one of the country's worst zoological parks into one of the country's best. Zoo Atlanta is now one of the ten oldest zoos in continuous operation and it is a model facility among accredited zoos in North America

President/CEO, Zoo Atlanta
In 1984, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young appointed Maple, then a 38-year-old animal behaviorist and an already noted zoo expert, to serve as interim director of the Atlanta Zoo after an investigation revealed the facility was in disrepair and plagued with problems from political infighting to scandal. The Zoo lost its accreditation by the national zoo association, now known as the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. That same year, the Zoo was listed in Parade magazine as one of the top 10 worst zoos in the United States. The negative publicity triggered public outcry, including a growing public sentiment that the zoo should be closed down.

Zoo Atlanta's Privatization/Rebranding
In 1985, the Zoo's operations were placed under the auspices of a new private non-profit organization, the Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo Inc. Along with becoming privatized the zoological facility was renamed Zoo Atlanta under Maple's administration. In the nearly two decades that he was at the helm of Zoo Atlanta, the organization became quite prosperous, allowing Maple to renovate the entire park. And under his leadership, the reputation of Atlanta's city zoo was restored. The one-time delapidated natural history attraction became an innovative role model for accredited zoos around the globe as zoological institution with an "academic" reputation. ref>http://atlantahistorycenter.tumblr.com/post/3743317580/history-of-zoo-atlanta-if-i-told-you-that-zoo

According to Mayor Young, Zoo Atlanta is the most successful privatization in Georgia's history and its transition from a publicly run organization into a public-private partnership, is now a trend for zoo industry practices throughout the nation with regard to adminsitrative oversight.

Zoo Industry Distinctions
While director, the zoo was twice honored by the Metropolitan Communities Foundation as Atlanta as the City's best-managed nonprofit corporation and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' awarded the Zoo distinct honors for excellence in exhibit design five times. The Zoo also received an Atlanta Urban Design Award for its innovative Conservation Acton Resource Center. In 1991, the Georgia Wildlife Federation honored Zoo Atlanta, awarding it the distinction of Conservation Organization of the Year.

As President of the AZA (1998-1999), Dr. Maple established the association’s first diversity initiative, which served to differentiate AZA institutions from roadside attractions, and strengthened the association’s scientific network. His diplomacy on giant panda conservation resulted in a new partnership with China’s Ministry of Construction, the governmental agency responsible for China’s zoological gardens, and Zoo Atlanta’ssuccessful exhibition of giant pandas after ten years of complex negotiations. Dr. Maple is the Founding Editor of the journal Zoo Biology published by John Wiley/Blackwell in association with the AZA. In partnership with Atlanta's WSB-television the Zoo won six Emmy Awards for local educational programming. Maple retired from Zoo Atlanta in 2003 and assumed the role of director emeritus.

Business/Community Distinctions
Dr. Maple was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 by the Atlanta Chapter of Stanford Business School Alumni. He received the 1999 “President’s Award” from the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau for his contributions to tourism in Georgia. He was elected to Fellow status in the Georgia Academy of Sciences in 2005. On May 17, 2008 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from his alma mater, University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California.

Academic Distinctions
Dr. Maple was an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and the Association of Psychological Science and a founding member of the American Society of Primatologists.

Georgia Tech
Maple retained his endowed chair as a tenured professor at Georgia Tech, while serving as CEO of Zoo Atlanta. It was through his dual role as a full professor and principal investigator of a primate behavior research laboratory at Georgia Tech and his role as zoo director, that Maple was able to create a zoo campus, which more or less served as a living laboratory for ethological studies of great apes, and ultimately other species.

Lowland Gorilla Exhibiton, Managment & Research
With his vision of shaping a conventional zoo animal collection into a population tailored for behavioral research, Maple was able to advance lowland gorilla conservation, exhibition, husbandry, propagation and research, for which the Zoo won the AZA's prestigious Edward H. Bean Award.

In a span of more than 15 years, the partnreship between Georgia Tech and Zoo Atlanta, which was enabled by Dr. Maple's parallel professional appointments, permitted the Zoo to advance gorilla care, management and research in a way that was really unprecedented for any high profile species held in zoos. An internationally recognized expert on the behavior, welfare, and conservation of great apes, Dr. Maple’s ideas provided the ethological programming for Zoo Atlanta’s innovative lowland gorilla exhibit, acknowledged as oneof the most important gorilla facilities in the world. Sponsored by Ford Motor Company and branded as the Ford African Rain Forest, it is the first exhibit designed for apopulation of gorillas distributed in four contiguous groups. Throughout his career he has provided strategic advice to NIH committees concerned with the psychological well- being and propagation of nonhuman primates in research laboratories and primate research centers.

In conjunction with an expansive living collection of vertebrate and invertebrate fauna cared for at Zoo Atlanta, and as administrator and prinicipal investigator of his behavior research group's programs, Maple was able to cultivate an appreciation for evidence-based husbandry practices among Zoo Atlanta's staff, while adopting the scholarly culture of natural history museums. Under Maple's direction, Zoo Atlanta had begun conducting collection-wide science practices to enhance welfare and conservation of the zoo animal species represented at Zoo Atlanta. Through developing research initiatives that paralleled the scientific ethos of modern day museums of natural history, Zoo Atlanta had become very much a pioneer in the zoo community, adopting a scientific and multi-disciplinary approach to zoo animal management.

Historically, museums have been much more progressive than zoos as scientific institutions. Museuem staff have traditionally held courtesy research and teaching appointments at universities, but in the zoo industry only a few institutions had research departments and university partnerships when Dr. Maple became director of Zoo Atlanta. Although some other major zoos and conservation centers had research departments and affiliations with academic departments at universities, Maple's dual role and parallel career as a professor and zoo director enabled him to extend research initiatives beyond just primate behavior and applied welfare to studies of other high profile, cognitively advanced and sentient species.

Giant Panda Exhibiton, Management & Research
Maple's diplomacy on giant panda conservation resulted in a new partnership with China’s Ministry of Construction, the governmental agency responsible for China’s zoological gardens, and Zoo Atlanta’ssuccessful exhibition of giant pandas after ten years of complex negotiations. Zoo Atlanta was the second zoo in the nation (after San Diego) to acquire giant pandas.

During his career, Dr. Maple mentored and trained twenty-nine doctoral students at Emory University and Georgia Tech. As a research group, Dr. Maple, his students, and his collaborators have published 250 journal articles, chapters and books on the behavior, conservation, and welfare of African antelopes, baboons,capuchins, chimpanzees, elephants, flamingos, giant pandas, gorillas, giraffe, lemurs, lions, macaques, mandrills, orangutans, spider monkeys, tigers, and zoo visitors. Theacclaimed book Ethics on the Ark, based on a national conference organized and hosted by Zoo Atlanta and Georgia Tech was co-edited by Dr. Maple and published by Smithsonian in 1995.

Additional Appointments
Maple has served on dozens of governmental and non-governmental committees including a four-year Presidential appointment to the board of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In 2015 he was appointed to a three-year term on the Division of Earth and Life Studies (DELS) committee for the National Academy of Sciences.

Consulting
He is well-known as an expert in crisis and conflict management. As an experienced and successful fund-raising executive, he consults regularly with aspiring executives in the nonprofit world and he continues an active schedule as a consultant to zoos, aquariums, and other non-profits.

Professor-in- Residence, San Farancisco Zoo
Dr. Maple served from 2011 to 2014 as the San Francisco Zoo’s first “Professor-in- Residence” and the architect of their unique “Stanton Family Wellness Initiative” including applications to exhibit and facility design.

Consultant, Jacksonville Zoo
In his current engagement as Professor-in- Residence, Dr. Maple is a mentor to keepers, curators, and veterinarians at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.

President/CEO Palm Beach Zoo
In 2005 Dr. Maple was granted a formal leave-of- absence from Georgia Tech to become the President/CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo. On Earth Day 2009, the Palm Beach Zoo opened the innovative Melvin J. and Claire Levine Animal Care Complex, including a state-of- the-art animal hospital and the innovative Center for Conservation Medicine. Equipped with solar power provided by a grant from the Florida Power & Light Foundation, the U.S. Green Building Council certified the building LEED Gold, the first LEED-certified zoo veterinary hospital in the nation.

The Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin County honored the Palm Beach Zoo as its “Sustainability Leader” among 59 competing non-profits in the region, confirming the zoo’s growing leadership role in sustainability. Dr. Maple retired as CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo in 2011. He resumed his affiliation with Florida Atlantic University and finished his thirteenth book, Zoo Animal Welfare (co-authored with Bonnie Perdue) published by Springer-Verlag in 2013.

Select Books
With Dan Marston, he is the coauthor of Comparative Psychology for Clinical Psychologists and Therapists (Kingsley, London, 2016). His new book, Professor in the Zoo, will be published in September.

Personal Life
Dr. Maple and his wife Addie relocated to Amelia Island, Florida to be closer to his work in Jacksonville and their first grandbabies in Charleston, SC. As a Scholar-in-Residence, he will also teach and mentor graduate students in two departments at the University of North Florida.

Michele Kambolis is a registered child and family therapist, parent educator and parenting coach and a registered clinical counselor certified by the BC Association of Clinical Counselors. Kambolis also writes a nationally read column for the Vancouver Sun and is the author of the book Generation Stressed.

Vancouver Sun Columnist
A regular contributor to the Vancouver's Sun Family and Children section, Kambolis provided expert commentary and op eds in her parenting advice column Parent Traps for four years and recently launched a second column Mind Matters for the Vancouver-based newspaper.

Author
In Generation Stressed, published in 2014 by LifeTree Media, Kambolis provides instruction on how to use play-based tools to reduce anxiety in children.

Clinical Practice
Kambolis is the founding Clinical Director of Harbourside Family Counseling Centre and CHIKids where she provides mental health treatment for children, adolescents and families in need of service in the Greater Vancover Area.

Print
Kambolis has also been featured in Today's Parent Magazine, WestCoast Families Magazine, BC Parent Magazine and Montecristo Magazine, Madamnoire, among others and she has been quoted in numerous national and international publications like the Huffington Post. . Kambolis has been interviewed on network television in the United States.

Television
Kambolis appeared with host Fanny Kiefer on her show Studio 4, North of 49 and Breakfast Television.

Radio
For several years, Kambolis was the in-house child and family expert on AM1410.

Professional Service
The distinguished cosmetic surgeon currently serves as the President of the invite only International Rhinoplasty Society for which he is also a past Vice President. Dr. Keyes' is also the Past President of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons, Past President of the Los Angeles Society of Plastic Surgeons and Past President of the Aesthetic Society Education Research Foundation.

Dr. Keyes is also the Immediate Past President of the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, the largest outpatient accrediting association in the country for outpatient surgery facilities.

Education
Dr. Keyes graduated from Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine followed by an internship at Barnes Hospital-Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He then completed two residency training programs at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Media
Dr. Keyes has shared his expert commentary as a physician and cosmetic surgeon with both local and national television audiences and print media. Select televised media appearances include professional medical commentary on CNN, Good Morning America, Fox News Montel Williams, and Dateline. As a consultant in regulatory medicine, including accreditation of outpatient surgical facilities, Dr. Keyes was consulted after the passing of actress and comedian Joan Rivers following surgical complications at an New York-city-based ambulatory clinic.

Dr. Keyes is a progressive patient educator and is frequently consulted by media on patient advocacy, patient-client confidentiality, and health care facility and physician selection. He has been quoted in national publications, including Time Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, and in trade publications like Outpatient Surgery, and New Beauty Magazine and a number of other publications.

Personal Life
Ramzi Kiriakos, MD, PhD (born in Haifa, Israel?) is an adult, adolescent and child psychiatrist board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry (ABPN) and Neurology and based in Los Angeles, California, where he holds ten hospital appointments. In addition to his ABPN certification, he has certifications from The American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. [5]

Dr. Kiriakos is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is/was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

Career
Dr. Kiriakos is the medical director and founding owner/partner of Encino Psychiatrists, a private practice in the San Fernando Valley. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the teaching Hall of Fame at the University's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Awards
Dr. Kiriakos was awarded the UCLA Hall of fame award in 2007 for his contributions to the field of psychiatric medicine and received the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for service to the community.

Teaching
Dr. Kiriakos taught courses in psychiatric medicine at UCLA for 30 years and has supervised psychiatry residents, fellows, medical students, marriage and family therapists in regard to the medical treatment of a range of psychopathologies. He also lectured and supervised post-graduates on the treatment of chemical addiction at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute for 16 years.

Post-Graduate Education
Dr. Kiriakos completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and completed a PhD in psychoanalysis at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Institute.