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Robert Miros is a designer, engineer, entrepreneur and executive. He presently serves as CEO for 3rd Stone Design, a company he founded 16 years ago in Marin County. The company engages in development and commercialization of health focused products for unmet global needs. 3rd Stone Design consults for clients ranging from start-ups to non-profits to [...]

Tom Kowalski is a Buffalo, New York Native. He studied PMR/ Specialty Hands/ Nerves/ Functional Capacity Evaluations at SUNY at Buffalo. With 4 decades of practice in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, his work has been peer-reviewed published in numerous International Journals on Hand Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Microsurgery. Tom joined the CAS Council [...]

The Air Force took Keith to Tokyo some 30+ years ago and after 6 years in the service he began his studies at Sophia University. Keith raised a family, ran a business owner coaching company named COREBiz, and was a professor at a college in downtown Tokyo. For many years Keith chaperoned his students to [...]

Ronald P. Albert has practiced law since 1983, and founded his own law firm in 1994. Mr. Albert engages in a transactional, advisory and preventative law practice, with an emphasis on commercial real estate and estate planning matters. Mr. Albert advises clients in all aspects of transactional real estate, including acquisition, development and transfer of [...]

Mandaña “Dana” L. Cilmi is the newly elected President of Sausalito Sister Cities, Inc. Dana, the SSCI Board of Directors and Three Operation Councils are looking forward to the reopening of our boarders and exchange programs for the 2022 season. Mandaña “Dana” L. Cilmi was Co-Creator and Executive Director of Artists Teaching Art. Artists Teaching [...]

Jill Knott has been involved with the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister Cities Program since 2014 when her daughter, Lauren, was a student exchange delegate traveling to Sakaide, Japan, followed by her son, Philip, two years later. Their family has also hosted two Japanese student delegates in their home and she is a member of the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister [...]

Vasco Morais is of Portuguese decent, was a past President of the Sausalito Portuguese Hall, and has been involved in the Cascais sister-city from its inception. Vasco is from Cascais, having lived in Cascais as child, and has many fond memories of summers in Cascais. Vasco is currently Executive Vice President. Secretary, and General Counsel [...]

Harrison Chapman is the chair of the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Program, a position he has held since 2018 after spending a year on the Operations Council. Born and raised in Sausalito, Harrison has been involved with the program for over 16 years, since his first visit to Sakaide as a delegate in the summer of [...]

Deana Kardel connected with the Sister City program after an extended vacation to Vina Del Mar, Chile. Possessing a new love of Chile and a passion for Spanish, she learned of the 60-year historical Sausalito/Vina Del Mar connection. Immediately hooked, she returned to Chile as part of the Sausalito delegation of women who presented to [...]

Anne Teller is a member of the Sausalito Sister Cities Inc. Board and Board Treasurer. Anne has owned ACT Services, a Bookkeeping Service for over 30 years.  She grew up in Marin County and has lived in Sausalito for 20 years. Member of Sausalito Chamber of Commerce, Sausalito Woman's Club and Sausalito Yacht Club where [...]