Board of Directors
William Svendsen, Ph.D.
Chairman
Senior Partner
Market Decisions Corp.
Bill@thejwf.org
Bill is the Senior Partner in Market Decisions Corporation. Since joining the firm in 1984, Bill’s wide background in architecture, planning, project management, education, and consulting, combined with an extremely analytical approach to research, has provided a high level of value and insight for MDC’s clients. Bill has served on the boards of numerous charitable organizations, including S.W.I.F.T. (a major Southwest Washington charity in the 1980’s and 1990’s), Camp Opportunity, and the Humane Society, among others, and provides pro bono services for charitable organizations on a regular basis.
Stephanie Salvey
Secretary; Director
Paralegal, Johnstone & Goodfellow
Rock & Roots Editor, Oregon Music News
Stephanie@thejwf.org
This fourth generation Portlander has been a business player in the Oregon music scene since the early nineties when she owned a large live-music club near the downtown Portland waterfront. Industry gigs include days as a music journalist, publicist, concert promoter, record label gal, booking agent and indie band manager. Stephanie’s hop scotch resume indicates disparate ventures such as United States Sentate candidate, floral business owner, Jake’s waiter and director’s assistant at the Soviet and East European Business Administration center. Her entreprenurial and business writing chops were fine tuned at the School of Business at Portland State University where she received a Bachelor of Science. Stephanie is currently both a legal writer and a music writer.
Jenna Wilson
Board Member; Director
LCSW Portland VA Medical Center
Jenna@thejwf.org
Jenna Wilson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works at the Portland VA Medical Center. Jenna provides individual, couples, and group psychotherapy to veterans and their families. She received her Master’s Degree from Portland State University and Bachelor’s Degree from University of Oregon. Her specialty includes work with veterans struggling with complex trauma.
Ms. Wilson has an extensive background in performing arts. She has acted in theater and film productions in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California. She also worked as an Associate Producer for Cinema West Film Company during her years in Los Angeles. In addition, Jenna managed an independent rock band in early the 1990′s and has been deeply involved in the Portland music community for the past 20 years. She is thrilled to serve on the Board of Directors for the Jeremy Wilson Foundation, a cause dear to her heart.
Jeremy Wilson
Executive Director
Executive Director
The Jeremy Wilson Foundation
Jeremy@thejwf.org
Jeremy Wilson is a Portland Oregon-based singer/songwriter, guitar player, and producer who has chosen the Bohemian artist’s journey with all its contingencies including an absence of steady health insurance. JW is a survivor in both his career and his lifelong health issues related to his heart. While the model of the US music industry radically changed in the last decade, so did Jeremy Wilson. Corporate buyouts, the near halt of CD sales, and the vanishing act of major record labels were simply a springboard for this dynamic creative force.
Jeremy has had a profound influence on rock & roll musicians in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, and his detailed discography is proof of his lifetime of involvement in music. This prolific artist has released ten albums with his relentless touring band The Dharma Bums, eight recordings with his Seattle band Pilot, as well as five solo recordings. Jeremy has been signed to a variety of record labels including Elektra, Mercury, Popllama, Frontier and a publishing deal with Sony. Via his analog/digital MastanMusic recording studio, JW has contributed to over forty recordings as either producer, engineer or musician, and has an extensive film and video production credit list including nearly seventy episodes for his own MastanMusic Hour video series.
In 2001, Jeremy and his early studio partner, John Cluff, produced and mastered a Pete Townsend recording for Rhino Records, and the worldwide sales from over 80,000 copies continue to benefit a rural hospital in India. Now, ten years later, the namesake and adviser to the Jeremy Wilson Foundation helps to bring healthcare access to those in his own community.