Our Board

Jeffrey was founder and CEO of Metagenics Inc., a nutrigenomics and lifestyle medicine company, from 1983 to 2010. Under his leadership, the company expanded internationally with manufacturing and distribution facilities in 46 countries. During Jeff’s tenure, Metagenics employed over 1,000 people and offered over 1,200 products to more than 75,000 healthcare providers and millions of consumers. In 2009, Jeffrey sold Metagenics.

 

He is an investor in Kindex Therapeutics, a biotech spin-off from Metagenics, and serves on that company’s board of directors. In 2010 Mr. Katke founded Katke Holdings LLC to make private equity investments in early stage growth businesses. Through Katke Holdings LLC, Jeffrey is one of the principals of Avistone LLC, a commercial real estate investment company, Intefusion LLC, a medical insurance billing company, and JCK Designs LLC, a residential real estate investment company. Mr. Katke serves as Chairman for each company and provides management consulting.

 

He is actively involved in two Christian philanthropic programs, Blessing of the Father Ministries, which is focused on helping orphans, widows and broken families and Harbor Hope Center, serving homeless students and those facing hunger and other life crises, where he serves as President.

 

His areas of expertise include: executive management, strategic planning, operations, financial review and reporting and regulatory compliance.

Gino Grunberg is founding and lead pastor of Harbor Christian Center in Gig Harbor for the past 24 years. He is a community leader and popular columnist in the Puget Sound area. He is married to Mardel and they have two children and four grandchildren. Gino was instrumental in the creation of Harbor Hope Center and the vision of ensuring every neighbor in the peninsula had their basic needs covered.

Paul Stanfield, CPA, is a seasoned financial executive with a decade of experience guiding organizations through complex accounting, audit, and governance challenges. As a Senior Accounting Manager at RLA LLP and a Partner at Gibbs-Stanfield & Associates, he provides strategic financial oversight to nonprofits, foundations, and privately held companies. Paul’s commitment to ethical leadership and transparent reporting aligns strongly with the board’s values to practice financial responsibility and treat everyone with dignity, empathy and understanding.

Before starting his accounting career as an auditor with Ernst & Young, Paul managed non-profits (Special Olympics Northern California & West Valley Community Services) and taught high school history (Wilcox/Wilson High Schools) in California’s Bay Area. In his time in the non-profit and education fields, he learned first-hand, how prevalent the homelessness issue was in the United States and how it directly affects today’s youth. Whether it be patrons in his food banks or students at their desk, it became evident to Paul that homelessness was not an adult issue but one that has a direct impact on some of society’s most vulnerable populations.

Since leaving a career in service, starting a family and moving to Washington, Paul has longed for an opportunity to again impact the population served by the Harbor Hope Center. Paul hopes that his experience managing, auditing, and providing financial advisory services to non-profits will have a direct impact on Harbor Hope Center’s mission and to provide a hand-up to those that the organization serves. 

Dawnita Parkinson has 12 years active duty in the U.S. Air Force and served as both a Public Affairs Officer and Russian linguist. She has five years’ experience as an administrative/executive assistant and also worked as a private middle-school teacher. Dawnita has a bachelor’s degree in journalism, a master’s degree in theological studies, and 19 college credits in elementary education. Her other training includes the Charles Colson Fellows Program, Public Affairs Officers Course, Defense Information School, Airman Leadership School, and the 47-week Russian Basic Course at the Defense Language Institute.

Kit Kuhn served as Mayor of the City of Gig Harbor from 2018-2022. Prior to that he owned a small business and created and sold jewelry to three generations of customers for 29 years on the Gig Harbor waterfront. Along with two others he started Peninsula Hands On Art where students learned the history of a type of art, then created it. They worked independently, formed a nonprofit and recruited hundreds of volunteers with the support of the district. Today tens of thousands of students have created art. He is past board member of Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce and past President of Greater Gig Harbor Restaurant and Retail Association.

Charlie Davis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties. Prior to accepting this post he served as Executive Director at the Mel Korum YMCA in Puyallup, the Lakewood YMCA and the Tacoma Center YMCA which he opened in 1983. Charlie is known throughout Puget Sound as a loved and highly sought after leader in the nonprofit sector. He has been a supporter of Harbor Hope Center for many years and has encouraged a mentoring partnership between both organizations.