Orangewood Foundation

MANAGEMENT

CEO/Executive Director

Chris Simonsen

CEO/Executive Director Experience

After serving as Orangewood Foundation’s Chief Financial Officer for six years, Chris Simonsen was promoted CEO in April, 2014. Chris joined the Foundation in September, 2007.  He brings 20 years of finance and accounting experience to the Foundation, including the last 10 years at Automobile Club of Southern California.  Most recently he was the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer there, responsible for setting the financial strategy for the organization and identifying opportunities and implementing solutions that would improve its financial results.  Previously he was with Balboa Life & Casualty Group and Ernst & Young. Chris holds a B.S. in Accounting from California State University Dominguez Hills, graduating Cum Laude.  He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Chris is a Southern California native, having grown up in the South Bay area.  He has four children, and is an active volunteer with AYSO, the YMCA and his church.  

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