Get To Know Us

Emily steps into Pablove as our new Executive Director, bringing rich expertise in nonprofit management, community partnerships and communications.

Prior to joining the fight against pediatric cancer, Emily was innovating L.A.’s medical and mental healthcare nonprofit development at Claris Health. Her long and successful tenure spanned many roles, including Patient Advocate, Education Director, Outreach Manager, VP of Operations and eventually serving as VP of Advancement and Communications.

Emily is a passionate believer in the power of the arts. Her father, a professional photographer and artist, bestowed her with an affinity for the visual arts and Emily earned a BA in Theater and Education from Ohio Wesleyan University. She also founded a musical theater company for children.

Chelsea has over a decade of experience directing campaigns across nationally-ranked nonprofit organizations like the March of Dimes, the American Lung Association, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She is dedicated to achieving results and has experience in organizational and program assessment, identifying revenue and constituent opportunities, and developing solid plans to achieve fundraising goals.

After spending some time working in environmental and sustainability organizations, she realized her passion lies in healthcare nonprofits, and is excited to make a difference with Pablove. Chelsea and her husband reside in Beverly Hills and they enjoy traveling as often as they can.

Labeled a “social butterfly” since childhood it’s no wonder that Lauren is the chatty master behind all of Pablove’s Social Media and communications. With 10 years of agency and in-house experience managing social strategy and creative content development for consumer brands, Lauren commands our marketing and public relations with a lovable personality and a penchant for playful alliteration.

A native Bostonian, Lauren has called LA her home for the past 12 years. You can spot her at many local coffee shops scrolling Pablove’s instagram feed with her pug-dachshund rescue, Scout.

Rusty brings over 30 years of experience as a Personal Trainer and former gym owner. His passion for cycling and coaching is a fitting match for his role as new our Pablove Across America Rider Relations Manager.

Fortified by many years of riding in PAA, Rusty is well-primed to help strengthen our riders and event.  Rusty leads rider recruitment, and supports riders with their training and fundraising. He is fueled by a desire to actively take part and witness the success of Pablove’s mission.

A life-long resident of south Louisiana, Rusty’s cycling adventures take him throughout the country roads and farmlands of his home in Lafayette. Off the bike, Rusty and his wife enjoy traveling to visit their two daughters and enjoy time at home with their 10-year-old pup, Reece.

Leah Reichman is the Program Leader for our Powered by Pablove Research Grants Program. She oversees all of our grant programs and guides our grant initiatives. As the main contact person for our research grants, she works with researchers, hospitals, our Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Committee to ensure we are making the most worthwhile investment of research dollars.  Leah received a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Touro College and a Master in Public Health from Columbia University. Prior to joining The Pablove Foundation, she worked in the pediatric cancer research world on both coasts. A native New Yorker, Leah has fully embraced LA as her home city. When not running our grants program, Leah can be found running after her three active boys or wandering in one of the few bookstores that still exist!

Eugene brings extensive relationship management and creative strategy to Pablove, including more than 20 years of entertainment media and sports marketing. His prior professional work includes promoting theatrical and DVD releases of highly-anticipated films from Universal Pictures while rising through the ranks at DDB Entertainment; as well as Business Development + Sponsorship sales at Miniflix, and for boxing promoters Top Rank and PBC. When not working, Eugene enjoys 5k road races with his son, and being tortured by his beloved Philadelphia 76ers.

Originally a west coast girl Tina Schwartz has found that her heart lives in Texas and is now a 20-year Houstonian resident.  Her passion for art and children fuels Tina’s dedication to Pablove’s mission; she joined the Pablove Board of Directors in 2021 and became its first female chair in 2023.

Before dedicating herself to this leadership role, Tina was already very involved in pablove: Her husband Dick Schwartz is a multi-year Pablove Across America (PAA) rider, and Tina is now embarking on her 2nd PAA ride.  Note that Tina only started cycling in order to ride PAA!  Her contributions are numerous: She recruited more members of her family and friends to PAA, serves as a volunteer Teaching Assistant for the Shutterbugs Program in Houston, and serves as a co-chair of the Houston Friends of Pablove group and its signature event ARTcetera.

Her energy, love and enthusiasm for Pablove and the Shutterbugs program are palpable, and she brings an abundance of fun, passion and joy to whatever she takes on.  Tina believes in following your heart and making this world a better place: especially for kids!  She recently left her Real Estate career to pursue a fine arts degree in sculpture at the University of Houston, and she feels blessed to have the opportunity to babysit three of her ten beautiful grandchildren three days a week. 

Jeff is Pablo’s Papa, and the co-founder of The Pablove Foundation. Through his company Cast Management – founded in 1990 – Jeff has managed a variety of bands and artists including the Dropkick Murphys, Blues Traveler, KT Tunstall, Violent Femmes and record producers Tony Hoffer and Justin Meldal-Johnsen.

Steve Borgman is a long-time friend of The Pablove Foundation and active member of the Houston Friends of Pablove group.  Professionally, he is a registered patent attorney and his practice, which spans more than 30 years, includes counseling on a variety of intellectual property matters including mergers and acquisitions, license and technology agreements, and freedom-to-operate opinions. Steve also prosecutes patents and advises clients on their strategies for developing their patent portfolios. Steve has handled a wide range of intellectual property cases in a variety of industries, including numerous patent cases. He also has significant experience with the arbitration and mediation of intellectual property disputes.

He earned his JD with high distinction, Order of the Coif, at the University of Iowa College of Law, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University.  When he is not busy helping his many clients, he likes to play guitar and is still trying to learn Free Bird. 

Tom Kattus is an avid cyclist, runner and surfer. Tom has been involved in the bicycle industry since 1988. From inventing a specialized racing handlebar, the BreakAway Bar, to owning his own company and working with other high end cycling and sports-related gear, Tom has been all around the industry and served in his dream job with Campagnolo North America for over ten years. He is a father of two children, and a cyclist, surfer, and runner. Tom is also a cancer dad – his son Mark is a survivor who was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkins Lymphoma at the age of 18. He is a 5+ time rider on PAA.

Paul Adams is the owner and founder of Bang The Drum, a management company that handles the careers of a select group of highly-talented producers, mixers, songwriters, and composers. Beginning as a promoter in his native Manchester, Paul went on to work as a booking agent at the legendary Bron Agency. Since 1993, Paul has been managing record producers. He moved to New York in 2001 to head up the NY office of World’s End and joined Magus Entertainment three years later, where he continued to manage producers and also represented Duran Duran amongst others before establishing Bang The Drum in 2012. Paul is also a successful DJ who has spun events for Rick Rubin, Ringo Starr, the David Lynch Foundation and Communion, among others.

Komal is a loving mother of two beautiful young adults. She is a great supporter of the arts, and has been formally trained since childhood in the Indian classical dance form called Bhatata Natyam, culminating in a solo dance debut. She is also a pianist, with training from the Trinity College of Music, London. Komal believes that children are our most valuable resource and takes inspiration from Neil Postman‘s words “They are living messages to the world, to a time we will not see.”

For the last 27 years, Komal and her family have lived in Los Angeles. Her profession has been in the wholesale diamond industry, and she has credentials as a California State Certified Gemologist. Currently, she is pursuing her passion in training her voice as a singer. She is also a freelance photographer for her daughter’s fashion & beauty blog. In her spare time, she loves to read, do yoga, and watch Bollywood movies. She is honored to be a part of the Pablove mission, and sincerely hopes there will be a cure to childhood cancer because each and every child deserves to live a life filled with joy.

A lifelong fan of underdogs, Blair fell in pablove with our mission while pedaling in Pablove Across America 2017.  Throughout his years supporting Pablove as an inspiring fundraiser, PAA cyclist, and friend, Blair has shown an unwavering commitment to the well-being of children and families impacted by childhood cancer. He is honored beyond words to be a part of this incredible mission.

Blair is the Global Managing Director of Liquid Media, overseeing global operations of the agency arm of Team Liquid, the largest and most storied esports organization in the world.  Prior to this role, he was SVP of Brand at G4, leading the Marketing, PR, Social, Community, and Brand Partnerships divisions of the Comcast network.  

Blair grew up in southwestern Louisiana — WHO DAT! — and moved to Los Angeles in 2001, and most recently to Utrecht, Netherlands.  Blair loves reading and music and not-being-the-strongest-cyclist-but-he-does-have-a-big-heart: he now whistles in Dutch while he rides his bike along his neighborhood canals. 

Dr. Courtney Horvath is a board certified toxicologist and drug development professional at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR).  Following a short career as a professional ballet dancer, she completed her PhD and post doctoral training at Dartmouth Medical School, where her research garnered attention from both the scientific community and mainstream media. Courtney then entered the pharmaceutical industry, where she led the development of biopharmaceuticals across various therapeutic areas and modalities.  Courtney is currently the key leader of strategic projects and operations for Translational Medicine at NIBR.

Courtney is also the mom of Shutterbug Colby, who took the class twice while bravely battling lymphoma since March 2020. Colby’s journey inspired Courtney to become a passionate advocate for childhood cancer patients and to raise awareness of the desperate need for more targeted, accessible, safe and effective therapies.

Courtney resides outside of Boston with her physician-scientist husband and their 2 children. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling with the family, skiing, and cheering on her 12 year old daughter, Avery, at her rock climbing competitions. Courtney is honored to be part of the Pablove mission.

Dr. Loeb is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, as well as Development & Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He practices as a pediatric oncologist at the Montefiore Medical Center and serves the Chief of the Department of the Pediatrics Division of Pediatric Hematology /Oncology in Bronx, NY.

Dr. Loeb has an active translational research laboratory focused on understanding bone tumor metastasis.  His laboratory developed a clinically relevant mouse model of sarcoma metastasis, and has used this model to perform preclinical testing of novel agents that can interfere with this process.  More basic scientific studies in the lab involve exploring the role of the Wnt signaling pathway in Ewing sarcoma migration, invasion, and metastasis.  Dr. Loeb is also studying the role of an enzyme called RNA helicase DDX3 in Ewing Sarcoma biology, especially how this enzyme affects the repair of damaged DNA. Dr. Loeb is also actively involved in clinical research, including the development of radiopharmaceutical agents for the treatment of bone metastases and the development of a small molecule inhibitor of DDX3.

When he is not actively working on improving the lives of kids with cancer, he likes to travel, cook – and eat!