Smiling Kids Incorporated - Behind the Smiles

Karen Sommers, Co-Founder/President
Karen began her sales career in Boston, MA with the LoJack Corporation (’89-92) and WBMX/MIX 98.5FM (’92-
95). From 1995-2000 she was the General Sales Manager for American Radio Systems stations WRMM,
Rochester, NY; WRKO, Boston and finally WBMX, Boston under the new ownership of CBS/Infinity Broadcasting.

Karen’s professional charity efforts began in 2000 when she managed the fund raising efforts for The Marathon
of Hope that raised money for the Ukrainian Orphanage charity, Help Us Help the Children. She and her
husband, Bob, started Smiling Kids Inc. in 2003. Karen is currently the President of Smiling Kids Inc, an active
participant in the Boston University College of Communications Professional Partners Mentor Program and a
busy stay at home mom.

Karen graduated from Boston University in 1989 with a B.S. in Mass Communications/PR. She lives in
Southborough, MA with her husband and three children (ages 6, 4, and 2).

Bob Sommers, Co-Founder
Bob has worked in a variety of sales and marketing management positions in the high-tech industry. He is
currently Director of Business Development at TotalView Technologies in Natick, MA. Previously he held
positions in business development at CenterStone Software, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Open Market.

Bob's charitable endeavors include holiday gift drives, volunteering at the Salvation Army, The Utica Big Brother
program, and running the 2000 Marathon of Hope in Athens, Greece for the benefit of Ukrainian orphans. The
common theme has been his interest in helping children who are less fortunate.

Bob is a 1990 graduate of Hamilton College with a BA in Psychology and a 1995 graduate from Babson College
Olin School of Management with a MBA in Marketing. Bob is also an active father of three and a weekend
saltwater fisherman who resides in Southborough, MA his wife, and Smiling Kids president, Karen.

Dan Moore
Dan is the Vice President, General Manager of Boston Scientific Corporation’s Vascular Surgery Group. He has
worked at Boston Scientific Corporation for 15 years in a variety of sales, marketing, new business development,
and management roles. Dan joined Boston Scientific Corporation after 5 years at Procter & Gamble. He has his
undergraduate degree in Economics from Harvard University and a Masters in Business Administration from
Boston University.

Throughout his life, Dan has participated in charitable activities. As a young boy and through high school, he
helped elderly neighbors maintain their homes and ran errands for them. He spent time visiting residents in
nursing homes and worked at soup kitchens around holidays. As a college student Dan volunteered at Children’
s Hospital in Boston where he worked in the emergency department. He was also a Big Brother and still
maintains a relationship with his “little brother” who is now an adult. Dan’s extensive travel in the US and around
the world has allowed him to see the effects of poverty and the difference one person and a little effort can make.

Currently, Dan is President of the Parish Council at St. Matthews in Southborough, MA. He also is a member of
the Finance Committee and teaches Religious Education to Confirmation candidates

Dan has been happily married to Grace Moore (Georgas) for 18 years. Grace and Dan are motivated by the
challenge of raising their children to become capable, productive, happy adults. They live in Hopkinton,
Massachusetts with their three children, DJ age 17, Julie Anne age 15, and Michael age 11.

Trisha Christy
Trisha graduated from Brown University in 1991 with a degree in International Relations. While at Brown she
was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and held various leadership positions.

She worked with Accenture from 1991 until 2001 as a project manager for financial systems implementations.
Currently, she works part-time for Pyxis Consulting and is responsible for financial account and reporting.

Trisha has been on the Board of Directors of Brown Club of Boston since 2001. She is currently serving as the
co-President of the Board and oversees the coordination of all events in the Boston area. In addition to her
Board responsibilities, Trisha works as an alumni recruiter interviewing prospective high school students
applying to Brown.

Trisha serves as the Secretary of the Board of Advisors at the Hopkinton Country Club. She served on the Board
as the Social Committee Chairperson from 2002-2003. Her responsibilities included event planning and
coordination for the clubs members.

Trisha resides in Southborough, MA with her husband and two young children (2 ½ and 4 ½ years old).

Erin Martin Kane
Erin Martin Kane is the communications manager for the critically acclaimed PBS series FRONTLINE. Reporting
to the series manager and the executive producer, Kane is directly responsible for the day-to-day operations of
the national promotion department-generating publicity for more than twenty distinct documentaries each
broadcast season. Kane supervises a staff of four and serves as the chief spokesperson for the series on
controversial projects. In addition to publicity, she manages all talent relations, press junkets, special events,
grassroots outreach, and marketing. Prior to joining FRONTLINE in 1999, she worked to promote WGBH's local
television and radio services in the Boston market.

Before her career in public television, Kane worked in health care at two of Boston's leading teaching hospitals
and later joined a small public relations firm specializing in pharmaceutical and biotechnology accounts. While
at the PR firm, she worked on new product launches and developed partnerships with non-profit agencies on
behalf of her clients Amgen and Ortho-McNeil, a division of Johnson and Johnson.

Kane graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991. She is a visiting lecturer in the
Communication Arts Department at Framingham State College where she teaches Intro to Public Relations.
She lives in Ashland, Massachusetts with her husband and two-year old son.