Founder, CEO and CFO of the G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting and Founder of G-Star Studios, Mr. Hauptner directs an impressive team of managers, educators, administrators, employees and film-related businesses and analysts who are responsible for the prudent management of all assets including debt, equity and funding support. Mr. Hauptner’s son, Gregory Hauptner Jr., is the namesake for the “G” in everything G-Star. Mr. Hauptner has grown the G-Star School to become today’s largest Film, TV Production and Acting high school in the nation and the only high school in the world with a motion picture studio on campus. (read more)

Mr. Ohrstrom stands as the key initial lead donor to the G-Star Arts and Education Foundation. He is a prominent leader and philanthropist within the Palm Beach Community and in the Hamptons, as is his wife, Sally. Mr. Ohrstrom’s expertise and experience includes his board president responsibilities here in addition to having attracted the first major urgent medical care facility to Palm Beach. Favoring activities that orient and educate the larger area community, he plays an instrumental role in operations and capital funding. (read more)

As a Foundation Trustee and Executive Director/Secretary, Karen Poindexter brings with her the expertise gleaned from her position as Charter Board Member of the G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting since its 2003 onset. She remains integral to the field of “new business cultivation” for the Foundation. Ms. Poindexter’s strategic planning and market-focused expertise is reflected in her grand success as a theater producer throughout the United States (Broadway, Burt Reynolds’ Theater in Jupiter, Florida and several award-winning productions in Florida and across the nation) and in London, England, as well a motion picture producer. (read more)

Ms. Stark-Thomas is responsible for the strategic development of the G-Star Arts and Education Foundation’s assets, financial consulting, portfolio and equity development, membership/data information systems and relationship development. In addition, she is responsible for Foundation funding oversight with funding opportunities seeding interest from local to global reaches. Ms. Stark Thomas assists Foundation officers in the development of policies and procedures, recruits and develops the capabilities of trustees, ambassadors and volunteers, and provides guidance. After joining G-Star in early 2008, she initiated the Foundation’s charitable IRS 501(c)(3) standing and garnered important lead donors. Whether “for profit” or “for philanthropy” she has over twenty-five years of successful program consultation expertise with strategic planning and management building from grass-roots to global recognition, including federal government support and financing. (read more)

Stalwart in spearheading sound companies and foundations of leading economic and social importance, Ms. Morrison credits accolades to others at the helm. As a Foundation Trustee, Ms. Morrison is responsible for integral local, national and global corporate relationships.