Peter Mitchell is a non-partisan political consultant and analyst with over 30 years of experience in California politics. Since 2002, Peter Mitchell has also become a seasoned entrepreneur with his start-up businesses, passionate about someday developing a new model that better enables the disruptors of venture capital. As the Founder and Managing Partner at Springboard Ventures, Peter has invested and supported technology startups. Peter avidly continues to support top California-based and national corporations in political and public affairs across all sectors. For almost twelve years, Mitchell served as the Senior Political Analyst and Director of the California Real Estate Political Action Committee (CREPAC) for the California Association of REALTORS® (CAR), which has a membership of over 100,000 members. Most notably, Mitchell adapted early to the use of independent expenditures, beginning with a major Special Election in 1997. During his tenure, ending in 2001, Mitchell was responsible for tripling CAR’s annual political fund to approximately $4 million annually. In 2002, Mitchell formed P.M. Consulting, Inc., a full-service political/public affairs firm specializing in independent expenditures, comprehensive non-partisan election analysis (covering all California state and federal legislative races, all statewide races and key local elections), fundraising, political campaign management, polling, research, advocacy and strategic consulting/planning. Due to his many years managing and leading various PACs and his immersion in California’s politics, he personally helped elect hundreds of federal, state and local officials. Mitchell has well established, and strong, political relationships with a tremendous number of elected and appointed officials throughout California. Mitchell, a native Californian and son of Greek immigrants, was born in the San Fernando Valley and raised in Orange County.

Terry M. Giles, a recipient of the Horatio Alger Award winner, grew up in a loving, but impoverished family in St. Louis, Missouri. Born on July 3, 1948, Giles attended 21 schools in a 10-year period, settling in long enough to earn a debate scholarship to the University of California at Fullerton, later earning his law degree from Pepperdine University. He also served with the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1976 during the back half of the Vietnam conflict. Giles went on to establish or acquire 35 businesses, including a large West Coast criminal law firm, Landmark Education and Giles Enterprises, now a holding company for his family’s involvement in everything from banking to computers to travel. Some of his past business associations have ranged from food and entertainment, intellectual property and property development as well as manufacturing. Giles has always managed to attract high-powered clients, especially during his tenure in law, of which he is now retired. Some of those clients have included Richard Pryor, Kenneth Lay, J. Howard, Marshall III and Martin Luther King Jr.’s remaining children during a much-noted familial dispute regarding the corporation set up to control Dr. King’s intellectual property at the King Center. Debate has always been the forefront of Giles’ success. He credits Cal State Fullerton’s debate team for helping to set him on the road to success. Fullerton debaters have felt his presence through the years, and he works with young debaters to support them as they continue their collegiate and business careers. Giles lives with his wife, Kalli O'Malley, in Houston, but owns a home in Puerto Vallarta and a French chateau that is well over 1,000 years old. He actively supports a wide range of charities and non-profits.