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Founder & Executive Director
Sarah Miller Leads a globally recognized agency and brands with unparalleled expertise in marketing, PR, go-to-market strategy, and experiential events for both the B2B and D2C markets. Sarah leverages her vast understanding and years of experience in the sports, technology, and entertainment industry to drive key strategic initiatives toward effective, timely, and desired outcomes. Her leadership in cultivating and growing teams, rooted in fiscal responsibility, revenue generation, and expense control, and her relentless focus on increasing systematic efficiencies and seamless communications, has made her company one of the industry's most client-facing agencies, which landed Axis Entertainment on 2024 Americas Best PR firms in sports, media and entertainment, by Newsweek.
In addition to Axis, she founded and produces the prestigious Media Excellence Awards and hosts and produces the Axis Effect Podcast.
Not only is Sarah a leader in the professional sphere, but she is also the founder and Executive Director of World Health Initiatives, a Global 501 C (3) Non-Profit, which demonstrates her commitment to social responsibility and her ability to make a positive impact beyond the business world.
Wendy Rusnak
Director of Global Sponsors & Partnerships
Wendy has over a decade of business management experience in innovation and leadership in sustainability. Her mission is to steer her company, Light & Green, LLC. to new heights, leveraging a deep understanding of business affairs, branding, and CRM technologies.
Previously, as the Executive Director of Business Affairs at OCEAN EXTERIORS INC, she pioneered the adoption of a company-wide digital CRM, achieving a significant increase in customer retention. Her ability to conduct negotiations and draft agreements in English and Spanish led to a notable surge in profitability while bringing unwavering leadership.
Dave Campos
Director of Global Strategy & Development
Dave Campos has over 17 years of partner relations, operations, business development, strategy & funding experience with global brands. Campos currently works with technology, aviation, and medical companies overseeing revenue-driven partnerships, logistics and operations around the world.
Valentin Propescu
Director of South American Operations
Valentin, a Romanian, Argentinian, Peruvian and champion for underdeveloped communities has spent his life in South America engaging in the fight to help people in need. He dedicates his life to helping others by becoming part of the solution that helps build successful infrastructures that brings clean water, more accessible health care, food and education to those in dire need of help to survive.
Robert E. Ruiz
Foundation Medical Advisor
Robert Ruiz, MD, a medical advisor to World Health Initiatives, Inc. also serves on the Naturopathic Board of Aesthetic Medic as a founding board member. With an emphasis on “looking at the patient as a whole person,” Dr. Ruiz has dedicated his career to patients and utilizing technology so that patients can receive the best care and recovery. With nearly two decades of experience in the medical field, Ruiz uses his experiences and knowledge to advise WHI, providing a valuable opinion on our operations that help to ensure we deliver the highest quality yet most efficient health care possible to communities.
Alex Falter
Director of Global Research
Alex Falter is a Resident Editor for Axis Entertainment & World Health Initiatives. Falter is an English Major with experience in journalism, social media and research which he applies to all aspects of PR & communications. Falter loves what he does & is looking to expand his writing abilities as a top journalist in media.
Debbie Rice
Foundation Medical Advisor
Debbie Rice earned her degree at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, OR. She has worked closely with communities in need including volunteering with the US Peace Corps and working with Natural Doctors International (NDI) in Nicaragua. She believes in access to health care for everyone and advocating for improved quality of life for each person! She maintains a practice in Portland, OR that focuses on hormones and overall general health. In her down time she likes to travel, loves playing in the sun, on a river, enjoys yoga, and cuddling and adventures with her fur babies.
Carl Cohen
Director, Grant & Location Logistics
Cohen works as a Principal Engineer for Defense Contracts and the Aerospace industry and applies his experience in research and development, data analysis, material processing & mechanics to oversee grant research & Global location logistics for World Health Initiatives.
Forest Bell
Head of Organizational Development
Forrest has over 15 years of organizational development in education and brings his talent in creative programming, global merchandising and textiles to World Health Initiatives creating global programs.