Executive Director

Jay Lopez
Mr. Lopez is an active member of both the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Arts & Culture Committee and the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Arts & Culture Committee, as well as the Silver Lake Gallery Alliance. Jay serves on the board of the Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee as the Education/Outreach council chair and is also on the board of directors for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2010. Mr. Lopez is an accomplished event producer and coordinator whose recent credits include Beyond Eden, a new contemporary art fair, East of Eden, a multi-gallery exhibition and art fair at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, CA Boom Design Show held this year at the former Robinsons department store in Beverly Hills, The East Hollywood ArtCycle Street Festival and The Silver Lake & East Hollywood Day of the Dead Festival.

Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk Board Members

David M. Hernand
David M. Hernand is a partner of the well-known law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is co-chair of the firm’s Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Group, a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group and the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group. Hernand advises companies, investment banks, private equity and venture capital firms and high net-worth individuals and families in public and private merger and acquisition transactions, corporate control contests, strategic partnering arrangements, public and private capital raising transactions and general company representation matters. David has handled transactions involving companies including Business.com, Club Penguin, DemandMedia, Homestore, Intermix (MySpace), IGE, LegalZoom, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, ProvideCommerce, Rent.com, ReachLocal and SeeBeyond.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hernand had practiced with Latham & Watkins since 1994, with a two-year hiatus as managing director at Idealab, a Pasadena, California-based technology company incubator and later as CEO of New.net, an Idealab portfolio company. Mr. Hernand serves Vice-Chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar, is a proud board member of The Painted Turtle and is a member of the Socrates Society Steering Committee of the Aspen Institute.

Bonnie Tseng
Bonnie Tseng is an Assistant Vice President and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Contributions Officer with City National Bank charged with overseeing their CRA Department’s annual contributions budget and CRA community involvement for California, New York, and Nevada. She joined City National in 2005 following her six-year career in entertainment and marketing which began as a Director of Operations for a boutique art studio, and later as an agent for over 30 artists working in film, commercials, and TV. She eventually transitioned into the music industry as Director of Artists and Repertoire (A&R), talent manager, and business manager for a record label. Bonnie currently volunteers on several boards, development, advisory, and event committees for organizations including: Center for the Pacific Asian Family, Salvation Army Alegria, Chrysalis, Para Los Niños, and Shelter Partnership. She also participates in Step Up Women’s Network, the LA Downtown Center Business Improvement District’s Marketing Committee, and Bankers In Support Of. Her corporate philanthropy and service to the community have earned her several awards. It is one of her personal missions to help end homelessness to improve the quality of life in L.A. County.

Adam “Wicks“ Walker
Adam “Wicks” Walker has founded numerous companies in the internet and media sectors, landing four times among the top 100 of the Inc. 500® list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S, as well as the fastest growing lists of the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50. He plays the role of strategist and dealmaker in each company, and has closed more than a dozen corporate finance transactions securing more than $100 million. Walker’s most recent company is W4, a leading online advertising network. Previously he built Hydra, which was named the fastest growing internet company in Los Angeles in 2007. Wicks also has an independent record label, Unnamed Music, is a partner in Intrinsic Entertainment, and backs musical instrument technology company EverTune. In 2000, he was nominated for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and won the Award for Business Leadership. He lives in the Hollywood Hills and enjoys music, art, motorcycles, and most of all, downtown Los Angeles. His articles and coverage have been published in publications including Advertising Age, BusinessWeek, Internet Retailer, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.

Bert Green
Mr. Green was born and raised in Oyster Bay, New York; after attending New York University, he worked for 10 years in the Manhattan art world and 8 years in San Francisco working in non-profit art curating. Relocating to Los Angeles in 1999, Mr. Green opened his own art gallery in Hollywood, CA, and moved to Downtown Los Angeles in 2004. In Downtown Los Angeles, Bert Green was instrumental in the revitalization of the city center by helping to establish the Gallery Row District, opening BGFA, and founding the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk.

Andre Miripolsky
Mr. Miripolsky is an internationally know artist, located in downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Miripolsky was born in Paris, and reared in the rich cultures of Austria, Iran, Korea, Thailand and Indonesia; his dynamic paintings, sculptures, mobiles and graphic design have garnered devoted international collectors. His collaborations with MTV, The Tonight Show, Elton John, Bette Midler and Quincy Jones have brought his brilliant vision to millions of people. He is also a member of the Hollywood Arts Council board of directors.

Ms. Pamela Huntoon
Pamela Huntoon has been a lover of the arts since childhood, growing up in Los Angeles with both parents in the arts. Currently, Ms Huntoon is Education Director to Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry which district encompasses Downtown Los Angeles and South Los Angeles. Her lifelong concern has been education. Ms Huntoon has secured well over 75,000 field trip opportunities for constituents young and old throughout her 8 1/2 years serving Councilwoman Perry. Ms Huntoon was educated in Public Health at UCLA and then went on to becoming a parenting specialist at CSULA. Ms. Huntoon is responsible for all art and cultural opportunities for over 80 schools, churches, senior centers and community centers throughout the district. All education issues are under her auspice, including academics, health and human services and safety. Ms. Huntoon lives in Los Angeles with her youngest of three children. Board affiliations: ArtShare LA, Board Member; Woodcraft Rangers, Board Member; Project MusZed, Board Member; Chair Los Angeles Trade Technical College Foundation and Board Member; Jules Verne International Film Festival, Los Angeles; Board Member. For Councilwoman Perry: A Place Called Home, Board Member; Challengers Boys and Girls Club, Board Member – Memberships: Grand Avenue Partners; Music Center Education Division; Los Angeles Opera Education Division.

Marc Loge

Marc has over 25 years experience working in television and feature film production as well as computer technologies. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Indiana University, Marc relocated to Southern California where he put his hard-earned degree to work as a CBS page. For 8 years he worked with Landmark films as a post production Coordinator, Executive Assistant to the President and VP of Feature Casting and was involved with several feature projects including “Out of Africa”, “Airplane” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, as well as the operations of the Landmark Theater chain. Realizing he had made a serious vocational error, Marc’s interest in digital editing and computer software led him to develop an inventory program called “Art Manager” for Museums, Art and Antique Dealers which he marketed for 12 years. In 2004, the Bonaventure Hotel and the Interstate hotel chain hired Marc to establish a newly created business development department using e-marketing campaigns, social media and promotions for the hospitality industry. He is currently employed as the Director of Public Relations at the Wilshire Grand Hotel.

The Community Advisory Board
Currently comprised of Greg Esser and Clyde Beswick, with additional persons to be named in the coming months. Mr. Esser currently serves as Director of Civic Art for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, has been active as an artist, administrator and arts advocate for over two decades. Esser is also the founder and former Executive Director of Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization focused on community revitalization and economic development through arts and culture in downtown Phoenix. Mr. Beswick is a renowned contemporary art collector, a former collections committee member at MOCA, a former board member of Los Angles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and a marketing and public relations executive. Both Esser and Beswick are downtown Los Angeles residents, have experience and passion for the arts, and will moderate and convey the concerns of the residents, property owners, businesses and artists to the Board of Directors for the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk.