RAW BOARD

Board of Directors:

Danny Cortazzo
A full-time firefighter and paramedic, the Ride a Wave founder is a former tandem surfing champion and lifeguard.

Jonathan 'Steiny' Steinberg
Jonathan Steinberg is a retired nonprofit administrator. He wears several different hats at RAW: surfing venue coordinator and organization bookkeeper. Steiny is one of the original members, having joined in 1998

Max Montgomery
Max stumbled across RAW in 2001, and it's forever enhanced his life. He's since co-founded and run Best Day Foundation in NJ & CA, as well as Tommie Cares Foundation in NY, CT, CA, & NJ. He most recently founded Paddle4Good and runs its community empowering programs.

Lisa Cordoza
Lisa has been the heartbeat of RAW for many years, being the organizational glue that holds everything together behind the scene's

Paul Steinberg
Paul Steinberg is a San Francisco City Firefighter and longtime Santa Cruz City Lifeguard. He is RAW chief safety officer and has been volunteering at Ride A Wave since he was 9 years old.

Tim Fukai
Long time Santa Cruz Surfer and RAW volunteer, Tim brings a wealth of waterman experience to share.

Advisory Board:

Rocky Snyder
A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a Certified Personal Trainer since 1993, Snyder had been named Best Personal Trainer of Santa Cruz County for four straight years. The author of Fit to Paddle, Fit to Surf, and Fit to Ski lives in Aptos, California.

Don Calerdine
In love with all things ocean, ever since his cousin threw him off the Hermosa Beach pier at the age of 5. Don has been a member of RAW since 1998, and worked with Malibu Boardriders Camp GoodTimes before that. He owns a local Biomedical Engineering company, and retired from UCSC after 22 years at UCSC as a IT Project Manager.