Michael Wong - Founder and CEO
Mr. Wong is a certified aquatic therapist with over 1000 hours of training, with the intention of providing continual education. As a certified massage therapist in San Francisco, he holds an advanced license in Anatomy and Physiology, was a certified personal trainer with 24 Hour Fitness, and has over 16 years of bodybuilding experience.
SAIFTE was created through his experiences with injuries due to bodybuilding, such as torn rotator cuff muscles and torn ligaments in his elbow. Through these injuries, he has always been involved with physical therapy. Prior to receiving Aquatic Integration therapy, he received numerous forms of therapy and treatment, quickly realizing how different Aquatic Integration was from other forms of aquatic therapy. Through studying at the Watsu Center at Harbin Springs with the founder of Aquatic Integration, Cameron West, he became a certified aquatic therapist and developed a true passion for this form of therapy and believes the best way of treating injuries is through preventive measures.
Having volunteered at UCSF medical center in the Emergency Room and Pediatric Departments, Mr. Wong has always been involved in working with children. When he thinks of preventive therapy, he thinks about children because of his experiences with conditions such as arthritis, bursitis, joint inflammation and muscle spasms. The best way to serve the general population is by helping kids suffering from these ailments. The faster we seek to treat our kids, the better the outcome of our future.

( Click here to view Mr. Wong's Certificate of Completion. )

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Jimmy Chen - President
Mr. Chen has over 15 years of construction and project management experience in residential, commercial, public schools, and community redevelopment construction projects. As a Project/Construction Manager, his responsibilities included, but not limited to, coordinating pre-construction meetings, cost estimating, bidding, submittals, responding to RFPs & RFIs, change order review and approval, shop drawing review, maintaining construction schedule, construction quality inspection, safety assurance and project closeout. As a former plumber working for 8 years, his work included installation of supply water lines, sanitary sewer lines, natural gas lines, and fixtures for residential and commercial properties.

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Cameron West - Board Member
Cameron West is the creator of Aquatic Integration technique and owner of the AquaZen Center. She has been a practitioner and an internationally known teacher of Watsu for over 10 years and has been instrumental in promoting Watsu and Aquatic Integration into the clinical therapeutic arena. From 1984-1998 Cameron served as the Aquatics Director at Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center in Ventura, CA. She also served on the faculty of Oxnard and Ventura Colleges as an Adapted Physical Education teacher from 1987-2001. Her work has been featured in 2001 Massage Today and June 2006 The Aquatic Therapist on Aquatic Integration and Substance Abuse. Cameron currently travels all over the world teaching, maintains a private practice and directs the aquatic programs at the Aquatic Integration Institute in Templeton, CA.

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Dr. Curt Allday - Board Member
Dr. Curt Allday is a practicing pharmacist for Safeway Pharmacy in Marin County. Using knowledge of medications as well as other disciplines, he has managed for the last two years. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy from UC San Francisco in 2008 and has been practicing since 2009. He quickly moved into management by providing clinical services in the community and by helping those most in need. He understands that all therapies work in unison to treat the body. Specialized Aquatic therapy is an avenue to help patients work towards better outcomes and become less reliant on pharmacological outcomes. Dr. Allday resides in Sausalito with his family and works to better his community by providing counseling and management of medications. He believes wholeheartedly in the mission of SAIFTE and is proud to help serve in its aid to patients in Northern California.

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Brad Martin - Board Member
Mr. Martin lead the teams Business Operations with over 30 years senior management experience in a variety of operational business disciplines which include strategic planning, program management, contracts, finance/administration, cost accounting, business development/planning, and procurement. Mr. Martin has been instrumental in the start-up phase of over a dozen successful Silicon Valley high-tech firms during his career. Some of these companies include, Tiburon Systems, Inc. (Texas Instruments-Raytheon), Tekna/S-TRON, nCHIP (Flextronics International), Intarsia Corporation (Joint Venture between The Dow Chemical Company and Flextronics International), Silicon Light Machines (formerly Eschelle), Coyote Systems (Microcosm), Codetronix LLc, Verayo (formerly Pufco) and, S-Vision. Being thoroughly familiar with technology application market trends and opportunities, Mr. Martin is appropriately responsible for defining the manufacturing's strategic directions and leading its corporate and business operation activities. Mr. Martin served on a MEMS company Technology Advisor Board and directed the business and technology activities of two major Consortium activities focused on technology developments in the semiconductor industry�s processes and equipment for large area panels with a funded budget in excess of US$85,000,000.00. Mr. Martins formal education occurred at California State University, where he studied health sciences and attended graduate studies in Business and at the American Graduate University were he studied federal procurement.

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Alan Leung - Board Member (Marketing Committee)
Alan Leung is the founder and president of Top Video World, LLC, a small business in San Francisco since 1999. He grew up in the neighborhoods of Sunset District of San Francisco. He attended J. Eugene McAteer High School in San Francisco and subsequently received his B.A. from San Jose State University and J.D. from the University of San Francisco. �

Prior to being a small business owner, he was the General Manager of Gulliver�s of San Francisco from 1990 to 1996 , he is also the co-founder of ablCOM, LLC. a San Francisco-based web design firm focused on the hospitality and travel sector.

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Derrek Gerrughty - Board Member
Mr. Gerrughty is a teacher at Children's Day School and has been teaching there for 6 years. Working with youths has been a big part of his life starting in Daly City parks and recreation. He then moved on to work in his own neighborhood at Cabrillo Elementary School. The school closed down a year later and he got a job at Children's Day School. He has worked with youths from 3 to 18 years of age and especially interested in becoming a part of SAIFTE for the fact that they are using holistic means to heal and mend youngsters who suffer from chronic illnesses. He also suffers a chronic illness called Lupus. He felt its affects at 21 and was diagnosed at 23 and it gave him the effects of rheumatoid arthritis. He went through several years of western medicine and feeling the side effects until he looked for a more holistic approach in dieting and practices such as acupuncture.

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