Meet our Board of Directors
John West
Chairman of the Board
With a career in mental health and addiction treatment spanning 13+ years, John West earned a name for himself as an international alcohol and drug Interventionist, Sober Companion and Crisis Manager specializing in high profile clients; celebrities, politicians, musicians, scientists, artists and royalty.
Johnโs career started in the world of film and theatre. At 26, Johnโs Broadway theatre productions earned 9 Tony nominations. His documentary film Overnight opened the Sundance film festival. John has travelled throughout the world as a Location Manager for the James Bond film franchise, most recently on Spectre in Austria and Skyfall in Turkey.
John Co-Founded The Guest House Ocala โThe worldโs leading trauma and addiction treatment center.โ In addition, John manages over 100 specialized Sober Companions comprised of nurses, social workers, doctors, caretakers, teachers, life coaches, nutritionists, trauma yoga specialist, bodyguards and more. He has worked with and helped guide 500+ family members and their loved ones through mental health, medical, legal and addiction recovery.
Robert Berry
Vice Chairman of the Board
In addition to his role on the Board of Directors at High Watch, Robert is the President of the Board of Trustees for Alina Lodge. Over the past ten years, he has been committed to making a difference in the lives of Alina Lodge guests and Haley House residents.
Robert earned a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1986 and spent 28 years at Goldman Sachs. In 1991, he started his Goldman Sachs career at the London office, and eventually, he was transferred to the New York office in 2000. In 1998, Robert was named managing director, and in 2008, he became a partner. In recent years, Robert also held the role of Co-Deputy Chief Risk Officer for the group until 2018.
In February 2022, Robert was appointed the role of Chair of the Board Risk Committee and a member of the Board Audit Committee at Barclays.
Barbara Broccoli
Barbara Broccoli is producer of the James Bond film series with her brother Michael G. Wilson. Broccoli became associate producer with Tom Pevsner on The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill. Together with Wilson, Broccoli produced the hugely successful GoldenEye, followed by the next eight Bond films including Skyfall and Spectre.
Broccoliโs love of theatre has driven her to much success as a producer for a number of stage productions including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2002 West End, 2005 Broadway), A Steady Rain (2009 Broadway), Chariots Of Fire (2012 West End), the Tony Award-winning Once (2012 Broadway, 2013 West End), Strangers On A Train (2013 West End), Love Letters (2014 Broadway), Othello (New York Theatre Workshop December 2016 โ January 2017), The Kid Stays In The Picture (2017 London), The Country Girls (Summer 2017 Chichester Festival Theatre), and recently The Bandโs Visit (Broadway 2017) winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Cyprus Avenue (2018 The Public Theater, NYC), Ear for Eye (2018 Royal Court Theatre, London), Fleabag (2019 Soho Playhouse NYC) and Sing Street (2019 New York Theatre Workshop).
Broccoli is BAFTAโs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Vice President for Film, President of the National Youth Theatre, and a Trustee of Into Film, a film education charity working with young people aged 5-19. Wilson and Broccoli are founders of the London Screen Academy, Islington and Directors of the Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation.
In 2014, Broccoli and Wilson were honored by the Producers Guild of America with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures and in 2013, they received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film for Skyfall. In 2008, Broccoli and Wilson were appointed Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Solla Eirรญksdรณttir
Award-winning cook Solla Eirรญksdรณttir is the owner of Glรณ in Reykjavik โ Iceland's most popular vegetarian and raw-food restaurant. She opened Glรณ twenty years ago, and today runs five successful restaurants, an organic market, and her own organic food brand. She has published five cookbooks and her cuisine has gained an international reputation.
Her most recent book, Raw, was first published by Phaidon in 2016 when the concept of raw food was relatively new. Now a widely accepted route to healthy eating, her book features 75 healthy and delicious mainly raw recipes, introducing readers to an approach to ethical and sustainable eating that has found its way into the everyday diets of people around the world.
Jason Schiffman MD, MA, MBA
Founder & CEO Camden Center
At Camden Center, Dr. Schiffman has pioneered the development of integrated healthcare systems for the treatment of psychiatric and addictive disorders that match patients with personalized treatments optimized for their unique biological, developmental, and psychological profile. His goal in creating the Camden Center was to provide a facility offering compassionate, world-class treatment and the opportunity for each patient to achieve true recovery.
Jason is a Diplomate of the National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is certified in Addiction Medicine. He is also the founder and Medical Director of the UCLA Dual Diagnosis Program and has written extensively on the subjects of addiction, trauma, anxiety, and depression.
Jason is a graduate of the MD/MBA program at the University of Southern California and received an MA in Linguistics from UCLA.
Ellen Brennan-Galvin, PhD
From 2003-2011, Ellen was a Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at the Graduate School of the Environment at Yale University. Prior to teaching at Yale, she was Chief of the Population Policy Section of the United Nations Population Division. She conducted research on urban environmental issues and policies in more than 20 cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America and was the author of numerous case studies on mega-cities published by the United Nations. In her professional career, she travelled to over 100 countries.
For many years, she served on a number of committees, panels and working groups of the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C, an International Fellow at Columbia University and a Population Council Fellow at Princeton University.
Over the years, she has been involved in a number of activities in the Greenwich CT area, where she has lived for nearly 40 years. Since 2005, she has been an elected member of the Representative Town Meeting (RTM), serving as Vice-Chairman of the Land Use Committee. In recent years, she has become very involved with a number of arts organizations, serving on multiple boards.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, where she has been involved with fundraising for many years, and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is also a grateful alumna of High Watch.
