Board of Directors

Gene Hoffman, Jr., Director, Chairman

Mr Hoffman is the Chairman of The Calguns Foundation. He currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vindicia, an integrated payment and fraud management company. Prior to Vindicia Mr. Hoffman co-founded eMusic in January 1998 and served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director. As head of eMusic, Mr. Hoffman was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine as a member of the July 1999 E-Gang, and named one of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs in technology in Upside Magazine's November 2000 Elite 100. Mr. Hoffman led the acquisition of eMusic by Vivendi/Universal in June 2001.

Before founding eMusic Mr. Hoffman was Director of Business Development and Director of Interactive Marketing of Pretty Good Privacy. Mr. Hoffman joined Pretty Good Privacy after it acquired PrivNet, Inc., an Internet privacy software company, where he was co-founder, Director and Executive Vice President.

Bill Wiese, Director, Vice Chairman

Mr. Wiese is the Vice Chairman of The Calguns Foundation, and an NRA Life Member.· An experienced Silicon Valley firmware engineer, he currently creates firmware for consumer digital video devices.· He's been interested in firearms & shooting for the bulk of his life, and has developed a detailed knowledge of various facets of California firearms laws.

In his spare time outside of both work and firearms-related endeavors, Mr. Wiese enjoys his cats, attending the symphony, and finding new steakhouses.

Brett Thomas, Director, Treasurer

Mr. Thomas is the Treasurer of the Calguns Foundation and Chief Technology officer of Vindicia, an integrated payment and fraud management company. Prior to Vindicia Mr. Thomas was Executive Vice President of Technology for eMusic, joining Mr. Hoffman shortly after the company was founded. While at eMusic, Mr. Thomas led a team of sixty-five employees and oversaw the technical integration of several geographically diverse enterprises utilizing multiple platforms.

Mr. Thomas has been a professional software developer since 1989, and has management, contract and technical experience through roles at Network Associates, PGP, NCR, MCI and IBM. Mr. Thomas has particular expertise in the design and implementation of high transaction volume e-commerce systems, large-payload download infrastructures, conversion of paper documents to electronic formats, encryption and security.

Brandon Combs, Director, Secretary

Brandon Combs is the Secretary of the Calguns Foundation (CGF), a board member of the NRA state affiliate California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA), and a proud life member of Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), NRA, and CRPA. Creator of the highly successful Calguns Community Chapters (“C3”) grassroots program and Calguns Foundation’s Carry License Sunshine & Compliance Initiative, he enjoys finding new ways to promote liberty interests and advance constitutional rights. Professionally, Brandon serves the construction industry as a process/best practices, management, evaluations, and claims/litigation support consultant; previously, he served as regional manager for multi-national engineering and construction corporations specializing in large public works infrastructure projects. When not volunteering for gun rights causes, Brandon enjoys spending time with his two Akitas and traveling throughout the United States and Canada.

James M. Ingram, Director

Jim has been a California attorney for over twenty years, with a California State and Federal Court practice that emphasizes intellectual property, business, real estate and construction law, and is admitted to practice in all the Courts of California as well as various Federal Trial and Appellate Courts, including the U.S. Ninth Circuit and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. With offices in both Northern and Southern California, he serves a clientele of businesses and individuals throughout California and, in Federal matters, nationwide. Jim earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Santa Clara University in 1982 and played center for the Broncos' 1979 and 1980 nationally ranked NCAA Division II football teams. He earned his law degree from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California in 1985 and has been in private practice since then. Jim has served on the board of directors of The Robert Brownlee Foundation and is also an officer and board member of The Let Them Play Foundation, Inc. A member of the Santa Margarita Gun Club, he also serves as counsel to the club's board of directors.

Wesley Morris, Director

Wesley Morris is a World History teacher at Taft Union High School in Taft, CA, and also owns Ten Percent Firearms in Taft. Wes serves as a director for The Calguns Foundation and California Rifle and Pistol Association, the secretary and a board member of the Taft Sportsmen's Club, the Chairman of the Southern Central California State Friends of NRA Committee, and is a lifetime member of the NRA.He is the past Chairman of the Taft chapter of Friends of the NRA. Wes earned a Master's in Education degree from the University of La Verne and a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Wes is married to his wife Kelly and has one son. He and enjoys going to church, hunting, shooting USPSA, X3 Multi-Gun, and assists in the operations of the Taft IDPA program. Mr. Morris specializes in understanding federal and state firearms laws and was an early pioneer in making "off list lowers" available to Californians.

Paul T. Nordberg, Director

Paul T. Nordberg is the Owner and Primary Administrator of the Calguns.net website and forum as well as a Life Member of the NRA. He has been a vocal proponent of Second Amendment Rights for 25 years, a firearms collector for 20 years and a 03 Curio and Relic FFL for 6 Years. He currently works for a private company specializing in image conversion and data archiving of vital records and real estate records for counties across the country. In addition to Firearms and Second Amendment advocacy his interests include Medieval Recreation and Martial Arts, Motorcycles, Golf and his Faith. His proudest achievement is his first and only marriage of 22 years so far.

Ivan Pena, Director

Ivan is a facilities manager for a fortune 100 pharmaceutical company. He is also owner of Pena consulting a firm that specializes in consulting for the modular furniture industry. A life member of the NRA and an avid hunter and gun collector. My most rewarding achievement has been a marriage of 20 years (so far) and the father of a great son.

Joshua Berger, Director

Mr. Berger has been interested in firearms since he was very young. Growing up in a household that not only did not own, but did not like, guns, his early exposure to them was entirely through books and magazines. By the time he was 16 he had saved up enough to buy a copy of Jane’s Infantry Weapons, which remained his most prized possession until he reached the age of majority and was able to join the ranks of firearm owners with the purchase of a Glock. His 8 years as an employee of one of the largest and most diverse gun stores in Phoenix, Arizona gave him a hands-on education with an extensive variety of firearms. He remains both proud and appreciative of the opportunity to handle treasures like Wells Fargo Colts, Renaissance Browning sets and Parker double guns. Josh was deeply involved in the gun community in the mid-1990s when the major anti-gun groups, emboldened and enabled by a relentless contingent of gun-grabbing politicians, rose to power and engaged in an unyielding, junk-science and complicit media-fueled assault on our rights. As a proud card-carrying member of NRA, CRPA and SAF with more than a decade of gun rights advocacy under his belt, he's honored to be in a position to advance those rights he saw trampled in years past.

When not working to further the civil rights of gun owners, he enjoys building his own rifles, loading ammunition, brewing and crafting a mean pulled pork sandwich.

Kevin Lee Thomason (Board Member Emeritus, Of Counsel)

Mr. Thomason is a 1994 graduate of University of California Hastings College of the law. While at Hastings, was the Production Editor and columnist for the Hastings Law News. He was chosen 3rd Year Class Representative.

Kevin Thomason began his legal career as a legal marketing manager and was soon managing the marketing campaign for the largest law firm in the State of California. During this time, Mr. Thomason gained extensive experience in internet and computer technology and has taught MCLE classes on the internet throughout California. He has also written extensively for the legal press on these topics.

Beginning in 2006, Mr. Thomason began practicing civil rights law, focusing in the area of Firearms Rights, addressing the myriad of California laws relating to the legal ownership of so-called "Dangerous Weapons."