Board of Trustees
Stephen Bennett
Stephen Bennett leads UCP with a 30-year history of success in business development, strategic planning, financial management, marketing, event production, and local and national public policy.
As Executive Director of UCP of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties from 1978-1986, he developed housing and assisted living facilities and advanced public policy for people with disabilities at both the state and federal levels.
Bennett was the President of Pallotta TeamWorks from 2001-2002, where he managed 380 employees, an operating budget of $76 million and massive fundraising events for breast cancer and AIDS research. From 1992-2001, he created and headed a national consulting practice focused on health care enterprises. The firm developed business strategies and directed projects in managed care, financing, regional strategy, market strategy, public policy and e-health. Bennett was the CEO of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) from 1989-1992, where he was credited with saving one of the nation’s largest AIDS service organizations from bankruptcy.
Bennett has also taught at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and at Pepperdine University.