The people behind the mission.

Stephen Keller

President & Co-founder · Author of “Pay to Play”

Stephen Keller serves as President and is the author of the memoir Pay to Play. He founded Kelco at 27 and helped create the modern life-settlement industry — in 1998 introducing the first securitized bundles of life-insurance policies on the NYSE and, at its peak, capturing roughly 65% of the global market. Over his career he raised some $13 billion on Wall Street, co-founded the industry’s first association, and helped author regulations still in force. After a federal investigation, trial, and international manhunt, he was arrested by Interpol in Panama, extradited, and served nine years before rebuilding his life in South Florida, where he runs the Stephen L. Keller Foundation scholarship for Eastern Kentucky entrepreneurs. He is the Foundation’s primary public voice.

Online: stephen-keller.com

Mark Sorensen

Co-founder · Healthcare entrepreneur

Mark Sorensen spent 25 years building SyMed Inc., a Medicare-enrolled durable-medical-equipment company. Charged in 2019 with Anti-Kickback Statute violations — though never with health-care fraud — he was convicted at a 2023 trial built largely on cooperators’ testimony and sentenced to 42 months. On April 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found the evidence legally insufficient, a precedent-setting decision; after DOJ declined further review, the court entered his acquittal on June 12, 2025, ending a nearly six-year ordeal. His case is now a cornerstone precedent in the Foundation’s research, and he leads its business, commercial, and partnership efforts.

Lucky Ott

Co-founder & Vice President · Founder of Boerne Drug

Lucky Ott is a San Antonio entrepreneur who built Boerne Drug Company into a modern, tech-enabled pharmacy. After a 2019 federal action targeted a colleague, prosecutors pressed him to incriminate that colleague; he refused to falsely confess. Charged in 2022 in the Southern District of Georgia — a district he had never set foot in — he rejected every plea offer. At trial in Statesboro in October 2025 his defense dismantled the government’s central claim, and on October 27, 2025 the court granted a motion for acquittal, finding the government failed to establish venue. He founded the Foundation to turn that ordeal into structural reform, and leads its mission, narrative, and day-to-day operations.

Stuart Anderson

Vice President of Research, Education & Programs

A J.D.-trained policy, research, and business professional with more than two decades across legal analysis, contract negotiation, corporate governance, litigation management, and executive leadership. At the Foundation he leads research, public education, program development, grant support, and policy analysis on justice reform, government accountability, and second-chance opportunity — informed by both professional and lived experience with the federal justice system.

JP Maroney

Marketing & Communications Director

An entrepreneur, author, and media producer with more than 30 years across publishing, media, advertising, software, and e-commerce. Founder and CEO of Marocom Group and a fractional CMO, he has delivered thousands of live keynotes and counseled organizations across finance, real estate, and professional services. He leads marketing and communications for the Foundation and is launching Justice Impact, a video-first media and podcast network featuring the “Stories of Injustice” series.

Dionne Hutton

Director of Technology & Data

Leads the Foundation’s technology and data infrastructure and owns the economic-impact study’s methodology. A senior software engineer with 23 years across the full software-development lifecycle, she designs and integrates front- and back-end distributed systems. A former U.S. Army Signal Officer, she holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and owns the study’s data architecture, modeling, and disposition taxonomy.

Angelica Pacheco

Social Media, Public Relations & Content

Leads the Foundation’s social media, PR, and content production. A bilingual communicator whose background spans nursing and elected public service as a former Hialeah City Councilwoman, she built the Foundation’s social presence from the ground up, runs multi-platform distribution through GoHighLevel, and produces its video and storytelling content — carrying the message to both English- and Spanish-speaking communities.