Mullen is a retired communications executive, a one-time offshore sailor, transatlantic cruiser, Caribbean charter boat skipper, professional race car driver and motor sports writer.

On April 1, 1970, Mullen left Hood Sailmakers (where he raced with customers and serviced big boat sail inventories) to start an advertising agency, unburdened by any experience in the industry. Mullen Communications grew to represent such clients as Disney, Rolls-Royce, BMW, Maserati, L.L. Bean, Viacom, Nextel, Wells Fargo, General Motors and Timberland, with specialized branding projects for Sony, ABC television and Oxygen. Throughout its maturity, Mullen Communications was consistently recognized as one of the top ten creative agencies in America and, in 2018, Campaign Magazine cited Mullen as one of the “25 most influential agencies over the past 50 years.”

By 1999, when Mullen Communications was purchased by the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), it had achieved $450 million in annual billings with 500 employees. At Interpublic, Mullen became the vice chair of that conglomerate’s Lowe Group, managing a portfolio of independently-run agencies. He retired from business in 2001. Today the company operates as Mullen Lowe with over 6000 employees worldwide.

During the 1980s, Mullen managed a career as a race car driver while continuing to lead his agency. He was Mazda factory driver from 1980 through 1982 with the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). In 1983, he joined a Porsche team that took the IMSA GTO championship winning the 12 Hours of Sebring overall. Mullen drive the Coca Cola Porsche 962 in 1985 and raced a Rondeau prototype at Le Mans. He continued competing in prototypes through 2007 in historic series at circuits across Europe.

In 1995, Mullen wrote The Simple Art of Greatness, published by Viking Penguin, a book of business philosophies and practices best expressed by the subtitle, How to Build, Manage and Motivate a Kick-Ass Workforce.

In 2015, he authored Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks, the Brian Redman memoir that focused on that racer’s career between 1965 and 1975, the most dangerous decade in motor sports history. The book, published by Evro (UK), won the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) Motoring Book of the Year Award. In 2018, Mullen contributed several chapters to the IMSA Fiftieth Anniversary Book.

Mullen maintained his relationship with sailing as one of three founding members of the Young America America’s Cup Syndicate, representing the San Diego Yacht Club in 1995 and the New York Yacht Club in 2000. He is part of the American Magic syndicate challenging for the 36^th American’s Cup in 2021. Mullen’s connection to motor sports continues unabated as the Executive Producer of the driver training web site, SafeIsFast.com, produced under the auspices of the FIA and the Road Racing Drivers Club of America, a by-invitation organization of championship drivers.

Jim Mullen and his wife Nola Anderson live in Manchester-By-The-Sea, Massachusetts.

Born in Virginia, Temple grew up traveling and adventuring around the world—going on deep-sea expeditions with explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, trekking through Mayan ruins in the Yucatán and studying literature in northern Italy, where she also discovered her professional calling. She founded her jewelry company in 1986 in Florence, Italy, beginning her collaboration with some of the world's finest artisans - the centuries-old Florentine goldsmiths' guild.

Temple received a B.A. in Italian Studies from Smith College and a M.A. in Italian Renaissance Literature from Middlebury College. She was awarded the Hall of Fame Award for design in 2011 by the Accessories Council. In 2016, Temple received the GEM Award for Jewelry Design, the industry's most prestigious honor. Publications on her work include “Alchemy, A Passion for Jewels” published by Harper Collins in 2008 and “The Golden Menagerie” published by Assouline in 2016. In 2017, Temple St. Clair joined Louis Comfort Tiffany and Alexander Calder as the third American jewelry designer whose work is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Louvre in Paris.

Temple St. Clair is excited to join the Board of Directors at Big Life Foundation as she always had a deep love for nature, saying, “We’re currently in what’s called ‘the 6th great extinction.’ We’re losing creatures at an accelerated rate—we’re losing daily… It’s just unacceptable.”

Jim has been actively involved in protecting and enhancing the environment in San Mateo County for most of his life, starting at age 19 when he incorporated the first outdoor education program in the County and worked to develop a broad ranging curriculum for adolescents from the County’s public schools, hospitals, and its juvenile hall. While attending law school, Jim worked as a staff assistant to Congressman Pete McCloskey, with whom he focused on coastal issues.  More recently, he has served on the Board of Audubon California and as an alternate member on the California Coastal Commission.

Professionally, Jim has worked over the past decades in Silicon Valley based start-up and large-cap media technology companies, leading their business development and/or corporate development teams. Jim has been a long-term supporter of Big Life Foundation and is excited to be an advisory board member.

David A. Unger is CEO of Artist International Group, a talent management and content production company representing clients in the fields of film, television, and technology.

David began his career at Propaganda Films, a division of PolyGram, where he nurtured the careers of directors David Fincher, Michael Bay, Antoine Fuqua and Mark Romanek among others. He developed award-winning commercial projects for Coca-Cola, Levi's, and Nike as well as music videos for artists such as Madonna, The Rolling Stones, and U2.

David is thrilled to lend his professional experience in support of Big Life’s mission in East Africa.