About HAP

Board Member  

Wyatt Cagle currently serves as CEO of South Coast Media Services with long-time collaborators Michael Bell and Bill Brauer after acquiring the business in 2019. As CEO, Wyatt helps drive South Coast forward to blend technology and creativity in all aspects of video production. Onset, Wyatt fills the role of Director and Cinematographer (Director of Photography) for many of South Coast’s productions, ensuring the vision and needs of South Coast’s clients are met.

Starting in the film and TV production business in 1999, Wyatt Cagle has traveled the world developing his craft, contacts, and business models for the evolving video production market. From his beginnings as a camera operator on Travel Channel Europe's series "Underground," Wyatt has transitioned into the realm of large-scale commercial production and feature film production with companies like POV, Inc. of Houston, and Somnio Solutions out of Austin.

An award-winning editor, cinematographer, and director, Wyatt has successfully completed numerous independent film projects, television series, and advertising campaigns. His ventures include the development of Team Baby Entertainment (TBE), contributions to the PBS show Profiles with Greg Scheinman, and the establishment of his own production company, CGL Studios. Notably, his historical film, “The Example,” is currently available on Amazon Prime Video.

Board Member  

Ms. Donna Fujimoto Cole founded Cole Chemical & Distributing, Inc., in 1980 providing industrial and process chemicals to industry at the request of her customers at Exxon, Dupont, Monsanto, and Shell to assist them in reaching their minority sub-contracting goals with the Federal Government. She has started, sold, invested and divested many types of businesses; from civil construction, to drilling loss circulation materials, chemical manufacturing, real estate, promotional advertising, chemical distribution, warehousing, blending and packaging.  

In 2022, Ms. Cole sold a 40 percent interest in Cole Chemical to Berryman Smith, LLC., to provide additional products and toll manufacturing services with over 500 tank cars and 7 terminals with warehouses nationally to position the company for continued growth. 

Donna’s current leadership positions: ALF National Advisory Council, City of Houston Asian Pacific American Advisory Board, The Rockwell Fund Board, The Diversity Summit Steering Committee, Royal Public Schools Advisory Board, The Institute of Supply Management Executive Advisory Board, and The Women’s Home Advisory Board.  The company as well as Ms. Cole has received numerous awards and recognition for quality and leadership throughout the years. 

Her community work includes mentoring business owners, and young professionals, while supporting non-profits in education, health care, women and anti-hate. She actively

promotes Japan’s culture, traditions, exchanges, and business relations in Houston.     

Donna tells great stories in film, plays, and musicals about strong women and supportive men to inspire and motive millions of women to take care of themselves, their families and improve their communities. An investor in: I Dream Too Much, The Never List, and Lilly, Producer of a play: Breaking Out of Sunset Place and Producer of Lady of Agreda a musical.

ALF Class XXV has been a highlight in my life by developing life-long friendships, and working on the “Cradle to Prison Pipeline” to bring awareness to successful programs serving socially and economically challenged students and families. Other successful student programs include the Pipeline for the Sciences in Aldine ISD and The All Earth Ecobot Roboics Challenge in Harris County. 

Ms. Cole was a board member of the National Veterans Network to assist in obtaining the Congressional Gold Medal for the Japanese American Soldiers in WWII. 

 Board Member

Lynn Birdwell founded and skillfully produced for three award-winning production companies, working for blue chip clients. She has also served as an advertising agency broadcast producer, and in 2010 was tapped to line produce and direct the Gracie award-winning 3rd season of “The Little Couple” on TLC. A favorite in her career was field producing and interviewing Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg on his “Shoah Foundation” historical museum archives.

Today Lynn is the founder and executive producer for Bird House Productions, with the capacity to produce cutting edge work at any level of cost or complexity. With the ability to harness the creative energy, she understands the creative supply chain and provides a powerful foundation for content production. While solving for immediate solutions, she manages the processes required to address any production challenges. She is sought out to achieve the desired goals, from the relatively minor to the highly intricate, and her unique ability to build the perfect team for the highest quality performance on every project, regardless of size or scope.

Creative, organized, and deeply committed to communication from concept to completion, she has produced films, all levels of corporate communications, live events, documentaries, episodic series, commercials, music videos, branded content, social media and photography for world-class artists, production companies, directors, photographers, and global brand corporations. She is fluent and experienced, at a sophisticated level, in many production genres and business formats, which often require different systems and processes unique to that client or industry.

Skilled in strategic planning and analysis with multiple stakeholders of diverse perspectives and interests, Lynn can write and manage complex budgets, provide guidance through project development, real support to extensive teams, and optimize vendor rosters.

Awards she has been proud to receive for her work include the American Advertising Addy Awards, Telly Awards, WorldFest Awards, MTV Awards, UK Music Video Awards, Gracie Awards, and Cannes Lion, as well as being honored in museums world-wide, for artistic excellence.