Kitty Yannone is a well-known and respected entrepreneur and community leader with over 30 years of experience in public relations, issues management, and crisis communications.  She was a founding board member and the first executive director of Hawaiʻi’s Ronald McDonald House. She met Dr. Richard Kelley when ‘Doc’ reached out to donate hotel rooms to families with critically ill children while the Ronald McDonald House was being established. Kitty began her public relations career at Communications Pacific (CommPac) and her first client was Dr. Kelley, who hired CommPac to help him in his efforts to secure a convention center for Hawai‘i. They have worked together on a wide variety of projects for the past 33 years.