Our Board

Elizabeth Fout has served the Florida Lions Eye Bank since 1998, when she joined as a recovery technician. In 2005, Fout Buras assumed the role of Executive Director and has successfully led the Florida Lions Eye Bank through regulatory changes, technological advances, financial restructuring, and unprecedented growth. Fout Buras holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in Hospital Services Administration from Florida International University.

In addition to her role as Executive Director of the eye bank, Elizabeth has been awarded the management of the day to day planning and operations for the Beauty of Sight Foundation as the organization's Executive Director.

Michele has dedicated her life to helping others and providing a voice for those without one. Before entering into the world of charity, Michele studied business in her home city of Lyon, France where she obtained a master’s degree. After graduating, Michele worked for some of the largest companies in the world including Coca-Cola and Pago where she received professional sales training and organizational skills.

After working for several years for large corporations, Michele was called to serve those in need and left the corporate world to join Youth with a Mission, where she spent the next four years as a full-time volunteer providing micro-business training for underprivileged communities in developing nations such as Mongolia, South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, and Thailand, as well as raising awareness about human trafficking in underprivileged communities in the developed world in places such as Las Vegas, Sicily, France and Miami. When Michele arrived in the US to start her family, she turned her attention to event management and formed a pop-up gallery and a company that provides gourmet cooking lessons. Today, Michele is once again focused on helping others and serves as the Business development Director for Beauty of Sight Foundation. Michele is happily married with a little boy and little girl.

Andre Doren provides the entrepreneurial marketing and branding expertise that has made him successful at developing and growing marketing architectures and brands for domestic and multinational organizations.

Andre successfully created, launched, and managed marketing architectures for nonprofit and profit brands in senior marketing executive roles, working broad domestic and global markets for companies like United Colors of Benetton, NationsHealth, and international pharmaceutical companies Bioseutica and K.D. Pharma. He created and managed the NationsHealth & Cigna Medicare Part D national launch, the second-largest social program in the U.S.

In 1992, he founded the Americas communication division based in Miami, Florida, for United Colors of Benetton, where he spent 13 years working in the U.S. and Latin America developing and managing Benetton's marketing communications. He successfully created and managed partnerships between Benetton and other multinationals (Unilever) and governments (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and others, including all of Central America and the Caribbean), global organizations such as the U.N., Organization of Americas States (O.E.A.), UNICEF, S.O.S. Racism and local institutions (CONASIDA, UNAIDS) to support the development and execution of social, cultural, and educational marketing and branding campaigns.

Andre managed account and creative teams for agencies such as Young Rubicam, J.W.T. (Hispania), and Grey earlier in his career. He is a lifetime member of the Direct Marketing Association (ECHO Judge Awards) and the National Society of Hispanic M.B.A's. He holds a B.A. from New York University and received his M.B.A. from NOVA Southeastern University's Huizenga Business School. Today, Andre generates organizational growth by successfully managing the marketing and branding of organizations, products, and services across all business disciplines.