Meet the Team

Paul Borda, Founder and President

Paul has over 20 years of technology and healthcare experience, ranging from startup leadership to client success and business development oversight for some of the country’s best known healthcare support organizations. Accomplishments include launching one of the earliest electronic procurement platforms for a global Fortune 500 company, and helping create the country’s first healthcare Managed Service Provider, now a $15b industry. Paul also created the business model to staff COVID-19 vaccination operations for the second largest healthcare provider in New England, resulting in over 600,000 vaccinated patients within 4 months - while also saving the client over $3M in staffing costs. Paul’s commitment to teamwork, creative solutions and organizational culture are hallmarks of his career.
Paul lives in Santa Clarita, CA where he and his wife of 28 years raised their two adult children. When not delivering top quality services to clients and their families, he enjoys spending time with his family, hitting the open road in search of adventure, doing just about anything outdoors and making people laugh. Paul holds two degrees, including a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Johnson & Wales University.

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Vanessa Angulo, BCBA, Clinical Director

Vanessa is a devoted clinician with over 10 years working in the field of ABA. She holds a degree in Neuroscience from UCLA and her Masters degree in Behavior Analysis from Florida Institute of Technology. Her earlier experience was working with teenagers and adults addressing high intensity behaviors. She has since expanded her clinical repertoire to include younger children with a focus on caregiver support. She has originated Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion special interest groups for more culturally inclusive care for clients and staff management. She's been a guest lecturer at local universities and staff trainer for various school districts in the Los Angeles area. She continues to work with a non-profit that aims to prevent hospitalizations and decrease police involvement for special needs individuals by consulting with their prevention, intervention, and follow-up teams.
Outside of work, you'll find her biking on the beach, snowboarding on a mountain, or at a Dodgers game. She is a dedicated dog mom and tia (aunt) to several nieces, nephews, and furbabies.

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Sharon Clark, BCBA, Associate Clinical Director

With over a decade of experience in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Sharon brings both expertise and heart to her role as Associate Clinical Director. Her journey began as a dedicated Behavior Technician, where she discovered the life-changing potential of ABA. Over the years, she advanced to a supervisory role and eventually became a clinical leader driven by a steadfast belief in the science and its power to create meaningful change. Her favorite quote is:

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”- Maya Angelou

As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and Board Certified Autism Practitioner (BCAP), she remains committed to providing ethical, compassionate, and evidence-based care to the clients and families she serves. She is especially passionate about mentoring clinicians and empowering teams to deliver high-quality interventions that promote growth and independence.

Working for ABA Therapy Partners has been an incredibly rewarding experience. Sharon shares, “I’m so proud to be part of a company that truly values its clients, its staff, and the mission of making a lasting impact.”

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Nancy Rodriguez, MS, BCBA, Clinical Supervisor

Nancy Rodriguez received her masters of science at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has been in the field of ABA for 14 years working with a variety of individuals. Starting as a behavior technician, Nancy found the field of ABA to be her passion and continued on to become a parent trainer and later, a clinical supervisor. Nancy's goal as a clinical supervisor is to bring each family and client a sense of independence, and to be heard and seen for what their individual needs are. When Nancy is not working you can find her competing in movie trivia, watching the Raiders, and co-hosting movie review podcasts with her friends.

Alyssa Mehnert, Client Success Lead

Native of Southern California and graduate from UCLA. Alyssa has a background in Operations Management and Human Resources. In 2009, her son was diagnosed with Developmental Delay and later Autism. She has dedicated the past 11 years of her life to overseeing her son’s needs through Early Intervention, IEPs, ABA Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy and Physical Therapy. As a parent, she is in a unique position to handle client needs, being she was there herself not too long ago. On her time off, Alyssa enjoys traveling, hunting for vintage treasure and researching family genealogy.

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Rey Gabonada, Scheduling Lead

Nurse by profession. Rey has been compassionate towards caring for both patient and client a like, with over 6 years of experience in the field of clinical process outsourcing. Rey is committed to supporting his teams to ensure optimized efficiency. Currently works hand in hand with our staff to ensure staff schedule are being addressed real time and provide back office support for our staff.

Rey also provides extensive recruitment support to ensure ABA Therapy Partners is always hiring top talent to support the organizations mission. Outside of the office he is a motorcycle enthusiast who loves going out for adventure rides.

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