Fighting Cancer Worldwide
Since 2012

About The History of E.R.I.C.

Board Of Directors

Jim Gerencser

Jim is the Founder and Past President of Nationwide Auto Services, one of the largest OEM, VPC, and OES service companies in the country helping auto manufacturers around the world. While serving as President of Nationwide Auto Services, Inc., Jim founded Early Recognition Is Critical (E.R.I.C.), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) cancer education organization which teaches youth to be active, body aware, and to speak up when something is wrong with their body. He currently serves on the Executive Board for E.R.I.C., and is active in numerous philanthropic activities around the world.

Eric Gerencser

Eric Gerencser is a Survivor of three incidences of childhood cancer and both the inspiration and the namesake for Early Recognition Is Critical. He currently serves on the E.R.I.C. Board of Directors and is the President of Nationwide Auto Services.

Laura Gerencser

Laura obtained her bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She is an Assistant Project Manager at L.S. Brinker, and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Laura has been a volunteer for E.R.I.C. since its inception in 2012. In her free time, she enjoys playing Ultimate, a sport she has been involved with since playing on the UT Austin’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team.

Carman Kobza

Carman Kobza is the creator of India’s first viable Breast Health Education & Digital Screening program. Born and raised between the Czech and German immigrant settled farming communities of Praha and Freyburg, Texas, Carman led an international executive career with travels to over 80 countries. He then founded a women’s focused digital diagnostics company in Bangalore in 2015. With an efficient yet personalized “We Come to You” approach, Carman exerts full passion to end an unconscionable world affliction – Needless Breast Cancer. LadyBWell – THE BREAST HEALTH PEOPLE launched to rapidly expand the reach and impact by offering a welcoming, certified & de-stigmatized women’s health experience to developing countries worldwide.

Eric Waite

Eric Waite is the Executive Vice President of The Talent Corporation in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and is a Personnel/Staffing expert. He has volunteered for a number of community-based organizations, including E.R.I.C. Like many of the E.R.I.C. Board and staff members, he feels a calling to volunteer for groups that support cancer prevention and the best-available treatments due to losing a close family member to the disease.

Florentino Ramirez

Florentino is an attorney practicing in international transactions and as outside corporate counsel. His practice also involves all aspects of doing business abroad with a focus in Latin American and Spain. He directs the firm’s immigration practice, where focus areas include employment and investment immigration. Among his business clients, Florentino has represented various non-profit organizations in the US and abroad.

Florentino was elected to the Board of Directors for the State Bar of Texas where he served from 2013 –2016. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Texas Bar Foundation from 2016 – 2022, serving as its Chair in 2019-2020. He has also served as Secretary/Treasurer and Member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Bar Association, as well as the Board of Directors of the Dallas Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Our Team Members

Our Partnership with LadyBWell

Go to our Partner, Lady Be Well’s website and learn more about self breast examination for early detection of breast cancer.

THE BRACELET: Crafted with care by a team of individuals on the autism spectrum, adds another beautiful element to ERIC’s, in partnership with LadyBWell, ultimate goal of providing low-tech cancer recognition tools. This bracelet is made to assist women in reducing preventable breast cancer deaths. The beads are specifically chosen to show the size of lumps to feel for during a self breast examination.

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