Brief Bio: Jaynie Schultz (early fifties), is President and co-founder of Retreat Central, a “matchmaker” created to serve event planners looking for facilities outside the traditional hotel market. Retreat Central works with children’s summer camps which function as retreat centers during the school year. These retreat centers are affordable, accessible and dedicated to group events, while providing the camps with an additional source of revenue during their off-seasons.
In 1986 Jaynie and her mother, Leslie V. Schultz created the now-closed Garrett Creek Ranch retreat center and was its founding director of sales and marketing.
Non-profit/Board History: Jaynie is Commissioner, Dallas City Plan Commission and Chair of its Urban Design…show more content… She has also served on the boards of the Dallas Women’s Foundation and the Women’ Museum boards. Both Jaynie and her husband Ron have served on the Jewish Federation Greater Dallas’ board.
Family: Jaynie is married to Ron Romaner, owner of The Yiddishe Kup, a bakery housed on the Schultz Rosenberg campus and a Stay-At-Home-Dad to his and Jaynie’s five children
Her father is Howard Schultz, the founder and former Chairman of Howard Schultz & Associates, a provider of accounts-payable and auditing services that was acquired by Profit Recovery Group in 2002. Howard and Leslie Schultz have also been generous philanthropists in the Dallas Jewish community, most notably co-founding the Schultz-Rosenberg Campus, the home of the Akiba Academy and the Yavneh Academy-Jewish Day Schools.
She has a Master's degree in Urban Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington and has been a life-long resident of…show more content… Romaner HHS (2001) GST Trust and The J.S. Romaner LVS (2001) GST Trust, and co-trustee with her husband of The HHS Charitable Lead Trust and The LVS Charitable Lead Trust. It’s not known whether of any of these trusts are still in existence or how much they may be worth
Larkspur Data estimates that Jaynie’s net worth is between $5,000,000 and $9,999,999, based on real estate value, estimated income of $200,000-$300,000 and wealth indicators including savvy investor, an accredited investor and a “power spender.”
Philanthropy:
Schultz Fanily Foundation: Jaynie is the President of the Schultz Family Foundation (formerly the Howard and Leslie Schultz family Foundation. Since 2011 foundation, which maintains assets of about $3 million, has awarded approximately $350,000-$750,000 a year, most of which have been to Dallas-based Jewish non-profits.
The majority of these were in the $20,000 to $75,000 range, although each of these years, the foundation also made one larger gift in the low six-figures ($119,999-$304,000) to the Jewish Federation Greater Dallas.
Other recipients during included Akiba Academy of Dallas, Yaveh Academy, United Way Metro Dallas, Planned Parenthood Greater Texas and the Dallas Center for the Performing