San Joaquin Valley Regional Committee

Charles Ahlem
Owner, Charles Ahlem Ranch and Hilmar Cheese Company

John Bidart
Owner and Operator, Bidart Dairy; Co-Founder, California Bioenergy, LLC

Philip Bowles
Chairman, Bowles Farming Company

Emmy Cattani
Vice President, Cattani Farming

Greg Coleman
Vice President of Grower Relations, E. & J. Gallo Winery

John Diener
Owner, Red Rock Ranch

Michael Frantz
CEO, Frantz Wholesale Nursery

Dino Giacomazzi
Owner, Giacomazzi Dairy

Joseph MacIlvaine
President, EVP, Wonderuful Orchard

Kathy Wood McLaughlin
TKM Consulting Inc.

Soapy Mulholland
Executive Director, Sequoia Riverlands Trust

Chuck Nichols
President, Nichols Farm and Nichols Pistachio; Owner, Sierra View Farms

David Orth
Principal, New Current Water and Land, LLC

David Villarino-Gonzalez
President and CEO, Farmworker Institute of Education and Leadership Development

Alejandra Sanchez
Sustainability Manager, Olam International Limited

Southern California Regional Committee

Portia Cohen
Strategic Market Liaison, UCLA Health System

Victoria Seaver Dean
President, The Seaver Institute

A.G. Kawamura
Owner/Partner, Orange County Produce, LLC

Sarah Ketterer
Chief Executive Officer, Causeway Capital Management LLC

Peggy Lauer
Administrator and Human Services Program Director, Marisla Foundation

Randall Martinez
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Cordoba Corporation

Lawry Meister
President, Creative Office Properties

Adán Ortega, Jr.
Principal, Ortega Strategies Group

Tina Quinn, Committee Chair
Co-Founder, Sustainable Conservation; Personal and Small Business Coach; Manages Family-Owned Real Estate

Wendy Wachtell
President, Joseph Drown Foundation

Making Big Ideas Work Leadership Committee

Charles Ahlem
Owner, Charles Ahlem Ranch and Hilmar Cheese Company

Chris Buchbinder
Partner, Capital Group Companies

Sally Falkenhagen
Community Volunteer

Corny Gallagher
Senior Vice President – Food, Agriculture and Wine Executive, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Charlene Harvey
Community Leader

Cynthia Hunter Lang
Director of Business Development for Brazil, Urban Innovation Exchange

Steve McCormick, Committee Co-Chair
Co-Founder, Earth Genome Project

Craig McNamara
President and Owner, Sierra Orchards; President, California Board of Food and Agriculture

Tina Quinn
Co-Founder, Sustainable Conservation; Personal and Small Business Coach; Manages Family-Owned Real Estate

Jennifer Sokolove
Program Director, Compton Foundation

Paul Wenger
President, California Farm Bureau Federation

Marketing and Communications Volunteer

Ann Iverson
Founder and Principal, Iverson Marketing Communications

PlantRight Steering Committee