Experience

Sun Valley Museum of Art
• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director of Strategic Advancement

  • Jun 2023 - Present


Emes Creative Studio

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and Strategy Consultant

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Emes Creative Studio helps people and businesses build beautiful products and programs, and creatively adapt to challenges and solve problems. I work with mission-driven start-ups, nonprofits, and companies focused on creating sustainable impact. I enjoy supporting leaders through strategic planning and implementation, program and product development, commercialization, people and culture management, and thought partnership. Emes Creative Studio helps people and businesses build beautiful products and programs, and creatively adapt to challenges and solve problems. I work with mission-driven start-ups, nonprofits, and companies focused on creating sustainable impact. I enjoy supporting leaders through strategic planning and implementation, program and product development, commercialization, people and culture management, and thought partnership.


The Better Bean Company
• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Sales Consultant

  • Jan 2023 - Present


Center for Ecoliteracy

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Jan 2019 - Jul 2021

  As the Executive Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of stewarding a leadership transition from the organization’s co-founder, taking the opportunity to re-imagine and position the organization for the next 25 years. Our team successfully navigated the Covid years and developed a five-year strategic plan that incorporated the social and structural learnings of such a transformative time. And we seized a temporal moment in California politics to imagine, design, co-sponsor, and win one of the great policy achievements in decades – the passing of the School Meals for All Act of 2021, making California the first state in the nation to incorporate school meals into every student’s educational day, now funded with over $2 billion. Show less

• • Mar 2018 - Dec 2018



Aboire Beverage Company

• General Manager

  • Feb 2017 - Mar 2018

  National private label organic, fermented beverage manufacturing. National private label organic, fermented beverage manufacturing.



The Lunch Trust

• Business and Strategy Consultant

  • Jan 2012 - Mar 2018

  I founded The Lunch Trust consultancy to support companies and organizations with product and program development in the food and beverage industry. I founded The Lunch Trust consultancy to support companies and organizations with product and program development in the food and beverage industry.

• Program Director

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2016

  Directed the California Food for California Kids program, a network of over 100 public school districts in California serving over 330 million freshly prepared, locally sourced meals a year. Developed the California Thursdays program that transformed how schools sourced and served fresh, sustainable meals. This innovative program that was nationally replicated, won over $3 million of federal and state funding, and was named one of the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture’s biggest funding successes. Show less



Acre Gourmet

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2011

  As a co-founder and Managing Director of Acre Gourmet, I cultivated a better food culture by bringing freshly prepared, local, seasonal and organic meals to students throughout the Bay Area. Our business was a leader in the sustainable food movement, and the first farm to school program in California. Connecting students, families, and farmers and managing our dedicated staff of 50 was a rewarding feeling everyday. In addition to our Real School Lunch program, we owned and operated three restaurants and a catering business rooted in our values of fresh, local, seasonal, and organic. Show less



Franck Muller Watchland SA

• Switzerland
• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Brand Manager

  • Jun 2003 - Dec 2004

  North American Brand Manager for global luxury watch brand North American Brand Manager for global luxury watch brand