Experience

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  The Commonwealth Club of California

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Chair, Business and Leadership Forum

    • 2016 - Present
    • San Francisco Bay Area
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  Tribal Code

  • Executive Producer

    • 1995 - Present

    Tribal Code is an interactive design, branding and corporate identity agency, implementing marketing and communication strategies for clients that result in positive disruption within their industries.Our approach is based on Whole Systems Design, integrating multiple aspects of a company's i...

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  ZenHeart

  • Founder and Producer

    • 2003 - 2018

    ZenHeart is working to change the paradigm of medicine and to engage “Lifestyle Intelligence” strategies to improve health and reduce chronic disease through several different channels. Making the connection with soil, food and health is critical to those objectives.Trained in nutrition, I have b...

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  Investors' Circle

  • Co- Producer

    • 2009 - 2010

    In 2009, I co-produced the first San Francisco conference for Investor's Circle broadening the base for the angel network through relationship building, membership outreach and strategic communication. The conference featured Carlo Petrini, founder Slow Food Italy, focusing in on the food, h...

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  CKS

  • Executive Producer and Account Director

    • 1997 - 1998

    At CKS, I led the creative team producing several national marketing campaigns for in-store multimedia presentation kiosks to promote technologies of Compaq. As Executive Producer, I managed the teams workflow, controlled timelines, budgets,and technologies for multiple projects. As Account Di...

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  Nash Bridges

  • Assistant to the Producers

    • 1995 - 1996

    Don Johnson (Miami Vice) and Carlton Cuse's (Lost) iconic television series was shot and produced in San Francisco. The founding season, as assistant to the Producers, I was responsible for coordinating team leaders of six departments with the producers, assisting with budgets and production...

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  Oxfam America Trading

  • Managing Director

    • 1990 - 1995

    As entrepreneur for Oxfam, I developed an international Fair Trade import business for Oxfam America, where people could "change the world through every day actions" by purchasing in a socially responsible way. Through our positioning and marketing, we elevated the crafts we imported t...

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  Bel Canto Restaurants

  • Founder and Entrepreneur

    • 1980 - 1989

    As Entrepreneur and Founder of six award winning Italian gourmet pizza restaurants, we invented the food we served. It redefined the category.We bought fresh ingredients direct from farmers long before the “local food” movement began. We seduced Harvard and MIT students into loving our food, wh...