OUR TEAM
Staff
Bri Gonzalez
Community Partnerships Manager
Cynthia Ni
Director of Innovation Programs
Gehad Elhanafy
Program Associate
Gloriamar Gamez
Chief Program Officer
Jessica Hilboldt
Program Associate
Karen Warner
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Krystal R. Acierto
VP of Public Policy & Development
Maria Olide
Founding Chief Operating & Financial Officer, BEAM Circular
Monica Garcia
Director of Finance & Operations
Jovanna Anaya
BEAM Circular Extern
Sponsored by Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
Nancy Martinez
Community Prosperity Lead
Neal Best
VP of Business and Economic Development
Giulianna Mendez
BEAM Circular Extern
Sponsored by Rising Sun Center for Opportunity
Sophia Potochnik
Program Intern
Sadie Speer
Operations Associate
Board of Directors
Ann Veneman
Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture & CA Secretary of Food & Agriculture
Lenny Mendonca
Former Chief Economic and Business Advisor, State of California
Michelle Reimers, Board Chair
Former General Manager, Turlock Irrigation District
Richard Cummings
Infrastructure Advisory, KPMG LLP
Advisors
Adrienne McKee
Technical Advisor
Partner, Hawkwood Biotech Partners
Deepti Tanjore
Technical Advisor
Director, Advanced Biofuels & Bioproducts Process Development Unit, Berkeley Lab
Egon Terplan
Advisor, Land Use & Public Policy
Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley and Brookings Metro
Gerardo Diaz
Technical Advisor
Professor, UC Merced
James Gardner
Technical Advisor
Program Manager, Berkeley Lab
Blake Simmons
Technical Advisor
Division Director, Biological Systems and Engineering, Berkeley Lab
Jim DeKloe
Advisor, Workforce Development
Distinguished Professor & Founder, Industrial Biotechnology Program of Solano College
Josette Lewis
Advisor, Agriculture
Chief Scientific Officer, Almond Board of CA
Yamilet Valladolid, MPH
Community Advisor
Adrenna Alkhas
Communications Manager