OUR TEAM
Team
Adrienne McKee
Head of Campus Development & Industry Innovation
Bri Gonzalez
Community Partnerships Manager
Cynthia Ni
Director of Innovation Programs
Darko Mandich
Managing Director, BEAM Circular Accelerator, gener8tor
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
Monica Garcia
Director of Finance & Operations
Nancy Martinez
Community Prosperity Lead
Neal Best
VP of Business and Economic Development
Rebecca Odim
BioCircular Valley Product Lead
See Lee
Director of Education & Workforce Strategies
Sadie Speer
Operations Associate
Sophia Potochnik
Program Intern
Board of Directors
Michelle Reimers, Board Chair
Former General Manager,
Turlock Irrigation District
Ann Veneman
Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture & CA Secretary of Food & Agriculture
Lenny Mendonca
Former Chief Economic and Business Advisor, State of California
Richard Cummings
Infrastructure Advisory, KPMG LLP
Maria Olide
Founding Chief Operating & Financial Officer, BEAM Circular
Advisors
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