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1810 Gallery ...... 22 CBRE ...... 65 Front Street Animal Shelter ...... 58 3fold Communications ...... 72 CBS13/CW31 ...... 74 FSB Core Strategies ...... 71 Adventist Health ...... 42 Center for Land-Based Learning ...... 45 Fulcrum Property ...... 62 AECOM ...... 64 Chrisa Pappas ...... 76 Future Automotive Group ...... 28 Aerojet Rocketdyne ...... 31 City of Sacramento ...... 52 Genovese Burford & Brothers ...... 32, 33 Agile Global Solutions ...... 34 City of West Sacramento ...... 52 Gilbert, CPAs ...... 78 AgreeYa Solutions ...... 35 Clark/Sullivan Construction Inc...... 64 Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates ...... 47 AKT Development ...... 67 Closed Loop ...... 70 Golden 1 Credit Union ...... 29, 80 AKT Investments ...... 62 Colliers International ...... 65 Golden Pacific Bank ...... 29 ALLDATA ...... 35 Congregation B’nai Israel ...... 55 Greater Sacramento Economic Council ... 60 Alluma ...... 33 Cordano Company ...... 63 Habitat for Humanity of Greater Allworth Financial ...... 33 Corti Brothers ...... 48 Sacramento ...... 57 American River Bank ...... 29 Cosumnes River College ...... 39 Hanson Bridgett LLP ...... 80 American River College ...... 39 CPOPP WORKSHOP ...... 76 Harvego Companies ...... 47 Ann M. Evans Consulting ...... 44 Crocker Art Museum ...... 23 Harvest Law Group ...... 79 Ascent Environmental ...... 79 Crowe LLP ...... 78 Heller Pacific ...... 67 Augustine Agency ...... 70 Cushman & Wakefield ...... 64 Hermocillo-Azevedo Strategic Axiom Advisors ...... 78 David Sobon Events ...... 22 Communications LLC ...... 78 Bardis Homes ...... 66 Davis Joint Unified School District ...... 39 Honey ...... 71 Birdies ...... 75 Delegata ...... 34 Hunter Angler Gardener Cook ...... 45 BlackPine Communities ...... 65 Design Shop Interiors ...... 76 Hyatt Regency Sacramento...... 58 Blue Diamond Growers ...... 44 de Vere’s Irish Pub ...... 48 Intel Corporation ...... 35 Bogle Vineyards ...... 46 Dignity Health, Greater Sacramento Irish Hospitality Group ...... 48 Brewer Lofgren LLP ...... 81 Service Area ...... 40 JAYJAY ...... 22, 23 B Street Theatre ...... 23 DiverseCity Ventures ...... 31 Jeanne Reaves Consulting ...... 31 Buehler ...... 79 Downey Brand LLP ...... 79, 80, 81 Kaiser Permanente/Roseville ...... 41 Buzz Oates ...... 62 Downtown Sacramento Partnership ...... 59 Kaiser Permanente/ Sacramento ...... 41 California Chamber of Commerce ...... 57 Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Kaiser Permanente/South Sacramento ....42 California Craft Brewers Association ...... 46 Campora, LLP ...... 81 KCRA KQCA My58 ...... 74 California Department of Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture ...... 76 Kerrie Kelly Design Lab ...... 77 Business Oversight ...... 52 Edelman ...... 70 KFBK ...... 74 California Department of Water Resources 59 Elmets Communications ...... 70 Kitchell CEM, Inc...... 64 California Hospital Association ...... 41 Entercom Communications ...... 74 Kleinfelder ...... 79 California Medical Association ...... 40 Eskaton ...... 40 Knee Deep Brewing Company ...... 45 California State Controller’s Office ...... 55 Ethan Conrad Properties, Inc...... 63 KPMG LLP ...... 79 California State Governor’s Office ...... 54 Faithmari Inc...... 72 Kru Restaurant ...... 46 California State Supreme Court ...... 55 Farm Fresh To You ...... 44 KTXL-TV Fox 40 ...... 75 California State Teachers’ Felderstein Fitzgerald Willoughby KXTV-TV ABC10 ...... 74 Retirement System ...... 52 & Pascuzzi LLP ...... 81 Lasher Automotive Group ...... 28 California Strategies, LLC ...... 77, 78 First Northern Bank ...... 30 LDK Ventures ...... 62, 64 CalPERS ...... 52, 53 Five Star Bank ...... 29 Lenahan, Lee, Slater, Pearse Canon ...... 47 Folsom Cordova Unified School District ...38 & Majernik, LLP ...... 80 Capital Public Radio ...... 73, 75 Folsom Lake College ...... 38 Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP ...... 80 Capital Stage Company ...... 23 Folsom Lake Kia/Ford ...... 28 LPAS, Inc...... 77 Capitol Advocacy ...... 77 Food Literacy Center ...... 44 Lucas Public Affairs ...... 72 Capitol Area Development Authority ...... 54 Fortuna Business Management Lyon Real Estate ...... 65 Catholic Diocese of Sacramento ...... 56 Consulting ...... 31 Maren Conrad Fine Art ...... 22

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Marrone Bio Innovations Inc...... 35 Sacramento Ballet ...... 23 Sutter Health ...... 41 Mel Rapton Honda ...... 28 Sacramento Bee ...... 73, 75 Taylor Morrison ...... 66 Mercy Pedalers, Inc...... 56 Sacramento Children’s Home ...... 57 Teichert Foundation ...... 36 Merrill Lynch Wealth Management ...... 32 Sacramento City College ...... 39 Temple Coffee Inc...... 46 MGK Style ...... 75 Sacramento City Unified School District ...38 Tesco Controls ...... 31 Micron Technology ...... 34 Sacramento County ...... 53, 54 The People of Sacramento ...... 76 Miry Development ...... 66 Sacramento County Department The Waterboy ...... 47 Morgan Stanley Wealth Management ...... 33 of Airports ...... 59, 60 Thomas Law Group ...... 81 Mraz Brewing Company ...... 45 Sacramento County District Tim Collom Realtor Group of Dunnigan ....65 MTA Inspired Spaces ...... 77 Attorney’s Office ...... 53 Tri Counties Bank ...... 30 Mulvaney’s B&L ...... 46, 47 Sacramento Food Bank & Family UC Davis ...... 38 Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP ....80 Services ...... 60 UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer New Home Company ...... 66 Sacramento Kings ...... 24, 77 Center ...... 42 Newmark Knight Frank ...... 63 Sacramento LGBT Community Center ....59 UC Davis Health ...... 40 News & Review...... 74 Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality UC Davis MIND Institute ...... 40 Next Generation Foods ...... 44 Management District ...... 59 UC Davis School of Law ...... 38 Niello Company ...... 28 Sacramento Metropolitan Arts un/common ...... 70 Nugget Markets ...... 36 Commission ...... 22 United Auburn Indian Community ...... 54 OpenNotes ...... 72 Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber Uptown Studios ...... 71 Pacific Coast Building Products ...... 30 of Commerce ...... 58 Urban Hive ...... 73 Pacific Ethanol, Inc...... 32 Sacramento Municipal Utility District...... 59 USA Properties Fund Inc...... 65 Panattoni Development Company, Inc...... 63 Sacramento Public Library Authority ...... 58 U.S. Bank ...... 30 Pangaea Bier Cafe ...... 45 Sacramento Regional Transit District ...... 60 U.S. District Court ...... 53 Pappas Investments ...... 63 Sacramento Republic FC ...... 24 U.S. House of Representatives ...... 53 Paragary Restaurant Group ...... 47, 48 Sacramento River Cats ...... 24 Vanir Construction Management ...... 64 Parker Development Company ...... 62 Sacramento State University ...... 39 Verge Center for the Arts ...... 22 Passmore Ranch ...... 44 Sacramento Tree Foundation ...... 56 Violence Prevention Research Program ....41 PBS KVIE ...... 73 Sacramento Valley Conservancy ...... 55 Visionary Integration Professionals ...... 34 Perry Communications Group ...... 71 Sacramento Zoo ...... 56 Visit California ...... 57 Petrovich Development Company ...... 67 SAFE Credit Union...... 30 Visit Sacramento ...... 56 Platinum Advisors, LLC ...... 78 Sagent ...... 70 Von Housen Automotive Group ...... 28 PowerSchool Group ...... 34 Schools Financial Credit Union ...... 30 VSP Global ...... 40 PRIDE Industries ...... 58 Segal & Associates, PC...... 81 Wallrich Creative Communications ...... 72 Raley’s ...... 36 Selland Family Restaurants ...... 46, 48 WEAVE ...... 57 Randle Communications ...... 71 Sierra Club of California ...... 56 Wells Fargo ...... 32, 36 R. Douglas Custom Clothier ...... 75 Sierra College ...... 39 Wells Fargo/Northern & Rhombus Systems ...... 36 Sierra Health Foundation ...... 31 Central California ...... 29 River City Bank ...... 29 SKK Developments ...... 62 Wells Fargo Private Bank ...... 33 Riverview Capital Investments ...... 67 SkySlope ...... 35 Western Health Advantage ...... 41 River West Investments ...... 63 Startup Sac ...... 34, 35 Westlake, Grahl, and Glover ...... 32 Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce ....58 State of California ...... 53, 54, 55 Wonderful Union ...... 23 Roseville City School District ...... 38 StoneBridge Properties, LLC ...... 66 Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation ...... 54 Runyon Saltzman, Inc...... 71, 72 Studio Plumb...... 76 Sacramento Area Council of Sullivan Auto Group ...... 36 Governments ...... 57 Sunworks, Inc...... 32

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Steven ...... 28 Tsakopoulos, Angelo...... 67 Bosworth, Michael ...... 44 Grinzewitsch, George...... 28 Loveday, Lance...... 70 Plumb, Rebecca ...... 76 Tsakopoulos Demos, Chrysa 62 Bowes, John ...... 39 Gulati, Hardeep...... 34 Lowe, David ...... 73 Popp, Curtis...... 76 Vail, Brian ...... 63 Brennan, David ...... 65 Gumpert, Ben...... 24 Lubarsky, David ...... 40 Raley Teel, Joyce...... 60 VandenBerg, Scott...... 58 Bretón, Marcos ...... 73 Gustus, Lauren ...... 73 Lucas, Donna ...... 72 Ranadivé, Vivek ...... 24 Van Vleck, Stan...... 81 Broome, Barry ...... 60 Gutierrez, Michael...... 39 Lucchetti, David J...... 30 Randle, Jeff ...... 71 Varela, Virginia A...... 29 Brothers, Kelly ...... 33 Guyette, Michael ...... 40 Mahan, Rick...... 47 Rapton, Katina...... 28 Vollmann, William...... 25 Brown, Geoffrey ...... 65 Hahn, Ginger ...... 47 Maisel, Garry ...... 41 Reaves, Jeanne...... 31 vonKaenel, Jeff ...... 74 Burner, Shaun...... 22 Hammonds, Ryan Douglas ....75 Mangat, Satwinder ...... 35 Reiner, Scott ...... 42 Vrilakas, Ron ...... 67 Busfield, Buck ...... 23 Haneke, Mark...... 60 Marriott, Tim ...... 30 Reynolds, Tina...... 71 Walker, Louise A...... 30 Bush, Edward ...... 39 Harting, Laurie...... 40 Marrone, Pamela ...... 35 Reynoso, Randall...... 29 Walker, Nancy...... 79 Cabaldon, Christopher ...... 52 Hanson, Scott...... 33 Matsui, Doris ...... 53 Richard, Lance ...... 74 Wallrich, Lila...... 72 Camillo-Bennett, Rachael. . . . . 77 Harvego, Terry...... 47 May, Gary S...... 38 Ritchie, David E...... 29 Ward, Jonna ...... 34 Cantil-Sakauye, Tani...... 55 Hassett, Beth ...... 57 McClain, Pat ...... 33 Roberts, Anthony ...... 54 Warne, William...... 79 Cargile, Charles F...... 32 Heitstuman, David ...... 59 McCormack, Matt...... 32 Robertson, Scott ...... 30 Weber, Brandon ...... 73 Carson, Kevin ...... 66 Heller, Michael ...... 67 McCormick, Tom...... 46 Robinson Fleener, Janlynn ....80 Webre, John ...... 76 Cecchi, Brad ...... 47 Herget, Jordan ...... 41 McCown, Kelly...... 48 Rodriguez, Trish ...... 42 Westlake, Stephen ...... 32 Chan, Howard ...... 52 Hermocillo, Jose ...... 78 McElmoyl, Shawn...... 33 Roughton, Dave...... 30 White, Bob...... 78 Clark Lofgren, Martha ...... 81 Hewitt, Chet P...... 31 Meehan, Eddie...... 23 Ruyak, Beth ...... 75 White, Leigh...... 75 Collom, Tim ...... 65 Holben, Christopher ...... 71 Meng, Yu (Ben)...... 52 Salazar, Joe ...... 80 Whitehead, Steve...... 64 Conrad, Ethan ...... 63 Hooker, Scott ...... 79 Menoufy, Kais...... 34 Salmi, Liz ...... 72 Whitehouse, Gene...... 54 Conrad, Maren...... 22 Hopkins, Kelly...... 55 Miller, Leah ...... 57 Saltzman, Estelle ...... 72 Williams, Amber ...... 70 Coogler, Ryan...... 25 Jacobs, Jason ...... 56 Miry, Bay...... 66 Sanchez, Melissa...... 79 Wintemute, Garen...... 41 Corcoran, Dustin ...... 40 Jacobs, Matthew...... 53 Moe, Liv...... 22 Sass, Rivkah ...... 58 Woodruff, Kären ...... 32 Cordano, James ...... 63 Jakobs, Gary ...... 79 Moore, Jerry ...... 45 Sater, Randy ...... 66 Wortel, Gary ...... 75 Corless, James...... 57 Jansen, Mark ...... 44 Mraz, Michael ...... 45 Saunders, Wendy ...... 54 Yamamura, Whitney I ...... 38 Corti, Darrell ...... 48 Jaworski, Leyla ...... 76 Mulvaney, Bobbin ...... 47 Savage, Susan ...... 24 Yee, Betty ...... 55 Cox, Nathan...... 30 Johnson, Kevin R...... 38 Mulvaney, Patrick...... 46 Schaedler, Tim...... 63 Yoder, Craig...... 78 Coyle, Carmela ...... 41 Jolley, Lynda ...... 22 Murch, Todd ...... 40 Schubert, Anne Marie ...... 53 Young, Blake ...... 60 Craycroft, Jim ...... 79 Jones, Beth ...... 23 Murchison, Tim ...... 64 Segal, Malcolm ...... 81 Zaremberg, Allan...... 57 DeLong, Kierstan...... 70 Jones, Lial...... 23 Nagle, Kevin M...... 24 Selland, Randall ...... 48 Zehnder, Lauren ...... 45 de Vere White, Henry ...... 48 Kaul, Ajay ...... 35 Nelsen, Robert S...... 39 Seiwert, Amy ...... 23 Ziegler, Michael...... 58 de Vere White, Simon ...... 48 Kelley, Denton...... 64 Nelson, Josh ...... 46 Serna, Phil...... 54

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Sacramento native Shaun Burner is a mu- Jason Silva is a partner and design princi- Lynda Jolley and her business partner, ralist whose work graces the walls of build- pal at Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture, Beth Jones, launched their contemporary ings locally and globally. Raised in a family where he frequently incorporates techno- art gallery, JAYJAY, in 2000. The gallery’s of artists, he says that “both sides of my logical advances into his designs and fab- stable includes about 20 of the region’s family are highly creative, so I have been rications. Operating since 1950, Dreyfuss most respected artists. Before opening surrounded by art and music my entire + Blackford has o ces in Sacramento and JAYJAY, Jolley was owner and director of life.” Burner is the co-owner of 1810 Gallery San Francisco. In 2015, Silva was appoint- the alternative gallery Big Art from 1992 to and a founder of the collective M5 Arts, ed to the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts 2000. She has lectured at the Crocker Art which produced Art Hotel and Art Street, Commission. The Sacramento native also Museum and served on the boards of direc- immersive art experiences that showcased serves as vice president of communica- tors for the Center for Contemporary Art the work of dozens of artists. tions and public a‡airs for the American and Uptown Arts. Institute of Architects, California Council. FIRST JOB Paper delivery boy A national lecturer on environmental and WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK It was a passion TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The ephemeral technological innovations, Silva previously that turned into a career. nature of life, the passing of close people both served as creative director for TEDx Sacra- FIRST JOB Ranch hand at a summer camp literally and metaphorically, and learning to let mento. In 2017, Silva and colleague Ginger BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Say yes to the go and continue to embrace the moment Thompson created a 1,200-square-foot art client and figure out how to do the job as soon HOBBY Climbing trees piece for ArtStreet. as you get it! ADVICE FOR MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF Stay FAVORITE BOOK AND MOVIE The Princess focused on your craft; don’t waste time getting EDUCATION Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Bride by William Goldman wasted. Virginia Tech FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS Lon- CAUSES Sol Collective, rent control, Black don and Paris Lives Matter, Dreamers WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I ask myself this all Be kind! the time. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB BUCKET LIST Yearlong “spraycation” Docent at the Crocker Art Museum

David Liv Maren Sobon Moe Conrad Owner/Founder Founding Director Artist/Muralist David Sobon Events Verge Center for the Arts Maren Conrad Fine Art

Auctioneer David Sobon has worked with hundreds of foundations, nonprofits, ser- Artist, curator, writer and arts administra- Artist Maren Conrad is best known for her vice and religious groups and associations tor Liv Moe founded and runs Verge Center public murals, although she also works around the country to help them meet their for the Arts, a contemporary art center and in metal leaf and layered resin. Her first fundraising goals. He is an active member artist residency. She maintains an active mural—a giant koi painted on the side of of the Association of Fundraising Profes- studio practice and has shown her work the MARRS building and titled Prosperity sionals and the National Auctioneers Asso- at the Richard L. Nelson Fine Art Collec- Through Perseverance—pays tribute to the ciation. He founded Wide Open Walls, one tion, Sonoma Art Center and the Crocker Chinese workers who built the railroads. of the largest mural festivals in the country, Art Museum. Under her leadership, Verge Her work is held in private collections by and he serves on the board of directors of transitioned from a commercial gallery to Dignity Health, Accenture, Kaiser Perma- the Sacramento Metro Chamber Founda- a nonprofit art center, merging with the nente and Hotel Napa, among others. tion. Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento. MOST INSPIRING PERSON Mary Daffin Sacramento State University, Being a widow, WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK My love of the EDUCATION TOUGHEST CHALLENGE arts motivated me to create a nonprofit with a UC Davis raising a baby boy to become a man who is a goal of art for all. HIDDEN TALENT I play cello. genuine asset to the world The only world I’ve occupied longer I pick a new thing to gain BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Do what makes HOBBIES HIDDEN TALENT you happy. than the art world is the punk scene. Remaining proficiency in every two years. Currently learn- connected to that scene and my friends within ing to throw ninja stars. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was on a billboard for the opening of Marriott’s Great America playing it is how I stay sane. FAVORITE BOOK The Subtle Art of Not a clarinet in a Dixieland jazz band. FAVORITE MOVIES Nights of Cabiria and Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson Killer of Sheep Sayuli- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Any- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION where in the world that has street art FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO ta, Mexico The Old City Cemetery Attacking the FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT WHAT MOTIVATES YOU I’m writing a book of essays. urban planning gender gap by inspiring play VISIT Sunflower Drive-In for lunch BUCKET LIST through artistic placemaking CHARITIES The Chevo Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network BUCKET LIST Doing five minutes of standup comedy

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Lial Amy Buck Jones Seiwert Busfi eld Mort and Marcy Friedman Artistic Director Co-founder/Producing Artistic Director/ CEO Sacramento Ballet Director Crocker Art Museum B Street Theatre

Kansas City native Lial Jones has worked Before becoming artistic director of the Buck Busfi eld is the founder and produc- as director of the Crocker Art Museum Sacramento Ballet in 2018, Amy Seiwert ing director of B Street Theatre, one of the since 1999. The fi rst public art museum in enjoyed a 19-year-long career dancing with most signifi cant new-works theaters on the West, the Crocker is currently raising ballet companies in Sacramento, San Fran- the West Coast. Busfi eld and his brother, funds for a $40 million expansion project cisco and Los Angeles. The late Michael Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfi eld, that will increase gallery, event and parking Smuin mentored her, and upon retiring founded the theater in 1991 as a sister com- space. Earlier, Jones led a campaign that from dancing in 2008, she became chore- pany for Fantasy Theatre, a touring theater raised more than $120 million to fi nance ographer in residence at the Smuin Ballet for children. Over the years, Busfi eld has the Teel Family Pavilion, a 125,000-square- in San Francisco. Dance Magazine named produced more than 100 plays, including foot addition that opened in 2010. Under her to its list of “25 to Watch,” and her world premieres by some of the country’s Jones, the collection has increased by 50 works are in the repertory of ballets in Aus- top playwrights. As a playwright, Busfi eld percent, museum sta‹ ng by 100 percent, tin, Atlanta, Milwaukee and her hometown twice won the Sacramento Metropolitan and attendance by 150 percent. Before of Cincinnati, among others. Arts Commission’s New Works Award. coming to Sacramento, Jones worked for After several decades on B Street, the 20 years as deputy director at Delaware Art WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Dance is the art company moved into The Sofi a Tsakopou- Museum. form where I feel most alive, and ballet is the los Center for the Arts (aka The Sofi a) in dialect I speak it in. 2018. The $31 million, 49,000-square-foot EDUCATION University of Delaware, Museum FIRST JOB Working the grill at a water park facility includes a year-round professional Management Institute BEST ADVICE RECEIVED You are responsi- theater for children and two large perfor- ble for your own contentment. mance spaces. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE FACED Creating a new Nutcracker. HOBBIES Hiking and yoga FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Costa Rica WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Don’t worry about getting it “right.” Just do.

Michael Eddie Beth Stevenson Meehan Jones Producing Artistic Director President Partner Capital Stage Company Wonderful Union JAYJAY

A professional actor and director for more Eddie Meehan is an industry leader in pro- Gallerist and art consultant Beth Jones co- than 25 years, Michael Stevenson took over viding unparalleled experiences for mu- owns JAYJAY, a contemporary art gallery, as producing artistic director of Capital sic fans. He has been a trendsetter in the with business partner Lynda Jolley. Jones Stage Company in 2015. Founded as the world of VIP and ticketing initiatives, fan- grew up making art and writing poetry, Delta King Theater in 1999, the nonprofi t club management and direct-to-consumer and in 1984 she began an apprenticeship Capital Stage moved to its current home in merchandising. Meehan helped Wonderful at Jennifer Pauls Gallery in downtown Sac- midtown Sacramento in 2011. Stevenson Union grow into a global agency with of- ramento. In 1991, she launched Beth Jones graduated from the Acting Studio of the fi ces in Los Angeles, Nashville, Tokyo and Art Consultant, with clients that include University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Toronto. He is a founding partner of the Kaiser Permanente, Lucas Public A– airs, paign, then went on to earn his master’s event management system Queue, which UC Davis Medical Center and Sprint. Jones degree in acting from the American Con- was acquired by Eventbrite in 2016. and Jolley’s fi rst gallery, called Beth Jones servatory Theater in San Francisco. In and Lynda Jolley Present, opened in 1999 addition to his work with Capital Stage, EDUCATION San Diego State University on Franklin Boulevard. After a brief run, Stevenson spent 11 years as co-conservato- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED It’s never about the duo moved the gallery to Elvas Ave- ry director at the B Street Theatre Conser- you; it’s about the people you keep around you. nue and relaunched it as JAYJAY. In 2016, vatory. He also worked as director at Sac- FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m a foster kid. JAYJAY moved across the parking lot to its ramento Theatre Company and Orlando HOBBY Traveling around the world current 2,400-square-foot space Shakespeare Theater. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Japan WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE EDUCATION Sacramento State University Never take no as an answer. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT The Cabin on 21st Street

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Ben Matina Kevin M. Gumpert Kolokotronis Nagle President/COO COO Chairman/CEO Sacramento Republic FC Sacramento Kings Sacramento Republic FC

Sacramento native Ben Gumpert oversees Matina Kolokotronis’ leadership has been Kevin Nagle has been a business executive, Republic FC’s operations and has led the integral to the development of Golden 1 professional sports owner, investor, en- e– ort to bring Major League Soccer to Sac- Center and Downtown Commons. She is trepreneur and philanthropist. He is cur- ramento. Previously, he was the chief mar- the only female in NBA history to hold the rently chairman and CEO of Sacramento keting o™ cer for the Sacramento Kings titles of both COO and president of busi- Republic FC and a minority owner of the and Golden 1 Center and played a key exec- ness operations. Kolokotronis has served Sacramento Kings. Before that, he was the utive role in the design and construction of as legal consultant for the Kings’ business co-founder and CEO of Envision Pharma- the downtown arena. He joined the Kings and basketball operations teams, negotiat- ceutical Holdings, a pioneering pharma- after fi ve years with the NBA, most recently ing player and sta– contracts. During that ceutical benefi ts management fi rm. His serving as vice president of team marketing time, she was an adjunct professor of law at numerous holdings include venture capital and business operations. Before working in McGeorge Law School. Before joining the fi rm Jaguar Ventures and The Nagle Com- the NBA, he was a consultant with Bain & Kings, she was an associate at Miller, Owen pany, a real estate development business. Company. & Trost, where she practiced contract and sports law. EDUCATION CSU Long Beach, University of EDUCATION UCLA, Stanford Graduate Southern California School of Business WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I was pregnant FEW PEOPLE KNOW I operate on only a few WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE with my third child when I received a phone call hours of sleep a night. Also, I have been anoint- Find great people to work for and stick with from Geoff Petrie, then the general manager of ed a knight by the Royal Order of Constantine them, regardless of industry and location. They the Sacramento Kings. He knew I was able to the Great and Saint Helen. will push you, stretch you and help you grow read and write Greek and asked if I could help HOBBY Reading faster than you could ever imagine. negotiate the contract for a player in the Greek FAVORITE BOOK The Age of Napoleon by J. WHAT MOTIVATES ME My family, my coach- league the Kings had drafted named Peja Christopher Herold es, my mentors. I owe it to everybody who has Stojakovic. Without hesitation, I said yes, and FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION My enabled me to be in this position to succeed. the rest is history. beach home in Dana Point BUCKET LIST World Cup Final MOST INSPIRING PERSON My late father WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB FAVORITE TV SHOWS South Park and The I might like to be a university president and Crown teach economics.

Vivek Susan Urijah Ranadivé Savage Faber Owner/Chairman CEO Mixed Martial Artist Sacramento Kings Sacramento River Cats

Vivek Ranadivé is an entrepreneur, Susan Savage and her late husband, Art, Known as The California Kid, Urijah Faber technology visionary, New York Times brought minor league baseball back to is the most signifi cant mixed martial artist best-selling author and philanthropist. He Sacramento after a 23-year absence. In to come out of Sacramento. The 5-foot- pioneered the use of real-time event-pro- 1999, they purchased a Triple-A franchise 6 fi ghter began as a wrestler, qualifying cessing software and created TIBCO, a in Vancouver, renamed the team the Riv- for the NCAA tournaments in 2001 and multibillion-dollar software company. A er Cats and moved it into the newly built 2002 while competing for his alma mater, longtime basketball fan, Ranadivé became Raley Field in West Sacramento the fol- UC Davis. Faber made his MMA debut in the co-owner and vice chairman of the lowing year. They co-owned the team until 2003, eventually winning the WEC Feath- Golden State Warriors in 2010. In 2013, Art’s death in 2009, at which point Susan erweight Championship in 2006, and then the Bombay native became the fi rst Indian became the sole majority owner and CEO. successfully defending the title for nearly majority owner of an NBA team when he three years. He fought as a bantamweight purchased the Sacramento Kings. He is the EDUCATION UCLA and featherweight, helping to bring a new founder and managing general partner of FIRST JOB Selling doughnuts door to door level of respectability to smaller MMA venture capital fi rm Bow Capital. TOUGHEST LESSON LEARNED You can’t fi ghters. The UFC Hall of Fame inductee please all the people all of the time . . . but I keep retired in 2016, although he made a come- EDUCATION MIT, Harvard Business School trying! back in 2019. FIRST JOB Building circuit boards in the FEW PEOPLE KNOW I am a bridge Ruby Life architecture machine room at MIT Master. HOMETOWN Isla Vista, Calif. WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK While coaching FAVORITE BOOK The Untethered Soul: The EDUCATION UC Davis my daughter’s middle school basketball team, I Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer fell in love with the game. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Any MOST INSPIRING PERSON My grandmother, beach who always told me to “live a life bigger than WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE yourself.” You must tackle what scares you—it will lead FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have a black belt in you to what you were meant to do. martial arts.

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John Lescroart Wayne Thiebaud John Lescroart is a best-selling author of more than two dozen legal and crime Through his instantly recognizable visual style and subject matter, as well as his novels. His recurring characters Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt are well many decades spent teaching art at Sacramento City College and UC Davis, Wayne known by fans across the globe. His work has been translated into 16 languages and Thiebaud is arguably the most influential local artist of all time. A National Medal of sold in 75 countries. Lescroart’s first hardcover book, Son of Holmes, was written Arts recipient and California Hall of Fame inductee, he is best known for his intensely while he was a college student at UC Berkeley in 1970 but wasn’t published until 14 colorful paintings of pies, pastries and other desserts. Thiebaud entered the national years later. Early in his career, Lescroart juggled his fiction writing with a career in the spotlight in 1962 when his work was included in one of the country’s first pop art ex- corporate world until a life-changing illness—he’d contracted spinal meningitis in hibitions. Today, his paintings hang in the Whitney, the Smithsonian, the Crocker and 1989 and was given hours to live—convinced him to devote his life to writing fiction. many other museums and galleries around the world. William T. Vollmann Gregory Kondos William T. Vollmann is a novelist, essayist and journalist whose wide-ranging subjects Born in Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents, Gregory Kondos grew up to include climate change, sex workers, Japanese Noh theater, migrants, poverty, become the quintessential California landscape artist. Influenced by Impressionist violence and war. He is known for writing meticulously researched, encyclopedic trea- painters like Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin, Kondos produced works that capture tises based on his immersive experiences in far-flung locales including Afghanistan, the unique beauty of the Golden State. After attending art school in Los Angeles, he Japan, Yemen and Abu Dhabi. His novel Europe Central won the 2005 National Book started teaching at his alma mater, Sacramento City College, in 1956. When he retired Award for fiction. Known for eschewing most modern technology (he reportedly does from teaching in 1982, the school renamed the campus art gallery the Gregory Kon- not own a cellphone or television), Vollmann wrote an essay about his discovery that dos Gallery. He’s an artist in residence at Yosemite National Park, and his paintings the FBI once considered him a suspect in the Unabomber attacks. hang in galleries all over the world, including several in the People’s Republic of China. Greta Gerwig Dusty Baker Actress, screenwriter and director Greta Gerwig started out performing in theater Major league baseball veteran Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker Jr. played 19 seasons in the productions at St. Francis Catholic High School in the early 2000s. The Barnard big leagues and served as a manager for 20 more. Baker was drafted out of Del Cam- College graduate broke into movies in 2006, quickly becoming associated with the po High School in 1967 by the Atlanta Braves. As a player, he hit 242 career home short-lived “mumblecore movement” in independent filmmaking. Over the next runs and won the World Series with the 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers. During his leg- decade, she garnered critical praise for her performances in such films as Frances endary managerial career, he took four different teams to the MLB playoffs, leading Ha, Damsels in Distress, Mistress America, Jackie and 20th Century Women. (She the 2002 San Francisco Giants to the World Series. Today, he co-owns Baker Family also co-wrote Frances Ha and Mistress America.) In 2017, she returned to Sacramen- Wines, a winery that sources some of its grapes from Baker’s backyard vineyard in to to shoot the semi-autobiographical Lady Bird, which earned her Academy Award Granite Bay. nominations for best director and best original screenplay. Ryan Coogler Vlade Divac Director, producer and screenwriter Ryan Coogler helmed Black Panther, the Serbian-born businessman, humanitarian, executive and former NBA All-Star Vlade highest-grossing film of 2018 and an Academy Award nominee for best picture. After Divac is arguably the most beloved player in Sacramento Kings history. The 7-foot-1 graduating from Sacramento State University, the Oakland native moved on to USC center played 16 seasons in the NBA, signing with Sacramento in 1998 and leading the Film School, where he directed several acclaimed shorts. He made his feature debut team to its best seasons. Divac played on the Yugoslavian national teams that won with Fruitvale Station, a drama about the final hours of African-American murder Olympic silver medals in 1988 and 1996, and he later served two terms as president victim Oscar Grant. Fruitvale Station won the grand jury and audience awards at the of the Serbian Olympic Committee. A noted humanitarian, Divac was appointed a 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, Coogler revived the Rocky series with the highly government adviser to humanitarian issues in Serbia in 2008. He currently works as acclaimed Creed. Among other projects, he is currently developing the sequel to general manager of the Kings, where he built one of the most exciting young rosters Black Panther. in the NBA.

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G. Steven Charles “Chuck” Katina Pleau Peterson Rapton President and CEO Owner Owner/General Manager Future Automotive Group Folsom Lake Kia and Folsom Mel Rapton Honda Lake Ford

G. Steven Pleau founded Future Automo- A graduate of Grant Union High and Sac- Katina Rapton is not only the owner and tive Group, one of the nation’s largest au- ramento City College, Charles “Chuck” Pe- general manager of Mel Rapton Honda but tomotive dealership groups. He started in terson started Chuck Peterson Automotive is also the voice of the dealership, doing the industry by washing cars during the in 1975. In 1988, Peterson opened Folsom radio and TV commercials for more than summer at Downtown Ford, the dealership Lake Ford and Folsom Lake Kia. The Sac- two decades. She is the daughter of Mel owned by his father, Gene Pleau. After serv- ramento dealerships and nine dealerships Rapton, who started the company in 1961 ing in the Army, he returned to Sacramen- in San Diego were sold to Houston-based and moved it to Fulton Avenue in 1962, to to open Future Ford of Roseville. Today, Group 1 Automotive Inc. in 2004. Today, helping to create Sacramento’s fi rst auto Future Automotive Group has nine loca- Peterson’s son John is general manag- row. The dealership changed from Pontiac tions, including Future Ford of Sacramen- er at Folsom Lake Kia and Folsom Lake to Honda in 1982 and moved to its current to, Future Ford Lincoln of Roseville and Ford, while his other son, Doug, is service 70,000-square-foot facility in 2009. Rio Future Nissan of Folsom. Headquartered in manager. A longtime Sacramento Kings Americano High School graduate Katina Roseville, the company is one of the top corporate sponsor and fan, Peterson once and her brother, Curtis Rapton, took over employers in Placer County. Pleau serves bid $25,000 to get Dallas Mavericks own- the dealership after their father’s death. In on numerous boards and has been a di- er Mark Cuban to serve as his caddie in a 2015, they opened the Mel Rapton Service rector of River City Bank since 2001. In charity golf tournament. Center in a 1930s midtown auto shop. college, Pleau competed on the gymnastics team, which did not lose a single meet in EDUCATION Sacramento City College his four years.

EDUCATION Sacramento State University

Mark and Scott George Rick Lasher Grinzewitsch Jr. Niello Owners Owner/CEO President Lasher Automotive Group Von Housen Automotive Group The Niello Company

Brothers Mark and Scott Lasher own Lash- George Grinzewitsch Jr. owns the Von In 1998, Rick Niello became president of er Automotive Group, the largest dealer- Housen Automotive Group, which oper- The Niello Company, a fourth-generation ship in the Sacramento area. Lasher Elk ates Mercedes-Benz of Sacramento, Rock- family business that he has worked for Grove Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram earned lin and El Dorado Hills. Founded in 1958 since 1972. Today, The Niello Company is more than $219 million in revenue in 2017 by Grinzewitsch’s father, it has grown into the Sacramento region’s only privately held and sold nearly 5,000 vehicles. Head- one of Sacramento’s largest privately held, dealership group, with products spanning quartered in Elk Grove, the company was family-owned brands, with annual sales 14 of the world’s fi nest automobile manu- founded by Mark and Scott’s father, Wes exceeding $301 million. Mercedes-Benz of facturers. Niello supports a variety of com- Lasher, who opened the fi rst Volkswagen Sacramento won the Best of the Best Deal- munity organizations; last year, his compa- dealership in downtown Sacramento in er Award from Mercedes-Benz of North ny donated to more than 40 charities and 1955. Still family-owned and -operated America in 2017. nonprofi t organizations. more than 60 years later, Lasher Automo- tive Group also sells Acura, Audi, Isuzu, FIRST JOB I worked at BAP Auto Parts at EDUCATION Menlo College School of Busi- Fiat and Subaru vehicles. In addition to its age 12 over summer vacation. I dismantled ness Administration many brick-and-mortar dealerships and used VW engines to sell parts as cores for BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My mother: “Re- award-winning parts and service depart- refurbishing. member who you are and who you represent.” ments, Lasher Auto Group operates an on- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED “Change the belief HIDDEN TALENT Photography line virtual dealership. and the performance will follow.”—Lou Tice HOBBIES Sailing and skiing LESSON LEARNED Keep business and per- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS Carm- sonal relationships separate. el, Tahoe and Europe FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have a daily meditation WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE practice that I began almost three years ago. Remember who you are and who you repre- WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB sent. Work hard and go to bed early! Architecture and design WHAT MOTIVATES ME My family, my busi- ness and the very special region we live in

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Virginia A. David E. Steve Varela Ritchie Jr. Fleming President/CEO/Director President/CEO President/CEO Golden Pacific Bank American River Bank River City Bank

Virginia A. Varela is a seasoned banker David E. Ritchie Jr. serves as president and Since 2008, Steve Fleming has been presi- with more than 30 years of community CEO of American River Bankshares, the dent and CEO of River City Bank, the larg- banking experience, including as president parent company of American River Bank, est bank based in the Sacramento region. of San Luis Trust Bank, CEO of the Bank a regional bank serving Northern Califor- Under his leadership, the bank has grown of Rio Vista and COO of the Bank of the nia since 1983. He started his banking ca- from $800 million to $2.2 billion in total Orient. Before joining Golden Pacific, she reer with Wells Fargo in 1986 and has held assets. He has more than 38 years of bank- held positions of authority with the Federal leadership roles at US Bank and One West ing experience, including more than 20 Reserve Bank and the U.S. Treasury De- Bank. As a student at UC Irvine, he earned years with Bank of America in Sacramento partment. Today, Varela serves as a direc- All-American honors in water polo and in and London, England. Before joining River tor of the Western Bankers Association and 1977 was selected as a member of the U.S. City Bank, Fleming founded and was CEO president of the Sacramento Philharmonic men’s national water polo team. of Presidio Bank in San Francisco. Symphony and Opera board of directors. HOMETOWN Fullerton, Calif. EDUCATION UC Davis, UC Berkeley MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mother FIRST JOB Box boy at a grocery store FIRST JOB Selling Fuller brushes door-to- FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was a synchronized BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My water polo door at age 15 swimmer. coach said it well: “You gotta put the time in.” FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was born in London FAVORITE BOOK Anything by Charlotte HOBBIES SUP (stand up paddle boarding) and and didn’t become a U.S. citizen until the age Brontë equestrian activities of 45. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Tibet CHARITIES American River Bank Foundation HOBBIES Playing golf and running with my dog WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB My Don’t let others define you. Define yourself. Teach high school or college dream job is to be the GM for the Sacramen- FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO to Kings, but they have yet to approach me. VISIT Crocker Art Museum Besides, Vlade is doing really well in building an CHARITIES Mercy Pedalers, Sacramento exciting young team! Philharmonic Symphony and Opera

James Randall “Randy” Donna Beckwith Reynoso Bland President /CEO Executive Vice President/Market President/CEO Five Star Bank Executive Golden 1 Credit Union Wells Fargo/Northern & Central California James Beckwith joined Five Star Bank in A 38-year banking industry veteran, Ran- President and CEO of Golden 1 Credit 2003 after serving as CFO and COO at dall Reynoso joined Placer Sierra Bank in Union since 2010, Donna Bland has more National Bank of the Redwoods in Santa 2000, serving as president and chief oper- than 25 years of experience in the financial Rosa. Under his leadership, Five Star Bank ating o™cer. He was instrumental in tak- services industry. The Sacramento native has grown from approximately $63 million ing the bank public in 2004 and in merging sits on the boards for Greater Sacramento to more than $1.4 billion in assets. Beck- with Wells Fargo in 2007. For the next 10 Economic Council and Credit Union Direct with is a private-sector director with Great- years, Reynoso led Wells Fargo business Corporation. Before joining Golden 1, she er Sacramento Economic Council and a banking teams throughout Northern and worked as a CPA for KPMG, a global tax, member of the Sacramento State Univer- Central California. In 2017, he launched audit and advisory firm. sity College of Business Advisory Council. the vertical buildout of the bank’s nation- al Business Banking Investor Real Estate EDUCATION San Francisco State University EDUCATION San Francisco State Univer- group and currently serves as its national FIRST JOB Cashier at a Hallmark Store sity, University of Washington, Pacific Coast leader. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED If you want some- Banking School thing you’ve never had, you must be willing to FIRST JOB Picking prunes for 25 cents a box EDUCATION Sacramento State University do something you’ve never done. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Trust is the foun- FAVORITE TV SHOW Anything British. My FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Hawaii dation of every great relationship. most recent obsession has been The Crown. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The Great Reces- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Nearby, Enjoy the moments more and take time to see sion. I learned to stay calm and focused and our home in Carmel; farther away, London the world. face every day with resilience. As the leader of WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE WHAT MOTIVATES ME My family our bank, I had to show that we were in control Nothing bad will come from always being your of our fate and that we were the masters of our authentic self. destiny. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS FEW PEOPLE KNOW I am a sixth-generation IT The duck pond at William Land Park. I dedi- Californian. cated a bench along its shore to my extraordi- FAVORITE TV SHOW Peaky Blinders nary grandmother, Mary Raffetto Mabrey. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Hedge fund manager

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Tim Nathan Dave Marriott Cox Roughton President/CEO Senior Vice President, Market President/CEO Schools Financial Credit Union Manager, Sacramento SAFE Credit Union U.S. Bank

Tim Marriott began his career with Schools At U.S. Bank, Nathan Cox leads a local team Dave Roughton started working at SAFE Financial Credit Union in 1992 and, after for middle-market commercial banking in Credit Union in 1999, holding the posi- stints as chief fi nancial o™ cer and execu- the greater Sacramento region. Cox’s team tions of vice president, CFO, executive tive vice president, was promoted to pres- provides banking services to businesses vice president and COO before assuming ident and CEO. He works closely with the with revenues ranging from $20 million to his current role of president and CEO in board of directors to drive organizational $500 million. His 25-plus years of bank- 2016. A not-for-profi t, cooperative, com- performance and return maximum bene- ing-industry experience includes working munity-chartered fi nancial institution, fi t to the credit union’s members. He also as senior vice president and manager of SAFE Credit Union employs more than co-developed a business intelligence sys- business banking for Rabobank, N.A., and 600 people in the Sacramento metropol- tem for loan portfolio analysis that is wide- at jobs at Bank of the West and Wells Fargo. itan area. Roughton previously worked as ly deployed throughout the credit union audit and business consulting manager at industry. EDUCATION Loyola Marymount University, Arthur Andersen & Co. An active leader in Golden Gate University the credit union industry, Roughton is a FIRST JOB Clerk at my dad’s retail music FIRST JOB Sales representative at E. & J. board member of the California and Neva- store Gallo Winery da Credit Union Leagues. He also sits on BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Always be joyful; MOST INSPIRING PERSON My son, Daniel: the boards of Align Capital Region and The pray continually; give thanks in every situation. His ability to set goals, achieve them and learn First Tee of Greater Sacramento. In 2019, FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was a professional from adversity makes me proud to have him the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of bass guitar player. as my son. Commerce named Roughton its Business- FAVORITE BOOK The Great Divorce by C.S. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Having an man of the Year. Lewis employee die while they are working for me. I WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Play have had to deal with that twice and it’s been EDUCATION University of New Hampshire, more music very hard. UC Davis WHAT MOTIVATES ME Learning new things FAVORITE MOVIE Remember the Titans BUCKET LIST Spend a week on the Amazon FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO VISIT Morton’s Steakhouse, Revival at The Sawyer and outdoor concerts

Scott Louise A. David J. Robertson Walker Lucchetti Chief Community Banking President/CEO President/CEO Offi cer First Northern Bank Pacifi c Coast Building Tri Counties Bank Products

As chief community banking o™ cer for Tri Louise A. Walker has served as president Sacramento State alumnus David Lucchet- Counties Bank, Robertson oversees a net- and chief executive o™ cer of First North- ti is the president and CEO of Pacifi c Coast work of 76 branches, as well as the 24/7 call ern Community Bancorp and its subsidi- Building Products, a construction mate- center, direct banking and home mortgage ary, First Northern Bank, since 2011. She rials manufacturer and distributor based sales teams, and Tri Counties Advisors. joined First Northern Bank in 1979 and has in Rancho Cordova. Lucchetti joined the Since he joined the bank, the company has been a member of the senior management company in 1970, when it was still known more than doubled in size and now has team since 1989. Walker is a past chair of as Anderson Lumber, and was promoted more than $6.5 billion in assets, making it the Western Bankers Association and is to president and CEO in 1979. Under his the largest community-based bank in the chairman of the board of Yolo Food Bank. leadership, Pacifi c Coast Building Products region. Robertson started in the banking expanded to include seven companies and industry as a part-time teller while still in EDUCATION Saint Mary’s College more than 80 locations across the western college and quickly realized he had found BEST ADVICE RECEIVED People want to United States. Long involved with nonprof- his calling. A Sacramento native, Robert- help you succeed if you put in the eff ort. its such as Sierra Adoption Services, Luc- son sits on the advisory board for the Sal- TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The Great chetti is also a member of the Big Brothers vation Army and serves on the board of the Recession and the need for patience and Big Sisters Foundation. In 1998, Lucchetti Center for Fathers and Families. perseverance was inducted into the California Home- FEW PEOPLE KNOW I like to fi sh. building Foundation Hall of Fame. EDUCATION Sacramento State University, FAVORITE MOVIE The Wizard of Oz University of Virginia FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO EDUCATION Sacramento State University HOBBIES Announcing high school football VISIT My son’s house CHARITIES Jesuit High School, Cristo Rey games; golf WHAT MOTIVATES ME Helping others High School BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Your actions and behaviors are a window into your beliefs. Demonstrate how much you care about others by your actions. MOST INSPIRING PERSON My wife, Michelle, has shown me what it means to truly serve others and put the needs of others fi rst.

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Mariah Shain Eileen Lichtenstern Thomas Drake Founding Partner/Managing CEO President/CEO Director Tesco Controls Aerojet Rocketdyne DiverseCity Ventures

Self-described “activist/entrepreneur” Ma- A 15-year veteran of Tesco Controls, Shain Eileen Drake served on active duty for riah Lichtenstern is a founding partner Thomas was appointed CEO in 2014. seven years as a U.S. Army aviator and in DiverseCity Ventures, a venture capital Founded in 1972 and now North America’s airfield commander at Davison Army Air- fund committed to supporting companies leading water and wastewater systems in- field in Virginia. A Distinguished Military led by underrepresented founders. In ad- tegrator, Tesco has completed more than Graduate of the U.S. Army Aviation O™cer dition to funding startups, Lichtenstern 50,000 projects to date. Before becoming School, Drake holds commercial and pri- also founded a startup. She created CINE- CEO, Thomas worked at Tesco as senior es- vate pilot licenses in both fixed-wing and SHARES, a platform that exhibits films timator, then as estimating sales manager. rotary-wing aircraft. She started working for crowdfunding, in 2014. Lichtenstern In 2018, Thomas was appointed to serve as chief operating o™cer at Aerojet Rock- initiated, launched and currently serves on the board of directors of Make-A-Wish etdyne Holdings in 2015 and a few months as managing director of the Sacramento Northeastern & Central California and later was appointed CEO. Before coming to chapter of Founder Institute, the world’s Northern Nevada. He is also a board mem- AR Holdings, Drake held leadership posi- largest entrepreneur training and startup ber of the Water Design-Build Council. tions at Pratt & Whitney Company, United launch program. The Oakland native also Technologies Corporation and Ford Motor serves on the tech advisory committee for Company. She serves on the board of direc- CleanTech Fund, CalSEED. A member tors for Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. of UCLA Ventures, Lichtenstern is a film and Woodward, Inc. school graduate and former executive pro- ducer at Lightedstar Entertainment. EDUCATION College of New Rochelle, Butler University EDUCATION UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Southern California

Jeanne Jack R. Chet P. Reaves Smith II Hewitt President/CEO CEO President/CEO Jeanne Reaves Consulting Fortuna Business Management Sierra Health Foundation and Consulting The Center

At her eponymous consulting company, Jack Smith is a service-disabled veteran Chet Hewitt is president and CEO of Si- Jeanne Reaves specializes in coaching who served in the U.S. Air Force during erra Health Foundation and its nonprofit executives in a variety of industries. A Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he worked intermediary, The Center at Sierra Health certified personality consultant, she uses as a computer programmer. Today, with Foundation. Over the past decade, he has technology and techniques to help clients more than two decades of experience in IT developed and launched a bold collective- understand their executive teams’ unique leadership, he is the president, CEO and impact strategy focused on promoting abilities. A Sacramento native, Reaves owner of Fortuna BMC, which provides IT health equity and social justice in under- previously held leadership positions with consulting and sta™ng services for public- served communities. Before joining Sierra Wells Fargo Bank, River City Bank and and private-sector clients throughout the Health Foundation, Hewitt held several Bank of Alex Brown. She serves as a chair United States. A sought-after speaker and senior positions, including director of Al- or board member of numerous organiza- instructor, he serves as a director for the ameda County’s Social Services Agency, tions, including CASA and The Communi- U.S. Veterans Business Alliance. associate director for the Rockefeller Foun- ty College Foundation. dation in New York and project director of EDUCATION Bellevue University, Oklahoma the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Jus- EDUCATION Sacramento State University City University tice in San Francisco. FIRST JOB Temporary employee at Aerojet FIRST JOB McDonald’s cook MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mother BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Look at every EDUCATION New College of California BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Always do the failure as a learning opportunity. FIRST JOB Working with youth at YMCA in a best you can or don’t do it at all. HOBBIES Basketball, poker, motorcycle riding New York City public housing development FAVORITE TV SHOW The Voice FAVORITE BOOK Ender’s Game by Orson MOST INSPIRING PERSON My parents: WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Scott Card hardworking and loving Get an education and be patient on the job. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB FAVORITE WRITER Walter Mosley WHAT MOTIVATES ME Being busy and Poker player or marine biologist WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB helping others WHAT MOTIVATES YOU My family, sup- NBA coach porting veterans and making a difference in WHAT MOTIVATES ME Creating a better the world world for my two sons BUCKET LIST Taking my family to Africa

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Kären Charles F. Neil Woodruff Cargile Koehler Vice President, Corporate Philan- CEO Principal CEO thropy and Community Relations Sunworks, Inc. Pacific Ethanol, Inc. Wells Fargo

Kären Woodru is responsible for manag- Charles Cargile is the chief executive o‰- Neil Koehler is the co-Founder, director ing and directing philanthropic contribu- cer of Roseville-based Sunworks, Inc., a and chief executive o‰cer of Pacific Eth- tions for 38 counties within Northern and leading provider of solar-power solutions anol, Inc., a company that produces and Central California. She joined Wells Fargo for homes and businesses. He started at markets low-carbon ethanol while also in 2013, bringing with her 29 years of ex- Sunworks in 2016 as an independent di- developing other renewable fuel technolo- perience in business development, market- rector and was promoted to his current gies. Based in Sacramento, Pacific Ethanol ing, outreach and community engagement position in 2017. Before coming to Sun- currently operates biorefineries in Nebras- at various for-profit and nonprofit organi- works, Cargile worked as the chief financial ka, Illinois, Idaho, Oregon and California. zations. She previously served as the direc- o‰cer at Newport Corporation, helping During his 30-plus years in the industry, tor of corporate relations for the UC Davis grow the company’s revenue from $100 Koehler co-founded Parallel Products, the Health System. million to more than $600 million. In the state’s first ethanol production company. years before Newport, Cargile held execu- After selling the company in 1998, Koe- tive positions at York International Corp. hler founded ethanol sales and distribution EDUCATION CSU Fresno and Flowserve Corporation. Certified as a firm Kinergy Marketing in 2000. A board FIRST JOB Scooper at Baskin-Robbins professional director by the American Col- member of the Renewable Fuels Associ- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED When presenting a lege of Corporate Directors, Cargile serves ation since 1992, Koehler received the as- problem, try to also provide a solution. on the board of directors of Hoag Charity sociation’s prestigious Industry Award in TOUGHEST CHALLENGE My daughter’s Sports. 2017. He also serves as the director of the battle with cancer—all good now! California Renewable Fuels Partnership. HOBBIES Wine tasting, cooking, travel EDUCATION Oklahoma State University, WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Do University of Southern California EDUCATION Pomona College what you love; the money will follow. CHARITIES Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, Los Rios Foundation

Stephen Matt Michael Westlake McCormack Genovese Private Wealth Adviser Market Executive President Westlake, Grahl, and Glover Merrill Lynch Wealth Genovese Burford & Brothers Management

Stephen Westlake has worked in his pres- Matt McCormack has spent his entire 20- Fargo, N.D., native Michael Genovese is ent position at Westlake, Grahl, and Glov- year career in the financial services indus- the chief investment o‰cer of Genovese er, a private wealth advisory practice of try with Merrill Lynch. He has held a vari- Burford & Brothers, a wealth management Ameriprise Financial, since 1986. A cer- ety of wealth management roles at Merrill team that currently oversees approximate- tified financial planner, chartered life un- Lynch locations in Jacksonville, Miami ly $3 billion in assets. Before co-founding derwriter, chartered financial consultant, and New York City. In 2018, parent com- the company in 1987, Genovese began his certified funds specialist and chartered pany Bank of America named McCormack career in 1979 as an independent financial retirement planning counselor, he special- market executive for the Sacramento mar- planner. He has made the Financial Times’ izes in retirement, wealth preservation and ket of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Top 400, a list of the leading financial ad- tax-planning strategies. An avid reader, McCormack also serves as market presi- visers in America, every year since 2013. golfer, fisher and photographer, Westlake dent for Greater Sacramento, covering an is a member of the board of directors of area that includes Sacramento, El Dorado, EDUCATION San Diego State University Keaton Raphael Memorial, a group that Placer, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Yolo FIRST JOB McDonald’s supports children with cancer. He also sup- counties. Merrill Lynch operates o‰ces in BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Have an opinion ports Habitat for Humanity and the Sacra- Roseville, Folsom, Redding and Chico. As a and be willing to stand by your convictions. mento Estate Planning Council, and he is market executive, McCormack oversees all FEW PEOPLE KNOW My brother and I bought a member of the Ameriprise Hall of Fame. aspects of the business, including the direc- and revived Poor Red’s Bar-B-Q in El Dorado. tion of philanthropic resources. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Be patient but persistent. EDUCATION University of Florida FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO VISIT Del Paso Country Club and Poor Red’s WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Be a caddie on the PGA or Champions Tour

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Scott Pat Kelly Hanson McClain Brothers Co-CEO Co-CEO Partner Allworth Financial (formerly Allworth Financial (formerly Genovese Burford & Brothers Hanson McClain Advisors) Hanson McClain Advisors)

Scott Hanson is a senior partner and Pat McClain is a co-founder and senior At various points in his 30-year broadcast founding principal of Hanson McClain Ad- partner at Sacramento retirement plan- career, Kelly Brothers anchored the area’s visors, now known as Allworth Financial. ning fi rm Hanson McClain Advisors, now top-rated evening news telecast and the In 2004, Hanson and Pat McClain found- known as Allworth Financial. A speaker at top-rated morning news radio show. The ed Liberty Reverse Mortgage, which was fi nancial conferences and industry semi- Sacramento native is currently a partner in later acquired by Genworth Financial and nars nationwide, McClain has co-hosted Genovese Burford & Brothers, a fi rm that is now the largest reverse mortgage compa- Money Matters, one of the longest-running specializes in wealth management and re- ny in the country. An author and frequent fi nancial-topic radio programs in the coun- tirement plans and has more than $3 bil- guest columnist for national fi nancial pub- try, for more than two decades. McClain lion under advisement. A certifi ed fi nancial lications, Hanson is also the co-host of the was named to Barron’s list of the top 100 planner, Brothers serves as the fi nancial ex- long-running radio program Money Mat- independent wealth advisers in America pert for KCRA-TV and NewsRadio KFBK. ters. fi ve times. EDUCATION University of Notre Dame EDUCATION Chico State University EDUCATION Sacramento State University MOST INSPIRING PERSON Forever inspired FIRST JOB Paper route FIRST JOB Painting house addresses on by my parents, who boldly said goodbye to their BEST ADVICE RECEIVED I’m responsible for curbs families and emigrated from Ireland to America my outcomes. No one else. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE FACED The with a single-minded determination to provide WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE death of a young family member great opportunities for their children. Take a gap year and go do something adven- FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m a voracious reader. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO turous before you have a career, mortgage and HOBBY Bike riding VISIT McKinley Park, where I skinned my family. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE knees and climbed trees; also, Golden 1 Center, FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO Every relationship matters. because I still can’t believe we have such a VISIT Cronan Ranch. Tons of great trails over- WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB great venue in our midst. looking the American River. Own a restaurant CHARITIES Catholic education in general, WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Cristo Rey High School in particular Adventure travel guide

David Shawn Robert Fritz McElmoyl Phillips Managing Director and Complex Senior Vice President and President/CEO Manager Regional Managing Director Alluma (formerly Social Morgan Stanley Wealth Wells Fargo Private Bank Interest Solutions) Management In 2005, Morgan Stanley Wealth Man- A former captain in the U.S. Army, Shawn Robert Phillips oversees the strategic di- agement hired David Fritz as managing McElmoyl has worked for San Francis- rection, fi scal stewardship and overall director and complex manager. Based in co-based Wells Fargo since 2002. In 2006, management of Alluma, a nonprofi t com- downtown Sacramento, Morgan Stan- he was named regional manager of private pany that leverages technology to improve ley Wealth Management employs 12 local client services in Northern Nevada. Today, access to health care and social services. He certifi ed fi nancial planners and 158 local McElmoyl is the regional managing di- assumed the role of president and CEO in credentialed advisers. J.P. Morgan & Co. rector and senior vice president for Wells 2017, bringing more than two decades of founded Morgan Stanley in New York City Fargo Wealth Management & The Private experience in health policy, health systems, in 1935; today the company employs nearly Bank. Based in Roseville, the company technology, philanthropy and strategic 60,000 people worldwide. Fritz graduated employs 17 local certifi ed fi nancial plan- consulting to the position. Before joining from State University of New York at Stony ners and 22 local credential advisers. The Social Interest Solutions, Phillips worked Brook, where he played lacrosse. After col- company’s primary services include wealth at Kaiser Permanente, The California En- lege, he joined the Marines Corps, working management and planning, trust and es- dowment and Sierra Health Foundation. as an infantry o™ cer for recruiting. He tate services, private banking and invest- Other previous employers include Poli- started in the fi nance industry in 1996, ris- ment management. McElmoyl previously cyLink, Service Employees International ing to the level of corporate vice president worked as branch manager at Prudential Union and the AFL-CIO. A former glee at UBS Financial Services. Securities and as fi nancial adviser at Ed- club singer, Phillips holds master’s degrees ward Jones. from Syracuse University and Harvard EDUCATION State University of New York at University Stony Brook EDUCATION University of Oregon EDUCATION Morehouse College, Syracuse University, Harvard University

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Jonna Hardeep Laura Ward Gulati Good CEO CEO Co-Founder Visionary Integration PowerSchool Group StartupSac Professionals

Jonna Ward is the founder, chief executive With more than two decades of experience Involved in the Sacramento region’s en- o‹ cer and chair of the board of Visionary leading software businesses, Hardeep Gu- trepreneurial environment for more than Integration Professionals, a global technol- lati serves as CEO of the Folsom-based a decade, Laura Good co-founded Start- ogy solutions fi rm based in Folsom. Since PowerSchool Group, a K–12 education upSac in 2016. The nonprofi t works to ac- Ward started VIP out of her bedroom in technology company with more than 57 celerate growth in the Sacramento region’s 1996, the company has worked with more million users in 70 countries. Since start- startup and innovation ecosystem. In ad- than 1,200 local, state, federal and com- ing at PowerSchool Group in 2015, Gulati dition to her leadership role at StartupSac, mercial clients. Last year, VIP raised $47.3 oversaw a massive expansion of the compa- Good provides consulting services to other million in funding from a Wall Street fi rm. ny that included at least eight acquisitions. entrepreneurial support organizations and Before founding VIP, Ward worked as an EdTech Digest recognized Gulati as Educa- co-curates the Sacramento Startup Digest. executive at Accenture, a Fortune Global tion Technology CEO of the Year in 2018. Sacramento Business Journal honored 500 company. Government Technology Before joining PowerSchool Group, Gulati Good in 2018 with its Women Who Mean named VIP one of its 100 Companies to worked as CEO of SumTotal Systems, and Business award. Watch, and Sacramento Business Journal he held positions at Oracle, SpinCircuit gave Ward its Women Who Mean Business and Lucent Technologies. When he isn’t EDUCATION Santa Clara University award. working, Gulati loves to spend time travel- FIRST JOB Hot dog stand at Santa Cruz ing, biking, golfi ng and playing chess with boardwalk his family. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Faced infertility FEW PEOPLE KNOW I can sing the theme EDUCATION Visvesvaraya National Institute song from The Beverly Hillbillies to the tune of of Technology, Wharton School at the Universi- Gilligan’s Island. ty of Pennsylvania HOBBIES Hanging out with Balboa, my bor- der-collie mix FAVORITE TV SHOW Game of Thrones WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Don’t wait until you’re in your 40s to seek thera- py. Everyone would benefi t from it.

Raja Jeff rey Kais Krishnan Bader Menoufy President Corporate Vice President/Gener- President/CEO Agile Global Solutions al Manager, Embedded Solutions Delegata Business Unit Micron Technology Raja Krishnan has more than two decades As vice president of embedded solutions Kais Menoufy is the founder, president of experience providing end-to-end busi- marketing at Micron Technology, Je– and CEO of Delegata Corporation, a lead- ness and information technology solu- Bader is responsible for the company’s ing management and technology consult- tions to customers around the globe. Born embedded segment strategy and product ing company. Founded in 2000, Delegata and raised in India, he moved to Amer- direction. He has more than 25 years of ex- operates in the United States and Saudi ica in 1996. Since 2003, he has served perience in the semiconductor industry. In Arabia. Before starting Delegata, Menou- as president of Agile Global Solutions, a 2010, Bader joined Micron, a business that fy worked at Indus, where he helped make Folsom-based IT services company with creates memory and data storage solutions the company into the world’s largest pro- o‹ ces in India, Singapore and across the for computer manufacturing fi rms, con- vider of software solutions for enterprise United States. In 2017, Agile acquired a sumer electronics companies and telecom- asset management. Menoufy also founded Pittsburgh-based IT services provider, dra- munications giants. The company has also SKAKS Technology, a company providing matically increasing the company’s foot- made signifi cant investments in vehicle imaging systems and integration services print on the East Coast. safety technology for driverless cars. Before to clients around the world. A native of coming to Micron, Bader held senior mar- Egypt and a longtime community leader, EDUCATION Birla Institute of Technology keting director positions in the embedded Menoufy is the founder and president of FIRST JOB Selling computers and peripherals memory divisions at Numonyx and Intel. the American Egyptian Strategic Alliance. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE FACED Leaving a Embedded Computing Design named him He has served on the board of directors for nice-paying job to start a business. The timing a Top Embedded Innovator in 2016. the American Leadership Forum, The In- was especially tough, but with calculated risks stitute for Advancing Unity, Shifa Clinic, and careful planning, I took the dive and never EDUCATION University of Vermont Sacramento World Music and Dance Festi- looked back. val and the Interfaith Service Bureau FAVORITE MOVIE Ip Man FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Hawaii EDUCATION Cairo University BUCKET LIST Skydiving

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Tyler Satwinder Pamela Smith Mangat Marrone Founder/CEO President CEO/Founder SkySlope ALLDATA Marrone Bio Innovations Inc.

Former Realtor Tyler Smith is the found- Punjab, India, native Satwinder Mangat Pamela Marrone founded Marrone Bio In- er of Sacramento-based SkySlope, an SaaS joined ALLDATA in 2012 as chief technol- novations in 2006 to discover and develop B2B platform that helps real estate profes- ogy o cer and was promoted to president bio-based products for pest management sionals streamline the transaction process. in 2018. Under his direction, ALLDATA and plant health. In 2019, BioAg World After an unsatisfactory home-buying ex- has maintained its leadership position in gave her its Lifetime Achievement Award perience when he was 19, he became a real the automotive repair software market, for contributions in biopesticides. Previ- estate agent. He worked at Smith Premier with more than 400,000 users world- ously, she founded AgraQuest, a commer- Properties and Prudential California Real- wide. Before joining ALLDATA, Mangat cial biopesticide company. She holds sever- ty and was recognized by Realtor Magazine worked as president and CEO of Boomer- al hundred patents and is in high demand as one of its Top 30 Under 30. Finding that ang, and he also held leadership positions to deliver keynote addresses on the future paperwork slowed his team down, Smith with Ricoh, Novell and Adobe. He holds six and potential of biologicals for pest man- started SkySlope, which quickly became technology patents. agement. the industry’s leading transaction manage- ment and compliance software. With more EDUCATION Panjab University, Santa Clara MOST INSPIRING PERSON Eleanor Roose- than 100 employees, SkySlope currently University velt serves nearly half of the top 100 brokerages FIRST JOB Ricoh Corporation TOUGHEST CHALLENGE FACED Our head in the nation. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m formerly a volunteer of sales had done a side deal with a customer radio talk show host. that was not declared to either finance depart- FIRST JOB Busboy FAVORITE BOOK I’m currently reading 21 ments or the auditors. This resulted in a finan- Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah cial restatement and a long SEC investigation Harari. and arrest of our former employee for fraud. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Be WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB competent, work hard and develop plans to ex- Coach and mentor entrepreneurs ecute. Be honest and develop strong emotional WHAT MOTIVATES ME Changing agriculture intelligence. Stay positive. to be more sustainable FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO BUCKET LIST Getting a bioherbicide to VISIT Old Sacramento market

Jeff John Ajay Bennett Pierron Kaul President Vice President/Folsom Site Managing Partner StartupSac Leader AgreeYa Solutions Intel Corporation

Je‡ Bennett began to get involved with the John Pierron joined Intel in 1992 as a com- Ajay Kaul was pivotal to the growth and Sacramento startup community in 2015, ponent design engineer. Today, he works progress of AgreeYa Solutions, a leading joining the Startup Weekend organizing on decreasing product time to market and software, services and solutions company team and launching the StartupSac.com improving product quality and is responsi- based in Folsom that serves more than 500 website. In 2016, Bennett and Laura Good ble for the corporate product development clients worldwide. As the managing part- co-founded StartupSac, a nonprofit orga- life cycle. Pierron and his design team de- ner of a 1,700-member team, Kaul guided nization with the mission to accelerate the livered the Intel Atom processor-based AgreeYa to become the fifth fastest-grow- region’s startup and innovation ecosystem. system-on-chip design that became part of ing company in the Sacramento region. A digital media creator, he co-curates the the iconic Dell Venue 8 7000 series tablet, Earlier in his career, he worked with tech- Sacramento Startup Digest and works as which earned an International CES Best nology industry leaders like Deloitte Con- an organizer for the 1 Million Cups Sacra- of Innovation award from the Consumer sulting, iGATE Mastech and Tata Infotech. mento and Startup Weekend Sacramento Electronics Association teams. Previously, he worked at Boeing as EDUCATION Delhi University, University of an engineer and software developer. EDUCATION University of Michigan, Colorado Bombay State University FIRST JOB Selling printers and writing POS EDUCATION Brigham Young University, City FIRST JOB Pet store software for a retailer University of Seattle BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Your network of MOST INSPIRING PERSON Mother Teresa HOMETOWN Reno, Nev. people is your greatest asset. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE FACED Learning FEW PEOPLE KNOW In 2003, my wife and I FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m an avid board game how to find work/life balance left the rat race and moved to Maui, where we player. HIDDEN TALENT I enjoy karaoke. lived for 12 years in a sort of reverse retirement. FAVORITE BOOK The Fountainhead by Ayn WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE HOBBY Brewing beer Rand Follow your passion and consistently work WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Be WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE hard. true to yourself. Do what you have a passion for, Solve the problems of those who judge your FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO not what others expect you to do. performance. VISIT Top Golf FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO BUCKET LIST A trip to Antarctica VISIT Many of the fantastic local craft brewer- ies in our region

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John L. Fred Kevin J. Sullivan Teichert Barri Owner Executive Director Senior Vice President The Sullivan Auto Group Teichert Foundation Wells Fargo

The son of a Southern California automo- Sacramento native Fred Teichert is the Kevin Barri comes from a banking family: bile dealer, John L. Sullivan started selling great-grandson of Adolph Teichert Sr., the His father and grandfather were both life- used cars in the Sacramento area in 1963. German immigrant who founded the con- long bankers. As region bank president of He became a partner in Caddell Chevro- struction company A. Teichert & Son, Inc., the Capital Foothills area for Wells Fargo, let in 1977, taking over as sole owner and in 1887. Fred Teichert started working at the Barri is responsible for all retail banking president in 1984 and changing the name company in 1977, but in 1991, he found his operations in Sacramento, El Dorado and to John L. Sullivan Chevrolet. Sullivan pur- true calling as a corporate philanthropist. Placer counties, as well as parts of San Joa- chased Roseville Toyota in 1992, and today He is the executive director of the Teichert quin, Sierra, Nevada and Yolo counties. He The Sullivan Auto Group includes seven Foundation, which contributes $400,000 leads a team of nearly 1,000 people and dealerships across Northern California. In a year to California communities, regard- oversees 65 bank branches. He began his 2016, the company made a $5.7 million less of how the company performed. Tei- banking career in 1989 with Bank of Amer- investment in energy-e“cient technology chert is the founding chair of the Boys & ica and later worked for Placer Sierra Bank for the Roseville dealerships. John L. Sul- Girls Clubs of Greater Sacramento and the before joining Wells Fargo in 2007. livan Chevrolet consistently remains the Sacramento Community Regional Foun- top-volume Chevy dealership in Northern dation, as well as a member of the Mayor’s EDUCATION CSU Fresno, Pacific Coast California, and the Roseville Chamber of Task Force on Homelessness. Banking School Commerce named Sullivan Business Per- MOST INSPIRING PERSON George Wash- son of the Year in 2009. ington FEW PEOPLE KNOW My grandparents were born in Italy. WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF Be patient and work hard. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO VISIT Every brewery in town! BUCKET LIST European vacation to Ireland and Scotland

Eric Michael Garrett Stille Teel Larsson President/CEO Chairman CEO Nugget Markets Raley’s Rhombus Systems

A fourth-generation grocer, Eric Stille is As grandson of Raley’s founder Tom Ra- As co-founder and CEO of Rhombus Sys- CEO and president of Nugget Markets, an ley, Michael Teel has spent his entire life tems, Garrett Larsson oversees a company upscale supermarket chain headquartered steeped in the grocery business. After grad- that produces cloud-based security camer- in Woodland since 1926. Stille and his fa- uating from college, he became a Raley’s as that use facial recognition technology. ther, Gene, led the company’s expansion store manager; he later led innovations A graduate of Jesuit High School, he and outside of Woodland, acquiring two Alpha in the bakery division and was involved fellow classmate Brandon Salzberg built Beta stores in 1984 and converting them to in the company’s Bay Area expansion. In and sold two Silicon Valley tech compa- Nugget Markets. Today, the company runs 1995, Teel became chief operating o“cer, nies before founding Rhombus in 2016. 12 Nugget Markets in Northern California, followed by president in 1996 and CEO in The company’s customers include Luxer plus Fork Lift in Cameron Park and Sono- 1998. After leaving the company to pursue One, California Family Fitness and Colony ma Market in Sonoma. Nugget established outside business interests, he returned in Hardware. Now working from an o“ce on an employee-first culture from the very be- 2010 as president and CEO and became J Street, Larsson recently told The Sacra- ginning, and that approach continues into majority owner of Raley’s in 2015. He now mento Bee he hopes to ignite a tech cluster the 21st century. The business regularly leads the largest family-owned company in in downtown Sacramento. makes Fortune magazine’s list of the coun- the Sacramento region. try’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, and EDUCATION Stanford University People named it one of 50 Companies That EDUCATION Whittier College Care in 2018. FIRST JOB Bagging groceries

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Jorge A. Kevin R. Gary S. Aguilar Johnson May Superintendent Dean, Professor of Public Interest Chancellor Sacramento City Unified Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis School District University of California, Davis School of Law The son of farmworkers, Jorge Aguilar After joining the faculty in 1989, and serv- As UC Davis chancellor, Gary S. May grew up in the Central Valley and is a prod- ing as associate dean of academic a–airs, heads up four colleges and six professional uct of the Migrant Education Program. He Kevin R. Johnson became dean at UC Da- schools. Prior to becoming chancellor, he spent his early childhood migrating back vis Law in 2008. His book How Did You spent almost 30 years at Georgia Institute and forth between California and the state Get To Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s of Technology in Atlanta, most recently as of Michoacán, Mexico. As superintendent Search for Identity was nominated for the dean of the College of Engineering. He has of the Sacramento City Unified School Dis- Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2000, authored more than 200 technical publica- trict, he leads the 13th largest school dis- and his 2011 book, Immigration Law and tions and contributed to 15 books. In 2010, trict in California with more than 42,000 the US-Mexico Border, received Latino he was named UC Berkeley’s outstanding students, more than 4,200 employees and Literacy Now’s International Latino Book engineering alumnus. And in 2015, he re- a budget of more than $530 million. Award for Best Reference Book. Johnson ceived the Presidential Award for Excel- blogs at ImmigrationProf and is a regular lence in STEM mentoring from President HOMETOWN Parlier, Calif. contributor on immigration on SCOTUS- Barack Obama during a visit to the White EDUCATION UC Berkeley, Loyola Law School blog. House. (JD) WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK To disrupt HOMETOWN Los Angeles HOMETOWN St. Louis, Mo. inequities and give every student an equal op- EDUCATION UC Berkeley, Harvard University EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology portunity to graduate with the greatest number (JD) (BEE), UC Berkeley (MS, PhD) of postsecondary choices from the widest WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Teaching law MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mother. As array of options brings together my passions: teaching and law. one of the first students to integrate the Uni- FIRST JOB Working in the fields of the Central HOBBIES Following Cal Bears and UC Davis versity of Missouri, her incredible tenacity and Valley sports dedication to education guides me to this day. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE TV SHOW Law and Order: Special HOBBIES Wine tasting, traveling, collecting VISIT Every single one of our Sacramento City Victims Unit comic books Unified schools WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE TV SHOW Star Trek: The Original CHARITY Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Follow your passions. Series. No question. Project CHARITY Legal Services of Northern Cali- FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO fornia VISIT Empire’s Comics Vault

Whitney I Sarah Derk Yamamura Koligian Garcia President Superintendent Superintendent Folsom Lake College Folsom Cordova Unified Roseville City School District School District

Since 2017, Whitney I Yamamura has been Born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley, Derk Garcia started his education career president of Folsom Lake College. He pre- Sarah Koligian has spent 32 years working as a teacher at La Entrada Continuation viously worked for 28 years as a teaching in public education. She became superin- High School. He was a teacher, vice princi- intern, part-time faculty, full-time tenured tendent of the Folsom Cordova Unified pal and principal in the Elk Grove Unified faculty, dean, vice president and interim School District in 2017. Before that, she School District, and he served as a director, president. He plans to complete his Ph.D. was superintendent at Tulare Joint Union assistant superintendent and interim chief this year and has already finished course High School District and Golden Valley academic o‹cer in the San Juan Unified work in the doctoral program in Educa- Unified School District in Madera County. School District before becoming superin- tional Leadership at UC Davis. She began her teaching career as a resource tendent in the Roseville City School Dis- teacher in Fresno. In 2014, she was Future trict. During his tenure, the district has EDUCATION Sacramento State University Farmers of America’s Central Valley Ad- introduced music education and transi- (BS, MA) ministrator of the Year. tional kindergarten at all of its elementary FIRST JOB Delivering phone books schools. HOBBIES Wine aficionado, follower of the Sac- EDUCATION CSU Fresno (BS, EdD) ramento Kings and San Francisco Giants FIRST JOBS Sandwich shop, aerobics EDUCATION UC Davis, Sacramento State FAVORITE MOVIE Casablanca instructor University FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Italy WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I had some won- WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I wanted to FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO derful teachers. Their impact on me left such a improve the lives of children. VISIT Golden 1 Center for Kings games strong impression that I wanted to become an FIRST JOB Fan Fever in Old Sacramento WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB educator. LESSON LEARNED My father taught me at Teach at a community college—I still miss it. MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mother an early age to return things in better condition TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Fixed mind-sets than you received them. are tough to change. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m very shy. HOBBIES Running, reading, cycling HOBBY Golf FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT The Capitol VISIT My parents’ house

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John Thomas Edward Bowes Greene Bush Superintendent President President Davis Joint Unifi ed School American River College Cosumnes River College District

John Bowes became superintendent of the In 2014, Thomas Greene became president Edward Bush has worked in the California Davis Joint Unifi ed School District in 2016. of American River College, a public com- community college system for 17 years. He Previously, he worked for the Palos Verdes munity college and part of the Los Rios was a tenured associate faculty member Peninsula Unifi ed School District and held community c xxollege District. ARC cur- in student activities and a dean of student various positions in the Los Angeles Uni- rently serves 30,000 students. Greene has services, as well as an adjunct instructor fi ed School District. He also served as the been the vice president of academic aŽ airs at the University of Redlands and Brand- lead negotiator in LA from 2009 to 2013, and student services at Lake Tahoe Com- man University. He became president of working to save thousands of jobs and keep munity College, as well as Sacramento City Cosumnes River College in 2015. He is the school district fi scally solvent during College’s associate vice president of student credited with developing programs for un- the Great Recession. He completed his services. He was also an associate and fa- derserved individuals and veterans, and he doctoral research at UCLA. cilitator with The Center for the Study of started a successful two-year graduation Community College Student Engagement guarantee program aimed at new college HOMETOWN Springfi eld, Va. in Austin, Texas, and a special assistant to students and local school districts. He is EDUCATION Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the president at Valencia Community Col- a public speaker and presenter on various California Lutheran University, UCLA (EdD) lege in Orlando, Fla. He is a former coordi- educational topics, such as student success, WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Serving as a nator and instructor for the Voyager Out- equity, diversity and leadership. Peace Corps volunteer sparked my interest ward Bound School. and commitment to public education. EDUCATION UC Riverside, CSU San Ber- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED An education is EDUCATION Northern Illinois University (BS, nardino (MPA), Claremont Graduate University the one thing that no one can ever take from MS), University of Texas at Austin (PhD) (PhD) you. NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Received NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Co-au- TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Overcoming the national dissertation of the year award thored books, book chapters and peer-re- speech and articulation challenges as a child viewed publications FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have an awesome comic book collection. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT Gunther’s Ice Cream

Robert S. Michael William “Willy” Nelsen Gutierrez Duncan President President President Sacramento State University Sacramento City College Sierra College

Sacramento State appointed Robert S. Michael Gutierrez became president of William “Willy” Duncan was born and Nelsen as its eighth president in 2015. He Sacramento City College in 2017. Estab- raised in Bakersfi eld, Calif. He has been has had a 30-year career in public higher lished in 1916, the college employs more president of Sierra College since 2011 and education. He was president of the Univer- than 800 people and serves 24,000 stu- is the college’s sixth president. More than sity of Texas–Pan American and special ad- dents. The main campus is located on Free- 18,000 students attend Sierra College, viser to the university’s executive chancel- port Boulevard in Sacramento, with centers which has campuses and centers in Rock- lor for academic aŽ airs. He taught English in Davis and West Sacramento. Gutierrez, lin, Roseville, Grass Valley and Truckee and at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the college’s fi rst Latino president, had which oŽ ers 126 degrees and certifi cates. founded and directed the creative writing been executive vice president for academ- From 1997 to 2011, Duncan was employed program at the University of Texas at Dal- ic aŽ airs and student success at Eastfi eld by Taft College, where he held leadership las. He is the fi rst person in his family to College in the Dallas Community College positions, including president and CEO. attend college and is a short-story writer. District, program coordinator for the Tex- While at Taft, he is credited with securing In 1995, his play, We Bums, ran for three as Council on Vocational Education and a large grants for the college. For 12 years, he weeks at the Deep Ellum Theater in Dallas. research specialist for the Texas Council on was the student and budget director at Cal- Workforce and Economic Competitiveness. ifornia State University, Bakersfi eld. EDUCATION Brigham Young University (BA, Currently, he is completing his doctorate in MA), University of Chicago (PhD) higher education at University of the Cum- EDUCATION CSU Bakersfi eld (BBA, MBA) NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Named berlands. NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT While he 2014 Man of the Year by the Rio Grande Valley was at Taft College, Duncan obtained a $5 mil- Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; received EDUCATION Princeton University (BA), Uni- lion grant for science, technology, engineering a Literacy Champion award from the South versity of Texas at Austin (MPA) and math education. Texas Literacy Coalition in 2012 NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT One of 25 college presidents to receive the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Paragon Award for New Presidents in 2019

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Leonard Dustin Laurie Abbeduto Corcoran Harting Director CEO Senior Vice President, UC Davis MIND Institute California Medical Association Operations Dignity Health, Greater Sacramento Service Area Dr. Leonard Abbeduto has worked in the In 1998, Dustin Corcoran started work- Laurie Harting oversees operations for six field of disabilities for close to 40 years. ing at the California Medical Association, hospitals and medical centers, including Since 2011, he has been the director of the a nonprofit organization of more than Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento and MIND (Medical Investigation of Neuro- 44,000 physicians, as the membership co- Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmi- developmental Disorders) Institute at UC ordinator for the political action commit- chael, with more than 8,000 employees Davis. He is also the Tsakopoulos-Vismara tee. He then moved to the CMA’s center for and 600 physicians throughout Dignity endowed chair and professor of psychiatry government relations, where he worked as Health’s greater Sacramento service area. and behavioral sciences. He has his own re- a sta– lobbyist. He has been the CEO since She serves on the Greater Sacramento Eco- search program focused on understanding 2010. For the past nine years, Corcoran has nomic Council Board of Directors and is a and treating autism, Fragile X syndrome, been listed as one of Capitol Weekly’s top board member of the Hospital Council of Down syndrome and other neurodevelop- 100 power brokers in the state. Northern and Central California. mental disorders. He has published more than 160 articles, chapters, reviews and HOMETOWN Los Alamitos, Calif. HOMETOWN Riverside, Calif. books. EDUCATION American University, University EDUCATION Riverside Community College of Southern California (MBA) (RN), University of Redlands (BS, MBA) EDUCATION University of Illinois at Chicago WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK When I left WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I started my (BA, MA, PhD) school, I wanted to get involved in politics and health care career as a nurse. I am passionate FIRST JOB Assistant manager at a Jack in the I jumped at the opportunity to work with Steve about working with people to improve the Box in Chicago Thompson, who was then the head of govern- overall health and wellness of the communities TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The pace of ment relations at CMA; he became my mentor. where I live and beyond. science and change is often slow. FAVORITE HOBBY Snowboarding FIRST JOB Ice cream scooper at Baskin-Robbins FEW PEOPLE KNOW I started running mara- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Wher- FEW PEOPLE KNOW I love to ballroom dance thons in my 50s. ever the best European football match is and go deep-sea fishing. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO HOBBY Mosaic art Give yourself choices. VISIT Taylor’s Market WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Be FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO a sponge and learn as much as you can. Read a VISIT Crocker Art Museum lot and keep current on your field of interest.

David Michael Todd Lubarsky Guyette Murch Vice Chancellor of Human Health CEO President and CEO Sciences /CEO VSP Global Eskaton UC Davis Health

Dr. David Lubarsky oversees UC Davis Rhode Island native Michael Guyette A 34-year professional in the aging-ser- Health’s academic, research and clinical serves as president and CEO of VSP Glob- vices industry, Todd Murch started work- programs, including the School of Medi- al, a doctor-governed vision care insurance ing at Eskaton in 1981, the year he gradu- cine, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nurs- company based in Rancho Cordova. The ated from college. The Carmichael-based ing, the 1,000-member physician practice second largest locally based private com- community nonprofit Eskaton operates group and UC Davis Medical Center. UC pany in the Sacramento area, VSP Global 23 residential facilities and memory-care Davis Health has roughly 10,000 employ- employs more than 2,700 people in the re- sites, serving nearly 12,000 senior citizens ees, 800 students and an operating budget gion. Guyette has experience leading large in the Greater Sacramento area. A gradu- of $1.9 billion, and it handles 1 million out- health plan organizations; he has worked ate of Stanford University’s Executive Pro- patient visits per year. He joined UC Davis as president and CEO of Blue Cross and gram, Murch assumed the role of CEO in Health in 2018. Blue Shield of Minnesota and held senior 2005. Previously, he was accounting man- leadership positions at Aetna, Blue Cross ager, divisional controller for skilled nurs- EDUCATION Washington University (BA, and Blue Shield of Florida and Indepen- ing, corporate controller, executive director MD), New York University Medical Center dence Blue Cross. of operational support services, chief finan- (Fellowship), Fuqua School of Business, Duke cial o‹cer and chief operating o‹cer. He is University (MBA) EDUCATION University of North Texas, Villa- a past chair of LeadingAge California and WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I became a doc- nova University (MBA) president/board chair of The Institute for tor because my best friend’s grandfather made LESSON LEARNED Relationships are endur- Senior Living. house calls. He made me feel so much better ing but can be fragile. by giving me warm Coke when I had the flu. He HIDDEN TALENT I love to cook! EDUCATION Sacramento State University was such an amazing role model, I decided I HOBBIES Anything outdoors: biking, hiking, wanted to be a doctor when I was 12. snow skiing, scuba and travel FEW PEOPLE KNOW When I was a lonely col- FAVORITE BOOK Endurance by Alfred Lan- lege freshman trying to meet women, someone sing. It chronicles Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic said, “Why don’t you take a ballroom dancing explorations, with great insights on persever- class?” I became an instructor and an amateur ance and leadership. competitor. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Renovate historic homes

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Carmela Garen Garry Coyle Wintemute Maisel President/CEO Director President/CEO California Hospital Violence Prevention Research Western Health Advantage Association Program

In 2017, Carmela Coyle became president Well-known researcher and authority on Garry Maisel started a health plan from and CEO of the California Hospital Asso- gun violence Garen Wintemute, an emer- scratch in 1996 and turned it into a com- ciation, one of the largest hospital trade as- gency medicine doctor, directs the Violence pany with annual revenues of $830 million sociations in the country. CHA represents Prevention Research Program at UC Da- and more than 135,000 members in the more than 400 California hospitals and vis. The program is the first state-funded Sacramento and North Bay regions. Mais- health systems. Prior to joining CHA, she gun research program of its kind in the el has 26 years of experience in health care spent nine years leading the Maryland Hos- United States. Wintemute has worked as plus 10 years in the banking and finance in- pital Association as its president and CEO. a consultant for the National Institute of dustry. An active community board mem- She also held senior policy positions with Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco ber, Maisel lends his expertise to organi- the American Hospital Association, where and Firearms, and the Centers for Disease zations such as WEAVE, Valley Vision and she worked for 20 years. At the start of her Control and Prevention, and he’s testified Mercy Foundation. career, she was an analyst for the Congres- before Congress on gun-related topics. He sional Budget O“ce in Washington, D.C. has researched and published numerous EDUCATION Sacramento State University In addition to earning an undergraduate studies on gun violence, including Ring of FIRST JOB Cleaning movie theaters as a kid. degree, she completed course work at the Fire, about Saturday Night Specials, and It was fun because you found loose change and University of Michigan’s Pew Health Policy How to Stop Mass Shootings. dollar bills. Program and Yale University. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED It came from a EDUCATION Yale University, Johns Hopkins fortune cookie. I have it framed on my desk: “Do EDUCATION Carleton College University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, not be afraid of competition.” NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Named UC Davis School of Medicine FAVORITE ACTIVITIES Outdoor activities Influential Marylander in 2010 and 2016 and FEW PEOPLE KNOW He funded his gun such as hiking and trout fishing in the Sierra Maryland Association of Healthcare Execu- violence research with more than $1 million of FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO tives’ Most Valuable Partner in 2013 his own money. VISIT McKinley Park and its rose garden

Sarah Jordan Sandy Krevans Herget Sharon President/CEO Senior Vice President and Area Senior Vice President and Area Sutter Health Manager Manager Kaiser Permanente/Roseville Kaiser Permanente/ Sacramento As president and CEO of Sutter Health, a Calgary native Jordan Herget oversees A Kaiser Permanente employee since 1997, not-for-profit health system that cares for local health plan and hospital services at Sandy Sharon is responsible for all local 3 million patients, Sarah Krevans oversees Kaiser’s 340-bed Roseville Medical Cen- health plan and hospital services at Kaiser’s 24 hospitals, 55,000 employees and 14,000 ter and is responsible for the health care 287-bed Sacramento Medical Center. After clinicians, as well as outpatient services, re- of more than 340,000 Kaiser Permanente helping to open Roseville Medical Center search facilities and home health and hos- members. Before Kaiser, Herget worked at in 1998, she worked there as the chief nurs- pice care. Previously, Krevans was Sutter Verity Health System, serving as the presi- ing o“cer, chief operating o“cer and inter- Health’s chief operating o“cer and held dent and chief executive for two Bay Area im senior vice president/area manager. Be- executive positions at Kaiser Permanente hospitals. He previously served as director fore coming to Kaiser Permanente, Sharon and Maine’s Bureau of Medical Services. of managed care financial services at HCA worked for 20 years at Sutter Health. She Modern Healthcare named her one of the Healthcare and worked as a senior consul- sits on the boards of Downtown Sacramen- Top 25 Women Leaders. tant for Ernst & Young Healthcare Con- to Partnership and the Greater Sacramento sulting. Area Economic Council. EDUCATION Boston University, UC Berkeley FIRST JOB See’s Candies in Berkeley EDUCATION Brigham Young University, Johns EDUCATION Sacramento State University FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Family Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health BEST ADVICE RECEIVED “The best way to home in Maine FIRST JOB Paper and then computer billings predict the future is to create it.”—Abraham WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK While at school, for my physician father Lincoln I took several small jobs at hospitals and was FEW PEOPLE KNOW I love to cook as much HIDDEN TALENT Super Scrabble player quickly disenchanted with the health care sys- as possible. FAVORITE MOVIE Silver Linings Playbook tem, particularly in the way it treated the elderly FAVORITE BOOKS I have copies, some of CHARITIES Joshua’s House Hospice and the mentally ill. This inspired me to change them early editions, of all the James Bond WHAT MOTIVATES ME Rooting for the my plan of becoming a doctor and instead pur- novels by Ian Fleming. underdog sue a career in health policy and administration FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO BUCKET LIST River cruise through the Bor- in order to help fix the system. VISIT Discovering the burgeoning food scene deaux countryside in town has been amazing. CHARITIES Local food bank organizations

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Trish Primo “Lucky” Scott Rodriguez Lara Reiner Senior Vice President and Area Director CEO Manager UC Davis Comprehensive Adventist Health Kaiser Permanente/South Cancer Center Sacramento Trish Rodriguez is a registered nurse with Dr. Primo “Lucky” Lara Jr. oversees the Scott Reiner is the chief executive o™cer of more than 30 years of experience in health UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, a Adventist Health, a faith-based, nonprofit care operations. As senior VP and area world-class institution that delivers excep- integrated health system serving more than manager for Kaiser Permanente in South tional cancer care to Northern California 80 communities on the West Coast and Sacramento and Elk Grove, she oversees and the Central Valley. He is on the faculty Hawaii through 21 hospitals, more than health plan and hospital operations, in- of the UC Davis School of Medicine as a 280 clinics, 14 home care agencies and nine cluding a Level II trauma center, and is re- full professor and executive associate dean hospice agencies. A registered nurse with sponsible for the provision of health care to for cancer programs. As a senior academic nearly 30 years of health care leadership, approximately 212,990 Kaiser Permanente medical oncologist, the Manila-born Lara Reiner previously served as Adventist’s ex- members in the area. has extensive experience in the diagnosis ecutive vice president/chief operations of- and treatment of people with advanced ficer, responsible for the $4 billion health HOMETOWN Calgary, Alberta, Canada cancer and has chaired or co-chaired doz- system. Before that, he was president and EDUCATION University of Lethbridge, Univer- ens of clinical trials. He holds leadership CEO of Adventist Health Glendale. sity of Hawaii roles in numerous scientific and education- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Maintain your al programs and is the editor-in-chief of EDUCATION Pacific Union College, CSU integrity because in the end, integrity trumps Cancer Treatment and Research Commu- Northridge, University of Missouri even the most adverse situation. nications and Kidney Cancer. HOMETOWN Takoma Park, Md. FAVORITE BOOK Leading Change by John FIRST JOB In college I worked as a landscap- P. Kotter EDUCATION University of the Philippines er, cutting lawns and trimming bushes. FAVORITE TV SHOW House of Cards FIRST JOB My first paid job was as a national BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My parents WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB newspaper columnist. provided me a lot of advice growing up, but the Travel writer BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be kind to every- most important thing they showed me is the BUCKET LIST Break 100 in golf one. love they have for each other. I was blessed to FAVORITE BOOK A Short History of Nearly have parents with that kind of relationship who Everything by Bill Bryson were also very accepting, nonjudgmental and WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I want to eradi- always encouraged me to do what I wanted cate cancer. to do.

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Thaddeus Ann M. Michael Barsotti Evans Bosworth Farmer /Co-CEO Principal CEO/Founder Farm Fresh To You Ann M. Evans Consulting Next Generation Foods

Thaddeus Barsotti was born on his family For more than 40 years, Ann M. Evans has A fifth-generation farmer, Michael Bos- farm, Capay Organic, where his first job promoted healthful eating through her worth manages Rue & Forsman Ranch, a was to cut roma tomatoes. Today, he is work with state and local governments and family business operating in Olivehurst co-CEO of Farm Fresh To You, a home-de- nonprofit organizations. The former may- since 1946. Today, the company sells more livery service that provides fresh, local, or of Davis, Evans co-founded three local than a dozen varieties of conventional, spe- organic produce and artisanal groceries to food-system mainstays: Davis Food Co-op, cialty and organic rice. Recognizing a de- consumers throughout the state. He also the award-winning Davis Farmers Market mand for locally grown produce, Bosworth heads up farm management for Capay Or- and Davis Farm to School. She co-authored created Next Generation Foods, a food dis- ganic and serves on the boards of CCOF Cooking With California Food in K-12 tribution company owned by area farmers. (California Certified Organic Farmers) and Schools and is a food columnist for several He is a board member of the California the Davis Farmers Market. local newspapers. Rice Commission and serves on the Sacra- mento Farm-to-Fork Steering Committee. EDUCATION Cal Poly San Luis Obispo EDUCATION UC Davis BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Don’t dwell on MOST INSPIRING PERSON Alice Waters EDUCATION UC Davis your mistakes. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I play the flute. FIRST JOB Selling corn and strawberries at a MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mom, Kath- HOBBIES Fly-fishing, gardening, beekeeping, roadside produce stand with my cousin. I was 7 leen Barsotti drawing and he was 9. TOUGHEST LESSON LEARNED Capitalism FAVORITE BOOK The 7 Habits of Highly LESSON LEARNED Never lose sight of cash can be mean. Effective People by Steven Covey flow. HOBBY Hunting WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE HOBBIES Spending time outdoors with my FAVORITE MOVIE Pulp Fiction Find what you love to do and don’t give up. The family, fly-fishing and hunting BUCKET LIST Writing a book world needs your vision and passion. FAVORITE BOOK Atlas Shrugged by Ayn BUCKET LIST Create a food center with the Rand Davis Farmers Market to provide educational WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE programming for students in Yolo County about Find and develop relationships with mentors food and agriculture you want to learn from. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT Kru

Mark Amber Michael Jansen Stott Passmore President/CEO CEO/Chief Food Genius Founder/CEO Blue Diamond Growers Food Literacy Center Passmore Ranch

Under Mark Jansen’s leadership, Blue Di- In 2011, Amber Stott founded the Food In 2005, North Texas native Michael Pass- amond has become a $1.6 billion global Literacy Center to inspire healthy eating more founded the 86-acre Passmore Ranch branded food manufacturer, and consum- habits in low-income children. A self-de- in Sloughhouse. Famed for its sustainably ers can buy Blue Diamond Snack Almonds scribed “impatient woman of action,” she raised and sourced seafood, Passmore and Almond Breeze in 50 countries. Jansen created the center’s curriculum in response Ranch supplies small-batch caviar and has a unique understanding of the branded to the childhood obesity crisis. She worked fresh fish to some of the best chefs and retail, ingredients and food service busi- with the California State Legislature in restaurants in the country, including The nesses; his career achievements include 2012 to declare September Food Literacy French Laundry in Yountville. Passmore leading brand growth for Häagen-Dazs, Month and helped create the Sacramento Ranch plans to expand with the addition of Betty Crocker, Totino’s, Pillsbury, Red Bar- Food Film Festival. Stott speaks Danish a 4,000-square-foot processing plant that on and Freschetta. and Zulu. will include food production areas.

EDUCATION St. Olaf College, Kellogg School EDUCATION University of Illinois at Urba- FIRST JOB Mowing lawns and laying sod in of Management na-Champaign the fifth grade BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Take the lead. FIRST JOB Paper route. I wanted a bike, and BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My Marine Corps FAVORITE MOVIE Forrest Gump my parents said I needed to find a way to pay team leader would tell us, “Let the situation FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION My for it. It was my first side hustle! develop.” He meant when there’s seemingly son and I travel to the Canadian Arctic and go FAVORITE BOOK Harvest for Hope: A Guide no path forward, don’t panic. The situation will fishing. to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall change, and other options will reveal them- WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO selves. Enjoy the journey as much as the result. VISIT The Sunday farmers market is what I call FEW PEOPLE KNOW My four nieces are al- WHAT MOTIVATES ME The responsibility to “my happy place.” lowed to paint my toenails whenever they want. do well by the over 3,000 mostly small family WHAT MOTIVATES ME I’m driven to make HOBBIES Building things, motorcycles, cook- farms that entrust me with their year’s work in the world a better place. ing, shooting, jujitsu the form of the almond crop. BUCKET LIST I want to own a mini donkey! A WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I like to grow girl can dream. things, whether it’s a business or fish.

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Mary Hank Jerry Kimball Shaw Moore Executive Director Cookbook author/blogger CEO Center for Land-Based Hunter Angler Gardener Cook Knee Deep Brewing Company Learning

Founded in 1993 by Winters walnut farm- Hank Shaw was a political reporter for 18 Mountain View native Jerry Moore is a for- ers Craig and Julie McNamara, the non- years before turning his focus to the world mer police o‰ cer and serial entrepreneur profi t Center for Land-Based Learning of food, particularly food made with ingre- who founded a cable manufacturing busi- works to inspire and educate the next gen- dients for which he has hunted, foraged or ness and a solar manufacturing business eration of farmers and agricultural leaders. fi shed. He is the author of four award-win- before acquiring Knee Deep Brewing Com- Raised on a small farm in Yolo County, ning cookbooks, and his blog, Hunter An- pany. “I enjoy manufacturing and especial- Mary Kimball joined the center in 1998. gler Gardener Cook, was named best food ly enjoyed the opportunity to lay out our Over the past 21 years, Kimball helped blog by the James Beard Foundation in production fl oor and then expand it multi- grow it from one educational program to 2013. “I chose this work because I could,” ple times as we grew,” he says. Today, Knee fi ve di£ erent model programs operating in explains Shaw. “We are all the sum of our Deep is one of the largest breweries in the more than 25 California counties. Kimball choices, and when the opportunity opened Sacramento region, shipping craft beer to sits on the board of the Yolo County Flood up for me to do this full time in 2010, I took more than 30 states and eight countries. Control and Water Conversation District, a chance. I continue doing this because the and she previously served two terms as worlds of wild foods are endlessly fascinat- FIRST JOB Picking pears in Placerville chair of the Yolo County Planning Com- ing.” TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Managing the mission. She is currently overseeing con- multiple personalities, expectations and abili- struction of the new Center for Land-Based FIRST JOB Newspaper delivery boy ties of employees Learning headquarters, slated to open in LESSON LEARNED You can’t do everything HIDDEN TALENT I can sing, but only to my Woodland in 2020. all the time. grandbabies under 2 years old. WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF HOBBIES Working on outdoor projects at EDUCATION Ohio State University, UC Davis Talk less, listen more. home FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE VISIT American River Bike Trail Don’t stop trying. CHARITY California Waterfowl Association WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d WHAT MOTIVATES ME There is always open a beach bar on a tropical island. something new to learn. WHAT MOTIVATES ME Something inside me BUCKET LIST Becoming fl uent in Spanish that won’t let me slow down

Lauren Rob Michael Zehnder Archie Mraz General Manager Owner/Founder Owner/Brewmaster Mraz Brewing Company Pangaea Bier Cafe Mraz Brewing Company

Elk Grove native Lauren Zehnder works on Rob Archie opened Pangaea in 2008, tak- Auto repair industry veteran Michael Mraz management, marketing, operations, event ing inspiration from the pubs and cafes started brewing as a hobby in 2006 and planning, merchandise and label designs he visited while playing professional bas- quickly became one of the most decorated and more for El Dorado Hills-based Mraz ketball in Europe. The San Diego State homebrewers in the state. Mraz was named Brewing Company. Since joining Mraz in University graduate introduced local beer California Homebrewer of the Year in 2008 2014, Zehnder helped the craft brewery enthusiasts to arcane international styles, and 2009, and he twice took the top prize triple in size while expanding distribution and Pangaea played a signifi cant role in at The Mayfair, a nationwide homebrewing to the Bay Area, Chico and Truckee. She legitimizing the Sacramento beer scene. competition. He turned pro in 2013, open- was recently elected president of the Sacra- In 2018, Archie and brewer Peter Hoey ing Mraz Brewing Company in El Dorado mento Area Brewers Guild. Previously, she opened Urban Roots, a barbecue restau- Hills. The brewery quickly grew a reputa- worked in the wine industry in Napa Valley rant, craft brewery and biergarten. Archie’s tion for making exceptional Belgian and and New Zealand. latest project is Bawk, a fried chicken eat- sour beers. Only 13 months after opening, ery in the R Street Corridor Mraz won a gold medal at the 2014 Cali- EDUCATION UC Davis fornia State Fair Commercial Craft Beer HIDDEN TALENT I used to pole vault in high FIRST JOB Adams Trucking Competition, then went on to win Brewery school. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Love yourself. of the Year in 2018. HOBBIES Traveling, reading, spending time HIDDEN TALENT Humor with friends and family, cuddling with my pups, HOBBY Riding motorcycles riding bikes FAVORITE TV SHOW Chappelle’s Show FAVORITE BOOK Daring Greatly by Brené FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Hawaii Brown with family FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO CHARITY Sacramento Food Bank VISIT American River, R Street Corridor WHAT MOTIVATES ME My children CHARITIES Fregoso Outdoor Foundation, Count on Kids, Eleanor Fuller Forever Founda- tion, Friends of NICU, to name a few BUCKET LIST Bungee jumping

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Sean Tom Warren Kohmescher McCormick Bogle CEO Executive Director President/Vineyard Director Temple Coff ee Inc. California Craft Brewers Bogle Vineyards Association

Edmond, Okla., native Sean Kohmescher Tom McCormick founded the fi rst craft- Warren Bogle is president and vineyard sold his 1948 Harley Davidson and 1958 beer-only distribution company in the director of Bogle Vineyards, a sixth-gener- Volkswagen bug to raise money to open country in 1984, serving the Sacramen- ation family-farming operation in Clarks- Temple CoŽ ee in downtown Sacramen- to and Lake Tahoe markets. McCormick burg that produces award-winning wine to in 2005. Today, the company employs Beverage Company, which he sold in 1994, that is sold nationwide. Bogle was in col- 120 people at its fi ve coŽ eehouse locations was a pioneer of the craft beer industry. “I lege in 1997 when his father passed away and roastery. Temple has been named best got into the industry for the people,” says unexpectedly; he left Chico State to re- coŽ eehouse in Sacramento and garnered McCormick. “In the early years, craft brew- turn to work in the family operation with awards for its coŽ ees and interior design. ers were part pioneer, artist, scientist and his mother, Patty. During that period, the Kohmescher is a founder of Specialty Cof- entrepreneur, and they were all extremely winery won the respect of esteemed wine fee Week Sacramento and has served as passionate. It was for the love of beer, not critics and grew its production substan- a chapter representative for the Barista for the money.” McCormick became execu- tially, becoming one of the largest wineries Guild of America. tive president of the California Craft Brew- in the country. Today, Bogle and two of his ers Association in 2006. siblings run the company’s day-to-day op- EDUCATION San Francisco State University erations. FIRST JOB My own mowing and landscaping EDUCATION UC Santa Barbara business at age 14 FIRST JOB Selling painted rocks when I was NAME Warren is named for his grandfather, BEST ADVICE FROM MY FATHER: Don’t 4 years old Warren V. Bogle, who was the fi rst in the family gamble with something you can’t aff ord to lose. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Never go into to plant wine grapes, in 1968. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Keeping ahead of business with friends or family. FOUNDING The Bogle wine label was born in a growing business takes constant reorganiza- HIDDEN TALENT I play guitar and sing. 1979. During the prior decade, the family sold tion. HOBBIES Hiking, backpacking, backcountry its fruit to other wineries. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I used to hold the track skiing record at Thunderhill Raceway in class TTD for WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE racing cars. I used to want to be a motorcycle Life’s not fair. Get used to it. You can prevail. mechanic. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE BOOK On the Road by Jack VISIT Any brewery Kerouac

Patrick Josh Billy Mulvaney Nelson Ngo Chef/Owner Co-owner/CEO Chef/Founder/Partner Mulvaney’s B&L Selland Family Restaurants Kru Restaurant

When Patrick Mulvaney moved to Sacra- At age 18, Josh Nelson started working Hong Kong-born Billy Ngo moved to Sac- mento in 1993, he knew that he had found in catering for his family’s Sacramento ramento as an infant and grew up working his true home. The Garden City, N.Y., na- restaurant, The Kitchen, eventually mov- his way through the ranks of his parents’ tive, who began his career in the restaurant ing through nearly every position avail- restaurant. “It was the fi rst job I ever had industry as a waiter in Manhattan, has able: serving, dishwashing, accounting and and I loved it.” When he opened his own been instrumental in launching Sacramen- back of house. That breadth of experience restaurant, Kru, in 2005, he was celebrat- to’s farm-to-fork movement. He opened prepared him for his role as CEO, where he ed as a wunderkind chef with a passion for Mulvaney’s B&L, his restaurant devoted to leads on strategy, marketing and branding, fresh ingredients and an inventive take on local, seasonal food, in 2006. Mulvaney is business development, budget, philanthro- contemporary Japanese cuisine. Ngo has a committed advocate for food access and py and more. Nelson describes his total been a featured chef at the Pebble Beach equity as well as improving mental health immersion in the family business this way: Food & Wine and Los Angeles Food & services for those working in the hospitality “When it’s part of how you live, it becomes Wine events. He is a supporter of Front industry. less of a job and more of a passion.” His ul- Street Animal Shelter and the Food Liter- timate goal? To make Sacramento a think acy Center. FIRST JOB Golf caddy tank for food and agricultural policy. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m introverted and shy VISIT I go to the Roberts Family Development EDUCATION Sacramento State University away from big social gatherings. People can’t Center to be reminded of the promise of a MOST INSPIRING PERSON My wife, Gina tell that because I’m always out front at the better future. Funk sushi bar greeting and talking to people. HOBBY Aimless late-night walks with the dog TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Raising kids, LESSON LEARNED Just because you have a FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Any hands down! good idea or concept doesn’t mean it will work restaurant table across from my wife, Bobbin FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Paris if you don’t execute it properly. FEW PEOPLE KNOW The day Ted Kaczynski FEW PEOPLE KNOW I love skateboarding HOBBY Jujitsu, but I suck at it. was arrested, I received a standing ovation on and punk rock music. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Japan coming to work at Paragary’s because they HOBBY Mushroom foraging BUCKET LIST Travel more and spend more thought I was the Unabomber. time enjoying family, friends and all the little things

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Ginger Rick Bobbin Hahn Mahan Mulvaney Owner/Creative Director Chef/Owner Restaurateur Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates The Waterboy Mulvaney’s B&L

When chocolatier Ginger Elizabeth Hahn Rick Mahan founded what has become Bobbin Mulvaney, who grew up in a small opened her eponymous boutique in Sacra- one of Sacramento’s most enduring restau- farming town in the Central Valley, was mento in 2008, she had already racked up rants, The Waterboy, in 1996. He was one introduced to restaurant work at a young some serious credentials, including grad- of the first chefs in the city to focus on age. Her first job, at age 11, was to sweep uating with honors from the Culinary In- farm-to-fork cooking, forging relationships the kitchen floors and replace the toilet pa- stitute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. Since early on with local farmers to provide din- per at her family’s 24-hour restaurant and then, she has been voted a Top Ten Choco- ers with the highest-quality ingredients. banquet hall. “A lot like my job today,” she latier in North America by Pastry Arts Mag- One of Mahan’s hobbies, bike riding, be- quips. Mulvaney has used her position as a azine and launched a second retail location came the theme of his pizza-centric restau- caterer and restaurateur to promote farm- in 2018 in San Francisco. Hahn’s popular rant, OneSpeed. Mahan was inspired to to-fork cooking, battle food insecurity and seasonal items are known to attract long open his own restaurant by the first family participate in hands-on mentoring proj- lines of customers. She counts meeting and for whom he worked. He has this advice for ects. In 2018 she was named a Sacramen- dining with Julia Child among her notable those starting out in the work world: “Try tan of the Year by the Sacramento Metro accomplishments. Hahn is a supporter of and find your passion and throw yourself Chamber of Commerce. She is a supporter the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Ser- into it.” of St. John’s Program for Real Change and vices and Sacramento Children’s Home. Ag in the Classroom. FIRST JOB Neighborhood paper route FIRST JOB Barista HIDDEN TALENT Aspiring magician FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO TOUGHEST CHALLENGE My daughter FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO VISIT The Waterboy at lunch needing critical surgery as an infant VISIT The Railroad Museum and the Ameri- WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Paris can River Parkway You are right where you are supposed to be. HOBBY Sewing my own clothes BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Whatever you FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was a wild child on FAVORITE BOOK One Hundred Years of think you know at 30, check back in a couple skis, from jumping off National Chute at Squaw Solitude by Gabríel Gárcia Marquez of decades. to waterskiing lakes and rivers from Shasta to WHAT MOTIVATES ME Knowing that I’ll FAVORITE FILM The Station Agent the bayous. Cowgirl up! never know everything there is to know about WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB TOUGHEST CHALLENGE My health, and chocolate Architect learning that the world will keep on spinning without me.

Brad Terry Kurt Cecchi Harvego Spataro Executive Chef/Partner CEO Executive Chef Canon Harvego Companies Paragary Restaurant Group

Sacramento native Brad Cecchi launched Sacramento native Terry Harvego is the Kurt Spataro was a young boy when he first Canon in 2017 after working at Calistoga’s CEO of Harvego Companies, an invest- started making recipes from Julia Child. Solbar, which earned a Michelin star while ment group focusing on real estate and A self-taught cook, Spataro is the corpo- he was there. Cecchi’s experience at Solbar restaurants, including The Firehouse, one rate executive chef at Paragary Restaurant and Urban Farmer in Cleveland prepared of Sacramento’s most esteemed fine-dining Group, a company that has profoundly him to open Canon. He was inspired to be- destinations. The Firehouse, which first influenced Sacramento’s dining scene. come a chef by his grandfather, who owned opened in 1960 under di›erent ownership, He trains, manages and develops menu restaurants around Phoenix. “Every time has won numerous awards for its collection concepts with the chefs for the company’s I went for a visit, I loved hearing him tell of rare wines. Harvego was instrumental in restaurants, including Cafe Bernardo, Cen- me about food,” says Cecchi. “I learned so opening the Orleans Lofts apartments and tro Cocina Mexicana and Paragary’s. Draw- much from him.” the now shuttered Ten22 near The Fire- ing inspiration from a lifelong interest in house in Old Sacramento. A former com- music (he has played piano and guitar in EDUCATION Culinary Institute of America at mercial real estate broker, Harvego also several local bands), Spataro is invigorated Hyde Park, American River College operates Foresight Property Management, by the daily rhythms of the kitchen. Over FIRST JOB Washing dishes and making pizzas which oversees property management for the years, he has mentored a generation of TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Opening Urban the Harvego Companies. chefs in the city who have gone on to open Farmer in Cleveland. I was overseeing room their own successful establishments. service for almost 500 rooms. Understanding EDUCATION UCLA the operational side of things at that scale was BOARD AFFILIATIONS Sacramento Metro EDUCATION Sacramento State University the most challenging work I’ve ever done. Chamber and Greater Sacramento Economic HOBBIES Skiing, surfing FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS Council INFLUENCES Graham Kerr, Julia Child IT I am a Sacramento boy. A day off includes a CHARITIES Harvego Family Foundation, FAMOUS SPOUSE KFBK anchor Kitty O’Neal float down the river followed by Jimboy’s tacos. which supports Sacramento Theatre Compa- ny, First Tee, Children’s Receiving Home and others

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Randall Henry Simon Selland de Vere White de Vere White Co-owner/Chef Owner Owner Selland Family Restaurants Irish Hospitality Group de Vere’s Irish Pub

An early champion of Sacramento’s farm- Sacramento native Henry de Vere White Simon de Vere White and his brother Hen- to-fork movement, Randall Selland is pas- was a college student majoring in history ry founded de Vere’s Irish Pub in down- sionate about serving food sourced from at the University of Washington when he town Sacramento in 2009, adding a Davis local farms and farmers markets. He ad- fell in love with bartending. “When I was location in 2011. Together with their busi- vocated for the benefits of eating locally 15, my mother told me if you never want to ness partners, the brothers went on to open grown organic food at the state and local go hungry, get a job in a restaurant. I have Firestone Public House and The Snug. “I levels. In 2008, Selland received an award been in love with this business ever since,” don’t know if I chose the restaurant indus- from Pesticide Watch for helping over- says de Vere White, who has opened four try or if it chose me,” says de Vere White. turn a law that barred restaurants from bar/restaurant ventures with his brother, “I worked in a couple of other fields after shopping at California’s farmers markets. Simon de Vere White. “We’ve been able to graduate school, but I was always most In 2015, he received Breathe California’s do this while giving back to the commu- comfortable in my abilities when working Clean Air Award for a zero-waste program nities that have embraced us.” He and his in restaurants. I think the idea of hospi- piloted at his restaurants. Selland is an en- brother have helped raise more than $2.6 tality was ingrained in me during my up- thusiastic supporter of children’s food liter- million for pediatric cancer through the St. bringing.” He currently serves as president acy. He credits his wife, Nancy Zimmer, for Baldrick’s Foundation. of the Sacramento chapter of the California inspiring his love of cooking. Restaurant Association. FIRST JOB Dishwasher FIRST JOB Janitor at a food court in Fresno HIDDEN TALENT I’m an avid gardener and FIRST JOB Dishwasher/busser TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Raising a family. amateur beekeeper. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My father once It’s the greatest joy and can bring the greatest HOBBIES Cooking, hunting, gardening told me that you can’t bet on a horse after it challenges. FAVORITE TV SHOW Game of Thrones has run its race. That has always stuck with FAVORITE BOOK La Technique: An Illustrat- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Ireland me. ed Guide to the Fundamental Techniques of or Hawaii LESSON LEARNED The restaurant industry Cooking by Jacques Pépin WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Ev- is consistently inconsistent. HIDDEN TALENT Finally coming to a place in erything up to now was just a warm-up. Jump FAVORITE BOOK No Ordinary Time by Doris life where I enjoy the art of doing nothing in the deep end and start your real education! Kearns Goodwin HOBBY Golfing

Kelly Darrell Randy McCown Corti Paragary Executive Chef Owner Founder/Co-Owner Selland Family Restaurants Corti Brothers Paragary Restaurant Group

As executive chef at Selland’s The Kitchen Darrell Corti, whose father Frank Corti Randy Paragary has been pushing bound- restaurant, Kelly McCown made Sacra- co-founded the family grocery store Corti aries and setting trends across Sacramen- mento history by bringing the first (and Brothers in 1947, has been described by ac- to’s nightlife and dining scenes since 1969. only) Michelin star to the region in 2019. A claimed food writer and critic Ruth Reichl With Chez Panisse and other groundbreak- graduate of the California Culinary Acade- as the man who “knows more about food ing Bay Area restaurants as his inspiration, my, he has worked in some of California’s and wine than anyone else in the world.” Paragary has influenced the city’s culinary finest kitchens, including La Folie and He is credited with helping introduce tra- landscape perhaps more than any other Fleur de Lys in San Francisco and Martini ditional Italian balsamic vinegar to the restaurateur. He introduced Sacramento House in St. Helena. Under his leadership, United States, and he received the equiva- to its first wood-fired pizza at Paragary’s The Kitchen has received accolades and lent of a knighthood from the Italian gov- Restaurant in 1983, and more than two high-profile awards from Wine Spectator, ernment for his promotion of the country’s decades ago he was among the first to pro- OpenTable and AAA. food products. Corti is also a proponent of mote authentic regional Mexican cuisine at locally produced olive oil and a champion Centro Cocina Mexicana. Several of Sacra- FIRST JOB Dishwasher of planting Italian grape varieties in Cali- mento’s high-profile chefs, bartenders and FEW PEOPLE KNOW I don’t like social events fornia. The ravioli sold in the store’s delica- restaurateurs began their careers at one of or gatherings. tessen are Sacramento’s oldest continuous- Paragary’s establishments, which empha- HOBBIES Riding motorcycles, mountain ly produced food. size local ingredients served in a comfort- bikes or anything fast enough to get hurt on able, stylish environment. Today, Paragary FAVORITE MOVIE Harold and Maude Restaurant Group includes the midtown CHARITY Monterey Bay Aquarium Conser- Paragary’s restaurant, Centro Cocina Mexi- vation & Science cana and four Cafe Bernardos. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Mechanic or tradesman WHAT MOTIVATES ME I hate sitting still.

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Yu (Ben) Darrell Jack Meng Steinberg Ehnes Chief Investment Officer Mayor CEO CalPERS City of Sacramento California State Teachers’ Retirement System

At CalPERS, Yu (Ben) Meng oversees near- Before becoming Sacramento’s 56th mayor Jack Ehnes is CEO of CalSTRS, the largest ly 400 employees and is responsible for in 2016, Darrell Steinberg was elected to educator-only pension fund in the world investment policies, risk management, cor- the California Senate in 2006 and served and the second-largest pension fund in the porate governance standards, and environ- as president pro tempore in 2008. He was United States, with more than 949,000 mental, social and governance strategies. a member of the Sacramento City Council members and benefit recipients and an in- He manages a $350 billion investment and the California Assembly. He is a propo- vestment portfolio of $227.8 billion. Before portfolio composed of public and private nent of mental health care services. While joining CalSTRS in 2002, Ehnes was the investments. He returned to CalPERS in in the Assembly, Steinberg authored Prop- Colorado insurance commissioner, deputy 2019 after serving as the deputy chief in- osition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, insurance commissioner and board trustee vestment o™cer at the State Administra- which was enacted in 2005. He also helped for the Colorado Public Employees Retire- tion of Foreign Exchange for three years. pass legislation that required insurance ment Association. He has worked at Barclays Global Investors, companies to pay for treatment of autism Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. spectrum disorders. EDUCATION Cornell University, Vanderbilt University HOMETOWN Fuxin, Liaoning Province (China) EDUCATION UCLA, UC Davis (JD) FIRST JOB Road construction EDUCATION UC Berkeley (MFE), UC Davis NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Given the BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Find a job with (PhD) John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award by purpose. WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I am fascinated the Kennedy Library Foundation in 2010 TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Losing my father with how the economy and financial markets to illness as a very young boy created difficult work and I like the challenge. challenges, but it also built resilience and BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be kind. independence. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Keeping up with HIDDEN TALENT I play a very mean game of technological innovations billiards. (Keep your money close.) FAVORITE BOOKS Thinking, Fast and Slow HOBBIES Snow skiing with my wife (a former and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow downhill racer), horseback riding, scuba WHAT MOTIVATES ME I am a mission-ori- WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE ented person. Start saving for retirement.

Jan Lynn Christopher Howard Owen Cabaldon Chan Commissioner Mayor Manager California Department of City of West Sacramento City of Sacramento Business Oversight

Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. appointed Jan Christopher Cabaldon is West Sacramen- After receiving 80 resumes and interview- Lynn Owen as the first commissioner of the to’s longest-serving mayor. First elected by ing 10 candidates, Sacramento’s City Coun- Department of Business Oversight in 2013. the public in 2004, he has been reelected cil unanimously voted to o–er Howard She had previously served as the commis- seven times. He currently chairs the Jobs, Chan the position of city manager in 2017; sioner of corporations. She has been a stra- Education and Workforce committee for he is the city’s first Asian-American city tegic initiatives manager at Apple Inc., vice the U.S. Conference of Mayors and is a manager. Prior to that, he served as Sac- president of government a–airs at J.P. Mor- member of Mayors Against LGBTQ Dis- ramento’s assistant city manager for three gan Chase, state director of government crimination. From 1997 to 2003, he was years. For more than a decade, he was the and industry a–airs at Washington Mutu- vice chancellor of the California Communi- city’s parking services manager, overseeing al, and executive director of the California ty Colleges system. In 2006, he came out to approximately 160 employees, 10,000 o–- Mortgage Bankers Association. the public as an openly gay man in a story street parking spaces and 21 parking facil- in The Sacramento Bee. ities, as well as parking enforcement and EDUCATION CSU Fresno meter collections. FIRST JOB Aide in a convalescent hospital EDUCATION UC Berkeley, Sacramento State at 14 University (MPPA) HOMETOWN San Francisco BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Any decision can NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT The Sac- EDUCATION CSU Hayward wait for 24 hours. ramento Bee wrote that “under [Cabaldon’s] NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT In 2017, FAVORITE BOOK The Shadow of the Wind by leadership, [West Sacramento] has become Chan won the Asian Pacific Islander (API) Rise Carlos Ruiz Zafón one of the municipal stars of the region.” award from the Sacramento Asian Pacific FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS In April 2019, Chamber of Commerce—an annual award giv- VISIT Mulvaney’s B&L Cabaldon spoke at a rally where South Bend, en to four API leaders who have shown strong WHAT MOTIVATES ME Crafting public Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg announced he was leadership skills and demonstrated support for policy to protect consumers and leading my running for president. the region. incredible staff, who work to ensure Califor- nians have a fair and competitive financial marketplace CHARITY Planned Parenthood

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Nav Matthew Eleni Gill Jacobs Kounalakis County Executive General Counsel Lieutenant Governor Sacramento County CalPERS State of California

Before coming to California, Nav Gill Matt Jacobs joined CalPERS as its gener- The first woman elected to be lieutenant worked for the city of Durham, N.C., in se- al counsel in 2014. Before that, he was a governor of California, Eleni Kounalakis nior financial positions. During that time, partner at DLA Piper, a global law firm, was sworn in on Jan. 7, 2019. From 2010 Durham received the highest possible bond and worked for the Department of Justice to 2013, she was President Barack Obama’s ratings from three major rating agencies. in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Attor- ambassador to the Republic of Hunga- He was Folsom’s assistant city manager ney’s O™ce in Sacramento. At CalPERS, ry. A memoir about her time in Hungary, and finance director for five years before he is responsible for strategic direction and Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplo- becoming assistant county executive and oversight of the Legal O™ce, the O™ce of macy, Dinner Parties and Democracy in chief operations o™cer for Sacramento Audit Services and the Equal Employment Budapest, was published in 2015. Before County in 2007. Opportunity Program. entering public service, Kounalakis was president of AKT Development Corpora- EDUCATION University of Missouri (MA, MPA) HOMETOWN San Francisco tion, a housing development firm founded WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I’ve spent my EDUCATION UC Berkeley, University of Michi- by her father. career in public service with the goals of gan Law School (JD) improving the accountability of government FIRST JOB Paperboy EDUCATION Dartmouth College, UC Berke- operations while delivering vital services to HOBBIES Bike riding through beautiful scen- ley’s Haas School of Business (MBA) people. ery; viewing art NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Elected FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’ve lived on five conti- FAVORITE MOVIE The Big Lebowski lieutenant governor with a margin of victory of nents. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO 13.2% HOBBY Cycling VISIT American River Bike Trail WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I always knew I FAVORITE BOOK In Patagonia by Bruce CHARITIES WEAVE, Sacramento Food Bank wanted to work in government. Service to my Chatwin country, and now my state, is an honor and a FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Mam- privilege. moth Lakes, Calif. FIRST JOB Intern for California State Sen. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Nick Petris Investigative journalist BEST ADVICE RECEIVED House Speaker WHAT MOTIVATES ME Doing the right thing Nancy Pelosi said, “Always strive to be part of something bigger than yourself.”

Doris Troy L. Anne Marie Matsui Nunley Schubert Congresswoman United States District Judge District Attorney U.S. House of Representatives United States District Court, Sacramento County District Eastern District of California Attorney’s Office

Since 2005, Doris Matsui has represented Troy Nunley has worked as a prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert has 28 years of the city of Sacramento and its surrounding for the Alameda County District Attorney’s law enforcement experience, including areas in the U.S. House of Representatives. o™ce, as well as the Sacramento County as a Sacramento County prosecutor. She She is a senior member of the House En- District Attorney’s o™ce and the Califor- formed the Cold Case Prosecution Unit in ergy and Commerce Committee, and she nia State Department of Justice, O™ce of 2002 and is a recognized forensic expert. serves on the Health, Environment and the Attorney General. In 2002, he was ap- As DA, she created the Community & Gov- Climate Change, and Consumer Protection pointed to the Sacramento Superior Court, ernment Relations Bureau to educate and and Commerce subcommittees. In 2018, and in 2013, President Barack Obama ap- engage the community. Using ground- the congresswoman secured $1.8 billion pointed Judge Nunley to the United States breaking investigative genetic genealogy, to help strengthen the region’s levees and District Court, Eastern District. she led the team that solved the infamous raise Folsom Dam. East Area Rapist case. HOMETOWN San Francisco HOMETOWN Dinuba, Calif. EDUCATION St. Mary’s College of California, EDUCATION St. Mary’s College of California, EDUCATION UC Berkeley UC Hastings College of the Law (JD) University of San Francisco School of Law (JD) WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I believe in being WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I wanted to give WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK When I interned an active participant in public service. back to the community. I felt law would help me for a criminal court in San Francisco, I found my HIDDEN TALENT I grew up on a farm, so I can contribute to the common goal. passion for seeking justice for victims. pick out the best peaches and melons by smell FIRST JOB Vendor at Candlestick Park in San FIRST JOB McDonald’s and touch. Francisco BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Find your passion FAVORITE BOOKS English mysteries, books MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mother and be authentic; if you have these, you will find by Louise Penny, and cookbooks challenged my siblings and me to dream about success. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO what we wanted in life, to set goals in that direc- CHARITIES Sacramento Regional Family Jus- VISIT Sacramento rivers tion and to always give back. tice Center, Brother to Brother, City of Refuge WHAT MOTIVATES ME My grandchildren, FAVORITE BOOK The Warmth of Other Suns BUCKET LIST To infinity and beyond! Anna and Robby. They are my touchstone to by Isabel Wilkerson the future. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Your integrity is your most important asset.

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Phil Gene Anthony Serna Whitehouse Roberts Supervisor, First District Chairman Tribal Chairman Sacramento County United Auburn Indian Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Community

In 2018, Phil Serna was reelected to the For the past six years, Gene Whitehouse Before becoming tribal chairman of the county board of supervisors to serve a third has been tribal chairman of the United Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation in 2018, An- term. “Serving as an elected member of the Auburn Indian Community. He currently thony Roberts served on the tribal council Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is serves as chairman of the board of direc- and was treasurer from 2006 to 2018. He is a profound honor that I do not take lightly,” tors of Thunder Valley Casino Resort, and chairman of the Cache Creek Casino Resort he says. “Sacramento is where I grew up, he had a management role in the resort’s board and chairs the Yocha Dehe Wintun it’s the place on earth I love the most, it’s 2010 expansion. Whitehouse is secretary Academy board of trustees. An advocate for where I’ve been granted a unique privilege of the board of directors for Chapa-De In- the California Tribal College, he is commit- to serve, and it’s likely where I will die.” Ser- dian Health, which provides health care to ted to providing education opportunities na plays bass guitar in a band called UnSu- American Indians and low-income individ- for tribal members throughout the state. In pervised, performing for charitable causes. uals and families. 2012, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. appoint- ed Roberts to the Yolo County Fair board. EDUCATION Sacramento State University, HOMETOWN Alameda, Calif. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (MCRP) WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK To improve the HOMETOWN Brooks, Calif. FIRST JOB Gunther’s Ice Cream way of life for all UAIC members while preserv- WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I am fortunate to MOST INSPIRING PERSON My father, Joe ing our culture and protecting our prosperity have a passion for my positions and to be able Serna Jr., Sacramento’s first Latino mayor FIRST JOB As a teenager, working at Cha- to serve my community. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m an avid photogra- pa-De Indian Health FIRST JOB Packing peaches for Manas Ranch pher; I shoot RAW (raw image file). MOST INSPIRING PERSON Uncle Dalbert Most inspiring persons I really admire my FAVORITE BOOK The Power Broker by Castro, teaching the Nisenan culture parents and the morals they instilled in me at a Robert Caro FAVORITE BOOK The Bible very young age. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE MOVIE It’s a Wonderful Life FAVORITE TV SHOW SportsCenter VISIT American River Parkway FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION New FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Monte- CHARITIES Music on a Mission and my 501(c) England in the fall rey, Calif. (3) WHAT MOTIVATES ME Passing on to our youth values I’ve learned from Elders

Wendy Ann Xavier Saunders O’Leary Becerra Executive Director Chief of Staff Attorney General Capitol Area Development Office of the Governor State of California Authority

Wendy Saunders is the executive director of Ann O’Leary, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief of Xavier Becerra became California’s 33rd the Capitol Area Development Authority, a staŸ, is a lawyer and an influential Demo- attorney general on Jan. 24, 2017. Born joint-powers agency formed in 1978 to ad- cratic policy adviser. She started as a volun- in Sacramento to immigrant parents, he dress blighted conditions across 42 blocks teer in Bill Clinton’s administration and be- is the state’s first Latino attorney general. in downtown and midtown Sacramento. came a senior policy adviser. During Hillary Before being elected attorney general, he Saunders, who was hired at CADA in 2013, Clinton’s tenure as a U.S. senator, O’Leary was a member of the U.S. House of Repre- has championed the development of key was a legislative director and Senate aide. sentatives for 12 terms. During that time, projects that have enhanced the vibrancy O’Leary was among Clinton’s three senior he served in several key positions: He was and livability of the city’s urban core. Be- policy advisers when she ran for president a member of the Committee on Ways and fore joining CADA, Saunders served as in 2016; O’Leary also served as co-execu- Means, chairman of the House Democratic economic development director for the city tive director for the Clinton-Kaine transi- Caucus and a ranking member of the Ways of Stockton; senior communications o”cer tion team. She has been a senior fellow at and Means Subcommittee on Social Secu- for URS Corporation; economic develop- the Center for American Progress. Polit- rity. In 1987, he was appointed as a deputy ment and redevelopment director for the ico Magazine named O’Leary to its list of attorney general in California. He graduat- city of Sacramento; and director of project “thinkers, doers and visionaries transform- ed from Stanford Law School in 1984. development for New Faze Development. ing American politics” in 2015 and 2016. ACCOMPLISHMENTS As attorney general, EDUCATION UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis EDUCATION Mount Holyoke, Stanford Univer- has announced multimillion-dollar settlements LEADERSHIP Serves on the board of direc- sity (MA), UC Berkeley School of Law (JD) on behalf of Californians harmed by bad over- tors for Downtown Sacramento Partnership ACCOMPLISHMENTS Was key in develop- the-counter medications, wire fraud scams and the steering committee for Creative Edge, ing Children’s Health Insurance Program and and compromised credit card information; has a community engagement initiative aimed at worked on K–12 programs like No Child Left secured tens of millions of dollars in debt relief promoting Sacramento’s creative economy Behind and expanding paid medical and family for students taken advantage of by predatory leave for-profit colleges

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Betty Gavin Jennifer Yee Newsom Siebel Newsom Controller Governor First Partner State Controller’s Offi ce State of California State of California

A native of San Francisco, Betty Yee is cur- Before becoming California’s 40th gover- Actress and fi lmmaker Jennifer Siebel rently serving her second term as Califor- nor in January 2019, Gavin Newsom was Newsom graduated from Stanford Uni- nia’s state controller. She was initially elect- the lieutenant governor of California and versity and Stanford’s Graduate School ed to the position in 2014 and was reelected mayor of San Francisco. He is widely known of Business. She produced, directed and in 2018. Before becoming controller, she for his stance on issues such as same-sex wrote Miss Representation, an award-win- sat on the California Board of Equalization marriage, gun safety, marijuana, universal ning documentary, which debuted in 2011 for two terms. Yee has 35 years of public health care, criminal justice reform and the at the Sundance Film Festival; in the fi lm, service experience. She has been a chief death penalty. Before starting his political she explored the media’s portrayal of wom- deputy director for the California Depart- career, Newsom opened PlumpJack, a wine en and girls. Her second fi lm, The Mask ment of Finance, held senior sta positions store on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, You Live In, about masculine stereotypes, for California State Legislature committees in 1992. That led to the formation of the was released in 2015. The Great American and co-founded the Asian Pacifi c Youth successful PlumpJack Group—a wine and Lie, her third fi lm, was released in 2019 Leadership Project. Her immigrant par- hospitality management company. His ca- and focused on social and economic in- ents had a laundry and dry cleaning busi- reer in politics began in 1996 when former equality. She is the founder and COO of ness, and Yee worked there when she was Mayor Willie Brown appointed Newsom to The Representation Project, serves on the growing up. serve on San Francisco’s parking and tra‰ c advisory boards for several organizations, commission. and is married to California Gov. Gavin HOMETOWN San Francisco Newsom. Rather than “fi rst lady,” she pre- EDUCATION UC Berkeley HOMETOWN San Francisco fers to be known as “fi rst partner.” EDUCATION Santa Clara University

Tani Kelly Mona Cantil-Sakauye Hopkins Alfi Chief Justice Executive Director Senior Rabbi Supreme Court of California Sacramento Valley Congregation B’nai Israel Conservancy

Tani Cantil-Sakauye is California’s 28th Kelly Hopkins is the executive director of Rabbi Mona Alfi is the spiritual leader of chief justice and chair of the Judicial Coun- Sacramento Valley Conservancy, a nonprof- Congregation B’nai Israel, where she is de- cil of California and the Commission on it land trust organization formed in 1990 to voted to merging religion and social action. Judicial Appointments. Before becoming preserve the beauty, character and diversity “The purpose of religion is not only helping chief justice, she worked in the state’s trial of the Sacramento Valley landscape. “I care us get closer to God, but in getting closer and appellate courts for more than two de- deeply for the environment,” says Hopkins. to God, we should be motivated to become cades. In 2010, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg- “I want my children and grandchildren to more engaged in the world and in people’s ger nominated Cantil-Sakauye for the posi- have the same opportunities that were such lives,” says Alfi . She is the former executive tion of chief justice, and voters elected her a special part of my childhood: to sleep un- director of the Hillel at Davis and Sacra- in November of that year. She is California’s der the stars, get dirty, explore nature and mento and served for four years as chap- second female chief justice and its fi rst experience our environment.” lain of the California State Assembly and Asian-Filipina American. for seven years as chaplain of the Califor- FIRST JOB A small bicycle shop nia State Senate. Alfi was ordained at the HOMETOWN Sacramento BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My mom taught Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of EDUCATION Sacramento City College, UC me to always have a sense of adventure, to Religion in New York in 1998. Davis, UC Davis Law School celebrate life and have fun. LESSON LEARNED Failure is inevitable. LEADERSHIP Member of the Commission HOBBIES Running, hiking, cycling, camping, on Social Action, a joint committee that rec- stand up paddle boarding ommends policy for the Reform Movement in FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO North America VISIT American River or Lake Natoma HONORS 2017 Rabbinic Human Rights Hero MOTIVATION My kids. I want them to have the Award by the organization T’ruah same love for the outdoors that I have. BUCKET LIST Overnight bike-camping trip with my family

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Kathryn Raymond L. Jaime Phillips Tretheway III Soto Director Executive Director Bishop Sierra Club California Sacramento Tree Foundation Catholic Diocese of Sacramento

Since 2011, San Diego native Kathryn Phil- Ray Tretheway is a founding member of Most Reverend Bishop Jaime Soto is the lips has managed Sierra Club’s advocacy at Sacramento Tree Foundation, which works leader of the Catholic Diocese of Sacra- the State Capitol and at key state agencies. to grow the nation’s best urban forest. A mento, which encompasses more than Phillips previously worked as a journalist former City Council member, he has been 100 parishes across Northern California. and has authored two books about envi- active in the Natomas Community Asso- Soto, who was raised in Orange County, ronmental issues. “I think the public inter- ciation, the Natomas Basin Conservancy was ordained in 1982. He served as asso- est and the environment need bold voices and the National Alliance for Community ciate pastor at Saint Joseph Church in San- at the table to remind policymakers and Trees. “I chose this field of work to meet ta Ana before attending graduate school, regulators that everyone deserves clean air, three lifelong goals: living an environmen- where he received a master’s in social work. clean water and wild places to enjoy na- tal ethic, being a servant leader and being a Soto, who learned Spanish as an adult, has ture,” says Phillips. community builder,” says Tretheway. championed an increased role for Latinos in the church. He is a defender of immi- EDUCATION UC Berkeley, University of EDUCATION UC Santa Cruz grant rights and worked on immigration Missouri, UCLA FIRST JOB Operating a tractor-pulled manure issues for Catholic Charities in the early FIRST JOB Wrapping Christmas packages at spreader part of his career. a department store BEST POLITICAL ADVICE RECEIVED The BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My father, a fairly higher the monkey climbs up the pole, the more EDUCATION Saint John’s Seminary College, conservative truck driver, told me to go for a his ass shows. Columbia University career that allowed me to do the kind of work I FEW PEOPLE KNOW My wife and I have EARLY LIFE Eldest of seven children love. That advice was a liberating gift. hosted a Hmong community garden for over ACCOMPLISHMENT Involved in the im- FAVORITE BOOK Anything written by John 20 years. plementation of the Immigration Reform and McPhee FAVORITE BOOK The Unsettling of America Control Act of 1986 FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Nor- by Wendell Berry NOTABLE DATE Became bishop in 2008 way’s Lofoten Islands WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE upon the retirement of Bishop William Weigand WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF Establish and follow your values. Don’t worry so much. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d VISIT American River Parkway, Bannon Island go hiking more.

Sister Libby Jason Mike Fernandez Jacobs Testa Director Director/President/CEO President/CEO Mercy Pedalers, Inc. Sacramento Zoo Visit Sacramento

Sister Libby Fernandez served as the exec- Jason Jacobs has volunteered at and Mike Testa is president and CEO of Visit utive director of Loaves & Fishes for more worked for various zoos around the coun- Sacramento, a visitor and travel website fo- than a decade before founding Mercy Ped- try since he was a teenager. In 2018, he was cused on Sacramento. Testa and his team alers, an organization of volunteers who tapped to lead the Sacramento Zoo. The promote Sacramento as a destination as reach out to men and women experienc- zoo houses more than 500 animals and is well as a good place to live and work. He ing homelessness on the streets. “Through accredited through the Association of Zoos came up with the idea for the Tower Bridge my 20-plus years of working directly with and Aquariums. As CEO, Jacobs oversees Dinner and worked on attracting the Mi- people experiencing homelessness on the 108 employees. He is also in charge of the chelin Guide to Sacramento. Testa serves streets of Sacramento, I found that being campaign to reimagine the existing facili- on the boards of the Sacramento Metro present in the moment, sharing a cup of ty and its possible relocation. His career Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento Zoo coŽee together and calling the person by highlights include serving as director of and Downtown Sacramento Partnership. name are the most important gifts one can the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Ariz., devel- oŽer,” says Fernandez. opment and marketing director for the Los EDUCATION St. Mary’s College Angeles Zoo, and attractions and research WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I’m not sure if I EDUCATION Sacramento State University intern at Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom. chose it or fell into it. FIRST JOB Round Table Pizza FIRST JOB Paperboy, The Davis Enterprise BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From Catherine EDUCATION Florida International University BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Always be honest. McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy: The FEW PEOPLE KNOW I used to be a wedding poor need help today, not next week. videographer and loved it. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have my freefall wings FAVORITE BOOK The Unbearable Lightness from the U.S. Air Force. of Being by Milan Kundera HOBBY Backpacking in the wilderness FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO TRAVEL AMBITION To complete the Camino VISIT My backyard BBQ in summer de Santiago from France to Spain in 2020 WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB National park ranger WHAT MOTIVATES ME God and hope in the goodness of humankind

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David Leah Beth Baker Miller Hassett CEO President/CEO CEO Sacramento Children’s Home Habitat for Humanity of WEAVE Greater Sacramento

David Baker has provided strategic leader- Rochester, N.Y., native Leah Miller is Hab- Beth Hassett oversees 120 employees, ship to Sacramento Children’s Home since itat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento’s more than 200 volunteers and a $10 mil- 2013. He was inspired by Dr. Martin Lu- first female CEO. During her tenure, she lion budget at WEAVE, which supports ther King to live a life in service to others. has diversified and expanded the organi- survivors of sexual assault, domestic vi- “I have been incredibly lucky to have the zation’s programs and improved its fiscal olence and sex tra–cking. Hassett has opportunity to be part of some amazing solvency. Miller spearheaded relationships brought national recognition to WEAVE teams that have allowed me to help others with the cities of Sacramento and Elk and raised more than $7 million to build and assure that every child and family has Grove and launched Build for Unity, a pilot more shelters for victims. “WEAVE’s mis- an opportunity to maximize their poten- project aimed at bringing together people sion is my mission—to build a community tial,” says Baker. from diverse religious backgrounds. that doesn’t tolerate violence and injustice and supports survivors as they heal,” says EDUCATION Sonoma State University, USC EDUCATION Chico State University Hassett. MOST INSPIRING PERSON Jackie Robinson FIRST JOB Lifeguard FAVORITE BOOK The Catcher in the Rye by TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Being a mom, an EDUCATION University of Utah J.D. Salinger executive and a wife can be tough to juggle and FIRST JOB Dunkin’ Donuts FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION San still manage to have time left for yourself. MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mom, Diana, Diego HOBBY Anything that involves laughing who told me I could do and be whatever I WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE In FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION St. wanted the words of Tony Gwynn: Play hard and have Lucia FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m a pretty good artist. fun. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO I could have been a cartoonist for The New WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB VISIT Bogle Winery in the summertime Yorker. General manager for San Diego Padres WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB ADVICE FOR MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF Don’t FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO Police officer make assumptions or take anything personally. VISIT Temple Coffee WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d have a talk show and be the female Phil Donahue. WHAT MOTIVATES ME The vision of a safer, less violent, equitable future

Allan Zaremberg Caroline James President/CEO Beteta Corless California Chamber of President, CEO Executive Director Commerce Visit California Sacramento Area Council of Governments

Allan Zaremberg became president and Visit California’s president and CEO, Car- Before joining SACOG, James Corless CEO of the California Chamber of Com- oline Beteta, is also the director of tour- founded Transportation for America, an merce in 1998. He was previously the cham- ism for the Governor’s O–ce of Business organization focused on transportation ber’s executive vice president and the head and Economic Development (GO-Biz). and land-use issues. He led that organi- of its legislative advocacy program. Under Visit California is a nonprofit organiza- zation for eight years. He also held senior Zaremberg’s leadership, the chamber has tion focused on promoting California as positions at the Metropolitan Transporta- been involved in key legislative eœorts, a top travel destination. With a $131 mil- tion Commission in the Bay Area. In 2017, including stopping “shakedown” lawsuits lion marketing budget, Visit California SACOG’s board of directors unanimously and increasing transportation infrastruc- is the leading voice for California’s travel selected Corless to lead the planning agen- ture funding. He served as a captain and industry. Previously, Beteta was chair of cy. SACOG board member Susan Rohan flight navigator in the Air Force from 1970 the board and vice chair of operations for described him as “a world-class visionary to 1975 before entering McGeorge School Brand USA and directed its $200 million and leader in the field of transportation, of Law and taking up private practice. At global program. For the U.S. Travel Asso- land use, social equity and creative place- the Department of Justice, he was a depu- ciation, she facilitated the merger of the making.” SACOG members come from ty attorney general, and he has worked for Travel Industry Association with the Travel local governments in six counties and the former California governors George Deuk- Business Roundtable. She is on the exec- cities within those counties. Its mission in- mejian and Pete Wilson. utive committee for the World Travel and cludes providing transportation planning Tourism Council. and funding. EDUCATION Penn State University, McGeorge School of Law (JD) EDUCATION UCLA, University of Southern NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT In 2018, California (MPA) Corless appeared before Congress to testify NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Inducted about the future of transportation and the Sac- into the U.S. Travel Association’s Hall of Lead- ramento region’s contributions to the federal ers; named the 2009 State Tourism Director transportation bill. of the Year and received the Robert Mondavi Wine & Food Award in 2013

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Michael Scott GIna Ziegler VandenBerg Barbato-Knepp CEO General Manager Fundraiser PRIDE Industries Hyatt Regency Sacramento Front Street Animal Shelter

Michael Ziegler heads up PRIDE Indus- Scott VandenBerg has held management Front Street was the worst-performing tries, one of the country’s largest nonprof- positions at 17 Hyatt Hotel properties, in- animal shelter in town when Gina Barba- it employers of people with disabilities. cluding the Hyatt Regency San Francisco to-Knepp stepped in as shelter manager. During his tenure, PRIDE has grown to be- Airport, the Grand Hyatt Atlanta and Hy- Under her leadership, Front Street took come the Sacramento region’s third largest att Regency Mission Bay. In 2018, he was the animal-save rate from 20 percent to 87 manufacturing and service company, with the board chair for the California Hotel & percent. In 2018, she received Sacramen- more than 5,600 employees and more than Lodging Association; he is now the board to’s Power of Voice Award and the Leader $330 million in annual revenue. Ziegler chair for Visit Sacramento and serves on in Animal Welfare Award presented by the currently serves on the boards of directors the Downtown Sacramento Partnership, Michelson Found Animals Foundation. for Teichert Inc., American River Bank, Sacramento Hotel Association and Sacra- Recently retired, she aims to raise $1 mil- Greater Sacramento Area Economic Coun- mento Tourism Marketing District boards. lion for the shelter in the coming year. cil and more. EDUCATION Michigan State University HOMETOWN Sacramento EDUCATION San Francisco State University, WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I fell in love with WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I was sent to University of San Francisco this business working my first job as a dish- the shelter on loan from the city’s 311 center FIRST JOB Working in a bakery washer at a Holiday Inn. Every day is different, with the direction to shut it down. After a few MOST INSPIRING PERSON My father, who and you meet all types of people, including months, I decided we could fix it. I asked the taught me the value of empowerment celebrities and dignitaries. city manager to give me one year to prove we HOBBY Reading BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Work hard and could do it and we turned it around. FAVORITE BOOK Great Expectations by save for the future. FIRST JOB Undercover security (best job Charles Dickens LESSON LEARNED Never judge a book by its ever) FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Lake cover; you never know who you have standing TOUGHEST CHALLENGE I recently lost my Tahoe in front of you. sister, Sarah, due to a brain hemorrhage. She WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I FAVORITE TV SHOW The Tonight Show had cerebral palsy and I took care of her, which can’t imagine not doing this job. Starring Jimmy Fallon was my biggest challenge. Her loss has been BUCKET LIST Getting a bucket BUCKET LIST Learn to fly a small plane the biggest pain I have experienced.

Wendy Rivkah Amanda Gerig Sass Blackwood CEO Library Director/CEO President/CEO Roseville Area Chamber of Sacramento Public Library Sacramento Metropolitan Commerce Authority Chamber of Commerce

Wendy Gerig has served as the chief exec- Rivkah Sass has spent 40 years working in Amanda Blackwood is the first woman to utive o“cer of the Roseville Area Chamber public and state library agencies in Wash- lead the chamber as a full-time CEO in its of Commerce since 1993. Over the past 25 ington, Oregon, Maryland and Nebraska, 124-year history. She is responsible for de- years, while Roseville’s population nearly as well as in the private sector. She returned veloping strategic direction and overall vi- tripled in size, she led the chamber through to California in 2009 to serve as the library sion and overseeing cultural and business tremendous growth in membership. She director and CEO of the Sacramento Public operations. She sits on a number of region- was instrumental in creating Placer Valley Library Authority, California’s fourth larg- al boards, including Sacramento Works, Tourism, which is constructing a sports and est public library system. She was named Visit Sacramento, Downtown Sacramento events center at the former Placer County Librarian of the Year by the Library Jour- Partnership and PRO Youth & Families. Fairgrounds. Born in Canada, Gerig start- nal in 2006. ed working at the Vallejo Chamber of Com- HOMETOWN Ottawa, Kan. merce out of high school and later served as EDUCATION Sonoma State University, Uni- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Don’t be afraid to executive director of the Benicia Chamber versity of Washington lose what you don’t have. of Commerce. WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK When my father LESSON LEARNED A stressful period in my took me to the little branch of the Manteca life caused a health issue, including stroke-like EDUCATION San Jose State University library and explained that I could borrow any- symptoms. It forced me to shift my priorities FIRST JOB Pluto’s hot dog stand in Vallejo thing I wanted for free, I was hooked. and create more balance, and allowed me to TOUGHEST LESSON LEARNED You can’t FIRST JOB Telephone operator focus and recover. make everyone happy. LESSON LEARNED If you’re a leader, not FEW PEOPLE KNOW I play the piano, drums, FAVORITE BOOK Any novel by James everyone will love you. and guitar, and I write and record music. I have Patterson HIDDEN TALENT I learned to drive a tractor a recording space at home where I spend time FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Donner when I was 5. with my family making music. I’ve played in a Lake HOBBY Walking—it’s amazing what you can band and, yes, I can rap. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Go experience on foot. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE for it, take risks, be adventuresome. Follow your gut, listen to what the universe FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO is telling you, and always go where you are VISIT Wise Villa Winery—stunning views and celebrated. excellent wines

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David Arlen Karla A. Heitstuman Orchard Nemeth Executive Director Chief Executive Officer/General Director Sacramento LGBT Community Manager California Department of Center Sacramento Municipal Utility Water Resources District Since 2016, David Heitstuman has been For 14 years, Arlen Orchard served as In 2018, Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. ap- the executive director of Sacramento LGBT SMUD’s general counsel before becoming pointed Karla Nemeth director of the De- Community Center, Sacramento’s oldest CEO and general manager in 2014. With partment of Water Resources, where she and largest LGBTQ organization. Before a $1.7 billion budget, SMUD is the sixth oversees 3,200 people and a $3.6 billion joining the center, he spent 12 years in the largest community-owned electric utility budget. She has worked at the California California Assembly. He started his politi- in the United States, supplying power to Natural Resources Agency as the deputy cal career as a communications aide to Gov. 1.5 million residents primarily in Sacra- secretary and senior adviser for water pol- Gray Davis and later became chief consul- mento County and parts of Placer County. icy, and as the environmental and public tant to Assembly Speaker Anthony Ren- Orchard serves on numerous boards, in- a‡airs director for the Alameda County don. He grew up in Washington’s Yakima cluding the American Public Power Asso- Flood Control and Water Conservation Valley and moved to Sacramento in 2001. ciation and the Northwest Public Power District. In the 1990s, she lived and worked Association. in Eastern Europe, supporting the develop- EDUCATION Gonzaga University, Sacramento ment of new democracies. State University (MA) EDUCATION University of Nevada Reno, UC WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Working at the Davis School of Law (JD), UC Davis Graduate HOMETOWN San Diego center gives me the opportunity to relieve School of Management EDUCATION Eleanor Roosevelt College at UC the despair of the person standing in front of WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I fell into it with a San Diego, University of Washington (MPA) me and fight to change the systems that have legal job at SMUD. I discovered the work was in- NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS With caused oppression. teresting and varied and SMUD’s values around my team, we helped to pass the Sustainable FIRST JOB Sales clerk at JCPenney the community and environment mirrored my Groundwater Management Act and imple- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Live your truth for own. mented the California Water Action Plan. yourself, not for others. FIRST JOB Pounding nails in the road for a FIRST JOB Newspaper delivery girl LESSON LEARNED It’s just social media; let street survey crew one summer when I was 14 FAVORITE TV SHOW M*A*S*H it go. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Best advice from FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACES TO WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF my mom was “when things are hard, you square VISIT The bar at Biba and The Shack Being gay won’t be the death of you. your shoulders and carry on.” FAVORITE BOOK To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Michael Alberto Cindy Ault Ayala Nichol Executive Director Executive Director Director of Airports Downtown Sacramento Sacramento Metropolitan Air County of Sacramento Partnership Quality Management District

In 1997, Michael Ault joined Downtown Alberto Ayala has 25 years of environmen- Cindy Nichol oversees Sacramento Inter- Sacramento Partnership, representing tal experience in industry, government and national Airport, Mather Airport, Exec- about 200 downtown property owners, academic settings. As executive director of utive Airport and Franklin Field. She has more than 5,000 businesses and 100,000 the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality worked as the chief financial o cer for employees. DSP has received $3.2 billion Management District, he is responsible for the Port of Portland, finance director at in private and public investment for proj- management and implementation of the San Francisco International Airport and ects like Golden 1 Center, Downtown Com- agency’s clean-air and low-carbon policies consultant with Leigh Fisher Associates. mons, K Street revitalization and Kaiser and programs. Prior to joining the district, Nichol wrote the first airport report ever Permanente medical o ces. The partner- he worked for the California Air Resources published by the National Academy of Sci- ship is working to turn Sacramento into an Board as its deputy executive o cer, and ences on innovative finance and alternative 18-hour city, rather than a city that closes for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical as a design sources of revenue for airports. down when state workers go home engineer. He has an extensive publication record, including leading investigations in HOMETOWNS Dembi Dollo and Mettu, Oro- HOMETOWN Walnut Creek, Calif. clean engines and fuels, diesel emission mia, Ethiopia EDUCATION Sacramento State University control technologies, and particle mea- EDUCATION Carleton College, University FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Bar- surements, and he lectures in the United of London (MA), John F. Kennedy School of celona States and abroad. Government (MPP) WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I got hooked on Fifty-one may sound old, but you’ll still be able EDUCATION UC Davis (BS, MS, PhD) aviation as a kid growing up in western Ethiopia, to shotgun a beer. where my dad was a doctor. During the rainy FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO season when roads were impassable, the only VISIT Downtown. Is this a trick question? way to get from Addis Ababa to where we lived WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB was by flying. I loved the feeling of weightless- Own a bar ness and the wonder of seeing all the homes WHAT MOTIVATES ME Cost to send two and fields from the air. kids to college FAVORITE BOOK The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton

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Henry Mark Blake Li Haneke Young General Manager/CEO Air Service Development President/CEO Sacramento Regional Transit Marketing Manager Sacramento Food Bank & District Sacramento County Family Services Department of Airports At SacRT, Henry Li is responsible for more Mark Haneke worked at American Airlines and Blake Young oversees more than 85 staŽ than 70 bus routes, 43 miles of light rail, Lufthansa before joining the Department of members, 9,000 volunteers and a budget paratransit services, 3,100 bus stops and Airports in 2015. He is responsible for commer- of $30 million as the president and CEO 52 light rail stations. In his fi rst year at the cial air service development at Sacramento of Sacramento Food Bank & Family Ser- agency, he saved SacRT $20 million. Be- International Airport and promoting the airport vices, where he has worked for more than fore joining SacRT, he was the vice presi- as the premier gateway to Northern California. two decades. In addition to distributing dent of fi nance and technology and CFO at During his tenure, passenger traffi c has grown food to those in need through more than the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. 25 percent and nonstop seat capacity has 200 local partners, the nonprofi t organi- He’s held management positions in various grown 24 percent. He speaks French, German zation also provides clothing, education, transit agencies, including the San Francis- and Spanish and has visited more than 120 legal services and refugee resettlement to co Municipal Transportation Agency and countries on all seven continents. its clients. Young is a champion of reduc- the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit ing food waste and promoting innovations Authority. EDUCATION University of Texas at Arlington, and infrastructure to help more people ac- Thunderbird School of Global Management cess healthy food. He is a graduate of CSU HOMETOWN Wuhan, Hubei, China (MBA) Chico. EDUCATION Central China Normal University, WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I have loved Georgia Southern University (MBA) aviation from the time I was a child. I wanted to WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I have always be a pilot until I discovered airline timetables in been fascinated with mobility. Transit and junior high school. I wanted to decide where the transportation are the backbone of every planes should fl y rather than fl ying them myself. community. MOST INSPIRING PERSON Wesley Kaldahl, FIRST JOB College instructor in psychology former senior vice president at American FEW PEOPLE KNOW When I was in college, I Airlines recited poetry to share the beauty and power FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO of words. VISIT The airport, of course! FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION The WHAT MOTIVATES ME A sense of aspira- mountains tional optimism, tempered by a healthy dose of realism

Joyce Marcy Barry Raley Teel Friedman Broome Philanthropist Philanthropist President/CEO Greater Sacramento Economic Council

Philanthropist Joyce Raley Teel began Art lover and philanthropist Marcy Fried- As the fi rst president and CEO of the Great- working in her father’s grocery stores in man is an accomplished artist who has er Sacramento Economic Council, Barry 1985. She inherited the West Sacramen- studied with well-known local painter Broome leads eŽ orts to attract, grow and to-based company he founded, which Wayne Thiebaud. For 40 years, Friedman scale new businesses, develop advanced in- currently includes 78 Raley’s supermar- and her husband, Mort, a lawyer and busi- dustries and guide new job-creation strat- kets as well as several other well-known nessman (he redeveloped Arden Fair mall) egies throughout a six-county region. He grocery stores in northern California and who passed away in 2012, have donated to established the fi rst public/private partner- Nevada, when her father died in 1991. Teel numerous nonprofi t organizations, includ- ship economic development organization co-founded Raley’s Food for Families, a ing the Crocker Art Museum, California led by CEOs in California. Before coming nonprofi t organization that provides meals Museum, United Way and Leland Stanford to Sacramento, he was president and CEO to families in need. Partnering with Feed- Mansion Foundation. They contributed of the Greater Phoenix Economic Coun- ing America, the organization has raised $10 million in support of the Crocker’s cil, overseeing the delivery of more than $36 million and provided 40 million meals capital campaign expansion project, and 50,000 jobs and 250 company locales in to date. Teel is a generous contributor to Friedman served as co-chair for the fund- the region. civic-minded groups and arts organiza- raising eŽ orts. For 12 years, she was direc- tions, including the Crocker Art Museum, tor of the Sacramento Region Community HOMETOWN Cleveland, Ohio and she serves on numerous boards. Foundation. EDUCATION John Carroll University FIRST JOB In fourth grade, I was a spot loader for trucks at A&P bakery. MOST INSPIRING PERSON My wife, Beth FAVORITE BOOKS The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck and My Losing Season by Pat Conroy WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE You don’t have as much time as you think. CHARITIES Southern Poverty Law Center, Amnesty International, Big Brothers Big Sisters

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Larry D. Sotiris William R. Kelley Kolokotronis Parker Managing Member President President LDK Ventures SKK Developments Parker Development Company

An army brat, Larry Kelley grew up in Tex- Since 1987, Sotiris Kolokotronis has led In 1976, William Parker was named pres- as, Morocco and the United Kingdom. “I the development of urban infill, mixed- ident of his family’s business, Parker De- worked briefly as an engineer before decid- use, mixed-income residential, ground-up velopment Company, the developer behind ing to be more of a generalist and own my commercial and land development projects Sacramento’s Greenhaven community. He own business,” says Kelley. “I wasn’t smart that serve as models for smart growth. He continued to develop other master-planned enough to see the opportunities in tech or helped pioneer the renaissance of midtown communities, including Riverlake in Sac- Wall Street, so I chose a more traditional Sacramento through projects like L Street ramento, The Parkway in Folsom and career in real estate.” The company’s latest Lofts, 1801 L Building, The Fremont Build- Serrano in El Dorado Hills. Serrano won project, The Railyards, “will make as big or ing, Capitol Park Homes, Q19 Apartments the 1997 National Association of Home a bigger contribution to the growth of the and 20PQR Townhomes. Builders’ National Community of the Year region as McClellan or Stanford Ranch.” Award. Parker is involved in every aspect of EDUCATION University of Athens, UC Berke- the company’s operations, especially long- EDUCATION Texas A&M University, Harvard ley (MBA) range planning, acquisitions, project devel- Business School (MBA) FIRST JOB Part-time taxi driver in Athens opment and project construction. MOST INSPIRING PERSON Eli Broad HOBBIES Bike riding and watching soccer FAVORITE BOOK Atlas Shrugged by Ayn with my sons EDUCATION UC Davis Rand FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Greece FIRST JOB Landscaping WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Set FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO HOBBY Boating very high goals and try to exceed them. VISIT American River Parkway FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS Hawaii FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO CHARITIES Salvation Army, Sacramento Tree and Italy VISIT Golden 1 Center Foundation, B Street Theatre CHARITY Boys & Girls Clubs WHAT MOTIVATES ME Seeing those who MOTIVATION Creating communities work with me excel BUCKET LIST Our next community, Marble BUCKET LIST More time with my grand- Valley daughters

Chrysa Mark Larry Tsakopoulos Friedman Allbaugh Demos President CEO President/CEO Fulcrum Property Buzz Oates AKT Investments

Chrysa Tsakopoulos Demos was named Mark Friedman has overseen the develop- Kansas native Larry Allbaugh joined Buzz president and CEO of AKT Investments ment of many of Sacramento’s high-profile Oakes in 1990. He went into commercial in 2018, having served for a decade as vice real estate projects, including The Barn, real estate for the opportunity “to learn and president of the firm, overseeing financial Golden 1 Center, Park Moderns, Arden Fair lead in business.” The company “opened analysis for major projects, acquiring req- mall and Sutter Brownstones. Fulcrum’s up almost every facet of business I could uisite permits and entitlements, managing projects have been published in Architec- plug into: finance, marketing, production, contracts and guiding the company’s stra- tural Record, Harvard Design Magazine family business dynamics, and community tegic planning process. She guides much of and World Architecture. A part owner of and charitable engagement,” says Allbaugh. the family business’ philanthropic activity, the Kings, he was instrumental in the city’s “I’ve really enjoyed the challenge of trying including the naming gift for the Sofia Tsa- e–orts to build Golden 1 Center. to connect all of these dots into a central kopoulos Center for the Arts, a performing vision of future growth.” arts venue in Sacramento. EDUCATION Harvard College, Stanford Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business FIRST JOBS Mowing lawns and washing EDUCATION Georgetown University, Wharton FIRST JOB Dishwasher dishes School at the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) HOBBIES Reading, exercise, travel HIDDEN TALENT I’m an awesome grandfa- FIRST JOB Answering phones and filing maps FAVORITE FILM American Beauty ther—I’m just waiting for the opportunity to at AKT Developments WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE prove it. MOST INSPIRING PERSON My grandmother, Patience is hard; that’s why it’s a virtue. HOBBY Almost any sport whose name I share. She raised three daugh- FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Maui ters as a single mother in the 1960s in San VISIT The Barn in West Sacramento WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Francisco. She overcame challenges and faced WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d Make the effort to find out what you love, then life with grit, integrity and aplomb. run a men’s clothing store. pursue it with humility and excellence. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I play the harp. BUCKET LIST Building waterfront condos in FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO MOTIVATION My family the Bridge District VISIT The American River Parkway

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Tim John Brian C. Schaedler Pappas Vail Partner Co-owner President Panattoni Development Pappas Investments River West Investments Company, Inc.

Tim Schaedler’s exposure to commercial John Pappas, who was born and raised in Brian Vail is owner and president of the construction in high school led him to Sacramento, is co-owner of the business real estate management and investment pursue a career in the industry. Today, he founded by his father, Louis Pappas. Pap- fi rm River West Investments, which has is responsible for Panattoni Development pas Investments is a developer of urban and land holdings in California, Nevada and Company’s o“ ce and industrial devel- suburban projects that include corporate Hawaii. He acquired the company in 1999. opment activities for the Bay Area, Sac- centers, medical o“ ces, o“ ce buildings Under Vail’s leadership, the company has ramento and Central Valley. He oversees and shopping centers. The Laguna Gate- managed more than $1 billion in public underwriting investments, managing the way retail center is one of the company’s infrastructure projects. The company is acquisition team, due diligence, arranging highest-profi le projects and is one of the considered a leader in environmentally equity, development entitlements, archi- reasons Pappas Investments was named sustainable master planned communities, tectural design, construction budgets, lease the Elk Grove Business of the Year in 2012. having planted more than 40,000 trees. negotiations and dispositions. Pappas Investments was also instrumental Vail was one of the partners in a real estate in the Department of Corrections moving development group that donated land val- EDUCATION University of Oregon from Sacramento to Elk Grove. ued at more than $8 million to UC Davis FIRST JOB Construction laborer for a home- Health System to expand medical services builder EDUCATION Santa Clara University in Placer County. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED You get what you BOARD AFFILIATIONS Sutter Medical inspect, not what you expect. Center, Friends of Cosumnes River College, EDUCATION Cal Poly HOBBIES Hunting and fi shing Midtown Business Association HOLLYWOOD MOMENT Was executive WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE producer of the 2008 fi lm Touching Home, Underpromise and overperform. starring Ed Harris WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Park ranger

Chris James J. Ethan Lemmon Cordano III Conrad Executive Vice President President/CEO CEO Newmark Knight Frank Cordano Company Ethan Conrad Properties, Inc.

Fourth-generation Sacramentan Chris James J. Cordano is president and CEO of Ethan Conrad’s real estate career began in Lemmon fell in love with commercial real Cordano Company, a family-owned fi rm 1989, when he became an industrial real estate while working at CBRE in college. that is considered a trailblazer in retail de- estate broker. He founded his company, Lemmon is an o“ ce property specialist fo- velopment and chain store leasing. In the Ethan Conrad Properties, six years later. cused on the leasing and sale of o“ ce space 1950s, the company built one of the fi rst By 2007, ECP owned more than 35 com- predominantly in Placer County. He also suburban regional shopping centers in the mercial properties. Currently, Conrad owns works with tenants in the charter school state. Over the years, Cordano has been and manages more than 100 commercial sector and the region’s growing technology involved in nearly every aspect of the busi- properties and 200 commercial buildings sector. ness, including asset management, fi nance, totaling 7,500,000 square feet and with leasing and strategy. Cordano worked as an more than 1,400 tenants. As CEO, Conrad EDUCATION San Diego State University attorney at Hefner Stark & Marois prior oversees 130 employees. His specialty is FIRST JOB Busboy to joining the family business. He is a past buying lower-cost properties with high va- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From my father: board member of Downtown Sacramento cancy rates; some properties have been re- Sacramento is a small town and your reputa- Partnership and Florin Road Partnership. sold, primarily to owner-users. In 2018, the tion matters. Business Journal named Conrad one of the TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Helping clients EDUCATION University of Southern California, top 100 people in commercial real estate. survive and thrive after 2008 was something I’ll McGeorge School of Law never forget. HONORS While in law school, received three HOMETOWN Healdsburg, Calif. HIDDEN TALENT I am a crack shot with a American Jurisprudence Awards and the Mc- EDUCATION Sacramento State University Nerf gun. George Academic Achievement Scholarship WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Commercial real HOBBY Anything related to cars estate is multifaceted and always changing. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FIRST JOB Car sales VISIT Canon restaurant BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Work hard, work smart! FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Puerto Vallarta FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS IT My house on the Sacramento River

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Russell A. Steve Ted Fox Whitehead Foor President President President, California Operations Kitchell CEM, Inc. Vanir Construction Clark/Sullivan Construction Management Inc.

Russell A. Fox began his career as an en- Steve Whitehead has more than four de- Ventura, Calif., native Ted Foor has been try-level project engineer in 1986, holding cades of professional experience in the employed by Clark/Sullivan Construction every growth position at Kitchell CEM be- design and construction sectors. He was since 2006, beginning as a project manag- fore being named president. He has since appointed project director at Vanir in 2009 er before being promoted to area manager increased the size of the company by two- and was later promoted to area manager in 2012 and fi nally to president of Cali- and-a-half times and expanded its service and regional manager for Northern Cali- fornia operations in 2017. Clark/Sullivan, line to all phases of the construction in- fornia. He became chief operating o™ cer which is headquartered in Sparks, Nev., dustry. Fox enjoys “assembling things both of the company in 2015. In that position, was founded in 1975 by Dave Clark and physically and mentally. Being somewhat he led operations across the company and B.J. Sullivan, growing from a small con- of an obsessive personality, it is an extreme managed the departments responsible for tracting fi rm to a major builder of schools, focus for me.” supporting project teams. In his current municipal buildings, prisons, universities role, which he assumed in 2019, White- and medical facilities. Clark/Sullivan has EDUCATION Chico Steve University head sets policies and provides strategic di- been named a Top 25 General Contractor FIRST JOB Operating farm equipment rection for the company in nine geographic by the Sacramento Business Journal and a MOST INSPIRING PERSON Martin Luther regions across the United States. Top 100 General Contractor by California King Construction Magazine. HOBBY Home projects EDUCATION UC Berkeley FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO PROFESSIONAL LICENSES Professional EDUCATION Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Uni- VISIT The riverfront areas Engineer, Certifi ed Construction Manager versity of Dayton School of Law CHARITIES Shriners Hospital, Ryan House in CHARITY The Dominguez Dream, a nonprofi t CERTIFICATIONS Design-Build Institute of Phoenix named for Vanir founder H. Frank Dominguez America, LEED AP WHAT MOTIVATES ME My personal inner HOBBIES Cycling, swimming, running drive to succeed. I also have a young family that FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM Chicago Bears depends on me. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Maui BUCKET LIST Visiting every major capital in FEW PEOPLE KNOW I completed four half Europe and all 50 states Ironman competitions.

Denton Tim Ron Kelley Murchison Thomas Managing Principal Vice President Managing Director LDK Ventures, LLC AECOM Cushman & Wakefi eld

As managing principal at LDK Ventures, Tim Murchison has enjoyed a 40-year ca- Denton Kelley identifi es and executes new reer in construction management and de- Ron Thomas has been involved in com- real estate investment opportunities for the sign. He is responsible for building more mercial real estate, specializing in o™ ce company, which he operates in partnership than $6 billion in public and private proj- leasing and investment sales, since 1994. with his father, Larry Kelley. He previously ects across the United States. Clients rely He has participated in more than 1,500 worked in New York City at Bessent Capi- on his expertise in understanding every transactions involving more than 13,000 tal as an equity research analyst. Kelley also detail of the project development process. square feet and more than $4 billion in to- spent three years in the investment bank- As vice president at AECOM, a provider tal consideration. In eight years at the helm ing division of wealth management fi rm of architecture, design, engineering and of Cushman & Wakefi eld, he grew the fi rm Robertson Stephens. Prior to that, Kelley construction services for companies world- from four employees to more than 85. worked at Dallas-based Prentiss Properties wide, Murchison oversees leadership and EDUCATION Sacramento State University as an acquisition and development analyst. job growth in the company’s Pacifi c region. FIRST JOB Mowing lawns in the neighborhood In that position, he shared responsibility Before joining AECOM in 2006, he worked at age 11 for the company’s 2 million-square-foot for 11 years at URS Corporation. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From my mother: o™ ce/industrial portfolio. LDK Ventures is Do the right thing and the rest will all work out. the developer behind The Railyards, a 244- EDUCATION Santa Clara University, Mc- HOBBIES Traveling with my family, watching acre urban infi ll project. George School of Law my kids play sports, golf and skiing LEADERSHIP Named chair of the national EDUCATION University of Colorado at board of the Construction Management Asso- FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO Boulder ciation of America in 2018 VISIT Crocker Art Museum WHAT MOTIVATES ME Family, my wife, and being an example that makes my kids proud

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David Randy Geoffrey C. Brennan Dixon Brown Senior Managing Director Managing Director President /CEO CBRE Colliers International USA Properties Fund Inc.

Piedmont, Calif., native David Brennan Shortly after Randy Dixon joined Colliers Geo’rey Brown began his tenure with USA oversees all aspects of CBRE’s business in 2010, more than half the brokers left Properties Fund in 1989 and was named throughout the Central Valley and north- for other firms. “It was devastating, but it president and CEO of the company eight ern Nevada markets in addition to leading allowed me to focus on building the oce years later. The company develops, owns the Northwest Industrial Network, which with the people I felt were right.” Since and manages a’ordable residential com- includes Seattle, Portland and Hawaii. He then, Dixon has ushered a pipeline of new munities for families and seniors in Cali- oversees all lines of the company’s business brokers into the industry and developed a fornia and Nevada. Nearly all of its projects in the region, including brokerage services, training program “that puts them in posi- are public-private partnerships. Over the valuation and advisory services, asset ser- tion to develop so the senior brokers can past two decades, Brown has overseen ma- vices, project management, and debt and leverage their skills and contribute to men- jor growth in the number of communities equity finance. toring them.” and units developed by the company. He was previously employed by Lloyds Bank, EDUCATION Sacramento State University EDUCATION Seattle Pacific University, Seattle where he worked as a commercial real es- HOBBY Sports University tate construction loan ocer, and Sanwa WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Because it is FIRST JOB Cow pusher on a 1,300-cow dairy Bank, where he oversaw lending for resi- competitive and commission based. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be sure to enjoy dential and commercial construction. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Hawaii whatever you do in life. Life is too short to be doing something you do not have passion for. EDUCATION Willamette University, University HOBBIES Golf, wine, travel and cooking of Wisconsin FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Any- BOARD AFFILIATION California Council for place new I haven’t been before Affordable Housing and California Housing WHAT MOTIVATES ME Happy people and Consortium contributing to making others’ lives better

Pat Tim Michael E. Shea Collom Paris President/COO Realtor Founder/President/CFO Lyon Real Estate Tim Collom Realtor Group of BlackPine Communities Dunnigan

Ohio native Pat Shea is a 30-year veteran Tim Collom is a Realtor whose real estate Michael Paris is the president and CFO of the real estate industry. As president and team sold 150 homes worth $100 million of BlackPine Communities, a developer of chief operating ocer of Lyon Real Estate, in 2018. He is also a painter and gallery residential communities across the Sacra- he has maintained the company’s ranking owner and has used his platform in the arts mento region, including Crocker Village, as the No. 1 independent residential real community to raise money for numerous The Creamery at Alkali Flat, and Farm- estate brokerage firm in the Sacramento charitable causes. In 2018, Collom donated house at Willow Creek. Paris has been in the region. Shea pioneered the company’s use $150,000 from sales of his California print homebuilding business for three decades, of online platforms to improve the way to victims and firefighters from the Par- working on both custom and production agents receive and update leads and com- adise fire. He also donates his art to raise operations. As president of BlackPine, he municate with clients. Since 2015, he has funds for local schools and other charities. oversees the company’s strategic planning been named to the Swanepoel Power 200, “Some would say I have two full-time ca- and business development. Paris was pre- a ranking of leaders and executives in the reers, but truthfully I love what I do, so I viously employed by Kimball Hill Homes, residential real estate brokerage industry. don’t see it as work,” says Collom. a Chicago-based national homebuilder. He is a member of the board of Leading Before founding BlackPine in 2010, he was Real Estate Companies of the World. CFO for a commercial real estate company FIRST JOB Serving frozen yogurt at Yogurt and for a startup drilling contractor. Delight EDUCATION John Carroll University TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Quitting drinking. I EDUCATION CSU Chico PREVIOUS CAREERS Firefighter, pharma- am 11 years sober. BOARD AFFILIATION North State Building ceutical sales FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Lake Industry Association CHARITY In 2015, launched Lyon Cares Tahoe, hands down Foundation, benefiting more than three dozen WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF local nonprofits Stop drinking, don’t worry what others think, listen to your heart, give back as much as possible. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT The tree-lined streets anywhere in Sacramento

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Rachel Katherine Aren Bardis Bardis-Miry Bazzocco Principal Principal Division President Bardis Homes Bardis Homes Taylor Morrison

Rachel Bardis is a Sacramento native who As a principal at Bardis Homes, Katherine Sacramento native Aren Bazzocco is a grew up in a family of developers. Her re- Bardis-Miry has overseen the develop- member of Taylor Morrison’s operating sponsibilities at Bardis Homes include ment of some of the region’s most visible team, where he focuses on recruiting and business management, growth, recruit- residential projects, including The Mill at retaining talent and overseeing all facets of ment and fi nancial planning. “It has been Broadway, The Good Project, Fair Oaks the business for 13 new-home communities a great accomplishment to be able to come EcoHousing and The Savoy. Her respon- in the Sacramento region. “It is extremely into an industry that is known to be run sibilities include business development, rewarding watching a community start a certain way and successfully think and management, project acquisition, land from scratch through the hard work of our work outside the box,” says Bardis. She is a planning and entitlement. “I chose this team and end up a lively, vibrant neighbor- board member of the North State Building fi eld of work because I wanted to be part hood,” says Bazzocco, who grew the busi- Association and received the 40 Under 40 of the bettering of a community that I love,” ness from 170 home closings in 2014 to award from Professional Builder Magazine says Bardis-Miry. “I also get to be creative 460 in 2018. in 2014. and work alongside people that I love.” EDUCATION Sacramento State University EDUCATION Saint Mary’s College EDUCATION Loyola Marymount University, FIRST JOB Cashier at Sizzler BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Never give up. McGeorge School of Law (JD) HIDDEN TALENT I can solve a Rubik’s Cube HOBBY I love to ski with my husband. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE in three minutes! FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Any- Decide who you want to be and put everything FAVORITE TV SHOW Seinfeld. I usually where that I can be relaxing on a beach you have into becoming that. watch one episode every night at bedtime. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE In IT I am a concert lover, so anytime I am visiting VISIT Crocker Art Museum all moments in life, just be yourself. Golden 1 Center is a good night for me. CHARITY Front Street Animal Shelter FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO WHAT MOTIVATES ME The idea that I get to WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I VISIT Golden 1 Center/DOCO help create a better city for my children would start a health-food company focused on BUCKET LIST The Kentucky Derby creating delicious, healthy snacks.

Kevin Randy Bay Carson Sater Miry Northern California President President Principal The New Home Company StoneBridge Properties, LLC Miry Development

Anchorage, Alaska, native Kevin Carson Randy Sater has more than 30 years of ex- had ambitions to be a professional cartoon- perience in real estate, land use planning Developer Bay Miry worked at his father’s ist until he realized the local newspaper and strategic community engagement. At development fi rm, D&S Development, for paid just 25 cents per cartoon. “So I began StoneBridge Properties, he designed and 15 years before striking out on his own, to enroll in urban planning courses with facilitated a community-based team to founding Miry Development in 2018. He is the thought that I could design beautiful develop Cache Creek Nature Preserve. He also a principal at Bardis & Miry Develop- cities,” he says. During his 30-year career, also facilitated the design and development ment with his wife, Katherine Bardis-Miry. Carson has been involved with the plan- of Sutter Park, a mixed-use project where At D&S Development, Miry championed ning, development and building of more Sutter Memorial Hospital once stood. Sater some of Sacramento’s most iconic mixed- than 15,000 homes in Northern California. serves on the boards of Valley Vision, the use projects, including 16 Powerhouse, the He counts the development of McKinley Power Inn Alliance and Sacramento State’s historic building conversion at 14th and R Village in East Sacramento among his most University Enterprises. streets and the 700 block of K Street. He notable accomplishments. is a founding board member of R Street EDUCATION Sacramento State University Partnership. EDUCATION Chico State University, Miami TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Living authenti- University cally FIRST JOB Selling used restaurant equipment Elon Musk and FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Any- FAVORITE BOOK The Devil in the White City MOST INSPIRING PERSONS where with my wife by Erik Larson Richard Branson The K Street 700 MOST INSPIRING PERSON Larry Webb, FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION London TOUGHEST CHALLENGE CEO of The New Home Company for 20 years or Puerto Vallarta block project and starting at my dad’s company while he was ill in a hospital bed FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Do Basketball, traveling, reading IT McKinley Village. I love to walk the streets the things that make you happy. HOBBIES I’m incredibly OCD of the neighborhoods I have been involved in FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FEW PEOPLE KNOW about email. creating. VISIT Crocker Art Museum Chica- WHAT MOTIVATES ME My real passion is WHAT MOTIVATES ME Seeing individuals FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS people. Homebuilding is the ultimate team reach their full potential go and Santorini business. I love to grow and mentor team mem- bers to be better than myself.

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+ REAL ESTATE.indd 66 11/4/19 1:06 PM REAL ESTATE Local Legends Angelo Tsakopoulos he promoted smart growth and clean energy initiatives, and was the 2006 Democrat- Greek immigrant and former farmhand Angelo Tsakopoulos is the founder of AKT ic nominee for governor of California. The real estate investment business he founded Development, which has developed more than 60,000 homes over the past 50 years in 1986 was responsible for the development of the Laguna West community. A grad- and is the largest land development company in Northern California. The company’s uate of Harvard University, he is now president of Riverview Capital Investments. portfolio includes land development, commercial holdings, and farming and ranching operations. Tsakopoulos, who is known for his civic and philanthropic endeavors, is Ron Vrilakas a supporter of the Crocker Art Museum, the UC Davis MIND Institute, and B Street Sacramento native Ron Vrilakas is the creative force behind some of Sacramento’s Theatre, whose newly constructed performing arts complex, The Sofia, is named most significant mixed-use and adaptive-reuse structures and developments, includ- after his wife of more than three decades. Tsakopoulos is a graduate of Sacramento ing the Elliott Building, the Ice Blocks, Broadway Triangle and B Street Theatre. His State University. work, which is influenced by his experiences studying and working in Copenhagen, Boston and San Francisco, has helped usher in a renewed vibrancy to neighborhoods Michael J. Heller throughout the central city. His designs display a respect for historic architecture Developer Michael Heller grew up in the construction industry, the son of a contractor and celebrate urban life through their embrace of mixed uses, pedestrian interaction, who introduced him to the building trades as a young boy. He studied engineering active public spaces and human-centered experiences. Vrilakas founded Vrilakas and business at USC and began his career developing and building office buildings Groen Architects in 1995. with his father throughout Sacramento. In 1997, he founded Heller Pacific, which spe- cializes in office, retail and mixed-use developments. The company’s most notable Paul Petrovich projects include the Ice Blocks complex, the Sutter Brownstones, the MARRS Build- Paul Petrovich is the founder of Petrovich Development Company, which has devel- ing and the Elliott Building. Heller supports Big Brothers Big Sisters, Shriner’s Hospital, oped more than 4 million square feet of commercial real estate in Northern California. the Crocker Art Museum and B Street Theatre. The company’s high-profile projects in Sacramento include Crocker Village, Whiskey Hill Lofts and R Street Market. Petrovich, who started his career as a commercial real Phil Angelides estate broker in 1981, has fostered long-term development partnerships with Rite Aid Sacramento native Phil Angelides has enjoyed a long career marked by high-profile and Safeway and brought nationally recognized tenants to his properties. The com- achievements in both the public and private sectors. He was appointed chair of the pany is known for the strategic locations of its retail centers, including Curtis Park federal commission charged with investigating the origins of the 2008 financial crisis. Village, which underwent a $35 million toxic waste cleanup prior to construction. Angelides served as California state treasurer from 1999 to 2007, during which time

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Debra Lance Anne Augustine-Nelson Loveday Staines Founder/Executive Creative CEO President/CEO Director Closed Loop Sagent Augustine Agency

In 1996, Debra Augustine-Nelson found- Lance Loveday is the CEO and founder of In 2004, Anne Staines founded ad agency ed the Augustine Agency, one of the top Closed Loop, a boutique digital advertising Sagent in response to a dare: What would ad agencies in Northern California, with agency with headquarters in Roseville. Cli- you do if you knew you could not fail? Her headquarters in Roseville and o™ces in ents include AWS, Intercom, Tableau Soft- answer: Open an agency focused on creat- Dallas and Reno. Major accounts have in- ware, Service Now and New Relic. Digital ing positive social change. Staines and her cluded Avocados From Mexico, Mission advertising, search engine marketing, paid team develop branding, marketing and Tortillas, North Lake Tahoe and Down- social media, digital strategy, public speak- public outreach campaigns, working with town Napa. She has provided branding for ing and thought leadership are Loveday’s public agencies, nonprofits and “compa- the Sacramento Republic FC and marketed specialties. He co-wrote the book Web De- nies with a conscience” to improve health, more than 200,000 homes for Northern sign for ROI (2007). safety, environment and quality of life. California and Nevada builders. EDUCATION UC Davis, University of San HOMETOWN Buena Park, Calif. EDUCATION Sacramento State University Diego Law School (dropout) NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Working WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I’ve always had a WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK There’s a with CAL FIRE, Staines helped create an app creative mind and a flair for writing. I also have a left-brain, right-brain, creative and analytical to assist people to protect their homes and passion for people, so working with a team and aspect to the work that fits my personality. prepare to evacuate. interacting with clients was a natural fit for me. FIRST JOB Burger King FIRST JOB Packer for a moving and storage FIRST JOB Teaching baton twirling BEST ADVICE RECEIVED “The best way to company MOST INSPIRING PERSON My mom. She have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”—Li- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My grandmother always told me to stop and smell the roses. nus Pauling told me in my teens, “The harder you work, the FEW PEOPLE KNOW I can twirl fire. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Laying off my luckier you get.” FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO friends during the recession HOBBIES Skiing, paddle boarding, kayaking, VISIT The Fabulous 40s at Christmas FAVORITE BOOK The Name of the Wind by cycling, hiking, painting WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Patrick Rothfuss FAVORITE MOVIE Being There Write children’s books BUCKET LIST Ride in the Tour of California as FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Tandem an amateur before I turn 50. paragliding over Interlaken in Switzerland

Amber Kierstan Doug Williams DeLong Elmets President/Partner Executive Vice President/Head President un/common of Sacramento Office Elmets Communications Edelman

Amber Williams is the president and one As head of Edelman’s Sacramento o™ce, Doug Elmets has enjoyed a nearly 40-year of three partners at ad agency un/common, Kierstan DeLong leads a team of profes- career in government, politics and busi- where she heads up branding and strategy sionals who support local and national ness. He served as a White House spokes- consulting. Clients include Ji–y Lube and clients, including SMUD, Sacramento man for President Ronald Reagan before Grey Wolf pet food. Williams restarted the County, the Department of Water Resourc- founding Elmets Communications in 1996. grass-roots campaign that eventually led to es, Kaiser Permanente and Postmates. The firm provides public relations, market- the Kings remaining in Sacramento. She is She has been involved in award-winning ing and advertising services to a wide selec- a writer and public speaker for various in- health and safety initiatives, including Cal- tion of clients. “I was immediately attracted dustries, including food and beverage, trav- ifornia’s “Click It or Ticket” seatbelt safety to the variety and fast-paced environment el and transportation, and public health campaign, which is credited with saving that the communications industry has to and safety. thousands of lives. She serves on the Sacra- o–er,” says Elmets. “As a PR professional, mento Metro Chamber board of directors you have to be a jack-of-all-trades, which I EDUCATION UC Davis and is the Cap-to-Cap first vice chair and find very exciting.” WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Once I found Leadership Sacramento Communications advertising, nothing else measured up. Day chair. EDUCATION University of Iowa, University of FIRST JOB Summer-camp dance instructor Southern California (MBA) FAVORITE MOVIE The Royal Tenenbaums EDUCATION UC Davis FIRST JOB Digging ditches and laying gas FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Puerto WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I get to use my pipelines for Iowa Power and Light while in Vallarta skills to do good and make an impact, and that college WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR SELF Your 20s is what keeps me going. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be the kind of will suck because you’ll be poor. LESSON LEARNED At a young age, my sister person others want to work with. BUCKET LIST Write a screenplay with my beat stage 4 melanoma. It was terrifying and FEW PEOPLE KNOW My dad, who was a husband about the time when he had a brain taught me that everyone is fighting something. doctor, delivered me when my mom went into tumor. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I performed onstage as labor unexpectedly early. a backup dancer for Donny Osmond. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE BOOK The Alchemist by Paulo Surround yourself with people who reflect who Coelho you want to be and emulate their behavior. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Yoga instructor 70 SACRAMENTO 300

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Jeff Christopher S. Kassy Flint Holben Perry Chief Executive Offi cer President President/CEO FSB Core Strategies Runyon Saltzman, Inc. Perry Communications Group

Je Flint fell in love with politics during Michigan native Christopher S. Holben Kassy Perry founded Perry Communica- an internship in the o ce of his Assem- came to Runyon Saltzman after managing tions Group, the largest woman-owned bly member—a position that he pursued Hill & Knowlton’s statewide public a airs public a airs fi rm in Sacramento, in 1996. in order to get a break from the tedium of practice and serving as undersecretary of She once convinced former Today show working a summer job in a nuclear phys- the California Trade and Commerce Agen- host Katie Couric to televise her own colo- ics lab. That eventually led him to work at cy under Gov. Pete Wilson. His notable ac- noscopy, resulting in a 26 percent increase a campaign management fi rm, which he complishments include infl uencing federal in colonoscopy rates in three months. Per- took over in 2012, transforming it into a and state policies related to mental health, ry’s fi rm also managed a campaign estab- full-service public a airs, PR and political nutrition and obesity reduction, access to lishing California’s Master Plan for Aging; consulting fi rm while quadrupling revenue higher education, early childhood devel- helped create the nation’s fi rst coalition of and growing the sta nearly threefold. opment, energy conservation and cultural patient advocacy groups; and co-managed engagement. Proposition 63 to fund mental health pro- EDUCATION California Institute of Technolo- grams in California. gy (Caltech) EDUCATION American University, University FIRST JOB Wendy’s Hamburgers of Michigan FIRST JOB Removing the spleens from mice FAVORITE BOOKS The Lord of the Rings FIRST JOB Mannequin assembler for medical research trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Always embrace BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Live life like it’s the FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Playa challenges that cause a sense of fear. That is two-minute warning! del Carmen, Mexico how you grow and prosper. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The recession WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Losing a run for crushed so many businesses like mine. I used would be a youth soccer coach! state Senate in Michigan it to learn a new skill set: how to downsize a MOTIVATION I love to win. Campaigns are fun HIDDEN TALENT As a child and teen I sang business, break an offi ce lease and lay off for me because there is a fi nal score. You know and acted in professional summer stock employees I should never have hired in the fi rst if you won or lost. Other than that, I just want to theater. place. provide the best possible life for my family. HOBBY Genealogy HOBBY Equestrian show jumping WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Fox- pursue elected offi ce. hunting in Ireland

Meghan Jeff TIna Phillips Randle Reynolds Founder/CEO President/CEO Founder Honey Randle Communications Uptown Studios

Armed with a business degree with a con- Je Randle has more than three decades of Tina Reynolds is the founder of Uptown centration in wine marketing and work ex- political, media and communications expe- Studios, a marketing and design studio perience in the food and beverage industry, rience in the private and public sectors. He committed to building a world that is fi lled Meghan Phillips founded design and mar- was deputy chief of sta to former Gov. Pete with positive intentions. The fi rm special- keting company Honey in 2008. The fi rm Wilson for eight years and was a top advis- izes in cause-related marketing for busi- specializes in serving the food, beverage er to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. nesses, nonprofi ts and progressive political and agriculture industries. She serves on Now, he advises U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy campaigns. “I am here to change the way the boards of Valley Vision and the Sacra- and serves as his Sacramento-area fi nance you think about great marketing,” says mento Metro Chamber and is a past board chair. Sacramento Business Journal ranked Reynolds. member of the Food Literacy Center. Randle Communications the No. 1 public relations and public a airs fi rm in the re- EDUCATION American River College and “the EDUCATION Sonoma State University gion for the past two years. college of life” FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION South- FIRST JOB Folding pink doughnut boxes when ern Spain HOMETOWN La Mirada, Calif. I was 11. I was paid in doughnut holes. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE EDUCATION UCLA BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Open your own You’ll have many reinventions. Learn from each MOST INSPIRING PERSON Winston Chur- mail. one. chill TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Starting over in FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FEW PEOPLE KNOW When President Ronald 1992 VISIT Ancil Hoff man Park Reagan left offi ce, I was working for Gov. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was the fi rst female WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d Wilson, and the two had a very close personal letter carrier in downtown Sacramento. be a sommelier. relationship due to their work together in D.C. HOBBY Gardening WHAT MOTIVATES ME My family and my At election time, President Reagan would send WHAT MOTIVATES ME People and exciting team his ballot to Gov. Wilson seeking advice as to ideas BUCKET LIST A family trip to Vietnam how he should vote. On behalf of Gov. Wilson, I had the honor of making recommendations and fi lling out the sample ballot for President Reagan.

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Estelle G. Donna Lila Saltzman Lucas Wallrich Founder President/CEO Creative Director/CEO Runyon Saltzman, Inc. Lucas Public Affairs Wallrich Creative Communications

Estelle Saltzman had always intended to Donna Lucas founded Lucas Public Af- After training and working as a graphic de- be a journalist, “but after taking a job with fairs in 2006 after holding executive po- signer, Lila Wallrich co-founded Wallrich charismatic character Jean Runyon, I never sitions in the public and private sectors. Creative Communications in 1990. In 2011, looked back.” In 1976, the two formed The She has served on the sta
s of Gov. Arnold she bought out her partner and became the Runyon Agency—later renamed Runyon Schwarzenegger, First Lady Maria Shriv- firm’s sole shareholder. Wallrich develops Saltzman, which remains one of Sacramen- er and Gov. George Deukmejian. She was integrated tactics that help organizations to’s premier creative agencies. Saltzman re- also California press secretary for the 1988 communicate e
ectively, and her firm of- ceived awards from the Sacramento Metro presidential campaign of Vice President fers consulting, branding, marketing, ad- Chamber, the Sacramento Public Relations George H.W. Bush. Lucas serves on the vertising and interactive services for local Association and the National Association board of directors of the California Cham- and national clients. of Women Business Owners before retiring ber of Commerce, Crocker Art Museum in 2017. She currently serves on the boards and Maria Shriver’s Women’s Alzheimer’s EDUCATION CSU Chico of Opening Doors and Restoration House. Movement. She is a founding member of WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I quickly learned She Shares, which sponsors conversations that design, and its role in marketing, is so much EDUCATION UC Berkeley with trailblazing women. Lucas earned a more than making things pretty. It’s a combina- FIRST JOB Writing for The Humboldt Times degree in journalism from the University of tion of words, visuals and critical thinking that I covering high school news. I was paid 15 cents Southern California. find endlessly interesting. per inch and was very prolific. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Before my MOST INSPIRING PERSON Jean Runyon, ROLE MODEL Her father was an Associated wedding, my mother-in-law-to-be said, “Never who cared for others above herself Press reporter who covered politics in Sacra- clean your own bathroom. And always be a TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Achieving work- mento. blonde.” life balance FAMILY TIES Married to California State FAVORITE BOOK OR MOVIE Anything by HOBBY Viewing and collecting art Librarian Greg Lucas Jane Austen in book or movie form WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE WHAT I’D TELL MY 18YEAROLD SELF Think big and don’t let your insecurities get the Fake it till you make it. And stop worrying so best of you. Never ignore the importance of much. community service, no matter how busy you FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS are. IT Art Beast with my 2-year-old grandson

Gordon Liz Faithmari Fowler Salmi Lopez President/CEO Senior Strategist, Outreach and CEO 3fold Communications Communications FAITHMARI INC OpenNotes

Gordon Fowler is president and CEO of A former punk rock drummer turned can- A trained classical pianist, Faithmari Lopez 3fold Communications, an award-winning cer patient, Liz Salmi works on a research has traveled the world, photographing the marketing agency. He also helped launch project called OpenNotes, which encour- places she visited while performing and re- The Glue Factory, an entrepreneurial incu- ages doctors and health care professionals cording. By 2010, she had amassed a large bator in Roseville, and was part of the team to share clinical notes with patients. After photo collection and started sharing her that transitioned Sacramento’s Nonprofit she was diagnosed with brain cancer at adventures on Instagram. She is mainly Resource Center into The Impact Found- 29, Salmi started blogging and chronicling known for her work with the Sacramento ry. Fowler, who moved to the United States her symptoms. She is a 2017 fellow of the Convention & Visitors Bureau as curator of at age 17, believes that embracing diversity Salzburg Global Seminar, a 2016 Stanford its Instagram account, @VisitSacramento. and inclusiveness are mandatory for suc- Medicine X ePatient Scholar and a TED- In 2013, she founded a social media man- cess. He serves on the executive commit- MED Frontline Scholar. agement firm, FAITHMARI INC, special- tee of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of izing in lifestyle, hotels, travel and tourism. Commerce and the boards of Sacramento WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK In 2008, after Covered, American Leadership Forum– I was diagnosed with a brain tumor, I had two HOMETOWN Elk Grove, Calif. Sacramento Valley Chapter and Valley Vi- surgeries, 24 months of chemotherapy and had NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Top 10 sion. He speaks to audiences nationally on to relearn how to walk and balance. I represent Instagrammer on Vanity Fair Italy in 2013 leadership and communications topics. the new generation of patient leaders who are WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I wanted to tell shaping medical education. the people who live here, and the people who FEW PEOPLE KNOW Born in New Zealand, BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From Jay Sales, visit, that Sacramento is hip, cool and has raised in Latin America director of The Shop at VSP Global, “If you’re something to offer. CLIENT LIST Sutter Health, Dignity Health, not suffering from imposter syndrome, you’re FIRST JOB Cleaning antiques displays University of the Pacific, Gig, Regional Transit not pushing hard enough.” BEST ADVICE RECEIVED We cannot control TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Leaving a secure the world, but we can influence intelligently. job in Sacramento for a once-in-a-lifetime (but TOUGHEST CHALLENGE FACED Starting limited) opportunity in Salzburg, Austria. I took a company from nothing and creating a social the risk and had five job offers by the time I got community in Sacramento that rivals any other home. major U.S. city

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Brandon Marcos Rick Weber Bretón Eytcheson Founder Columnist President/General Manager The Urban Hive The Sacramento Bee Capital Public Radio

Activist and business leader Brandon We- As a newspaper journalist for more than Des Moines, Iowa, native Rick Eytcheson ber co-founded The Urban Hive in 2009 three decades, Marcos Bretón has written stumbled into a career in radio, first as with his wife, Molly. As Sacramento’s larg- about everything from the Rodney King an announcer and later as an advertising est coworking company, The Urban Hive riots to the World Series. Bretón, the most salesperson. “I was a radio junkie as a kid,” o­ers an alternative to the traditional cor- senior writer at The Sacramento Bee and Eytcheson says. “I’ve always loved radio, porate environment by providing shared one of the few Latino columnists at a ma- but I never dreamed I’d get a chance to workspaces with all of the amenities to its jor newspaper in America, is a passionate make a living at it. It’s been a dream come members. In 2016, Paste Magazine ranked advocate for downtown Sacramento, the true.” He moved to Sacramento in 1985 to Urban Hive as number four on its list of the undocumented, marriage equality and work as general manager for radio stations “coolest coworking spaces” in the country. criminal justice reform. He has written two that were later acquired by Chancellor In 2018, Weber launched I/O Labs, an ac- books about baseball and was featured in Broadcasting, which Eytcheson co-found- celerator program for startups and a work- The Tenth Inning, the 2010 documentary ed. He joined Capital Public Radio in 2006. ing space for entrepreneurs. A licensed film directed by Ken Burns. TEDx curator, he brought TEDx confer- EDUCATION Drake University ences to Sacramento. The Sacramento EDUCATION San Jose State University FIRST JOB Washing walls in office buildings TEDx community has more than 25,000 MOST INSPIRING PERSON My late mother, in 1964, when everyone still smoked in their members. Elodia Bretón, who accepted life as it was and offices always found joy in it BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From Bill Bolster, HOBBIES I love dogs, nonfiction books, base- one of my first bosses in radio and eventual ball, IPAs and Arsenal FC president of WNBC-TV: Be bold! Go big! HIDDEN TALENT I make the fluffiest, tastiest LESSON LEARNED Most people are in denial pancakes you ever had. about the limits of their abilities. FAVORITE BOOK The Grapes of Wrath by FEW PEOPLE KNOW I once made a lot of John Steinbeck money hustling pool. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE BOOK The Prince of Tides by Pat VISIT Raley Field on a hot summer night Conroy WHAT MOTIVATES ME You only get one life. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION South- ern France

Lauren David Jack Gustus Lowe Ohman Editor President/General Manager Editorial Cartoonist/Associate The Sacramento Bee and West PBS KVIE Editor Region, McClatchy The Sacramento Bee

Tewksbury, Mass., native Lauren Gustus When David Lowe was named president St. Paul, Minn., native Jack Ohman has oversees McClatchy’s newsrooms in Sacra- of KVIE in 2008, he was the youngest been the editorial cartoonist at The Sac- mento, Fresno, Modesto, Merced, San Luis PBS station manager in the country. The ramento Bee since 2013. He won the 2016 Obispo and Boise. She went into journal- Kingman, Ariz., native was awarded an Pulitzer Prize and was a Pulitzer finalist ism 17 years ago to make a di­erence in Emmy as executive producer for a Studio in 2012. Ohman has won virtually every the community. As executive editor of The Sacramento episode on human traœcking. major award in American journalism, in- Coloradoan in Fort Collins, she pushed for In 2018, he received the Pillar of Public cluding the Robert F. Kennedy Journal- changes to open-record laws, ultimately Service Award from America’s Public Tele- ism Award, and the Society of Professional making it easier for people to access pub- vision Stations for KVIE’s work with an Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. His lic records in digital form. Just as fulfilling, advanced earthquake notification system. cartoons are syndicated by The Washing- says Gustus, are “the incremental stories ton Post Writers Group. He is the author we report that drive change for real people EDUCATION Northern Arizona University of 11 books, including four on the subject who don’t have the voice that we do.” FIRST JOB Avon catalog door hanger of fly-fishing. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE EDUCATION Pepperdine University Learn about the business rules beyond the EDUCATION Portland State University FIRST JOB Server at a restaurant employee handbook. Some people call them MOST INSPIRING PERSONS John F. HOBBIES Family hikes, skiing with kids, soft skills. I prefer to think of it as business Kennedy, former Bee cartoonist Rex Babin and cooking common sense. anyone who still works in daily journalism WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE HOBBIES Playing ’80s metal riffs on guitar and TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Taking care of my You got this. Don’t be shy about sharing your following my daughter’s college softball career father while raising teenagers. I learned how to goals. Always be authentic. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO be more patient. CHARITY The Michael J. Fox Foundation for VISIT Lately it’s been Ace of Spades. I’ve seen HIDDEN TALENT I enjoy doing impressions of Parkinson’s Research some great concerts of bands from my youth. people nobody cares about anymore. My David FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB As Brinkley is astounding. VISIT Sunday farmers market a former technical writer, I’d probably be trying HOBBIES Golf, fly-fishing, being a good BUCKET LIST Skiing in Japan. It could be to get paid for all the grammar and spelling husband awhile: We have a 3-year-old and 5-year-old! mistakes I find throughout my day. WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Governor of Minnesota

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Kitty Risa Elliott O’Neal Omega Troshinsky Afternoon News Anchor President/General Manager President/General Manager KFBK KXTV-TV ABC 10 KCRA 3, KQCA My58

Kitty O’Neal has interviewed heads of Risa Omega was named president and gen- With more than four decades of experi- state, celebrities, civic leaders and “remark- eral manager of KXTV Channel 10 in 2016. ence, Elliott Troshinksy is one of the re- able people from all walks of life” as host of She succeeded Maria Barrs, who retired gion’s top media executives. He started out The Afternoon News on KFBK radio for the from the position. Prior to her appoint- in radio in the early 1970s, selling adver- past 25 years. She has been drawn to com- ment, Omega had been employed at the tising for a tiny AM station in Allentown, munication and performing since she was station for 26 years in various capacities, Pa. He then went to work for TV stations a young child. “I also have a strong desire including account executive, local sales in Philadelphia, the Midwest and Florida. to provide factual information to people, manager and director of sales. As leader of In the late ’80s, he moved to Sacramento especially in this internet age,” says O’Neal. the sales department, Omega successfully to run Channel 31, where he acquired the A former professional singer, O’Neal per- grew the station’s digital sales and led a TV rights to broadcast Sacramento Kings forms in a rock band with husband Kurt strategic plan to better serve client needs. and San Francisco Giants games. In 2000, Spataro. Since 2015, KXTV has been a part of TEG- Troshinsky jumped to KCRA 3 as president NA Media, which operates 49 television and general manager. KCRA and KQCA FIRST JOB Retail sales stations across the country. are owned by Hearst Television, a subsid- TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Dealing with the iary of Hearst Communications. passing of my parents EDUCATION UC Davis HIDDEN TALENT I like tools and fixing things. MEMBERSHIP Alliance for Women in Me- HOMETOWN Philadelphia I sew and made my wedding gown and many of dia—Sacramento Affiliation EDUCATION Fairleigh Dickinson University the dresses I wore to the Academy Awards. HOBBIES Singing/songwriting, baking, traveling FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT Probably a bakery! WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d do something else in the entertainment indus- try or possibly politics. WHAT MOTIVATES ME A sense of accom- plishment

Lance Jeff Justin Richard vonKaenel Draper Senior Corporate Vice CEO/Publisher Vice President/General Manager President—Sales Operations News & Review CBS13/CW31 Entercom Communications

At Entercom Communications, Lance As a college student and activist in the ’70s, Minnesota native Justin Draper was named Richard oversees the implementation Je
vonKaenel joined a group that was vice president and general manager of the of new sales strategies in radio markets forming one of the first alternative week- CBS Television Stations’ Sacramento prop- across the United States. He is most proud ly newspapers in the country. In 1980, he erties in 2018. Draper previously served as of “repositioning our station and our medi- took over a bankrupt weekly paper in Chi- the financial controller at KCBS-TV and um as the lead local media and marketing co, eventually growing the business to in- KCAL-TV in Los Angeles and at stations platform in the minds of our employees, clude three News & Review publications in Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis-St. civic leaders and advertisers.” Richard also in Chico, Sacramento and Reno. News & Paul. “My dad was a CPA and partner in a championed Visit Sacramento’s e
orts to Review has been selected as the best large firm, so it made sense to go the accounting position the city as America’s Farm-to-Fork weekly in the state by the California News- route,” says Draper. “I stumbled into broad- Capital. He has led several turnarounds paper Publishers Association for three cast news through a former co-worker.” that involved rebuilding sales operations, years in a row. developing new sales strategies and estab- FIRST JOB Golf course maintenance lishing forward-looking cultures. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From my dad: MOST INSPIRING PERSONS Dad and both There’s more to life than making a buck. grandfathers. They all worked extremely hard EDUCATION Auburn University HIDDEN TALENT Few people know I have no and were very successful at what they did. FIRST JOB Ice cream scooper at my mother’s hidden talent. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Having to let good Baskin-Robbins store HOBBIES Reading and working out people go due to no fault of their own TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Being strong for FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FEW PEOPLE KNOW I successfully raced my daughter when she was battling cancer VISIT American River Parkway cars for nearly 20 years. HIDDEN TALENT Juggling CHARITY Habitat for Humanity FAVORITE TV SHOW Cheers FAVORITE BOOK AND MOVIE To Kill a IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d retire. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO Mockingbird by Harper Lee MOTIVATION Trying to make a difference VISIT Raley Field WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I would have loved Focus on your passion and not the money. to work for the FBI. FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS IT American River Parkway on a bicycle

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Leigh Gary Beth White Wortel Ruyak Vice President/General Manager President/Publisher Journalist KTXL-TV Fox 40 The Sacramento Bee Capital Public Radio

In 2015, Leigh White was named vice pres- Bay Area native Gary Wortel was appointed Beth Ruyak is an Emmy Award-winning ident and general manager of KTXL-TV president and publisher of The Sacramen- reporter who has covered virtually every Fox 40, where she oversees the station’s to Bee in 2017 following the retirement of topic, from news and science to sports and strategic planning and day-to-day opera- Cheryl Dell, who held the position for nine entertainment, in her long career. Ruyak tions. A veteran of broadcast television, she years. Wortel also serves as regional pub- spent more than 30 years in television as previously worked as the station’s director lisher for 10 McClatchy-owned newspa- a broadcaster, producer and writer. She of sales. Prior to moving to Sacramento, pers in Washington, Idaho and California, reported on six Olympic games for major White held various positions at televi- including the Fresno and Modesto Bees. news outlets, including NBC and CBS. sion stations in Charlotte, N.C., Knoxville, He previously served as publisher of the Ruyak was the first woman television jour- Tenn., West Palm Beach, Fla., and Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, also owned by nalist to cover the Tour de France. Her first Miss. She serves as a member of the Sacra- McClatchy. During his long career in the foray into public radio was in 2012 as host mento Salvation Army Advisory Board. newspaper business, Wortel worked at The of Insight, a live news and entertainment San Jose Mercury News and the St. Paul program on Capital Public Radio. She is EDUCATION University of Minnesota Pioneer Press, where he held marketing the founder of Ruyak Media, a documenta- HOBBIES Golf, skiing, scuba diving and sales positions. He serves on the board ry production company. of the California News Publishers Associ- ation. EDUCATION Gustavus Adolphus College WEARING A SASH In 1981, competed as Miss EDUCATION San Jose State University Minnesota in the Miss America Pageant HOBBIES Travel, golf, skiing FUN FACT Once guest-hosted Good Morning America

Marisa Ryan Douglas Mary Sharkey Hammonds Gonsalves Kinney Co-Founder/President Founder, Designer CEO/Founder Birdies R. Douglas Custom Clothier MGK Style

Entrepreneur and retail executive Marisa Ryan Hammonds started R. Douglas Cus- As the CEO of MGK Style, a fashion styl- Sharkey is the co-founder and president of tom Clothier, a custom clothing and tailor- ing company, Mary Gonsalves Kinney has Birdies, a direct-to-consumer e-commerce ing company, in 2003. His flagship show- clients in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los brand that is disrupting the women’s foot- room is located in downtown Sacramento, Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Chicago, New wear industry by creating a new category and the business has expanded to include York and Washington, D.C. Her clients in- of stylish and comfortable slippers. Before showrooms in Fresno and Los Angeles. He clude top executives, film producers and starting Birdies, Sharkey led corporate and his team o›er image consultations and directors, actors, athletes and politicians. strategy for Ross Stores. She also worked provide hand-tailored garments at an af- She’s worked with top photographers on as a senior manager at Bain & Company, fordable price. The R. Douglas brand has press shoots and executive profile head- where she focused on growth strategy and been worn by clients at red-carpet events shots for Fortune 500 companies, and she performance improvement for Fortune like the Grammys. Clients include West maintains relationships with designers 500 retailers and leading private equity Sacramento Mayor Chris Cabaldon. worldwide. Her editorial work has been firms. featured in Rolling Stone, Wired, Variety, NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT President Glamour and the San Francisco Chronicle. EDUCATION Cornell University, The Wharton Barack Obama admired one of my suits. School at the University of Pennsylvania FIRST JOB Credit-card clerk at Stockmans EDUCATION UC Berkeley HOMETOWN Great Neck, N.Y. Bank WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I believe that FIRST JOB Folding shirts at Lerner New York MOST INSPIRING PERSON Elon Musk styling is art. When I realized I had the gift of HIDDEN TALENT Texas Hold ’em TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Women’s tailoring styling, I knew I had to make it happen. CHARITY Women’s Empowerment WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Run through every BUCKET LIST CIM, my first marathon. If you Hustle always pays off. open door. print it, I have to do it, right? WHAT I WOULD DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS HIDDEN TALENT I can turn around any awk- JOB Cry and be miserable ward conversation. BUCKET LIST Expanding R. Douglas beyond WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE If California! you don’t hustle, you will never be successful. BUCKET LIST Launching a consignment op- eration of luxury pieces collected from clients across the country.

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Chrisa Zayn Curtis Pappas Silmi Popp Founder/Owner CEO Designer Chrisa Pappas The People of Sacramento CPOPP WORKSHOP

A fashion infl uencer and luxury-brand am- As a lover of Sacramento and people, Zayn Third-generation Sacramentan Curtis bassador, Chrisa Pappas o ers fashion ad- Silmi found his calling showcasing the ca- Popp founded his design fi rm in 2004. His vice, information and inspiration through reers and passions of Sacramentans. In work encompasses everything from resi- her website and social media channels. 2014, he started The People of Sacramen- dential and commercial design and brand- Pappas has hosted shopping events for to blog and website. TPOS features artists, ing to art consultation and furniture de- Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Net-a-Porter, entrepreneurs and other local individuals sign. “I’ve always been creative,” says Popp. among others. In 2018, she was one of and focuses on the slogan “do more of what “I settled into design, but I could have eas- 40 businesswomen invited to attend the you love.” He launched the TPOS brand in ily gone into fi lm or culinary school and Women Entrepreneurs Program at Stan- 2016, o ering Sacramento-promoting ap- been equally satisfi ed.” Popp’s work has ford Graduate School of Business. She was parel and a signature 916 hat. been featured in Architectural Digest, In- named one of Elle magazine’s Women in terior Design and Sunset magazines as well Tech and has been featured in InStyle. WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK To make an as The Wall Street Journal. impact. I founded TPOS to give back to the EDUCATION Boston University people who make Sacramento what it is. EDUCATION California College of the Arts WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK My love for FIRST JOB In the sixth grade, I sold electron- FIRST JOB Buoy boy at West Shore Cafe, fashion and design ics to my classmates. Homewood FIRST JOB Salesperson at Saks Fifth Avenue FAVORITE BOOK Coming Back Stronger by BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Those who aban- in Boston Drew Brees don their dreams will discourage yours. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I can clap with one FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Pales- TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Starting a creative hand. tine business in a smaller city FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATIONS WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Run HIDDEN TALENT I think I’m a decent cook. Greece and Paris a nonprofi t focused on animal welfare HOBBY Boating on Lake Tahoe at sunset WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB WHAT MOTIVATES ME The people of WHAT MOTIVATES ME The struggle and Architect Sacramento and the city of Sacramento. This anything new and unexpected BUCKET LIST Produce my own fashion line community is what makes me me. BUCKET LIST Opening a TPOS fl agship store

John C. Rebecca Leyla Webre Plumb Jaworski CEO Owner Owner/Creative Director Dreyfuss + Blackford Studio Plumb Design Shop Interiors Architecture

John Webre has led Dreyfuss + Blackford Rebecca Plumb is a multidiscipline design- In just fi ve years, Leyla Jaworski grew for more than three decades. Raised on a er and the owner of Studio Plumb. She cre- Design Shop Interiors from a humble en- sugar plantation in rural Cuba, he left the ates designs for homes, commercial spac- terprise run from her kitchen table to a country as a refugee at age 9. “I chose archi- es and personal branding that refl ect the thriving business with an 11-person design tecture because of my curious nature and people who use them. Plumb likes to bring team, a waiting list of clients and a brick- love of projects,” says Webre. “Architects personality, character and color to her proj- and-mortar home-goods store. Her work are in a unique position to have real im- ects. She is a former co-owner and creative has been featured in Better Homes & Gar- pact on people’s lives and the shape of their director at the Honey agency. She is also dens, and she is one of three designers in communities.” the founder and host of CreativeMornings the United States and Canada selected for a Sacramento, a breakfast lecture series for national campaign with Delta Faucet. FIRST JOB Construction of a sugar mill the creative community that takes place on TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The Great a Friday each month. FIRST JOB Round Table Pizza Recession BEST ADVICE RECEIVED You cannot be FEW PEOPLE KNOW Spanish is my fi rst HOMETOWN Orange, Calif. everyone’s cup of tea. language. EDUCATION Chico State University LESSON LEARNED To not let myself operate HOBBY Skiing FIRST JOB Ironing my dad’s work shirts for $1 from a place of fear FAVORITE BOOK All the Light We Cannot each. He liked a starched collar. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I’m an empath who See by Anthony Doerr BEST ADVICE RECEIVED You don’t have charges her crystals by the full moonlight. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE Be to be the one in the spotlight to be successful; HOBBY Camping at the beach or in the courageous. you can be the campfi re that gathers smaller mountains WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB I’d groups together. WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF make art and travel. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I went to a lot of Grateful Jump. Ask questions later. WHAT MOTIVATES ME Authentic experi- Dead concerts in the ’90s. FAVORITE LOCAL PLACE TO VISIT Sutter ences HOBBY Treasure hunting at thrift stores and Street in Folsom antique fairs BUCKET LIST A retail/design/e-commerce FAVORITE MOVIE Annie Hall empire WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Design and run Airbnbs

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Theresa Rachael Kerrie Paige Camillo-Bennett Kelly President President Creative Director/Interior LPAS, Inc. MTA Inspired Spaces Designer Kerrie Kelly Design Lab

Theresa Paige is a recognized expert in the Rachael Camillo-Bennett started as an ac- Kerrie Kelly credits her parents with feed- design of senior living projects. She taught counting coordinator at MTA, a commer- ing her early interest in interior design at Sacramento State University and has cial interiors and workplace design firm, by allowing her to work with a JCPenney served on the boards of the Eskaton Foun- in 1997 and was named president in 2019. decorator to outfit her bedroom in electric dation, Los Rios Foundation and Greater “By working in and with all of the depart- blue. Kelly is a fellow, board member and Sacramento Area Habitat for Humanity. ments, I have gained a better understand- foundation trustee of the American Society “I chose this field of work because I loved ing of how we truly work together to make of Interior Designers and will serve as na- creativity and construction,” says Paige. “I our projects a success.” MTA has designed tional chair in 2020; a pro advisory board liked creating drawings by hand and using a number of the city’s high-profile interiors, member for Houzz; and the interior design them as tools to show my clients my vision.” including Golden 1 Center, Raley’s head- national spokesperson for Zillow. quarters, XL Construction and Williams + EDUCATION Yuba College, Southern Califor- Paddon Architects. EDUCATION Cal Poly San Luis Obispo nia Institute of Architecture FIRST JOB The Gap at Pavilions BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Don’t be the FIRST JOB YMCA BEST ADVICE RECEIVED From my dad: loudest person in the room, just be the most MOST INSPIRING PERSON My dad, Tony Leap and the new will appear. memorable one. Camillo. He appreciates life, never has a bad FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have a mean left hook. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE How to communi- thing to say about anyone or anything, is caring, HOBBIES Cooking, writing, entertaining, cate to fellow staff as a woman leader selfless and just an amazing person and father. Peloton FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Carib- HOBBIES Traveling, pool time and enjoying life FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Eze, bean with my hubby French Riviera WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE FILM Pulp Fiction FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO You can go as high as you want, but you have FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Aruba VISIT My front porch to make it happen for yourself. Don’t wait for CHARITY Make-A-Wish Foundation someone else to open the door for you. BUCKET LIST Scuba diving FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT Sacramento Republic FC soccer games WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Forensics

David B. Rusty John Lee Areias Latimer Senior Interior Designer & Partner Managing Partner Special Projects California Strategies, LLC Capitol Advocacy Sacramento Kings

As senior designer for the Sacramento A native of Los Banos, Calif., Rusty Areias John Latimer founded Capitol Advocacy, Kings, David Lee is responsible for the in- served 12 years in the California Assembly; now one of the largest lobbying firms in terior design of all the organization’s proj- he was director of the California Depart- Sacramento, in 1999. The firm specializes ects, including Golden 1 Center, DOCO ment of Parks and Recreation from 1998 to in health care, tort reform, consumer pro- and Sawyer Hotel and Residences. He 2001 and served on the California Coastal tection, business regulation, and labor and also worked on a remodel of the California Commission for four years. He is current- environmental issues. At 26 years old, La- Governor’s Mansion and the development ly a partner at California Strategies, LLC, timer became chief of sta– for a Democrat- of The Cloud Club, an exclusive lounge at a public a–airs consulting and lobbying ic member of the California legislature, and Oracle Park in San Francisco. firm with 10 o™ces throughout the state. at 32 he ran for a State Assembly seat in Before beginning his long career in public the district where he grew up. After losing FIRST JOB Working in a frame shop. I loved service, he managed operations at one of a close Democratic primary election, he left being around art and creative people. the largest dairy farms in California, Areias the legislature to form Capitol Advocacy. BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Don’t overthink Dairy, which was founded by his father. He Today, the firm has more than 60 clients. things. received the Outstanding Young Farmer in Latimer is head of a team of seven lobbyists TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The Great America award in 1982. and two legislative analysts. Recession HOBBY Gardening HOMETOWN Santa Rosa, Calif. FAVORITE BOOK Crazy Rich Asians. Author EDUCATION Sacramento State University Kevin Kwan was my roommate in college, so I’m (BA, MPPA) a bit biased! NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Celebrating FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Men- Capitol Advocacy’s 20th year docino WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I was greatly FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO influenced by my late uncle, Tom Foley, a con- VISIT My home gressman from Spokane, Wash., who went on to become speaker of the House of Represen- tatives and then ambassador to Japan.

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Darius Jose Jason Anderson Hermocillo Kinney Chairman/Founder Managing Partner Principal Platinum Advisors, LLC Hermocillo-Azevedo Strategic Axiom Advisors Communications LLC

In 1998, Darius Anderson founded Plati- Sacramento Magazine named Jose Hermo- At 13, Jason Kinney helped run his moth- num Advisors, a government relations and cillo one of the 100 most powerful and in- er’s campaign for state Senate. Today, he is lobbying firm with oces in Sacramen- fluential people in the region in 2008. As a a Sacramento-based public aairs consul- to, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. communication strategist and attorney, he tant and political communications expert. Anderson is also the founder and CEO of advises corporations, public agencies and He worked on the ocial transition team Kenwood Investments, LLC, a real estate nonprofit organizations on public policy for Gov. Gavin Newsom, and he is a senior development and opportunity fund, and and helps them safeguard their reputations strategist to California Senate Democrats managing member of Sonoma Media In- during crises and transitions. Hermocillo and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. vestments, LLC, which owns and publish- wrote The Employer’s Survival Guide to Kinney, a former partner at California es the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and the Workers’ Compensation, published by the Strategies, was the statewide spokesperson Sonoma Index-Tribune. He has advised California Chamber of Commerce (1989– for the Yes on Proposition 64 campaign many of California’s highest-ranking polit- 1994). and has written speeches for governors, ce- ical and business leaders. lebrity CEOs and presidential candidates. HOMETOWN Upland, Calif. HOMETOWN Novato, Calif. EDUCATION Pomona College, McGeorge HOMETOWN Bloomington, Ind. EDUCATION George Washington University School of Law (JD) EDUCATION Princeton University, Indiana WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I enjoy helping WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK Our clients University School of Law (JD) people and solving problems. are from different sectors and different parts WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK It’s the perfect FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have the largest Jack of the state, so every day is interesting and intersection between creative writing and London memorabilia collection. challenging. political science. HOBBY Collecting antiques FIRST JOB Senate fellow LESSON LEARNED Politics is always a tem- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Cuba BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Don’t make things porary job—never take it for granted. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE more complicated than necessary. FAVORITE MOVIE Hoosiers (of course) Don’t be afraid of failure and always dream big. HOBBIES Playing trumpet and collecting WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE CHARITY Rebuild North Bay Foundation wines Failure is a prerequisite for success, not a detriment. CHARITIES Save the Children, ACLU, Sacra- mento LGBT Community Center

Bob David Craig E. White Ljung Yoder Founder/ Chairman President/CEO Partner California Strategies, LLC Gilbert CPAs Crowe LLP

After leaving the U.S. Coast Guard, Bob David Ljung joined Gilbert—one of the Craig Yoder has 30 years of experience—all White served as Pete Wilson’s chief of sta largest locally owned CPA firms in the Sac- with Crowe LLP. He started his career in when Wilson was an Assembly member, ramento region—in 1998. He specializes the South Bend, Ind., oce and worked in mayor, U.S. senator and California gov- in serving a variety of nonprofit organiza- Ohio and Illinois before moving to Sacra- ernor. In 1997, he founded public aairs tions, including social services, education, mento in 2015. The Sacramento oce’s company California Strategies. Historian research, arts, environmental, health and managing partner, he leads audit and as- Kevin Owen Starr called White’s company welfare, and trade and professional asso- surance services, specializing in govern- “the leading planning and political advoca- ciations. He provides nonprofit boards and ment, nonprofit organizations, manufac- cy partnership in the state.” In 2003, White sta with best-practice and benchmarking turing, distribution and other industries was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign information to help them achieve their and disciplines. manager during his bid for governor of missions. California. EDUCATION Miami University HOMETOWN Wahiawa, Hawaii FIRST JOB Grocery store bagger/stocker HOMETOWN San Diego EDUCATION State University of New York, MOST INSPIRING PERSON Warren Buffett EDUCATION San Diego State University Plattsburgh HIDDEN TALENT I make awesome lasagna. NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Bringing WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK A high school FAVORITE MOVIE Local Hero talented people into public service teacher recognized my interests and suggest- FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION The BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Never stop learn- ed I consider taking accounting in college. I next national park! My wife and I are on a quest ing and growing, and share the credit for every discovered what I enjoyed most about the work to see all of the U.S. National Parks together. success. was only minimally about accounting, and more WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE MOVIE The Quiet Man about relationships with clients and employees, Learn it. Teach someone else how to do it. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Bang- and the opportunity to provide guidance and Move to the next thing. Repeat. kok help to them. CHARITY College Track Sacramento FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FIRST JOB Paper delivery WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB VISIT The Capitol HOBBIES Hiking, backpacking, motorcycle Own and run a B&B in the mountains adventures FAVORITE MOVIE Glengarry Glen Ross

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Jim Gary Nancy Craycroft Jakobs Walker Offi ce Managing Partner President/CEO Vice President/Major Accounts KPMG LLP Ascent Environmental Manager Kleinfelder

Jim Craycroft joined KPMG in 1981 and Gary Jakobs co-founded Ascent Environ- Before joining Kleinfelder in 2013, Nancy became a partner in 1993. He has spent mental, an environmental, natural re- Walker owned her own consulting engi- the past 11 years managing the Sacramen- sources, urban design and planning con- neering fi rm. She has 30 years of experi- to o ce. During his 38 years with KPMG, sulting engineering fi rm, in 2010. Ascent ence and specializes in water resources. he has worked with family-held companies has grown from fi ve original partners to a Currently, she is the operational, strategic in the food and agricultural industries, in- sta’ of more than 80, with o ces located and business development lead for Klein- cluding many of the largest food companies throughout California. Jakobs has more felder in Northern California, the Central in California. than 35 years of professional experience in Valley area and northern Nevada. Found- environmental planning studies and has ed in 1961, the fi rm provides engineering, EDUCATION Babson College led the development of advanced Califor- environmental and construction services FIRST JOB Building-material delivery nia Environmental Quality Act workshops to its clients. It has 60 o ces in the Unit- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Jim Welch, a for the Association of Environmental Pro- ed States, Canada and Australia. Walker’s former partner, said, “Remember we are not fessionals since 2006. previous experience includes working with saving lives here”—meaning do not take your- AECOM as its western region water prac- self too seriously. EDUCATION UC Santa Barbara tices lead, and with MWH Global as the LESSON LEARNED Never give up; you may WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK As an idealistic climate change strategies lead. not get that new client fi rst time out. student in Santa Barbara, I wanted to fi nd a job WHAT I’D TELL MY 18 YEAR OLD SELF Do where I could make a diff erence in environmen- EDUCATION CSU Humboldt, Mackay School not be afraid to take a chance. tal outcomes. of Mines at University of Nevada, Reno (MS) CHARITIES First Tee of Greater Sacramento, BEST ADVICE RECEIVED You aren’t paid to NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Inspiring Fisher House, Make-A-Wish punch a clock; you are paid to do a job and do it young engineers through her work with the WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB the best way you can. American Council of Engineering Companies Chef HOBBY Cheering on the St. Louis Cardinals! WHAT MOTIVATES ME Growing the practice FAVORITE BOOK Freedom by William Safi re for the next generation FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VISIT Land Park BUCKET LIST Watching my youngest son play baseball for Pitzer College

Scott William Melissa N. Hooker Warne Sanchez President Chairman/Partner Founding Attorney Buehler Downey Brand LLP Harvest Law Group

As president of Buehler, a fast-growing William Warne has resolved, arbitrated Melissa N. Sanchez founded Harvest Law structural engineering fi rm, Scott Hooker and tried numerous litigation matters in Group in 2012 to o’ er regulatory and le- focuses on strategic leadership and creat- state and federal courts involving real es- gal services, including guidance regarding ing enduring relationships. He has been tate, intellectual property, class actions, compliance with laws, to California’s can- with the fi rm since 1988. Notable work wildfi res, partnership disputes and health nabis industry. She started advocating for projects include terminals A and B at Sac- care. He and his team recently defended the industry in 2009 as a sole practitioner. ramento International Airport, Golden 1 Sierra Pacifi c Industries in the Moonlight She organized and moderated the Continu- Center, the $1.6 billion Midfi eld Satellite Fire action. He was also the lead trial attor- ing Education of the Bar’s fi rst legal edu- Concourse at LAX, and the Bridge District ney for Park Cattle Company; the plainti’ cation class on medical cannabis, and she in West Sacramento. At one time, Hooker agreed to pay Warne’s client $165 million, is the co-founder and executive director of worked as a framing carpenter; that’s when one of the largest civil settlements in Ne- Restore California, an organization that he began to develop a sense for how struc- vada’s history. raises funds to restore land destroyed by tural systems worked. illegal cannabis cultivation. EDUCATION Sacramento State University, HOMETOWN Sacramento UC Hastings College of the Law (JD) NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Named one EDUCATION Cal Poly San Luis Obispo FIRST JOB Dishwasher at Farrell’s Ice Cream of 100 most infl uential attorneys by Business WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I have always Parlour Journals in June 2019 been interested in how things work; I was that TOUGHEST CHALLENGE Litigating against WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK By helping to ed- kid who was constantly taking things apart. For the government is enormously challenging. ucate people in the industry about how to com- the most part, I could put them back together FAVORITE BOOK The Last Lion by William ply with the laws, and advancing the cannabis and they still worked. Manchester laws here in California, I think we can create a BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be yourself; every- FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO sustainable, regulated cannabis industry and one else is already taken. VISIT Nimbus, with a kayak help reduce drug-related violence. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I was a high jumper in CHARITIES Sutter Medical Center Founda- HOBBY Taking pictures for my puppy’s Insta- college. tion, Sacramento Children’s Chorus gram account @louisthepresa FAVORITE MOVIE The Princess Bride WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Write a book on the Moonlight Fire matter Wide receiver in the NFL

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Gerald M. Courtney Joe Lenahan Linn Salazar Jr. Partner Senior Vice President/General Administrative Partner Lenahan, Lee, Slater, Pearse Counsel Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & & Majernik, LLP Golden 1 Credit Union Smith LLP

Gerald M. Lenahan graduated magna cum Courtney Linn is in charge of strategic cor- Joe Salazar Jr. is a member of the energy laude from the University of Illinois at porate legal initiatives at Golden 1 Credit and environmental practice at Lewis Bris- Urbana-Champaign, received his Illinois Union. Before joining Golden 1, he was bois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, a national law state teaching credential and briefl y taught a partner in the Sacramento o– ce of Or- fi rm with headquarters in Los Angeles. English at a public high school. He joined rick, Herrington & Sutcliœ e LLP, where he He represents a range of public- and pri- the fi rm in 1981 and is now the senior man- focused on representing fi nancial services vate-sector clients, focusing on environ- aging partner. His practice is devoted to companies in regulatory enforcement and mental contamination, remediation and workers’ compensation defense and claims Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laun- redevelopment. He has obtained 25 ver- of unlawful termination. Lenahan argued dering compliance matters. He previously dicts in state and federal courts in various Rodriguez v. WCAB before the 5th District served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the matters, including environmental, crop Court of Appeal, which resulted in a pub- Eastern District of California and clerked damage, real estate and business-related lished opinion with statewide signifi cance. for U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb. litigation.

HOMETOWN Chicago EDUCATION UC Davis (BA, JD) EDUCATION Stanford University, UCLA EDUCATION University of Illinois, UC Davis WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I thought I School of Law (JD) (JD) could be a good lawyer and help clients solve NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT Helped WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I have two older problems. grow the Sacramento offi ce from 14 attorneys brothers who are attorneys in Chicago. I always FIRST JOB Doorman-valet to nearly 40 expected to attend law school, so when I was MOST INSPIRING PERSON Flannery FIRST JOB Wrangling shopping carts for a accepted at UC Davis and joined the fi rm as a O’Connor Gemco department store student law clerk, my path was set. TOUGHEST CHALLENGE First person in my FEW PEOPLE KNOW My wife, Tori, is the FIRST JOB McDonald’s family to graduate from college and law school fi rst elected female district attorney for San BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Don McMurchie, FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Squam Joaquin County. the founder of the fi rm, said, “It’s not a mistake Lake, N.H. HOBBIES Fly-fi shing and duck hunting until it can’t be fi xed.” WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE FAVORITE BOOK Lawrence in Arabia by HOBBIES Yard work and gardening Listen more. Talk less. Scott Anderson FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO BUCKET LIST Golf in Scotland VISIT de Vere’s Irish Pub

Andy Janlynn Russell J. Stroud Robinson Fleener Austin Partner Partner/Chair Litigation Partner Hanson Bridgett LLP Department Murphy Austin Adams Downey Brand LLP Schoenfeld LLP

Andy Stroud joined Hanson Bridgett in As a partner at Downey Brand, Janlynn Russell J. Austin is one of the founding 2013. As outside litigation counsel, he has Fleener has represented businesses, gov- partners at Murphy Austin Adams Schoen- served California governors Gray Davis, ernment agencies and others for more than feld LLP. With extensive experience in Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown 20 years and has been the lead trial counsel commercial real estate and business law, he and represented the state of California in for many regional companies. Currently, has planned, negotiated and documented complex and high-profi le actions. His spe- she is representing a global manufactur- a variety of real property transactions and cialties include litigating intellectual prop- er of car seats in California and in class supporting documentation. Austin has erty claims for copyright and trademark actions across the country. She has volun- served as a visiting professor of law at UC infringement, misappropriation of trade teered with the Arts & Business Council of Davis and McGeorge School of Law. secrets, and unfair competition. He has Sacramento, Business Volunteers for the represented the late rock-’n’-roll photog- Arts, and the Crocker Art Museum’s Art HOMETOWN San Gabriel, Calif. rapher Jim Marshall and lectured on copy- Service Group. EDUCATION UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley right law at UC Berkeley Boalt Hall and the School of Law (JD) McGeorge School of Law. HOMETOWN San Jose, Calif. FIRST JOB Cook’s assistant in a small Italian EDUCATION Santa Clara University (BA, JD) restaurant in San Gabriel EDUCATION Claremont McKenna College, NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT I graduated HOBBY Wayfaring (walking and hiking adven- Santa Clara University School of Law (JD) fi rst in my class from law school. tures in distant places) WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I never really WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK As a kid, I was a FAVORITE MOVIE Vertigo thought about anything else. bookworm who loved school. FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Scot- FIRST JOB Dishwasher at Round Table Pizza FIRST JOB I worked at a car wash—every- land MOST INSPIRING PERSON My good friend thing from vacuuming cars to washing windows WHAT I’D DO IF I DIDN’T DO THIS JOB Vona Weiss, daughter of Holocaust survivors, to driving the cars off the conveyor line. I wouldn’t even want to contemplate this lover of life BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Not taking risks is question. HIDDEN TALENT I am a dog whisperer. the riskiest career move of all. WHAT MOTIVATES ME Solving diffi cult FAVORITE TV SHOW Project Runway HOBBY Working on the 1917 house my hus- challenges for our clients FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO VIS band and I purchased last year. BUCKET LIST I don’t have one of those. IT Any place I can enjoy the Delta breeze FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Paris WHAT MOTIVATES ME My sons

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Roger A. Steven Martha Dreyer Felderstein Clark Lofgren Managing Partner Managing Partner Partner Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Felderstein Fitzgerald Brewer Lofgren LLP Campora, LLP Willoughby & Pascuzzi LLP

Roger Dreyer has tried more than 150 Steven Felderstein represents clients in Martha Clark Lofgren, who co-founded civil jury trials. As the trial attorney for all aspects of bankruptcy and out-of-court Brewer Lofgren, specializes in advocacy the family of Jennifer Strange in 2007, he workouts. Currently, he is co-counsel to before government agencies on land enti- won a verdict of $16.7 million, the largest California’s attorney general in PG&E’s tlement, regulatory issues, transportation wrongful-death verdict for noneconom- Chapter 11 case. He has played a signifi cant funding, a– ordable housing and economic ic damages in Sacramento County. As the role in many of the largest bankruptcy cas- development. She uses her experience as lead trial lawyer for the Oakland Raiders, es in the nation, including the Chapter 11 Folsom’s city manager and city attorney he achieved a verdict in the amount of $34 cases of Texaco, Enron, Drexel Burnham, from 1994 to 2006 to negotiate deals and million, the largest fraud verdict in Sacra- PG&E, Pacifi c Lumber and Worldcom and fi nd collaborative solutions. Lofgren has mento County. the Chapter 9 cases of Vallejo, Stockton served in leadership roles with the Sac- and San Bernardino. He also represented ramento Metropolitan Chamber of Com- EDUCATION UC Davis, UC Hastings College Merle Haggard in his Chapter 11 case. merce, Valley Vision, American Leadership of the Law (JD) Forum, Folsom Lake College Foundation FIRST JOB Working for Southern Pacifi c lay- HOMETOWN Rochester, N.Y. and B Street Theatre. ing track and building tunnels in the Sierra EDUCATION University of Buff alo, UC Hast- BEST ADVICE RECEIVED My high school ings College of Law (JD) EDUCATION Wellesley College, UC Davis (JD) counselor, when I told him there were too many WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK To help people WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK My father was lawyers in 1974: “There is always room at the solve problems the county counsel for Santa Clara and San top.” FIRST JOB Fourth-grade teacher in Buff alo, Diego counties. He retired as a superior court HOBBIES Skiing, basketball and my work N.Y. judge. He motivated me to enter the legal fi eld FAVORITE MOVIE The Verdict BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Focus on becom- and also to be a public lawyer. WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE ing good at what you do and the rest will take BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Be nice—from There are no shortcuts to achievement. care of itself. my mother, before I went to meet with The FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO FAVORITE BOOK Team of Rivals by Doris Sacramento Bee editorial board to talk about VISIT Golden 1 Center Kearns Goodwin a sewer spill. CHARITIES NPR, Sacramento Child Abuse FAVORITE TV SHOW The Wire CHARITIES American Heart Association, Prevention Center KVIE

Malcolm Tina Stan Segal Thomas Van Vleck President Founder Partner Segal & Associates, PC Thomas Law Group Downey Brand LLP

Malcolm Segal started his career as an Tina Thomas specializes in environmental, Stan Van Vleck represents clients on a va- assistant district attorney in New York land use and natural resource litigation, riety of issues, including protecting their City and later was appointed special attor- including compliance with the California rights and securing and protecting per- ney-in-charge of a U.S. Department of Jus- Environmental Quality Act, National Envi- mits or licenses, and in government pro- tice federal grand jury strike force in Texas. ronmental Policy Act, Subdivision Map Act curement cases. He has worked for a U.S. He moved to California and joined the U.S. and California Endangered Species Act. senator and a California governor, and he Attorney’s O™ ce in San Francisco. From She helps developers and governmental has been recognized by Siemens as its top there, he worked for the Eastern District agencies navigate complex environmen- advocate in the United States. As legal of California as chief of the criminal divi- tal review and entitlement processes. Her counsel to former mayor Kevin Johnson, he sion. Since 1985, he has represented inter- practice focuses on infi ll and mixed-use helped keep the Kings in Sacramento. He is national, regional and local companies, as development, and she has served as legal president of Van Vleck Ranch, his family’s well as professionals in medicine, law, real counsel for numerous cutting-edge proj- Rancho Murieta ranch. estate and agribusiness. ects that incorporate smart-growth prin- ciples. EDUCATION Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Mc- EDUCATION City College of New York, St. George School of Law (JD) John’s University School of Law (JD) EDUCATION Stephens College, University of FIRST JOB Building miles of fence on a ranch FIRST JOB Selling ladies’ shoes San Diego (JD) BEST ADVICE RECEIVED A business BEST ADVICE RECEIVED Do what’s right WHY I CHOSE THIS WORK I was intrigued by partner advised me when I was getting married and let the chips fall where they may. the fl exibility of a law degree and the diff erent to let your spouse do her thing and don’t say no HOBBY Reading while enjoying a glass of wine career paths it might provide. unless it causes blood or bankruptcy. or bourbon and an excellent cigar FIRST JOB Working for my dad in his vet TOUGHEST CHALLENGE The untimely FAVORITE MOVIE The Godfather hospital passing of my parents FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION London MOST INSPIRING PERSON Mike Remy, my FAVORITE TRAVEL DESTINATION Wher- FAVORITE SACRAMENTO PLACE TO former partner of 25 years, who passed away ever my family is, that is where I like to be. VISIT Biba Restaurant in 2003 WHAT I’D TELL A RECENT GRADUATE BUCKET LIST I’m living it now. FEW PEOPLE KNOW I have cycled on fi ve Love life. It is precious and so brief. continents. CHARITIES Future Farmers of America, 4-H

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Arts, Sports + Entertainment Ann M. Evans: Craig Lee Professionals Shaun Burner: Wes Davis Ginger Elizabeth Hahn: Francisco Chavira Marcos Breton: Sacramento Bee Matina Kolokotronis: Sacramento Kings Sean Kohmescher: Nicole Wray Martha Clark Lofgren: Terence Duffy Eddie Meehan: Jose Barajas Rick Mahan: The Waterboy Mary Gonsalves Kinney: Tyler and Christina Liv Moe: Gregory Urquiaga Kelly McCown: Sheryl Trapani, Selland Family Restaurants Lauren Gustus: McClatchy Vivek Ranadivé: Sacramento Kings Josh Nelson: Selland Family Restaurants Leyla Jaworski: Nicole Dianne Photography Amy Seiwert: Keith Sutter Hank Shaw: Holly A. Heyser David B. Lee: Jason Sinn Amber Stott: Amy Nicole Photography Faith Lopez: Tom Wright Business Chrisa Pappas: Jeff Thibodeaux Laura Good: Tia Gemmell Government + Civic Leaders Kassy Perry: Chantal Elder David E. Ritchie Jr.: Image Outfitters Photography Mona Alfi: Melanie Mages Meghan Phillips: Codi Ann Blackman Virginia A. Varela: Gordon Lazzarone Michael Ault: Downtown Sacramento Partnership Rebecca Plumb: Create + Gather David Baker: Ryan Greenleaf Curtis Popp: Wes Davis Education + Health Care Gina Barbato-Knepp: Hope Harris Liz Salmi: Ana B. Ibarra for Kaiser Health News Jorge Aguilar: Sacramento City Unified School District Xavier Becerra: California Department of Justice Estelle G. Saltzman: Kent Lacin William Duncan: Image Outfitters Caroline Beteta: Visit California (photo by Max Whittaker) Melissa Sanchez: Lebasi Photography Derk Garcia: Dante Fontana Amanda Blackwood: Tia Gemmell Anne Staines: Karieanne Munstedt Garry Maisel: Rudy Meyers Photography Sister Libby Fernandez: Gale Filter Jeff vonKaenel: Sacramento News & Review Gary S. May: UC Davis David Heitstuman: Beth Baugher, True Love Photo Lila Wallrich: Jayson Carpenter Kelly Hopkins: Heather Prettyman Photography Amber Williams: Jacob Reid Food + Agriculture Jason Jacobs: The Sacramento Zoo Thaddeus Barsotti: Bill Goidell Arlen Orchard: SMUD Real Estate Brad Cecchi: Stephanie Russo Rivkah Sass: Ilana Sass Rachel Bardis: Brianne Chaney Katherine Bardis-Miry: Brianne Chaney Mark Friedman: Bill Santos

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Photography credits.indd 82 11/5/19 3:04 PM Shaun Alston was selected as one of the TOP 40 MOST Successful Realtors in Sacramento, Top Producer for three of the most coveted categories by HomeLight.com. Shaun is also a Masters Club Continuing Life Member—Top 1% of all Agents in the Region selling 76% more.

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After a century’s worth of providing our area with award winning service and a shared passion for all things auto, your typical dealer group may decide to go on cruise control. But that’s not how we roll at The Niello Company. We’re looking at our next 100 years as an opportunity to build on what we’ve accomplished in the first. Our future at Niello is faster, greener, and more encompassing. And we look forward to seeing you there. Come visit any of our 11 dealerships to see how we’re just getting started. niello.com

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