Mr. Jack A. Buckhorn earned an Associate of Science degree from Santa Rosa Junior College. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the North Bay Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Prior to working for the NBLC he served twelve years as the Business Manager and Financial Secretary for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 551. From 1989 to 1998, he was Training Director for the Redwood Empire Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee. Mr. Buckhorn is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake Counties Building and Construction Trades Council; President of the Marin County Building and Construction Trades Council; a member of the Sonoma County Health Action Partnership Council; a commissioner on the California Apprenticeship Council and the California Health Facilities Finance Authority.

Chisato Fukuda Calvert, Ph.D. has 15 years of strategic partnership and 7+ years of business development experience across international development, nonprofits, and startups - all with a focus on advancing equitable solutions to the world's most pressing challenges driven by climate change. She is currently Strategic Partnership Director of SINAI Technologies, where she is developing and executing the company's strategic partnership strategy aimed to help companies build their decarbonization strategy and meet their net-zero targets.

She has served as Acting Director of OpenAQ Inc., where she managed all aspects of the company, including developing and implementing the strategic partnership strategy, partnership building, business development, and managing a growing open-source air quality platform that aggregates and harmonizes over 17 billion air quality measurements from 136 countries across the globe.

She was also Director of Strategic Partnerships at Impact Experience, where she served as an advisor and liaison between key financial partners and community leaders to channel investments into underserved communities throughout the U.S. to support climate resilience, disaster recovery, and community development. Chisato is also the Co-founder and former Director of SmartAir Mongolia, a social enterprise focused on developing and distributing affordable air purifiers to safeguard health against toxic air in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - one of the most polluted cities in the world.

She has also led environmental governance programs at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Laos, and across Southeast Asia, building strategic partnerships with national governments across ASEAN countries, research institutions, and diverse industries to champion win-win collaborations to advance environmental sustainability. Furthermore, she held positions at Trace Foundation in New York, and National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) in Washington, D.C. In addition to her work experience, she has conducted ethnographic research extensively across Asia including in Mongolia, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Her doctoral dissertation fieldwork focused on health disparities caused by air pollution exposure in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She has served as a consultant on several environmental health projects and climate mitigation interventions. Chisato earned her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated from Bucknell University with a Cultural Anthropology Honors Degree.

Lisa is the President & CEO of United Way of the Wine Country. Before accepting the position in 2018, Lisa was the Regional Director for 10,000 Degrees in Sonoma County. In September 2013, Lisa became the first Latina to chair the Board for Directors for the Sonoma County Fair and Events Center in its 78-year history. In February 2014, Lisa was the first member of the community appointed to serve on the Editorial Board for the Press Democrat.

Lisa currently chairs the Board of Directors for Forget Me Not Farm Children’s Services and serves on the Community Benefit Committee for St. Joseph Health, Sonoma County Health Action Partnership Council, Congressman Mike Thompson’s Immigration Advisory Group, Los Cien Sonoma County Board of Directors, Sonoma County Coalition for Foster Youth, Sonoma County LGBTQI Giving Circle Steering Committee and the Community Foundation Sonoma County Board of Directors.

The Chandi Group began, like any good restaurant story, as a fifteen year-old Sonu worked the line during the Friday night dinner rush. Three years later, the Chandi brothers helped their father open up his own restaurant. There they cut their teeth negotiating leases, managing vendors, building a team, gaining the experience, and growing the excitement that would cement their decision to own their own hospitality group.

In 2007, the Chandi Group purchased their first restaurant, a Mountain Mike’s Pizza in Rohnert Park. Still in college and with little guidance from the corporate offices, they learned their lessons – from scheduling to handling to every other aspect of owning a franchise – the hard way. And, the right way. Since then, they’ve become the Northern California Mountain Mike’s Development Agent, opening six new locations, with one on the way, and piloting the Mountain Mike’s Tavern concept, which brought a full bar experience into the family friendly atmosphere.

Along the way, Ren joined the team, and family, helping guide them as they branched out into independent restaurants. Together, they took over Stout Brothers Irish Pub and Restaurant two days before St. Patrick’s Day in 2013. The success of Stout’s and the vibrancy of downtown Santa Rosa propelled them to launch three more restaurants, Bibi’s Burger Bar, Bollywood Bar and Clay Oven, and Beer Baron. To date, Sonu has also opened thirteen Mountain Mike’s Pizza locations throughout the North Bay.

Though it all, the Chandi Group has been guided by their deep-rooted commitment to their community, to their work, integrity, and their philosophy of continuous improvement. At every step, they’ve challenged themselves to learn and grow, and strive to always be better.

Larry is CEO/President of Burbank Housing. Burbank Housing is Sonoma County’s largest builder and owner of affordable housing. Larry brings over thirty years experience in real estate, community and economic development in both the public and private sector to Burbank Housing. Most recently Larry served as the Director of Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs for Napa County. He managed Napa County’s affordable housing programs as well as the county’s Housing Authority and community and economic development activities.

Prior to joining Napa County Larry spent over ten years in the private sector, co founding a development company specializing in adaptive reuse of underutilized industrial property and overseeing some of the company’s largest development projects in the San Francisco Bay Area including the redevelopment of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and Treasure Island. While in the Northeast Mr. Florin oversaw a 2,000 unit urban mixed use development project along the Hudson River across from Midtown Manhattan.

He has over 15 years experience working in senior management positions in San Francisco including executive level positions in the Mayor’s Office, Redevelopment Authority and Port. He also served as the first Executive Director of the Treasure Island Development Authority.

Throughout the years Larry has served on the Executive Board of the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Governors Task Force on Military Base Conversion, the State of California Housing Element Working Group and California Forward’s One Million Homes Initiative. He has received the San Francisco Business Times Real Estate Transaction of the Year Award and the San Francisco Mayors Manager of the Year. Larry has a Master in Urban Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Purchase State College.

Henry is the President of the Hansel Auto Group that is comprised of ten (10) new vehicle franchises in 9 Showrooms as well as the Leasing Company and Collision Center. The Hansel Auto Group employs nearly 700 full and part-time employees at its Sonoma County locations. Henry is also a partner with Steve Pleau at Future Ford Lincoln & Hyundai in Concord, CA.

• Born in 1948 in Vacaville, California & Moved to Sonoma County, California in 1961.
• 1970 University of Santa Clara, Bachelor of Science in Economics
• 1966 Bellarmine College Preparatory High School
• Employed by Memorex Corporation, Santa Clara from 1970 to 1973.
• Returned to Santa Rosa in late 1973 to work in the family business (Bishop Hansel Ford, located in downtown Santa Rosa.) He began as a Commercial Salesperson, was promoted to Sales Manager; then to Used Car Manager, and to General Sales Manager in 1975.

In 1979, he purchased Sanderson Ford in Petaluma and renamed the dealership Henry Curtis Ford-Mercury. A beautiful renovation was completed in 2016. In 1981, he began managing both Hansel Ford and Henry Curtis Ford. In 1983, the Lincoln Mercury franchise was purchased (Prestige Lincoln-Mercury) and a new showroom was built next to Hansel Ford in 1998 when the two merged as Hansel Ford Lincoln-Mercury. Saab Subaru and Veale Motors were purchased in 1990 and renamed Prestige Imports (BMW, VW, and Subaru), and Acura-Suzuki in Santa Rosa was renamed Hansel Acura in 2010. 1991 saw the addition of Hansel Toyota in Petaluma where a multi-million dollar renovation and expansion was completed in 2015; and in 1995-1996 Bob Benson Honda in Petaluma was purchased and renamed Hansel Honda. Today, Hansel Ford Lincoln and Hansel Mazda operate from the same campus on Corby Avenue where the Hansel Ford Lincoln Showroom underwent its face-changing remodel in 2015 as well. The Hansel Auto Campus on Corby Avenue was completed in 2012 & 2013 as the new home for Hansel BMW of Santa Rosa, Hansel Volkswagen of Santa Rosa, Hansel Subaru, along with Hansel Acura … three new Showrooms plus a Parts Center, Service Building, and Detail/Carwash facilities to support all of them.

Early adventures to legendary vineyards and wineries around the world with his father, photographer Andy Katz, rooted Jesse in a passion for place and respect for creative crafts. Jesse is inspired by the relationship of unpredictable nature in the vineyard, precise science in the winery, and a craft millennia in the making. His winemaking centers on selecting unique sites, then pairing diverse farming and winemaking techniques to extract the deepest expression of each vineyard.

Today, Katz creates terroir driven wines for his brands: Aperture Cellars,Devil Proof Vineyards. Aperture, a collaborative project with his father, focuses on Bordeaux varietals and demonstrates an expression of art both inside the bottle and out. Devil Proof Vineyards, Jesse’s flagship wine, is a single vineyard, dry farmed 100% Malbec, whose first release received the highest rating of any Malbec from California from both Robert Parker, Jr. and Wine Spectator, and was named “Cult Winery” of the year. Jesse’s new winery and vineyards slated to open in 2019 will showcase sustainable wine growing and production, while expanding capacity.

In 2010, Katz was the youngest-hired head winemaker in the US at Lancaster Estate, where he brought to bear his handcrafted style of terroir driven winemaking and established their Roth Estate brand. During his five-year tenure, he orchestrated the building of the new Roth winery, production facility, and tasting room on Chalk Hill Road, grew the Roth line over 800% and received 90+ scores on every wine scored by Robert Parker, Jr and his wine was designated as Top 100 Wines by Wine Spectator. During this time, he also pivoted farming and winery practices, making both certified sustainable. His experience spans 15 harvests at wineries like Pétrus and includes time on the winemaking teams at Screaming Eagle Winery, Robert Foley Winery, and Viña Cobos and Bodega Noemia in Argentina.

Jesse has been named 40 Under 40 Tastemaker by Wine Enthusiast and was the first winemaker on the Forbes 30 Under 30. Aperture Cellars was recently selected as a Rising Star by Wine Spectator and a bottle of his 2015 The Setting Wines just became the most expensive single bottle of wine ever sold, earning $350,000 at Emeril Lagasse’s annual charity wine auction. Jesse puts his abilities to work raising funds for good causes, such as Becoming Independent, Navy Seals Foundation, United Way and Roots of Peace whose “Mines to Vines” program works to restore economic stability to war stricken areas of the world through agriculture. He also produces custom wines for athletes and celebrities like Tony Hawk, Superbowl MVP Von Miller, Shep Gordon, as well as Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s wedding wine. He has also been featured by multiple media outlets, including: Wine and Spirts, Food and Wine, Drinks Business, Wine Advocate, Worth, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, People, ESPN, Forbes, People, AOL, Esquire, and others.

Jake Kloberdanz is CEO and Founder of ONEHOPE, a brand with a mission to build a community that makes the world better through memorable wine and experiences. ONEHOPE creates thoughtfully-crafted products that each make a measurable impact for a specific charitable cause.

Since launching ONEHOPE in 2007, Jake has successfully raised more than $50 million in financing. He is one of few people age 35 or under to build an independent wine brand now producing more than 150,000 cases annually, solidifying ONEHOPE as one of the 250 largest wineries out of 9,000 in the United States. In 2014, he helped lead ONEHOPE’s acquisition of a flagship vineyard in Napa, and subsequently, helped finance the construction of an iconic Estate and Winery on the property. The Estate is complete and the Winery will be completed by summer of 2019. The ONEHOPE brand has received recognition in Inc. magazine’s “500|5000” – an annual exclusive list of America’s fastest-growing private companies – for six years and counting.

Through the sales of ONEHOPE products, the ONEHOPE Foundation has donated millions of dollars to the brand’s nonprofit partners. Beyond ONEHOPE, Jake also serves as board member and advisor for numerous successful business and nonprofits.

During his time as CEO and founder, Jake has been recognized by Bloomberg Businessweek’s, “Top 25 under 25”, Wine Enthusiast’s,“Top 40 Under 40” and was the youngest nominee to be recognized by Ernst & Young for “Entrepreneur of the Year”. He has also been a speaker at numerous conferences, events and universities including TEDx, The United Nations Annual Global Event, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, UCLA and MIT. Jake serves on the Advisor Board for 8VC, a successful venture capital firm in SF whose recent investments include Oculus, Wish, Blend and more. He is also an active member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council, GenNext, Napa Valley Vintners and Napa Valley Grapegrowers.

Jake’s work has been profiled in numerous media outlets including, Forbes, Leaders, Entrepreneur, Inc. and Success magazine, in which he shares his expertise in consumer brands and integrating cause into business models and culture. His model, known as Cause-Centric Commerce, helps to integrate social impact with everyday commerce. Prior to founding ONEHOPE, Jake graduated from the Haas School of Business and was a three-year Scholar Athlete at UC Berkeley playing football and rugby, where he earned numerous national championships.

Cynthia Murray is President/ CEO of North Bay Leadership Council (NBLC). Murray served eight years on the Marin County Board of Supervisors and seven years on the Novato City Council, including one term as Mayor. She received the 2010 Women in Business award from the North Bay Business Journal for her achievements in economic development. Murray serves on the boards of many organizations including the North Bay Life Science Alliance, Bay Area Council Economic Institute; First 5 Sonoma County Commission, Sonoma County Health Action Council, Healthy Marin Partnership, Marin School to Careers Partnership and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Policy Advisory Council.

Murray is a graduate of Rutgers University, spent 20 years in sales and marketing, and is an adjunct professor at Sonoma State University and Dominican University.

Tara Sharp is a senior marketing executive with 15+ years’ experience in leading and managing multi-channel businesses, branding, e-commerce, CRM, product development, sales and strategy with P&L responsibility.

She has a passion for innovative and disruptive technological approaches to evangelizing and driving product adoption. Seasoned general manager with a track record of recruiting and developing high performance teams who work well in cross-functional and matrixed organizations.

Casey Taylor is the founder and Executive Director of Achieve Charter Schools of Paradise. In 2005 she worked with parents, community leaders and educators to develop and open a kindergarten through fifth grade charter school in Paradise, California. In 2008 Casey led Achieve as they expanded their program to middle school. In 2018 she worked with community leaders, local business owners, teachers and families to open Achieve Charter High School, a high school focused on college and career opportunities for all through entrepreneurship and computer science pathways.

After the 2018 Paradise Camp Fire, Taylor led her team in reopening schools in temporary facilities in Chico, while building a permanent school facility there. In the 2021-22 school year, Achieve opened Achieve Charter School of Chico at the new facility and reopened Achieve Charter School of Paradise at the original campus in Paradise. She and her team are now working to reopen Achieve Charter High School in Paradise in the coming years. Taylor is a Paradise native and is committed to providing high quality educational options to the community, especially during the rebuilding process. She sits on the Rebuild Paradise Foundation Board, is a Paradise Rotary Club member and serves on the Paradise Citizen’s Alliance.

Taylor is also an advocate for public charter schools and serves on the California Charter Schools Association’s Board of Directors and as the chair of the California Charter School Association’s Member Council. She works closely with local charter leaders in Butte County and is the chair of the Butte County Charter Leaders Network. Under her leadership, Achieve Charter School has been recognized as a California Distinguished School in 2014 and again in 2020. Taylor was also named the California Charter Schools Association’s Charter Leader of the Year in 2017. She currently supports other school leaders across the state on rebuilding schools after disasters and is asked to share Achieve’s story to inspire others and advocate for state and federal support.