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Board of Directors
Mike Dorsey is a Managing Partner at the Westly Group, a leading venture capital firm, and has served on the Company’s Board since the inception of Revolution Foods, due to the founding investment of his prior fund, The Bay Area Equity Fund. For five years he co-managed this double bottom line venture capital fund, achieving top quartile financial returns. Prior to this he worked for 20 years as an investment banker, principally to technology companies, serving as Head of Technology Investment Banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Cowen & Co. Mike received an A.B. from Stanford University and an MBA from Yale University. He serves on the Board of Directors of United Way of the Bay Area and several advisory boards of Stanford University.
John Mitchell is Culinary Advisor and Research Development Consultant for the natural foods industry. He is committed to the development, distribution and innovative retailing of organically produced products. Before striking out on his own, John was the Director of Operations/Food Service for Whole Foods Market. John spent over nine years growing stores throughout California, the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Prior to joining Whole Foods Market in 1997, John spent seven years as a Chef for several restaurants within the San Francisco based Lark Creek Restaurant Group including Lark Creek Inn, One Market Restaurant, and Lark Creek Walnut Creek. John began his career at Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and remains an active alumnus.
Mark Perutz is a Partner at DBL Investors. DBL Investors manages the Bay Area Equity Fund, which invests in companies that can deliver market-rate venture capital returns while enabling social, environmental and economic improvement in low and moderate income neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to the founding of DBL Investors in early 2008, Mark was an investment professional at JPMorgan which he joined in 2003 to help launch and manage the Bay Area Equity Fund. He has worked with the following portfolio companies of the Fund: Revolution Foods, eMeter, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, Labcyte, PowerLight (acquired by SunPower), XDx, Bentek and ReShape. Previously, Mark was an equity research analyst at Robertson Stephens where he covered companies in the enterprise software industry sector. Mark has also worked in product management and business development at Interwoven, a Web content management company; performed technology and market research at the Tower Group; and built computer systems as a systems integration consultant for Accenture. Mark holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and a MBA from the Sloan School of Business at MIT.
Kristin Groos Richmond served as the Vice President of Programs and Development at RISE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recruiting and retaining outstanding teachers in public schools nationwide. During her tenure at RISE, she worked with over 50 charter and district schools and expanded the program from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles and Chicago. Kristin worked at Leadership Public Schools in San Francisco where she redesigned the food service program at four public high schools. Kristin co-founded a special education school in East Africa and began her career as an investment banker at Citigroup in NYC. She has a BS from Boston College and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Jed Smith is the Managing Partner of Catamount Ventures. Catamount is rooted in the in art and the creative process of company building and serves the gap in the market between angel investors and large venture funds. Catamount is investing out of its third fund and has approximately $140M under management. Prior to Catamount, in 1997 Jed was the founder of drugstore.com (NASDAQ: DSCM), and served on its board of directors with John Doerr, Brook Byers, Peter Neupert, Howard Schultz and Jeff Bezos. Prior to drugstore.com, Jed co-founded and spent four years at Cybersmith, a retail store chain that showcased the latest advances in information technology and multimedia software. Before that, Jed was Vice President of Sales at Tribe Computer Works (a networking hardware and software company that was successfully sold). Jed began his career in technology working for Tom Siebel and subsequently Marc Benioff at Oracle Corporation, ultimately serving as District Manager for Eastern Region. Jed has advised many private companies and currently serves on the Boards of Linden Lab, Siterra Corp., Flock, Piczo, Ecohaus and Revolution Foods. Jed has also served on the board of several education and non-profit institutions, including the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College, the Monterey Institute for International Studies, Shackelton Schools and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Jed earned an BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Jed lives in the Bay Area with wife Caitlin and three children - Quinn, Annabel and Lilah.
Kirsten Tobey began her career as a teacher and coordinator of experiential education programs at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts as well as with Amigos de las Americas in Ecuador. During college, she ran children’s garden education programs in California and Rhode Island, where she enjoyed helping children to connect with the source of their food. Her passion for sustainability and community health led her to run a public health campaign for Earthjustice. She managed a study abroad program for the School for Field Studies in Mexico where she worked with college students to study the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the fishing industry. During graduate school, she worked with the United Nations Hunger Task Force to evaluate the scalability of school feeding programs in Ghana and with the McDonald's Corporation to incorporate social and environmental responsibility into the supply chain. Kirsten has an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Joanne S. Weiss is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focuses on investments and management assistance to portfolio ventures in the Performance Accelerator Fund, and oversees the organization's operations. She also sits on the boards of Education for Change, Green Dot, Leadership Public Schools, New Leaders for New Schools, and Teachscape. Prior to joining NewSchools Venture Fund, Joanne was CEO of Claria Corporation, an e-services recruiting firm that helped emerging-growth companies build their teams quickly and well. Joanne has a passion for education, and has spent much of her career pioneering innovative ways of using technology to increase the effectiveness of teaching and learning processes. She holds a degree in biochemistry from Princeton University.