Agri-food tech
Food & Ag Council
The Food and Ag Council serves as the strategic leadership group to the Greater Sacramento Economic Council Board of Directors to identify the organization’s role and responsibilities in advancing job creation and investment in the region’s agricultural industry.
Made up of esteemed industry professionals, the Food and Ag Council:
- Engages industry leaders to align assets and resources around the region’s position as a food and agtech hub,
- Provides leadership around food and agtech policies and initiatives that will increase cluster development and
- Identifies new sources of capital for the market and manages partner relationships with industry investors and innovators.
Chair:
- Mike Teel (Owner & Chairman of the Board, The Raley’s Companies)
Members:
- Brad Cecchi (Chef, Canon)
- Kyle Cobb (Co-Founder and President, advanced.farm)
- Melissa Haworth (Senior Director of Corporate Engagement, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences)
- Ken Hiatt (Assistant City Manager and Director of Community & Economic Development, City of Woodland)
- Alberto Landolino (Open Innovation Scout and R&D Alliance Manager, Bayer Crop Science)
- Denneal Jamison-McClung (Director, UC Davis Biotechnology Program and the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology)
- Trish Kelly (Managing Director, Valley Vision)
- Kara Leong (Executive Director, UC Davis Cultivated Meat Consortium)
- Pamela G. Marrone (Founder and Director, Marrone Bio Innovations)
- Chelsea Minor (Corporate Director, Consumer & Public Affairs, Raley’s)
- Julie I. Morris (Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of the Food & Agriculture Industry Immersion, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis)
- Frank Muller (President, M Three Ranches)
- Mike Newell (Sales Director, HP Hood)
- Sukhpreet Sandhu (IP & Innovation Manager, HM.Clause)
- Harold Schmitz (Founding Partner, The March Fund)
- John Selep (President, AgStart)
- Tom Stallard (Mayor Pro Tempore, City of Woodland)
- Meaghan Stiles (Economic Development Manager, City of West Sacramento)
- Alexander Tengolics (Manager of Governmental Relations, Yolo County)
- Gabriel Youtsey (Chief Information Officer, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources)