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Richard J. Schnieders is the retired chairman and CEO of Sysco Corporation, the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. A 1970 graduate of the University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Rick was recruited in 1982 to join the executive development program at Sysco’s Memphis subsidiary. While there, he progressed through a variety of managerial and executive positions becoming president and CEO in 1989. He was appointed executive vice president, foodservice operations in 1999, and in 2000 he assumed the added duties of chief operating officer. In 2003 he became the fifth chairman and chief executive officer in Sysco’s history. After a 27-year career at Sysco, Rick retired in June 2009. While at Sysco, Rick served as trustee with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, as chairman of the University of Minnesota’s Food Industry Center, as board member with the Greater Houston Partnership, as fellow of the institute with The Culinary Institute of America, and as a board member of the public company Aviall, Inc. Rick currently holds community board positions at the The Menil Collection, Save the Children, Share Our Strength and Stone Barns.

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.

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 is a Founder and the CEO of Revolution Foods. Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kristin’s career spanned from education reform to corporate finance. She began her career on Wall Street as an investment banker at Citigroup. After spending four years in corporate finance, Kristin moved to Nairobi to co-found the Kenya Community Center for Learning (KCCL), one of the first special education schools in East Africa. Kristin led fundraising and development, operations and finance for KCCL and also taught physical education, geography and life skills. She remains an active board member of KCCL. Kristin also served as a Vice President at RISE, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting and retaining quality teachers in public schools. While at RISE, Kristin helped schools serving low income students implement strategies to locate, attract and retain the best and brightest teachers. She also played a large role in expanding the organization from the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago and Los Angeles. Kristin is an Aspen Institute Entrepreneurial Leaders In Public Education Fellow and an Education Pioneers Fellow. She has a BS from Boston College and an MBA from UC Berkeley where she serves on the Board of the Global Social Venture Competition.

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. 

Renuka Kher is a Principal at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focuses on investment strategy, due diligence and management assistance for the firm's portfolio ventures. Prior to joining NewSchools, Renuka was a Senior Program Officer at the Robin Hood Foundation, a venture philanthropy organization whose mission is to target poverty in New York City. Renuka managed more than $5 million in grants for Robin Hood's charter school initiative. Renuka began her career in the health care sector, serving as a health policy advisor to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS during the Clinton Administration. She received her bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Michigan, and completed her graduate work at Emory University, where she received a master's in public health from the Rollins School of Public Health. She is also an alumnus of the Coro Leadership Program.