Amy McCann

CEO/Co-Founder
Local Food Marketplace

Amy co-founded Local Food Marketplace in 2009 to help level the playing field for local, sustainable food. Local Food Marketplace is the perfect blend of her two passions – local food and technology. As CEO, Amy focuses on bringing business best practices and innovative solutions to local food, including introducing the first and only white label mobile app for food hubs.

Ryan Jenson

CEO/Founder

HoneyComb

Ryan is CEO & founder of HoneyComb Corporation, specializing in the development of drone technology and data services for precision agriculture and forestry. Over the past decade Ryan has contributed to a wide range of technologies with the USDA, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, British Royal Navy, NASA and Fortune 500 companies.

Elizabeth Bauer

CEO/President

Gilded Rogue

Brad Averill

Founder

Wildtime Foods

Brad Averill is co-owner of Wildtime Foods, a manufacturer of natural and organic breakfast cereals and trail mixes. Located in Eugene, Oregon, Wildtime Foods was started in 1981. Mr. Averill purchased it in 2002. Approximately 2/3 of Wildtime Foods’ sales are organic. They have made the commitment to their customers not to use genetically modified organisms, even in those products that are not organic.

Vince Panero

Director of Sales & Marketing

Blue Lotus Chai

Vince is currently the Sales & Marketing Director for Blue Lotus Chai Company LLC. Prior to this, he oversaw the marketing department for local natural foods company Coconut Bliss LLC, as well as  facilitated marketing/administrative initiatives at Yahoo, Symantec, and other technology companies. Vince has also been a college instructor and high school teacher overseas, and received his M.Ed from Harvard in 1994.

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R. Harrison

CEO, Art Director, Creative Director, co-Founder

Christian Ettinger

Founder

Hopworks Urban Brewery

Christian’s brewing career began in 1992 in his parents’ kitchen during his first summer break from the University of Oregon School of Business. He quickly fell in love with the brewing art and after a semester abroad in Cologne, Germany, the home of Kölsch style beer, Christian saw an opportunity to combine German brewing traditions with bold Northwest beer flavors.

Joe Rogoff

Regional President

Whole Foods

Joe has been a natural and organic food retailer since 1974, when he volunteered at a co-op in rural Sonoma County, California and found his career. He joined Whole Foods Market in 2000 and served as Regional Vice President of Operations and later VP of Purchasing in the Northern California Region. Joe moved to Seattle in 2010 to serve as Regional President of the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada Region.

Ian Tolleson

Director of Gov. Affairs

NW Food Processors Assn.

Ian Tolleson joined Northwest Food Processors Association (NWFPA) in 2014 as the Director of Government Affairs where he is in charge of legislative advocacy in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. NWFPA is one of the nation’s largest food processing trade associations, with more than 500 member companies including 76 food processors and 348 suppliers.

Natalie Reitman-White

Senior Director

Organically Grown

Since 2005, she has worked with cross-departmental teams at OGC to integrate sustainable practices across the organization. In 2008, Fast Company Magazine called Natalie a "leading executive making the food supply cleaner, greener, and healthier". She has been on the faculty for the Institute for Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon, founded and served as the Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trade Association, and currently serves on numerous organic advisory boards.

James Curry

Director of State & Gov. Affairs

Monsanto Company

James Curry is the Director of State and Local Government Affairs in the Pacific Northwest Region for Monsanto Company. In this capacity, James manages the company’s legislative and political interests in eight states in the northwest portion of the country, based in Portland, Oregon.