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Directory

STAFF

Amanda Laban, Office Manager/Member Services

Emma Smaldino, Business Network Coordinator

Hill Grimmett, Executive Director

Kristina Cash, Fundraising & Community Outreach

Matt Price, Webmaster & Design By Price

Michael Baute, Food & Farm Program Coordinator

Rich Gentile, Business Membership

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Susie Gordon
Senior Environmental Planner with City of Fort Collins Natural Resources Department since 1992, has managed programs designed to meet the community’s adopted goal of diverting half its waste from landfill disposal through actions that include recycling, re-use, composting, and source reduction.  Long active in state-wide organizations, Susie received the Colorado Association for Recycling 2008 Volunteer of the Year Award.

Hill Grimmett
Founder, Northern Colorado Food Incubator  (see Staff bio)

Paul Jensen
Owner, One Tribe Creative, founded The Jensen Group in 1985, which developed successful branding strategies and campaigns for notable organizations such as the U.S. Olympic Committee, Hewlett Packard, MCI, and Florsheim. With a deep desire to brand and market products and services for socially and environmentally responsible organizations, Paul reorganized as One Tribe Creative in 2001.

Robert Mann
Co-Director of Shadowcliff, an eco-friendly mountain lodge in Grand Lake, CO, calls Fort Collins home the rest of the year. Bob practiced business law in Kansas City for over twenty-five years before founding  “Sustainability Series.”

Kathe Mehlbach
Vice President in the Commercial Loan Department of Home State Bank in Fort Collins.  Kathe has over 25 years of experience in helping business with their loan and deposit needs.  She is a Colorado native and a graduate of CU Boulder.

Dawn Thilmany-McFadden
Professor, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Colorado State University. Also, Farm Foundation Fellow, Rural Community Viability. In 2006-2007, Interim Program Leader, Organics, USDA CSREES, Washington D.C. Dawn has worked and done research in areas of interest including agritourism, economic development and founded Crops to Cuisine, a farm-to-chef distribution program.