LEADERSHIP
Board of Directors:
Basil Mills (HELP Founder/Chair) – Mills Family Farms (President)
Basil Mills Biography
Suzanne Du Verrier (Executive Director) – Healthy Eating Lifestyle Principles, Inc.
Anne Wheelis - (School and Community Programs Chair)
Monterey Co. Office of Education (Coordinator of Health and Prevention Programs)
Rhonda Williams (Finance Committee Chair)
Jim Bogart – Grower-Shipper Association (Executive Director)
Kay Filice - Filice Farms (Chairwomen Grower-Shipper Assn.)
Jim Nakashima – Housing Authority, County of Monterey (Executive Director)
Gina Marie Nucci – Mann Packing Company, Inc. (Director of Food Service Marketing)
Cynthia Poole (SVMHS Alternate) – Salinas Valley Memorial Health Care System
(Chief Clinical Dietician)
Beverly Ranzenberger – Salinas Valley Memorial Health Care System
(Sr. Vice President-Chief Operations Officer)
Dr. Bettye Saxon – AT&T External Affairs Office For the Central Coast
(External Affairs External Manager)
Kori Tuggle - Ocean Mist Farms (Marketing Manager)
Tricia Vincent, MPH, RD, CDE – Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
(Chief Clinical Dietitian)
Agriculture Advisory Council:
Rod Braga, Managing Partner – Braga Ranch
Jerry Eszuivel, President – Chieftain harvesting, Inc.
Butch Massa, Vice President – Comgro
Martin Orradre, CEO – Cream of the Crop
John D’Arrigo, President – D’Arrigo Bros. Co. of California
John Manfre, Member – Capurro Marketing, LLC
Gina Nucci, Director of Food Service – Mann Packing, Co., Inc.
Johnny A. Silva, General Manager – Silva Farms
Sig V. Christierson, President – Major Farms
Kay Filice, Owner – Filice Farms
Basil Mills, President – Mills Family Farms
Joe Pezzini, Vice President Operations – Ocean Mist Farms