Our Team
Staff
Our team comes from a wide variety of backgrounds, bringing a diverse blend of expertise and experience in food business strategy and sustainability, finance, data analytics, culinary arts, research, agricultural development, and communications. Meet the people who make our work possible.
Board of Directors
Our Board is comprised of leaders in the business, technology, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors who inform the organization’s strategic initiatives, offer technical expertise, and collectively provide a holistic analysis of the challenges and opportunities for food waste reduction.
Jeff Rhodes
Board Treasurer, ReFED
Vice President Finance, Trane Technologies, Commercial HVAC Americas
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Emeritus Board Member, ReFED
Trustee, The Betsy and Jesse Fink Family Foundation
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Board Member, ReFED
Chief Operating Officer, Branded Services, Advantage Solutions
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Board Member, ReFED
Vice President, Environmental Sustainability, The Walt Disney Company
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Board Member, ReFED
Associate Vice Provost of the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center & Clinical Professor UCLA's Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Learn MorePast Board & Steering Committee Members
Nicola Dixon (B)
Director of Global Impact
General Mills
Stacey Greene-Koehnke (B)
Chief Operating Officer
MedShare
Rob Kaplan (B)
Founder and CEO
Circulate Capital
Eric Woods (B)
Corporate Officer, VP Field Operations
Sysco
Devon Klatell (SC)
Managing Director, Food Initiative
The Rockefeller Foundation
Advisory Council
ReFED’s strength has long rested in the power of the people who surround, advise, and contribute to our work. The Advisory Council is a group of thought leaders helping to provide expert input to ReFED’s priority programs and long-term strategy.
Amy Duffuor
General Partner, Azolla Ventures
Nora Goldstein
Editor/Publisher of BioCycle CONNECT ® and BioCycle.net, the Organics Recycling Authority.
Regina Anderson Harmon
Executive Director, Food Recovery Network
Clementine O’Connor
Programme Officer, Sustainable Food Systems, UNEP
Denise Osterhues
Sr. Director, Sustainability & Social Impact; President, The Kroger Co. and The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation
Rupal Patel
Executive Director, Eco Shift Collective
Dr. Brian E. Roe
Van Buren Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics,
Ohio State University
Julia Ruedig
Principal, Amazon Fresh
Andrew Shakman
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, LeanPath
ReFED's work is made possible with generous support from and in partnership with our funders.