College of Business

Dennis Donohue

Director, Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology

Christine Moseley

Founder & CEO, Full Harvest

Brandi DeCarli

Founding Partner & CEO, Farm from a Box

Nikki Cossio
CEO and Founder of Measure to Improve, LLC

Nikki Cossio, CEO and Founder of Measure to Improve, LLC, a B-Corp certified, women-owned sustainability consulting firm, is renowned for creating successful sustainability programs and fostering supply-chain collaboration in the fresh produce industry. With deep roots in a multi-generational California farming family, Nikki brings a generational understanding of sustainability to her work. Beyond her company, she has served on the Board of Directors of the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), chaired its inaugural Sustainability Council, and is a member of the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops Coordinating Council. Recently, she joined the Board of Directors for the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation, which focuses on leadership development in agriculture. Her contributions were recognized in 2019 when she was featured in the Packer 25 Profiles in Leadership for the agricultural industry.

Katie Chiapuzio
Director of Environmental Science and Resources for Braga Fresh

Katie Chiapuzio holds a degree in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy from California State Monterey Bay. While obtaining her degree she worked in habitat restoration and environmental education as well as farmers market management. Before beginning her career at Braga, she learned the ins and outs of apiculture in congruence with eco-tourism. With a strong desire to expand her skillset, she started working for Braga in 2019 to handle all ESG data aggregation, analysis and reporting to retailers and regulators for the vertically integrated company. Over the years, she’s expanded her role to encompass management of on-farm trials, grants and any additional on-farm sustainability efforts.

Wyatt Maysey
Director of Sustainability at Taylor Farms

Wyatt Maysey has been in sustainability for nearly a decade. He now serves as the Director of Sustainability at Taylor Farms, managing and implementing the company’s corporate sustainability strategy. He works on various sustainability projects, including material management, water and energy use efficiency, GHG emissions inventory, sustainable packaging, regen ag, EHS, and social accountability. He is a certified TRUE Advisor through Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) and has participated in training from SCS Global Services and Cradle to Cradle. Wyatt has helped several zero-waste programs achieve TRUE certification and implement large-scale sustainability data management systems. He firmly believes that you cannot manage what you don’t measure and that a good sustainability program is built on good data. Wyatt is a fellow Otter alum of CSUMB with a degree from the College of Business.