Meghan Macaluso, Founder and CEO of M Ventures Consulting, is a seasoned fundraising expert with over two decades of experience helping people and organizations raise millions of dollars to fuel positive change. Meghan specializes in leading complex fundraising programs and teams to growth, combining a strategic and data-driven approach with effective execution in dynamic and high-pressure environments. Originally from Colorado, … Read More

Brian was born in Carmel and grew up in the Carmel Valley where he attended the original Carmelo School, a two-room school house with 56 students in 8 grades. Brian graduated from Carmel High School in 1960 and Chico State College in 1964 with a degree in Business Administration. For the next 47 years Brian ran a successful business as … Read More

Cameron Leonard has devoted her career to bettering the world through nonprofit education. Currently, she is a partner at The Wildflower Foundation which helps Montessori teachers open their own schools, aiming to give all children and families the opportunity to choose high quality, beautiful learning environments. Prior to Wildflower, she was at Teach for America, heading up the Talent Acquisition … Read More

Todd is currently a managing director at Union Square Advisors and has spent the past fifteen years in a variety of roles in the legal and finance fields focused on technology firms. After moving to the peninsula in the late 1990s he graduated from high school locally before attending the University of California San Diego for his undergraduate degree in … Read More

Emily Reistetter is a local Holistic Health and Wellness practitioner and educator. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and worked as a researcher in the fields of marine microbiology and climate change for nearly a decade. Emily became fascinated with the recent research in nutrition and completed a Masters degree in Holistic Nutrition in June 2023. Through her studies, … Read More