Robin oversees the Alpha Omega Collective, the umbrella brand for his Alpha Omega, Tolosa and Perinet wineries. He is the sole Managing Partner of Alpha Omega, a Napa Green-certified winery and vineyard he co-founded on the Rutherford Bench in Napa Valley in 2006, and Tolosa, a winery he co-founded in 1998 and whose entire estate vineyards in San Luis Obispo’s Edna Valley are sustainably farmed and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) Certified.

A graduate of the University of California Hastings College of the Law and Cal Poly, Robin practiced law for 40 years, including serving as general counsel for the Golden State Warriors for eight years. Robin owns and operates cattle ranches in San Luis Obispo County which are protected with Open Space Easements and last year worked with the Land Trust to protect a 4,461-acre ranch in Napa County through a Conservation Easement.

Mike is a wine business advisor and founding partner of Global Wine Partners LLC (GWP). GWP is in St. Helena and provides financial consulting, merger and acquisition advisory and valuation services to the wine industry. He began his career with Price Waterhouse in San Francisco and held positions as Partner and CPA with Motto Kryla & Fisher and CFO of Joseph Phelps Vineyards. He has lived in Napa Valley since 1978 moving to his current home on Mt. Veeder in 1984 where he, along with his wife, Wendee Walker tend to Brioso Vineyard. He is a past director of the Napa Valley Grapegrowers and past chair of the St. Helena Chamber of Commerce.

Mike holds a B.A in business from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a B.S. in fermentation science from University of California, Davis.

Mike became passionate about wine in his mid 20’s and remains so having worked in the wine business for over 40 years. He spends the winter skiing the slopes of the Sierras and other mountains in the western United States and Canada. Other times of the year, golf and fly fishing occupy much of his free time.

Les recently retired from the practice of law after over 40 years as an attorney. He was a senior partner at Wendel Rosen LLP in Oakland where he specialized ​in real estate (easement, boundary and title disputes), eminent domain and land use law. Les graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley. He received his law degree from Berkeley Law (formerly Boalt Hall) and started his law career with the legal aid society. Les joined Wendel, Rosen in 1981.

Les’ connection to Napa Valley originated through his wife, Linda Clerici, a Napa native. Frequent visits to Napa led to the purchase of a second home in 1997, and also the family home in downtown Napa where her father was born. In 2010, Les joined the Land Trust Projects Committee and then the Protection Committee and he chairs both committees.

A variety of non-profit activities also keep Les busy. He is President of the Board of the Regional Parks Foundation, the 501c3 arm of the East Bay Regional Park District and was a long-standing Board member of Rebuilding Together Oakland/East Bay. Les also mentors two college students through the Oakland Promise and reviews applications and interviews scholarship applicants for UC Berkeley through the Alumni Association.

Blakesley is a lifestyle author and marketing professional with over 30 years of experience leading communication initiatives for Fortune 100 corporations and entrepreneurial startups. She is a respected branding expert and has worked with diverse marketing teams to conceptualize and execute integrated marketing and branding campaigns.

Blakesley’s marketing career includes positions on both the client and the agency side. She has worked at public relations firms and advertising agencies, spending most of her career as a marketing executive with Bank of America, where she was a senior vice president. Blakesley was an integral part of the team responsible for creating the new Bank of America brand following the company’s merger with Nation’s Bank and was tasked with reengineering internal communications to a global workforce of 180,000.

In 2001, Blakesley left her post at BofA to pursue work in the nonprofit sector. She served as the executive director of the San Francisco 49ers Foundation and then worked with the Court of Master Sommeliers to create the Guild of Sommeliers Education Foundation and guildsomm.com an educational portal for sommeliers.

In the fall of 2016, Blakesley expanded on her passion for entertaining and life as a vintner by writing and publishing Napa Valley Entertaining, a 240-page full-color coffee table format book featuring 370 original photographs and 68 unique recipes. This exquisite book inspires readers to bring wine-country flair to their own gatherings by bringing the people of Napa to life through their food, style, and stories.

Blakesley is an avid horsewoman and adventurer. She has canoed on the Zambezi River, walked the Great Wall in China, explored the Galápagos archipelago, and ridden in the vineyards of New Zealand and South Africa. She also serves on the board of the Saint Helena Hospital Foundation. Blakesley moved to Napa Valley in 2002 when she married vintner Cyril Chappellet, CEO of Chappellet Vineyard. They live on the vineyard with their two Labradors and two Quarter Horses.

As the General Manager for Baldacci Family Vineyards since 2015, Kellie works closely with the Baldacci family to ensure outstanding stewardship of their 50+ acres in the Napa Valley.

Kellie grew up around her parents’ Napa Valley winery, Duckhorn Vineyards, working her first harvest when she was 12 years old. She went on to experience the French wine perspective firsthand in Bordeaux before earning a Bachelor of Science degree at UC Berkeley. After studying Agricultural Economics at UC Davis, Kellie joined Duckhorn Vineyards. Afterwards, Kellie was the General Manager at Ehlers Estate and Director of Sales and Marketing for Via Pacifica, an import and distribution company in Shanghai.

Viticulturist and Vintner Annie Favia-Erickson has been an advocate for holistic farming in the Napa Valley since the 1990s. She began Favia Wines in 2001 with her husband and partner Andy Erickson and ERDA TEA in 2018.

Her deep love and reverence for the natural world drives not only her work growing grapes, herbal teas, olives, vegetables, fruit and flowers, but also her passion to help the Land Trust to maintain the natural ecosystems and beauty of the Napa Valley.

Josh is the President and CEO of Eldex Corporation, a manufacturer of high precision chemical metering pumps. He also serves as Senior Portfolio Advisor at RBO & Co, an independent investment advisory firm located in St. Helena, CA. His career experience includes equity research at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York, portfolio management at TIAA-CREF in San Francisco, and independent consulting for investment management clients.

Josh holds a B.A. from the University of Missouri, Columbia with a major in Finance and Banking and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, he is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Estate and Trust Specialist.

Josh was previously a Director and Board Treasurer for Destiny Arts Center, a non-profit based in Oakland, CA with a mission to end isolation, prejudice, and violence in the lives of young people. Josh lives in Napa and enjoys reading, running, hiking, fishing, and yoga.

Jason is a tech entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of August Home, a smart home lock system that provides keyless access and digital monitoring for home delivery.

Since 2011, Johnson has been the managing partner of Founders Den, a San Francisco technology incubator that’s been home to startups such as Skipflag, Outbound.io and Kaggle. Johnson is also the founder of the Internet of Things Consortium, a business development association for the Internet of Things ecosystem.

Prior to August Home, Johnson co-founded the mobile security company AirCover as well as the ebook software startup BookShout! and was featured in the Amazon Studios documentary “This is What We Make”.

Kim is a San Francisco management consultant-turned-Napa Valley vintner where she co-founded Okapi Wines with her husband Dan Johnson in 2009.

Kim’s background specialized in marketing, strategic communications and employee engagement. She began her career in hospitality sales and marketing, ultimately leading the corporate marcom teams for two hotel companies before transitioning to consulting when she joined KPMG as a marketing director in the tech practice. From there, she held senior consulting roles, helping leaders create change and unlock the human potential inside their organizations.

Kim has served on several boards, most recently for the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Napa Valley Film Festival.

The Land Trust is in Kathy’s blood – by association. Fifty-one years ago, she married Joel, the son of Harry Tranmer, one of the Land Trust’s founders. Rarely did a family dinner go by without some discussion about Land Trust activities. For fifteen years she and her husband lived in the Tranmer Family home adjacent to the Land Trust’s Foote Preserve.

Kathy graduated from U.C. Santa Barbara and became a teacher. They have two sons and family activities revolved around the outdoors – backpacking, camping, mountain climbing, fishing and skiing.

She has previously served on the Land Trust board and for several years helped create and twice chaired “The Feast of Eden”, a major annual fundraiser. She has been an active Master Gardener for the last twenty years, including two terms as president. She also served on the Opera House board.

Kathy recently became an artist and is inspired by the constantly changing and awe inspiring beauty of the Napa Valley, and she welcomes the chance to be on the Land Trust board to further protect it.