Board of Directors

Edward A. Blechschmidt was Chief Executive Officer of Novelis Corp. from December 2006 until its sale to the Birla Group on May 2007. Mr. Blechschmidt was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Gentiva Health Services, Inc., a leading provider of specialty pharmaceutical and home health care services, from March 2000 to June 2002. From March 1999 to March 2000, Mr. Blechschmidt served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Olsten Corporation, the conglomerate from which ... 

Alison Davis served from 2003 t0 2010 as the Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital, a private equity firm and regulated bank holding company focused on investments in the financial services sector.  From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Davis was the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the company’s Global Management Committee of Barclays Global Investors, an institutional asset manager with $1.5 trillion of assets under management.  From 1984-2000, Ms. Davis worked as a strategy consultant and ad... 

R. Dean Hollis is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Consumer Foods and International Division of ConAgra Foods, Inc. and served in that role from December 2005 to July 2008. Mr. Hollis had management responsibility for ConAgra's consumer and customer branded businesses consisting of over 40 global brands in 110 countries. During Mr. Hollis' 21 years with ConAgra, he had a broad array of responsibilities, including Executive Vice President, Retail Products; President, F... 

Robert M. Lea served as a member of the Board of Directors of our predecessor company, Diamond Walnut Growers, from 1993 to July 2005. Since November 2004, Mr. Lea has practiced law as a solo practitioner with the Law Offices of Robert Lea, which he founded. From January 2004 to November 2004, Mr. Lea served as the Managing Partner of Lea and Shepherd, a law firm. From 1984 to December 2003, Mr. Lea was a partner of the law firm Lea & Arruti. Mr. Lea holds a B.A. from the University of Ca... 

Nigel A. Rees joined McKesson Corporation, a publicly traded healthcare services and technology company, in 2001 and he serves as its Vice President and Controller. Prior to joining McKesson Corporation, Mr. Rees was Senior Vice President of Finance from 1998 to 2001 for Adecco, SA, a global staffing and professional services company. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Director of Internal Audit for Tandem Computers, Inc., from 1993 to 1994, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for Interna... 

William L. Tos, Jr., is a third-generation Northern California family farmer and co-owner of Tos Farms, Inc., and a partner with the Tos Farming Company. Tos Farm’s harvests consist of peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, table grapes, corn, alfalfa, walnuts and almonds. Walnuts have been a focus of Tos Farms for decades and the farm operates a commercial walnut dehydrator.

Mr. Tos presently serves as an alternate member of the Walnut Marketing Board and the California Walnut Com... 

Matthew C. Wilson has been a Managing Director with Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. since November 2007 and leads the firm's principal investments in the consumer products, food and beverage and retail sectors. Mr. Wilson began his career in the Investment Banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he worked from 1997 to 1999 and later joined J.H. Whitney & Co in their middle market buyout group, where he worked from 1999 to 2001. He then went to work at H.I.G. Capital, LLC in 2003, wher...