Sundial

Frank Blake

Founder

Frank Blake is a seasoned executive in corporate America as well as a principal partner in a privately-held investment fund. Frank has held leadership positions in Fortune 15 companies, non-profits, universities, and start-ups. Frank attended Clemson University and served as an Army Captain in Iraq, where he was awarded the Bronze Star.

Tim West

Cofounder / Executive Director

Tim West is a Slow Food chef turned Social Entrepreneur and Food Futurist. He was recognized as one of Zagat’s 30 under 30 Food-World Up-and-Comers for his work producing Food Hackathons and has since served as a Fellow4Good at the Institute for the Future and Global Ambassador to the Future Food Institute. His areas of interest include: mountain biking, climbing, local food systems, food as medicine, and permaculture. He now lives in Bellingham, WA, Pacific Northwest where he plans to get a farm dog.

Jessica Greenwalt

Cofounder / Board

Jessica Greenwalt is a multiple award-winning designer, UX researcher, web developer, strategist, and digital artist.

She's the Creative Director of Vayner3, where she develops emerging tech strategies for the world’s biggest brands. She’s also the founder of Pixelkeet, a research and design firm that helps companies design, build, and launch products that change the world.

Jessica was named one of Inc. Magazine’s 10 Women to Watch in Tech, Tech.co’s “50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley”, Huffington Post’s “6 Women Rocking Tech for Good”, and Today’s Leading Women’s “Power 50”.

Chenoa Farnsworth

Farnsworth is the managing partner of Blue Startups, a top 20 U.S. Accelerator (Techcrunch), located in Honolulu, Hawaii. To date, Blue Startups has invested in 110 companies which have gone on to raise $500 million in venture capital. She also manages the Hawaii Angels investment network, which has invested over $60 million in over 100 startup companies. In 2010 she founded Hi Impact, a Hawaii-based impact investment organization which led to the establishment of the Impact HUB Honolulu in 2012, a co-working space dedicated to social entrepreneurs. In 2006, she co-founded Kolohala Ventures, a Hawai‘i-based venture capital firm that invested $50 million into Hawai‘i-based technology start-ups. Prior to that she provided strategy development and business planning consultation for start-up companies and high-growth businesses through her company Farnsworth Consulting. Farnsworth has served the community as chair of the Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i, director of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii, director of the Impact HUB Honolulu, and judge for the University of Hawai‘i business plan competition. Farnsworth earned a BA in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an executive MBA from the University of Hawai‘i.

Jay Onda

Cofounder / Operations

Jay Onda is an award-winning innovation thought leader bringing over 11 years of corporate venture and innovation experience combined with 15 years of startup experience focusing on UI/UX, products, and customer-centric value creation. He has played a pivotal role in transforming NTT Docomo’s Research Labs in Palo Alto into an open-innovation platform and was one of the founding members of Yamaha Motor Ventures. He serves as an active mentor and advisor to accelerators worldwide and believes in empowering purpose-driven founders and together create a better world for our future generations.

Paola de Almeida

Paola is an innovation and transformation officer with more than 20 years of experience leading strategy, innovation, and business transformation in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and consulting industries, now focused on value creation, mutual sustainable solutions and the frontiers and resilience of human systems. She was for the last 4 years the Chief Innovation Officer for Mars, Inc and is well recognized for her fluent ability to bring the outside in, articulating the next generation of needs and tactical solutions. She is also a highly experienced systems thinker, known as a skilled network orchestrator, managing multi-stakeholders in public and private networks, deploying multi-disciplinary change in large-scale programs and external partnerships, including the United Nations (Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme and World Health Organization), World Bank and African Union. Her current focus is in helping broad acceleration and scale up of Sustainable Development Goals solutions across multiple sectors and stakeholders.