Don is a strategic legal advisor and corporate counsel to emerging growth and middle-market Food & Beverage, Food Tech, and Ag Tech innovators and investors. His clients are based in the major U.S. food hubs, including the Bay Area, Boulder, Brooklyn, Austin and Los Angeles. His law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT), has one of the largest food & beverage practices in the United States, with over 40 attorneys serving food venture entrepreneurs, emerging brands, larger food companies, and the private equity firms that invest in them, at every level of the food chain from "Farm to Label". Don is a Founding Faculty Member and member of the Advisory Board of the Food Business School at the Culinary Institute of America (Napa Valley). He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the board of Directors of KCETLink TV, the public television station in LA, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Technion Society - San Francisco Chapter.

Rodney Clark is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Aspect Consumer Partners, a boutique M&A, strategic and corporate finance advisory firm based in San Francisco, California. Rodney is passionate about providing companies and entrepreneurs with the right advice to help them grow and succeed, and has spent the past 25 years focused on advising companies in Food & Beverage, Consumer Products, Health, Wellness & Lifestyle companies. His experience includes a wide variety of strategic and financial advisory assignments including, buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements and Rodney has completed over $68 billion in M&A and financing transactions across a number of key industries. Rodney lives with his wife and two children in Marin County, California, and in his spare time he enjoys trail running, cycling, yoga, surfing and reading.

Leo Chris Kasuya is a forward-thinking strategic problem solver who has extensive leadership experience working with C-level Executives and Board of Directors. He is recognized as a top performer and effective leader who consistently challenges the status quo.

Leo is a Director of Strategy & New Ventures at Irresistible Foods Group (IFG), parent company to King’s Hawaiian, Grillo’s Pickles, Shaka Team and Killer Brownie. Reporting to both the Chairman and President, his role is to develop and execute strategic initiatives focused on the enterprise as well as operating companies’ long-term growth and success. Leo is currently leading King’s Hawaiian’s International Expansion with focus on Japan and the UK.

Outside of work, Leo is an avid traveler and an adrenaline junkie – having visited 50+ countries and a licensed skydiver. He was born and raised in Japan until the age of 10 and currently lives in Miami, FL. He holds a B.B.A in International Business & Marketing from the University of Georgia.

Dianna Tremblay is the Chief Program and Strategic Initiatives Officer at ICA Fund. She is responsible scaling their impact through ICA’s Accelerator and Alumni support, strategic initiatives, and partnerships. With 10 years of experience in program design and implementation, small business support, and cross-functional collaboration, Dianna strives to use these skills to increase equitable access to capital, coaching, and market opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs. Dianna currently serves on the boards of Naturally Bay Area, Coro NorCal, and Progeny Coffee, an ICA Fund investment portfolio company.

Prior to joining ICA, Dianna's professional experience included sales, corporate relationship management, business development, and category management roles in e-commerce and textbook publishing. Dianna received a MBA from the Lorry I. Lokey School of Business and Public Policy at Mills College at Northeastern University and a Bachelor’s in English from California State University, East Bay.