Karla Chambers co-founded Stahlbush Island Farms in Corvallis with her husband Bill in 1985. Today it is a nationally distributed, vertically integrated farming and food processing company that uses sustainable farming practices to produce more than 100 products for retail, industrial, food service, and home use throughout the United States. It has received both local and national recognition for the last four decades for its commitment to sustainability, safety, and agricultural innovation. While founders of Stahlbush, the Chambers are fourth-generation family businesspeople, with more than 135 years in Oregon agriculture.

Ms. Chambers was appointed as the first woman Chair of the Oregon State Board of Agriculture in 1996. She was recognized by Food & Wine Magazine as one of the top 25 Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink in 2014. In 2018, she was named a Woman of Influence by the Portland Business Journal. Karla served for 20 years on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Portland and San Francisco, and one of her paintings, “Nest Egg,” hung in Janet Yellen’s office in Washington D.C. She has also served as Chair of the Board of the Ford Family Foundation, Oregon’s largest family foundation, and recently served on Oregon’s Board of Forestry and the Governor’s Wildfire Council.

Ms. Chambers holds a B.S. in Agriculture and Resource Economics and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Agriculture and Resource Economics, Business Administration, and Political Science from Oregon State University. Today she serves on OSU’s Board of Trustees.

Toby A. Luther serves as President and CEO of Lone Rock Resources and is the first non- family CEO in the company’s history. Since becoming CEO, he has led the transformation of the company from a traditional timber enterprise into a diversified natural resources and real assets investment company while preserving an award-winning culture.

His leadership has included acquisitions and governance across timberland, restaurants, wine, agriculture, energy and commercial real estate. He has served as Chairman or Director of multiple corporate boards including Abby’s Pizza, Casparian Holdings, Aduro Resources, Sasser Family Holdings and others.

Beyond business, Toby serves as Chair of The Ford Family Foundation and was appointed by Governor Tina Kotek to both the Oregon State University Board of Trustees and the Oregon Prosperity Council.

In 2022 he received the Roseburg Area Chamber of Commerce First Citizen Award recognizing his business leadership and extraordinary community service.

Joth Ricci is an innovative leader with a proven track record of driving growth and creating long-term value. Over his 33-year career, he has led several iconic consumer brands, serving as CEO of Dutch Bros, Adelsheim Vineyards, Stumptown Coffee, and Jones Soda Co. His expertise spans business strategy, brand development, and scaling organizations for long-term success.

Joth is the owner of Winderlea Vineyard & Winery, bringing his leadership and brand-building experience into the premium wine and hospitality space.

Beyond executive leadership, Joth is deeply committed to community impact and advancing equity. He serves as Chairman of the Children’s Institute, is past Chairman of the Oregon Business Council, co-founded TASTE for Equity, and served on the State of Oregon’s Racial Justice Council. He is the CEO of LYBL and author of The System and works with individual leaders and organizations to build capacity, strengthen culture, and navigate complex organizational dynamics.

Currently, Joth serves as Executive Chair at Burgerville and as an Executive-in-Residence at Oregon State University’s College of Business. He is an active board member for A-dec, Upward Projects, The Oregon Fruit Company, Bamboo Sushi, and Great Frontier Holdings.

Warren is president of Calbag Metals, a third generation nonferrous metal recycler based in Portland, Oregon. Started 115 years ago by Warren's grandfather, Calbag has facilities in Oregon, Washington, Ohio, Alabama, and North Carolina. Warren is co-founder of Shredding Systems Inc and Transformer Technologies.

Besides leading Calbag, Warren has served as a trade advisor to the Department of Commerce, a member of the Portland Planning Commission, and served for a decade on the Oregon Investment Council, the asset manager for the state's $98 billion public employees pension fund. 

Warren and his wife Sheryl have two kids that live and work in Manhattan.

John co-founded Portland-based Endeavour Capital in 1991. He has worked with companies in the Consumer, Industrials, and Technology & Business Services industries. John currently sits on the boards of Berkeley Research Group, Impact Fulfillment Services, Willamette Valley Company, and Portland Bolt & Manufacturing Company.

Before co-founding Endeavour, John was one of five General Partners at GTCR, one of the oldest and largest private equity firms in the nation. John also worked as a manager in the public sector becoming Undersecretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts. He also spent two years in manufacturing with Caterpillar Tractor in Aurora, Illinois.

John received an A.B. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to his roles on Endeavour boards, John currently serves on the non-profit board Sustainable Northwest. His previous board roles included The Nature Conservancy, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Classic Wines Auction, and the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. John is married with four children and lives with his wife in Fort Klamath, Oregon, where they have a cattle ranch.

Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, runs an advisory business and is a best-selling author. She co-founded FullSky Partners, which advises double-bottom line ventures mostly in healthcare, med-tech and technology. Some of those ventures are on the forefront of developments in addressing cancer. She also helps run Kristof Farms, a young vineyard and cider apple orchard in Oregon.

Along with her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof, she has written a series of best-selling books together as well as appeared in television documentaries of those books. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, explores the great challenges and opportunities for America’s working class. Another bestseller, Half the Sky, called “electrifying” by The Washington Post, draws a compelling picture of the trials and triumphs of women struggling worldwide for opportunity. A Path Appears explores the importance of early childhood education, outcomes-based research and how individuals can make a difference.

Previously, WuDunn was a vice president in the investment management division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. She also is one of a small handful of people who have worked at The New York Times both as an executive – in circulation and strategic planning -- and journalist.

She is on Harvard’s Board of Overseers, as well the board of BayFirst Financial Corp, The Oregon Public Broadcasting, and the Malcolm Wiener Center of Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a former member of the Board of Trustees at Princeton and Cornell University.

Zusman has been editor at Willamette Week for more than 40 years and is its co-owner. A graduate of Hobart College, he also earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. He has lectured at UO and at the Medill School of Journalism, and served many years as president of the University of Oregon’s Journalism Advancement Council.

Zusman is former president of two national journalism organizations and is also winner of the Bruce Baer Award and the national Gerald Loeb Award for Business Journalism. In 2013, Zusman was inducted into the University of Oregon School of Communications and Journalism’s Hall of Achievement.