CHRIS COSTANZO
Founder and Editor
chris.costanzo@foodbanknews.org
Chris Costanzo spent decades as a magazine and newspaper editor, reporter and freelance writer, and more recently began volunteering at her local food pantry and hunger-relief agency. All of these interests came together in the launch of Food Bank News in 2019. Chris lives in New Jersey with her family, and is a graduate of Cornell University.
TIM MURPHY
Publisher
tim.murphy@foodbanknews.org
Tim has spent more than 30 years in the publishing business, managing the business efforts of over 15 business-to-business brands. He has made a career of shaping great reader and advertiser experiences that encourage engagement, and working closely with sponsors and advertisers to ensure they are able to meet their marketing goals. With a background in marketing, sales, technology and software, Tim is adept at creating new strategic partnerships and business models that focus on evolving customer needs.
Editorial Advisory Board
JULIE BUTNER
President and CEO
Tarrant Area Food Bank
FRED GLASS
President and CEO
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana
BRIAN GREENE
President and CEO
Houston Food Bank
ERIC HODEL
Chief Executive Officer
Midwest Food Bank
SOPHIA LENARZ-COY
Executive Director
The Food Group
THOMAS MANTZ
President and CEO
Feeding Tampa Bay
KATIE MARTIN, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
More Than Food Consulting, LLC
RADHA MUTHIAH
President and CEO
Capital Area Food Bank
ERICA PADILLA-CHAVEZ
Chief Executive Officer
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County
THOMAS REYNOLDS
Chief Executive Officer
Northwest Harvest
GREG SILVERMAN
CEO and Executive Director, West Side Campaign Against Hunger
Founder, The Roundtable
Co-Founder, The Alliance For A Hunger-Free New York
KYLE WAIDE
President and CEO
Atlanta Community Food Bank
KRISTEN WILD
President and CEO
Operation Food Search
JULIE YURKO
President and CEO
Northern Illinois Food Bank
Board of Directors
PATRICK O’NEILL, CHAIR
Founder and CEO
Amp Your Good
After graduating from West Point and serving on active duty in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Patrick began a private-sector career focusing on real estate, energy, technology and social enterprise. He has founded, co-founded and led several companies and has served on the board of directors of for-profit, not-for-profit, public and private companies. His mission-driven work began in his local church while growing up, continued at West Point, in the US Army, through his support of various non-profit organizations during his career and through youth sports coaching and mentoring. Amp Your Good combines Pat’s passion for disruptive technology, health and making a difference in the lives of others. He is married and has four children — two boys and twin girls. He enjoys skiing, science fiction, youth sports and cooking.
MARK BUETTNER
Partner
Hackler Buettner LLC
Mark is a Partner at Hackler Buettner LLC, a strategy consulting firm that partners with mission-driven organizations. Before launching this business, Mark worked at Feeding America for nearly a decade, most recently as Senior Director of Capacity Building Strategy & Growth. His past experience also includes consulting for financial services institutions and serving in a variety of roles across the non-profit sector through post-graduate fellowships awarded by Princeton University, where he earned an A.B. in Philosophy. Mark lives in Chicago with his wife and their two boys under five. He enjoys tennis, songwriting and putting his own spin on classic cocktails for friends.
KATHERINE S. CAHILL
Trustee and Treasurer, Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity (MEND)
Manager, OLS Food Pantry (2013-2020)
Kate focuses a majority of her time on hunger-relief initiatives at the state and local levels, capping a career in financial services. In addition to her work at the MEND hunger-relief agency, she serves on the Board of Directors of The Oratorio Society of New York and on the Board of Trustees for Willamette University in Salem, Ore. She earned a BS degree in finance, cum laude, from Boston College.
PAT CURTIN
Founder and CEO
Point Sur Consulting
Pat founded Point Sur Consulting in summer 2020 to follow his passion of connecting emergency food ecosystems with cutting-edge technology. His work in emergency food began at the Food Bank for New York City in 2008, where he spent eight years developing award-winning programs for emergency food providers. In 2016, Pat joined the Chicago-based start-up NowPow to continue his work designing technology implementations at community-based organizations.
TARA GEORGE
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Media
Montclair State University
Professor George is Head of Journalism and Television/Digital Media at Montclair State University. Educated at Cambridge University in England and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, Professor George has worked as a reporter in Singapore, London, New York and New Jersey. Her work has appeared in The New York Daily News, where she was a staff writer, as well as in The New York Times, New Jersey Monthly magazine, MediaShift and on NJTV.
KATHY KRAIS
Marketing Head
Re-Solved
Kathy is a marketing and communications professional who has spent nearly two decades working with and for mission-focused organizations. She has held leadership positions in shared value corporations such as MicroEdge, whose solutions empower corporations, foundations, government agencies and philanthropic advisors to organize, simplify and measure charitable giving, and Blackbaud, the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good. Kathy is an active volunteer at a local food pantry and has served as board member and development chair for several community-based nonprofits.