Our Board

Red Tomato is guided by a Board of Trustees, made up of:

Bernadette Orr, President of the Red Tomato board, was Gulf Coast Emergency Program Manager at Oxfam America until June 2008. With over 15 years experience in domestic and international development assistance, Bernadette has worked closely with a range of agricultural groups in the U.S. and Latin America on projects designed to enhance their income, increase access to markets, and change agricultural policy to support limited resource farmers. Bernadette was intimately involved in the production of a major research report by the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center: Rethinking U.S. Agricultural Policy: Changing Course to Secure Farmer Livelihoods Worldwide. Prior to her work with Oxfam America, Bernadette worked as an independent consultant on Latin American and women's issues, and served as a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Lynn Colangione was Red Tomato's Director of Development, a member of the management team, and was on RT's staff from 2000 to 2005. Lynn has a MS in Agriculture, Food & the Environment from the Tufts University School of Nutrition. Before RT, Lynn was a commodities trader, buying and selling food worldwide. Lynn's experience ranges from purchasing, sales and negotiating deals on a wide variety of food products, to managing transportation logistics.

Poppy Davis has fifteen years of experience addressing tax and accounting needs for not for profits, small businesses, and individuals, with an emphasis on agricultural enterprises. She administers crop insurance and risk management outreach and education programs for the USDA - Risk Management Agency in Washington DC. Her non-profit board experience includes Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Center for Land Based Learning, and The Carrot Project. She holds a Degree in Agricultural and Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis and is currently studying Journalism and Corporate Communications at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Mike Guptill is the longtime Sales and Marketing Manager for Gold Bell Arrow Farms, a wholesale produce company, produce grower and repacker, located in the Chelsea Terminal Food Market outside Boston, Massachusetts. Mike lives on a farm in southern Maine which has been in his family for over 200 years. Mike runs the farm and also runs the Hackmatack Playhouse Theater out of one of his barns during the summer months. Mike has an MBA from Suffolk University and is a former adjunct faculty in Economics and Marketing at UNH.

Barney Hodges is President of Sunrise Orchard, Cornwall, Vermont, which he owns and manages with his wife Christiana and father Barney Hodges, Sr. Three generations of Hodges live and work on the farm. Barney has a B.S. in Geology from Middlebury College. After working in the international minerals industry and a stint as a competitive ski-racer, he returned to Sunrise, where he has spent the last decade-plus helping to turn it into a sustainable operation by integrating storage, handling, marketing, and distribution. Barney has been part of Red Tomato's Eco Apple^TM program since it began in 2003.

Betty MacKenzie is Red Tomato's Co-Director. Betty was the grocery buyer, education director, and marketing director at Harvest Cooperatives in Boston, Mass. for many years before joining Red Tomato. (See RT Team for full bio.)

Michael Rozyne is Red Tomato's founder and Co-Director, and is a non-voting, ex-officio member of the board of trustees. Before starting Red Tomato, Rozyne co-founded Equal Exchange in 1985, a fair trade cooperative business, and was the head buyer and marketing manager for Northeast Cooperatives in Brattleboro, Vermont, a consumer-owned natural foods wholesaler. (See RT Team for full bio.)

Tim Huggins, a member of the Red Tomato trade team, is from Clarksdale, Mississippi, known to many as simply "the Delta." He was born and reared inside of the produce industry as his family has owned wholesale and retail produce businesses for a few generations. (See RT Team for full bio.)