James Gore Email & Phone Number

The Board of Supervisors is the executive and legislative governing body for the vast majority of Sonoma County's 1 million acres and 500,000 residents. The County deploys $1.5 billion in County, State, and Federal resources through 26 Departments to enable vibrant communities, healthy ecosystems, and a innovative economies in this region that sits at the.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Manages agency-wide strategies for 11,000 employees across a $5 billion budget
• Oversees external affairs portfolio, including partnership development, strategic public affairs, and program outreach.
• Leads resource management, conservation and sustainability initiatives through nonpartisan, reality-driven solutions to challenges at the local, regional and national level.
• Directs USDA-wide priority efforts to provide assistance to persistent poverty areas around the country
• Strategic leader on climate change mitigation, environmental market development, and regulatory certainty
• Spokesperson on agency agendas before White House, media, and partner organizations (public and private)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Elected Mid-Atlantic Representative to the Board in 2009 to a three year term to help guide the National organization's efforts to represent the 200,000 returned peace corps volunteers around the nation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Head of office with direct management of 30 employees and coordination of 70 officers serving within the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture
• Led stakeholder management and executive correspondence with The White House, Members of Congress, Trade Associations, Issue Advocacy Groups, and State and Local leaders
• Produced significant gains in timeliness and efficiency of product delivery and customer service bymotivating through teamwork, morale building, and a merit-based reward structure
• Strengthened office through reorganization, by leading government wide assessment of Secretariat offices, and adopting identified best practices into operational structure- Offered permanent position

• Led increase in outreach and advocacy to underserved constituencies through the creation and direction of USDA’s Office of Advocacy and Outreach
• Improved employee and operational security by leading Department-wide effort to deliver training on border security and situational awareness to more than 3,000 USDA employees on the US – Mexico border
• Enhanced departmental-union relations as a point person for White House Initiative to create and deploy formal Labor Management Forums
• Coordinated departmental team on Civil Rights reform to take the recommendations of the Jackson Lewis report on Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and develop implementation strategies with individual agencies

• Led firm’s business activities in program/contract management, client relations and businessdevelopment
• Primary representative of the California Wine/Winegrape industry on international affairs and trade
• Successfully created a new company portfolio – and doubled revenue - by designing and managing anemerging markets program focused on India, Russia, Brazil, Vietnam, and Central America
• Negotiated for and attained improved market access in foreign countries as key representative for U.S.grape and wine industry, with pivotal gains made in the European Union, India, and South Korea
• Supervised staff of seven to deliver projects for clients and governmental contracts including the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the U.S. Departments ofAgriculture and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supervised the compliance and regulatory affairs between the 800 members of Wine America andthe U.S. Department of Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)
• Coordinated and presented the Trade Association’s positions on issues ranging from Intellectual Property, labeling of Nutritional and Allergenic facts on wine, Appellations of Origin, Geographic Indication.
• Negotiated Wine America’s involvement in emerging market programs in route to unifying the four largest wine and winegrape trade associations on market development initiatives

Bolivia

• Wrote, received, and managed a USAID grant in the community of Itaú, Bolivia to rehabilitate andrestructure an irrigation canal system to augment agriculture production
• Created a health and hygiene campaign with a team of Doctors, Dentists, and Volunteers to visit seven schools and 750 children to offer medical attention and medication for those in need
• Facilitated experimental agricultural plots in multiple communities with a focused effort on advanced and sustainable farming techniques

Masters Degree, Political Management

International Business, International Business

Bs, Agribusiness

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