ADVISORY TEAM
Mike Gorrasi Senior Advisor
Mike has 20+ years leading multi-team professional baseball minor league organizations. Responsible for operations, finance, marketing, strategic planning, organizational development and leadership succession planning. Mike recently oversaw the management succession of a complex regional agriculture family business.
Randy Slentz Senior Advisor
Randy has thirty-five years of management and leadership experience in the food industry. He has managed businesses ranging from $15 million to $5 billion. A career journey that spans California, Hawaii, and the Caribbean across multiple organizations. Randy provides a view of organizational culture that informs his leadership and communication style. He is passionate about building teams and seting strategic priorities that enable and empower people to reach their goals.
Julio Fajardo Senior Advisor
Julio is an accomplished global leader with strong concentration leading teams in supply chain, sourcing, purchasing, efficient manufacturing, business development, and lean process implementation. As a thought leader he has been recognized in the Industry for leading transformational teams in business evolution, analytics and development. He is a talent champion and is bilingual in English and Spanish with significant experience developing multi-national and multicultural high performance teams.
Susan Donker Senior Advisor
Susan has 35 years of executive leadership in a large regional health services provider serving as Vice President of Human Resources. She has significant experience managing all aspects of human resources in a multi-site environment: policy, best practices, recruiting, compliance, employee and labor relations, governmental relations, crisis management and strategic planning.
Susan is Masters prepared in Business, with significant experience in organization development and design, leadership development, leadership team formation and management, executive facilitation, conflict resolution, and executive coaching.
Jeff Cowan Senior Advisor
Jeff is a highly respected business and community leader with 40 years of leadership, management, problem solving and collaboration. Jeff brings clients of Pacific Rim a well-seasoned Sr. Advisor with thoughtful, creative and practical experience to guide through all aspects of an organization; finance, banking, contracts, marketing, people, planning, community, compliance, and generational succession.
Gerald Shintaku
Sr. Advisor Pacific Islands
Gerald has 30 years of executive leadership and management in food, beverage, and consumer goods. Born and raised in Hawaii he has an extensive network of relationships across the islands and mainland having managed major brands as well as leadership in Hawaii not for profits and family business. Gerald translates his extensive experience into Family Business planning, business development, succession planning, and team development for small to mid-size organizations.