President: Daniel C. Cox, Coffee Enterprises—Founder
Vice President: Kathryn Guare
Treasurer: Frank Dennis, Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Co.
Jerome Belinson, MD, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Tina Berard, Atlantic Specialty Coffee, Inc.
Robert Fulmer, Royal Coffee, Inc.
Lynne Gaffikin, DrPH, Evaluation and Research Technologies for Health (EARTH) Inc
Tracy Ging, Coffee Quality Institute
Kerri Goodman-Small, CoffeeTalk
Nancy Joste, MD, University of New Mexico
John Sellors, MD, PATH (retired)
Linda Smithers, Daterra Coffee
Jon Wettstein, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Daniel C. Cox
Coffee Enterprises
Grounds for Health Founder, President
Dan co-founded grounds for Health in 1996. He began his career 30 years ago in a small coffee roasting start-up company. In 1992 he founded Coffee Enterprises and later created its affiliates, Coffee Analysts, Coffee Extracts & Ingredients and Coffee Ed. He is the owner and President of these separate companies in Burlington, Vermont. Dan served as President of the Speciality Coffee Association of America, Chairman Coffee Development Group, Chairman of Coffee Quality Institute, Chairman, Board of Advisors of Coffee Kids. He was awarded “ Man of the Year” Distinguished Service Award from the SCAA in 1992, is a published author, and been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences in the US, Europe, Africa and Japan.
Kathryn Guare
Global Health Council
Grounds for Health Vice President of the Board
Kathryn is currently working as a US representative for Websedge, a London-based media company which produces the online Global Health TV channel carrying reports of key global health issues from around the world. Formerly, she was Vice President of the Member Resources Division at the Global Health Council, an international membership and advocacy organization serving professionals and organizations in the field of global health. Along with membership operations, Kathryn oversaw the Council’s annual International Conference on Global Health and its publications. Prior to her work at the Council, she was a member of the management team for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, MA, as well as the Harvard Community Health Plan HMO.
Frank Dennis
Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Co.
Grounds for Health Treasurer
Frank is President and CEO of Swiss Water Decaffeinated, and has over 20 years experience leading the development of consumer food brands in North America and internationally. Previously, Frank worked with Tetra Pak Australia, Braun Canada, and Kraft Canada in various sales and marketing roles. The majority of his career has been focused in the mainstream and specialty coffee industry driving the growth and profitability of brands such as Maxwell House, The Nabob Coffee Co., Second Cup and, for the past 10 years, as CEO of Swiss Water, a premium green coffee decaffeination process and consumer brand.
Jerome Belinson, MD
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Jerry brings internationally recognized medical expertise to the Grounds for Health Board of Directors, and has dedicated his career to advancing the screening and treatment of gynecologic cancers. He serves as Professor of Surgery with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University, and is the Ex-officio Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He received the Bruce Hubbard Stewart award for humanitarianism in medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, and is consistently listed among the “Best Doctors in America”. Jerry is the founding director of Preventive Oncology International Inc.™, a research organization that blends humanitarian work with investigative science. He has worked for more than a decade in rural China researching HPV and alternative approaches to cervical cancer control. His ground-breaking study in China, known as SPOCCS I, provided the true sensitivity and specificity of multiple screening technologies. In addition to multiple scientific contributions resulting from this study, nearly 20,000 women who participated received screening for cervical cancer, often for the only time in their lives.
Tina Berard
Atlantic Specialty Coffee, Inc.
Tina is Vice President of Atlantic Specialty Coffee, Inc., and has worked with the company since its inception in 1996. Atlantic Specialty is a San Francisco Bay Area green coffee importer, and a member of the multinational ECOM Coffee Group, with mills and exporting offices in every major coffee-producing region around the world.
Robert Fulmer
Royal Coffee Inc.
Robert founded Royal Coffee in 1978, well before specialty coffee became mainstream. Fulmer brings indespensible expertise of the coffee industry, and an unrelenting passion for Grounds for Health’s mission.
Lynne Gaffikin
Evaluation and Research Technologies for Health (EARTH) Inc
Lynne is an epidemiologist with over 25 years’ experience strengthening health interventions and programs in low-resource settings. Since the mid 1990s, she has focused on women’s reproductive health issues and various Jhpiego studies in which she played a key role, supported through the Gates-funded ACCP, helped draw attention to the value of VIA linked immediately to treatment (single visit approach) as a cost-effective approach to cervical cancer prevention . For the past decade, her work has expanded to embrace larger “ecosystem health” issues and the positive links between health, livelihoods, environmental conservation and development—in line with the multiple benefits of Grounds for Health programs.
Tracy Ging
Coffee Quality Institute
Tracy is Director of Marketing and Communications at the Coffee Quality Institute in Long Beach, California. Previously she worked in marketing and management for Artemis International, Inc., and for Da Vinci Gourmet, Ltd., where she served as Marketing Manager and Director of Marketing. Tracy has spent her career working internationally building brands in the food and beverage industries.
Kerri Goodman-Small
CoffeeTalk Magazine
Kerri is the founder of CoffeeTalk magazine and the Daily Dose. She brings a wealth of experience in marketing, communications and development within the coffee business.
Nancy Joste, MD
University of New Mexico
Nancy is currently on the faculty as a professor of pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where she is also involved in teaching medical students and medical research. Her research has focused on cervical, breast, and prostate cancer. She is director of surgical pathology at the University of New Mexico and co-director of cytopathology at TriCore Reference Laboratory in Albuquerque. Nancy co-authored the award-winning book Abnormal Pap Smears, What Every Woman Needs to Know.
John Sellors, MD
PATH (retired)
John was senior medical advisor for the Reproductive Health Strategic Program at PATH until his retirement in March 2008. At PATH, he was co-chair of the Human Subjects Protection Committee, the leader of the Screening Technologies to Advance Rapid Testing (START) project for cervical cancer prevention, and provides strategic and technical leadership for the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP) extension project and for the HPV Vaccine project. He has over 25 years of primary care medicine and extensive community-based health services and epidemiological research experience in Canada and other countries. He currently holds the appointments of visiting professor at the University of Washington and clinical professor at McMaster University.
Linda Smithers
Daterra Coffee
Linda currently is head of North American Marketing for Daterra Coffee, based in Petroccino, Brazil. She also serves on the Board of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, and was the founder of Susan’s Coffee & Tea, in Akron Ohio.
Jon Wettstein
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Jon has served as Vice President of Operations of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters since April 1993. From 1974 to 1993, he worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in a variety of operational and financial positions. Jon joined Grounds for Health in 2000 and served as President of the Board of Grounds for Health until January 2010. He is a member of the International Relations Council of the Specialty Coffee Association of America.
