Meg Arnold
CEO
meg@sarta.org
530 867 1921 (mobile)
916 231 0770 (office)
Meg Arnold became CEO of SARTA in November 2009, after being closely involved as a SARTA Board member since late 2005. Prior to joining SARTA, Meg was with UC Davis for six years, supporting technology commercialization and entrepreneurship on the campus, with both UC Davis InnovationAccess and UC Davis CONNECT, where she developed programs to support campus-originated start-up companies, and participated in technology transfer licensing to new start-ups.
After leaving UC Davis in 2008, Meg consulted to Drexel University as Director, Community Partnerships, and to Valley Vision, as Senior Project Manager for the Green Capital Alliance. In addition to SARTA, Meg has served on the Board of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy (SEA), the Steering Committee of the Green Capital Alliance, and the High Tech Direct advisory committee.
Before coming to the Sacramento region in 2001, Meg spent ten years in the telecommunications industry, working primarily in strategic planning and business development for AT&T Canada, in Toronto, and British Telecom (BT), in London. In these roles, her work focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategic and joint ventures, as well as developing and expanding new business units. She was also involved with the then-largest telecom acquisition in Canada, and the corporate restructuring and spin-off program of BT in 2001-02.
Meg has an MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco, and a BA in English from Cornell University. She lives in Davis with her son and daughter, and would sail competitively on San Francisco Bay if it were closer.
Laura Good
Director of Programs and Operations
lauragood@sarta.org
916 231 0770 (office)
Laura Good is Program Director for MedStart, SARTA's Membership Director and also responsible for SARTA’s operations management. She serves as a mentor in social media for the VentureStart program. Laura joined SARTA in September of 2008 as the founding program director for MedStart. Prior to joining SARTA, Laura was the Director of Manufacturing for an emerging technology startup in Orlando where her contributions were instrumental in helping the company grow to revenues of $20M annually and achieve a very successful liquidity event. Laura has a BSC in Finance from Santa Clara University. She has executive management experience in a variety of functional areas, including finance, operations, manufacturing, technical sales & channel management, and product management.
In addition to her responsibilities at SARTA, Laura participates in many Sacramento community organizations. She is on the TEDx Sacramento leadership team where she assists with speaker selection. She is the curator of the Sacramento StartupDigest and also a curator for the Startup Genome Project. Laura is past president and a member of the executive team for Social Media Club Sacramento, an all volunteer organization focused on expanding social media literacy and defining best practices. An avid social media enthusiast, Laura is better known in the Sacramento region by her Twitter handle, @goodlaura. She is also a volunteer member of the United Way California Capital Region’s marketing committee. Laura is a California native and grew up in the Redwood forests of Santa Cruz County. She's a dog lover which means she drives a Subaru.
Ingrid Rosten
Director CleanStart
ingrid@cleanstart.org
916 231 0770 (office)
Ingrid Rosten is a consultant to SARTA providing management of the CleanStart program and the Venture Lab, SARTA's business incubator. Ingrid pioneered the development of CleanStart in 2006, supporting the 9 county regions' clean tech cluster through the PowerUP! Business Plan Competition and later the CleanStart Showcase, the region's largest annual clean tech event. Ingrid is also Principal of Rosten Consulting and a senior consultant with Innovative Partners Incubation, both focusing on business incubation (an economic development tool) and entrepreneurial program feasibility, planning, development, training and management both nationally and internationally. Ingrid consults to agencies such as USAID and World Bank as well as various governments interested in entrepreneurial development.
Prior to SARTA, Ingrid pioneered and was Managing Director of the International Business Incubator (IBI) in San Jose, CA, a successful business incubator hosting as many as 40 international technology companies at a time. Ingrid also managed the State Department's Center for International Visitors. Ingrid has been involved in developing Incubators, trainings and programs for many countries i.e., Scotland, India, Singapore, South Africa, Chile, El Salvador, Japan, UAE and many more. Ingrid is a cross-cultural specialist and spent 3 years developing and managing programs for Hewlett Packard, David Packard being main supporter and host. Ingrid speaks Spanish and French and spent 6 years in England, France and Spain for her formal education. Ingrid was born in San Francisco.
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Donna Chabrier
Business Development
donna@sarta.org
916 749 3481 (office)
916 770 0210 (mobile)
Donna Chabrier is Business Development Director at SARTA and responsible for establishing partnerships with Sacramento’s community of technology companies, service providers, and organizations that support SARTA’s mission to accelerate technology ventures throughout the region. Her efforts provide sponsorship recognition at the organization’s many events, outreach programs and initiatives. She has spearheaded the annual Partner Appreciation Reception, creation of SARTA’s Technology Flagships and numerous public relations efforts including the annual Regional Technology Updates that run within the Sacramento Business Journal. Donna has recently initiated a Women Technology Leaders group as a forum to address the unique challenges of this formidable faction.
Prior to joining SARTA, she created a virtual marketing agency called Outside In which continues to provide brand identity and communications services to local technology companies. She served as the Director of Brand Strategy for Augustine & Associates and Merlot Marketing. In the Bay Area, she was the founder and Principal Strategic Officer of Reactor Marketing, a top-25 Silicon Valley advertising agency working with Fortune 500 technology companies such as Sun Microsystems, Brocade Communications, Veritas Software, Nextel and countless start-ups.
With two sons in college, Donna enjoys hiking with her husband and Australian Shepard. What started out as a dare has become a passion for long distance running and she has participated in more than a dozen half marathons.
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Alina Lujan
Office Manager
alina@sarta.org
916 231 0770
Alina Lujan is SARTA’s office manager and the staff member with the most seniority—having started in 2006 as the first paid employee of what was then the McClellan Technology Incubator. Alina maintains and oversees the day to day functions of the SARTA office including sponsor and member support, event logistics, invoicing, purchasing and more. She has a hand in every SARTA program and activity. In addition to her work at SARTA she volunteers with the Rancho Cordova Chamber of Commerce helping on committees with event planning.
As a Sacramento native, Alina enjoys taking advantage of the family life the region has to offer. Whether it’s biking along the river path with her toddler in tow, attending a summer concert in the park, or carving Halloween jack-o-lanterns after a visit to a pumpkin patch in Apple Hill, Alina and her family know how to make treasured memories in the Capital City.
Courtney Guetschow
Marketing Communications
and Program Support
courtney@sarta.org
916 231 0770
Courtney came to SARTA first as a Volunteer in the spring of 2012. She and SARTA liked the relationship so much, that she came on full time in the fall. Courtney is responsible for the Marketing and Communications for SARTA as well as program support. She coordinates all email campaigns, including the Newsletters, Events Digests and all event mailings. Courtney also provides event, membership and MedStart program support.
Courtney is a long time resident of the Sacramento region, having grown up in the Folsom area. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a degree in Political Science. Her background is in project management, public relations, government, finance...you name it, she's dabbled in it. After having lived in Austin, Los Angeles and the Bay Area, Courtney is happy to call the Sacramento area her home again. An avid tennis player, you're sure to find her on the courts either after work or on weekends playing in local leagues.