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Kristine Marceca
President
Townsend Management, LLC
kmarceca@townsendmgmt.com

Ms. Marceca founded Townsend Management, LLC in 2004 after over 10 years working in the area of agricultural trade for the American Peanut Council and the American Forest and Paper Association. Ms. Marceca is the current Executive Director of the U.S. Apple Export Council and the International Trade Director for the California Kiwifruit Commission. Ms. Marceca is a member of the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council (USAEDC) Executive Committee and the past Chair of the Rules and Meetings committees. Ms. Marceca has experience working on trade policy issues and organized the U.S. forest products industry delegation to Seattle for the 1999 WTO Ministerial. She also has worked extensively on the resolution of various phytosanitary issues for the apple and forest products industries. Ms. Marceca has worked for an international public relations firm and a strategic research firm. She worked on Capitol Hill for over five years for various members of Congress from New York State. She studied anthropology and political science and received the Dana Fellowship allowing her to conduct anthropological research in the Caribbean.

Elizabeth Callanan
Senior Consultant
Townsend Management, LLC
ecallanan@townsendmgmt.com

Ms. Callanan retired in 2006 after nearly 34 years in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Since her retirement, Ms. Callanan has provided technical support and guidance to US agricultural industry groups interested in refining their global strategic planning processes. Virtually the whole of her career was dedicated to the implementation of the Agency