Jason has been an Executive Chef and Culinary Director for over 20 years, including developing renowned menus at Truc in Boston, The Carneros Inn in Napa, Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco, Ram’s Gate Winery in Sonoma and Whole Foods Market. Capitalizing on his expertise in the restaurant industry, he became a Culinary Director, building a portfolio over the past decade for a broad range of hospitality groups including the Bi-Rite Family of businesses in San Francisco, Dean & Deluca worldwide, The Tyler Florence Group, The Delfina Restaurant Group, and the groundbreaking food incubator La Cocina. Branching out from all things culinary, he has a wealth of understanding in the development and management of manufacturing, grocery, prepared foods, systems development and implementation, labor and product set optimization, team building, and financial strategy. Jason lives in Marin county with his daughter, partner and 2 dogs, and his passions include mountain biking and off road motorcycling.

Debbie Shore is the Co-Founder of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit that is ending childhood hunger in America through the No Kid Hungry campaign. Together with her brother Billy Shore, Debbie founded Share Our Strength in 1984 with a $2,000 cash advance on a credit card. Since then, Share Our Strength has raised and invested more than $600 million in the fight against hunger, and has won the support of national leaders in business, government, health and education, sports and entertainment.

As a member of the executive team, Debbie oversees the organization’s long-term planning and strategy. She is a key decision-maker on a wide range of management issues, including: finances, hiring and staff development, communications, long-term sustainability, and the measurement of Share Our Strength’s success and impact.

Debbie has led the development and launch of several key platforms such as Share Our Strength’s culinary events, which include Taste of the Nation®, No Kid Hungry dinners, Dine Out for No Kid Hungry and Chefs Cycle. Now in its 29th year, Taste of the Nation® has raised more than $95 million through hundreds of events in every major market in the country and built a national network of volunteers. In 2008, Debbie launched Dine Out for No Kid Hungry, an annual campaign that engages thousands of restaurants and millions of consumers to raise funds to end childhood hunger. Funds raised through these and other programs support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign to make sure every child in the U.S. gets the nutritious food they need, every day.

Since 2014, Debbie has led Share Our Strength’s revenue innovation lab, providing vision and overseeing efforts to create, test and launch diverse new revenue-generating platforms and activities for the organization such as Chefs Cycle, an annual cycling event for chefs and culinary professionals to raise funds and awareness for No Kid Hungry. She is also the co-creator of Add Passion and Stir: Big Chefs, Big Ideas, the weekly Share Our Strength podcast hosted by Billy Shore, launched in 2016. Each episode centers around people who are changing the world through a conversation with a guest from the culinary world and an industry thought leader.

Prior to starting Share Our Strength, Debbie was a political organizer and fundraiser for former U.S. Senator Gary Hart’s (D-Colorado) presidential campaign.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Debbie earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy from Ohio University. She has lived, studied and traveled extensively in Mexico, and has one daughter, Sofia.