Andrew Coven is currently Vice President of Software Engineering at the Influencer Marketing company Linqia. He was previously the Engineering Leader at Meta/Facebook responsible for the reliability of their $100B Ads Manager App; the Head of Extensibility Engineering at Box; the VP of Technical Services for Instart Logic; the Director of the Content Acquisition Engineering…
Iga Opanowicz
Iga Opanowicz joined the Monkey Tail Board of Directors in 2023, but she has been involved in various ranch operations since 2013. Iga is a Product Operations Manager at Guardant Health, a precision oncology company in Palo Alto. Before joining Guardant Health, Iga worked as an HR Manager for Tecan Genomics and NuGEN Technologies, laboratory…
Jennifer Wilson
Jennifer is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and for over 30 years has worked with children and families in outdoor education programs, as a high school science teacher, a hospice bereavement counselor and most recently as an elementary school counselor in Oakland Unified School District where she provides social emotional support to students and families,…
Reina Pasternak
Reina Pasternak, and her family, have been part of the Monkey Tail Ranch for over seven years. Reina brings a unique voice to our Board as she and her family are clients of MTR. Reina is a former broadcast journalist- having worked at multiple television stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a journalist…
Dr. Pat Grant, DVM
Pat joined the Monkey Tail Ranch Board of Directors in 2019. In the late 90’s, Dr. Grant was the only Veterinarian in her small town of Marina CA; a satisfying way to practice medicine and support the community. Since retiring from office practice, she has become involved with her local Veterans Transition Program by supporting…
Adelheid Ebenhoech
Adelheid Ebenhoech, MD, began riding at age ten. By twelve, she’d earned enough money teaching piano and cleaning houses to buy her first horse. Since that day, she’s studied horses, ridden, trained and shown to second level, and honed her dressage and horsemanship skills. Along the way, Adelheid acquired a doctorate from Michigan State University.…
Tom Wirth
Tom Wirth is Manager, Facilities Operations at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Tom’s career included Apple, Cisco Systems, and Google. Tom is a member of FEMA Urban Search & Rescue California Task Force Three and the Business Resiliency Advisory Committee of the San Mateo County Office of Emergency Services (OES). Tom is also a graduate of…
Michael Stoll
Michael Stoll has been on the board of the Monkey Tail Ranch from the beginning. Michael has also been a Founding Member of other adventures such as Social Edge and San Mateo Search and Rescue, Inc., which funds training and logistical support to Search and Rescue personnel and canine teams serving San Mateo County, a…
Elise Lalor
Elise is the Founder of Monkey Tail Ranch and is currently serving as President. Elise oversees the Service Dog, and Equine Training Program. Before founding Monkey Tail Ranch, Elise Co-Founded Good Dog! Autism Companions. In 2006 Elise joined K9 Training Concepts as sole proprietress. Prior to becoming a professional dog trainer, Elise was a Senior…
Matt Rossie
Mr. Matt Rossie, Executive Vice President Chief Operating Officer, Webcor Builders