EARTHTONES TM - Key Persons


Bill Kuncz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • CFO, Aya Healthcare / CFO, EarthTones

Daniel Carlin

Job Titles:
  • Director of Music for Motion Pictures & Television Program, USC / Former Chair of the Recording Academy ( the GRAMMY Organization )

Dasha Velasquez

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of the Board, Earthtones / Senior Project Manager, Envisage Entertainment

Dorianne Cotter-Lockard

Job Titles:
  • President, DCL Associates, Inc

James Farmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
James Farmer President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities Trustee, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Retired Vice President, GMAC President of the Presidential Scholars Foundation in Washington, DC Board of Trustees, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts

Jeff Grossberg

Job Titles:
  • President, Guidestone Consulting / Former Founder and President, Bridge Philanthropic Advisors

Jennifer Groff

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab / Education Arcade / Co - Founder, Center for Curriculum Redesign

Jennifer Loria

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager / Techie

Jon McBride

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager
  • Executive Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Producer
  • Executive Director, EarthTones
Jon McBride is a musician, producer, business manager, and creative advocate for human growth. He brings vision and humor to the challenge of broadening perspectives and connecting people and ideas. After a fifteen-year career in Los Angeles working in film and television music production, Jon relocated to Burlington, Vermont, with his wife and daughter, where he has pursued interests in community investment models, net-zero building design, and policy surrounding shared mobility, and equity, climate justice, and de-carbonizing transport and our built environment. He was the Director of Operations & Business Development for BRIDJ, a micro-transit startup founded in 2013, providing technology for efficient and accessible transportation to both public and private partners. Following BRIDJ, Jon worked as a transportation consultant for a national firm based in the Washington, DC area. He also managed operations, strategy, and business development for BreakShuttle, the largest college break transportation company in the United States. Jon has been honored to speak at many transit conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada. He worked with the cities of Austin, Texas, and Kansas City on their Smart City Challenge bids, and he contributed to the International Transport Forum report, Shaping the Relationship Between Public Transport and Innovative Mobility, presented to the ITF-OECD Governance of Transport Summit in 2017. As a marketing consultant, he has worked with businesses and nonprofits (including EarthTones), providing strategy, content development, media creation, email marketing, and SEO support. Jon continues to be an active musician and composer, playing saxophone and leading his own band several times a month in performances at clubs and festivals across Vermont and upstate New York.

Jonathan Braniff

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board, EarthTones

Salim Ismail

Job Titles:
  • Global Ambassador & Founding Exec Director, Singularity University / Former Vice President & Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo