At Local Bounti, we strive to deliver the freshest, locally grown produce in your neighborhood. We sustainably grow fresh greens and herbs 365 days a year in our northwest greenhouses. It’s our goal to bring our farm to your kitchen.
CO-CEO
Craig Hurlbert is a seasoned entrepreneur – with a thirty-year track record of building successful businesses with strong leadership teams. Craig was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 in the Houston and Gulf Coast Area and inducted into the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame that same year. Craig most recently served as Managing Partner and Co-Founder at BrightMark Partners, a growth equity and management firm dedicated to providing capital and resources to venture, growth phase and middle market businesses Craig served as the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Houston based TAS Energy from December 2001 to April of 2020. TAS is the leading provider of high efficiency and modular cooling and energy systems for the data center, commercial, industrial and power generation markets. TAS was sold to publicly traded Comfort Systems (FIX) on April 1st of 2020. Mr. Hurlbert is also the Chairman of the Board at Clearas Water Recovery, a company utilizing patented, sustainable and proprietary technology to solve high nutrient wastewater challenges in the municipal and industrial water markets. Craig also held leadership roles at GE and North American Energy Services. He earned a BS in Finance from San Diego State University and an MBA from California State University – Long Beach.
CO-CEO
Travis is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Local Bounti. He was also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at BrightMark Partners, a growth equity and management consulting firm dedicated to providing capital and resources to venture, growth phase and middle market businesses. At BrightMark, Travis was an active Director for many portfolio companies, driving with growth plan execution, building core business infrastructure and leading many successful debt and equity transactions. Prior to his most recent positions, Travis had a career in management consulting and market research, consulting to a broad range of companies, from Fortune 500 to start-ups. His areas of expertise include quantitative analysis, corporate and legal strategy, risk management, technology development, market analysis, organizational design structure, market strategy, branding and capital campaigns Travis earned a Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, where his graduate focus was market research and statistics. Travis also studied at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Certificate of Finance. Travis received his J.D. from the University of Montana, earning a Certificate in Mediation and serving as the Managing Editor of the Montana Law Review. He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, graduating with Distinction.
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Dave Vosburg has spent his life founding, growing and scaling technology businesses that create social value. He joins Local Bounti with two decades of international financial, business development and technology experience. Prior to Local Bounti, Dave served as the CFO of Sensei Ag, a market changing AgTech venture founded by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and physician and scientist Dr. David Agus. Dave was previously Head of Business Development and Chief Financial Officer of Crop One Holdings, Inc., a vertical farming company. As CFO, Dave created a $50MM joint venture with Emirates Flight Catering to construct one of the world’s largest vertical farms. He also secured $134MM in the first Take-and-Pay contracts in the vertical farming industry and co-founded Conception Nurseries, a technology licensee to expand Crop One into new verticals. In his early career, Dave founded and grew Ed-Tech and Fin-Tech companies in Zambia working in C-suite roles. Dave earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
An entrepreneurial executive, Kathleen brings a 30 year record of driving profitable growth in public and privately held companies from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, within the biotech, retail, telecommunications, real estate and healthcare markets.
Most recently, Kathleen served as CFO and CBO of Amyris, Inc., a publicly traded biotech and commercial stage manufacturing company with global operations. She closely partnered with the CEO to expand product offerings in B2B and consumer markets. Kathleen raised over $1B in debt and equity financing while simultaneously reducing debt and attracting institutional investors. As CBO, Kathleen led the strategic market entry into the pharmaceutical industry. During her tenure Amyris’ market cap grew from $300M to $5B.
Prior to Amyris, Kathleen provided strategic and financial consulting services through Lenox Group, Inc., the company she founded in 1996. Clients included Fortune 500 companies such as Albertsons, CVS, Gap, Kaiser Permanente and Softbank, as well as smaller clients preparing for IPOs. She was typically engaged for critical roles on multi-year assignments including M&A transactions, debt and equity financings, IPOs and spin-offs.
Kathleen earned a Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
