[env-trinity] Billionaire Stewart Resnick Is Advisor to UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi

[Dan Bacher]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/05/1382549/-Stewart-Resnick-is-on-UC-Davis-Chancellor-s-Board-of-Advisors

Billionaire Stewart Resnick Is Advisor to UC Davis Chancellor Linda  
Katehi

by Dan Bacher

A lot of things about Beverly Hills billionaire Stewart Resnick, owner  
of Paramount Farms, and his wife, Lynda, are well-known.

Environmentalists have castigated the Resnicks, the largest orchard  
fruit growers in the world, and other corporate agribusiness interests  
for planting thousands of acres of new almond trees during the drought  
while Governor Jerry Brown is mandating that urban families slash  
water usage by 25 percent. (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/04/22/well-connected-billionaire-expands-almond-acreage-as-cities-forced-to-slash-water-use 
)

The media, particularly alternative outlets, have also widely  
publicized the instrumental role that Resnicks played in promoting  
campaigns to eviscerate Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for  
Central Valley Chinook salmon and Delta smelt populations and to build  
the fish-killing peripheral tunnels.

The Resnicks have become infamous as the "Koch Brothers of California  
Water" for the many thousands of dollars they contribute to candidates  
and propositions in California every year. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/09/1335459/-Corporate-Agribusiness-dumps-850-000-into-Proposition-1 
)

It is also well-documented how Resnick, while serving on the board of  
Conservation International, bought subsidized Delta water and then  
sold it back to the public for a big profit as Delta fish and Central  
Valley salmon populations crashed. (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/28/18762178.php 
)

The Resnicks' contributions to the arts and charities, as well as the  
millions donated to the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at  
UCLA, are also well publicized. (https://www.law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/resnick-program-for-food-law-and-policy/about/ 
)

However, I bet you didn't know that Stewart Resnick also serves on the  
Board of Advisors of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, made famous for  
serving as Chancellor when UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike pepper  
sprayed students during the Occupy protests in the fall of 2011. (http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/initiatives/board_of_advisors/resnick_bio.html 
)

But that's not the only position in the educational system than  
Resnick holds. According to the UC Davis website, Resnick is a member  
of the Executive Board of the UCLA Medical Sciences; member of the  
Board of Trustees of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; member of  
the Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust; and trustee of the  
California Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the  
Advisory Board of the Anderson School Management, University of  
California, Los Angeles.

Resnick and his wife have managed to use their wealth not only to  
exert enormous influence over water politics in California, but over  
the educational sphere as well. This is yet one more example of the  
growing collaboration between corporations, billionaires and  
government in California and across the nation.

Here is the list of the Chancellor's Board of Advisors, where Resnick  
serves with other corporate leaders such as Riley P. Bechtel and Vivek  
Ranadivé:

Riley P. Bechtel
Bryan Cameron
Tani Cantil-Sakauye
Nancy Cantor
Richard H. Carmona
John A. De Luca
James J. Duderstadt
M.R.C. Greenwood
Alan Leshner
Vivek Ranadivé
Stewart A. Resnick
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Kathie Sowa
William P. Sullivan
John S. Watson
Sanford I. Weill

Resnick's biography on the UC Davis website is listed below.

Stewart A. Resnick, president & CEO, Roll Global LLC:

Stewart A. Resnick is chairman and owner of Roll Global, a Los Angeles- 
based holding company that includes both global agricultural  
operations and well-known consumer-facing brands.

Among Mr. Resnick's companies are a number of Central California-based  
farming companies, including Paramount Citrus, Paramount Farming and  
Paramount Farms, the world’s largest growers, processors and marketers  
of citrus, almonds and pistachios. His holdings also include POM  
Wonderful, grower of pomegranates and maker of the all-natural POM  
Wonderful pomegranate juice; Teleflora, the largest floral wire  
service in the world; FIJI Water, the largest imported bottle water in  
the United States; Suterra, the largest biorational pest control  
company in the United States; and more recently, JUSTIN Vineyards and  
Winery, an award-winning winery based in Paso Robles focusing on  
Bordeaux-style blends and single varietals.

Mr. Resnick is a member of the Executive Board of the UCLA Medical  
Sciences; member of the Board of Trustees of Bard College, Annandale- 
on-Hudson, NY; member of the Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty  
Trust; member of the Board of Conservation International; and trustee  
of the California Institute of Technology.  He is also a member of the  
Advisory Board of the Anderson School Management, University of  
California, Los Angeles.

Mr. Resnick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business  
administration from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)  
and Juris Doctorate from UCLA Law School.

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