<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/05/1382549/-Stewart-Resnick-is-on-UC-Davis-Chancellor-s-Board-of-Advisors">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/05/1382549/-Stewart-Resnick-is-on-UC-Davis-Chancellor-s-Board-of-Advisors</a></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">Billionaire Stewart Resnick Is Advisor to UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi</font></div><div><br></div><div>by Dan Bacher </div><div><br></div>A lot of things about Beverly Hills billionaire Stewart Resnick, owner of Paramount Farms, and his wife, Lynda, are well-known.<div><br></div><div>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. (<a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/04/22/well-connected-billionaire-expands-almond-acreage-as-cities-forced-to-slash-water-use">http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/04/22/well-connected-billionaire-expands-almond-acreage-as-cities-forced-to-slash-water-use</a>) </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. (<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/09/1335459/-Corporate-Agribusiness-dumps-850-000-into-Proposition-1">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/09/1335459/-Corporate-Agribusiness-dumps-850-000-into-Proposition-1</a>) </div><div><br></div><div>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. (<a href="https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/28/18762178.php">https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/28/18762178.php</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>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. (<a href="https://www.law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/resnick-program-for-food-law-and-policy/about/">https://www.law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/resnick-program-for-food-law-and-policy/about/</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>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. (<a href="http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/initiatives/board_of_advisors/resnick_bio.html">http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/initiatives/board_of_advisors/resnick_bio.html</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div>Riley P. Bechtel</div><div>Bryan Cameron</div><div>Tani Cantil-Sakauye</div><div>Nancy Cantor</div><div>Richard H. Carmona</div><div>John A. De Luca</div><div>James J. Duderstadt</div><div>M.R.C. Greenwood</div><div>Alan Leshner</div><div>Vivek Ranadivé</div><div>Stewart A. Resnick</div><div>Patrick Soon-Shiong</div><div>Kathie Sowa</div><div>William P. Sullivan</div><div>John S. Watson</div><div>Sanford I. Weill </div><div> </div><div>Resnick's biography on the UC Davis website is listed below.</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Stewart A. Resnick, president & CEO, Roll Global LLC: </i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>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.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>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.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>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.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>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. </i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><i>Last update: October 16, 2012 </i></div></body></html>