WHO WE ARE

AltaSea Leadership

Founding Executive Director

Jenny Cornuelle Krusoe
Chief Executive Officer and AltaSea Board Trustee

Timothy B. McOsker
Founding Executive Director

Jenny Cornuelle Krusoe

Jenny Cornuelle Krusoe is the founding executive director of AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. A California native, raised on the shores of San Francisco Bay and now based in San Pedro, Krusoe has a national reputation as a nonprofit executive with expertise in public private partnerships and financially sustainable strategic planning. She has been a member of AltaSea’s leadership team since the innovative ocean sustainability and marine science campus was first conceived. Skilled at stabilizing and restoring financial viability to a wide array of NGOs, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the ocean through foundation, corporate and government grants for environmental and ocean-focused institutions, arts organizations, charter schools, and human-service agencies. For the past 10 years, Krusoe has focused her work on developing a global network to support the future ocean-based economy, mariculture and blue technology. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has served on numerous advisory groups, including USC Sea Grant, The Blue Action Lab, Alliance for SoCal Innovation, and the Pacific Aquaculture Center of Excellence.  Krusoe is this year’s recipient of the City of STEM Icon Award for her work in developing pathways to well-paying careers in the blue economy.

Krusoe is the recipient of the Spirit of Los Angeles Award, one of the city’s highest mayoral honors. She is a graduate of Harvard University and completed a fellowship in nonprofit management at the Stanford University School of Business.

Chief Executive Officer and AltaSea Board Trustee

Timothy B. McOsker

Timothy B. McOsker is a lifelong San Pedro resident and an attorney with more than three decades of experience in government, regulatory, and land development matters. Tim has had a long history of serving the City of Los Angeles and the State of California in numerous leadership roles, including as Chief of Staff and Chief Deputy City Attorney for former Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn. Before serving in the City of Los Angeles, Tim served as city attorney to various Southern California jurisdictions.

Tim now serves as CEO of AltaSea, a public-private institute at the Port of Los Angeles that accelerates scientific collaboration, advances an emerging blue economy through business innovation and job creation, and inspires the next generation, all for a more sustainable, just, and equitable world. Prior to this leadership appointment in February 2018, Tim represented AltaSea in critical legal matters, including the lease renegotiation with the Port of Los Angeles. His deep experience in land development, environmental issues, permitting, municipal law, and contracts are crucial as AltaSea embarks on an ambitious next stage of expansion and development of its 35-acre campus.

Tim is currently serving on the boards of the USC Center for Sustainability Solutions Regional Advisory Board, Linc Housing (an affordable housing entity serving vulnerable communities), the Bridge Cities Alliance/PRIDE on the Port, and the Community Ministry Board of the Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers (South Bay). He is the current President of the Historic Waterfront Business Improvement District and is the immediate past President of the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and UCLA School of Law.

AltaSea Team

Manager of Advancement

Robin Aube
Senior Manager of Communications

Natasha Berendzen
Leasing Counsel

Daniel Brumer
Meredith Brooks
Strategic Grants and Special Projects Manager (Consultant)

Meredith Brooks
Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Fund Development

Karl I. Muller

Manager of Advancement

Robin Aube

Robin Aube is the Manager of Advancement at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She grew up in San Pedro and has been a member of the innovative ocean and marine science campus for two years managing the UrgentSEA annual campaign and educational programming. She is also responsible for planning and implementing special events at AltaSea, such as, Quarterly Open Houses.  Robin has played a key role in the capital campaign and with donor prospects. She is a graduate of CSUDH holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical Science with an emphasis in Nuclear Medicine and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

Senior Manager of Communications

Natasha Berendzen

Natasha Berendzen is senior manager of communications at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. Prior to joining AltaSea, she was development manager at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California and a prospect manager at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, playing an integral role in capital campaign efforts. She was also part of a mother-daughter team that created the nonprofit networking groups Women of Los Angeles, Women of Orange County and Women of Pasadena. Natasha received her M.B.A. from California State University, Long Beach and a B.A. with honors in anthropology from Boston University.

Leasing Counsel

Daniel Brumer

Daniel Brumer is a partner at Brumer Law Group where he represents public and private companies, real estate developers, equity investors and lenders in a variety of transactions involving acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, development, joint ventures, land title, and debt and equity financings. He regularly advises clients on local government and public affairs, providing strategic counsel on complex political, regulatory, land use, and other matters involving state and local government in California.

Daniel was previously a senior advisor to Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian, responsible for all land use and economic development matters, and a planning and land use deputy to former Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge. He started his legal career as an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, the oldest law firm in Los Angeles, where he represented public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and other corporate transactions.

Daniel received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2007, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a James Kent Scholar for high academic honors, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Maryland in 2002, where he was named to the Distinguished Dean’s List and a member of the University’s Burns Academy of Leadership. He is also a past founding Director and Corporate Secretary of Crown Preparatory Academy, a Los Angeles Unified School District public charter school, and a licensed California real estate broker.

Meredith Brooks

Strategic Grants and Special Projects Manager (Consultant)

Meredith Brooks

Meredith Brooks is the Strategic Grants and Special Projects Manager (Consultant) at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles. She is developing the AltaSea Marine Grants program to expand the portfolio of government grants, with a focus on STEM education, aquaculture and growing the Blue Economy in Los Angeles.

Originally from Rancho Palos Verdes, Meredith now splits her time between the Olympic Peninsula, RPV, and Hawai’i, where she has spent the last decade helping manage one of the USDA Regional Aquaculture Centers. She has fifteen years of management and communication experience in the fields of sustainable aquaculture R&D and conservation, and has authored two K-12 STEM curriculums for Hawai’i schools. Meredith graduated from the University of Southern California with Bachelors Degrees in Political Science and Journalism, and is a member of the Lambda Pi Eta honor society of the National Communication Association.

Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Fund Development

Karl I. Muller

Karl I. Muller is the Manager of Strategic Partnership and Fund Development at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles.  Prior to joining AltaSea, Karl worked as the Senior Conference Planner for the Air National Guard in Washington, DC.  He received his Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from The George Washington University and his Bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Los Angeles.

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