Amy Dornbusch

Experience

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  Frog design

  Sept 2005 - Feb 2009

  As a Program Manager in frog’s New York studio, Amy is responsible for the leading internal project teams towards successful delivery and acts as the primary point of contact for her clients. She has developed a focus on the planning and management of successful design research programs, but has also worked on diverse programs that include e-commerce web design, consumer product development, mobile device UI, service design and innovation. Her clients include AT&T, Bloomberg, Humana, Seventh Generation and Virgin Mobile. Show less

  • Program Manager

    Dec 2007 - Feb 2009

  • Marketing Associate

    Apr 2007 - Dec 2007

  • Marketing Coordinator

    Sept 2005 - Mar 2007
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  Radish

  Mar 2009 - May 2014

  Co Owner / Founder

  Radish is a boutique catering company with an exclusive event venue space and gourmet prepared food shop headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We focus on seasonal, New American cuisine. Our shop offers prepared foods and artisanal food products for carryout, and our catering division services all events small and large, from photo shoots and private dinner parties to large corporate events and weddings. We utilize the highest quality ingredients and always bring a creative, seasonal approach to our offering. Show less

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  Gemstone Vineyard

  Jul 2014 - Jun 2024

  Proprietor and President

  Gemstone Vineyard is a small, family-owned producer of estate grown wines. Our focus is on crafting richly textured red wines from Bordeaux varietals grown on our 16-acre hillside property in the Yountville appellation of Napa Valley. Esteemed winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown currently handcrafts our Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, an Estate Red Wine and a very limited number of cases of Chardonnay. Our wines are quite limited and are sold to members of our allocation list, while the rest can be found on the wine lists of great restaurants throughout the country. Show less

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  The V Foundation

  May 2015 - now

  Chairwoman, The Wine Celebration

  Formed by ESPN and Jim Valvano in 1993, his words throughout his infamous ESPY speech have inspired millions to get involved in finding a cure for cancer. The annual Wine Celebration brings together philanthropists, vintners, survivors and a scientific advisory board to fundraise for the V Foundation grants, with the ultimate goal of finding a cure for cancer, once and for all. As the largest fundraising arm, the Wine Celebration has contributed over $150M of the $353M budget to date for the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The Wine Celebration is in the top 2 highest-grossing charitable wine auctions in the US. Show less

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  Willowtree Venture Fund, LP

  Aug 2016 - now

  General Partner

  Willowtree Venture Fund is a private investment fund focused on early stage companies disrupting a broad variety of areas in the consumer space including CPG, retail, apparel, dining and hospitality.

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  Marks Family Foundation

  Jan 2019 - now

  Director

  We are a family of entrepreneurs passionate about innovation across technology, music, hospitality, food and wine, motorsports, and venture capital. We fund visionary thinkers who drive change with their unique talents. Believing in bold ideas and risk-taking, we invest in early-stage leaders, offering unrestricted grants to empower their success and foster groundbreaking developments. Together, we build a better world through trust-based philanthropy.We get inspired by passionate thinkers who have a unique perspective on how they can utilize their talents to catalyze change for a better world. We are a family of entrepreneurs funding entrepreneurs. We believe in the power of new ideas and we encourage risk taking and innovation. Our grants reach leaders in the early stages of their personal or organizational development that show promise, and new ways of thinking, and that are in need of investment for capacity building, developing proof of concept, and project launches. We think of ourselves as early-stage investors that empower our grantees and set them up for success with pathways for diversified funding. We believe in trust-based philanthropy and unrestricted funding, as our grantees understand best where their funds are needed. Show less

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  College Track

  Feb 2021 - Mar 2022

  Board Member, College Track

  At College Track, we firmly believe that a bachelor’s degree remains the best predictor of economic mobility, civic engagement, lifelong wellness, and self-agency. By serving students from low-income communities who will become the first in their family to graduate from college, we fulfill the promise of higher education for generations to come. Our work is rooted at the intersection of educational equity and racial justice, setting the stage for our students to thrive in careers where people of color have been historically underrepresented.From the very beginning, College Track focused on supporting students with limited resources to chart their course to college. We quickly realized the importance of getting students through college.Over the last 23 years, we’ve broadened our program to address the growing college completion gap, making a 10-year commitment to each and every student we serve. Show less

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  Project Glimmer

  Feb 2021 - Mar 2022

  Board Member, Project Glimmer

  We are a national nonprofit organization that has served over 700,000 teenage girls and women, 86% of whom are young women of color. Project Glimmer works in all 50 states through partnerships with 1,000+ organizations including foster care, homeless, crisis care, and youth services. Through our programs including Gifts + Goods, Day of Empowerment, Empower Hour, and Career Coaching, we are dedicated to helping end gender and racial inequality.

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  AtlasDaughters

  Jun 2024 - now

  Founder