Scripps Ranch resident joins Food Bank board

Scripps Ranch resident joins Food Bank board

Scripps Ranch resident Dr. Sonali Fonseca, vice president of Emerging Businesses at Elutia, has joined the board of directors of the San Diego Food Bank. Dr. Fonseca brings extensive expertise in strategic growth, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansion to the Food Bank’s mission. Her leadership will strengthen the organization’s ability to serve 400,000 San Diegans each month through more than 450 nonprofit partners across the county.

The Food Bank board of directors comprises community and business leaders who provide strategic guidance and governance for the organization’s hunger-relief programs.

Dr. Fonseca is a transformational leader and a visionary growth strategist with proven profit and loss responsibility. She has extensive experience transforming organizations through a range of strategic levers, including merger and acquisition transactions, portfolio optimizations and international growth initiatives. In her role, she led commercial manufacturing of the world’s first drug-eluting biomatrix, an implanted device designed to reduce patient complications and post-surgical infections.

She recently led the turnaround and subsequent divestiture of Elutia’s Orthobiologics business, bringing in cash proceeds of up to $35 million. Prior to this role, Fonseca spearheaded the strategic transformation of Elsevier’s global $500 million Clinical Solutions division. She was instrumental in driving growth and played a crucial role in the acquisition and subsequent integration of an oncology platform business.

The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank is the food safety net for all of San Diego County, providing food to people in need, advocating for the hungry and educating the public about hunger-related issues.