Ambassador Committee

By understanding your needs, Val can help you find the right financial solutions and move your business forward. 

Val’s talents within finance have brought her numerous accolades such as Top Performer 2017, 2018, 2019. She received the National President’s award in 2019-20. Her pivotal moment came in 2020 when she was awarded and became a team lead for the Payroll Protection Program. This was when Val realized she wanted to focus on working with business owners and dedicate her career to helping those grow within their respective industry and has never looked back. In addition to her vast experience in business finance. Val is also passionate about philanthropy and has served with multiple local non-profits. She currently sits on 4 different boards as a member that includes “Friends of Camp Concord,” “Diablo Ballet,” “Las Lomas Boosters Foundation,” and "Las Lomas Football Foundation.” Val also serves as an "Ambassador" to the Walnut Creek Chamber of Commerce; she is highly dedicated to her community and involvement.

Fleur Anderson is a chef-entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of BOCOBITES, an award-winning French food brand based in the San Francisco Bay Area. BOCOBITES® was created with a simple mission: to make authentic, restaurant-quality French cuisine accessible, convenient, and sustainable.

Each recipe is chef-crafted, preserved in reusable glass jars, shelf-stable for up to one year, and ready to enjoy in minutes. The brand serves customers, retailers, wineries, hotels, corporate clients, and specialty food partners looking for premium prepared meals with a strong culinary identity.

In 2026, BOCOBITES received the Innovation Award at the East Bay Women’s Conference, recognizing its approach to culinary innovation, sustainability, and modern food experiences.

Fleur is passionate about food innovation, brand storytelling, and building meaningful partnerships that bring French gastronomy to new audiences across the Bay Area and beyond.

Teri Day is a Fractional COO & Founder Partner with 30 years of corporate experience, including two decades in operational leadership and 10 years in executive roles. She works with founders and leaders with 10+ employees who are scaling and need operational efficiency, clear leadership structure, and steady executive partnership.

Teri is known for bringing calm authority to complex environments, strengthening systems, clarifying standards, and helping founders lead without carrying the entire organization on their shoulders.

Kim Falahati, Founded Family Matters in 2013. A one stop shop that helps with any transition in the home, specializing in downsizing, seniors and “collectors”. With over 25 years experience working with families, a degree in Psychology, her personal experience with her senior parents and her passion for helping others, she has the knowledge and compassion to help her clients when they are overwhelmed and asking the daunting question, "Where do I start?" 

With her 4 teams; Moving, Hauling, Organizing and Estate Sales, Kim is the Family Facilitator and knows that no single approach is the right one for every individual. She customizes a plan that is specific to her clients needs, helping save time and money. 

Michael Nathan is the Founder & Global Managing Partner of Meritage.Group, a boutique global strategic advisory firm helping startups to local businesses embrace AI-native and emerging technologies to build their go-to-market strategies, partner ecosystems, and investor narratives they need to scale — with engagements across the Bay Area, London, India, Italy, Switzerland, and Japan.

Michael brings 20+ years of Fortune 500 partnership leadership — including Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, and HP — combined with venture-side business development at Sierra Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Quake Capital. He has closed multimillion-dollar enterprise deals, structured capital raises, and guided AI companies from first deployment to national pipelines and pre-seed close. He currently serves as Interim Chief Business Officer for Blaze Guardian, a wildfire-resilience technology company.

A Walnut Creek resident, Michael welcomes conversations with community and fellow Chamber members about partnerships, GTM strategy, business storytelling to capital-raise readiness — reach him at Michael@Meritage.Group or https://Meritage.Group.