Speaker Bios 

Elaine Honig, STUDIO4Forty/Wine Women & Shoes

Elaine is a serial entrepreneur who thrives on creating brands, building businesses and helping nonprofits thrive. A native Oklahoman, she paid for her Economics degree at Tufts University by running a successful student rental management business. While pursuing post-college real estate projects in San Francisco, she met and married a promising young vintner, which refocused her enterprising spirit on building a wine brand. Over the next 21 years, she marketed, branded, and pounded the pavement growing the winery that started in a garage into a nationally recognized and respected Napa Valley brand.  Elaine developed Wine Women & Shoes, her first fundraising event concept, as a local community fundraiser that would double as a marketing opportunity for Napa Valley wines—a total win-win, whose formula proved (and continues to prove) irresistible. With a boundless love and thirst for art and literature, she conceived and launched her next fundraising concept—Farm to Table(aux)—in 2016, and created STUDIO 4forty where current and future event fundraising concept live and grow. She has served on the boards of several Napa Valley agricultural and land trusts, is currently on the board of the di Rosa art center, and has been honored as an Outstanding Woman in Agriculture. She and her loveable dog Houdini make their home in St. Helena.

Keith McLane, BAS, KLM Auctions

Keith is one of the country’s preeminent fundraising auctioneers and special appeal/fund-a-need experts. Since 1995, he has specialized in organizing and conducting charity and fundraising auctions for schools, charitable organizations, and nonprofit groups across the nation. Never the shy one, Keith has become well-known for his fun and entertaining auctioneering style that frequently takes him out from behind the podium and deep into the audience! Keith holds an MBA from The UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a graduate of the world-famous Missouri Auction School, which Newsweek magazine dubs “The Harvard of Auctioneering.” He is also one of only a small number of auctioneers in the country–and one of only twenty auctioneers in California–to have achieved the National Auctioneers Association’s Benefit Auction Specialist (BAS) designation.

Beth Sandefur, Beth Sandefur Events

Beth is a seasoned event planner with a strong background in development and hands on experience with theatrical production. Her efforts focus on planning and execution of fundraising galas, typically with a large auction component. As a planner, she believes in working with clients to find the inefficiencies and redundancies in their systems to create a streamlined approach, keeping the organizational mission in the forefront, while still throwing a great party. She also works as a consultant to help clients integrate their annual fundraising event into year-round donor development through auction data collection & analysis as well as creating comprehensive sponsorship proposal strategies.

Greg Quiroga, Stellar Fundraising Auctions

San Francisco-based fundraising auctioneer and consultant Greg Quiroga has built his career on mastering the details of pre-planning that make his onstage performances successful. Greg has consulted on and conducted over 600 fundraising auctions throughout the United States in the past 12 years. Working with such a multitude of organizations has given Greg a wealth of expertise upon which to draw. Greg has conducted numerous workshops locally and has presented at the National Auctioneer Association’s Benefit Auction Summit.