Founder, Lunch Out of Landfills
Owner, Bar – T
Joe Richardson, a Rotarian since 2012 and past president of the Southern Frederick Rotary, co-owns Bar-T Holdings with his wife Nancy, providing after-school and summer camp programs to more than 2,000 children daily across 38 Maryland schools and eight summer camps.
In 2018, he founded Lunch Out of Landfills (LOOL) to address food waste in K–12 cafeterias. LOOL programs reduce cafeteria waste by up to 85% and recover approximately 9,000 pounds of shareable food per school each year.
Joe serves on the food-waste subcommittee of ESRAG, collaborates nationally with World Wildlife Fund through its Food Waste Warrior program, and works alongside ReFED and A Simple Gesture. With nearly 500 million pounds of food wasted annually in U.S. school cafeterias, his work focuses on changing systems, behaviors, and outcomes nationwide.
Vice President Food, Food Loss and Waste, WWF
Board Member, Lunch Out of Landfills
Pete Pearson is a Vice President and Global Initiative Lead in WWF’s
Food and Agriculture program, helping businesses and communities
understand agriculture’s impact on wildlife and habitat conservation.
He leads WWF’s Circular Food Future program focused on reducing
food loss and waste globally. Pete has 10 years of technology and
grocery retail experience with companies including Hewlett-Packard,
Accenture and Albertsons; has worked with public schools and
hospitals as a sustainability and zero waste consultant, co-founded a
regenerative agriculture non-profit in Idaho, and co-produced a
documentary film on local and regenerative agriculture
(www.ToLiveLocal.com).
Pete currently lives in Arlington, Virginia and enjoys fly fishing, sailing, diving, water skiing, snow skiing and exploring new places around the world.
WWF Page:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/experts/pete-pearson
LinkedIn Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/petepearson
Twitter:
@petedpearson
VP | Secretary, Lunch Out of Landfills
CEO, Blueprint Advisory
Chris DePalma, CEO of Blueprint Advisory, bringing more than 20 years of executive and operational leadership experience helping organizations build the systems, structure, and accountability required for sustainable growth. His career spans Senior leadership roles, where he developed a reputation for strengthening organizations by aligning people, processes, and execution.
Chris has led complex, multi-site operations across engineering, technical field services, logistics, project management, and customer facing teams often in highly regulated, mission-critical environments. His work includes directing large-scale deployments for federal agencies and enterprise clients, ensuring operational readiness, compliance, risk management, and consistent execution, experience that directly supports LOOL’s need for scalable, repeatable, and accountable program delivery.
Equally important, Chris brings deep expertise in organizational development and workforce systems, including role clarity, career pathways, onboarding frameworks, performance management, and leadership development. He specializes in turning growth challenges into practical operating models that improve efficiency, strengthen teams, and enable organizations to scale without losing discipline or mission focus.
As a board member, Chris supports Lunch Out of Landfills by applying this operational and systems based mindset to nonprofit growth, helping ensure that expansion is thoughtful, sustainable, and aligned with impact. His focus is on building the internal structures that allow LOOL to serve more schools, manage partnerships effectively, steward donor resources responsibly, and deliver measurable results at scale
Treasurer, Lunch Out of Landfills
Since 2017 , John Robert Dyer been has retired from a career in the public federal and private sectors. John continues to be involved as President of the Board of his family’s agriculture and real estate development small businesses in Guatemala. He started with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Noter Dame and a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan.
From 2000 until he retired to devote himself to family businesses , John served as the chief operating officer ( COO) of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in the Federal Department of Health and Human Services ( DHHS) , deputy commissioner for operations and COO of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and, consulted with Fortune 500 and small business information technology and management companies.
Earlier, John was involved with the Social Security Administration (SSA) , where he served as principle deputy commissioner and chief information officer from 1995-2000. Prior, he was deputy commissioner for finance and management from 1988 to 1994. Before joining SSA, he was chief financial and management officer of the Health Care Financing Administration. He commenced his career in 1973 as budget examiner and and became a branch chief in 1981 in the Office of Management and Budget , Executive Office of the President.
John was President of Our House ( Brookville, MD) board of directors for over a decade and served on the board of Directors of the Fundacion Pantaleon. He currently serves as Treasurer on the board of directors of The Pantaleon Foundation Inc. and the home owners association ( OHA) of the Chevy Chase Lake ( MD )condominium. He was an assistant scoutmaster and scoutmaster of a Maryland Boy Scout troop based in Washington, DC.
John is married to Audrey Kelly Dyer and they have four grown children and two grandchildren.
John’s primary residence is at Bald Head Island,NC. He has a condominium unit in Chevy Chase, MD and mountain house in Santa Catarina Palopo, Solola, Guatemala from which he visits locally with two of his children, and long term friends and many Guatemalan relatives.
