Loren Shepard

Loren Shepard is the VP of Operations of Bonfire Ventures. Loren served as Administrative Director of predecessor firm Rincon Venture Partners since its inception fourteen years ago. Before joining Rincon, Loren worked for the University of California, Santa Barbara where she pioneered the administration of a National Science Foundation grant for the Computational Science and Engineering Program, and worked as a Computer Resource Specialist at the Institute for Computational Earth System Science while concurrently acting as the Business Manager for Planet Earth Science, a Santa Barbara based environmental educational software company operating under a grant from NASA. Prior to her years working for UCSB, Loren led technical illustration for an environmental consulting firm before launching and operating a local small business for several years. Loren earned her BA from the University of California.