2025 Executive Slate
Lynn Giacomini Stray, Board President
Lynn Giacomini Stray grew up on her family’s dairy farm just north of Point Reyes Station. Lynn spent many years in sales and marketing in the wine and insurance industries before launching The Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company with her three sisters in 2000. This successful and award-winning family business has grown to include The Fork, a culinary and educational center they opened in 2010 on the family farm.
Lynn is an active member of the national cheese community. She served nine years on the local Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) board along with twelve years on the Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) board supporting farmers markets throughout the Bay Area. Lynn served six years on the American Cheese Society (ACS) as a Board Director and is currently on the Climate impact committee and Chairs the Nominations committee.
Lynn lives in Point Reyes with her family.
Joe Gillach, Board Vice President
Joe Gillach also serves on the Executive Committee and the Property Committee. He has over 20 year’s experience owning and managing multi-unit residential properties in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Prior to joining Progressive Property Group, Joe was a Principal at Ratel Investments, a Tiburon, CA-based private real estate investment firm where he was responsible for asset management of Ratel’s portfolio of multi-family investments whose combined value exceeded $400 million.
He is a former member of the board of directors of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust and the Marin Mountain Play Association and holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance.
Bob Houghteling, Board Treasurer
Bob Houghteling is a retired teacher, school administrator, and founding executive director of the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute. At one of Bob’s first teaching jobs, he met CLAM Founding Board Member Carl Munger and Carl’s daughter, CLAM Fundraising & Communications Committee member Kerry Livingston, and learned of their commitment to the West Marin community.
Bob and his wife fell in love with the Point Reyes National Seashore when they moved to the Bay Area from the East Coast in the late ‘70s and, in 2013, the two realized a long-held dream of purchasing a home on the Inverness Ridge.
As Bob grew closer to new friends in the community, he realized that escalating housing costs were making it impossible for many, including local workers, to live in West Marin. Now beginning his second year as CLAM treasurer, Bob is pleased that his financial and board experience have helped further CLAM values of transparency and sustainability.
Cathleen Dorinson, Board Secretary
Cathleen Dorinson is a member of the CLAM Board where she also serves as secretary. She is a Bay Area native who has focused her passion for civic duty towards organizations such as Mainstreet Moms, Indivisible West Marin, the Marin County Election Advisory Committee and nonprofits such as AAUW and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
She owned a bookkeeping, tax and financial consulting business for 25 years before retiring to Point Reyes Station. During her 20 years in West Marin, Cathleen has worked for Coastal Health Alliance, volunteered with Planned Feralhood and operated her own vacation cottage.
An environmentalist, avid gardener and student of sustainable living, she is transforming her home into an off-the-grid retreat.