Bryan O’Connor is Vice President of Finance and Administration at Good Shepherd Food Bank, overseeing the accounting, technology, and risk management functions. He was recently appointed Interim President as a nationwide search for a new president is being conducted.

A Certified Management Accountant, Bryan has over 20 years of experience in accounting and leadership roles. Before joining the Food Bank in 2015, he served as Vice President of Finance at United Way of Greater Portland.

A graduate of Bentley University, Bryan is a father of two, a self-published author, and a Little League baseball coach.

Shannon Coffin, vice president of community partnerships, joined Good Shepherd Food Bank in 2010 and launched the first Youth & Families Initiatives partnerships in 2011. Under her leadership from 2011 to 2019, Youth & Families Initiatives grew from reaching 40 children in one school to over 5,000 families in over 150 schools. From November 2019 to August 2020, Shannon served as Good Shepherd Food Bank’s Director of Community Partnerships, helping to lead the transition of our Community Resources team. She grew the team from four Field Representatives focused on agency compliance to seven Community Resource Representatives, building agency capacity and managing relationships with local retail donors through increased partner engagement.

Shannon is a part of Full Plates Full Potentials Leadership Council and has served as Chair for both their Child & Adult Care Food Program and Summer Food Service Program committees. She is also very active in the national Feeding America network. Most recently, she was selected to be a part of Feeding America’s first Equitable Access Innovation Cohort. In the past, she has provided support to peers across the country as a Child Hunger Capacity Adviser and as a Child Hunger Corps Supervisor.

Prior to working at Good Shepherd Food Bank, Shannon was Marketing & Events Coordinator for Green Tree Event Consultants in Falmouth, Maine, from 2006 to 2010. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from St. Joseph’s College of Maine in 2007 with a Bachelor’s in Public Relations and Advertising. Outside of work, Shannon is the mother of endlessly energetic twins, and loves to garden and kayak.

Erin Fogg, vice president of development and communications, helps lead the Food Bank’s efforts to mobilize the public in the fight to end hunger. In her position since 2016, Erin oversees a team of fundraising and communications professionals responsible for engaging the public and donors in our work and the issue of hunger. The team is responsible for raising the philanthropic support that fuels our work and supporting all organizational initiatives through marketing and public relations. Erin recently led the Food Bank through two successful campaigns aimed at increasing the organization’s capacity to drastically grow meal distribution, including a $5 million capital campaign for a second distribution center in Hampden and a $250 million multi-year comprehensive campaign that included both donated food and funds.

Erin has 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining the Food Bank, Erin worked in fundraising and communications at The Jackson Laboratory, Friends of Acadia, and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce. Erin received a B.A. in Communications from Elizabethtown College and completed her M.B.A. at Husson University. A native Vermonter, Erin and her family have made Maine their home since 2007.

George Fox joined Good Shepherd Food Bank as Vice President of Supply Chain in 2020. He is responsible for helping the Food Bank grow its capacity to feed food-insecure Mainers.

Prior to joining Good Shepherd, Fox held engineering and operational leadership roles at L.L.Bean for over 20 years and received a B.S. from the University of Maine in Forestry, an MBA from New Hampshire College, and MS from the University of Southern Maine in Manufacturing Systems. He lives with his wife and teenage son in Gorham.

Amy Regan Gallant, vice president of public policy, joined the Food Bank in December 2019. Her work includes state and federal advocacy, working with partner agencies to utilize research tools to assess the impact of our work, and engaging our Board, donors, volunteers, community, and those who have lived experience of hunger in grassroots advocacy. Gallant’s work is grounded in building relationships with elected officials and staff on all sides of the political aisle. You can find her in Augusta, DC and on the road throughout Maine.

Gallant was previously employed by AARP Maine as the advocacy director and built the successful Tuesdays at the State House constituent engagement program. She began her career at Preble Street, a social services organization in Portland, Maine, and oversaw the Maine Hunger Initiative, Healthcare Outreach to Veterans, and Homeless Voices for Justice.

Gallant is a volunteer with The Prouty, the Eastern Trail Alliance, and is a board member of Portland Ovations. She cares deeply about the “New Mainer” community and organized the 2019 Welcome Picnic for 300+ asylum seekers. Gallant grew up in Buxton and is a proud graduate of Catherine McAuley High School. She graduated from Saint Anselm College with a BA in Politics, New York University with an MS in International Development, and lives in South Portland with her husband, daughters, chickens, and bicycles.