CEO
Casey Castillo joined the Food Bank in 2008 as its Chief Financial Officer and was subsequently appointed Vice President of Finance and Administration. Castillo brings more than 20 years of executive, financial, and nonprofit management experience to role of Chief Executive Officer. Over the course of his fourteen-year tenure at the Food Bank, he has provided oversight for all financial, administrative, human resources, and information technology operations. Additionally, Casey helped lead the organization during periods of severe economic upheaval: including the Great Recession, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic (and the subsequent inflationary environment which is currently impacting the Food Bank’s service population).
Casey has many significant achievements in his fourteen years with the Food Bank, including stewarding the Food Bank’s annual budget, overseeing major multi-million dollar infrastructure improvements to the Food Bank’s facilities, leading all energy sustainability initiatives, overseeing the nonprofit’s daily finances and operations, supporting major fundraising campaigns, and providing executive leadership over the Food Bank’s five-year strategic plan.
Currently, Casey is serving on several Board committees for the California Association of Food Banks located in Northern California.
Casey lives in San Diego where he is a devoted husband, and father of three children.