jon sebastiani: managing partner
Jon Sebastiani founded Sonoma Brands Capital, a specialist growth equity firm, in late 2015 and as Managing Partner currently oversees all aspects of the Firm’s investment strategy and portfolio management. Prior to Sonoma Brands, Jon was Founder & CEO of KRAVE Pure Foods. The KRAVE journey culminated in the acquisition by The Hershey Company in 2015. Prior to KRAVE, Jon was the President of Viansa Winery, a destination winery in Sonoma’s Carneros region.
Jon received his B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University and his dual M.B.A from the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley and Columbia Business School. Jon currently lives in Sonoma with his wife, Carol, and daughter, Alexandra.
Caitlyn McDuffee : Controller
Caitlyn is entering her first season in the Front Office with the Sonoma Stompers and currently serves as the team’s Controller. Caitlyn graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and a minor in English. Beyond working with the Stompers, Caitlyn is also the Controller at Sonoma Brands Capital. A fun fact about Caitlyn – before starting work in accounting, her first job was as a youth softball umpire!
Chase Anderson: Operations Manager
Chase Anderson just completed his freshman year at Occidental College in Los Angeles. While he has not decided on a major, he is exploring Business Administration or Applied Mathematics. Chase grew up in San Leandro and attended Bishop O'Dowd High in Oakland where he played soccer, tennis, and football. He is excited to join the Intern team and the Stomper community. Some of Chase's favorite hobbies are watching the English Premier League, playing golf, and finding new music.
Trey dunia: Emcee/Entertainment Coordinator
Trey Dunia has been entertaining Stompers fans here in Sonoma since 2015 and is very well known in the Sonoma County sports scene. In addition to being the On-Field Emcee for our beloved Stompers, he is also the stadium voice for SRJC Bear Cubs' Basketball, Football, Softball and Volleyball...as well as the PA Announcer for Sonoma State Basketball. Previously, he was the PA Announcer for the SF Giants AAA team, the Sacramento River Cats. When he's not announcing sports you can find him at the gym, training for the CrossFit Open.
Kiran Costa: DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING & Media Relations
A Bay Area native, Costa graduated from Los Altos High School in 2022. He is currently pursuing a degree in Broadcast & Digital Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Kiran spent last summer as the play-by-play commentator and Director of Media for the BACL Champion Alameda Anchors. In this role, he enjoyed broadcasting over twenty games while creating and growing the Anchors brand on all social media platforms. Kiran began his career in broadcasting back in 2016 covering live Bay Area sports, particularly high school football and basketball. When he’s not behind the mic or studying up all aspects of baseball and its history. Kiran can be found on the pickleball or basketball court, at the gym, or keeping up with sporting events across the globe including soccer, F1, and cricket.
Mike & Amber Brown : Host Family Coordinators
Lifelong residents of Sonoma County, Mike and Amber Brown have been dedicated to Sonoma youth baseball for over a decade. Mike served as Sonoma Little League President for 3 years and has coached various teams in Sonoma Little League. Amber has worked among the community supporting youth sports and is an advocate for special needs youth in the area. They both share a passion for growing the game of baseball in Sonoma.
Dr. larry adams: team chiropractor
Adams has been the Stompers' team chiropractor since 2015, giving treatment to players both at the field and at his office in downtown Sonoma. Born and raised in Sonoma, Adams got his Doctorate in Chiropractic from Life Chiropractic West in 1996, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He did his graduate work at Brigham Young University, earning a degree in Health Sciences. His son, Dax, is regularly a bat boy with the Stompers.
Dr. Avinash Ramchandani: team Doctor
Dr. Avinash Ramchandani is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician who has always had an interest in sports, especially baseball since he was a kid. He is a passionate San Francisco Giants fan and has seen and treated several professional athletes over his 10 years since he finished his fellowship. He grew up in the East Bay and went to UC Berkeley prior to completing medical school at Rosalind Franklin University - The Chicago Medical School in Illinois, did a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Stanford Hospital and then completed his fellowship in Pain management at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, OR. He worked in Texas for 7 years prior to moving to the Santa Rosa area, where he now resides with his wife and two children and practices at the Providence Medical Group. During his time in Texas, he also completed an Executive MBA at the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University. He is the host of “The Painless Health Podcast,” enjoys running and coaching in the Cal Ripken Youth Baseball League!
ADVISORY BOARD
EDDIE MORA-LOERA: Senior ADVISOR
Eddie has spent four seasons (2019-2024) in the Front Office with the Sonoma Stompers, and his eight years cumulatively, 2015-2018 as a player and 2019-2014 as an executive, with the organization. A Bay Area native, Mora-Loera grew up in Oakland and graduated from Bishop O’Dowd High School, where he was named first team All-HAAL in 2009-10 and third team All-Bay Area as a second baseman. He then attended Sierra College before transferring to Jacksonville State University in Alabama, where he graduated with a degree in Engineering. In 2014, Mora-Loera held a .317 average with three home runs and 17 doubles to help the Gamecocks capture the Ohio Valley Conference Championship, and first team All-Conference second baseman honors. Over Mora-Loera’s four-year professional career, the JSU alumnus held a .251 average with 80 runs scored, 71 RBIs over 158 games played.
Mora-Loera has spent four seasons (2019-2024) at the helm of the Sonoma Stompers, executing on the transformation of a professional independent baseball team to a premier summer wood bat collegiate club. Under Mora-Loera’s leadership, the Stompers have become a top destination for the nation’s best collegiate athletes while creating an interactive, family-friendly minor league experience for fans.
In his current role, Mora-Loera, provides operational, financial, marketing, recruitment, and strategic guidance to the Ownership group and Front Office, ensuring long-term sustainability and competitive success.
BEN Lindberg: Special Assistant to the General Manager
Ben Lindbergh is a Special Assistant to the General Manager and a baseball writer at Bill Simmon’s The Ringer. In the past, he has been a contributor at Bloomberg Sports, Grantland, and MLB.com, in addition to serving as Editor-In-Chief at Baseball Prospectus, and was a staff writer with Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight. He co-authored "Extra Innings: More Baseball Between The Numbers," won the SABR Greg Spira Award for his research on pitch framing, and wrote "The Only Rule Is It Has To Work" with Sam Miller about the 2015 Sonoma Stompers season. You can purchase the book here.
SAM MILLER: Special Assistant to the General Manager
Sam Miller is a Special Assistant to the General Manager and staff writer for ESPN. Formerly the Editor-n-Chief of Baseball Prospectus, Miller has also written for ESPN The Magazine and the Orange County Register. He's the former co-host of the “Effectively Wild” daily baseball podcast with Ben Lindbergh, who is also his co-author for “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work,” which is about Sam and Ben’s 2015 boots-on-the-ground experience in the Sonoma Stompers front office. It can be purchased here.