Stella Premo MBA

Stella Premo serves as the executive director of the Capital Region Family Business Center and has built her professional career as a nonprofit executive. She previously served as the executive director, director of education programs for NextEd, advancing programs and policies that prepared students for success in careers critical to the Sacramento regional economy. Premo has led organizations through crisis management, strategic organizational shifts, and small startup non-profits from the ground up. She has decades of experience leading both volunteers and paid staff. 

She earned her MBA from Sacramento State and is a graduate of St. Mary's College, earning her bachelor's degree in business management. 

Premo teaches NL 533 Managing People in the Pacific University Master of Nonprofit Leadership program.