{"id":310447,"date":"2026-05-11T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:58:08","slug":"la500-2026-michael-flood-los-angeles-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310447\/","title":{"rendered":"LA500 2026: Michael Flood &#8211; Los Angeles Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Michael Flood\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778515088_417_w=9999.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778515088_417_w=9999.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael Flood\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President, Chief Executive<br \/>LA Regional Food Bank<\/p>\n<p>Michael Flood has served as chief executive of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank since 2000, boosting food distribution and launching new nutrition and public policy initiatives. His leadership has been critical in helping communities through the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters and federal government shutdowns. Flood also served as board chair of Emergency Network Los Angeles, board treasurer of the California Association of Food Banks, and a member of the L.A. Food Policy Council Executive Committee.<br \/>Education: Master\u2019s and bachelor\u2019s degrees,<br \/>College of William and Mary in Virginia<br \/>First job: Summer camp counselor<br \/>Favorite book: \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d trilogy<br \/>Favorite quote: \u201cTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn\u2019t do than by the ones you did do.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain<\/p>\n<p>YEARS ON LA500: 1 Year on the LA500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President, Chief ExecutiveLA Regional Food Bank Michael Flood has served as chief executive of the Los Angeles Regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,80037,47,50,49,111649],"class_list":["post-310447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-la-regional-food-bank","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-michael-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}