The Greater Boston Food Bank
Natacha Gassenbach is an accomplished communications professional with extensive experience in senior leadership roles across various companies in the biopharmaceutical and medical sectors. Currently serving as Chief Communications Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Biogen since October 2018, Gassenbach also holds a position on the Board of Directors at The Greater Boston Food Bank as of October 2024, and recently served on the Board of Directors at MassBio. Previous roles include Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Stallergenes Greer, and leadership positions with Baxalta, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, and Boston Scientific, where responsibilities spanned global communications, marketing strategies, and team management. Gassenbach started their career in communications management at Honeywell-Bull, with an educational background in Communication and Media Studies from Université Paris-Sorbonne.
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The Greater Boston Food Bank
The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. GBFB distributes over 60 million lbs of food annually, enough to provide healthy meals to more than 500,000 people who are food insecure in Eastern Massachusetts. GBFB acquires food through food industry product donations, food drives and financial contributions that enable us to purchase additional high nutrient quality food. We also benefit from the generosity of over 25,000 volunteers annually who help to sort and distribute donated food products. GBFB works to acquire, store, organize and distribute food through local food pantries, community meal programs, homeless and residential shelters, youth programs, senior centers, and day-care centers embedded in communities throughout the nine counties of eastern Massachusetts. GBFB’s food assistance locator provides an easy way for people in need to find help nearby. GBFB also distributes food directly to those in need through dedicated programs that serve particularly vulnerable groups, such as seniors and children. Since 2009, GBFB has operated out of a state-of-the-art, 117,000 square foot food distribution facility, the Yawkey Distribution Center, located in the Newmarket section of Boston. The Greater Boston Food Bank is a member of Feeding America, the nation's largest hunger-relief organization.