Business Development Committee, Chair

Sonja Krastman is a strategic creative communications, marketing, and organizational change executive with more than 20 years of diverse experience working with start-up and Fortune 200 companies. In 2012, she founded Krastman Communications, working with clients from the healthcare, building, information technologies, nonprofit and arts industries. Prior to that, Sonja spent 15 years with Computer Sciences Corporation as a member of the executive leadership team where she led comprehensive communications, culture change, transition, corporate responsibility, and client marketing programs for many large-scale clients including Raytheon and Ascension Health.

Sonja has provided volunteer leadership to Child Guidance Center for eight years, supporting the agency’s communications, grant writing and fundraising needs. She believes that helping children overcome obstacles early in life is key to helping them build a healthy life and a healthy community. 
She has an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Comparative Literature and a masters from Gonzaga University in Communications and Leadership. Sonja lives in Huntington Beach and has two adult daughters