Kristine Groff is recently semi-retired from the Bank of America in Concord, where she worked as a client services manager and project manager for large corporate transactions. She lived in Alameda for many years, but has been a frequent visitor to Lake County since the 1970s. Tthree years ago she moved to Lakeport where she continues to telecommute from there as part of her "semi" retirement with the bank. Kristine is sharing her computer, budgeting, and accounting expertise with the land trust as the organization's treasurer.

As an employee for the Bank of America, Kristine managed large-scale projects for corporate customers worldwide. Her expertise lies in technology and she has implemented worldwide networks involving money transfer transactions throughout 160 countries. She developed project budgets and timelines and managed multiple work efforts simultaneously.

Kristine has a BS degree in mathematics and education from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and a Masters of Business administration in telecommunications from national University in San Diego. She was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago but has lived in California for the past 40 years. One of her hobbies is skin diving and she often travels to Cozumel, Mexico to enjoy this sport and operate a small diving business.