Meg Arnold became CEO of SARTA in November 2009, after being closely involved as a SARTA Board member since late 2005.  Prior to joining SARTA, Meg was with UC Davis for six years, with both UC Davis InnovationAccess and UC Davis CONNECT, where she developed programs to support campus-originated start-up companies, and participated in technology transfer licensing to new start-ups.

After leaving UC Davis in 2008, Meg consulted to Drexel University as Director, Community Partnerships, and to Valley Vision, as Senior Project Manager for the Green Capital Alliance. In the region, Meg has served on the Board of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy (SEA), the Steering Committee of the Green Capital Alliance, and the High Tech Direct advisory committee.

Before coming to the Sacramento region in 2001, Meg worked primarily in strategic planning and business development for AT&T Canada, in Toronto, and British Telecom (BT), in London, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and business unit development and expansion.

Meg has an MBA in Finance from the University of San Francisco, and a BA in English from Cornell University. She lives in Davis with her son and daughter, and on weekends can be found sailing her dinghy on lovely Folsom Lake and elsewhere.