Gay Timmons

Gay Timmons owns and operates Oh, Oh Organic, Inc., an organic and specialty
ingredient distribution and consulting company founded in 2000. Oh, Oh is
committed to the development and delivery of sustainable agricultural ingredients
for the cosmetic and personal care industries.
Over the past 20 years she has supported the development and growth of
hundreds of organic and natural cosmetic brands.
Her first career was as the first American woman to manage vessel operations,
loading and unloading cargo on the Oakland and San Francisco waterfronts.
Since 1991, she has worked as a producer and marketer of organic ingredients
and an advocate for regulatory clarity for organic and natural producers and
consumers. Her introduction to the field began as a ten-year job co-managing an
organic farm and production facility. She served as the Chair of the California
Organic Products Advisory Committee, serving on that committee for eleven
years. During this period she was instrumental in writing and advocating for the
Calif. Organic Products Act of 2003 which regulates organic claims on cosmetics.
She also served as Secretary on the Calif. Certifiers of Organic Farms Board of
Directors and Chair of their Processor Chapter for twelve years. Today she is a
founding member and President of the Natural and Organic Health and Beauty
Alliance, an international trade association.
Gay graduated from UC Davis, has an MS in Physiology and lives in Point
Richmond with an organic recording engineer and entrepreneur. She has two
organic daughters.