For more than a decade, Michelle Winkles helped pioneer a marketing team at a real estate and property management accounting software corporation, providing a diversified array of strengths in communication, leadership, organization, strategic planning and execution. With a sharp ability to effectively manage and coach teams, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines, she contributed to key product marketing initiatives when joining an e-commerce shipping automation startup in 2016.

Michelle holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from UCSB in 2005. Passionate about advancing her marketing skills, she achieved a Marketing Professional Certification from UCSB Extension in 2012. In December 2017, she achieved her Masters in Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management & Social Business from Antioch University, Santa Barbara with a Certificate of Excellence, graduating top of her class.

In her free time, Michelle Winkles is an active marketing and communications committee member for the Women's Fund of Santa Barbara, enabling women to combine their charitable dollars into significant grants focused on the critical needs of women, children and families. She is also on the marketing committee for Fairview Gardens, a non-profit organization that preserves and operated as a working organic farm, nurturing the human spirit through educational programs and public activities at the farm.