CSF Board of Directors

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Peter Rogers

CSF Board Chair and Founder, Dry Creek Ventures, Healdsburg, CA

Peter is a founder of Dry Creek Ventures. Dry Creek Ventures is based in Sonoma County and invests start-up companies that are innovators in producing clean energy, clean food and clean water. In addition to equity capital, DCV partners offer extensive operational and finance experience, coupled with the willingness to invest significant time and effort to helping young companies develop and grow. Among DCV’s core beliefs is that producing adequate supplies of clean energy, clean food and clean water will require new technologies and new business models.

Before founding Dry Creek Ventures, Peter spent 25 years in technology investment banking, where he specialized in computer hardware and software. Peter has extensive research and corporate finance experience, and was a member of the teams that underwrote many leading technology companies, including Dell Computer, Symantec, and Intuit.

Peter received a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and an MBA in Finance from New York University.

In addition to serving on the boards of several of DCV’s portfolio companies, Peter is a member of the board of directors of the Sonoma Land Trust.

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Robert Hambrecht

CSF Board Treasurer and Environmental Finance Consultant, San Francisco, CA

Robert Hambrecht is an Environmental Finance Consultant in San Francisco, California. Prior to that, Mr. Hambrecht was the Chief Financial Officer at Greenlife International, a project development company that is building biofuel and agricultural businesses in Argentina and other Latin American companies. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mr. Hambrecht was providing financial leadership to Greenlife as it sought investment and was helping manage its key partnerships in Argentina as it structured investments in agricultural and biofuel infrastructure.

Formerly a co-founder of WR Hambrecht + Company, a financial services firm committed to using the Internet and the auction process to level the playing field for investors and issuers, Mr. Hambrecht has been deeply involved in the emerging “Cleantech” business community as an investor and investment banker for many years. Among other activities, he was an early organizer of the New Resource Bank (OTC BB: NWBN.OB), a commercial bank established in 2007 focused on the emerging green business space.

Mr. Hambrecht has served on numerous boards of directors, including Castelle, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTL), an electronics company that was sold in July 2007 where he served as chairman of the audit committee. He also served on the boards of a number of private companies in the electronics, software and recreation industries. In addition to CSF, he is presently on the board of the non-profit Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, an organization that provides technical and political support for smart transportation policies in cities in developing countries.

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Linwood Pendleton

CSF Board Secretary and Acting Chief Economist for NOAA (National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration), Washington, D.C., USA

Linwood Pendleton is the Acting Chief Economist for NOAA (National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration). Prior to this, he was a Senior Fellow, Director of Economic Research, and Director of the Coastal Ocean Values Center at The Ocean Foundation. He was also an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at UCLA and maintains an adjunct position there. His current research focuses on the economics of environmental goods and services, especially those in the coastal zone.

Linwood has been teaching with CSF since 1999 and has experience both in the United States and abroad with environmental valuation, coastal resource management, and the economics of marine protected areas. Linwood has worked internationally on recreation demand of tropical coral reefs and Costa Rican National Parks, and on issues of dams, non-timber forestry, and the economic causes of tropical deforestation in Latin America and Africa. He is involved with the National Ocean Economics Project, the Southern California Beach Valuation Project, and the California Regional Study of the Coastal Ocean Observing System. He is also a member of the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission’s Marine Technical Advisory Council, and a Director of the Aquarium of the Pacific's Marine Conservation Research Institute.

Linwood has a Masters in Biology with a focus in Tropical Ecology from Princeton University, a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a PhD in Natural and Environmental Resource Economics from Yale University.

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Stewart Wakeling

Project Director/Principal Investigator, Safe Community Partnership, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA

Stewart Wakeling is the Project Director and Principal Investigator for the Safe Community Partnership at the Public Health Institute in Oakland, California. Prior to that, Mr. Wakeling was the Senior Program Officer at the Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco. He has also worked as a Juvenile Justice System Coordinator for San Joaquin County in a public/private collaborative partnership pursuing social and health service reform in San Joaquin County. Mr. Wakeling was also previously a senior researcher with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He was also a member of the Executive Session on New Paradigms in Child Protective Services, a national working group concerned with developing community approaches to protecting children from abuse and neglect.

Mr. Wakeling is a fellow with the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and participates on a number of state and national commissions and working groups, including the advisory board of the Little Hoover Commission's study of Human Service Redesign, the National Learning Group on the Evaluation of Family Support, and the California State Attorney General's Task Force on Gang Violence. He also works with the Native Nations Institute of the Morris K. Udall Center for Public Policy at the University of Arizona on a continuing study of criminal justice institutions in Indian Country. He has written a number of papers and other publications on the above topics.

Mr. Wakeling has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Piedmont, California with his wife, Laura, and their three children.

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Marc Stuart

Private Equity Investor, Allotrope Ventures, East Bay, CA

Marc Stuart is a private equity investor in the carbon and clean energy space. His firm, Allotrope Ventures, seeks out early stage opportunities in technology and execution platforms that are positioned to thrive in the transition to the low carbon economy.

Prior to Allotrope, Marc co-founded EcoSecurities in 1997 and departed in the spring of 2010, following transition to full integration as a subsidiary of JP Morgan. With offices in 16 countries, EcoSecurities was a globally leading developer of greenhouse gas reduction projects and was publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange until it was purchased by JP Morgan in 2009. Marc was Director of New Business Development and also headed up the firms Government and Regulatory Affairs Group, providing the firms positions within the evolving policy and regulatory processes of the UN, EU, US and elsewhere. He has more than 16 years experience of international business development experience in carbon markets and clean energy development across more than 30 countries.

He sat for three years on the Board of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and was the Chair of IETA’s Project Developers Working Group. Outside the compliance carbon market, he is on the Board of the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association and co-chairs the VCS’s Forestry and Land-Use Projects working group. He was one of the founders of the US-based Coalition for Emission Reduction Projects (USCERP) and sits on the Advisory Boards of REEX Capital Asia (formerly the Singapore Renewable Energy Exchange) and Ecosystem marketplace.com. He is currently serving a two year term as one of two private sector observers to the World Bank’s $5B Clean Technology Fund. In January of 2009, he was named one of 30 “Green Heroes” by CNBC European Business magazine.

He has written extensively on a variety of aspects around the emergent GHG emission regime and is a frequent speaker and interview subject on global emissions trading and project based emissions reductions. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the London School of Economics and the Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.

In addition to CSF, Marc also sits on the board of directors for the Sustainable Fisheries Project.

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Lilian Painter

Wildlife ecologist, and Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society- Bolivia Country Program, La Paz, Bolivia

Lilian Painter received her PhD in Evolutionary Ecology from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, in 2000 and has since been working with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bolivia. Her expertise includes strategic conservation planning, wildlife and natural resource management, indigenous territorial management and protected area management.

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John Reid

CSF Founder & President, Sebastopol, California

John has worked in conservation since 1991, promoting the use of economics to address conservation challenges. John has pursued that goal through an innovative training program and by the example of practical, policy-relevant analyses on a number of themes in the Amazon, Central America and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. These issues include energy and transportation infrastructure, logging, ranching, protected areas and agriculture, among others. John founded Conservation Strategy Fund in 1998 after positions with Resources for the Future, Conservation International and Pacific Forest Trust. He designed CSF as an independent technical organization with the aim of spreading economics skills among conservation professionals. John’s work has appeared in many CSF publications, in Scientific American, Conservation Biology, Environment, the Journal of Political Economy, Megadiversidade and Ambio. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Bill White

Senior Vice President, David Gardiner & Associates, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Bill White has more than fifteen years experience developing and implementing public-private partnerships advancing action on energy and climate change. As Vice President of David Gardiner & Associates, Mr. White provides high-level strategic guidance to the corporate executives and non-profit organizations with whom DGA works. Among his principal areas of expertise are energy efficiency and the impacts of climate and energy upon corporations. Prior to joining DGA, he represented EPA's Energy Star program in New England and established successful energy efficiency initiatives with businesses, utilities, municipal governments, and colleges and universities. As Senior Advisor for Climate Change to EPA Administrator Carol Browner, he represented the EPA in White House climate change policy development and in negotiations with the G-8, China, and Mexico. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Conservation Strategy Fund. Mr. White holds a B.A. in Biology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University.