CSF Board of Directors

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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 include energy and transportation infrastructure, logging, ranching, environmental valuation 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, service-oriented and technical organization with the aim of spreading economics skills among conservation professionals. The organization has evolved into an international team of 10 people, 12 university fellows and instructors and a network of over 725 training graduates. 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.

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Stewart Wakeling

CSF Board Chair, Senior Program Officer, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

Stewart Wakeling is Senior Program Officer at the Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco. Prior to joining the Haas, Jr. Fund, he 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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Linwood Pendleton

CSF Board Secretary, Director of Ocean and Coastal Policy, Nicholas Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Linwood Pendleton is the Director of Ocean and Coastal Policy at the Nicholas Institute at Duke University. 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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Robert Hambrecht

CSF Board Treasurer, CFO Greenlife International

Robert Hambrecht is 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 is providing financial leadership to Greenlife as it seeks investment and is helping manage its key partnerships in Argentina as it structures 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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Peter Rogers

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.