Board and Staff

Officers

Edward Soule

Chairman

Georgetown University

Nancy Mackinnon

Vice-Chair

Former Vice President, The Nature Conservancy

Vadim Nikitine

Secretary

President, Commercial Centers Management

Angus Parker

Treasurer

Conservation Consultant

Wendy Paulson

Chair Emerita

Chair Emerita

Trustees

Edith McBean

Wildlife Conservation Society ; Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Scott Amero

Former Vice Chairman and Global Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income of BlackRock

Anita Bekenstein

Overseer of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Friends of City Year International, Mercy Corps

Melissa Shackleton Dann

Board Chair, Flora & Fauna International

Mark DiMassimo

CEO and Chief Creative Officer, DiMassimo Goldstein

Hannelore Grantham

Executive Director, Grantham Foundation for Protection of the Environment

Dan Heath

Best-selling author; columnist Fast Company magazine

Barbara Hernandez

President and co-founder of Niños y Crías

Duncan M. McFarland

The Bromley Charitable Trust

Lois Morrison

Executive Director, Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation

Jan Portman

Trustee, The Nature Conservancy of Montana

Anne Martin Simonds

Russell Reynolds Associates

Ruth Yeoh

Executive Director, YTL Singapore Pte Ltd

Ron Gonen

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, RecycleBank

Steve Gaines

Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB

Joseph Ellis

Board member, The Wilderness Society and National Audubon Society

Gustavo Fonseca

Head of the natural resources management team at the Global Environment Fund

Honary Trustees

Kenneth Berlin, Esq.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

David Hill

Federal Express Corporation

Robert S. Ridgely, Ph.D.

American Bird Conservancy

RarePlanet Advisory Board

Charlie Brown

Founder, Opiquo

Geoff Livingston

Chief Marketing Officer, Zoetica

Angus Parker

Conservation Consultant

Jason Seiken

Senior Vice President, Interactive, Product Development and Innovation

Tim O'Shaughnessy

CEO and Co-founder, LivingSocial

Rare's Senior Staff

Brett Jenks

President and CEO

Arlington

Dale Galvin

Chief Operating Officer

Arlington

Paul Butler

Senior Vice President, Global Programs

Arlington

Martha Piper

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Growth

Arlington

Steve Watkins

Vice President, Pride English Program

Arlington

Keith Alger

Vice President, Latin America

Arlington

Sabina Puppo

Vice President, Talent

Arlington

Oly Bracho

Vice President, Finance and Operations

Arlington

Jason Anderson

Vice President, Marketing

Arlington

Jianguo Cui

Vice President, China

China

Taufiq Alimi

Vice President, Indonesia

Indonesia