Board Members Archive - Forest Trends

Linda Coady

Will Tucker — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:56:23 +0000

Linda Coady is a subject matter expert on corporate sustainability, with a track record of helping to solve issues with complex social, environmental, and economic interdependencies. She recently retired from her role as Executive Director of the Pembina Institute.

Prior to joining the Pembina Institute, she was Chief Sustainability Officer of Enbridge, with responsibility for the company’s social and environmental performance at an enterprise-wide level. Linda served as Vice-President of Sustainability for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. She is also a former Vice-President of World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada), and a former Vice-President of Weyerhaeuser Canada.

Ms. Coady’s work on sustainable development has been recognized with awards from Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, the Ecological Society of America, the YWCA, and the Globe Foundation for Business and Environment. From 2010-2012 she was a Distinguished Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She has consulted locally and globally on sustainability issues in the forestry, mining, shipping and sport industries, as well as in the environmental conservation sector.

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Joseph F. Azrack

Genevieve Bennett — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:14:10 +0000

Joseph Azrack is the principal owner of Azrack & Company, a real estate investment and advisory firm based in New York City. He is a board and investment committee member of Regency Centers (NYSE: “REG”), the Berkshire Group, and Safanad, Inc. Previously, Mr. Azrack was the Chairman and Managing Partner of Apollo Global Real Estate. At that time, he was also a member of the Apollo Global Management (NYSE: “APO”) Senior Management Committee, and Chairman and CEO of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE: “ARI”).

Mr. Azrack has over 30 years experience in real estate investment, management and development. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Azrack was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Citi Property Investors (“CPI”) where he chaired the firm’s Management and Investment Committees and directed investment policy and strategy. While at Citi, he was also a member of the Citigroup Alternative Investments Management and Investment Committees, and a member of Citi Infrastructure Investment Committee. Prior to joining CPI, he was Chief Executive and Chairman of AEW Capital Management, L.P., and Founder and Chairman of AEW Europe. While at AEW, Mr. Azrack was the lead partner and board member of numerous public and private investee portfolio companies and operating platforms.

In 2015, Mr Azrack was appointed by Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo as the Chairman of the Rhode Island I-195 Redevelopment District Commission, in which capacity he served until 2018. Mr. Azrack holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Villanova University. He is Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business where he created the curriculum for and teaches Real Estate Entrepreneurship. He is a member of, and for many years chaired, the Business School’s Millstein Center Real Estate Advisory Board. Mr. Azrack is a member and past Chairman of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and a member and former Trustee, Officer and Director of the Urban Land Institute. He is also a 2020 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow.

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David Brand

Will Tucker — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:40:51 +0000

David Brand has over 35 years’ experience in business management, investment management, science, public policy, public administration, and international affairs working with a wide range of public and private sector organisations in the forestry sector of Canada and Australia. He is founder and CEO of international investment management business New Forests and also is an Executive Director and Chair of the Investment Committees and Management Committees of the firm. He is currently Chair of sawmilling business Timberlink Australia New Zealand, Chair of Tasmanian forestry business Forico, a Director of Forest Trends, and a Trustee of Bangkok-based Inter-governmental organization The Centre for People and Forests. He has published widely on the international forestry sector and speaks at a range of conferences on forests, climate change and responsible investment.

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Richard Burrett

Will Tucker — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:43:28 +0000

Richard Burrett is a Partner at Earth Capital Partners – a company specializing in investments that address the challenges of sustainable development. He has spent over 30 years involved in international finance. As Global Head of Project Finance at ABN AMRO he was instrumental in the creation of the Equator Principles, a market-recognized standard for managing environmental and social risk issues in project financing and went on to become Global Head of Sustainability. Richard is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Senior Adviser to the Earth Security Group. He is a FMO nominated non-Exec Board Director of Union Bank of Nigeria and former Co-Chair of the UNEP Financial Initiative.

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Sally Collins

Will Tucker — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:59:56 +0000

Sally Collins has spent more than 35 years in natural resource management. She worked for the Department of Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management in Wilderness, Environmental Planning. and Energy Minerals policy in Colorado, as a land use planner for the Siuslaw National Forest, and as the Forest Supervisor for the Deschutes National Forest in Bend, OR. In 2000, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she served as Associate Chief for the U.S. Forest Service for 13 years. In 2008, she was selected as the first Director of the USDA Office of Environmental Markets, working for the Secretary of Agriculture to promote markets for ecosystem services provided by farms, forests, and ranches across the country. She left the federal government in 2010 and has been consulting for various organizations on international forestry, climate change, and environmental markets. She has chaired the Lyons, CO Watershed and Flood Recovery Board since the 2013 catastrophic flood that destroyed 20% of the town’s infrastructure.

She received her BS from the University of Colorado and her Master’s from the University of Wyoming in Political Science and Natural Resource Management.

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Whitney Debevoise

Verena Manolis — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:27:54 +0000

Whitney Debevoise is a partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter and a specialist in sovereign finance and US international economic policy. He served as US Executive Director at the World Bank and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Bretton WoUods Committee. He has lived and worked in Argentina, Brazil, France, and the UK and speaks French, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is the owner of a small wood lot in Vermont.

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John E. Earhart

Cheyenne Coxon — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 20:26:45 +0000

John is the co-founding partner of the Global Environment Fund (GEF), a US-based financial advisory group with over $1 billion in global private equity placements since 1990. GEF focuses investments on businesses that improve the environment, quality of human life, and the sustainable management of natural resources. Although recently stepping down as firm chairman, he continues to serve as a director of portfolio companies and on investment committees of GEF-managed funds. Mr. Earhart served as Managing Director of GEF’s Emerging Markets Forestry Fund and chairs the investment committee of the Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund. He also sits on for-profit and non-profit boards not related to GEF. Earhart has been active in the international environmental and conservation fields for more than 45 years and has lived and worked in several countries. He is an environmental resource management graduate of California State University, Sacramento and holds a Master’s of Forestry degree from Yale University.

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Robert “Bob” Fanch

Genevieve Bennett — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:57:23 +0000

Robert “Bob” Fanch has more than 38 years of experience in organizing and managing businesses, with the longest portion of his career devoted to the telecommunications industry. Mr. Fanch was the founder as well as Chairman and CEO of Fanch Communications, Inc. (FCI). FCI was one of the top fifteen cable television MSOs in the country, managing more than 600,000 customers, including approximately 525,000 subscribers in a joint venture with Time Warner and The Blackstone Group. FCI was purchased by Charter Communications in November of 1999.

In 1996 Mr. Fanch founded FiberNet, LLC, and 1999, Conversent Communications, LLC, each a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) that served the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States, respectively. Mr. Fanch served as Conversent’s Chairman and CEO from June 1998 through the spring of 2000, and as Chairman through the successful sale of the company in June 2006. Mr. Fanch was also Chairman of FiberNet. In 2003 Mr. Fanch acquired Northeast Data Vault, LLC, a commercial data center located near Boston, Massachusetts.

In 2007, Mr. Fanch founded Viridian Capital Partners, an $80 million capital fund with investments in data centers, tower sites, a mobile marketing/technology company, and one of the largest online wedding vendor advertising platforms. He has also engaged in real estate development through various entities, most recently completing redevelopment of one of the last great historic buildings in Denver.

Growing up near the Adirondack Mountains, Mr. Fanch has always admired the great lodges and beauty of the mountains. Disappointed with developers who did not have plans to preserve the beauty of the land, he created Devil’s Thumb Ranch, an environmentally-friendly resort on 6,000 acres in Tabernash, Colorado. Travel + Leisure magazine recently named Devil’s Thumb one of the top 20 “sustainable” resorts in the world and the only resort in North America to be awarded this honor. The mission to use sustainable materials and eco-friendly practices was so successful that in 2004, the US Environmental Protection Agency honored Devil Thumb’s Ranch for measures such as using geo-thermal energy to heat the cabins and other buildings, and building an eco-friendly wastewater treatment system.

Mr. Fanch also spearheaded the creation of the Headwaters Center and Headwaters River Journey located in Winter Park, Colorado. Situated right along the Fraser River, the museum focuses on the local ecosystem, the real issues it faces, such as diversions to the Front Range and rising temperatures, and features local stories of people taking steps to preserve Grand County’s rivers. Visitors are able to learn through reading, watching videos, and interacting with over 30 exhibits such as the Headwaters River Journey. This exhibit takes visitors on a journey to discover where their water comes from, the details of the river environment, how water is used and wasted, and what is being done to protect this precious resource. This Headwaters River Journey is the only off-the-grid exhibit in the country, powered completely by solar, and utilizes local beetle kill wood and old water flumes in the design.

Mr. Fanch is a Certified Public Accountant and has a B.S. degree in Accounting from Clarkson University. He earned an MSBA-Finance degree from the University of Denver.

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Lyndon Haviland

Genevieve Bennett — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:15:00 +0000

Lyndon Haviland holds a masters and doctorate degree in public health from Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, and has completed Advanced Management & Leadership training at Harvard Business School. In 1993, she was awarded The John and Kathleen Gorman Public Health Humanitarian Award from Columbia University.

With more than 30 years experience in domestic and international public health, Dr. Haviland has worked with a wide range of organizations including UNAIDS, the UN Department of Public Information, the UN Foundation, UN Women, the UN Development Program, the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Medical Corps, the CUNY School of Public Health, the American Public Health Association (APHA), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS), the American Legacy Foundation, Earth Echo International, GAVI, Darkness to Light, Policy Wisdom, Forest Trends, and the Aspen Institute.

Highly respected as a leader, moderator, speaker, author, and fundraiser, Lyndon has advised heads of state and agency leaders on maternal and child health, access to vaccines, sexual and reproductive health, tobacco control, and health promotion/disease prevention. She is a passionate advocate for human rights and is dedicated to bringing individuals and organizations together to achieve lasting social change.

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Miguel Serediuk Milano

Will Tucker — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 18:35:57 +0000

Miguel is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Instituto LIFE (Brazil), Director of Permian Global in Brazil, and also owner and director of consulting firm Milano Consultoria & Planejamento. A former professor of Universidade Federal do Parana and visiting professor at Colorado State University, he is also member of the governing boards of FUNBIO (the Brazilian Fund of Biodiversity), Fundo Vale, Fundação Neotropica do Brasil, and environmental news website Associacao O Eco.

Miguel holds a bachelor’s degree in Forest Engineering and master’s and doctoral degrees in Forest Science, all from the Universidade Federal do Paraná. Miguel’s main areas of work include natural resources conservation and protected areas management, land and open space planning and management, urban forestry, and sustainability more broadly. As a coordinator, consultant, or member of technical teams he worked on over 35 projects dealing with those issues, including projects for the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, GTZ, and Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (Germany). He has also authored or co-authored more than 80 published papers, and advised close to 30 Msc Thesis and Doctorate dissertations while a professor at Universidade Federal d Parana (1981-2004).

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