Rick is Senior Natural Resource Strategist for Sonen Capital, a San Francisco based impact investment firm. From 2011-2014, he was Co-managing General Partner of Sustainable Resource Fund (SRF), a start-up private equity fund investing in managers of rural real estate who add financial value using assorted conservation strategies. From 2000-2011 he was a Director and Senior Project Manager for The Lyme Timber Company. Prior to joining Lyme, Rick worked with The Pinchot Institute for Conservation and The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to develop and promote sustainable forestry programs in the U.S. He is a former State Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and for ten years was Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Africa Program. Rick was a founding board and former executive committee member of the National Alliance of Forest Owners. Rick earned a B.S. from Yale University in 1977 and a Master of Forest Science from Yale in 1983. He has been a member of the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) Board since 1999 and currently serves as President.

Tracy is a lawyer, an engineer, and a conservationist. After serving as a Commissioner at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, he founded The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), a non-governmental global organization dedicated to accelerating the transition to a clean, reliable, and efficient energy future. Currently, Tracy devotes about 25 percent of his time to RAP.

Tracy and his wife, Bambi Jones, moved to Maine in 1978 and began buying and conserving land. In 2010, Bambi and Tracy created Hidden Valley Nature Center (HVNC) and operated it on 1,000 acres of their land in Jefferson. In 2014, they were named Maine’s and the Northeast Region’s Outstanding Tree Farm for their decades of low-impact sustainable forestry and educational efforts. In 2016, HVNC participated in a four-way merger that created Midcoast Conservancy with the aim of transforming land trusts from passive holders of easements and land to an active entity seriously engaged in outdoor activities and low-impact sustainable forestry. Tracy is on the Board of the Midcoast Conservancy.

Bob is a Partner of Watermill Group, a Boston private equity investment firm. Previously he was President and subsequently Chairman of Sheffield Steel Corporation, President and CEO of Lincoln Pulp and Paper Co., Inc., President of Premoid Corporation and Vice President and Director of Preco Corporation. Bob graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Industrial Administration and received his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Business Policy at the Harvard Business School for six years and later taught in the Advanced Management Program. Earlier in his career, he worked for the accounting firm of Arthur Young & Co. and is a CPA. Bob is President of the Timber Owners of New England and the immediate past Chairman of The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Chapter. He is a Director of Aquacultural Research Corporation and The Appalachian Mountain Club. Bob joined the NEFF Board in 2009 and currently serves as the Treasurer.

Anne is a lawyer and impact investor who advises for-profit and nonprofit organizations seeking to advance social and environmental change through investing and social entrepreneurship. Prior to her consulting work, Anne served as associate general counsel to Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo; provided counsel from 1995 to 1998 to Fidelity Investments; and practiced corporate law in New York at Fox & Horan, where she advised foreign and U.S. corporations on their cross-border transactions. She serves on a variety of foundation, nonprofit, and corporate boards and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published books and articles in the areas of impact investing and emerging markets investing, and is a frequent speaker at national conferences on topics relating to impact investing. Anne joined the NEFF Board in 2017 and currently serves as the Board Clerk and Chair of the Governance Committee.

Chris joined NEFF’s Board in 2020 and serves on the Executive and Finance Committees. He has been interested in forests since childhood, having spent a good part of every year in the piney woods of South Georgia. Today, Chris oversees a family property in the Red Hills of South Georgia, managed for the production of wild bobwhite quail and a healthy long leaf pine forest.

At Yale University, he serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale School of the Environment and College of Forestry. Chris’s other activities at Yale include serving on the advisory boards of the Yale School of Music and the Yale University Libraries. He is a member of the Board of the Pioneer Institute, and is a Life Trustee of the North Shore-LIJ Health System on Long Island. Chris worked in financial services until his retirement in 2021. In addition to a Psychology degree from Yale, he has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Cam is the Director of Research at EPFR, an economic data business he helped establish that was acquired in 2010 by Informa Financial Intelligence. In his current role, Cameron directs a team of researchers who mine a database tracking over 135,000 mutual funds and ETFs around the world worth over $50 trillion in assets. Cam, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Yale University, has co-authored an IFR-published study of portfolio capital flows, produces regular reports on trends that emerge from EPFR’s data and contributes to publications including Fonds Europe, Institutional Investor and Africa Investor. He was previously managing editor of The WorldPaper, an international affairs supplement carried by papers in Latin America, Emerging Asia and the EMEA regions with a combined monthly circulation of over 1 million. Cam spends most of his time outside work with his two teenaged children. He is a keen angler, partaking in a pastime he sees as one of the last bastions of true social diversity. Cam joined the NEFF Board in 2020.

Emily is a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Brown Advisory, an independent investment management firm. She currently serves as portfolio manager of Brown Advisory’s Sustainable Small-Cap Core Strategy and assists with new sustainable investing product development. Prior to this role, Emily served as the director of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Equity Research at Brown Advisory, working to establish the firm’s ESG research process and team. A graduate of Smith College, Emily came to Brown Advisory with a breadth of experience in the Sustainable Investing space, having held research positions at Parnassus Investments, Sustainalytics, and the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative. She has been an active member of local sustainable investing groups, such as Women Investing in a Sustainable Economy (“WISE”) since 2014. In 2019, Emily was named to the SRI Conference’s list of “30 Under 30” sustainable investing professionals.

Since 1996, Michael has been a partner of McDonald Lehner, a specialized business brokerage firm that assists owners of privately held companies in raising capital or finding liquidity options. He is also a director at Leigh Fibers, LLC, family-held fiber and textile recycling company based in Wellford, SC and at ICE Recycling, LLC, a family-held industrial byproduct recycling company based in Lake City, SC. Before that, he was Chief Investment Officer at the Defense Enterprise Fund, a taxpayer-funded venture capital fund, authorized by Congress under the Nunn-Lugar Act of 1991, which invested in defense conversion projects in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Earlier, he spent ten years at Fletcher Spaght, Inc., a strategy-consulting firm that specialized in advising technology startups, as well as four years at Wang Laboratories, Inc., as a production engineer and manager. He earned a B.A from Harvard College in 1977, and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University in 1980. He joined the NEFF Board in 2019.

Henry Miller has more than 30 years of experience in communications and public affairs. He has orchestrated numerous award-winning and record-setting communications campaigns and has represented global and national environmental organizations. He is a Principal in the New York City-based consulting firm High Impact Partnering, where he raises the visibility of organizations and their top executives. He was previously Chief Operating Officer at Goodman Media International for 14 years and, before that, Managing Director at Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart (now Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide). Earlier, he spent 15 years in government, serving in the following capacities: Chief Executive Officer of New York ’92, which managed New York City’s hosting of the 1992 Democratic National Convention; Deputy Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Atlanta, responsible for external affairs; and Advisor to two U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations: Andrew Young and Donald McHenry. He won the U.S. State Department’s Superior Honor Award for his work on behalf of independence for Namibia. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Sociology from the University of Virginia.

Ryan joined NEFF in 2024 following 16 years as Executive Director of the Monadnock Conservancy, a land trust based in Keene, NH. A passionate advocate for both wild and working forests, he shares NEFF’s belief that Exemplary Forestry and the increased use of climate-smart, long-lived wood products in place of carbon-intensive materials are key to mitigating climate change. Ryan was a cofounding director and past president of the New Hampshire Land Trust Coalition, and he currently serves on the Land Trust Alliance Leadership Council. He holds a master’s degree from the Field Naturalist Program at University of Vermont and a B.A. in ecology from Dartmouth College. Ryan lives with his wife, Amy, and son, Henry, in Walpole, NH, where he enjoys telemark skiing, woodworking, and singing chamber music.

Jackie O’Connor is an independent nonprofit consultant with extensive experience in senior-level fund development and administrative/management positions with nonprofit organizations throughout New England. Since 2000, Jackie has consulted with NEFF and other organizations on a wide variety of special fundraising and conservation projects. As V.P. of Hiller Associates, she served as consulting capital campaign director for NEFF’s groundbreaking Pingree Forest Partnership land conservation campaign in Maine. She served as Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Crittenton Women’s Union (now EMPATH), as well as Director of Philanthropy at The Nature Conservancy Massachusetts, and has worked at several other New England conservation organizations including AMC, Manomet and The Greenway Conservancy. She has a B.S. from UMass Boston.

Todd is a partner with the law firm of Seder & Chandler, LLP, in Worcester, MA. He has developed a broad-ranging real estate practice representing individuals, real estate development companies, pension funds, REIT’s, financial institutions, nonprofits and others in connection with the acquisition, development, sale, leasing, management, permitting, construction and financing of commercial and residential properties. His work includes a special emphasis on the representation of not-for-profit corporations in connection with the permitting, financing and development of affordable housing. He serves on the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, he is the past President of Community Legal Aid of Central Massachusetts, and is a past director of the YMCA of Central Massachusetts and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Business Empowerment Center. Todd joined the NEFF Board in 2019.

John is a Vice President in the Forestry and Agriculture practice for The Rohatyn Group, which acquired his former employer, GMO Renewable Resources. He is also founder and President of Jedburgh Holdings, investing in timber and farmland throughout the northeastern U.S. and Canada. John was a founding member of the Tompkins Conservation Advisory Council and is a certified forester. John earned his B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a Master of Forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science. John joined the NEFF Board in 2019. He is a proud father and husband to a lovely wife who will one day let him fish more often.

Joe is the CEO of LandVest, Inc, a specialty forest management and real estate advisory firm. LandVest is a third-party certified forest manager of 2.5 million acres of client-owned forestlands in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Pacific Northwest. The firm also maintains a residential real estate brokerage division, appraisal & consulting group, and is the largest broker of institutional timberland in the U.S. A west-coast native, Joe began his career in operations with Pacific Lumber & Shipping in Washington state. He later worked in research and M&A for the Weyerhaeuser Company and Mistik Management. Joe graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Forest Management and Economics. He later earned a Master’s of Forest Economics from Yale University. Joe is Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Historical Society. He joined the NEFF Board in 2024.

Byron and Nancy Stutzman own a 540-acre forest in Hardwick and Ware, MA, and an inholding in the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia. Byron graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, then went on to MIT (S.M in mechanical engineering and M.E.), and later, Harvard to study history and French (A.L.M. in each), biology, chemistry, geology, and economics. He was a cofounder and vice president of Computer System Architects, a supplier of software for measuring and managing the performance of application programs. He studied at 10 Eagle Hill Field Seminars in biology and forest ecosystems at the Humboldt Field Research Institute in Maine. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of American Foresters, Forest Stewards Guild, Massachusetts Forest Alliance, New England Botanical Society, and American Bryological and Lichenological Society. Byron served on the Board from 2009 to 2019, and after a year off, he was reelected in 2020.

Elizabeth is a senior project manager with POWER Engineers specializing in strategic communications and environmental permitting. She began her career at the Maine Audubon Society, overseeing a team of foresters advising landowners on selective harvesting for firewood production. After obtaining a Master of Forestry from Yale in 1983, she worked for NEFF on the Pingree Forest and Downeast Lakes Conservation Easements, and for the Forest Society of Maine on the West Branch Conservation Easement. Elizabeth was the President of Barton & Gingold, a boutique consulting firm where she focused primarily on renewable energy and land planning projects. For decades she orchestrated stakeholder communications and mediated disputes over siting issues. She served as chair of Maine’s quasi-judicial Land Use Regulation Commission, where she presided over complex, multi-party hearings on a wide range of issues and projects. More recently, she has focused on solar energy and electric infrastructure projects to address climate change. Elizabeth has served on numerous environmental boards and is Vice President of the Vinalhaven Land Trust.