Ecotrust Staff
Management
Spencer B. Beebe
President
Spencer Beebe is a fourth generation Portlander who spent fourteen years with the Nature Conservancy before helping found Conservation International in 1987. In 1991, he founded Ecotrust to focus his work on the rain forests of home. He serves on the boards of Ecotrust and Ecotrust Canada, Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc., the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute and Walsh Construction Company of Portland.
Edward Backus
Vice President, Fisheries
Ed Backus holds an MFS from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He worked for eight years at The Nature Conservancy International and at Conservation International before moving to Oregon in 1993. He was the president and co-founder of Interrain Pacific, a non-profit organization leading the development of public access to geographic information systems (GIS), which has since been integrated into the work of Ecotrust Knowledge Systems. Ed is chair of the board of the Prince William Sound Science Center in Cordova, Alaska.
Brent Davies
Vice President, Forests and Ecosystem Services
Brent Davies has been supporting locally-led efforts to help restore the economic and environmental resilience of rural communities for the past 17 years. Prior to joining Ecotrust, Brent was the executive director of a coastal watershed restoration and education center. She also spent two years working in a remote village in Costa Rica where she taught a group of women how to raise and sell live butterflies. She earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources.
Rick George
Vice President of Policy & Indigenous Affairs
Rick George joined Ecotrust in 2011. Prior to this, Rick spent more than 20 years with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, as the Program Manager for Rights Protection and Environmental Planning. In this role, he was charged with the development and implementation of strategic plans to protect tribal treaty rights to natural resources. George brings to Ecotrust extensive experience with tribal water rights settlement strategies in the lower 48 states, watershed scale stream flow and habitat restoration, and the development and funding of new natural resource programs. In addition, George has three decades of public policy and complex negotiations experience in the natural resource and tribal policy sectors.
Adam Lane
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
Adam Lane earned his MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in mathematics and economics from Pomona College. Prior to Ecotrust, Adam served as a senior manager of finance integration for the Intel Corporation, working with Intel-acquired companies to insure integration of business systems, financial processes and staffing. He serves on the boards of Celilo Group Media and the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center.
Astrid Scholz
Executive Vice President
Dr. Astrid Scholz, an ecological economist by training, received her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. Astrid is an affiliate faculty member of Oregon State University's College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences program, and is co-editor of Place Matters, a book on integrated marine geographic information systems that OSU Press published in 2005. She serves on the boards of the Pacific Marine Conservation Council and the Living Oceans Society, and is a member of the Science and Technical Team of the Oil Spill Recovery Institute.
Bettina von Hagen
CEO, Ecotrust Forest Management
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Staff
Nancy Bales, Director of Development
Beck Barger, Marine Planning Field Staff
Sam Beebe, Communications
Allison Bidlack, Science Coordinator, Copper River Program
Jennifer Bloeser, Marine Planning Business Manager
Jon Bonkoski, Senior GIS Analyst
Oakley Brooks, Senior Writer
Ericka Carlson, Director, Food & Farms
Kate Carone, Whole Watershed Restoration Program Coordinator
Cheryl Chen, Marine Planning Project Manager
Steve Dettman, Forest Carbon Program Manager
Emily Dietrich, Development Coordinator
Chad Derosier, Event Spaces Logistics Manager
Kimberly Elkin, Program Assistant/Water Resources Coordinator, Copper River Program
Robert Ellis, Systems Technician
A'Nova Ettien, Grant Writer & Manager
Analisa Fenix, GIS Manager & Chief Cartographer
Scott Fletcher, Applications Developer
Laura Ford, Editor, Edible Portland, Food & Farms
Megan Foucht, FoodHub Membership Coordinator
Andrew Fuller, Art Director
Taylor Hesselgrave, Economic Analyst
Ryan Hodges, Applications Developer
Carolyn Holland, Director of Communications
Cathy Kellon, Director, Water & Watersheds Program
Jeanne Kubal, Event Sales & Marketing Manager
Nick Lyman, GIS Technician
Megan Mackey, Fisheries Policy Associate
Gabe McMahan, GIS Analyst, Copper River Program
Sydney Mead, Director of Events, Natural Capital Center Programs Manager, LEED AP
Mike Mertens, Director of Spatial Analysis, GIS Manager
Lola Milholland, Marketing & Communications Manager, Food & Farms
Courtney Moss, Office Manager
Amanda Oborne, FoodHub Director
Matt Perry, Senior Applications Developer
Alice Price, Financial Analyst
Willa Rabinovitch, Staff Accountant
Jennifer Richards, Development Coordinator
Robin Rogers, New Market Tax Credits Accounting and Compliance Officer
Gladys Ruiz, Night Porter
Kristen Sheeran, Acting Director, Knowledge Systems; Director, Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3)
Leigh Ann Shelton, Controller
Howard Silverman, Senior Writer and Analyst
Stacey Sobell, Farm to School Manager, Food & Farms
Alex Speaks, Director of Information Technology
Charles Steinback, Director of Marine Planning
Ofelia Svart, Assistant to the President
Jocelyn Tutak, GIS Analyst
Erica McCall Valentine, Director of Copper River Program
Leanne Weiss, Marine Planning Program Associate and Field Staff Coordinator
Tim Welch, Applications Developer
Yveline Wilnau, Natural Capital Center Gardener
