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Rainforest Alliance Board of Directors
Daniel R. Katz, Chairman, is Co-Founder of the Rainforest Alliance and served as Executive Director from it founding in 1986 until June 2000. Under his leadership, the organization has grown in size and scope and now has a staff of 50 professionals in three offices -- New York, Vermont and Costa Rica. A 1989 Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, Mr. Katz serves as an adviser and board member of several conservation organizations, including Earth Love Fund and the World Parks Endowment, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His published work includes Tales from the Jungle: A Rainforest Reader (Crown), as well as chapters and essays in various books and magazines. He received his MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Daniel is currently consulting for a number of start-up businesses, a private foundation and is the president of JustChange, a new organization working to help individuals and nonprofit organizations make strategic social and environmental change.
Labeeb M. Abboud, Esq., Vice Chairman, is Group Counsel to American Express Bank, Ltd., working in international corporate law and finance. Previously he was an attorney with Shearman & Sterling in New York. Mr. Abboud has served as pro bono counsel to the Alliance and a variety of other non-profit organizations, and has also been an active participant with Junior Achievement and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Mr. Abboud has served as a director of the Alliance since 1988, and is also a director of Shackleton Schools and Global Kids, as well as a member of the Alumni Council of Phillips Andover Academy and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Georgetown University Law Center.
Kerri Anderson-Corn, graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Marketing. From 1981 until 1991, she worked in commercial real estate sales for Grubb & Ellis, receiving distinguished honors as a top producer. Kerri is a representative of Southern California's EarthShare, and serves as a public speaker for the Combined Federal Campaign in San Diego. In 1992, Kerri opened the West Coast office of the Rainforest Alliance.
Dr. Noel Brown was until recently the North American Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Dr. Brown has been affiliated with the United Nations for nearly twenty years, during which time he initiated and led a wide variety of important international efforts, including the Global 500 Award and the "Art in Service for the Earth" series. He serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Aspen Global Change Institute, Environmental Media Associates and the Global Business Forum.
Henry P. Davison II is a graduate of Yale University and is Senior Vice President of Estates and Appraisals at Christie's. He is also involved with several other nonprofit organizations, including the Citizen's Committee for New York City. In 1994 he was awarded the Croix Rouge Française by the International League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He ran the 1995 New York Marathon and takes pride in having climbed the highest peak in Costa Rica.
Robert M. Hallman is a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City, where he heads the Environmental Practice Group. He currently serves on the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar, and on the American Bar Association's Section of the Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law. He has held several governmental positions in the environmental field and also been published in several environmental law journals. He is a graduate of Williams College and University of Virginia Law School.
David L. Hendrickson is a Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, Consultants in Executive Search. At Heidrick & Struggles, David has managed both domestic and international assignments for a broad range of industries. In 1990, he was named to their board of directors. David also has over ten years of experience in marketing and management at IBM.
Diane Jukofsky is Director of the Rainforest Alliance's Conservation Media Center in Costa Rica. The Center publicizes conservation efforts and issues in the Neotropics, trains conservationists in communications skills, and educates journalists in environmental reporting techniques. She serves on the board of World Teach/Costa Rica. Formerly, Jukofsky was Vice President of the Scientists' Institute for Public Information.
Henry E. Juszkiewicz is Chairman and owner of Gibson USA, the Nashville-based guitar company. Mr. Juszkiewicz is a member of the Society of International Business Fellows. He is also active with organizations ranging from Nordoff-Robbins, which provides music therapy for severely handicapped children, to the T.J. Martell Fund for Leukemia Research. He is a board member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, a board member of the Beale Street Blues Company, Inc. and Executive Vice President of the Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association.
Mrs. Theodore W. Kheel (Ann) has extensive experience as a civic worker. She has served on various boards including the New York Urban League, and was Chairman for eight years of the New York State Parks & Recreation and Historic Preservation Commission for the City of New York. Mrs. Kheel has held numerous positions including information specialist in the Department of Agriculture, and editor of the Land Policy Review in Washington D.C.
Elaine LeBuhn, originally from North Carolina, has extensive background in the development and administrative areas of nonprofit organizations. She was Director of Development for The Aspen Institute, an international leadership and educational organization, until 1995. Currently, she is affiliated with the International Peace Academy as well as The Rocky Mountain Institute. She is a devoted conservationist and convinced that the Rainforest Alliance can make a difference!
Kelly Chapman Meyer received a marketing degree from the University of Colorado before managing several high-end women's clothing boutiques in southern California. She is an avid conservationist and is involved with other nonprofit organizations, including Teach for America and the Venice Family Clinic. Ms. Meyer is a Contributing Editor of Harper's Bazaar magazine.
Elizabeth F. Rosini is a human resources professional with twenty years of experience in executive search and corporate human resources management. She is currently Vice President of Human Resources for PRIMEDIA Inc.'s Consumer Magazine Division. Betsy has been involved with the Rainforest Alliance since 1996 in a consulting capacity. She is a nature and animal lover, and mother of five-year-old Edward. Along with husband Neil, a NYC entertainment attorney, they reside in Montclair, New Jersey.
Patricia J. Scharlin is a consultant in environment and development. She is also a principal in the Environment Group which specializes in environmental policy, planning and communications. Ms. Scharlin also serves as the international editor of the Environment Group's newsletter, Environment, Health, and Safety Management. She previously served as Director of the Sierra Club's International Office and Program.
Judith P. Sulzberger, M.D. serves on the boards of the NY Zoological -Wildlife Conservation Society, the New York Times Company, and the Pasteur Foundation, a New York branch of the Pasteur Institute in France. She is also a member of the Health Sciences Visiting Council of Columbia University and Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Columbia Genome Center.
Martin Tandler is President and Principal of Tandler Textile, Inc., an international apparel fabric company based in New York City. He serves as President of the Textile Distributors Association. Mr. Tandler, active in public education, has taught in Harlem and presently serves on the Board of the DOME Project, an alternative school in Manhattan for minority students.
Jacqueline Weld Drake is a writer and a businesswoman. She is the Chairman of the Board of Casita Maria, Inc. -- the oldest hispanic settlement house operating in the South Bronx and Spanish Harlem. She is a Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council and of International Planned Parenthood Federation - Western Hemisphere Organization. She is also a member of the International Council of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico.
Chris Wille is Director of the Rainforest Alliance's Conservation Agriculture Program which is part of the international Conservation Agriculture Network. He and Diane Jukofsky oversee Alliance programs in Mexico and Central America. A biologist and journalist, Wille formerly served as vice-president for conservation information of the National Audubon Society. He has worked in public information, conservation activism and environmental education for national groups and state agencies in Washington, DC, Guam and Oklahoma.
Alan Wilzig is the Senior Executive Vice President of The Trust Company of New Jersey. He is active in his community, participates on committees of the New Jersey Bankers Association, the Journal Square Restoration Corporation and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and heads the new hospital subcommittee of the Liberty Healthcare System. Mr. Wilzig graduated in 1987 from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. William Ziff (Ann) is a major supporter of environmental conservation and education at the global level, and an active participant in conservation and restoration at the local level. Mrs. Ziff is a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera, a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., a member of the National Council of the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Chairman of the Board of THE SMILE TRAIN. She is also the founder and producer of the Caribbean Community Theater in St. Croix and is a Fairchild Tropical Garden Fellow.
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