Ellie Cohen - PRBO President and CEO
Ellie came to PRBO Conservation Science in 1999 with extensive management, fundraising and policy expertise.  Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Ellie received her undergraduate degree with honors in Botany (focus on ecology) from Duke University.  Field studies in butterfly ecology brought her to California in 1979. 

She later received her Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where she was honored with the Policy Analysis Exercise Award for highly distinguished performance and the first annual Robert F. Kennedy Public Service Award. 

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Brett Robertson, Vice Chair
Former Senior Vice President and General Counsel StubHub, Inc.; Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Ask Jeeves, Inc.; former Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel, Critical Path, Inc.; former General Counsel, Broderbund Software, Inc.; co-founder, Neurogesx, Inc.; practiced law with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, O’Melveny & Myers, and Cooley Godward et al. Advisory Board Member Public Radio International. JD, University of Virginia School of Law; BA, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, UC Berkeley.

Carolyn Johnson, Immediate Past Chair
PRBO former Capital Campaign chair, President of the Fledgling Fund, a philanthropic family foundation; former Vice President and Treasurer of The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation; member of education, executive, restoration and finance committees; Co-founder and Secretary/Treasurer of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy; co-founder, Sonoma Wildlife Rehabilitation Center; member, Society of Wetland Scientists and Society of Ecological Restoration. MA, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park; BA, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington.

Katie Beacock, Finance Committee Chair
Owner, Seadrift Company Realtors; Current Chair, Finance Committee, member of the Development committee, member of Leadership committee, member of Capital Campaign committee, PRBO; President, Zero Breast Cancer, formerly known as Marin Breast Cancer Watch; Past President, Marin Association of Realtors; Past President, Hospice by the Bay Foundation Board; Past Board member Hospice by the Bay Governing Board; Former Board Member, Audubon Canyon Ranch; Former Docent, Audubon Canyon Ranch.

Martha Ehmann Conte, Director
Current member William Kent Society Advisory Board of Golden Gate Parks Conservancy, Trails Forever dinner committee and Gateway High School luncheon committee; former Board Member of The Little School, Annual Gala Co-Chair of Cathedral School for Boys, Reunions Co-Chair--Princeton University, Discovery Council--Bay Area Discovery Museum, Board Member and Vice Chair--St. James Preschool; former Brand Strategy Consultant and Director--self-employed and Prophet Brand Strategy; former Management Supervisor--McCann-Erickson, VP/Account Supervisor--Ogilvy & Mather; A.B, Economics, Princeton University.

John Eadie, PhD, Director
Professor and Dennis G. Raveling Professor in Waterfowl Biology, Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis; former Associate Professor and Full Member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto; invited Member, North American Waterfowl Management Plan Assessment Steering Committee and Adaptive Harvest Management Joint Task Force, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; Associate Editor, Wildlife Society Bulletin; member, Joint Venture Evaluation Team, Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture; Wenner-Gren Visiting Scholar, Department of Wildlife Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Sweden. PhD, Zoology, University of British Columbia; MSc, Queen's University, Ontario; BSc Honors, University of Western Ontario.

Edith Eddy, Director
Former Executive Director, Compton Foundation; former program officer, David and Lucile Packard Foundation; co-director, Action Research Liaison Office, Stanford University; instructor in Biology and Assistant Dean of Admissions, Swarthmore College;
Board member, National Wildlife Refuge Association; former Chair, Environmental Grantmakers Association; lead founder, Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights; Advisory Board Member, the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development, Coyote Point Museum, Global Philanthropy Forum, and Consultative Group on Biological Diversity;  participant, Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro and Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing; M. Ed. from Harvard University, B.A. in Biology, Swarthmore College.

Rob Faucett, Director
Museum Collections Manager, Burke Museum, University of Washington; former Instructor, Louisiana
State University, Department of Biological Sciences; Board Member and Science Committee Chair, Seattle Audubon Society; treasurer, Washington Ornithological Society; member, fundraising committee, Burke Museum Association. MS, Ecology and Evolution, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; BS in Biology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Simon Francis, Director
Founding Partner, Lancor Partners LLC; former Partner, CTPartners (the former Christian & Timbers), former Practice Leader, Private Equity, CTPartners; former Associate and Principal, Heidrick & Struggles; Lord Foley Scholar, London School of Economics; Law Degree, Inns of Court School of Law, Grays Inn, London; recognized by Silicon Valley Business Journal’s ’40 under 40; featured in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune Magazine and Financial Times.

Jeffery Kimball, Director
Member, Board of Directors, The Kimball Foundation; Member, Board of Directors, The Acorn Foundation; made a number of award-winning short dramas, documentaries and experimental films;  worked in the film industry as a filmmaker, director, executive producer and music supervisor, working closely with directors such as Gus Van Sant, Robert Altman, and Julian Schnabel; currently producing and directing an hour-long documentary that he originated, about the birds and birders of New York’s Central Park, and developing ideas for further films; manages investments and runs a commercial real estate holding company with his siblings; M.F.A. from New York University and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Jim Quinn, Ph.D., Director, Science Advisory Committee Chair
Professor, Environmental Science and Policy and Director, Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis; former Lecturer in Biology, University of Pennsylvania; Head, California Node of the National Biological Information Infrastructure; NSF-ITR Science on the Semantic Web: Prototypes in Bioinformatics; principal investigator on numerous state, federal, and international projects applying geographic information technology to public policy on biodiversity, land use, water quality, and climate change; Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Washington, A.B. cum laude, Biology, Harvard University.

Mark Reynolds, Ph.D., Director
Associate Director of Science , California North and Central Coast  Region , The Nature Conservancy; Adjunct Professor, Dept. Biology, San Francisco State University;  Previous appointments: Senior Project Ecologist-Emerging Projects, The Nature Conservancy; Executive Director, Field Research Stations, San Diego State University; Co-Director  Sedgwick Reserve , UC Natural Reserve System, UC Santa Barbara;  Research Biologist, UC Santa Barbara; Co-Manager, Sagehen Creek Field Station , UC Berkeley;  Research Associate, UC Berkeley; Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest; Member, Society for Conservation Biology, Cooper Ornithological Society, American Field Ornithologists, and North American Bird Banding Association; Ph.D., Zoology, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Biology, Idaho State University; B.A. Biology, University of Iowa. 

Terry Root, PhD, Director
Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Biology, by courtesy, Institute for International Studies, Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Stanford University; Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources & Environment; Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow; Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment Program; Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation; lead author, Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Cooper Ornithological Society; Former Fellow, Elective Member, American Ornithologists’ Union. PhD, Biology, Princeton University; MA, Biology, University of Colorado; BS in Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico.

Langdon Stevenson, Director
Member Wilson Ornithological Society, Cornell Lab for Ornithology, and Marin Audubon Society. Former President and Director, Command Money Fund; former faculty member, Hackley School; former Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Director, Prudential-Bache Securities; former Director, Constitution Reinsurance Company; former Vice President, Bankers Trust Company; former board member and Development Director, American Birding Association; former Vice President and Editor, National Audubon Society, Hudson Valley Chapter; former Director, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County; former board member and Bird-A-Thon Chair, PRBO Conservation Science; former Mayor and Trustee, Irvington, New York; graduate work at N.Y.U. Graduate School of Business Administration and Wharton School; B.A. in History, Princeton University.

Honorary Board Members

Laurie Talcott, CFO and Treasurer
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