Board of Directors Biographical Summaries

Kenneth Berlin, of Potomac, Maryland, practiced environmental law with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.  Mr. Berlin is the former Chief of the Wildlife Marine Resources Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as Counsel and Legislative Director of Wildlife Programs for the National Audubon Society.  He has extensive international experience representing environmental groups during negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and World Trade Organization agreements.  Mr. Berlin has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation and is a member of the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund. Ken also previously served nine years on the Board of ABC including six as Chair.

Martha Boudreau, serves as General Manager of Fleishman-Hillard’s Washington, DC office, one of the largest offices of the firm’s more than 80 offices worldwide. As General Manager, Ms. Boudreau is responsible for overseeing client service, financial operations, and 150 account staff. Her prime areas of expertise are public affairs, crisis communications, and reputation management. Prior to joining Fleishman-Hillard, Ms. Boudreau served as Director of Research for the Columbia Institute for Political Research and as a Legislative Assistant to Congressman David Bonior. In 1996, Ms. Boudreau received Fleishman-Hillard’s John D. Graham Award for Excellence, which is awarded annually to the most outstanding individual among the agency’s employees worldwide. Ms. Boudreau is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. She is also a graduate of the Coro Foundation's Women in Leadership program and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association’s Mid-Atlantic affiliate.
James E. Brumm, Chair, is a former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Mitsubishi International Corporation in New York. Currently Mr. Brumm is an Executive Advisor to Mitsubishi International Corporation and is engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility consulting through Glastonbury Commons, Ltd. and the Gaemo Group. He is a director of Mitsubishi International Corporation, where he serves on the Executive Committee; and a director of Tembec, Inc., a publicly traded forest products company in Canada. He also served as a director of Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan from 1995 to 2002. Mr. Brumm graduated magna cum laude from California State University at Fresno in 1965 and graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1968. Mr. Brumm is active in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he was chair of the Committee on International Trade from 1990 to 1993 and chair of the Task Force on International Legal Services from 1998 to 2001. He was also the Association’s representative to the International Bar Association (IBA) from 2002 to 2009, where he was also Co-Chair of the IBA’s Corporate Counsel Forum from 2007 to 2009. He is President of Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas and a Trustee of the Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa. Mr. Brumm also serves on the Board of Forest Trends, the Board of the International Crane Foundation, the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, and the California State University at Fresno National Board of Visitors.

Warren Cooke, Vice Chair, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, is a retired partner of the Global Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.  He joined the firm in 1980, where he was engaged primarily in domestic and international finance, with emphasis on international transactions.  From 1978 to 1987, Mr. Cooke was resident in the Firm’s Hong Kong office.  Mr. Cooke is the author of a variety of articles on such topics as the U.S. regulation of non-U.S. banks, foreign exchange regulations, the Uniform Commercial Code, secured transactions, letter of credit transactions, and sovereign immunity.  Mr. Cooke is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Society for International Law.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School.  He also serves as Vice Chairman for The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ;  a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy of New Jersey; a Trustee of the Parlance Chamber Concerts, Inc., of Ridgewood, NJ; and is a member of the Board of Advisors for The Rassias Foundation.  Mr. Cooke’s interests include nature photography, birding, and wildlife conservation.
V. Richard Eales, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, is currently Lead Director of Range Resources Corporation, an oil and gas exploration and production company. He is also an active investor in two family businesses. Mr. Eales was formerly Executive Vice President of Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc., and has a broad business background including work in oil and gas, software, investment banking, and light manufacturing companies. Mr. Eales has been an active birder since grade school and, in recent years, has traveled to many countries on birding trips. His interest in conservation was originally based on his interest in birds. He is a past board member and chair, and currently a trustee emeritus, of the Pennsylvania Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
John G. Day, Treasurer, of Manhattan, New York City, is a former director in Citigroup’s Corporate and Investment Bank and Smith Barney’s Global Credit Centers, responsible for a team of analysts who support the private client business. Mr. Day is a member of the Explorers Club and numerous professional, environmental, and birding organizations. He is a past board member of the International Crane Foundation, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the American Himalayan Foundation, Japan America Societies in San Francisco and Chicago, and also of the Visiting Committee to the Center on Far Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. Mr. Day is committed to endangered species conservation efforts.
Victor Emanuel, of Austin, Texas, is the founder of Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, which takes almost 2,000 clients a year on 140 tours. Birds and natural history have been a major focus throughout his life. He is the founder and compiler for 40 years of the record-breaking Freeport Christmas Bird Count. In 1986, he established the first ever American youth birding camps. Mr. Emanuel served a term as president of the Texas Ornithological Society, and has served on the Boards of Directors of the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation and The Nature Conservancy of Texas. He is currently a member of the board of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the Texas Audubon Society, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. In 1993, he was the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Excellence in Birding Award. In 2004, he received the Roger Tory Peterson Award from the American Birding Association, and the Arthur A. Allen Award from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
George H. Fenwick, President, received a Ph.D. from the Department of Pathobiology at Johns Hopkins University, studying the effects of alien species on native avifauna. He founded American Bird Conservancy in early 1994, and became President upon its merger with the U.S. and Pan American Sections of the International Council for the Preservation of Birds later that year. He worked in a variety of capacities during 15 years with The Nature Conservancy including Vice President and Director of Ecosystem Conservation, Acting Director of Science, and Chair of the Steering Committee for the Last Great Places Campaign. Prior to that, he has worked for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Earthsatellite Corporation, and been an instructor at the University of Virginia.
Jonathan Franzen, of New York, New York, and Santa Cruz, California, is a novelist, essayist, journalist, and translator. His recent books include Freedom (2010), The Discomfort Zone (2006), How To Be Alone: Essays (2002), and The Corrections (2001), winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction. Mr. Franzen has written extensively about birds for The New Yorker Magazine, most recently on the subject of the killing of migratory birds in the Mediterranean.  He received his BA from Swarthmore College.

David Harrison, is a radiologist in Salem, Oregon. He developed a passion for birds as a child growing up in the Midwest, and at age nine started a “nature center” and monthly newsletter with two friends. His love of birds and the natural world continued through college at Yale and medical school at the University of Virginia. After finishing his medical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Harrison worked for ten years at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Since being drawn west to Oregon in 2005, he has been actively engaged in efforts to conserve birds and their habitats at the local, state, and national levels. He is leading an effort to develop a community nature center near Salem to help connect children with nature. Dr. Harrison currently serves as President of the Salem Audubon Society and is on the board of the Oregon Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.  
Jennifer Haverkamp, is an independent consultant based in Washington, DC and an adjunct professor of international environmental law and policy at Johns Hopkins University. In 2003-04, Ms. Haverkamp served as one of two U.S. representatives on the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation’s Ten Year Review Advisory Committee. From July 1995 to February 2003, she was the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) within the Executive Office of the President. Prior to that appointment, she served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources and as a director in USTR’s Office of North American Affairs and Office of Intellectual Property and Environment. Before joining USTR in 1993, Ms. Haverkamp was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency; an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (receiving the Attorney General’s John Marshall award for her work on the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act); an Associate with the Conservation Foundation, an environmental think tank now merged with the World Wildlife Fund; and a law clerk to the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School, an M.A. in Politics and Philosophy from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and a B.A. in Biology from the College of Wooster, on whose board of trustees she now serves.

Carolyn Hendricks has trained and worked for the past 25 years as a breast medical oncologist, most recently in private practice in Bethesda, MD. She currently serves on the Suburban Hospital Healthcare System Board, the Suburban Hospital Institutional Review Board, the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Quality of Practice Committee, and chairs the FDA’s National Board of Mammography Quality Assurance. Carolyn was introduced to ABC by former board member Paul Hagen, and accompanied him on several field trips to Montauk. Her passion for hawks and owls dates back to 2005 when she participated in a raptor workshop in Missoula, MT. Since then Carolyn has been a supporter of the Avian Science Center at the University of Montana and the Owl Institute in Charlo, MT. She has participated in the Institute’s longitudinal survey of short eared owls in Montana and hopes to do some volunteer field work on nesting snowy owls in Barrow, AK in 2011. Carolyn also supports and volunteers for the Western Pennsylvania Land Conservancy. She and her husband are preparing to build a first-of-its-kind green revolution home on Conservancy land, and plan to shore up the small mammal population to support more raptors. Carolyn currently resides in Washington DC with her very supportive husband (who is a terrific amateur raptor photographer) and has two college-aged kids.
Nicholas Lapham owns and operates The Farm at Sunnyside, a producer of certified organic fruits and vegetables in Rappahannock County, Virginia. His previous positions include: senior fellow with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC; president of African Parks Foundation of America, an organization supporting public/private partnerships to improve management of Africa’s protected areas; vice president for policy at Conservation International (CI) and director of CI’s Center for Conservation and Government; senior program officer for environment at the United Nations Foundation; senior advisor to the White House Climate Change Task Force; and special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science. He is currently Board chair of the Krebser Fund for Rappahannock County Conservation. Mr. Lapham holds a BA in history from Yale University.

William H. Leighty, Until September of 2007 Bill served as Chief of Staff to Governors Kaine and Warner of Virginia.  As Chief of Staff, Bill served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Commonwealth.  In 2005, Governing Magazine named Virginia the “Best Managed State in the Nation” and in 2007, Governing Magazine named him one of the nine “Public Officials of the Year.” Prior to serving as Chief of Staff, Bill was the Director of the Virginia Retirement System, where he led the agency to three consecutive United States Senate Productivity Awards.  In July of 2008, Bill completed a performance review of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, a $52 billion pension system.  Recently, Bill also completed an engagement with the Scottish Executive; advising the government on how to implement a national performance management system.  Bill joined state government after serving in the United States Marine Corps.  Bill graduated from Mary Washington College in 1978, and holds an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Walter Matia, Secretary, of Dickerson, Maryland, is a wildlife sculptor. He received much of his formal training at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. After leaving the Cleveland Museum, Mr. Matia worked for 11 years for the Nature Conservancy, where he served as Vice President in charge of land management. His work with wetland and barrier island conservation projects intensified his lifelong interest in shorebirds. In 1983, Mr. Matia co-founded Curlew Castings of Virginia, and began producing shore and wading bird sculptures, his works later including sporting dogs and other mammals. His works have been exhibited in and won awards at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Southern Allegheny's Museum of Art, and have been selected for the prestigious Leigh Yawkey Woodson "Birds in Art" exhibition. In 1986, Mr. Matia won the Society of Animals artist's Catasus Award. In 2001, he was commissioned to produce the oversize Spanish Fighting Bulls at the entrance to Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, home of the Houston Texans.

Richard P. Raines, Vice Chair, of Arlington, Virginia, is president of CARFAX, the leading provider of vehicle history information in North America, and has led its growth from a pilot project to its current stage as a nationally recognized consumer brand with almost 400 employees. Prior to joining CARFAX, Mr. Raines was President of Blackburn Marketing, U.S, where he lead the U.S. operations of a Canadian information company. He has also served as Branch Chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Raines is co-founder of the nonprofit organization Agua Del Pueblo, which provides drinking water systems for rural indigenous villages in Guatemala. He is a board member for the Potomac Conservancy, Marina Life, and Demosphere International. Mr. Raines enjoys outdoor activities including backpacking, birding, canoeing, and dogwalking. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Jeff Rusinow has been an active member of the early-stage venture capital community in the Midwest since 2000, when he founded Milwaukee’s first angel network, Silicon Pastures. He earlier spent 22 years in retail management, holding senior executive positions at Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Hudson Bay Company and, most recently, Kohl’s Department Stores, where he served as an Executive Vice President. Jeff has been on the Board of Directors of a number of private and public companies, as well as non-profits, over the past several years. Jeff is currently on the board of the Wisconsin Humane Society and the Costa Rican-based Tirimbina Rainforest Fund, and has previously served as a board member for the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee. Jeff became interested in birds in junior high school and got ‘hooked’ on birds during the summers when he attended the Burgundy Wildlife Camp in West Virginia. Through partial funding from his family foundation, Jeff has embarked on a project to produce and distribute a relatively inexpensive adhesive tape to reduce bird collisions into glass windows, with a particular emphasis on individual homes. Jeff has both a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Virginia. Jeff resides in Scottsdale, Arizona and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Larry Selzer is president and CEO of The Conservation Fund, one of the nation’s top-ranked environmental nonprofits, based in Washington, DC. The Conservation Fund combines a passion for conservation with an entrepreneurial spirit to protect America’s favorite places, from city parks to historic battlefields to wilderness. Since 1985, the Fund has protected nearly 7 million acres. Prior to being named president and CEO in 2001, Selzer led the Fund’s efforts to integrate economic and environmental goals, launching the Fund’s training, leadership and climate programs, mitigation banking efforts and its Natural Capital Investment Fund.  Selzer spent the first part of his professional career at the Manomet Center for Conservation Science, conducting research on marine mammal and seabird populations on the eastern outer continental shelf. Selzer serves on the boards of the American Bird Conservancy, The Outdoor Foundation, Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Wildlife Habitat Council, as well as the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board.

William “Bishop” Sheehan is the Chair of the Appellate Litigation Practice Group at Goodwin Procter LLP.  He has briefed and argued several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and many cases in the federal circuit courts, bankruptcy courts, state supreme and intermediate appellate courts, and before arbitration panels.  He has filed amicus curiae briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of (among others) the American Bar Association, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Railway Labor Conference, General Electric Co., the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Council of Life Insurers, the American Psychological Association, the Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.  Mr. Sheehan also maintains a wide-ranging litigation and counseling practice, with considerable experience in complex financial litigation.  He has recently tried business breach of contract cases in California and Maryland, represented a wind power company in arbitration in Texas, and represented a nationwide mortgage lender in class action consumer finance litigation.  Mr. Sheehan was Deputy General Counsel (Legal Counsel) at the Department of Defense from 1995 to 1997.  From 1975 to 1978, Mr. Sheehan was an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States.  From 1971 to 1972, he clerked for the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Mr. Sheehan received his BA from Yale College in 1968, and his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1971, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.  He lives in on a farm in Barnesville, Maryland, with his wife, Jacquelyn, who trains horses.
Marybeth Sollins is a freelance editor and writer. Among her most recent publications are five companion volumes to the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning PBS series, Art:21 – Art in the Twenty-first Century. She is also the editor of Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil (Cornell University Press, 2010), the first volume in a projected series of regional field guides to the birds of Brazil produced under the auspices of the Wildlife Conservation Society.  Her interest in birds and the natural world has been lifelong, with a concomitant commitment to the development and support of a variety of educational opportunities for the next generation of biologists, ornithologists, and conservationists. For the past decade and more, her interest in the conservation of habitats and the creation of reserves to protect endangered bird species, especially in Ecuador, has been focused primarily on the work of Fundacíon Jocotoco. She has also been active in various conservation initiatives of Audubon and the Nature Conservancy in the United States, and participated in a long and eventually successful struggle to protect Marshlands Conservancy (now designated as an IBA) in Westchester County, New York, from the effects of a proposed development on adjacent land.  Ms. Sollins graduated with a B.A from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A from Fordham University.
Nancy L. Weiss, M.D., of West Springfield, Massachusetts, was Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine and specialized in evaluation and surgical treatment of breast disease. She is past president of the Hampden District Medical Society and a founding member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. Dr. Weiss’s concern for habitat preservation and desire to protect and conserve birds has led to her involvement in the conservation community. Dr. Weiss was a member of the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Dr. Weiss has a lifelong interest in natural history.
Stuart C. White, of McLean, Virginia was formerly Senior Counsel at Walton & Adams, P.C., Attorneys at Law. He has practiced law in the Washington Metropolitan area for more than thirty-five years. Mr. White concentrates his practice in the areas of taxes and estate law. He is active in his local community through his activities as member of the vestry in St. John’s Episcopal Church in McLean, Virginia; past director and trustee for Friends of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run, McLean, Virginia; past Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts of America; past president Langley Forest Area Citizen’s Association; and member and vice-chairman for Fairfax County (Virginia) Citizens Advisory Commission on the New Government Center (1977-79). Mr. White is an active birder, and a member of the American Birding Association, Cape May Bird Observatory, Great Basin Bird Observatory, and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Jeff Woodman, of Bellaire, Texas, is a retired commodities trader. Most recently, Mr. Woodman worked for Vitol, Inc. in Houston, Texas. In June 2005, he purchased 70 acres of farmland bordering USFW property in Rangerville, Texas and subsequently planted 10,000 various native tree and plant seedlings to restore the native habitat. Mr. Woodman currently serves on the boards of Amazon Conservation Association and Houston Audubon. He is also a member and supporter of a number of environmental and educational organizations.