Mountain Lion Foundation

Board of Directors  

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TOBY COOPER, Chair
Menlo Park, California

Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Inc.; Former Program Director of National Issues, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington DC; Former Staff, National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington DC.; 1968 U.S. Olympian; Former Board Member, California Center for Wildlife (now Wildcare), Vivamos Mejor, Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation (now Acterra).

ELIZABETH SULLIVAN, Vice Chair
San Rafael, California

Vice President and Senior Financial Consultant, Merrill Lynch Inc. Includes planned giving consulting to non-profits. Planning and development consultant for numerous non-profits, including Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, Animal Protection Institute. Apprentice veterinary technician and planning consultant at Wildcare Rehabilitation Center. Attorney, formerly practiced environmental litigation. Former pro-bono counsel for Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund on land use issues, and for private firms challenging excessive logging. Former city planning consultant for City and County of San Francisco.

PATRICK GALLAGHER, Secretary
San Francisco, California

Director of Environmental Law, Sierra Club. Manages legal staff and oversees nationwide litigation docket. Formerly in private law practice in San Francisco and Boston.

JONATHAN NAIMON, Treasurer
Seattle, Washington

Jonathan Naimon is president of Light Green Advisors (LGA), a Seattle-based asset manager that specializes in environmentally responsible investing. LGA clients include environmental foundations, educational and health care organizations, and various types of trusts. Previously, Mr. Naimon was a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management and directed the environmental program of the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) in Washington,D.C. He has held economic and environmental analysis positions with ABB Environmental Services, ICF Kaiser, and the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.

KATHY FLETCHER
Sacramento, California

Assistant Director for External Affairs Cal EPA; Former Director of Government Relations for Greenfield Environmental Inc.; former Chief of Staff for Democratic Leader of the California State Assembly, assisted in the passage of numerous important environmental bills; former President, Volunteer of the Year, Children's Home Society; Member, Sacramento Women's Campaign Fund; Member, Advisory Committee to Christmas in April.

STEPHAN E. HARRIS
Santa Monica Mountains, California

President and Executive Director, the Mountains Restoration Trust. Executive Director since 1999. An original Board member of the Mountains Restoration Trust which was formed in 1981. A businessman for more than thirty years. Mr. Harris is a member of the Advisory Committee for Central Business District to the Community Redevelopment Agency (LA), a member of the PAC Committee to the County of Los Angeles for the California Coastal Commission Land Use Plan, Board Member California Wildlife Center.

DR. JOSEPH M. HURWITZ
Hollywood, Florida

Rabbi, Temple Isaiah, Palm Springs, CA (retired); Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, Jewish Theological Seminary; Ph.D. Family counselling, Claremont School of Theology; Founding Chairman of the Palm Springs Human Relations Commission; Founding President of the Palm Springs Clergy Association. Recipient of several 'Man of the Year' awards.

JIM MURRAY
La Jolla, California

President, Timberock USA Company; Strategic business development/consulting services provider; Coordinator of advisory committee for the implementation of a model project for APEC for 26 governments to protect ocean and coastal zones from land based activities; Budget facilitator for U.S. Environmental Technology Export Council (etec); Former Facilitator for community economic development and communications for Bayview-Hunters Point Model Cities Program; Former Manager for economic development department of San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Former chamber liaison to the Mayor's office; Formally Appointed to Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee to 19 federal agencies (ETTAC).

JOHN TAFT
Lima, Montana

President, Conservation Endowment Fund; Board Member, Humane Society of the United States; Chairman, International Center for Earth; active in wildlife conservation efforts in California and Africa; active in land preservation in Montana.

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