DIRECTORS & STAFF

Board Biographies

Mary Barley
Having served as Chairperson of The Everglades Foundation since her husband’s untimely death in 1995 in a plane crash while on Everglades business, Mary Barley currently serves as Vice Chairperson of the Foundation. She is also President of The Everg...read more

Jimmy Buffett
Singer/songwriter/author Jimmy Buffett uses his travels and storytelling skills to explain the world at large to his fans. He has recorded more than forty records, most of which have gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum. Buffett is also the author o...read more

Thomas Davidson
Thomas Davidson is currently principal owner and Chairman of Nutech Precision Metals Ltd. Mr.Davidson is also Chairman of Azure Dynamics Inc., Quarry Hill Group, a director of MDC Partners Inc., TLC Vision Inc. and Occulogix Incorporated. He is past...read more

Marshall Field, V
Marshall Field V is the fifth generation of a Chicago family whose activities have included merchandising, real estate, publishing, communications and civic affairs. He is currently Chairman of the Board of The Field Corporation, Chairman and Chief E...read more

Reid B. Hughes
Reid Hughes is past President of Hughes Oil Company and President of Edge Broadcasters and a real estate developer. He has served on the governing boards of the St. Johns River Water Management District, Florida Development Commission and was First C...read more

Paul Tudor Jones II
Paul Tudor Jones II serves as Chairman of The Everglades Foundation. He is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Tudor group of companies. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. In 1983, Mr. Jones formed Tudor Investment Corpo...read more

Jon Mills
Jon Mills is Dean Emeritus of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he also is a Professor of Law, Founding Director of the Center for Governmental Responsibility. He served as Dean from 1999 to 2003. He has authored books, law review...read more

Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus’s golfing career has spanned five decades, with 105 professional tournament victories worldwide and a record 18 major-championship titles. He has been named “Golfer of the Century” or “Golfer of the Millennium” by almost every major gol...read more

Robert Parks
Robert Parks is partner in the Coral Gables, Florida law firm of Robert L. Parks, P.L. Parks is one of the nation's premier trial lawyers specializing in personal injury and commercial litigation, focusing in the areas of wrongful death, products lia...read more

W. Douglas Pitts, Sr.
W. Douglas Pitts W. Douglas Pitts, born in Otter Creek, Florida, has been a resident of Miami since 1947. He is President and Chairman of Courtelis Company, a Miami-based real estate development company, having joined Courtelis Company in 1965. He i...read more

Nathaniel P. Reed
Nathaniel Reed currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Everglades Foundation. He received a B.A. from Trinity College, Connecticut and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force military intelligence throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle Ea...read more

William Riley
William Riley is a corporate executive, writer and conservationist. He received his AB from University of Notre Dame and an LLB from Yale University. Along with his wife, Laura Riley, he authored Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges (1979), which w...read more

Stuart D. Strahl, Ph.D.
Dr. Strahl currently is President/CEO of the Chicago Zoological Society and Director of the Brookfield Zoo. Prior to arriving in Chicago, he served as founding President/CEO of Audubon of Florida and VP and Everglades Conservation Director of the Nat...read more

Jim Swann
Jim Swann, a Tampa native and Brevard County resident since 1973, currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Eckerd Youth Alternatives, one of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations dedicated to helping at-risk youth. He is also currently C...read more

Harvey Wasserman
Harvey Wasserman is a founder of the grassroots renewable energy movement and author or co-author of a dozen books on energy, the environment and U.S. history, including two on the 2004 election. He is adjunct professor of history at two colleges in ...read more

Karl Y. Wickstrom
Karl Wickstrom is founder/editor-in-chief of Florida Sportsman magazine and has been an ardent conservationist for more than 30 years, best known for his initiation of the constitutional net limit amendment of 1995. He was also a board member of the ...read more

STAFF:

	Kirk Fordham, Chief Executive Officer 305.251.0001, Extension #227 kfordham@evergladesfoundation.org
	Mark L. Kraus, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer 305.251.0001, Extension #224 mkraus@evergladesfoundation.org
	Margaret McPherson, Vice President 305.251.0001, Extension #223 mmcpherson@evergladesfoundation.org
	Tom Van Lent, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Scientist 305.251.0001, Extension #230 tvanlent@evergladesfoundation.org
	Rosanna Rivero, Ph.D., GIS Scientist 305.251.0001, Extension #232 rrivero@evergladesfoundation.org
	Ana Blanco, Program Coordinator 305.251.0001, Extension #226 ablanco@evergladesfoundation.org
	Mitzi Moody Administrative Assistant 305.251.0001, Extension #221 mmoody@evergladesfoundation.org
	Melissa Ray, Development Assistant 305.251.0001, Extension #222 mray@evergladesfoundation.org