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PERC Board |
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Chairman of the Board |
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| Thomas E. Beach, Beach Investment Counsel, Inc., West Conshoshocken, Pennsylvania. Beach is a private investor with Beach Investment Council. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and his career has entirely focused on various sectors of investment research and management industry. He sits on the board of several organizations including the Reason Foundation, Eisenhower Fellowships, and the Pennsylvania Lumberman’s Mutual Insurance Company. |
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Board of Directors |
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| Loren Bough, Private Investor, Big Sky, Montana. Bough has worked as a trader in New York and London, has been a partner at Brunswick UBS Russia, and head of trading and risk management for a Russian investment banking business. He is a founding supporter of United Way Russia, Downside Up, and Maria's Children in Moscow. Since 1994, he has been president of Friends of Big Sky Education and a national board member of the Big Sky Institute. |
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| Thomas J. Bray, Detroit News (retired), Detroit, Michigan. Bray was editorial page editor at the Detroit News from 1983 to May 2000. He is a member of the board of the Earhart Foundation and chair of the Special Committee, a group charged with overseeing ethics issues and editorial independence at the Wall Street Journal. Bray is author of Soaring High: New Strategies for Environmental Giving, published by the Philanthropy Roundtable in 2005. |
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| David G. Cameron, Owner/Manager, Dana Ranch Company, Inc. Cameron is an evolutionary geneticist who has combined a scientific career with the active management of a family cattle and sheep ranch. He was a member of the Montana State University Department of Biology from 1970 through 1994. He has been a trustee of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Colorado, and is on the scientific advisory board of the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, Montana. Since 1975, he has been president and manager of the Dana Ranch Company, which is headquartered in Cascade, Montana. |
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| Robert C. Clement, Independent Consultant (retired), Sunset, South Carolina. Clement is an independent consultant in the areas of business strategy, business operations, project management, and antitrust economics. Previously he had a 15 year career at Accenture, one of the world’s largest technology consulting companies, from which he retired as a partner in 2004. Clement is a member of the Board of the Reserve at Lake Keowee Foundation. |
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| Tyler Dann, Harlem Valley Investing Co., Inc., Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Dann has been an insurance broker and president of Wesfair Agency, Inc. in Chappaqua, New York since 1970. He is co-trustee of the Helen I. Graham Charitable Foundation which supports organizations or similar organizations selected by Mrs. Graham prior to her death. Dann was a former director of The Factory Point Bancorp (Manchester, VT.), Premier Bancorp, Fishkill, NY, and a regional director of M&T Bancorp. He was a former trustee and member of the investment committee of The Community Foundation of Dutchess County, NY. |
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| Kimberly O. Dennis, Searle Freedom Trust, Washington D.C. Dennis is president of the Searle Freedom Trust. She is also president of the board of Donors Trust, a trustee of the Earhart Foundation, and a member of the board of the Philanthropy Roundtable. Her previous positions include: director of the National Research Initiative, a program of the American Enterprise Institute; executive director of the Philanthropy Roundtable; and program officer for the John M. Olin Foundation. |
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| Deborah Donner, Business Cousultant, Denver, Colorado Donner is a business consultant with an international focus on retail and fine art wholesaling. She brings non-profit experience through her service on several philanthropic organizations. She is a fourth generation Trustee and Member of the Board of Directors of the William H. Donner Foundation (New York City) and Donner Canadian Foundation (Toronto), whose philanthropic pursuits include public policy, legal and educational reform, land and wildlife conservation, based on the principles of free market capitalism. |
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| William A. Dunn, Dunn Capital Management, Inc., Stuart, Florida. Dunn owns a successful capital management firm in Stuart, Florida, and actively supports free market ideas. He is also on the board of directors of the Reason Foundation the Foundation for Economic Education, the Prometheus Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. |
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| Carlos Fernández, The Nature Conservancy, San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro Patagonia, Argentina. Fernández is the Project Manager for the TNC’s Patagonian Grasslands Project which aims to conserve 16 million hectares of Argentina’s temperate grasslands by 2015. He was formerly based in Washington, D.C. as Foreign Legal Advisor for the South American Conservation Region of TNC’s Worldwide Office when he attended PERC’s 2007 Enviropreneur Institute. Fernández has provided legal advice to operational staff on land and natural resources matters on projects throughout South America. |
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| Steven F. Hayward, F.K Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics, American Enterprise Institute, and Senior Fellow, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, San Francisco. Hayward writes frequently on a wide range of current topics, including environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy for publications including National Review, Reason, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, The Public Interest, the Claremont Review of Books, and Policy Review. His newspaper articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other daily newspapers. He is the author of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, released each year on Earth Day. |
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| Frank-Paul A. King, Managing Partner, King Capital Partners, Dallas, Texas. King’s background includes over twenty years of investment banking and private equity industry experience. He has been actively involved in transactions valued in excess of $10 billion involving public and private parties. King serves on the Board of Directors of Republic Energy, Inc.; Primexx Energy Partners, Ltd.; 2D2C, Inc.; Potoco, L.L.C.; Paseo de la Resaca; and he is the Chairman of the Board of the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. He has a BS in Economics, a BS in Management and an MBA in finance. |
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| Dwight E. Lee, Gagnon Securities LLC, New York, New York. Lee is a partner at Gagnon Securities, a New York-based investment firm. He has been a director or trustee of public and private corporations and many charitable organizations. Lee is currently Chairman of the Board of The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers (Scholastic Art & Writing Awards). |
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| William H. Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C. Mellor co-founded the Institute Justice and litigates cutting-edge constitutional cases nationwide protecting economic liberty, property rights, school choice and the First Amendment. He has been described by Inc. magazine as one of Washington entrepreneurs’ best friends. Mellor is former president of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and has served in the Reagan Administration as Deputy General Counsel for Legislation and Regulations in the Department of Energy. He also co-authored Cato’s “The Dirty Dozen,” a regular column on Forbes.com. |
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| Leigh H. Perkins, The Orvis Company, Sunderland, Vermont. Leigh Perkins combined his love of sport with a sharp mind for business when he purchased The Orvis Company in 1965, taking the highly respected, albeit small, business from $500,000 in annual sales to nearly $100 million annually when he chose to turn the business over to his sons in 1992 with current annual sales of $300 million. Leigh Perkins has supported private solutions to land and water conservation for many years. He has been a national board member of: The Nature Conservancy; The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy; and past President of the Ruffed Grouse Society. He also served on the Boards of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Cleveland Scholarship Foundation; and continues to serve on the Board of The American Museum of Fly Fishing, which he founded. He is author of “The Sportsman’s Life” and “Raising Fish and Pointing Dogs.” |
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| Christopher A. Wright, Founder and former CEO, Pinnacle Technologies, San Francisco, California. Wright founded Pinnacle Technologies in 1992 and developed specialized technologies for mapping the motion of fluid deep underground. It provides services, consulting, and software to the energy and geotechnical industries around the world. He sold the company in 2008. Wrights sits on the board of LeMond Fitness and Travanti Pharmaceuticals. He is also on the board of the Foundation for Teaching Economics and has worked with other free market groups such as the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation and the Hoover Institution. |
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