Dr. David Wilford, Chair
BC Ministry of Forests and Range
David has been Research Forest Hydrologist with the BC Ministry of Forests and Range Prince Rupert Forest Region since 1975. He has been a member of many local and provincial technical advisory committees, and was a founding director of the Forestry Continuing Studies Network. His extension activities include regular presentations at local and provincial conferences, and delivery of forest hydrology workshops around the province.

Mr. Grant Parnell, Vice-Chair
BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Grant is the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Crown Land Administration Division in the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, and prior to this role held various policy and operating positions since 1985 within the BC Forest Service. Grant leads provincial programs delivering Crown land legislation and policy along with major land sales, and remediation and development of Crown contaminated sites and brownfields. Grant brings a deep understanding of the nature of public policy development and implementation, and the inherent tradeoffs and balances in this arena.

Dr. Roderick Negrave, Chair of Finance
BC Ministry of Forests and Range
Rod is currently Team Leader for, and manages, the Research and Inventory Program in the Coast Forest Region. Current areas of activity include partial-cut harvesting issues, hardwood management, forest fertilization, and silvicultural practices to support Red and Blue-listed plant communities. He has worked in the areas of forest, range, and parks management for the BC and Alberta governments and for private industry. Rod received a PhD in forestry from UBC.

Ms. Annette van Niejenhuis, Secretary
Western Forest Products Inc.
Annette is the Tree Improvement Forester for Western Forest Products. Her studies of the relationship of genetic variation to climate gradients, her experience and knowledge of genetics and silviculture research, and her liaison with industrial foresters, provincial policy makers, and the forest research community all contribute in her role on the Board.

Ms. Chris Hollstedt, Chief Executive Officer
FORREX
Ms. Hollstedt is the CEO of the Partnership. Her contributions to the Board include providing the link between corporate policy and implementation, and providing secretariat functions. She brings 20 years of experience in natural resource management, research, and extension within the forest industry, government, and research organizations.

Mr. Dan Jepsen
C3 Alliance Corporation
Dan Jepsen, RPF, is the Chairman and CEO of C3 Alliance Corporation. C3 is a private company focused on creating mutually beneficial relationships between indigenous peoples, businesses, and governments. As the former President and CEO of the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia, and Manager, Aboriginal Affairs and Environment for one of BC's largest forest companies, Dan brings over 30 years of diverse experience in the resource sector. His specific expertise includes resource and business development, relations with government and non-government organizations, and Indigenous relations and communications. He speaks frequently on sustainable resource development, Indigenous and community relations, and relationships with non-government organizations. Dan is a co-author of Mineral Exploration, Mining and Aboriginal Community Engagement: A Guidebook, a Canadian best-seller.

Mr. Steve Lorimer
Steve graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSF in 1972. He has been an active member with the ABCFP since 1974. Steve has extensive experience in forestry and communications gained through a varied and interesting career with TimberWest and predecessor companies. Steve is currently a councillor with the ABCFP, and is involved with various organizations such as the Canadian Institute of Forestry, the Marmot Recovery Board Foundation, the Private Forest Landowners Association, the FIA Forest Science Program, and the Malaspina Forestry Program Advisory Committee. Steve is married with four adult children and three grandchildren.

Mr. Randy Trerise
Association of BC Forestry Professionals
Randy is the Registrar for the Association of BC Forest Professionals (ABCFP). The ABCFP is the professional organization created by the Foresters Act that licences, regulates, and represents all Forest Professionals in BC. Prior to joining the ABCFP, Randy was an operational forester in the Kootenays. He has extensive experience in silviculture, timber harvesting, sustainable forestry certification, environmental management systems, safety, and auditing.

Ms. Jeanette Armstrong
En’owkin Centre
Jeannette is a member of the Okanagan Syilx Nation and Executive Director of the En’owkin Centre, the culture, language, and arts education institution of the Okanagan Nation. She is on faculty as Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan, and is a member of the National Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK) sub-committee of Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Jeannette is Vice-Chair for Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association in British Columbia. She is a fluent speaker and culture and language instructor in the En’owkin Centre culture and language programs, as well as a traditional knowledge specialist in plants of the Okanagan territory. A recognized Canadian author and artist, Jeannette is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Greifswald in Germany where the focus of her interdisciplinary PhD research is Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Literatures of North America. Jeannette is the 2003 recipient of the Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership, given by EcoTrust USA. She was also distinguished with an honorary Doctorate of Letters from St. Thomas University in May 2000, an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of British Columbia Okanagan in June 2006, and the Okanagan College Honorary Fellow Award in 2008.

Mr. Peter Lister
FPInnovations (FERIC Division)
Peter is the General Manager and National Research Director for FPInnovations, Feric Division. Most of his career has been in the forest products industry and he has 20 years experience in industry, research, and product design/development. Peter has a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of British Columbia. He lives with his wife and two children in North Vancouver.

Dr. John Innes
University of British Columbia
Professor Innes is FRBC Chair of Forest Management in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. He teaches courses in international forestry (at the UBC Faculty of Forestry), global environmental issues (at the Sauder School of Business, UBC), and sustainable forest management (at the University of Melbourne, Australia). With extensive overseas research experience, he brings an international perspective to the Board.

Mr. Nick Crisp
BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
Nick is the Executive Director, Oil and Gas Division, with the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources for the Province of British Columbia. The Division’s mandate is to facilitate expanded investment in development of the province’s oil and gas resources in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. Nick is a forester (UBC) and a certified management consultant (CMC). He has worked in the private sector with Interfor, Bank of Montreal, and the Sterling Wood Group. He has been involved in the development of oil and gas resources since 2003, and has contributed to a number of projects ranging from an infrastructure-based public-private partnership (P3), to new legislation, to service-sector initiatives and social licence.

Mr. Loren Kelly
BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources

Mr. Archie MacDonald
Council of Forest Industries
Archie is currently the General Manager of Forestry for the Council of Forest Industry's Southern office, based in Kelowna. In this capacity, his primary focus is forest policy. Archie is a graduate of UBC with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry. He is a Registered Professional Forester and a member of the Association of BC Forest Professionals. Archie has a wide range of woodlands/forestry experience, having held various positions in management, forest planning, silviculture, and harvesting in numerous locales around BC. Prior to joining COFI in 2003, Archie spent the previous 20 years working in Northern BC. The majority of this time was spent in Northwestern BC where he worked in the Terrace, Hazelton, and Smithers areas. Before this, he worked in Northeastern BC where he lived in Mackenzie following a short stint in Chetwynd. In addition to being employed by forest companies, he has also started and operated his own forest consulting company.

Mr. Tony Trofymow
Canadian Forest Service
Tony has been a Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service since 1984. He studies C and nutrient cycling (with a focus on the role of soil biota in detrital carbon fluxes and decomposition processes) and is a contributor and developer of the CFS-Carbon Budget Model. Tony is a leader of the Canadian Intersite Decomposition Experiment (CIDET), a study that examines long-term litter and wood decay rates at 21 forested sites across Canada with results used to revise the CBM-CFS3 soil submodel. He also leads the Coastal Forest Chronosequence Experiment (a study examining changes in ecosystem structure, processes, and diversity in old-growth and managed forests of coastal BC), and is a co-investigator in the Fluxnet Canada Research Network studying the effects of disturbance on stand-level C fluxes, stocks, and component fluxes at seven stations across Canada. Tony leads studies on historic C budgets, C stock distribution, litterfall, and root production at the coastal BC station and a cross-station decomposition experiment. Through the British Columbia Ectomycorrhizal Research Network, he leads studies on ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity under variable retention forestry and development of online taxonomic tools for ectomycorrhizal fungi, including Concise Descriptions of North American Ectomycorrhizae, Photoprofiles and Ectomycorrhizae Database of Descriptions, and Matchmaker for Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Tony is a member of numerous boards and committees, and is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria where he supervises 4 professionals, 2 post-doctoral candidates, 4 graduate student committees (member or co-supervisor), and 13 undergraduates.

Mr. Paul Austin
Sustainable Development Technology Canada
As Manager, Stakeholder Relations in Vancouver, Paul focuses on identifying, developing, and nurturing relationships with the financial sector, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and industry as well as provincial governments, academia, and non-governmental stakeholders within the region. Prior to joining SDTC, Paul worked for over 20 years in technology sales, marketing, and business development in a variety of fields including clean technology and information systems technology. In his most recent position, Paul was a business development consultant at IBD Networks and worked with a wide array of global clients, including clean technology developers and venture capitalists. Previously, Paul was Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for Sonic Environmental Solutions Inc., which he helped to successfully transition from a pre-commercial environmental technology firm to a company with million-dollar commercial contracts and licensing agreements. His other past work environments include MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc., Telus, Hughes Aircraft of Canada Ltd., and Mitsubishi Canada Ltd. Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Queen’s University.

Ms. Kristine Ciruna
BC Ministry of Environment
Kristine is currently the Assistant Director of Research for Fish, Wildlife and Ecosystems with the BC Ministry of Environment. Prior to joining the BC government, she worked with the Nature Conservancy of Canada as Director of Conservation Programs for BC Region and, more recently, as National Manager of Conservation Planning for the entire organization. Kristine’s area of expertise is aquatic ecology. Recent BC-focused projects include the development of BC’s freshwater classification scheme, “Ecological Aquatic Units of British Columbia,” and the delineation of Pacific salmon conservation units in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She has co-edited a book published by Island Press entitled A Practitioner’s Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation. Kristine received her PhD in ecology from the University of Toronto.

Mr. Bill Woodward
Guildhall Management Ltd.