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Fred Danforth, Managing Partner, has extensive banking and private equity investing background. Fred was a co-founder of Capital Resource Partners, a private equity investment firm. Prior to founding EIP, Fred was the founder of the Upper Clark Fork Mitigation Bank in Montana. He as a BA from Yale University. Download bio >
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Nick Dilks, Managing Partner, has extensive experience in land conservation finance and real estate. He spent 10 years with The Conservation Fund, most recently as its Vice President for Real Estate, completing some of TCF's most complex and innovative transactions. He has a BA in Environmental Science & Policy from Duke University and an MBA from the University of Maryland. Download bio >
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Adam Davis, Partner and Director of Research, Policy & New Markets, is co-founder and was previously Editor-in-Chief of the Ecosystem Marketplace and recipient of the 2002 Ecological Society of America corporate award. He is also President of Solano Partners, Inc., a consulting firm focused on environmental investment and conservation finance. He has a BA from Cornell University. Download bio >
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David Urban, PE, Director of Operations, is a nationally recognized expert in wetland mitigation banking and civil engineering, and is the past President of the National Mitigation Banking Association. He spent 7 years with Land and Water Resources as Director of Operations, managing 15 mitigation banking projects from concept, through design and permitting, construction, and operations. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and a MS in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. Download bio >
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Katherine Birnie, Director of Markets, has cross-disciplinary experience in real estate acquisition, conservation finance and ecosystem service market analysis and research. Prior to joining EIP, Katherine was Conservation Innovation Program Manager at the Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) where she launched an initiative to develop and implement new project finance approaches to land conservation. Prior to MCHT, she worked at the Peninsula Open Space Trust in California. She has a BA in Biology from Williams College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Download bio >
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Michael Dennis, JD, LLM, Legal Counsel, has over 35 years of experience in the conservation real estate business, working directly on billions of dollars of land transactions protecting millions of acres of valuable conservation lands in North America. Prior to joining the EIP team, he served 25 years as General Counsel and 6 years as Vice President for Real Estate at The Nature Conservancy. He has a BA from Northeastern University, a JD from Suffolk University Law School and an LLM, Tax Law, from Boston University Law School. Download bio > |
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Diane Zorn, CPA, Director of Finance, joined EIP in September 2011. Prior to joining EIP, she was Controller for Camden Partners Holdings, LLC's private equity investment funds. Previously, Ms. Zorn worked at Legg Mason as a staff accountant in the Administrative Management Group and as a senior accountant in the Wealth Management Group. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland and is a Certified Public Accountant. Download bio >
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