Consultants in conservation, finance, and group constructing be part of the management staff
(Washington D.C.)— The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is happy to announce the appointment of 4 new administrators to its management staff. George Cooper, Nick Seidenberg, Ashley Smith, and Bob Ziehmer be part of the 27-member board that oversees TRCP.
“TRCP is lucky to welcome these 4 people as new members of our Board of Administrators,” stated Alston Watt, TRCP board chair. “Their big selection of experience will assist us construct upon our organizational strengths and assist preserve searching, fishing, and the wild locations we cherish for future generations.”
Bios for the incoming board members could be discovered under. To learn extra about TRCP’s full Board of Administrators and management staff, click on HERE.
“We’re thrilled to welcome these trade leaders and devoted conservation advocates to the TRCP household,” stated Joel Pedersen, president and CEO of the TRCP. “Our Board of Administrators performs a pivotal function in guiding our group and empowers us to proceed uniting and amplifying our companions’ voices to advance America’s legacy of conservation, habitat, and entry. With the addition of George, Nick, Ashley, and Bob to the Board, TRCP is effectively positioned to realize our mission of guaranteeing all Individuals high quality locations to hunt and fish.”
George Cooper
George Cooper is a Companion at Forbes Tate Companions main the agency’s pure sources and out of doors recreation authorities affairs observe, representing nonprofits, firms, and commerce associations on coverage associated to pure useful resource conservation, public lands, marine fisheries, agricultural land, tax, commerce, and appropriations points. George leverages his intensive community in DC to attach purchasers with the fitting individuals on Capitol Hill and in pertinent federal companies and information them in delivering messages and creating conversations that produce significant outcomes.
Previous to becoming a member of FTP, George served as President and CEO of TRCP. All through his practically eight years at TRCP, each as CEO and as vp for coverage and communications, he helped create a brand new strategic advocacy area of interest in Washington for the nation’s 40 million hunters and anglers. George’s political expertise is rooted in Washington, DC political media. Earlier than becoming a member of TRCP, he labored for CNN serving as Senior Producer for distinguished public affairs reveals like “Evans and Novak,” “Late Version with Wolf Blitzer,” and “Dependable Sources.” George additionally served as a Senior Producer on the White Home and Capitol Hill beats. An alumnus of Denison College, Mr. Cooper earned a bachelor’s in historical past. He and his spouse and their two kids stay in Chevy Chase, Maryland
Nick Seidenberg
Nicholas Seidenberg is a Managing Director at Eastdil Secured, a privately held actual property funding banking agency headquartered in New York. Nick co-leads Eastdil Secured’s Debt Capital Markets division and serves as a member of the nine-person Government Committee.
Rising up in Minnesota, Nick developed a deep appreciation for the outside. From autumn weekends in duck blinds together with his father and brother to summers spent fishing on Minnesota’s lakes, these early experiences instilled in him a lifelong love for nature and high quality time in nature with family members.
Nick and his spouse, Casey, have been married for 29 years and reside in Washington, D.C. They’ve three kids whom Nick enjoys taking up searching and fishing journeys to Minnesota, Montana and Rhode Island, persevering with a household custom of bonding by means of the outside.
Along with his skilled achievements, Nick has been actively concerned in nonprofit work in Washington, D.C. Most lately, he served on the board of Kids’s Nationwide Medical Heart. Nick earned a B.S. in Utilized Economics from Cornell College and an M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern College of Enterprise.
Ashley Smith
Legal professional Ashley Smith is a bi-lingual thought chief, group cohesion professional, author, and nationwide public speaker. Ashley co-founded The Minority Outside Alliance with the mission of uniting communities for the enjoyment and conservation of our pure sources. Ashley can also be the founding father of NOS World, LLC, which helps organizations uncover easy methods to profit from an ever-changing world by means of data-driven strategic planning and organizational cohesion applications.
Ashley has had the distinction of giving speeches, facilitating workshops, and internet hosting giant out of doors leisure and academic occasions for a variety of state companies, conservation organizations, and firms throughout the nation.
Ashley accomplished her undergraduate schooling on the College of Georgia with levels in journalism and Spanish. After school, Ashley accomplished her legislation diploma at Georgia State College Faculty of Regulation.
Ashley seeks the outside as a spot to resume and rejuvenate. Ashley likes to meditate, pray, and train outside. She additionally enjoys archery, biking, climbing, and fishing. Ashley believes that there’s a lot extra that unites us as human beings than divides us and believes that being outside is the proper setting for reminiscence making, custom conserving, and connecting with others. Ashley and her husband have a younger daughter and son.
Bob Ziehmer
Bob Ziehmer presently serves because the Senior Director of Conservation for Bass Professional Retailers and Cabela’s the place he’s chargeable for offering route to advance priorities of defending wildlife and habitat, connecting new audiences to the outside, and advocating for sportsmen’s rights and the outside. Bob serves as a liaison with state and federal companies and over sixty nationwide non-governmental teams to encourage development of tasks, coverage, and rules advancing conservation and defending our out of doors heritage.
Previous to becoming a member of Bass Professional Retailers, Bob served over 25 years (6 ½ years as Director) with the Missouri Division of Conservation, the place his work included: making certain Missouri remained a nationwide chief in forest, fish and wildlife analysis, administration, and schooling; and served as a member of the Governor’s Cupboard, amongst others.
Bob has an unwavering ardour for searching, angling, and different out of doors adventures. His father’s dedication to spending time afield with him instilled the significance of conservation and our particular person obligations to handle fish and wildlife for future generations, which he has handed alongside to his kids.
Bob is an expert member of the Boone & Crockett Membership. He presently serves as a nationwide board member of: Congressional Sportsmen’s Basis; Council to Advance Looking and the Taking pictures Sports activities; and Nationwide Deer Affiliation.
4 members additionally concluded their time with the TRCP Board of Administrators in December: James A. Baker IV, who served as TRCP board chair from 2021 – 2023; Invoice Demmer, who helped set up the Invoice and Linda Demmer Chief Conservation Officer place; Tod Sedgewick; and Aileen Lee. Their dedication to the TRCP mission and efforts to assist advance America’s legacy of conservation, habitat, and entry are to be applauded.
Based in 2002, the TRCP is the most important coalition of conservation organizations within the nation, uniting and amplifying the voices of sportsmen and girls by convening searching and fishing teams, conservation organizations, and out of doors companies to a typical objective.
