Bettina helped launch EFM and joined the company as CEO in 2008. Bettina has spent the past 30 years working to promote economic viability, social equity, and environmental health in the Pacific Northwest with a particular focus on forestry. A former vice president of Ecotrust’s Natural Capital Fund and commercial banker, Bettina has over 30 years of experience in banking, impact investing, and fund management. She also has significant expertise in ecosystem service markets, particularly the forest carbon market, where she is involved in developing protocols for forest carbon projects at the state and federal levels. Previously, Bettina was Vice President at Ecotrust for forestry programs and for the Natural Capital Fund, a fund which invests in key businesses and initiatives in the conservation economy. Prior to joining Ecotrust in 1993, she was a vice president and commercial lender at First Interstate Bank of Oregon. Bettina has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Spencer B. Beebe is the Founder of Ecotrust, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Beebe founded Ecotrust in 1991 after acting as the founding president of Conservation International and, prior to that, helping develop The Nature Conservancy's International Program. As Chairman, Mr. Beebe assists in raising capital and provides strategic direction and guidance on forestland acquisitions. Over his career, he has raised millions of dollars in grants and capital to fund, launch, or capitalize over 20 non-profit and for-profit organizations, including Conservation International, Ecotrust, Ecotrust Canada, and ShoreBank Pacific, among others. Having profitably managed family forestlands in Oregon for over 20 years using many of the natural forest management approaches utilized by EFM, his insight is indispensable. Mr. Beebe has a Master's Degree in Forest Science from Yale and a B.S. in Economics from Williams College.

John Earhart is the chairman and founding shareholder of the Global Environment Fund (GEF) Management Corporation, a $1 billion private investment management firm focusing on businesses that improve environmental quality and manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. He serves as Managing Partner for the GEF Global Emerging Markets Forestry Partners, GEF’s Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund, and has been an active advisor for forest management projects throughout the world. Mr. Earhart has been active in the international environmental conservation field for more than 35 years and has lived and worked in several countries. The majority of his professional life has been dedicated to solving environmental and social problems through sustainable private enterprises and currently sits on a number of corporate and non-profit boards. He is a forestry/natural resources graduate of California State University, Sacramento and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

John Gordon is a consultant and partner in Maximum Yield Associates, a forest technology firm, and is chairman of the board and partner in the Candlewood Timber Group/ Forestal Santa Barbara, a sustainable forestry company based in Argentina. He is Pinchot Professor Emeritus at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he was Dean from 1983-1992 and 1997-1998. He has expertise in the biological basis of forest productivity, the management of research, and forest policy. Dr. Gordon has led several national-level assessments, including those on research and resource management in national parks, forestry research (for the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences), and Indian forests and forestry. He served as a member of the Congressionally mandated Scientific Panel on Late-Successional Ecosystems, was co-chairman of the Seventh American Forest Congress and has extensive consulting experience with public and private organizations. He has authored or coauthored over 100 publications and is senior editor of a seminal work on biological nitrogen fixation in temperate forest ecosystems. Dr. Gordon has a Ph.D. in plant physiology and silviculture and a BS in forest management from Iowa State University, and has been a Fulbright Scholar in Finland (University of Helsinki) and India (Bangalore).

David Pollock has had an extensive business career spanning 30 years and three continents. Most recently, he was the President and CEO of Stormwater Management, Inc, a leading supplier (design, manufacture, and distribution) of effective stormwater solutions to the construction, industrial, and municipal sectors in the United States. Mr. Pollock became involved with Stormwater Management in 1998 and lead dramatic growth while creating an acclaimed internal environment for all employees. As CEO and an investor, he guided the company through a sale to CONTECH Construction Products, Inc in 2005, at which time the company had sales exceeding $35 million, 155 employees and systems in 48 states and five countries. Previously, Mr. Pollock had a broad international career with leading companies, such as Cummins Engine Company, Onan Corporation, Hyster/NMHG, and Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug, the leading manufacturer/supplier of snow grooming equipment.

Darin brings over 20 years of silviculture and restoration forestry systems expertise to EFM as the company’s Stewardship Forester. In this role, he is the architect of EFM's forest management plan, and he supervises the management and stewardship of all Fund properties including oversight of contractors and consultants. He has worked extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond to develop innovative forest management systems for clients ranging from local land trusts to the U.S Forest Service International Programs. He brings a wide range of forestry experience to EFM including forest inventory and cruising, alternative silvicultural systems, and restoration of declining and sensitive forestlands. Darin has an M.S. in Forest Ecology and Silviculture from Oregon State University and a B.S. from the University of Oregon in Political Science. Recently he has served as an advisor to a US AID funded project to restore the cedars of Lebanon.

Chris leads the day-to-day operations of the Management Company and its Funds including finance, accounting, tax, valuation, financial reporting, investor reporting, compliance and office operations. He has 30 years of experience in the financial services and investment industry most recently as Chief Operating Officer at Prime Buchholz, an institutional investment advisor headquartered in the greater Boston area. Prior to Prime Buchholz, Chris served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of World Learning, Inc., a global education organization, and held several executive roles at State Street Global Advisors and State Street Corporation. Chris started his career in the Boston office of KPMG as a Manager in the banking and capital markets audit practice. Chris has an MBA from Boston University and a BA from the University of Vermont.

Amrita joined EFM in 2011 and is a member of EFM’s management team. In this role, she shapes the company’s growth and impact investment strategies managing new product development, fund structuring and investor recruitment. Additionally, as a member of the investment committee, she contributes to property sourcing, transaction structuring, conservation finance, and carbon project development. Prior to EFM, Amrita was an Assistant Manager with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Singapore for 5 years and she subsequently cultivated a passion for financing the growth of environmental business while working for Piper Jaffray’s clean-tech banking group. Her love for forests began during a stint in Indonesia where she helped develop a carbon project on 200,000 hectares of pristine tropical peat forest. Amrita is a Fellow of the Erb Institute and graduated from the University of Michigan with an MBA and an MS in Natural Resources.

As Managing Director of Ecotrust Investments, Nathan develops and executes investment strategies for the Natural Capital Fund, Ecotrust’s working endowment. He actively grows mission aligned businesses created or discovered by Ecotrust’s program teams. Nathan brings a breadth of experience to his business incubation and investment analysis approach, from conducting market studies to test political viability of public funding strategies in rural Oregon communities, to developing go-to-market sector plans for the world’s largest professional services firm. His wide range of ecosystem services work, ranging from ecological field study in Costa Rica’s cloud forest to analytics for the global Carbon Disclosure Project, provide him with a holistic view of the intersection of business, environmental, and social value. He holds a BA in Biology and Public Policy from Pomona College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management with a focus on Finance and Management Strategy.

Alex joined EFM in 2022 and leads the EFM Investor Relations team. Alex shapes the company’s marketing and communications strategies, raising new capital and managing relationships with existing investors. Prior to EFM, Alex was the Vice President of Investor Relations at Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT, an organic farmland private equity company. Alex has an MBA from Babson College and a BS from Columbia University.