Advisory Board
To create our advisory board, ImageTree rounded up leaders in the forest industry, put them in a board room, looked them in the eye and assigned them but one task: to expand our leadership position as the provider of accurate, efficient and useful forest inventory data and management information. We feel they’re doing one heck of a job.
Dr. Lee Allen
Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Forest Nutrition Cooperative, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, and Forestry Consultant
Lee Allen is the Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus, Forest Nutrition Cooperative, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, and forestry consultant. His research – on sustainable production and silviculture (the development and care of forests), ecophysiology (the study of the relationships between the physiology of organisms and environmental factors), and genetic differences in resource acquisition and use – has resulted in more than 240 research publications and millions of dollars in research funding. Lee is a recipient of the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by North Carolina State University and its trustees, and is recognized for his contribution to the Southern forestry industry’s increased competitiveness.
Ricardo Bayon
Co-founder and Partner of Merchant Bank EKO Asset Management Partners
A co-founder and partner of merchant bank EKO Asset Management Partners, which invests in new and emerging markets for such environmental commodities as carbon, water and biodiversity, Ricardo Bayon previously helped found and served as managing director of the Ecosystem Marketplace. He has co-authored a number of publications on environmental markets, including “The State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2007: Picking up Steam,” “Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work,” and “Conservation and Biodiversity Banking: A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading System.” His articles on the environment and socially responsible investing have been published in such prestigious newspapers and magazines as The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and The Atlantic Monthly, and he has contributed book chapters on a variety of environmental market topics. He has also done work for entities such as the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and The Nature Conservancy.
Evan H. Smith
Vice President of Forest Acquisition and Finance, The Conservation Fund
Vice president of forest acquisition and finance for The Conservation Fund, Smith oversees management of the Fund’s working forest conservation projects, which include California projects that make the Fund arguably the country’s largest forest-project seller of verified emission reductions. With the Fund since 1995, Smith is a trained forester, well versed in conservation planning, conservation easements, ecological silviculture, watershed restoration, forest certification, forest operations management and finance, timberland valuation and carbon-offset markets. Among other professional activities, he has co-chaired the Resources Committee of the Sustainable Forestry Board, and holds from Yale University a B.S. degree in geology and a master’s degree in forestry.
B. Chandler Van Voorhis
Founding Partner, C2I, LLC
A founding partner of C2I, LLC, a conservation-finance company whose assets have been created to produce significant value from carbon and renewable biomass supplies through the natural sequestration of carbon dioxide while having a positive effect on conservation, Van Voorhis serves on the Board of the Clean Power Foundation and is an adviser to business publication Corporate Strategy Today. C2I builds public-private partnerships for forest restoration carbon projects and has proposed the creation of the U.S. Federal Carbon Reserve as a mechanism for avoided deforestation to participate in the carbon market by creating an insurance backstop.
Dr. Randolph Wynne
Professor of Forest Biometry and Geomatics at Virginia Tech
Randy Wynne is professor of forest biometry and geomatics at Virginia Tech, associate director of the Conservation Management Institute, co-director of the Center for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing, and the remote sensing team leader for the Forest Nutrition Cooperative. Chosen as a NASA New Investigator in 2001, Randy is now investigating for the agency how to improve the integration of remote sensing into decision support systems used for forest carbon monitoring. He also serves as a member of the NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Management Operations Working Group within the agency’s Earth Science Research Program. He won a U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Achievement Award in 2002 and is the author/co-author of more than 60 scientific papers, including three book chapters and 32 papers in technically reviewed journals abstracted by the Institute for Scientific Information. He was guest editor for the 2003 Forest Science issue devoted to remote-sensing applications and the guest co-editor for a 2006 Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing issue devoted to forestry lidar applications.