Board and Staff
Board Members of RLF and RLFF:
Because Resources Legacy Fund (RLF) and its supporting
organization, Resources Legacy Fund Foundation (RLFF) share the
same mission, staff, and operational strategy, they also share
distinguished members on their boards, with RLFF having one
additional member. RLF and RLFF are honored to have the
commitment, excellence, and expertise of these board members.
Don McGrath, Vice Chair
Mr. McGrath is managing partner of Diamond Bear Partners LLC,
a California Investment Company. He retired in January 2010 as
Chairman and CEO of both Bank of the West and the bank’s holding
company, BancWest Corporation. Mr. McGrath joined Bank of the West in 1975, and
became President in 1991 and CEO in 1996. During his tenure at Bank of the West,
he also held the positions of Vice President and Treasurer, Chief Financial
Officer, Director, and Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. McGrath also serves on the boards of directors of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
the Deluxe Corporation, The Nature Conservancy of Idaho, Operation HOPE, Inc.,
Commonwealth Club of California, and Dominican University of San Rafael.
During the last decade, he has served on the boards of the Pacific Stock Exchange and
the Financial Services Roundtable.
John Schmidt is the former Executive Director of Resources
Legacy Fund and Resources Legacy Fund Foundation. Beginning in
2001, Mr. Schmidt served as the organization's Executive
Director and as Program Director for RLF's San Francisco Bay
Wetlands Restoration project.
Prior to joining RLF, Mr. Schmidt was the Executive Director
of the California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB),
California's leading conservation real estate and restoration
agency, for 18 years. He is past president of the Organization
of Wildlife Land and Realty Specialists, and has worked on
several committees of the International Association of Fish and
Wildlife Agencies. Mr. Schmidt also worked in land-related
activities with the California Division of Highways and the
Alaska Department of Highways.
Mr. Schmidt holds a California Community College Teaching
Credential, is a certified real estate appraiser and a former
member of the City of Lodi Planning Commission.
Jeanne Sedgwick is the former director of the Conservation
Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos,
California. She oversaw the program's growth from an annual
grants budget of $500,000 in 1989 to $100 million in 2000. Under
her direction in 1998, the Conservation Program launched the
5-year, $175 million Conserving California Landscapes
Initiative, which helped protect nearly 500,000 acres of
California's critical habitats.
She has served in a variety of board positions, most recently
including chairman of the board of the Consultative Group on
Biological Diversity, the national affinity group of private
foundations working on biodiversity conservation, and vice
chairman of the board of trustees at Phillips Brooks School, an
independent school in Menlo Park, California. She is a member of
the strategic planning committee at Jasper Ridge Biological
Preserve at Stanford University.
Gordon Smith is the former President and CEO of the Pacific
Gas and Electric Company, one of the nation's largest
investor-owned energy utilities. Mr. Smith was also Senior Vice
President of the utility's parent company, PG&E Corporation. He
joined Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1970 as a financial
analyst and held a number of executive financial positions in
the company, serving as Treasurer, Vice President of Finance,
and Senior Vice President. He was the utility's Chief Financial
Officer from 1991 to 1997.
Mr. Smith is the former Director of the California Chamber of
Commerce and the Bay Area Council. He serves as trustee for The
Monterey Bay Aquarium, and has served as a Trustee of the
University of San Francisco and The California Foundation on the
Environment and Economy.
Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Chair
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Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr. is the Robert E. Paradise
Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty
Director, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford
University. A
widely published author and recognized expert in water resource
issues, Mr. Thompson is Contributing Editor to Water Strategist
and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Natural Heritage
Institute.
Mr. Thompson has worked as a partner at the law firm of
O'Melveny & Meyers, instructor at University of California at
Los Angeles, and law clerk to United States Supreme Court
Justice William H. Rehnquist. Today, he is a member of the
California and American Bar Associations and serves as a Trustee
of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute.
Barry Williams is the founder and President of Williams
Pacific Ventures, Inc., a real estate and private equity
investment and consulting firm. Previously, Mr. Williams served
as general partner of WDG Ventures, Inc. and was President and
majority stockholder of C. N. Flagg Power, Inc. He was a
consultant with McKinsey and Company and The Bechtel Group in
their investment programs.
Mr. Williams also serves on the boards of PG&E Corporation,
the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and several
other publicly traded companies. In civic affairs, he is
Chairman of the Board of the African American Experience Fund
and a director for the American Management Association.
Mr. Williams has been President of the Harvard Alumni
Association and interim CEO of the American Management
Association. He recently concluded a six-year term on the board
of the National Park Foundation.
RLF and RLFF Staff:
Marty Campbell provides executive leadership and vision to
RLF and RLFF. In this role, she develops and implements the
organizations’ long-term objectives, develops and coordinates
conservation program areas, and oversees external
communications, donor relations, and all organizational
operations.
Marty brings 25 years of foundation management and leadership
experience in the nonprofit sector as well as significant
on-the-ground experience. Most recently, Marty directed
philanthropic advisory services at Foundation Source, a provider
of support services for private foundations. Prior to that,
Marty served for 14 years at The James Irvine Foundation in
various capacities, including Vice President for Programs, where
she provided leadership in setting the Foundation’s strategies
and in overseeing its grantmaking. Marty also spent 10 years in
Africa leading natural resource management, agricultural and
health care programs for CARE, a large humanitarian organization
committed to helping individuals, families, and communities in developing countries. Marty is
a graduate of Dartmouth College, holds a Master’s degree in
Public Affairs from Princeton University, and has served on the
Board of Directors of the Lucile Packard Foundation for
Children’s Health, Grantmakers Evaluation Network, and
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
Martha Flores helps administer land- and ocean-based programs, providing research, grantee oversight, communications, technical assistance in the development of projects, and management of program contractors. Before joining RLF, she worked as an outreach coordinator for the California Immunization Registry and as an information and referral specialist at a Sacramento community programs referral service. Prior to that, Martha was a member of the Sociology faculty at El Paso Community College in El Paso, Texas. She received a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at El Paso with a research focus on environmental justice campaigns.
Gary Gardner oversees grants management at RLF and assists in developing RLF’s strategic direction. He brings 17 years of research experience
to RLF, primarily at the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit organization focused on sustainability research. At Worldwatch, Gary covered a broad set of sustainability issues, including agricultural land loss, microfinance, materials efficiency, malnutrition, and religious involvement in sustainability. He has authored or co-authored three books and written multiple chapters and articles on a broad suite of sustainability issues.
In addition, Gary has participated as a speaker at numerous international conferences and has been interviewed by media outlets ranging from the BBC and Voice of America, to National Public Radio and the Los Angeles Times. He holds Master's degrees in Politics from Brandeis University and Public Administration from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
He earned his Bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University in California.
Robin Jenkins helps administer ocean, coasts, and fisheries programs, providing research, grantee oversight, and communications to the California Coastal and Marine Initiative, and is the lead administrative liaison to the MLPA Initiative. Prior to joining RLF, she worked for six years as a program analyst for Resources Law Group; eighteen years with the California State Senate providing legislative and committee support for an East Bay senator; and, four years in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program as the assistant to the Executive Director.
Mark Kleinman works closely with outside consultants in designing and implementing philanthropic programs. For all RLF philanthropic initiatives he provides coordination, research, analysis, strategy development, writing, review and editing, and administration, as well as oversight of grantee, consultant, and public communications. He brings more than 25 years of experience in research, writing, and strategic and communications planning. A Ph.D. in American cultural history, he taught at UC San Diego and the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, publishing research on American politics, political culture, and foreign policy. After leaving academia, he worked as a marketing communications strategist in Sacramento, developing communications plans, campaigns and projects for corporate, government, and nonprofit clients including California Community Colleges, the Sierra Nevada Alliance, The Nature Conservancy, Sacramento Air Quality Management District, California Highway Patrol, Catholic Healthcare West, and CalPERS.
Julie Martin helps administer ocean-based philanthropic programs, providing research, grantee oversight, communications, technical assistance in the development of projects, and management of program contractors. Prior to joining RLF, she worked for two years as an Analyst with Resources Law Group and, before that, for the University of California, Davis, conducting research on groundwater quality impacts from dairy farming operations. She also has experience in water resource planning, water supply assessment, and environmental compliance. Ms. Martin has an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. She holds a B.S. in Hydrology and a B.A. in Economics from UC Davis.
Aaron O’Callaghan helps administer land-based philanthropic programs, providing mapping and information system coordination, technical assistance in the development of projects, and management of program contractors. Prior to joining RLF, he worked for five years as a Program Analyst with Resources Law Group. Previously, he conducted research on the ecological systems of Lake Tahoe and the Bay-Delta in coordination with University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service. Mr. O’Callaghan has a B.S. in Environmental Biology and Management from UC Davis.
Lindsey Spice-Zich helps administer land-based philanthropic programs, providing research, grantee oversight, communications, technical assistance in the development of projects, and management of program contractors. Prior to joining RLF, she worked for five years as a Project Coordinator with Resources Law Group. Previously, she conducted research on animal behavior and autonomous robotics to develop infrastructure and common scientific methods to conduct a parallel biology-engineering study of small mammals at UC Davis. Ms. Spice-Zich has a B.S. in Biopsychology and a minor in Law and Society from UC Davis and is currently enrolled in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
Susan Turpin plans, directs, and coordinates all of RLF’s accounting operations and manages the accumulation and consolidation of financial information for accurate and timely accounting and reporting. She also manages payroll and human resources for RLF. Susan brings to RLF 20 years of experience in finance and management in the for-profit sector. Before coming to RLF, she did pro-bono financial consulting for nonprofits. She has an MBA from UCLA and is a Certified Public Accountant (license inactive).
Photograph by Doug Steakley
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