Board of Directors
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Tuck is a trustee of private charitable foundations following his retirement from a banking career in Africa, Scandinavia, New York, and Paris. He has been an active volunteer pilot in the northeastern United States for ten years, served on the board of Northern Wings, and currently works on environmental issues in his home state of Florida. |
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Prior to joining the LightHawk, Engholm was the founder of Northern Wings, an environmental flying organization that merged into LightHawk in 2003. Engholm joined LightHawk’s board at that time and served as Board President from 2005-2007. He holds a commercial pilot certificate and has also been active in a number of environmental issues, including the campaign to create a new Maine Woods National Park. Engholm has a B.S. in computer engineering and a law degree from the University of Michigan. He practiced law in the late 1970s with a Connecticut law firm, then served for ten years as Vice President and General Counsel of Creative Solutions, Inc., a Michigan-based tax and accounting software company. Engholm spent his childhood in Japan and speaks a modest amount of Japanese. |
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Jon Engle is a lifelong professional aviator with a diverse background of over 33 years of civilian and military flying. Jon first soloed in gliders when he was 14, then in powered aircraft when he was 16. He holds a degree in Atmospheric Science and Meteorology and worked as a forecaster for the National Weather Service before continuing his flying career as a military pilot. Prior to retiring from the U.S. Air Force, he was the Director of Air Operations in Europe for 3rd Air Force. With over 4100 hours flying time in more than 35 different aircraft types, Jon has flown from over 27 different countries in either civil or military aircraft. He owns a 1942 Piper Cub and his flying experience includes over 162 hours of combat flying and 38 aircraft carrier landings. He has flown from the edge of sand dunes in hang gliders, to the edge of space in the U-2. Jon holds Commercial, Single and Multi Engine Land rating as well as Single Engine Seaplane and Instrument rating. He is a CFII and holds a Basic Hang Glider license. |
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Norissa Giangola is the president of Coqui Marketing - a full service strategy, marketing, and communications firm based in Washington, DC. Coqui helps some of the world's most successful consumer brands and nonprofits to capitalize on new opportunities in healthcare, FDA-regulated industries, and sustainability markets - with a focus on making the world a better place to live and work. Norissa has over 18 years of corporate strategy, marketing, and public affairs expertise. Norissa began her career counting rats on a tropical island in Mexico, and then became an entrepreneur in organic agriculture in Ecuador, growing one of the largest organic consumer foods companies in the Andean region. After selling her company and returning to the U.S., she went on to lead New Ventures, at the World Resources Institute, where her work focused on supporting innovation, investment, and growth at the nexus of environment and business in global markets. She founded Coqui in 2005. Norissa is fluent in English and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and Italian. Norissa received a BA from Duke University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and has additional advanced studies in Microbiology and Anatomy from Johns Hopkins University. In addition to working with LightHawk, she serves on the Board of The Green Cell, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing smart therapeutic approaches for the developing world in the area of plant manufactured pharmaceuticals. |
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Tom Haas is a pilot, flight instructor and owner of Great Bay Aviation, LLC in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He has been flying in the Northeast for over 34 years. He spent three years restoring a 1947 Piper Cub, and also owns a 172 Skyhawk and a 182 Skylane, as well as a Pilatus PC-12. Tom currently serves as National Chairman of the AOPA Foundation's campaign committee, and is a member of the AOPA’s “Hat In The Ring Society.” Tom is also the Vice President of The New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society. Tom graduated from Nathaniel Hawthorne College with a BBA and Associates in Professional Pilot. He then continued to earn his CFII and A&P license. Tom resides in Durham, NH. |
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Jeff joined LightHawk’s board in 2008 and is an active member of LightHawk’s volunteer pilot corps. Jeff retired from Accenture in 2001 as a Senior Managing Partner and a member of the Firm’s Global Management Council. Jeff serves on the Spokane Airports Board and is a Board member of the Spokane Science Center. Jeff served as a U.S. Air Force officer and holds commercial, multi-engine, instrument, and seaplane pilot ratings. He flies in a Stearman formation team performing at air-shows and community events several times a year. |
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Steve retired in 2005 from Cummins, Inc. as Vice President – Mexico Operations and Distribution Latin America and as President of Cummins’ Mexican subsidiary. Previously he was USAID mission director in Costa Rica. He received his MBA from Stanford in 1969, and later managed a 3,200-unit housing project in Brazil. Steve founded Special Olympics-Mexico and was national chairman for 13 years; he also established and presided over the Cummins Philanthropic Association. He has served on the boards of Accion International, Special Olympics International, and EARTH University in Costa Rica. Knaebel was on LightHawk’s board from 1995-1998, and serves on the boards of the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature and The Center for Sustainable Transport. He holds a commercial pilot’s license with instrument and multiengine ratings. |
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David has an extensive and successful background as an entrepreneur. He has lived in Washington, Oregon, Colorado and California, co-founding what is now Johnson, Kunkel and Associates, a civil engineering firm in Eagle, Colorado. He later founded a software and services company which catered to the needs of local governments. After selling the company to Tyler Technologies, he continued to work for Tyler as a division head until 2004. During this time he sat on Tyler's Executive Committee and the Technology Committee. During the early 1980s he served on the Eagle County Airport (now called the Vail Eagle airport) Commission. David also has served on architectural control committees and a cooperative irrigation company board, and was named to the board of Metcalf Archaeology. He has been a LightHawk Volunteer Pilot since 2002 and flies a number of different aircraft. |
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Josh worked in the environmental consulting industry in a variety of executive and management positions for national and international companies and has experience in the development of financial and non-financial management systems, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, and insurance products. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees at the Chewonki Foundation, a non-profit environmental education institution and a center for leading-edge conservation and sustainable energy curriculum. He holds single-engine and instrument ratings. |
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Jane became a LightHawk volunteer pilot in 1994 and has been actively donating flights in the Pacific Northwest ever since. Jane has served in both board and staff positions since 2007. Her professional background includes graphic design and the ski/tourism industry. She served three years on the National Ski Patrol, has taken Master Gardener training, and served four years on the Common Link advisory at Oregon Episcopal School. An accomplished aviatrix, Jane’s flying ratings include single engine land, single engine sea, instrument and helicopter. She is an adventurer, gardener, athlete, pianist, certified yoga instructor, author, wife and mother. |
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Brian is a director at a global consulting firm specializing in the application of information technology. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Northwest University in South Africa and an MBA from Pace University in New York. Brian earned his pilot's license in South Africa in 1989 and has flown throughout the region for recreation and business. Early in his flying career, Brian flew to locate a fugitive and endangered black rhinoceros before it crossed the border from South Africa into neighboring Botswana where it was in danger from poachers. The rhino was captured and returned, saving its life. Ever since that experience, Brian has had a keen interest in habitat conservation and environmental policy. In 1998, he emigrated to the USA and in 2007 started volunteering for LightHawk's Mesoamerica and Eastern region programs. He was Lighthawk's 2007 "Rookie of the Year" and in 2008 was the "Rockwell Award" recipient. He also volunteers for Southwings concentrating on Appalachian mountain top removal mining. Brian owns a Cessna Cardinal Turbo RG and is a 2800hr commercial pilot with instrument- and multi-engine ratings. |
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Will is the founder and president of Pipetech International, an engineering firm that specializes in testing and failure analysis of water and petroleum pipelines worldwide. He graduated from West Point and was a commissioned officer in the regular Army and Arizona Army National Guard for 30 years. He was an officer with the Army Corps of Engineers with many challenging assignments all over the world, including two years in Vietnam. He supervised the design of a $4.5 billion water project for the Bureau of Reclamation and holds three U.S. patents for pipeline diagnostic test inventions. He has over 4,800 hours as pilot in command and holds commercial pilot and flight instructor certificates. Will is a registered professional engineer in Arizona and California. He is a LightHawk volunteer pilot and received the Spirit of LightHawk award in 2012. |
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Brent attended Vanderbilt University and the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He received his post-doctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Blue practices medicine in Jackson Hole and is a recognized expert in aviation medicine. He also has been on several nonprofit boards, including the Teton Science School, Dancer’s Workshop of Jackson, and the Board of Health of Teton County. Dr. Blue made multiple environmental flight missions for the Vanderbilt Student Health Coalition/Save Our Cumberland Mountains in the early 1970s to document the environmental destruction, cultural devastation, and health impacts caused by open pit strip mining in Appalachia. Those flights made lasting impressions and fostered his commitment to environmental protection. |
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Tom is currently the Chairman and President of Marine Ventures Foundation which he created a decade ago with the mission to improve and protect critical marine, coastal and river habitats in North America, South America and the Caribbean. He first flew a Lighthawk mission in 2009 to photo baseline the Henrys Fork of the Snake River and has since flown several other Lighthawk missions. In addition, Tom is the Chairman of the Ocean Foundation, a global community foundation for ocean preservation, board member of the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, Tag a Giant Fund and Lateral Line Fund and also an active investor on conservation causes. Previously Tom was a partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital company that invested in Apple, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Yahoo and Google. Tom holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke in 1980. |
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Sally has a thirty-year career in the public and private sectors dedicated to environmental, public land and water policy. She is an internationally recognized wildland conservation specialist and activist. Ms. Ranney was a founding LightHawk Board member and has been a long-time advocate of LightHawk. Ms. Ranney is CEO of Stillwater Preservation, LLC, a wetlands mitigation banking company and President of Rising Wolf International, Inc., a natural resource consulting group. She founded and served as President of American Wildlands, an NGO dedicated to protecting wildlands and wildlife through legislative and legal strategies and public/private partnerships. Influenced by her early experiences living on a cattle ranch, running rivers, and adventuring in wilderness, Ms. Ranney found herself catapulted into public land and water policy by both the beauty and needless degradation of America's wildlands, wildlife, and forests. Ms. Ranney studied at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and also holds a B.A. in Art and M.A. in Education. Ms. Ranney is an author and artist who works in oils, watercolors, pen and ink, and Graphites. She splits her time between Colorado and Patagonia. |
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Mike currently serves as Executive Director of Audubon California and Vice President of the Pacific Flyway for the National Audubon Society. He served as Vice President and Director of the Center for the Future of the Oceans for the Monterey Bay Aquarium for eight years, and prior to that he headed the Ocean Conservation Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in northern California. Mike founded and directed World Wildlife Fund's Endangered Seas Campaign and before joining the WWF staff, he served as a park ranger with the National Park Service and as a special agent with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Mike has served as a senior advisor on ocean issues to the Departments of Commerce and State and has lectured at graduate seminars nationally. He pursued graduate studies in marine biology at the University of Sydney, Australia, and received a natural resources law degree from George Washington University. Mike is an instrument-rated private pilot and Cessna T210 owner, and enjoys scuba diving, wildlife and underwater photography, and skiing. |
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Terri served as the executive director of Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association. She was also an EMS and State Department support pilot and served as LightHawk's executive director (2001-2003) and flight services director (2000-2001), after joining LightHawk’s volunteer pilot corps in 1997. Terri is a former U.S. Army aviator in fixed and rotary wing service, a former branch director and senior field instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School, and currently owns Winds Aloft Aviation, Inc., an aviation consulting and contracting company. Terri is a 10,000+ hour Airline Transport Pilot with airplane single / multi-engine land and sea, helicopter, instrument-airplane and helicopter ratings, and flight instructor ratings for each of these. She has flown throughout the world in military and civilian applications, many of them remote area operations. |
