Staff Bios
Roger Payne, Ph.D.
Founder and President
Iain Kerr
Vice President and Chief Executive Officer
Liz Ambros
Assistant to the President
John Atkinson
Consultant/Right Whale Photographer
Casey Clarke
Consultant
Mark Hayes
Financial Consultant
Kim Marshall-Tilas
Senior Director
Cynde McInnis
Education Consultant
Shirish Nilekar
IT Consultant
Vicki Rowntree, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist and Director, Patagonia Right Whale Program, University of Utah
Ilana Schoenfeld
Director of Education and Public Outreach
Roxana Schteinbarg
Executive Coordinator, Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas (ICB), Argentina
Mariano Sironi, Sr., Ph.D.
Scientist Director, Instituto de Conservacion de Ballenas (ICB), Argentina
Diego Taboada
President, Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas (ICB), Argentina
Bob Wallace
Consultant/Captain, RV Odyssey
Patrick Woods
Director of Development
Collaborating Scientists
John Wise, Sr., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, University of Southern Maine
Board and Advisory Board Members
Scott Cain, BT Global
Ronald Christensen, Ph.D., Secretary, Entropy Limited
Richard Delaney, Center for Coastal Studies
Andy DiSabatino, Laffey McHugh Foundation
Muffy DiSabatino, Laffey McHugh Foundation
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D., Deep Ocean Exploration and Research
Sarah C. Haney, Canadian Whale Institute
Lisa Harrow, SeaChange Institute
Thomas Horton, Sustainable Resources, Inc.
Iain Kerr, Chief Executive Officer
Tim Krochuk, GRT Capital Partners, LLC
Jeffrey Kunz, Chairman, Second Nature (retired)
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D., The H. John Heinz Center
Michael Mainelli, Z/Yen Limited, UK
Linde McNamara, Linde Mac Real Estate
Bill and Dorothy McSweeny, Occidental International (retired)
Eleanor Merrill, Merrill Family Foundation
Andrew Morse, Morse Family Foundation
Roger Payne, Ph.D., Founder and President
Patrick Stewart, Honorary Chairman
Thomas Tilas, AECom