John Atcheson of Seattle (Board Chair) is an entrepreneur and advisor in the field of Sustainable Technology. John has served as founder/CEO of several media-related startups, including SparkWords, Ads.com, and MusicNet, the first interactive music service. John also served as vice president and general manager of Media Publishing at RealNetworks (RNWK), a role that involved the oversight of all media-related Web sites, the negotiation of strategic alliances with media partners such as NPR, Warner Bros, and Sony, and the acquisition of media properties such as Film.com. Earlier in his career, John served on the early executive staffs of both Digidesign (now part of Avid) and Macromind (now part of Adobe). John has appeared as a section leader and occasional soloist with the Seattle Symphony Chorale, and has served as a board member of the Seattle Symphony. He received his BA from Brown University and his MBA from Stanford Business School.

Rashmir Balasubramaniam is the Founder and CEO of Nsansa, a new social enterprise that advises and coaches entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs on innovation, creativity and market-based strategies for realizing sustainable, system-wide social impact. Rashmir is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Foster School of Business, University of Washington and Bainbridge Graduate Institute, where she teaches classes on Harnessing Business and Markets to Address Poverty and Social Justice & Business.

Prior to this, Rashmir spent 5 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led a cross-sector initiative on private sector engagement and market development, and drove strategy and built and managed a diverse portfolio of grants for the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program. With 15 years of experience across the public and private sectors, Rashmir has led and managed a variety of cross-sectoral development projects, including work on malaria, reproductive health, human resources for health, and institutional development. She has worked with a broad array of development organizations including iScale – Innovations for Scaling Impact, TechnoServe, the World Bank, and International Planned Parenthood Federation. Her work has focused mainly on Africa, but also includes projects in Asia and Latin America. Prior to pursuing her interests in International Development, Rashmir worked in investment banking and finance. Rashmir holds an MBA from Yale University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies from the University of London, and a BSc in mathematics and computer science from the University of Durham.

Susan Balbas resides with her family on the Snake River in southwestern Idaho, as well as in Seattle, Washington. She is a native of the western United States, is of Native ancestry, Cherokee and Yaqui Nations; and is also of Northern Spain and European heritage. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Teaching, History. She is the co-founder and director of Tierra Madre Fund, a Native women's fund focusing on sustainable community development, food sovereignty, and support of artists and culture keepers. Susan is a development consultant to community-based and philanthropic organizations and Tribes. She has held various management positions in the corporate and non profit sectors, and has served on committees and boards locally and nationally.

Alan Durning of Seattle serves on the board in his official capacity as Sightline's executive director. He founded Sightline Institute in 1993; prior, he was a senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC, where he studied the human dimensions of sustainability. He has authored or coauthored numerous publications, including the award-winning This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence, and How Much Is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth. A sought-after speaker, he has lectured at the White House, major universities, and conferences on five continents. Go to Alan's full bio.

Mary Fellows has been a bookseller at Annie Bloom’s Books, an independent book store in Portland, for nearly 20 years. She is a grandmother, an avid bike commuter, a member of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and a board member of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. Mary has also been a SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) volunteer for the past 10 years. Her previous experiences include serving as President of the ACLU of Oregon and as staff to the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and to the Multnomah County Executive.

Jeff Hallberg Jeff Hallberg of Bellevue, Washington, has worked at Microsoft Corporation since 1993, currently as chief of staff and business manager for the Business Group Engineering Division within Microsoft IT and is a member of the company’s Sustainability Champions Program, an employee volunteer organization designed to support the advancement of Microsoft’s goals to reduce the impact of its operations and products and drive responsible environmental leadership. He has been on the board of Sightline Institute since 1997, serving as Treasurer until 2008. He is a founding member of Sightline’s Cascadia Stewards Council and is currently serving as secretary, member of the Governance Committee and chair of the ad hoc Business Strategy Committee. Jeff holds a B.A. in Management from Seattle Pacific University’s School of Business & Economics and an Accounting Certificate from City University’s School of Management.

Jeanette Henderson serves as Sightline's treasurer and chairs the board finance and audit committee. She is the Director of Real Estate at the University of Washington where she leads an office of real estate professionals conducting real property transactions, asset and project management, and finance and accounting services for UW campuses, medical centers, research field stations, biological preserves and various international locations. She serves on the UW climate action planning committee, and is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and also serves on the executive committee of the Urban Land Institute in Seattle. She is a member of Sightline’s Cascadia Stewards Council and participated as a trustee on the finance and audit committee before becoming a Sightline Director. Jeanette grew up in Oregon, and is a graduate of Washington State University and University of Washington School of Law.

Wayne Lei has led Research and Development at Portland General Electric for over 10 years. In this role, he has issued Technical Basis Documents and other white papers on environmental, social and technical issues affecting the Company. Most recently he has led the technical effort to subsitute biomass for coal at PGE's Boardman Power Plant. Prior to this, Lei was Director of Environmental Policy at PGE and, before that he served in the nuclear industry for ten years. He is currently a Board member for the Resource Innovation Group, the Oregon Hanford Cleanup Board and he chairs the International Sustainable Foundation. Mr. Lei also serves on the Reactor Safety Committee for Reed College. He is a member of the Advisory Committee for ABET accreditation to the Renewable Energy Engineering program at the Oregon Institute of Technology as well as serving on the Science Industry Advisory Council to Portland State University. Mr. Lei holds a doctorate in Environmental Health Sciences specializing in Radiation Hygiene from New York University, as well as degrees from Oregon State University and Oberlin College. Since 1986, he has been certified in the comprehensive practice of Health Physics by the American Board of Health Physics. Wayne has two grown children and resides in Portland with his wife Mary.

Ethan Meginnes has volunteered for environmental concerns and athletic programs in the Northwest over a decade. He was a former Chair for Major Donor Fundraising for the Cascades Checkerboard Project as well one of the initiators of environmental grants to the portfolio of Social Venture Partners. He was a former Director of the successful national amateur cycling program now known as the Hagens Berman Cycling Team. He also assisted in promoting cycling races in Western Washington including the Marymoor Velodrome. A graduate of the University of Vermont, he had a career in managing hotel properties in Seattle, Boston and Burlington prior to his early retirement.

Presently Ethan spends 7 months of the year in Washington and 5 months in British Columbia. He is an announcer for national and regional cycling and Nordic ski events several times a year. He is now attempting to combine his environmental and athletic leanings by financially overseeing a newly formed trail building company known as Joyride Bike Parks Inc.

Gordon Price of Vancouver, BC, is Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. He served as City Councillor from 1986 to 2002, and sat on the boards of the Greater Vancouver Regional District and TransLink, the regional transportation authority. In 2009, he was appointed by the Mayor of Vancouver as a member of the “Greenest City Action Team” and also sits on the executive committees of local chapters of the Urban Land Institute and Lambda Alpha. Gordon lectures and writes widely on urban development, design, and transportation issues in Canada and the US. He publishes an e-mail newsletter, Price Tags, which are archived on the Sightline website. His blog is at www.pricetags.wordpress.com.

Kamala Rao has lived the majority of her life throughout the Cascadia region. She grew up in Washington and Alaska, did her undergraduate degree in Oregon and her graduate degree in urban planning in British Columbia. Kamala also serves on the board of the People’s Waterfront Coalition and has been active in environmental issues throughout the Cascadia region for many years. Her urban planning career, which has included both private and public sector work, has been focused on working with communities to create a more sustainable transportation system. She and her husband Bryn Davidson currently live in Vancouver, BC in a 400-square-foot condo, which was designed by Bryn, a LEED-accredited designer, to be a model of efficiency and small footprint living. Kamala currently works for TransLink, Metro Vancouver’s regional transportation authority. Her background also includes several years working for a communications firm.

Mark Trahant is an independent journalist. He writes a weekly column, posts often on Twitter (including daily news poems). Trahant was recently a Kaiser Media Fellow and is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mark is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He is the author of The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars, about Henry Jackson, Forrest Gerard and the campaign for American Indian self-determination. He lives in Fort Hall, Idaho.

Christopher Troth serves on Sightline’s Finance and Audit Committee. A resident of Seattle since 1993, he is a private investor and occasional restorer of old houses. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

	Mary-lynn Ballew of Seattle, serves on the Sightline Development Committee. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest and graduated from The Evergreen State College. She has worked as a volunteer fundraiser and served on the board of directors for PEPS (Program for Early Parent Support) and The Spruce Street School.
	Ronda Chapman-Duer was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and now works for Washington County, Oregon as the sustainability coordinator. She has lived in Oregon for the past eight years after spending 10 years skiing and snowboarding in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. She is the Education Chair for the board of the Association of Oregon Recyclers, a leadership member of the Environmental Professional of Color, and proud supporter of the African American Outdoor Association. Ronda is currently enrolled in Portland State University’s Executive Master of Public Administration program. She shares her life with her husband, Eric, and two beautiful Newfie dogs, Sibbe and Ebony.
	Erik Jansen and his wife, Gretchen, live on Mercer Island with their three young children. Having begun his career in technical design and marketing roles, he later changed his focus to business analysis and corporate finance, ultimately serving as a securities analyst and partner within several major investment banking firms. More recently, as an entrepreneur, he has founded and/or served in managerial or board roles in start-ups targeting automated manufacturing, networking, Voice-over-Internet (VoIP) components, online medical consultancies, and other technology product and service companies. He serves or has served on boards of universities and non-profit organizations, including several focused on sustainability of the Northwestern and Alaskan environments and preservation of their indigenous cultures. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and master’s degrees in business administration from Indiana University and computer science from the University of Washington.
	Mark Kotzer is founder and principal of Venture Drive Consulting, a firm that specializes in improving the ability of companies to innovate and successfully develop new growth opportunities. Mark has extensive experience helping start-ups, non-profits and major corporations like Expedia and Weyerhaeuser refine business models, create go-to-market strategies and jumpstart sales. In 2000 he co-founded the Early Stage Investment Forum, the premier Northwest event for companies seeking early stage financing. Mark serves on the board of the Association for Corporate Growth and is a judge for regional and national business plan competitions. He has long had a passion for sustainability issues. Earlier in his career he served as Director of Development for the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, board member for EarthShare, and most recently, as a member of the environmental grants committee for Social Venture Partners. Mark earned his undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary and an MBA from the University of Virginia.
	Matt Lerner is CTO of Front Seat Management, where he is responsible for design and development of new products that leverage technology to make the world a better place. From 2001-2007, Matt worked in product development at Microsoft, most recently as Lead Program Manager for Microsoft Windows Vista, where he had responsibility for designing the core user interface components of the world's most widely used software. Matt was the co-founder of EQuill, a Web development software company he sold to Microsoft in 2001. Matt was awarded a Fulbright fellowship and has a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University, where he studied at Brown's famed graphics laboratory.
	Kelly Jo MacArthur is a business executive and attorney with 20 years experience working at the intersection of technology, media, public policy and the law. She has experience launching groundbreaking technologies and new categories of businesses that challenge existing paradigms. She has served in managerial, board or advisory roles with start-ups targeting clean technology, sustainable architecture, networking technologies, digital and social media, other Internet technology and service businesses, and traditional media and arts organizations. She spent ten years at RealNetworks, Inc., which introduced streaming media to the Internet, and where she served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and Chief of Staff. MacArthur holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in English from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has taught university courses in innovation and intellectual property, nonprofit management, and entertainment law and business. She is active in numerous local non-profits in the arts, technology and development. She and her husband have 3 children.
	David Marshall, a professional engineer, was appointed Executive Director of the Fraser Basin Council in May 1997, after serving in the same capacity since 1993 with the Council’s predecessor organization, the Fraser Basin Management Board. Reporting to the Council’s 36-member Board of Directors, Mr. Marshall assists the Council in carrying out its mandate of advancing sustainability in the Fraser River Basin and beyond. In May 1998 he received the National River Conservation Award Of Merit for his outstanding contribution to river conservation in Canada by The Canadian Heritage Rivers System. From 1980 until 1990, he was the Regional Director, Pacific, Western and Northern Region, of the Federal Environmental Assessment Review Office. During this period of time he received two separate Merit Awards for his exceptional and distinguished contribution to the effectiveness and efficiency of the Canadian Public Service.
	Valerie Tarico, Ph.D., is board chair of the Washington Progress Alliance, a state-level donor alliance that seeks to improve strategic coordination and planning, build infrastructure, and foster the development of effective, data-driven policies in Washington State. She is a psychologist, author, and public speaker on the topic of Evangelicalism, and is involved in local and national dialogue about the influence of Christian fundamentalism on U.S. politics and social priorities. Her book, The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, examines the core dogmas that drive the Religious Right. Contact: valerietarico@hotmail.com. Website: www.spaces.live.com/awaypoint.
	David Yaden of Lake Oswego, Oregon, is former energy director for the state of Oregon and serves as chair of Sightline's board governance committee. He is semi-retired from 30 years varied experience in the public and private sectors but does occasional consulting on large-scale strategies for complex problems, such as reforming school finance and the tax structure in Oregon. As an independent consultant for the last decade, Dave developed strategic plans for the Oregon State System of Higher Education and for Tri-Met. In 1991, he left his position as Director of Oregon's Department of Energy, which he had held since 1987, to spend a year advising newly-free Czech and Slovak national and local governments on management of environmental problems. Other experience includes work as manager of corporate planning for a Fortune-500 company, special assistant to a US Secretary of Transportation, chief of staff to a US Congressman, and manager of his own public opinion analysis firm.