Board of Directors
Tom Bancroft
Tom is Executive Director of People For Puget Sound
Tom Bayley
Tom Bayley, born and bred in Seattle, joined the People For Puget Sound board in 2010. A resident of the Ballard neighborhood, he is president of C.D. Stimson Company, an asset management company founded in 1909.
David S. Brown, Jr.
David Brown is a retired commercial/international trade finance banker. He managed in Seattle the international office of Standard Chartered Bank, the preeminent international bank in the United Kingdom. He has resided in Seattle for 28 years and is on the Board of the Burke Museum and recently retired from his law School's Board of Advisors and the Whidbey Camano Land Trust.
Cary Clark
Cary Clark joins the Board of People For Puget Sound in 2012, serving her first term. Cary works as the Director of Argosy Cruises & Tillicum Village. For the past three years, Argosy Cruises has been named by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the most giving companies in Washington, averaging $6,000 per employee. Cary also serves on the Ratepayer Advisory Board of the Metropolitan Improvement District and supports many local service organizations. Cary grew up in the Puget Sound area, attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle, and received business degrees from both Seattle University and University of Washington.
Diana Craig
Diana Craig of Edmonds and Camano Island joined the People For Puget Sound board in 2010. She is Director of Human Resources at Intermec, Inc. of Everett, WA. Diana worked for People For Puget Sound in 2009 and came to understand the issues and what People For Puget Sound was doing about it.
Tracy Collier
Tracy Collier joins the Board of People for Puget Sound in 2012, serving his first term. Tracy currently serves as the science advisor to NOAA’s Oceans and Human Health Program, where he provides science direction in the areas of chemical contaminants, pathogens, and algal toxins and their effects on human and ecosystem health.
Rick Davis
Rick Davis, a Washington native, joined the board in 2010. Rick has been a financial executive at Weyerhaeuser, Cascade Natural Gas, and other area companies. He is an avid water sportsman and enjoys a family-owned cabin on Case Inlet.
William Derry
Bill is retired from a career in environmental issues working for CH2M HILL and State and Local government agencies. He joined the board in 2005 and is in his second term. He became board president in 2009.
Patrick Drum
Patrick Drum of Tacoma joined the People For Puget Sound board in 2010. He is a financial advisor providing investment management for wildlife parks and conservation endowments as a fixed income asset management at The Arbor Group at UBS Financial Services in Seattle. An active kayaker, Patrick got to know People For Puget Sound through our restoration work.
Bill Evans
Consultant, Business Development
Seth Fleetwood
Seth Fleetwood joins the Board of People for Puget Sound in 2012, serving his first term. Seth is an attorney in Bellingham and has served in the area’s local and regional government for the past 10 years. On the Bellingham City Council, Seth chaired the Lake Whatcom Reservoir and Natural Resources Committee and served as a representative to the City’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board.
Josh Freedman
Josh Freedman of Seattle joined the People For Puget Sound board in 2010. He learned about People For Puget Sound about seven years ago while volunteering with the Seattle Aquarium’s Beach Naturalist program.
Sally Gustafson Garratt
A Puget Sound native, Sally’s family has had property on the south part of Whidbey Island for over 100 years. She spent summers there as a child with fellow board member and cousin Dick Wood. She also shares a family beach house on Harstine Island and claims South Sound connections as well.
Ann Krumboltz
Ann Krumboltz joins the Board of People For Puget Sound in 2012, serving her first term. Ann is the Executive Director of The Brainerd Foundation, overseeing its administrative, managerial, financial, and programmatic components. Prior to joining The Brainerd Foundation, Ann was a Program Officer at the Energy Foundation; she has also served as staff in several national environmental, consumer and arms control groups. Ann grew up in Palo Alto, California, and attended Stanford University as an undergraduate. She returned to school in 1999 for a Master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Ann moved to the Puget Sound area in 1995. Her favorite place in Puget Sound is any place where marine mammals can be spotted. Her biggest hope for the future of Puget Sound is for the broadest range of its citizens to advocate for its sustained protection.
Eric Laliberte
Eric Laliberte of Seattle joined the People For Puget Sound board in 2010. He is a student at the University of Washington School of Law. Eric learned about People For Puget Sound six years ago from a Seattle Times article. “Since then, just about every article that I have read about the Sound has included a quote from someone from People For Puget Sound. I think that this shows how important a voice People For Puget Sound has in the region,” says Eric.
Melissa Mager
Like so many residents of Puget Sound, Melissa Mager got here the long way—driving her Ford Pinto in 1981 from Oklahoma through California and up the Pacific Coast. Melissa played a major role in the creation of People For Puget Sound.
David McCaughey
David McCaughey is regional accounts manager for the pharmaceutical firm sanofi-aventis. An avid boater, David is a volunteer and lead partner with the Seattle chapter of Social Venture Partners. He joined the board in 2010 and is serving his first term.
Donna Nickerson
Donna is an expert in coastal management. She joined the board in 2007 and is in her first term.
Sue Patnude
Sue Patnude of Matlock in Mason County joined the People For Puget Sound board in 2010. She is owner of convergence consulting, a management, grant writing and research service for non-profit organizations. Sue got to know People For Puget Sound when she worked for the Department of Ecology and she got to know the interesting world of Puget Sound water quality politics during the early 1990s.
Michael Schaefer
Mike is a consultant in strategic planning, fundraising and management. He joined the board in 2009 and is in his first term.
