Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Nature Conservancy Appoints Mark Tercek as President and CEO

Demonstrating its charge to its all-around attention mission, The Nature Conservancy today appear that it has called Mark R. Tercek as its new admiral and CEO alpha in July. Building on our 57 years of attention results, The Nature Conservancy is alive with ally to aggrandize our all-around ability to accomplish our arduous 2015 Goal of bigger attention 10 percent of all accustomed habitats on Earth At this important time for attention and for our organization, Mark’s ability of all-around cultures and governments, his affection for attention and his acquaintance as a absolute accord architect in an acutely results-oriented alignment positions him to advance the Conservancy to advanced our plan about the globe. We are appreciative that the plan of The Nature Conservancy’s civic and bounded administration and our bags of committed volunteers has enabled us to allure a borough and business baton with Mark’s acceptability and experience We accept that we accept accumulated an acutely accomplished chief administration aggregation that brings the skills, charge and eyes we charge to move us against our 2015 Goal. The axle is beholden to Stephanie for her administration and service, not just back adventurous the acting CEO responsibilities or the COO position, but for 18 years of adherence to the Conservancy and its mission Our alignment is stronger and the Earth’s habitats added defended because of Stephanie, and we are assured of her approaching success. I accept continued admired The Nature Conservancy and accept an astronomic aggregate of account for its all-around mission As altitude change, abode accident and added all-around trends abide to abuse our planet’s biodiversity, the apple needs the Conservancy’s effective, applied solutions now added than ever. I attending advanced to alive carefully with its board, its arch conservationists and its ally about the world. Mark is aperture avant-garde possibilities for adjustment bread-and-butter armament with conservation His eyes is axial to demography attention to scale, accumulation the ethics of attributes into absolute decisions and agreeable leaders globally.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 9, 2008 -- Demonstrating its charge to its all-around attention mission, The Nature Conservancy today appear that it has called Mark R. Tercek as its new admiral and CEO alpha in July. Mr. Tercek replaces Steven J. McCormick, who stepped down as admiral and CEO in October 2007.    

Mr. Tercek combines all-around business experience, acquaintance alive bigger in altered cultures and accustomed administration on altitude change and added ecology issues. Mr. Tercek is currently a managing administrator at Goldman Sachs and arch of the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets as able-bodied as the firm’s Environmental Strategy Group.

"Building on our 57 years of attention results, The Nature Conservancy is alive with ally to aggrandize our all-around ability to accomplish our arduous 2015 Goal of bigger attention 10 percent of all accustomed habitats on Earth,” said John P. Morgridge, administrator of the Conservancy’s axle of directors.

“At this important time for attention and for our organization, Mark’s ability of all-around cultures and governments, his affection for attention and his acquaintance as a absolute accord architect in an acutely results-oriented alignment positions him to advance the Conservancy to advanced our plan about the globe.”

“We are appreciative that the plan of The Nature Conservancy’s civic and bounded administration and our bags of committed volunteers has enabled us to allure a borough and business baton with Mark’s acceptability and experience,” Morgridge added. “We accept that we accept accumulated an acutely accomplished chief administration aggregation that brings the skills, charge and eyes we charge to move us against our 2015 Goal.”

To ensure a bland alteration of leadership, Stephanie K. Meeks, who has served as the Conservancy’s acting admiral and CEO back October and as its arch operating administrator back January 2007, has agreed to abide in those capacities through the alpha of Mr. Tercek’s tenure.

“The axle is beholden to Stephanie for her administration and service, not just back adventurous the acting CEO responsibilities or the COO position, but for 18 years of adherence to the Conservancy and its mission,” said Mr. Morgridge. “Our alignment is stronger and the Earth’s habitats added defended because of Stephanie, and we are assured of her approaching success.”

“I accept continued admired The Nature Conservancy and accept an astronomic aggregate of account for its all-around mission,” said Mr. Tercek. “As altitude change, abode accident and added all-around trends abide to abuse our planet’s biodiversity, the apple needs the Conservancy’s effective, applied solutions now added than ever. I attending advanced to alive carefully with its board, its arch conservationists and its ally about the world.”

Mr. Tercek is currently accommodating with Resources for the Future, the World Resources Institute and the Woods Hole Research Center on projects apropos altitude change. He serves on the Council on Foreign Relations’ absolute assignment force on altitude change and the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Chilean Advisory Council. He is a affiliate of the Steering Group on the Prince of Wales’ Princes’ Rainforest Project.

In addition, Mr. Tercek has formed with Nature Conservancy axle affiliate Dr. Gretchen Daily, assistant of analysis at Stanford University, and Conservancy arch scientist Peter Kareiva on advancing accounts and action mechanisms for account backwoods ecosystems for the basic roles they play in acknowledging animal well-being, thereby creating alternatives to rainforest destruction.

“Mark is aperture avant-garde possibilities for adjustment bread-and-butter armament with conservation,” Dr. Daily said. “His eyes is axial to demography attention to scale, accumulation the ethics of attributes into absolute decisions and agreeable leaders globally.”

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact:
Steve Ertel, 703-841-2652, sertel @ tnc.org

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