EXPERIENCE
Sustainability Consulting and Regeneration Business
Leadership. Following his tenure in public service, Geoff served Fortune
50 clients as a member of the Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting
Group and Sustain LLC. He led complex sustainability initiatives
requiring participation and buy-in of supply chain members and
stakeholder groups. Through strategic listening and questioning,
he helped corporate clients design and execute initiatives tapping
the business value derived from regenerating post-industrial
waste streams into high value raw materials for re-use within
the supply chain. His practice specialized in the design of tools
and systems to establish, authenticate, and verify the sustainability
of products and their production processes within the context
of environmental, social, and financial outcomes relevant to
the client’s core business objectives. This consulting
practice led to equity partnership and appointment as Chief Strategic
Officer in an emerging textile regeneration business called “Circle” where
he currently oversees the licensing of patented regeneration
technology on an international scale.
Senior Instructor, Oregon State University, Department
of Forestry.
Senior Instructor, Oregon State University, College of Forestry.
1994 to present. Geoff has maintained his academic teaching
appointment where he specializes in law and policy issues relating
to the federal Endangered Species and Clean Water Acts, western
state water allocation laws, and administration of natural
resource and environmental policies by government agencies
and the courts. He works primarily with graduate students from
multiple departments at the University, bringing current natural
resource policy challenges faced by the North West into the
classroom to examine how they are being shaped and influenced
by the matrix of existing state and federal laws.
Executive Director, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. 1999
to 2004. Geoff served in the Governor’s Natural Resources
Cabinet as director of the agency charged with coordinating and
supporting the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds – a
multi-faceted approach to watershed health based on government
and citizen-based restoration actions aimed at advancing salmon
recovery and water quality goals of the State. He managed and
framed policy initiatives for investment of over $20 million
annually in watershed restoration projects, and research and
monitoring programs in coordination with ongoing specie recovery
efforts of the federal government
Deputy Director, Oregon Water Resources Department.
1995 to 1999. Geoff had line authority for administration and
policy
direction
of the 160 person agency charged with administering Oregon’s
water allocation laws based on the appropriation doctrine. His
tenure at the Department included a focus on program development
to address federal ESA listing impacts on water rights, and in
stream flow mitigation and enhancement needs. Geoff also oversaw
daily management of the agency’s budget and human resources.
Assistant Director, Oregon Division of State Lands.
1995 Interim Appointment. During a director search, Geoff was
appointed Acting Administrator of the agency’s Policy and
Planning Division charged with overseeing state owned forests,
range lands, navigable rivers, and wetlands fill and removal
laws
Assistant Attorney General Specializing in Natural Resource
Law. New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office 1986 – 1990,
Oregon Department of Justice 1991 – 1995. Complex case
litigation involving enforcement and defense of natural resource
and environmental laws in state and federal courts. Extensive
experience in negotiated dispute resolution of conflicts involving
natural resource issues.
Affiliations: U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution,
Certified Practitioner
Oregon Wetlands Conservancy, Board Chair
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