TREE Fund Board of Trustees

Our board members share a passion for healthy trees in our communities and healthy growth in the tree care industry. Our all-volunteer, working board represents a broad spectrum of expertise in commercial, municipal and utility arboriculture, academia, research, manufacturing and communications. TREE Fund embraces diversity to ensure that a range of perspectives and experiences are incorporated in the work of its board; arboriculture experience is not required.

TREE Fund Trustees 2023

Arnold Brodbeck, PhD, Trustee

 

Arnold “Beau” Brodbeck, PhD, Chair 
Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Auburn University)
Auburn, AL
Biography

 

 

Patrick Franklin, Chair Elect
Bartlett Tree Experts
Charlotte, NC
Biography

 

 

Rachel Barker, Vice Chair
ArborMetrics Solutions, LLC
Tallassee, AL
Biography

 

 

Jacques Brunswick , Treasurer
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
New York, NY
Biography

 

 

 

Lori Brockelbank
Davey Resource Group
New York
Biography

 

 

Jeff Edgar
Silver Creek Nurseries, Inc.
Manitowoc, WI
Biography

 

 

Steve Geist, BCMA RCA
SavATree
Denver, CO
Biography 

 

 

David Gorden, FASLA
Mark M. Holeman, Inc. 
Indianapolis, IN
Biography

 

 

 

 

Dan Herms, PhD
The Davey Tree Expert Company
Kent, OH
Biography

 

 

 

Sharon Jean-Philippe, PhD
University of  Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Biography

 

Gordon Mann
California Tree and Landscaping Consulting, Inc.
Auburn, CA
Biography

 

 

Pete Smith
Arbor Day Foundation
Lincoln, NE
Biography

 

Sam VanMaanen
Arborwear
Pella, IA
Biography

 

 

 

 

Kathleen L. Wolf, PhD
University of Washington
Bainbridge Is, WA
Biography

 

 

 

John Lloyd
Trustee Emeritus
Tech Tree Experts Inc.
Blacksburg, VA

James Zwack
Trustee Emeritus
The Davey Tree Expert Company
Kent, OH
Biography

Allan West
Chairman Emeritus
U.S. Forest Service, Retired
Ojai, CA
Biography