Cameron St John coordinates the mixed-use forestry projects in collaboration with the tropical forestry analytics group at Brinkman. Cameron has a background in large corporations in both the old and new economies. Prior to joining Brinkman in 2007, Cameron was a consultant to technology startups and mining and pulp industry investors. Prior to 2002, Cameron was an executive in the Asian office of Sterling Commerce, a leading provider of EDI-based middleware. Cameron began his career as an economist and business acquisitions analyst at Teck Corporation (now Teck Resources), a major Canadian mining house. Cameron completed an MBA with Distinction at the Australian Graduate School of Management, including a China Business specialty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Chris Norman has been with Brinkman for 15 years managing the operations in Western Canada and since 2005 has been dedicated to the development of diversification strategies and their implementation. He coordinates the integration of business activities in multiple countries and is responsible for development strategies in new operating areas.
Robert Seaton is a forestry and carbon modeling analyst with the Brinkman Group for 22 years, during which he cofounded the technical and restoration divisions at Brinkman. Robert is an expert analyst in temperate softwood and tropical hardwood forestry, focusing on natural system valuation and the economics of sustainability, integrating timber and carbon values. Robert has served as the lead author on a range of carbon sequestration methodologies and project design documents (PDD).
Frederik Vroom leads carbon methodology and carbon development work at Brinkman. Frederik has developed an expertise in assessing carbon potential in forestry initiatives, and is Panama-based BARCA’s resident expert on the development of international forest carbon projects. In his Master’s degree in Forest Ecology and Management, Frederik specialized in modeling the effect of environmental aspects on the growth responses of trees including stand structure, dynamics, and wood quality.
Doug Mensing leads the Peatland technical team. Doug has over 15 years of professional and research experience in the ecological and environmental fields. As a consulting ecologist, Doug manages and provides technical support for a broad range of these types of conservation and ecological projects. Much of Doug’s recent work has focused on working with clients to design projects in a more ecologically sensitive fashion, conserving natural features and functions.
Judith Perlman is responsible for contracting and legal review. Judith offers over 20 years of broad-based experience in general management, law, finance, consulting, start-ups and real estate development. She is experienced in large corporate and start-up environments, as well as in rapid growth business situations. At AES, Judith provides support in litigation management, compensation and benefits, equity finance, insurance and risk management, international business, intellectual property, business and strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, permitting, human resources/employment law, and contract drafting and negotiation. Judith is a founding partner of LandKeepers, LLC and Conservâre, LLC. She is also the author of Citizens Primer for Conservation Activism (University of Texas Press 2004).
Ricardo Lujan Ferrar is a Forest Engineer with a M.Sc. from CATIE in Costa Rica. Ricardo has been the Head Forester for BARCA for the past fifteen years after a career as the reforestation professor at the University of Costa Rica. He developed the technical, soil, hydrology, growth and yield, nursery, species silviculture, research, restoration, reforestation, tending and forest management teams in Central America now responsible for $100 million in investments. Besides his ongoing duties he is now co-developing the indigenous management and climate action teams in the region.
Richard Chavez is a Forest Engineer with a M.Sc. in Forestry from Yale University. He is the Brinkman Forest’s Forestry Planner on the indigenous forest tenure in Northwest British Columbia. He also coordinates the Future Forest Ecosystem Science Council research project and the WWF water and integrated resource management planning research program. He is an expert in tropical silviculture, the management of natural forest, indigenous community development and forestry business development. Richard is highly skilled in spatial modeling and analysis using GIS.
Randy Vogel has over 25 years of professional experience in natural resource planning, impact analysis and habitat restoration. His educational training was as a plant taxonomist and ecologist and his experience includes mine reclamation, natural resource inventories, urban forestry, stream, wetland and natural community restoration, stormwater treatment and wetland delineations. He manages the Chicago, IL, consulting office for AES, supervising ecologists, landscape architects, engineers and GIS personnel. Previously Vogel served in a State regulatory capacity where he supervised review of surface mining permits and development of environmentally and ecologically sound reclamation methodologies.
