Board of Directors
Emeritus Directors
- Mary Artino
- Jodi Benassi
- Alice Berkner
- Dan Brumlik
- Randall Davis
- Dr. Michael Fry
- Dr. Will Gala
- Martyn J. Green
- Andrew Harmon
- Jay Holcomb
- Ron Holton
- Susan Kaveggia
- Elizabeth Kinney
- Ian Liston
- Jan Loomis
- Joel Minamide
- Ron Morris
- Pat O’Brien
- Laurie Pyne
- Dr. Ian Robinson
- Sam J. Sacco
- John Sifling
- Beth Slatkin
- Chuck Webster
- Dave Weeshoff
- Dave Westerholm
- Ken White
- David Wittrock
- Dr. Michael Ziccardi
Board Leadership
Carmine Dulisse,
Board Chair
President, PCCI, Inc.
Board Member since 2019
Carmine joined MSRC in March 2017, having spent over 30 years with Exxon Mobil in various positions. Identifying low investment opportunities to broaden and deepen MSRC’s customer base and maximize utilization of the company’s assets have driven Carmine’s initiatives at MSRC. To date, he has expanded MSRC’s spill response capability across the Hawaiian Island chain, the U.S. Caribbean, the Great Lakes, and enhanced coverage throughout Southern California. Carmine has brought MSRC’s Interior Program to market, offering inland OSRO coverage to upstream, midstream and downstream operators leveraging MSRC’s STARs contractor model.
Prior to joining MSRC Carmine was the Exxon Mobil Corporation, Global Emergency Preparedness & Response Manager where he managed a global team of senior advisors that establish and support the process, tools, and training of Exxon Mobil businesses and joint ventures globally in the areas of emergency preparedness and response (EP&R).
From February 2011 through September 2015 he was seconded from Exxon Mobil to the Marine Well Containment Company as the Health, Safety, and Environment Officer, to build industry capability post Deepwater Horizon.
Prior to joining MWCC, Carmine was in several emergency preparedness and Security roles for ExxonMobil Development and Production Companies, and was both the Commercial Manager and Operations Manager for SeaRiver Maritime.
He sailed for several years and held a Masters License: Unlimited Tonnage and earned degrees from Texas A & M University and Texas Maritime Academy. He also served in the Naval Reserve.
Tim Hayes
Marathon
Board Vice Chair & Treasurer
Board Member since 2023
Tim Hayes is a senior manager in the oil and gas industry, working for 36 years with some of the biggest names in the business including ARCO and British Petroleum. He has dedicated his career to safety enhancement and improving logistics in high-level positions on both the West Coast and East Coast. He currently serves as Region Manager for Marathon Pipeline’s Southern California assets. The majority of Tim’s career has been dedicated to marine and pipeline operations.
Tim holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic, Pomona. He spends much of his free time in and around the coastal waters of Southern and Northern California with his wife Erika and three adult children.
Martha Joseph
Board Secretary
Board Member since 2022
Martha, a volunteer at International Bird Rescue’s Cordelia wildlife center since 2013, is an avid bird watcher, hiker, and conservationist.
Martha can frequently be found combing the wild and scenic beaches of Point Reyes National Seashore completing bird and marine mammal surveys for Beach Watch, a NOAA shoreline monitoring program managed by the Greater Farallones Association. She is also a supporter of the John Muir Land Trust, first volunteering 30 years ago to assist its successful campaign to purchase Mt. Wanda, once owned by naturalist John Muir and now part of the John Muir National Historic Site.
A former journalist for a San Francisco-based newswire service and East Bay newspapers, Martha earned a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in 1980. After raising two children with her husband in Martinez and spending years volunteering in their schools, she went on to work for the school district for more than a decade. She retired in 2020.
Toni Arkoosh Pinsky,
Immediate Past Chair
Community Member
Board Member since 2017
In addition to serving on the Board of Directors, Toni has been an active clinic volunteer at both International Bird Rescue’s San Francisco Bay-Delta Wildlife Center and at WildCare in San Rafael, CA, since 2015. She started her career with Tiffany & Co. in 1980, and rose to the position of Director Business Sales from 1993 through 2009. Toni has a Bachelor’s Degree from California State University – Long Beach. She lives in San Anselmo, CA.
Board of Directors
Dr. Christine Bee
Merck
Board Member since 2024
Dr. Christine Bee is a scientist with more than 10 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. She currently works as a group leader at Merck in the discovery of novel medicines against cancer and cardiometabolic diseases. On weekends, Christine can typically be found kayaking or hiking with her husband in Marin County north of San Francisco.
Christine loves nature tourism. Some of her favorite trips have taken her to observe elephants and wild dogs in Africa, watch birds and jaguars in Brazil, scuba dive with sharks and manta rays, and swim alongside whales. She has also seen the effects of wildfires, overfishing, coral bleaching and pollution, including the 2002 oil spill of the Prestige. This is why she joined IBR.
Christine holds a doctoral degree in Biochemistry from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany and has been living in California since 2010.
Nick Bockanic
Universal Pictures
Board Member since 2024
Nick Bockanic is the Director of Brand Marketing at Universal Pictures. In his role, Nick acts as the connective tissue externally and within NBCUniversal to convert Universal’s films into multidisciplinary franchises that extend across a larger marketing flywheel inclusive of partnerships, sales, consumer products, gaming, and theme park attractions and integrations. In his filmmaker facing role, Nick also partners with Illumination, theatrical marketing, and creative executives to execute brand marketing campaigns that leverage Comcast NBCUniversal’s Symphony—a collective brief at Comcast NBCUniversal that leverages the unequalled reach of the company’s powerful portfolio of brands to amplify key business priorities.
Nick began his career at NBCUniversal in 2016 as a West Coast Page after finishing his MBA at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. Nick resides in Los Angeles, CA with his husband, dog and 2 cats. In his spare time enjoys hiking, running and tending to his too many plants.
Charong Chow
Adobe Systems
Board Member since 2025
Adobe Systems
Board Member since 2025
Based in Marin County, California, Charong Chow is a Senior Marketing Manager at Adobe, with a focus on the latest generative AI products and features. Her previous experience includes machine learning marketing platforms, internal communications software, and a social app for moms.
Prior to marketing technology, Charong was an internationally exhibited video artist and author. A lifelong lover of animals and nature, she spends her free time with her family, hiking with their dog, reading, tending chickens, and grooming Charisma, the Thoroughbred.
Maria Hartley
Chevron
Board Member since 2018
Chevron
Board Member since 2018
Dr. Maria Hartley is the global technical lead in Chevron’s Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response and has been with Chevron since 2008. She is also the assistant lead of Chevron’s Environmental Functional Team which is responsible for providing technical specialists to address environmental issues during potential oil spills and other emergencies. She developed and implemented Chevron’s industry-leading environmental standards and processes worldwide, such as ESHIA (environmental, social, health impact assessment) and the Natural Resources Environmental Performance Standard, and led permitting initiatives for Chevron’s major international capital projects. She advises on biodiversity and endangered species issues and advocacy. Maria also volunteered her expertise to the Red Cross assisting and supporting disaster assessment.
Receiving both her Doctorate and Masters of ecology from Rice University, she is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor teaching Ecosystem Management at Rice, and elected member on the Board of Affiliates for the Professional Master’s Program and on the Advisory Board of the School of Natural Sciences. Maria is a British citizen, currently residing in Houston, Texas.
Zach Hutton
Sheppard Mullins LLP
Board Member since 2021
Zach Hutton is the chair of the San Francisco Employment Law Department. His practice spans all aspects of employment law, including discrimination and harassment, family and medical leaves, and wage and hour issues. Mr. Hutton has successfully represented employers in numerous class and collective actions, agency investigations, individual plaintiff cases, and administrative hearings. He has tried cases to verdict, and secured early dismissal of individual and class claims.
Dr. Paul Krause
Ramboll
Board Member since 2024
Dr. Paul Krause is a Principal with Ramboll and is located in Los Angeles, California. He received his BS in marine biology and MS in biology from California State University, Long Beach and his Doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has over 30 years of experience in the fields of marine and aquatic ecology, toxicology, environmental impact analysis, environmental risk assessment, modeling, and regulatory permitting and negotiation as an academic researcher and professional environmental consultant.
Dr. Krause is an internationally recognized expert in marine ecology and toxicology. He specializes in issues relating to the impacts of large-scale developments worldwide. Dr. Krause has developed and led large organization incident management and spill response teams and has responded to many spills from those of National Significance, to regional spills. His particular expertise revolves around developing sustainable solutions for ecological issues related to new development and decommissioning in the marine environment. This includes, sediment assessments, underwater noise, artificial reef development, rigs-to-reefs, and restoration.
Dr. Krause has worked closely with industry specialists, regulatory agencies, and non-governmental organizations to help secure beneficial project developments. Additionally, Dr. Krause has managed large ecological evaluations throughout the western United States including Alaska and Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Islands, Gulf of Thailand, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, and West Africa.
Tanmay Mathur
Supply Chain Executive
Board Member since 2024
Tanmay Mathur is a seasoned supply chain executive with extensive experience in transportation, logistics, operations and supply chain. He has worked for several world class organizations like Shell, Amazon and XPO Logistics across US, Europe and Asia.
Tanmay holds a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from IIT Roorkee and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
In his free time, Tanmay likes to spend time with his wife and 5-year-old daughter and pursue his hobbies of reading, painting and exploring new places to scuba dive.
Anjul Patney
NVIDIA
Board Member since 2023
Anjul Patney is a Principal Research Scientist in NVIDIA’s Human Performance and Experience research group, currently based in Redmond, Washington. He conducts academic research in the areas of computer graphics, esports, machine learning, and virtual and augmented reality. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs (2019-2021) and a Senior Research Scientist in Real-Time Rendering at NVIDIA (2013-2019). He received his Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2013 and his Bachelors in Technology from IIT Delhi in 2007.
In his personal time, he likes to spend time with his family. He also occasionally fosters dogs from local shelters.
Shah Selbe
Conservify
FieldKit
Board Member since 2023
Shah Selbe is an engineer, conservation technologist, and National Geographic Explorer that works with communities, NGOs, academia and developing countries to identify and deploy technologies that can help with their greatest conservation challenges. This includes low-cost observation platforms (conservation drones, acoustic sensors, open source dataloggers, satellite imagery tools, etc.) and better methods to share and manage the data gathered (using mobile technologies, crowdsourcing, web-based approaches).
Since 2009, Shah Selbe has been researching this intersection of technology and conservation with a focus on open source technology development. He founded the nonprofit technology development laboratory Conservify, with the mission to bring open source technologies into conservation and field science. Conservify’s work has included water quality characterization in Peru’s Boiling River, biodiversity protection in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, tracking glacial melt in Canada’s Banff National Park, understanding the behaviors of Congo’s lowland gorillas, helping citizen scientists monitor water in the Amazon Rainforest, drone-based monitoring of Sri Lanka’s blue whales, and many more diverse activities across the globe.
He also founded FieldKit, an open-source software and hardware platform (environmental sensors, app, and FieldKit.org website) that allows individuals and organizations to collect and share field-based research data and tell stories through interactive visualizations. FieldKit has been funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Geographic Society. FieldKit’s work has been deployed across the globe, including large initiatives in the Amazon Rainforest and the Congo Basin. FieldKit’s newest product line is an underwater water chemistry sonde that is available at a fraction of the cost of the proprietary solutions available on the market.
Shah is also a Nelson Institute Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Madison, a New England Aquarium Ocean Conservation Fellow, a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, former National Geographic Society Fellow (2016-2019), Rolex Award Finalist, and sits on the Board of the International Bird Rescue. Before becoming a conservation technologist, Shah spent 10 years as a rocket scientist building and launching satellites with Boeing.
Andy Sullivan
P&G
Board Member since 2024
Andy Sullivan leads communications across P&G’s North America Dish Care business, which includes brands such as Dawn & Cascade. He has spent the past 13 years at P&G, building brands including Tide, Pampers, Olay, Old Spice, Head & Shoulders and Gillette.
Prior to joining P&G, Andy worked as a public relations and marketing agency consultant for global products and brands – developing clients’ strategies via media relations, media training, social media, special events and reputation management. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Xavier University in Ohio. His home is Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Nikki and their two sons.
Dave Wittrock
Senior Partner, Price Wittrock CPA
Board Member since 2021
Dave Wittrock is a retired tax CPA and attorney who practiced in Seattle and San Francisco, primarily serving early stage biotech and software companies.
He is past Chairman of the Audit Committee of California Micro Devices, a small cap public semiconductor manufacturer.
His former volunteer roles included: President of Financial Executives International, Silicon Valley Chapter; Founding Member of the Northwest Biotech Series; Treasurer of the Washington Software Association; and Treasurer and Board Member of the Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance Foundation.
Dave grew up in the midwest, graduating from Creighton University with a BS in Accounting, and Drake University Law School.
Ex Officio Member
JD Bergeron
Chief Executive Officer
JD Bergeron is fascinated by birds. After 20 years of non-profit leadership, JD brought his passion together with his work experience to become the Executive Director of International Bird Rescue, a nonprofit founded during a major oil spill to help affected wildlife. An unconventional problem solver, JD has redirected Bird Rescue’s impressive track record of working over 230 oil spills to take on the many challenges wild waterbirds face today. JD leads by example, modeling qualities of integrity, mindfulness, and wonder for the team.
JD thrives on finding innovative ways to inspire others to take action. Moved by his time in the Peace Corps, the nonprofit startup Kiva, and his international travels, he founded a nonprofit incubator with the mission to help inspire change through outdoor adventures that engage individuals with world challenges.
A lifelong lover of nature, JD retreats to the outdoors to gain perspective and to soothe the soul. He counts his month among a million albatrosses on Midway Atoll as the experience of a lifetime. After the magic of Midway, JD returned to Bird Rescue with a renewed passion and commitment to protect the natural home of wildlife and ourselves. He lives with his husband and two rescue dogs in the San Francisco Bay Area. His interests include native plants, drawing, cycling, and volunteering as a Burning Man Ranger.