Board of Directors

Steve Anderson, President
Steve Anderson is Vice President of Brown & Caldwell, an environmental and engineering consulting firm in Seattle. A water resource engineer with years of stream restoration experience, Steve was among the earliest graduating classes of Seattle University’s groundbreaking Not-For-Profit Leadership Program. He also holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in engineering from Stanford University.
 
Molly Adolfson, Vice-President
Molly Adolfson is Senior Vice President of ESA Adolfson, a Seattle-based consulting firm specializing in natural resource management, planning, and environmental evaluations in the Pacific Northwest. Molly has more than 30 years of experience evaluating water and natural resource issues. Molly is also on the Associate Board of Huxley College.
 
Carl Mundt, Treasurer

Carl Mundt is the former Chairman of American Seafoods Company, a multi-national group of industrial firms including the world’s largest commercial fishing companies, Norway’s second largest shipyard, real estate companies and sporting goods entities.  Carl currently operates Estancia Buenaventura, a corn and soybean farm in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Argentina.  Carl holds undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University and a master’s degree in fisheries from the University of Washington.
 
Jim Anderson, Secretary

Jim Anderson served as Executive Director of the NWIFC from 1985-2004. Since 2005, he has served as the Executive Advisor at the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC). Mr. Anderson has been keenly involved in many statewide natural resource policy matters for the past twenty-five years. He was a founding member of the Timber Fish Wildlife Policy Group, Water Resource Forum, Shared Salmon Strategy, and Hatchery Reform Coordinating Committee. He is also widely experienced in state and federal budget, appropriation, and legislative processes.

 
   
Alec Brindle

Alec Brindle is Chairman of the Board of Wards Cove Packing Company, a family owned commercial fishing company which has been engaged in the fisheries of Alaska for over eighty years. Alec holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a law degree from the University of Washington and a business degree from Oxford University.

 
   
Bill Taylor

Bill Taylor is Vice President of Taylor Shellfish Company, the largest shellfish grower on the Pacific West Coast with shellfish operations in Puget Sound, Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico and Fiji. Bill is a fourth generation shellfish farmer. He was also a member of Governor Christine Gregoire’s Puget Sound Partnership, a committee appointed in 2006 to develop a vision for Puget Sound and outline the steps needed to reach a sustainable Puget Sound by 2020.

 
   
Linda Hoffman

Linda Hoffman retired in 2005 after 30 years in state and local government, including serving as Chief Administrative Officer for Thurston County and Deputy Director and Director of the State Department of Ecology. Linda is currently consulting on environmental projects and organizational development activities. Linda holds a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College and a masters in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

 
 
Samuel W. (Billy) Plauché

Billy Plauché is a founding partner in the Seattle law firm of Plauché & Stock LLP, where he represents a variety of municipal and private clients on land use, environmental and shellfish issues.  Previously, Billy was a partner in the Seattle law firm of GordonDerr LLP, and served as trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington D.C.  Billy holds undergraduate and law degrees from Louisiana State University.  Billy is also a past president of the Board of the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust and a current Trustee for The Harbor School.
 
Jim Kramer
Jim Kramer is a consultant and Northwest leader in natural resources, organizational development and mediation with 30 years of experience in environmental issues, public policy and finance, and private sector incentive-based programs. He created and managed the King County Surface Water Management Division, which grew to a staff of 350 employees with an annual budget of over $25 million. Since 1997, he has worked as a consultant and director of a nonprofit organization, helping to create the statewide Salmon Recovery Funding Board and serving as Executive Director of the Shared Strategy, which managed the development of the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan with the involvement of 14 watersheds and several hundred stakeholders. In 2006, Jim was co-manager of the Governor’s original Puget Sound Partnership, which worked successfully with the State Legislature to create a new state agency and governance structure for Puget Sound recovery.

 
 
Dave Herrera
Dave Herrera is a member of the Skokomish Indian Tribe where he works as a Fisheries Policy Representative.  Dave has worked for the Skokomish Tribe, the Point No Point Treaty Council and the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission on fisheries management, protection and restoration issues for over 25 years. Dave has focused on fisheries, shellfish, wildlife and habitat policy issues for the past five years, and is a member of the Washington Forest Practices Board, and a Board member of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council.  Dave also serves on the Puget Sound Partnership’s Ecosystems Coordination Board and chairs the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission’s Environmental Policy Committee.