Board of Directors
Don Disraeli, Ph.D.
Don holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1983, he launched Kanaloa Seafood—a national distributor of environmentally responsible seafood—with his wife Randee, a former researcher at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Kanaloa Seafood is a sustainable seafood company that takes a scientific approach to fishery management and harvesting. The company is the only seafood company in North America that meets the ISO 14001 standards for sound environmental management. Don is also a vice-president at the California Fisheries & Seafood Institute and an advisor to Sea Grant, California.
John Hubenthal - Treasurer
John has worked in the solar industry since 2004. He is currently a commercial project developer and senior manager at RGS Energy, where he has worked on numerous large scale projects for local, state & federal agencies, notably the US Navy. He holds a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is an avid backpacker, surfer, open water swimmer, cyclist, sailor and recreational fisherman.
Jeff Ludlow - Secretary
Jeff is a California Professional Geologist who has been providing environmental consulting services to private and public sector clients for almost 25 years. His focus is investigating and remediating contaminated soil, gas and groundwater. Since 1997, Jeff has worked at Treadwell & Rollo, a San Francisco-based environmental and geotechnical engineering firm where he is a principal geologist with business development, technical and management responsibilities. He developed the firm’s toxic vapor intrusion mitigation system design services, which have allowed urban in-fill redevelopment projects to safely proceed on blighted industrial properties. Recently, he led an environmental engineering design project for Symantec Corporation’s new research and development facility in Chengdu, China. Jeff has extensive experience working with the Ports of San Francisco and Oakland on shoreline environmental restoration projects and has been involved with the Bay Planning Coalition for the past several years.
Dirk Rosen - Executive Director
Dirk has over 25 years of deepwater engineering experience. He was president and director of Deep Ocean Engineering before selling the company in 2000. At DOE, he was project manager and test pilot for all three Deep Rover 1,000 meter-rated manned submersibles, and a designer/operator of the Phantom and Bandit ROV systems. At Hawkes Ocean Technologies he served as project manager for the 11,000 meter rated Challenger, a manned submersible designed to go to the deepest point in the ocean, the Marianas Trench. He recently retired from the board of Save the Bay, where he served for nine years.
Ed Ueber
Ed is considered an expert on abalone, sardine, groundfish, crab, fishery economics, fishery management, marine protected areas and navigation. He began his ocean career as a USN submarines navigator and later worked in the merchant marine. He served as manager of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary and the northern sector of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary from 1990 – 2004, overseeing a 2,900 square nautical mile area. He received four Congressional citations for exceptional service from the 105th, 107th and 108th Congress's respectively. Mr. Ueber was one of eight senior scientists on the Master Planning Team of the California Marine Life Protection Act. He taught at the University of Connecticut and University of Rhode Island and received, at the latter, his Master's degree in Resource Economics and Fisheries. He is involved in six marine environment related nonprofits in the Bay Area.
Karen Weber - Board Chair
Karen offers financial, marketing, strategic and management experience in the business and nonprofit sectors. Working at firms such as Price Waterhouse and Merrill Lynch, she has performed analyses of financial statements, proposed asset sales, and cash flow operations. She has also conducted feasibility studies and enterprise valuations; analyzed bankruptcy creditor and debtor claims; assisted in reorganization strategy development; and completed financial, strategic and operational business turnarounds. Karen has served on a number of nonprofit boards, including Save the Bay and the Junior League of San Francisco. She holds an M.B.A. Finance from Rice University and received a Master of Nonprofit Administration degree from the University of San Francisco in December 2011.