The Dovetail Team, from left to right: D. Heise, K. Fernholz, J. Bowyer, A. Lindburg, J. Howe, S. Bratkovich

Not picutred:  M. Frank

Board of Directors

Jeffrey Howe, Ph.D., Chairman of Dovetail Partners, CEO of Fullerton Companies

Brian Adams, Senior Vice President, Bremer Bank

James Bowyer, Ph.D., Bio-products and Environmental Consultant

Kim Carlson, Founder, EarthSmart LLC

Edwin Chanin, Attorney, Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand

Jill Koosmann, CEO, HRK Group, Inc.

Staff

Kathryn Fernholz, Executive Director

Jim Bowyer, Director of Responsible Materials Program
Steve Bratkovich, Project Manager for Recycling & Reuse

Alison Lindburg, Director of Eco-affordable Housing Program

Matthew Frank, Program Assistant

Don Heise, Project Manager, Eco-affordable Housing Program

Jeff Bowyer, Associate

Board of Advisors

William Banzhaf, Former President, Sustainable Forestry Board, Retired

Paul DeLong, Wisconsin State Forester, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry

R. Philip Guillery, Forestry Consultant

Reginaldo Hasslett-Marroquin, Director, Rural Enterprise Center

Don Heise, Architectural Wood Specialties
Robert Hrubes, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Scientific Certification Systems, Forest Conservation Program
Douglas MacCleery, Senior Policy Analyst, Forest Management Division, National Forest System, Washington, D.C.
Patrick O'Brien, Organizational Development Consultant

Dr. Jeff Howe, Chairman of Dovetail Partners, CEO of Fullerton Companies
Dr. Jeff Howe is the CEO of Fullerton Companies and Chairman of the Board of Dovetail Partners, Inc. Fullerton Companies is a privately owned building products company that has been operating in the Midwest since 1882. Fullerton has three divisions operating 17 facilities in 6 states. The Fullerton Building Systems division provides over 40 different restaurant chains the best value and the greatest control over their building projects possible by erecting a high quality panelized building with factory applied exterior finishes backed by the best warranty in the industry; McDonalds Corporation, Church’s Chicken, and Panda Express are major national accounts. The Remodeler’s Choice division focuses 100% of its resources – people, equipment, and products – on meeting the unique needs of professional Remodelers. This division has the first facility in the nation dedicated exclusively to licensed professional remodelers. The Builder’s Choice division focuses its resources - people, equipment and products – on meeting the unique needs of the small and medium sized builders in the communities it serves. Prior to Fullerton Companies, Jeff was President of Colonial Craft, a specialty wood products manufacturer recognized annually by Wood & Wood Products magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in the U.S. Under Jeff's leadership Colonial Craft also received awards such as MN Handicapped employer of the year and WI Environmental Company of the year.

Dr. Howe is co-author of the extremely popular "Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies, and is an expert on creating Learning Organizations and on implementing organizational change. Dr. Jeffrey Howe has a B.S. degree in Biology from Bates College, a M.S. degree in Forest Products Marketing from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Marketing from the University of Minnesota.

Kathryn Fernholz, Executive Director

Dr. Jim Bowyer, Director of Responsible Materials Program

Dr. Jim Bowyer is professor emeritus, University of Minnesota Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering. He is an Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science; President of Bowyer and Associates, Inc. – a wood science and bioenergy consulting firm; Member of the Governance Board and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Temperate Forest Foundation (Portland, Oregon); and a Member of the Blandin Foundation Vital Forests/Vital Communities Board of Advisors. Bowyer has served as President of the Forest Products Society (1993-94) and of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (1987-88), Vice President of the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (1992-2003), and Chairman of the Tropical Forest Foundation (2002-2008). He was Head of the University of Minnesota's Department of Wood & Paper Science from 1984 to 1994, and Founder and Director of the Forest Products Management Development Institute at the University of Minnesota (an organization dedicated to education and development of industry professionals) from 1994-2003. He served as Project Leader of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station project “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Bio-based Materials and Products” from 1988 to 2003 and he also led a research team focused on global raw materials consumption and supply trends for more than 30 years. Dr. Bowyer earned a BS degree in forest management from Oklahoma State University (1964), a MS in forest products from Michigan State University (1966), and a PhD in wood science in technology from the University of Minnesota (1973). He has published widely on the topics of wood science and technology, environmental life cycle analysis, and relationships of wood and other raw materials use, forest policy, and environmental impacts. He is also coauthor of the leading introductory wood science textbook in North America Forest Products and Wood Science – an Introduction , now in its 5th edition, and of the widely used CD-ROM The Nature of Wood and Wood Products.

Steve Bratkovich, Project Manager for Recycling & Reuse

Steve Bratkovich, Ph.D., has 34 years of forestry and forest products experience. His areas of expertise include business, marketing and strategic planning; urban wood utilization; primary and secondary wood processing; and sustainable forest management. Steve has authored over 150 forestry-related publications, articles and reports, and is a frequent contributor to forestry and industry trade journals. He currently serves as an Associate Editor to the Journal of Forestry and is Managing Editor for Independent Sawmill and Woodlot Management magazine's “Green Column.” In 2002 Steve received the Excellence in Technology Transfer award from the Chief of the USDA Forest Service. Steve has also received outstanding service awards from the Ohio and Minnesota Society of American Foresters. Steve is a self-employed forestry consultant and an Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Minnesota's Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering.

Alison Lindburg, Director of Eco-Affordable Housing Program

Alison joined Dovetail Partners in early 2006 and has brought building and design experience and an enthusiasm for green building to the team. Prior to working with Dovetail, Alison worked for The Lander Group, a Twin-Cities based housing development firm, where she wrote and implemented their green housing program. Alison's experience includes property management, financial planning and budgeting, and building construction supervision. Alison has a BA in Architecture, with a focus on green design, and a minor in Spanish from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Alison is a LEED AP. Alison and her work have been featured in publications and media outlets, such as Minnesota Public Radio and Livin' the Green Life, a national radio program providing information about earth-friendly living. Alison has presented information about green building and sustainable materials at events across the Midwest, and is a member of the Mississippi Headwaters Chapter of the USGBC, Minnesota GreenStar Technical Committee and the Minnesota Green Communities Advisory Committee. Raised in a rural community herself, she is deeply committed to addressing the housing challenges of rural communities, and is especially dedicated to energy-efficient design and responsible building material usage. When not championing eco-housing, Alison paints, plays piano, and travels the great wide world.

Matthew Frank , Program Assistant
Matt has a background in environmental planning and design, working for companies in the private and non-profit sectors. Matt has a Bachelor of Environmental Design, with a focus on landscape architecture and urban planning, and a minor in architecture from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Prior to working at Dovetail, Matt interned at U-Plan Community Planning Studio in St. Paul, MN doing research on transit-oriented developments and their growth in relationship to future light rail lines in the Twin Cities. Matt then served as a design consultant for Metro Blooms, a Twin Cities based non-profit group, teaching homeowners about the benefits of rain gardens and designing plans for individual’s properties. Matt has also volunteered for a non-profit group named the Minnesota Design Team where he designed streetscape improvements for Gaylord, Minnesota’s downtown economic district. Matt’s interests include sustainable landscape practices, public transit planning, urban public space planning and design, and alternative energy. When not at Dovetail, Matt enjoys drumming, traveling, landscaping and bicycling.   

William Banzhaf served as the President of the Sustainable Forestry Board, an independent 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization. The 15-member body oversees the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® Standard, the most widely used forest certification standard in North America. Prior to his work with the SFB, he served as the Executive Vice-President for the Society of American Foresters (SAF) from 1988 to 2002. In addition, Banzhaf served as President of George Banzhaf & Company, a consulting firm with a national practice specializing in forest land valuation and present and future projections of sustainable wood supply for the forest products industry, from 1967 to 1988. Banzhaf is a member of and holds positions on the boards of numerous professional organizations including the Sustainable Forestry Board, Resources For the Future, Roundtable on Sustainable Forests, American Society of Association Executives, Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, Pinchot Institute of Conservation, Seventh American Forest Congress, Natural Resource Council of America, USDA, National Commission on Wildfire, National Council on Private Forests, and the Association of Consulting Foresters. Banzhaf is a Certified Forester, 2002 through Society of American Foresters. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1967 with a BSF Forestry (one year graduate degree) and from the University of Colorado in 1964 with a BA History/Political Science.

Paul DeLong, Wisconsin State Forester, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry

Paul DeLong was appointed Wisconsin State Forester in 2003, after serving 10-years at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the Division of Forestry. The Wisconsin DNR's Forestry program has an annual budget of $42 million and 450 employees. The Forestry Division is responsible for the protection and sustainable management of the state's nearly 16 million acres of forestland and the millions of urban trees that are so critical to our quality of life. Prior to joining the DNR in 1992, Paul worked as a senior program officer for the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC, and as a mediator for the RESOLVE Center for Environmental Dispute Resolution, also in Washington. DeLong holds a bachelor's degree in forestry from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a master's degree in natural resources policy from the University of Michigan.

R. Philip Guillery, Forestry Consultant

Phil Guillery has worked to link communities and conservation efforts for the past 17 years. Previously, Phil served as founder and director of the Community Forestry Resource Center and his work has focused on helping communities and family forests access resources to sustain their forests and develop meaningful markets for certified forest products. Phil has been closely involved with the development of certification and associated forest policy in the U.S. and internationally. Phil has also worked with the SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance, managing its Midwest program and leading forest certification audits. He has also co-authored a number of articles on the economics and marketing of responsible forest products in leading journals. Phil holds a Master of Science degree in Forestry and a Master of Arts degree in Extension Education from the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Science Education from the University of Wisconsin.

Reginaldo Hasslett-Marroquin, Director, Rural Enterprise Center

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Guatemala in 1967. He immigrated to the U.S. in August of 1992 and has lived in MN since. Reginaldo earned a degree in agronomy from the Central National School of Agriculture and conducted studies in agronomy at the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. After immigrating to the U.S., Reginaldo attended various local colleges and finally graduated from Augsburg College with an undergraduate degree in International Business Management and a minor in communications. His extra curricular training includes agricultural research, business planning, economic development and work with children and youth both in Guatemala and in Minneapolis. Reginaldo has worked on economic development for Guatemalan Indigenous communities since 1988, and is a founder of various community run businesses. He served as vice-chair of the Fair Trade Federation after co-founding it in 1994, he has done consulting work for the United Nations Development Program’s Bureau for Latin America on the Indigenous People’s Development Initiative, with focus on developing Indigenous trade partnerships internationally. He also served as advisor to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples on “practical ways to involve Indigenous leaders in the development of international fair trade”.

From 1992 to 1999 Reginaldo lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked on developing fair trade partnerships between businesses in the North and Guatemalan and Mexican Indigenous businesses, on creating local businesses and training others to develop their own businesses (specially Latino/a) Reginaldo’s major accomplishments are highlighted by the creation of Peace Coffee, a coffee company developed in partnership with Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the 1992 Nobel Peace Price laureate. As a recognition to his work both locally and internationally, he was awarded one of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) International Citizen of the Year Awards in 1996. After developing Peace Coffee, Reginaldo went on to work with woodland owners in the Midwest and Guatemala where he organized Forestry Stewardship Certified cooperative forestry businesses.

Reginaldo currently lives and works in Northfield, MN and is the founder and Director of the Rural Enterprise Center, a program of Main Street Project, a non-profit tax exempt organization in Minneapolis with a focus in rural development. Reginaldo also serves on the advisory board of Fifth Bridge, a non-profit organization promoting volunteerism, on the board of the Northfield Area Foundation and the Northfield Area United Way. He is married to Amy Haslett-Marroquin and is father to William, Ana Nicktae, and Lars Decarlo Marroquin-Haslett.

Robert J. Hrubes , Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Scientific Certification Systems, Forest Conservation Program

Ph.D., Wildland Resource Sciences; University of California, Berkeley, CA

M.A., Economics; University of California, Berkeley, CA

M.S., Resource Systems Management; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

B.S., Forest Management and Outdoor Recreation Management; Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Dr. Hrubes has principal responsibility for leading the company's natural resource management and chain-of-custody programs. Dr. Hrubes is a registered professional forester and resource economist with over 30 years of professional experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining SCS, he was managing principal of Natural Resource Associates, a Northern California-based forestry and resource economics consulting firm. In 1991, SCS first engaged Dr. Hrubes' consulting services to design and implement its forest certification program. Dr. Hrubes is an internationally recognized expert in natural resources management and environmental certification. As principal architect of the SCS Forest Conservation Certification Program, Dr. Hrubes functions in the company in an executive leadership capacity while also maintaining his involvement as a certification practitioner. He has served as team leader on evaluations of more than 30 forest management operations worldwide, totaling more then 15 million acres. He has also served as auditor for many chain-of-custody certification evaluations, worldwide. While principal consultant for Natural Resource Associates, Dr. Hrubes specialized in wildland management planning, sustainable forestry analysis, resource economics analysis, operations research analysis, and forest management. In addition, he applied management science techniques and principles to a broad range of resource management problems. Dr. Hrubes served for four years on the Board of Directors of the Forest Stewardship Council and was the founding chair of the Board of Directors of the Forest Stewards Guild, a U.S.-based professional forestry society. Prior to establishing a private consulting practice in 1988, Dr. Hrubes worked for the USDA Forest Service for 15 years. His last position with the Forest Service was Principal Forest Economist/Operations Research Analyst on the Management Sciences Staff in Berkeley, California.

Douglas MacCleery, Senior Policy Analyst, Forest Management Division, National Forest System, Washington, D.C.

Douglas MacCleery is a graduate forester receiving his degree from Michigan State University. He was employed as policy analyst for the National Forest Product Association and has recently completed service with the U.S. Forest Service in Washington D.C. MacCleery's understanding and ability to define forestry issues makes his books and writing very popular and often quoted by people with forest policy and legislative responsibilities.

Patrick O'Brien, Organizational Development Consultant

Patrick is one of the most experienced facilitators of organizational change in the Twin Cities area. He began his practice in 1981 and is recognized for applying creativity and a focus on the whole person to his work with individuals and groups facing change. He is dedicated to building healthy and successful organizations in all sectors. He is particularly skillful in coaching leaders to become wiser and more knowledgeable in their roles. Patrick also works with his wife of 34 years, Diana, to guide couples in creating more harmonious and purposeful relationships. Previous to his consulting work, Patrick founded The Malt Shop restaurants in Minneapolis. Patrick holds a B.A. degree in Social Work from Augsburg College in Minneapolis.