Larry Linden, Founder and Trustee
Larry Linden is an Advisory Director and former General Partner at Goldman Sachs, where he was a leader of the build-out of the firm's integrated trading infrastructure through its global expansion in the 1990s. More recently he led the firm's project to establish a large nature reserve in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. He currently advises the firm on its environmental policy. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1992, Mr. Linden was a Partner at McKinsey & Co., where he worked with corporations in the industrial, technology and financial sectors, and served on the White House Staff in the Carter Administration, leading technology policy development for the transportation and energy sectors and for environmental protection. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Resources for the Future, where he led the search for the current CEO and, with that new CEO, co-led the development of a new strategy now under implementation, and is a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund, where he also co-led a strategic review. Mr. Linden also serves as Senior Advisor to the Redstone Strategy Group, a leading management consulting firm in the conservation arena. He has lectured on the management of large-scale conservation programs at Yale, Columbia and Princeton. Mr. Linden holds a PhD from MIT and a BSE from Princeton.
Roger Ullman, Executive Director
Roger Ullman joined LTC in 2006 as its first Executive Director. From 2002 to 2006 he was at Rainforest Alliance, as Director of Strategic Business Development and Managing Director of the SmartWood program. SmartWood is the world's leading certifier to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council, with operations in more than 50 countries. For nearly two decades before that Mr. Ullman worked on Wall Street, most recently as a Managing Director of investment banking at Merrill Lynch, where he started and built the firm's mergers and acquisitions business in Latin America. He volunteers as a leader of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New York and is a founding organizer of New Resource Bank. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from Harvard College.
Tatiana Alves, Program Officer
Tatiana Alves joined LTC in 2007. She has more than eight years of experience in the Brazilian financial sector, as a senior trade finance manager for Banco Itaú, where she completed international trade deals with some of Brazil's largest corporations, and earlier as a correspondent banking manager for Inter American Express Bank. In the U.S., Ms. Alves has worked as an energy data analyst at Genscape and as a research assistant for Columbia Business School's Environmental Protection through Incentives and Commerce program. She holds a masters degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where she specialized in Energy and Environmental Finance, and a BA in economics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Ms. Alves was born in the U.S. and raised in Brazil.
Marsha Hahn, Manager of Finance and Administration
Marsha Hahn joined LTC in 2007. Previously she was Director of Finance for the Orpheus Chamber Society. Additionally, she has served as Chief Operating Officer for the Vera Institute of Justice and Vice President, Finance and Administration for WNYC Radio. Ms. Hahn is a CPA in the state of New York, and holds an MBA in Accountancy from Baruch College and a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania.
Geri-Ann Israel, Office Administrator
Geri-Ann Israel joined LTC in 2007 following a distinguished executive career in operational management. Ms. Israel was the Director of Research Operations for Gannett Co. and prior to that served as Vice President of Editorial and Production Services at the research firm of Louis Harris & Associates. Ms. Israel began her career at Macmillan Publishing, and continues to freelance as an editorial consultant.
