Larry Linden, Founder and Trustee

Larry Linden is a former General Partner and Managing Director 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, as an Advisory Director, he led the firm's project to establish a large nature reserve in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and helped launch the firm's environmental policy. He retired in 2008. 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 Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund, and a member and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Resources for the Future. He serves as Senior Advisor to the Redstone Strategy Group, a leading management consulting firm in the conservation arena, and as a member of the Strategic Advisory Council of New World Capital Group. He has lectured on the management of large-scale conservation programs at Yale, Columbia and Princeton. In the business community, he is a member of the Board of Directors of TIAA, the operating arm of the TIAA-CREF complex, the largest private pension system in the U.S. 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.

Vasco Bilbao-Bastida, Program Associate

Vasco Bilbao-Bastida joined LTC in 2009. Previously he worked as an analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, covering Latin American clients for the Structured Investments Distributor Marketing group. He holds a BA in government from Harvard College.

Karen Simonson, Director of Finance and Administration

After serving as LTC's first Manager of Finance and Administration, Karen Simonson rejoined LTC in 2011. Prior to her return, Ms. Simonson was the Director of Finance of the Queens Botanical Garden. Ms. Simonson has served in financial and accounting management positions in the non-profit sector for over fifteen years. She holds an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College and a BA in accounting and economics from Queens College.

Amy Tohn, Office Administrator

Amy Tohn joined LTC in 2009. Previously, she was the Executive Assistant to the President and Managing Partner of an executive search firm in New York City. Earlier, she was an executive assistant at General Electric, WMC Mortgage, located in Burbank, California. Additionally, her career path includes several years of executive support, sales & marketing. Ms. Tohn holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Merchandising Management, from the Fashion Institute of Technology.