DIVERSE INDEPENDENT BOARD

SFI Inc. is governed by the 18-member SFI Board, which sets SFI’s strategic direction and is responsible for overseeing and improving the internationally recognized SFI Program and SFI Standards. The Board’s three chambers represent environmental, social and economic sectors equally. SFI Board members include executive-level representatives of conservation organizations, academic institutions, aboriginal/tribal entities, family forest owners, public officials, labor and the forest products industry. This diversity reflects the variety of interests in the forestry community.

ECONOMIC SECTOR

Board members representing the economic sector, which includes the forest, paper and wood products industry or other for-profit forest ownership or management entities:

GUY GLEYSTEEN (CHAIR)
Chairman
Greenblue
Virginia

MICHAEL P. DOSS
President and CEO
Graphic Packaging International Inc.
Georgia

KEVIN EDGSON
(SECRETARY-TREASURER)
President and CEO
EACOM Timber Corporation
Québec

BRENT KEEFER
Chief Executive Officer
American Forest Management, Inc.
North Carolina

JIM IRVING
Co-CEO
JD Irving Ltd.
New Brunswick

JAIME YRAGUEN
President
Associated Oregon Loggers
Oregon

SOCIAL SECTOR

Board members representing the social sector, which includes community or social interest groups like universities, labor, family forest owners or government agencies:

BETTINA RING
Virginia Secretary of Agriculture & Forestry
Commonwealth of Virginia
Virginia

EBONIE ALEXANDER
Executive Director
Black Family Land Trust, Inc.
Virginia

JEFF BROMLEY
Chair
USW Wood Council
British Columbia

ASHLEY HOFFMAN
Executive Director
Kentucky Association for Environmental Education
Kentucky

LENNARD JOE
President
Scw’exmx Tribal Council
British Columbia

PATRICIA LAYTON
Director
Wood Utilization + Design Institute, Clemson University
South Carolina

ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR

Board members representing the environmental sector, which includes non-profit environmental or conservation organizations: