Sustainable Northwest is excited to welcome Kathy Long Holland of LongSherpa Design and Tim Taylor of the Environmental Home Center to its Board of Directors.

Kathy Long Holland is a specialist in the development and launching of new products and strategies, and has run her own business advisory firm, LongSherpa Design, since 1987. Her work is targeted to helping owners, executives, and managers develop strategies for dealing with transition related to growth, market change, ownership change, and management change. Kathy has worked extensively with small and medium-sized businesses, start-up entrepreneurs, cooperatives, corporate environments, and non-profit organizations. Formerly, she was the Divisional Head of New Products and Markets at Nike for seven years. She also co-founded ECO-D/OMBI, a non-profit, publicly funded corporation providing business development and advisory services to innovative enterprises in the start-up and early stages of their development. As an expert in entrepreneurship, she has lectured at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, The School for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Lecturer at the University of Oregon Graduate School of Business and Oregon Health Sciences University. More recently, she presented leadership and entrepreneurship training for the U.S. State Department in the Middle East. Kathy serves on numerous Boards of Directors for both for-profit and non-profit organizations and we are delighted to have her working with Sustainable Northwest.

Tim Taylor has been the CEO of the Environmental Home Center, a Seattle-based green building supplier, since 2000. Since he took over as CEO, the company has grown nearly eight times through a combination of double digit sales growth and the acquisition of Environmental Building Supplies, with stores in Portland and Bend, in May of 2006. Tim's experience was further expanded in the role of founder and president of three construction companies. The last of which, Taylor Hill, was a turn-key business focused on architectural restorations, millwork and contracting on 18th century buildings in New England. Tim also played an active role as a founding member of the Investors Circle, a national organization designed to attract private equity into socially responsible and environmentally sound businesses. Prior to joining EHC, Tim served as president and CEO of Laird Norton Company LLC, a private holding company, for six years. Currently, he serves on several not-for-profit boards related to environmental, forestry and conservation issues. He will be a great asset to our work at Sustainable Northwest.