Leadership

Alan Hyman is is a Vietnam-era military veteran and Stanford University graduate. In addition to his work at Fremont Bank, he was a long-time director of the San Francisco Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a current member of the Holy Names University Board of Trustees, a Board Member of the Fremont Bank Foundation, and a founding board member of Americans for Philanthropy, a non-profit dedicated to the eradication of extreme poverty.

David Batuski is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maine, working in cosmology, exoplanets, active galaxies, and supernova research and teaching astronomy and physics courses. He has long practiced minimizing his individual climate impact by commuting to work on foot, recycling, discarding little as waste, etc., and recently F4CR has inspired him with the real possibility of climate restoration through organizational action.

In a previous chapter of life, David graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy with an Astronautical Engineering major and then obtained a masters degree in Aero/Astro Engineering from Purdue University. His active duty tours as an Air Force officer involved launch support for Air Force and NASA satellites at Cape Canaveral and later development of high-energy laser beam control systems.

Joan Bordow has led programs for over 20,000 people, at one of the world’s top training and development organizations. 

In 1970, Joan’s first book, was published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston. She went on to write seven other books, including The Ultimate Loss,  Integral Yoga Hatha, and Bread: Making It the Natural Way. 

She was also Executive Director of The Holiday Project, a national organization whose hundreds of volunteers made thousands of visits to hospitals, retirement homes, homeless shelters and juvenile detention centers.  Also, she co-created and managed The Moscow Marathon Project, which brought hundreds of American runners to the Soviet Union in the ‘80’s, to raise money for and foster awareness about ending world hunger.

Joan lives in Petaluma, CA, with her spouse Robin.  She is the mother of three daughters and has three grandchildren.

Julia Dederer is a transformational coach in Silicon Valley with over 30 years experience supporting leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives to take the reach and scope of their impact to the next level.

Carole Douglis co-authored Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race with Peter Fiekowsky, founder of the climate restoration movement.  She’s an award-winning journalist specializing in environment, climate, and international development.  Carole’s work has been published by the Atlantic, Psychology Today, and National Geographic Books, as well as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNICEF, USAID, NGOs, and research institutes.

She enjoys sharing her skills through training others in clear writing and presentations. Carole holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy—and is proud to be Peter Fiekowsky’s writing partner since 2019.

Melanie Trent is currently serving as the F4CR chapter chairperson in the Rocky Mountain region. Over the years Melanie has served as a member of the Office of Energy Conservation in Colorado, was a co-founder of Recycle the Park, a recycling nonprofit, co-founder and chair of the Platte Canyon Outdoor Resource Council and served as the county representative to the Healthy Communities Initiative in Colorado along with filling a variety of other roles related to environmental & community advocacy. Melanie is a retired Respiratory Therapist with expertise in project & program development, training & management.

Sharon Fiekowsky is a Nurse Practitioner with 17 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as extensive clinical experience in intensive care, hospice/palliative care, and pain management. 

Nicole Gardner is a retired vice president of IBM’s Global Services and the co-author of a United Nations technology standard. She has launched and managed businesses at IBM and PwC ranging from $100M to $1.4B. Nicole was the first Chief Innovation Officer for IBM’s Global Services Public Sector and the first Human Capital Management practice leader. In her role with the United Nations, she collaborated with senior leaders across industries to forge a widely accepted global standard. She has served large commercial entities including Baxter Healthcare, ExxonMobil, ARMCO Specialty Steel, Cummins Engine Company and First National Bank of Chicago. In 2017 and 2018, Nicole was recognized as a FederalHealthIT 100 and in 2018 received accolades with a Women in Leadership Impact Award.

Sandra is CEO and Founder of 10Power, a certified Benefit Corporation providing renewable energy in international communities that lack access to electricity. In Haiti, 10Power has developed and financed solar projects on water purification centers, health organizations and major international organizations. Previously, Sandra worked with AutoGrid using big data from smart meters to save energy. She sees renewable energy as the key to providing clean water, gender empowerment and access to regenerative technology – a concept explored in her TEDx talk “Fourth World Nation Building.”

Ashley Meeky is a junior at Vanderbilt University. She is pursuing a B.S. degree in Human and Organizational Development, a B.A. degree in Economics, and a minor degree in Communication Studies. Ashley created the Youth Leaders 4 Climate Restoration certification program, which is now a full program at F4CR. She is also a Content Creator Ambassador for Beauty and Brains Organization, Assistant Director of Marketing and Finance for the Vanderbilt Black Student Leadership Conference, and Head of Onboarding for the Vanderbilt Impact Investing Group. She is an advocate for climate restoration, inclusivity, women’s empowerment, and domestic violence awareness. For fun, she enjoys playing tennis and serving as Practice Coordinator for Vanderbilt’s Club Tennis team. In her spare time, she operates her personal hair care business called Hair Chronicles by Ashley.

Myra is the Coordinator at F4CR and brings a strong background in environmental advocacy to her role. Before joining Blue Frontier, Myra worked with various environmental and humanitarian organizations focused on climate justice and supporting the rights of asylum seekers. Her experience includes conservation fieldwork in diverse locations such as the U.S., Costa Rica, Malta, and Indonesia. Her varied experiences have equipped her with a broad perspective and practical skills that she now applies to her work at the foundation, with the goal of creating a sustainable and equitable future.

Peter Fiekowsky is an MIT-educated physicist and engineer, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a social innovator. He has worked at NASA and the Fairchild/ Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Lab in Palo Alto, Calif; taught at MIT; and developed his own machine vision company, Automated Visual Inspection LLC (AVI).

He holds 27 patents and is on the board of Climate Capex, a fintech company to help complete the global transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2040 by tripling the rate of investment in solar projects.

A decade ago, when it became clear that global warming would endanger all our futures, Fiekowsky turned his energies to restoring a climate that will promote the flourishing of humanity and the Earth’s current ecosystems. He launched the Foundation for Climate Restoration in 2017 to work with top scientists, innovators, policymakers, and others, to create the understanding and policy needed to further climate restoration, and served as its Board Chairman until 2020.

Fiekowsky has worked closely with academic and entrepreneurial leaders who are developing viable, scalable, and permanent solutions that constitute the climate-restoration path.

He has been an investor in and advisor to many companies working in the climate restoration field, in particular synthetic limestone, clean energy financing, cold fusion, ocean restoration, kelp, and methane oxidation.

Fiekowsky lives with his wife Sharon in Los Altos, near his grown son and daughter in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Sharon Fiekowsky is a Nurse Practitioner with 17 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as extensive clinical experience in intensive care, hospice/palliative care, and pain management. 

In the 1970s a pioneer of socially responsible investing, in 1982 a founding board member of the Calvert Funds—first family of such funds now with $17 billion under management, orchestrated sale of Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever that assured it remain a socially responsible company forever with Dr. Mollner on the board the last 18 years to facilitate the transition, since 1972 Founder and Chair of Trusteeship Institute best known for introducing the Mondragon Cooperatives to the US and for in the 1980s stimulating the creation in the US of Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) legislation, and author of Common Good Capitalism Is Inevitable and Our Mutual Blind Spot Since Our Invention of Words: HOW We Answer 7 Questions Will Mature Humanity.