About Us

Tim Valentiner is the owner of Kealakekua Carbon Forward. Tim has a unique background with over 25 years of experience managing results-driven social impact and international development projects in various countries. Previous positions Tim has held include staff and consulting for the World Bank (agriculture and rural development unit), managing USAID-funded economic growth projects, as well as private sector work in international development.

 

Tim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Utah, in 2003 and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC in 2007.

 

Tim is a member of dōTERRA’s international government and diplomatic relations team, liaising and coordinating with various government embassies in Washington DC, international diplomats, EU Parliament and EU Commission, industry associations, government trade delegations visiting Utah, coordination with World Trade Center Utah, etc.

Greg Hendrickson is the Manager for Kealakekua Carbon Forward, where he directs all activities related to the project, including the native reforestation, carbon crediting, and environmental protection efforts.  Greg is actively involved in community environmental initiatives and serves on the boards of: Watershed Media, Hiki Ola, the Kona Soil and Water Conservation District, and Konea Ola.

 

Greg earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco in 1997. While at Hastings, he completed Hastings’ Tax Concentration and received the 1997 Arthur Anderson Prize in Taxation.  He also has a Master of Science in Health Policy and Law from the University of California San Francisco.  Prior to joining the Kealakekua Carbon Forward, he was Special Council with the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass, served as the administrator for 24,000 acres of ranch, forest, and coastal property in Hawaii, and was projects manager for the Pacific Forest Trust.  In these positions he was responsible for conserving well over 150,000 acres of Californian and Hawaiian ranch, forest and cultivated landscapes and participated in developing environmentally-based commodities transactions.

 

Greg is a member of the Real Estate Section of the California and Hawaii Bar Associations.  Author of articles on conservation easements for The Back Forty and The Charitable Gift Planning News, Mr. Hendrickson also has organized and conducted seminars in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest, advising landowners on the tax consequences of conservation land transactions.  He makes frequent presentations for national organizations on conservation transactions.

David Ford is the founder and president of L&C Carbon, based in Dundee, Oregon. David works with forestland owners to sustainably manage their properties and to expand revenue streams, including selling carbon stored in trees into voluntary and regulated markets. David is a professional forester with over four decades of experience in the federal, non-profit, and for-profit sectors. 

 

In 2018, David was named a Senior Fellow for the American Forest Foundation, where he focuses on forest carbon policy. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, David participated as a team member developing the Family Forest Carbon Program – a practice-based approach to incentivize small family forestland owners to implement carbon-friendly forest management practices. David is a member of the Forest Climate Working Group – a member coalition that develops and promotes forest-related solutions to climate change and former chair of its Policy Committee.

 

Prior to founding L&C Carbon in 2010, he served as the executive director of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association. Previously, David founded and lead Metafore, a Portland, Oregon-based non-profit that enabled businesses to evaluate and purchase environmentally preferable forest-based products. David has represented forest-based companies and forestland owners before federal and state legislators, and regulators in California, Oregon, and Washington D.C. He started his career as a forester with the U.S. Forest Service in northern California. 

 

In 2020, Oregon Governor Brown appointed David to a 4-year term as a Commissioner of the Oregon Global Warming Commission. In 2019, the California Air Resources Board appointed David to its Compliance Offset Protocol Task Force, where he chaired the forestry sub-group. David was elected in November 2020 to serve a four-year term as a councilor on the Dundee City Council. He also serves as a volunteer on several boards and committees, including the Yamhill County Parkway Committee, and was elected in 2019 and currently serves as 1st Vice Board Chair of the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), based in Geneva, Switzerland. David is a member of the Society of American Foresters.