Richard Pace (Chief Executive Officer) is co-founder of UDM Land Sciences, a developer of GIS-based ecological asset and liability systems for use by the real estate industry. The Company has land and property assessment/valuation methods and an integrated Real Estate Decision Support System. UDM also provides a variety of land survey and environmental services. For ten years, Mr. Pace has worked on the development of ecosystem service definitions and related assessment tools. He has been responsible for EAM project development, managing partnerships with The Nature Conservancy, Rhode Island Economic Policy Council, and several others.  Mr. Pace holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. in Visual Language Studies from Indiana University. He began his career developing science publishing and information systems for the University of Chicago Press and later co-founded Scientific American Library involving a restructuring of W.H Freeman Publishers.

Peter Gengler (Chief Financial Officer) co-founded UDM Land Sciences. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in graphic design. Mr. Gengler has practiced for thirty years specializing in large-scale way finding systems and identity programs. In the eighties, Mr. Gengler and Mr. Benno Wissing, a founding partner of the firm Total Design – one of the leading design firms in Europe - created the Wissing Gengler Group. Their design projects ranged from airport signage systems to corporate identities and product design. Mr. Gengler also has extensive experience in asset markets from his family history with the New York Stock Exchange.

Edward Sanders, PhD. (Senior Economist) evaluates sustainable development projects and prepares economic analyses, market surveys, business plans, and financing proposals.  He previously served in high-level U.S. Government positions (Associate Director of OMB and Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee).  Following his government service, he co-founded two international business and environmental consulting firms – IPAC, Inc. and Sanders International, Inc.  He is a founding partner in an innovative 20-square-mile conservation and ecotourism project in Southern Belize that anchors a 90-square-mile public/private conservation zone protecting the country’s last stretch of tropical forest connecting the mountains to the coast.  He has a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Mary Snieckus (Senior Policy Analyst and Board Chair) is a forester and natural resource policy analyst. She has consulted with agencies and national NGO's on forestland conservation and management issues, and evaluated forest policy impacts and effectiveness.  She has recently been working to establish a consortium of federal agencies and national organizations to facilitate ecosystem service markets. As the first Executive Director of the Forest Stewards Guild, she led the expansion of programs and membership, and contributed the organization's views on forest management and natural resource policies to professionals and policymakers at local, state and national levels. She worked with high-level USDA officials to develop and implement programs to address land conservation issues. Her career began in the field, as a forester working with farmers and forestland owners to design and implement conservation practices. She holds a BS in Forest Science from the University of Wisconsin, and an MS in Forest Policy from the University of New Hampshire.