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 William Ruckelshaus
Strategic Director
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William (Bill) Ruckelshaus was Chairman and CEO of Browning-Ferris Industries from 1988 to 1995, and served as Chairman from 1995 to 1999. Bill was Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, serving as the Agency's first Administrator when it was formed in 1970. He was later appointed acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then served as Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Bill served as Senior Vice President for Law and Corporate Affairs for the Weyerhaeuser Company, and in the mid-1980s, he again served as EPA Administrator before joining the Seattle law firm of Perkins Coie.
He is currently a director of TVW, Isilon Systems, Inc., and has recently retired from the boards of Weyerhaeuser Company, Nordstrom, Inc., Cummins Engine Company, Solutia, Pharmacia Corporation, and Monsanto. Bill is also on the Board and former Chairman of World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., Chairman of the Salmon Recovery Funding Board for the State of Washington, Chair of the Seattle Aquarium Society, former member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of The William D. Ruckelshaus Center, a collaborative problem solving institution of the University of Washington and Washington State University. In 2003 he was appointed to serve on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Science Advisory Board. And in 2005, he was appointed by Governor Gregoire to co-chair the Puget Sound Partnership to organize the cleanup of Puget Sound.
Bill is a graduate, cum laude, of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
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Managing Directors
Tom Alberg
Paul Goodrich
Greg Gottesman
Brian McAndrews
Matt McIlwain
Investment Professionals
John Carpenter
Ayush Agarwal
Scott Jacobson
Tim Porter
Venture Partners
Matt Compton
Oren Etzioni
Len Jordan
Dan Weld
Operations & Administration
Jennifer Chambers
Troy Cichos
Elise Hebb
Strategic Directors
Jack Creighton
Gerald Grinstein
Chuck Hirsch
Pete Higgins
William Ruckelshaus
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