TEAM & ALLIES

Our team possesses over 180 combined years of experience in investment management, entrepreneurship, conservation finance, ecological restoration, social impact, education, retail, food systems, and organic and regenerative agriculture. Our allies broaden and deepen this experience with specific areas of expertise and wisdom to fortify our process and hold us accountable.

Steven I. Apfelbaum, M.S.

Founder, Chairman, Executive Director & Senior Ecologist

Founder, Chairman and Former CEO/President, Applied Ecological Services, Inc.

2010 Recipient John T. Curtis Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aldo Leopold Foundation

Visionary Steve Apfelbaum is the inspiration driving AEI. For over 40 years, Steve has proven to be one of the worlds most innovative ecologists creating and scaling one of the most successful applied ecological firms, Applied Ecological Services, Inc. He is a pioneer in the fields of regenerative agriculture, carbon measurement and sequestration, soil health, conservation finance, landscape scale restoration and watershed management technologies as well as many other ecological innovations. Steve believes there are many unrealized ecological-based solutions that can be productized and commercialized and will rapidly change the direction of a depleted earth to one of ecological abundance. He believes that these solutions simply need to be vetted, properly incubated and accelerated into commercialization through a tactical force of Ecological Entrepreneurs supported by a team of seasoned business owners and academics and properly financed by impact focused investors. He believes these change agents can co-create a thriving life for all generations.

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