Passionate Hearts. Clear minds
Kuno has a small passionate, talented and dedicated team.
Board
Kuno's board brings decades of experience in setting up, leading and running impactful efforts for the conservation of Nature.
Vanessa Bleyer is one of Australia's leading environmental lawyers
Alec Marr is one of the world's most effective environmentalists
Dr Phill Pullinger brings decades of experience and success in conservation and public policy to his role as Director and CEO for Kuno
Phil Vernon is an experienced director and CEO with a background in sustainable finance, impact and ESG.
Advisory board
Dr Jen Sanger is a passionate forest ecologist and science outreach coordinator. She has spent over a decade studying forests and the charismatic plant species that inhabit them.
Jamie Hanson is a strategist with many years of experience in communications, government relations, and public affairs, providing advice to a range of NGO and philanthropic/foundation clients.
Team
We have a wonderfully talented and inspiring team that runs our small but ambitious program:
Ra'z Salvarita is leading our work in SE Asia and coordinating the Panay Nature project for the Kuno Foundation.
Marcio Conrado, Dan Broun and Peta Carlyon are talented storytellers who have contributed immense photojournalism, writing, film-making and storytelling talent to our conservation stories work.
Pri Burfield-Mills is a brilliant developer and coder who has developed our webpage and supports our web needs.
Claire Boost is an amazing teacher who is leading the Bruny Kids & Nature project with film-maker and Supergroms' President Claire Gorman's support for the Kuno Foundation
Jess Ewing brings a breadth of talent, experience and immense hard work to her operations manager role for the foundation.
Tilde Bergstrom is Kuno's conservation stories editor, a specialist storyteller from Sweden.