Board of Directors

Bill Gaffi (President) is the General Manager of Clean Water Services, the wastewater management service for the Tualatin River Basin, spanning Washington and parts of Clackamas and Multnomah counties. Under his direction, the agency expanded its role to include flood protection, improving stream water quality, restoring fish habitat and managing river flow, while operating four award-winning wastewater treatment facilities.

John Miller (Vice President) is the President of Wildwood, Inc., an urban design and development firm. He is also founder and owner of Mahonia Vineyards and Nursery, a grower of Northwest natives, ornamentals and premium grapes, using sustainable and environmentally friendly practices.

Sara Vickerman (Secretary) is Senior Director of Biodiversity Partnerships for Defenders of Wildlife.  She oversees the Oregon Biodiversity Project and other programs seeking to find common ground among diverse interests.  She is the author of a report called Stewardship Incentives: Conservation Strategies for Oregon’s Working Landscape.

Mike Burton is Vice Provost and Executive Director for extended studies at Portland State University.  He served as Executive Officer of Metro for seven years. He served in the Oregon House of Representatives for five terms, served on the regional board of the President’s Council on Sustainability and has been a leader in Oregon’s innovative land use system since the landmark Senate Bill 100 passed in 1973.

David Hulse is a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon and former chair of the Landscape Architecture department.  He was one of the founding members of the University’s Institute for a Sustainable Environment. As a lead researcher with the Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium he explored alternative futures for the Basin, documented in the Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas.

Jim Irvine is the president of The Conifer Group, a multifaceted real estate development company, and an innovator in providing private-sector-financed affordable housing.  He is the past president of the National Association of Home Builders.

Mark Krautmann is past president of the Oregon Association of Nurseries and the founder and owner of Heritage Seedlings Nursery, a company that grows more than 500 unusual trees and shrubs for the wholesale trade.  The company also produces native seeds and is restoring oak habitat and wetlands on four farms in the Salem area.

Marv Lewallen is Weyerhaeuser’s Environmental Affairs Manager for Oregon.  He provides direct support and management oversight for Weyerhaeuser’s Oregon facilities on all aspects of environmental performance including permitting, compliance support and strategic planning.

Tom Lindley is a partner in the Portland office of the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP.  He has represented a wide variety of clients in Clean Water Act issues and is the author of Oregon’s Sustainability Act of 2001.  

Dean Marriott is the Director of Portland Bureau of Environmental Sciences.  Prior to his arrival in Oregon, he was the Commissioner of Environmental Protection for the State of Maine, and Director of Planning for the largest consulting engineering firm in Maine.

John McDonald is the Executive Director of the Oregon Association of Conservation Districts and also a Director of his local Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District.

Jack McGowan is Executive Director of SOLV, an organization that builds community though volunteer action. Under his direction, the organization founded by Governor Tom McCall to address litter and vandalism today provides resources to more than 250 Oregon communities, creates thousands of volunteer opportunities and millions of dollars in services across the state.  McGowan was the aid to Portland Mayor Clark and the host of award winning television specials.

John Moriarty is the Statewide Coordinator for the Network of Oregon Watershed Councils, an organization founded by councils to support their work throughout Oregon.  

Liz Redon is Council Coordinator for the North Santiam Watershed Council, a citizen-based, stakeholder created, non-profit organization concerned about healthy rivers and streams as well as human communities in the North Santiam and Santiam River Basin.

Travis Williams is Executive Director of Willamette Riverkeeper.  He leads the organization’s work on policy issues at the state and federal levels related to water quality and habitat restoration.

Duncan Wyse is the President of the Oregon Business Council, a non-profit organization consisting of 46 business executives from some of Oregon’s largest companies

STAFF

David Primozich has served as Executive Director since the founding of the Willamette Partnership in the fall of 2004.  David has been engaged in natural resource policy and management for more than a decade. Prior to working with the Board to form the Willamette Partnership, David managed production of the Willamette Subbasin Plan to guide fish and wildlife conservation investment in the Willamette Basin.  He also managed production of the first comprehensive Parks and Open Space Plan for Yamhill County, Oregon. David swims, skips stones, and hunts for agates along the Willamette River and its tributaries with his wife Julie and Daughters Opal and Lila.