TLC's Board Officers include a chair, vice chair, president, treasurer and secretary. The Board Officers are selected from among the Board of Directors. The chair presides at all meetings of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. The vice chair acts in place of the chair, as needed. The president is the chief executive officer of the organization and is responsible for the management of TLC. The treasurer controls the funds of the organization, ensures that the books are kept properly and prepares or causes to have prepared financial reports. The secretary is responsible for recording the minutes of the Board meetings. Officers serve one-year terms.

TLC’s fiscal year runs July 1 to June 30.

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Current Board Members:

Anne Stoddard, Chair (Orange)
Anne is the founder of The Stoddard Group, a commercial real estate consulting firm in Chapel Hill. Anne has served the TLC Board with distinction since 2005. She has been TLC Board Secretary (2005-08), member of the Land Protection Committee and Co-Chair of the Conservation Strategies Committee.

Sig Hutchinson, Vice Chair (Wake)
Sig is president of Sig Hutchinson & Associates, a sales training and leadership development firm in Raleigh. He’s also a community leader, serving on many boards including Leadership Triangle, Triangle Tomorrow, Triangle Regional Air Quality Coalition, and as past chair of Triangle Transit. Sig is known as Mr. Greenjeans and has been an avid proponent of TLC’s Mark’s Creek Rural Lands Initiative, proclaiming the area as the “Hope Diamond of Open Space.”

Bill Holman, Secretary (Wake)
Bill is a Visiting Fellow at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. In a long career in NC as an envi­ronmentalist and administrator, Bill  has served as executive director of the Clean Water Management Trust Fund (2001-2006), Secretary of the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Assistant Secretary for Environmental Protection (1998-2000), and lobbyist for several NC conservation groups (1979-1997). He has received numerous awards from NC conservation groups, along with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 2000, one of NC’s highest civilian honors.

Michael Mankowski, CPA (Orange), Treasurer
Michael is a Senior Director of Finance at Quintiles Transnational, a clinical research organization in Durham. Michael has served on TLC’s Finance & Investment Committee since 2005. A native North Carolinian, he lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and two young children.

Charlie Bolton (Chatham)
Charlie is a cattle farmer from the Silk Hope community of central Chatham County and chairman of the Chatham County Agricultural Advisory Committee. Charlie and his wife, Ruth Leight, joined TLC in 1987 and worked to help establish TLC's White Pines Nature Preserve. Charlie has an agricultural conservation easement (held by Piedmont Land Conservancy) on part of his farm in the Sutphin Mill community near the Chatham/Alamance line.

Tom Bradshaw (Wake)
Tom is a champion for regional collaboration, especially its role in the implement of public transportation. Bradshaw recently retired as managing director and co-head of the Transportation Group at Citigroup Global Markets in New York. He got his start in newspapers, then in real estate. His election to the Raleigh City Council propelled him into the public arena. He became Raleigh’s Mayor in 1971 and spearheaded the Falls Lake project to provide the city’s long-term water supply. Governor Hunt appointed him as Secretary for Transportation and in that role he helped get I-40 funded to Wilmington. Watch an interview with Tom on UNC-TV's North Carolina People.

Stacey Burkert (Durham)
Stacey is a community volunteer and mother of three young children. Before starting her family, she earned an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and worked in the real estate investment field. As a volunteer, she has been active in organizational and fundraising capacities for The Junior League, Caring House and the Duke School.

Becky Daniel (Wake)
Becky is the Manager of Regulatory Planning for Progress Energy’s Carolinas utility. In this role, she is responsible for the short-term and long-term regulatory financial and strategic planning, and pricing and rate administration functions of Progress Energy Carolinas (PEC). Becky has a passion for nature and the outdoors.

Danny Kadis (Wake)
Danny  is president of Centrex Properties, a commercial real estate business started by his great, great grandfather. A former appointee to the City of Raleigh’s Board of Adjustment from 2003 to 2005, Danny currently serves on the Board of Directors for Triangle Land Conservancy and WakeUp Wake County in Raleigh, NC. He earned his Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) designation in 2009, and he is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). Danny has undergraduate degrees in Biology and Geography as well as a Master's Degree in Public/Environmental Policy.

William "Skip" London (Chatham)
Skip is vice president and general counsel of Static Control Components, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of parts and supplies for the laser toner remanufacturing industry based in Sanford. He is currently on the YMCA Board for Lee County.

Virginia Parker (Wake)
Virginia is director of Strategic Partnerships for the Wake Tech Foundation, founder and principal of Inspire! Leadership Group, and an incredibly active community volunteer. Among her many recent activities, Virginia is chair of the Wake Education Partnership (2007-08), member of the Blue Ribbon Committee on the Future of Wake County, and past president of the Junior League of Raleigh.

Joan Siefert Rose (Orange)
Joan is former general manager of WUNC-FM and currently president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), a role she took on in August 2008. With 5,500 active members, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation.

Dale Threatt-Taylor (Wake)
Dale has strong ties with Wake County farmers and landowners through her work first as a natural resource conservationist and now director of the Wake County Soil & Water Conservation District. She has served the TLC Board (2005 to present) with distinction.

Larry Tombaugh (Wake)
Larry served as dean of NC State’s College of Natural Resources from 1989 to 2001. He served as chairman and professor in the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University (1978-1989). He also was the director of the National Science Foundation’s division of applied environmental research, which provides grants to environmental scientists nationwide, and was deeply involved in environmental science policy up to and including the White House. Larry is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of American Foresters, and served as chairman of the North Carolina Forestry Association Board of Directors in 2005 and 2006.

Laura Horton Virkler (Orange)
Laura is an active community volunteer, serving on the board of the North Carolina Zoological Society, on the Wake Forest Alumni Council, the Durham Academy Alumni Council Executive Committee and the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties.

Larry Zucchino (Wake)
Larry is managing principal at JDavis Architects, PLLC and a licensed Landscape Architect for thirty years actively involved with landscape ecology issues. He has been active in statewide public environmental policy through his past appointment to the NC Environmental Management Commission.