Who We Are
Julie Bradley
Executive Director
Passionate about facilitating evidence-based change by communities, institutions, and individuals, she has worked across academic, corporate, nonprofit, and government institutions, and brought together stakeholders in cross-disciplinary, cross-sector, and cross-institutional collaborations. Julie is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Bill Hayward
President of the Board
Bill Hayward is the CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer of an over 100-year-old California lumber and building materials company. Mr. Hayward led the company’s efforts toward sustainability, making it the first US lumber company to offer Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified wood products to builders. As part of the company’s mission to provide builders with solutions to build healthy, durable, and energy-efficient homes, Mr. Hayward developed an online assessment tool. In the last ten years Bill has pursued understanding connections between the built environment, sustainability, and health.
Named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by LBM Journal in 2015, Mr. Hayward also was named one of the “20 Most Influential Leaders in the Industry.” On the nonprofit side, Mr. Hayward chaired the US FSC for five years. In 2021, Mr. Hayward founded a nonprofit to increase awareness of healthy home environments. He received his BS from UCLA and graduated from the Stanford Executive Program. Mr. Hayward lives with his family in California.
Annarie Lyles, PhD
Secretary
Annarie Lyles, PhD, learned to appreciate the beauty of well-functioning, indoor life-support systems as a zoo curator, experiencing the exquisite sensitivity of penguins, and other habitat specialists, to clean and well-regulated air, water and other environmental conditions. Now Dr. Lyles is on a mission to protect and restore the health of living systems, from individuals to habitats. Her work spans governance and activism with corporations and impact business networks (both for-profit and tax-exempt), supporting applied R&D initiatives, and managing impact investments. She also leads the family side of a closely-held private business and advises several entrepreneurs and funds.
Previously, Dr. Lyles gained a decade of deal-making experience as a biotechnology business executive with publicly-traded Genmab and Medarex (acquired by BMY). After earning a BS from Yale and a PhD in Biology from Princeton University, she worked in nonprofit management at NYC’s Central Park and Bronx Zoos. A frequent speaker, Dr. Lyles has authored over three dozen publications. At home in New Jersey with ecology professor Andy Dobson, she relishes rambles with hounds, getting her hands dirty doing local forest restoration, and other nature adventures.
David Hofele
Treasurer
David Hofele is currently a partner with Proco Global, a financial services firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the successor entity to ProInsurance Associates that he founded in 2009 and successfully sold to Acrisure in late 2017. Prior to founding ProInsurance Associates, he served as President of HRH Insurance Services of California, Inc, which was successfully sold to Willis Towers Watson in 2008. Prior to his time with HRH, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Palmer & Cay, an insurance brokerage firm based in Savannah, Georgia. David started his career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney with Suelthaus & Walsh in St. Louis, MO. He earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Marquette University and a law degree from St. Louis University School of Law.
David has served on the boards of many nonprofit organizations over the course of his career, most recently serving for nine years on the board of CVNL in Marin County. David and his wife Cooke live in Mill Valley, CA. David enjoys fly fishing and mountain biking and is currently establishing a regenerative agriculture farm in New Zealand, where he and his wife plan to spend half of the year.