Donald Tuttle
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jadora International LLC founder Don Tuttle has a range of talents and experiences that have served as a foundation for his leadership position.

After attending the University of Washington in Seattle, he owned and operated Rain City, a haven for confiscated exotic and endangered species, in collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In conjunction with Rain City he also founded the Institute for Research of Extant Species. Don spent a brief but instructive time working in the financial sector with Oppenheimer securities, and he gained exposure to politics working for Congressman Jim McDermott in Washington D.C., before finally turning full-time to environmental services and conservation.

Don worked with the Smithsonian Institute and the California Academy of the Sciences in Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Malaysia and Indonesia) eventually founding the Insular Species Conservation Society, where he continues his involvement as a board member. Additional field time in the West Indies and Central America introduced Don to carbon sequestration and alternative energy and sparked his desire to pursue land use alternatives using sustainable models. Recently he worked for the Woodland Park Zoo, where he transitioned from animal management to a senior management position in their development department, before leaving to found Jadora early in 2008

Brian Young
Operations

Mr. Young was the founder and principal of Element Strategic Partners LLC, a clean-tech consultancy focused on public affairs, policy development and due diligence. During his time with Element he lead a variety of projects with multi-national companies and government entities including The Boeing Company, the Washington State Clean Energy Leadership Council and the Malaysian government.

Prior to starting his own company, Mr. Young was the Director of International Business Development at Imperium Renewables Inc. and a member of its strategic development team. As one of Imperium’s original employees, Mr. Young spearheaded the development of the biofuel company's logistics capabilities, feedstock procurement framework, corporate sustainability criteria, and research and development project planning and execution. Mr. Young is Vice Chairman of the National Biodiesel Board's Sustainability Task Force. Previously, Mr. Young was a Surface Warfare Officer in the United States Navy working in naval operations and engineering. He holds a B.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Mr. Young currently resides in Seattle, Washington, with his beautiful wife Kristen.  He spends his free time in the outdoors or as a ski patroller in the Cascade Mountains.

 

 

Talitha Haller
Finance

Talitha Haller received both her Bachelor of Business Administration and her Master of Accounting from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Involvement in an ecotourism startup in the Amazon sparked her initial interest in for-profit strategies to mitigate climate change, and her education at Ross consequently refined her belief that for-profit ventures play a crucial role in transforming our approaches to economic development and environmental protection.

Talitha has diverse experience in community development initiatives throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean, participating on teams with doctors, environmental engineers and religious groups. She also worked briefly in the IT sector in India, where she authored an e-course on search engine optimization and marketing.

Most recently, she worked in Brazil for the environmental non-profit organization Ecologica Institute. In this role she helped administer the organization’s certification standard for carbon offset projects and contributed to its manual for applying the standard in forestry projects.