Rick Renaud, Manager of Online Marketing, Gardener’s Supply Company
Rick stumbled into eCommerce in 1998 and hasn’t looked back since. After 8 years playing and studying out West, he moved back to Vermont and worked for a few startups managing Yahoo! Stores and rudimentary eMarketing programs. Eventually Rick found Gardener’s Supply Company—America’s leading direct to consumer marketer of gardening tools, supplies and décor. In his eight years there, he’s helped build a multimillion dollar eCommerce program that markets to existing catalog customers and acquires new customers online. His focus these days is on site production, usability, and pay per click marketing.
Rick was drawn to Heron Dance through the art and the words. He lives with his wife and two young daughters in Vermont and loves to do anything outdoors especially hiking, birding, gardening and maple sugaring.
Peter Clark, M.A., M.S.
Peter is a teacher, shamanic healer, and computer scientist who has lived on both sides of the planet, but currently resides in a solar powered off-grid home in Woodbury, Vermont. He has worked as a computer programmer and technical support teacher for a cancer research company since 1993. A previous career as a high school and college educator spanned nine years, and included educational institutions in Ohio and New Jersey.
Peter has always held a fascination with the cosmos and the nature of reality. In the early 1990′s after a spiritual awakening, Peter began a devoted practice that includes yoga, meditation, systemic balancing and shamanic healing. His work integrates seamlessly the concepts found in quantum physics with the spiritual path of shamanic healing. Over the years, Peter has been involved in a number of advanced shamanic healing programs, and has been a practitioner since 2005. He is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Three-Year Program in Advanced Initiations in Shamanism and Shamanic Healing. Peter’s specialties include extraction healing, soul retrieval, channeling, land spirit communication, past life healing, and divination. For more information, see www.shamansflame.com.
John Davis
John Davis is a long-time wilderness advocate and explorer, who has worked with many conservation groups, including Wildlands Network, Adirondack Council, The Rewilding Institute, Northeast Wilderness Trust, RESTORE: The North Woods, Conservation Land Trust, and Champlain Valley Conservation Partnership. He has been a friend of Rod MacIver and reader of Heron Dance for 15 years. John was editor of the conservation quarterly WILD EARTH from 1991-96. In 2011, he began a continental wildways trek that will enable him to reconnect with friends and colleagues from the Everglades to Northern Appalachians and westward, and help them tell their stories of wild places, wild creatures, and bold efforts to protect them.
Rod MacIver, Artist and Founder
To view Rod’s profile please visit here.
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Jim Feinson – Advisor to the Board
Jim Feinson is President and CEO of America’s Gardening Resource, parent company of Gardener’s Supply Company, the nation’s largest catalog and e-commerce marketer of gardening products and accessories.
Jim has helped direct the company’s profitable growth from 40 employees when he joined in 1988, to 250 regular and 150 seasonal staff in 2009. The company became 100% employee-owned in 2009.
Gardener’s Supply has won numerous local and national awards for their business success, innovative products, work environment, employee ownership, and community contributions. The company is recognized nationally as a leader in the socially responsible business community and for their support of gardening, sustainable agriculture and hunger-related causes.
Jim is also very active in the community, serving on industry, for profit and non-profit Boards. Jim is a graduate of Cornell University and received his MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
