Contact: Mike Saccone, Communications Advisor, NWF Action Fund, MikeSaccone@nwa.org, 202-797-6634
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 9, 2024) — The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund has added two business and conservation leaders to its board. The new board members, Bernard Chen, CEO of Quantum Insights, and Lindsey Davis, Director of Conservation and Advocacy at SITKA Gear, bring immense organizational expertise and conservation experience to the Action Fund’s leadership.
“There has never been a more important moment for wildlife and conservation issues than now. The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund works across party lines, geographies, and generations to elect wildlife champions and support conservation causes,” said Gaspar Perricone, chair of the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund Board of Directors. “We’re excited to welcome Bernard Chen and Lindsey Davis to the Board and to bring their perspectives and expertise to bear on our work to elect leaders who will champion wildlife, conserve and restore our lands and waters, and address the immense and interconnected challenges facing wildlife, people, and the environment.”
Bernard Chen is a software development executive with experience in ecommerce, video game development, and biotech diagnostics. He has worked at Ubisoft, KIXEYE, Scopely, and was most-recently the co-founder and CEO of Quantum Insights, a biomarker discovery platform. Bernard also serves on the board of the Tuolumne River Trust, a conservation group focused on the Yosemite / Tuolumne River watersheds. An avid outdoorsman, Bernard enjoys backpacking or overlanding in the Sierra Nevadas, kayak fishing off the Pacific coast, and chasing pelagics in the open ocean.
Lindsey Davis, an entrepreneur and advocate based in Salt Lake City, Utah, serves as the director of conservation and advocacy at SITKA Gear. She is a founding board member of the Utah Wildlife Federation and serves on numerous other boards. Lindsey founded a company called Wylder and served as its CEO — running the only online women’s specific retailer in the outdoor industry, and the first female-founded benefit corporation in Utah. During this time she graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. Upon completion, she worked as the senior vice president of the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable, the nation’s leading coalition of outdoor recreation trade associations and businesses. She received her degree from the University of California, San Diego in International Development with an emphasis in Environmental Studies and Political Science.
