Board of Directors

Thomas S. Kaplan, PhD

Founder and Chairman of the Board

Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan is a passionate environmentalist and supporter of wildlife conservation. Alongside his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan, they founded Panthera in 2006 to meet the global...

Alan Rabinowitz, PhD

CEO

Dr. Alan Rabinowitz is one of the world’s leading big cat experts, and has been called ‘The Indiana Jones of Wildlife Conservation’ by TIME Magazine. Dr. Rabinowitz graduated from the University...

Matthew Bostock

Matthew Bostock co-founded Lake 5 Media in June 2000 and has served as Lake 5 Media's CEO since its inception. Prior to that, Mr. Bostock worked at the National Basketball Association in the...

J. Michael Cline

J. Michael Cline is the founding Partner of Accretive LLC. Michael and other Accretive principals founded Exult, Xchanging, Fandango, Accretive Health and Accolade. Before founding Accretive...

David Hirschfeld

David Hirschfeld is currently Managing Director and Head of the Times Series Practice Area within Morgan Stanley. Previously he was SVP, Operations at Asset Control, a leading vendor of Data...

Claudia A. McMurray

Claudia McMurray is Senior Counsellor to the Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit (ISU), representing the sustainability work of the Prince’s Charities in the United States. She...

William Natbony

William Natbony is the Chief Executive Officer of Tigris Financial Group Ltd., a member of the Tigris Group of companies with areas of focus that include resources and the resources sector, real...

Alan Rabinowitz, PhD

CEO

Luke Hunter, PhD

Treasurer and President

Dr. Luke Hunter serves as Panthera’s President where he oversees the direction and strategy of all of the organization’s global wild cat conservation programs. Before joining Panthera, Dr. Hunter...

Andrea Heydlauff, MS

Corporate Secretary and Vice President

Andrea Heydlauff serves as Panthera's Vice President, where she helps oversee the day to day operations of the organization. Since January 2010, she has managed Panthera’s Communications and Media...

Gary Baldaeus

Chief Financial Officer

Gary serves as Panthera‘s Chief Financial Officer. After completing eight years of military service during the 1960’s, he obtained his BBA in accounting from City University of New York-Baruch...

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