(West Palm
Beach, FL –
May 25,
2010) Nancy
Marshall,
President of
the Arthur
R. Marshall
Foundation,
which
champions
the
restoration
and
preservation
of the
greater
Everglades
ecosystem,
today
announced
that Bobbie
Lindsay of
Palm
Beach has
joined the
nonprofit
organization’s
25-member
Advisory
Council.
“With her
extensive
business
background
and years of
experience
working on
behalf of
public
service and
environmental
causes,
Bobbie
Lindsay will
be a
valuable
addition to
the Marshall
Foundation’s
Advisory
Council,”
said Mrs.
Marshall.
Since 1991,
Mrs. Lindsay
has been a
Principal
with Sequoia
Holdings,
LLC, with
commercial
real estate
holdings in
Florida,
Maine,
Minnesota
and
Washington.
For 10 years
(1994-2004),
she was a
Principal at
Pine Street
Development,
LLC, in
Seattle,
where she
held senior
positions in
leasing and
project
management
for Pacific
Place, a
three-block
urban
mixed-use
development.
In her
professional
career, Mrs.
Lindsay also
served as
Chief
Operating
Officer of
General
Information,
LLC, a
start-up
software
publishing
company in
Kirkland,
WA, and as
Vice
President of
Operation
for
Automatic
Data
Processing
in Seattle.
A Founding
Board Member
of Women &
Democracy
and a 6-year
member of
PONCHO, the
Seattle arts
board, Mrs.
Lindsay also
has served
on the Shore
Protection
Board in
Palm Beach
since 2008.
In addition,
she is the
founder of
Lionfish
Derby, an
international
tournament
held
annually in
the Bahamas
to reduce
the number
of invasive
Indo-Pacific
Lionfish in
Caribbean
waters.
Bobbie
Lindsay
earned a
B.A. in
biology from
Cornell
University,
where she
specialized
in Ecology &
Systematics.
In the early
1990s, she
and her
husband took
a sabbatical
sailing trip
from San
Francisco to
Australia on
their
52-foot
ketch.
About the
Arthur R.
Marshall
Foundation:
Based in
Palm Beach
County, the
Marshall
Foundation
champions
the
restoration
and
preservation
of the
greater
Everglades
ecosystem
through science-based
education
and outreach
programs.
Annually,
more than
8,300
elementary
and high
school
students
in Palm Beach County actively participate in
the Marshall
Foundation's
various
education
programs.
Founded in
1998, the
nonprofit
organization
has in
recent years
awarded more
than
$400,000 in
scholarships
and
internships,
planted
nearly
100,000
native
Florida
trees in
wetland
areas,
and involved
more than
5,000
volunteers
in hands-on
restoration
projects.
For more
information
about the
Marshall
Foundation,
please call
561.805.8733 |