Thomas Jorling currently serves on the NEON, Inc. Board of Directors and was a member of the NEON Consortium Development Committee. He served as Minority Counsel, US Senate, Committee on Public Works (1968 - 1972). During the Carter Administration he was Assistant Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency (1977-79). Mr. Jorling was professor of environment studies at Williams College and director of the College’s center for environmental studies (1972-76; 1979-87). From 1987 to 1994 he was Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. From 1994-2004 Mr. Jorling served as Vice President for Environmental Affairs at International Paper, where he had national and international responsibility for corporate environment, health, and safety affairs and represented the Company on national and international forest policy matters. In 2004 he helped to finalize a 257,000-acre Adirondack forest conservation partnership among International Paper, the state of New York, and The Conservation Fund.