Keystone Conservation Trust Staff
Our personnel bring over sixty years of experience in conservation (habitat
conservation, open space protection and water resource planning), strategic
planning (corporate and public), and real estate transactions. With a track
record in innovative capital formation and experience in navigating the
complexities of landscape scale conservation and partnering, KCT commands the
breadth and depth of skills and experience to help make things happen.
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John Rogers
Principal
Prior to establishing KCT, Mr. Rogers was a Senior Vice President of the
international environmental engineering firm of CH2MHill, overseeing all science
and technology. Previously, he was a founding partner of Rogers, Golden,
Halpern. Mr. Rogers has thirty years' experience in strategic planning, water
quality trading, watershed planning, mitigation banking, public/private
partnerships, capital planning, asset management, facility siting and decision
sciences. Mr. Rogers has directed over 130 projects from the Everglades to the
New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Pacific Northwest to the Chesapeake. He has
served as co-Chair of the Natural Resources subcommittee of Governor Ridge's
Environment Commission for the 21st Century, International Coordinator for
Multidisciplinary Partnerships forum on Sustainable Development, and judge of
the Three Rivers Environmental Awards. He is an acclaimed author on
environmental issues and tools.
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Jack Butler
Vice President
Mr. Butler brings over twenty years of real estate experience to KCT, where
he oversees the Legacy Property Fund. Prior to joining KCT, he
was Vice President of Land Acquisition for Toll Brothers
Homebuilders. While at Toll, he employed smart growth principles, such as
clustered design with open space preservation. Crafting agreements that
are sensitive to the property while respecting the wishes of the Property Owner
are his specialty. He previously managed real estate acquisitions,
divestitures and brown field sites for GE, where he achieved Six Sigma Quality
greenbelt certification. The redevelopment of an abandoned electrical
testing facility in southeast Philadelphia for the USPS was one of the
first brown field sites cleaned up by him under PA's Act 2
Cleanup program. His roots are in Forest Biology where he earned
his BS at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse
University. He has a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering
and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
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