Lawrence H. Linden, Founder and Trustee

Larry Linden is the Founder and Trustee of the Linden Trust for Conservation.  As a scientist, engineer and management expert, Mr. Linden established the Trust in 2006 to apply the pragmatic, problem-solving approach from his business career to pressing conservation challenges facing the United States and the global community.

He is dedicated to giving back to the country that provided him with great opportunity, so that current and future generations can continue to live in a strong, prosperous and healthy America.

Mr. Linden is a former General Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he was a leader of the build-out of the firm’s integrated trading infrastructure through Goldman’s global expansion in the 1990s.  As an Advisory Director, through 2008, he led the firm’s establishment of a large nature reserve in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and helped launch the firm’s environmental policy.  Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1992, Mr. Linden was a Partner at McKinsey & Co., where he worked with corporations in the industrial, technology and financial sectors, and served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

In the non-profit world, Mr. Linden is a member and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Wildlife Fund, the domestic arm of the largest global conservation group; a member and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Resources for the Future, the leading nonpartisan think tank on environmental and natural resource economics; and a member of the Advisory Board of the First St. Foundation, focused on raising awareness of the dangers of sea level rise on coastal communities.  In the business world, he serves as Senior Advisor to the Redstone Strategy Group, a leading management consulting firm in the conservation and philanthropy arenas; and on the Board of Directors of TIAA, the operating arm of the TIAA-CREF complex, the largest private pension system in the U.S.  He has lectured on conservation management and global warming policy at Yale, Columbia, Princeton, MIT and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Linden holds a PhD from MIT and a BSE from Princeton. He and his wife live in New York City.

Roger Ullman, Co-Founder and Executive Director

Roger Ullman joined LTC in 2006 as its first Executive Director.  From 2002 to 2006 he was at Rainforest Alliance, as Director of Strategic Business Development and Managing Director of the SmartWood program, with operations in more than 50 countries.  For nearly two decades before that, Mr. Ullman worked on Wall Street, most recently as a Managing Director of investment banking at Merrill Lynch, where he started and built the firm’s mergers and acquisitions business in Latin America.  He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from Harvard College.

Cait Shubick, Program Associate

Cait Shubick joined LTC in 2016 as a Program Associate.  Prior to joining LTC, Cait was on the Energy and Climate team at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C. from 2014 to 2016.  Previously she worked at CSC as an Environmental Coordinator overseeing sampling projects and analytical programs for EPA’s Contract Laboratory Program from 2012 to 2014.  Cait also has experience on Capitol Hill, completing an internship and then working for Congressman Frank Guinta in 2012.  Cait graduated from Gettysburg College with a B.A. in Environmental Studies.

Karen Simonson, Director of Finance and Administration

After serving as LTC’s founding Director of Finance and Administration, Karen Simonson rejoined LTC in 2011.   Prior to her return, Ms. Simonson was the Director of Finance of the Queens Botanical Garden.   Ms. Simonson has served in financial and accounting management positions in the non-profit sector for over fifteen years.   She holds an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College and a BA in accounting and economics from Queens College.

Amy Tohn, Office Administrator

Amy Tohn joined LTC in 2009.   Previously, she was the Executive Assistant to the President and Managing Partner of an executive search firm in New York City.   Earlier, she was an executive assistant at General Electric, WMC Mortgage, located in Burbank, California.  Additionally, her career path includes several years of executive support, sales & marketing.   Ms. Tohn holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Merchandising Management, from the Fashion Institute of Technology.