Dear Friends,
The Board of Directors of the St. Simons Land Trust is pleased to announce that
Ben Slade
has been named
Interim Executive Director of the Land Trust effective July 1
.
Mr. Slade was the founding chairman of the Land Trust where he served from 1997-2006. He returned as Executive Director in 2011 and was selected as Conservationist of the Year by the Georgia Conservancy after the successful Cannon’s Point Campaign in 2013. Slade retired as Executive Director of the Land Trust in 2016.
“The Board and I are so pleased and grateful that Ben has agreed to serve as Interim Executive Director, allowing the Land Trust to continue to focus on its valuable work “ said Scott McQuade, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The Board has established a search committee for a new executive director with the intention to have a new director in place in the next several months.
St. Simons Land Trust Team
