Board of Directors

Dr. David W. Randle - President & CEO, Class of 2025

Dave holds a B.A. from California Lutheran University, an M-Div. from the Iliff School of Theology, and a doctorate in Spiritual Disciplines, Wellness and Environmental Concerns from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO.

He currently serves as President and CEO of the WHALE Center, a member of the UNEP Major Stakeholders Group, UNWTO Affiliate, host of the Blue Community Sustainable Tourism Observatory, and organization with Special Consultative status at the United Nations. 

Dave is a PM4SD Certified Practitioner, and Managing Director of the Blue Community Consortium. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, and the board of directors for the Florida Society of Ethical Ecotourism, 

As the first ordained environmental minister in the nation, Dave has successfully coordinated a national campaign to preserve water, wildlife, and wilderness areas on behalf of the Pitkin County Commissioners, served as political and environmental advisor to John Denver, and initial program development coordinator for John Denver's Windstar Foundation. 

Richard Berman - Co-Chair of Board of Directors, Class of 2025

Richard  is Professor of the USF Institute for Innovation & Advanced Discovery, and Visiting Social Entrepreneurship Professor at the MUMA College of Business.

A recognized global leader in public health, education and management, he has consulted for the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, McKinsey & Company, and the government of Rwanda.

Richard served as President of Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY from 1995 to 2009 and is credited with turning the struggling college into a high-ranking liberal arts school. During his tenure at Manhattanville, he successfully increased both local and international student enrollment, established two new buildings, invested in better technology, and developed additional graduate programs, among other advancements.

Richard attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1966 and his MBA and MPH degrees in 1968. He holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manhattanville College and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from New York Medical College.

Sabina Zunguze - Go-Chair of Board of Directors, Class of 2024.  

Sabina comes from Zimbabwe, Africa and is the founder and CEO of  A Gift to Africa.

Sabina is Co-Chair of the WHALE Center Board of Directors and founder and CEO of A Gift to Africa

For the past 15 years, Sabina Zunguze has made it her life’s mission to empower women business owners to prosper by providing their businesses access to global markets. She has worked with women business owners in Africa and beyond to sustainably grow their business to the USA market.

Her passion has also been to enhance the understanding of those wishing to work with women in the developing world to successfully understand cultural issues, social responsibility and sustainability issues through her training, consulting and speaking platforms. Sabina is a Zimbabwe native and has lived in the USA for almost 30 years. She has been recognized and honored for her work since 2005.

Christopher Lucas,  Secretary WHALE Center Class of 2024

Chris currently lives in Charleston, South Carolina, the city where he was born and raised.  For the last several years he has been working behind the scenes with Justin Farrow on formulating the Blue Community App as well as assisting in managing the Land Surveyors United online community. 

Dr. Reese Halter, Chief Scientist, Class of 2026 

In the 1980s, Dr. Reese founded Global Forest Science a conservation institute. Global Forest Science has enjoyed a number of triumphs; including the legislation from Ottawa to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia and Alberta; protection of the world’s largest ant colony in Japan; using trees and forests in British Columbia, Georgia, Manitoba and Wyoming as a barometer of rising global temperatures; opening an international insect quarantine facility at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia; saving New Zealand’s multi-billion-dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth and understanding dieback ofthe tallest trees on Earth – California redwoods.

In the 1980s, Dr. Reese founded Global Forest Science a conservation institute. Global Forest Science has enjoyed a number of triumphs; including the legislation from Ottawa to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia and Alberta; protection of the world’s largest ant colony in Japan; using trees and forests in British Columbia, Georgia, Manitoba and Wyoming as a barometer of rising global temperatures; opening an international insect quarantine facility at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia; saving New Zealand’s multi-billion-dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth and understanding dieback ofthe tallest trees on Earth – California redwoods.

Dr. Noel Brown, Board, Member Emeritus

Dr. Noel Brown is the former Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, North American Regional office. Dr. Brown holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Seattle University, an M.A. in International Law and Organization from Georgetown University and Ph. D. in International Relations from Yale University. He also holds a diploma in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Brown represented the United Nations Environment Program at a number of the major international conferences and negotiations on environment and development issues and on international law, including the historic Earth Summit in Rio, 1992. He has initiated numerous innovations in the service of the earth's environmental protection and sustainable development. He is a founding member of the Aspen Global Change Institute, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, and Indigenous Development International.

Dr. Brown currently serves as President of the Friends of the United Nations, a non governmental organization dedicated to ad vancing the cause of the United Nations by mobilizing public support on its behalf and directing public attention to its major programmes and achievements. 

Dr.  Andy Schoneberg,  Board Member Emeritus at the WHALE Center and is the  founder &  CEO of Sunzee Car.  

Andy Schoenberg was born in Lithuania in 1939, his family moved to Germany in 1941 to escape Stalin’s purges. Having survived World War II in Germany, the Schoenberg’s emigrated to the U.S. in 1951. He moved to Utah in 1968. He is married and has two boys.  His wife Mieke is a native of Holland and has three children from a previous marriage. In their empty-nester retirement Andy and Mieke share in promoting nonviolence, ecological wisdom and social justice. 

He considers himself a global citizen, concerned about achieving a sustainable world without the injustice and conflict associated with diminishing resources needed for survival.  He speaks Lithuanian, German and English

Chief Phil Lane Jr.,   is a Board Emeritius member of the WHALE Center having worked with WHALE since 1992.   Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Yankton Dakota and Chickasaw First Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human and community development. He was born at the Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1944, where his mother and father met and attended school.

During the past 45 years, he has worked with Indigenous peoples in North, Central and South America, Micronesia, South East Asia, India, Hawaii and Africa. He served 16 years as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (1980-1996). With Elder’s from across North America Phil co-founded the Four Worlds International Institute (FWII) in 1982. FWII became an independent Institute in 1995. As well, Phil is a Director of the Four Directions Corporation, an Indigenous owned company, incorporated in 1996’ as Four World’s economic development arm.