Our Team

Carter is recently retired as President and Managing Director of Shiels Obletz Johnsen, Inc., a Portland-based project management and development consulting firm. In addition to managing the practice, he spends his time on project management, design management, and development and financing strategy for complex mixed-use, residential, commercial, and civic projects for public, private and not-for-profit clients. Carter has been involved in the management of the design and construction of many landmark Portland projects.

Mr. MacNichol is active in the community and currently serves on the boards including Transition Projects, Western Rivers Conservancy, Oregon for Climate Action, and Oregon Business for Climate.

Jesse Beason is Northwest Health Foundation’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He leads the Foundation in pursuit of its vision of health for everyone in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Before becoming President in 2019, Jesse served as the foundation’s Vice President of Strategy & Public Affairs. He has also served, among other roles, as Executive Director of Proud Ground and a Senior Policy Director for then-Commissioner Sam Adams. Jesse keeps saying yes to serving on boards – too many, really. It’s a dangerous habit. He moved from Denver, Colorado to Portland to attend Lewis & Clark College two decades ago. Jesse is a proud guncle, a semi-closeted sci-fi geek and a middling beekeeper.

Tim brings over 30 years of management and senior leadership experience to his work at Oregon for Climate Action, working across multiple functions (manufacturing and operations, marketing, sales, and general management), in sectors ranging from low-tech manufacturing, to high-tech (Intel), to internet businesses. After 15 years in the for-profit sector, Tim opted to make a more direct impact in sustainability, energy and climate – providing strategic consulting for over 30 clean-tech companies, non-profits, and agencies, along with launching his own clean-tech start-up in the transportation sector. For 8 years he co-ran and ran one of the nation’s leading non-profit residential energy efficiency retrofit programs, Enhabit, helping create equitable clean energy jobs, support contractors, and advance policies while improving 5,000 homes in Oregon.

Tim’s view of the role of business, and its importance in addressing climate change, has roots in his formal background, an economics degree and an MBA, both with honors, from Stanford University. He also serves on the Board (previously as Board President) of Climate Solutions, the leading climate-focused policy organization in the Northwest, and on the Board of Forth, one of the nation’s leading non-profits accelerating transportation electrification.

Ebony‘s background is in community engagement, community advocacy, and sales. She graduated from the UNLV (University of Las Vegas, Nevada) with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications. She has over six years of board leadership with the Portland Rose Festival, two years with Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and a year with PGE’s Community Advisory Board (CBIAG) focused on DEI, youth mentorship, and the improvement of community assistance accessibility. Other previous and current non-profit advocacy and partner engagement work includes serving as Program Sales Engagement Specialist at OMSI and as Community Engagement and Inclusion Manager at Metropolitan Family Service.

As an Oregon native and having grown up in Northeast Portland, Ebony seeks to use her shared history with community and pair it with the skills and experience gained through multiple community engagement endeavors to uplift and empower marginalized and displaced Portlanders to dismantle the constrains of social inequities and poverty. Understanding that individuals from these communities are the most impacted by climate change, is the driving force behind Ebony’s work.