Adam Davis

Adam Davis is a strategic advisor to the Ecosystem Marketplace. He also serves as President of Solano Partners, Inc., a consulting firm focused on environmental economics and conservation finance issues. His work at Solano Partners is focused on the development of financial value from conservation and restoration activities on private property, and on economic incentives for environmental outcomes in many other contexts.

In addition to his daily chores, Adam serves as a member of the Advisory Council for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program where he provides training for environmental scientists from across the United States in communications, public speaking, and media presentation. He is also a Collaborating Scientist at the Stanford University Center for Conservation Biology.

Prior to founding Solano Partners, Adam served as Director of the Environment Division for EPRIsolutions, a consulting firm owned by the Electric Power Research Institute. This Division of EPRI develops financial value from land and ecosystem conservation strategies for private sector clients. His team there used the sciences of ecological economics, restoration ecology and conservation biology, combined with decision analysis tools, appraisal methods and tax strategies to enable market based conservation choices.

Adam also co-founded and served as Principal at Natural Strategies, Inc., a management consulting firm working with companies to integrate sustainability principles into business strategy. Core clients included British Petroleum (Solar division), John Hancock Financial Services, Lowe's (home improvement stores), Southern California Edison, Genencor International, and the State of California (Cal EPA). He also served for nearly ten years at Waste Management, Inc., the world's largest recycling and solid waste management company. In that position, he implemented programs to recycle a wide range of materials including tires, motor oil, and construction and demolition debris, as well as more traditional curbside stuff. He conceived and developed collection and marketing systems that now process and recycle over 500,000 tons of green waste each year in the Northern California area. He also managed clean up efforts on Kauai following Hurricane Iniki, and was co-founder of the Council for International Disaster Debris Management.

Adam's work life is sustained by the marriage he has been co-creating with Sara Pearson for 17 years now, and inspired by his daughters Ella and Olivia, now 14 and 9. He's also a pretty serious Giants fan, and just nuts about the family dog, Lola.