Our Alumni Board

David Hartwell

Board Alumni

David Hartwell is an advisor/board member to/of many businesses, nonprofit organizations and foundations.  Prior to this, he was for 26 years the President of Bellcomb, Inc., a global supplier of composite panels.  He has served on many nonprofit boards, often in leadership positions including the National Audubon (Vice Chair and Treasurer), Belwin Conservancy (Chair) Conservation Minnesota, Land Trust Alliance, Legislative Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (Co-Chair), Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Chair), Minnesota Audubon (Chair) Minnesota Land Trust (Founder and Chair) Minnesota Nature Conservancy (Treasurer) and the Mississippi River Fund (Treasurer).  In 2001 he began to build a coalition of conservation groups that culminated in 2008 with the passage by the voters in Minnesota of a constitutional amendment that will raise an estimated $6 billion dollars for conservation in the next 25 years. He is an avid birdwatcher and gardener.