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Dart selected as new CEO of Elk Foundation
MISSOULA, Mont.-Peter J. Dart has been selected as the new president and CEO
of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. After an extensive screening process,
telephone interviews, written questions, presentations before staff and key
volunteers, and multiple personal interviews, the conservation
organization's board of directors formally offered the position, and Dart
accepted, on Monday.
The hiring brings to conclusion a four-month search that attracted a pool of
more than 250 applicants.
Dart will report for work at the Elk Foundation on May 31.
"We are very pleased to welcome (Peter) J. Dart and his family to the Elk
Foundation," said Tom Baker, a Bowling Green, Ky., businessman who serves as
the Elk Foundation's board chairman. "We are confident in his abilities to
lead our great organization into a new era of ensuring the future of elk,
other wildlife and their habitat."
A reception for Dart is being planned for May 14, the Elk Foundation's 19th
Anniversary, at the organization's headquarters in Missoula.
Dart is an avid conservationist, hunter and outdoors enthusiast. He is a
life member and longtime supporter of the Elk Foundation.
"I've watched the growth and mission successes of the Elk Foundation for
many years, and I've been so impressed by its accomplishments. I welcome the
opportunity to help lead this organization-its board, volunteers and
staff-to new achievements in elk habitat conservation," said Dart, who lives
in Tucson, Ariz. "And my family and I are trilled to move to Missoula and
get to know the community," he added.
Dart has been a recognized leader in the shooting sports and hunting
industry for the past 17 years. His new position with the Elk Foundation
ends his tenure as executive director of the Safari Club International and
SCI Foundation, a position he held since 2001. While at Safari Club, he and
his team repositioned that organization as a leader in protecting freedoms
to hunt worldwide, established a charitable giving program that exceeded
financial expectations, engaged corporate sponsors, achieved record income
at the organization's annual convention in 2003, and balanced a budget
deficit of $2.8 million.
From 1990 to 2001, he was president of Dart International Inc., a company
that invented and produced interactive video target systems for use in
various aspects of the shooting sports industry including hunter's
education. Dart has served on the boards of the Archery Manufacturers and
Merchants Association and the industry advisory board for the International
Hunter Education Association. He currently serves on the board of the
Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in Washington D.C.
"We've got a real winner in J. Dart, and I'm thrilled with his selection,"
said Bob Munson of Polson, one of the Elk Foundation's founders as well as
its first CEO and still an honorary member of the board. "Our search process
was exhaustive and J. rose to the top. I'm convinced that he brings the
passion and leadership necessary to move us to a new level of mission
accomplishment."
Working together in an ambitious campaign called "Pass It On," members,
volunteers, and supporters of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are
conserving elk country at a pace exceeding 1½ square miles per day. Their
organizational goal is to reach 5 million total acres-an area more than
double the size of Yellowstone National Park-in 2005. Emphasizing permanent
land protection and habitat stewardship, the Elk Foundation's
state-of-the-art mapping technology focuses the work in crucial elk winter
range, summer range, migration corridors and calving grounds. To help us
"pass on" an elk country legacy for future generations, visit
www.elkfoundation.org or call 800-CALL ELK.
MISSOULA, Mont.-Peter J. Dart has been selected as the new president and CEO
of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. After an extensive screening process,
telephone interviews, written questions, presentations before staff and key
volunteers, and multiple personal interviews, the conservation
organization's board of directors formally offered the position, and Dart
accepted, on Monday.
The hiring brings to conclusion a four-month search that attracted a pool of
more than 250 applicants.
Dart will report for work at the Elk Foundation on May 31.
"We are very pleased to welcome (Peter) J. Dart and his family to the Elk
Foundation," said Tom Baker, a Bowling Green, Ky., businessman who serves as
the Elk Foundation's board chairman. "We are confident in his abilities to
lead our great organization into a new era of ensuring the future of elk,
other wildlife and their habitat."
A reception for Dart is being planned for May 14, the Elk Foundation's 19th
Anniversary, at the organization's headquarters in Missoula.
Dart is an avid conservationist, hunter and outdoors enthusiast. He is a
life member and longtime supporter of the Elk Foundation.
"I've watched the growth and mission successes of the Elk Foundation for
many years, and I've been so impressed by its accomplishments. I welcome the
opportunity to help lead this organization-its board, volunteers and
staff-to new achievements in elk habitat conservation," said Dart, who lives
in Tucson, Ariz. "And my family and I are trilled to move to Missoula and
get to know the community," he added.
Dart has been a recognized leader in the shooting sports and hunting
industry for the past 17 years. His new position with the Elk Foundation
ends his tenure as executive director of the Safari Club International and
SCI Foundation, a position he held since 2001. While at Safari Club, he and
his team repositioned that organization as a leader in protecting freedoms
to hunt worldwide, established a charitable giving program that exceeded
financial expectations, engaged corporate sponsors, achieved record income
at the organization's annual convention in 2003, and balanced a budget
deficit of $2.8 million.
From 1990 to 2001, he was president of Dart International Inc., a company
that invented and produced interactive video target systems for use in
various aspects of the shooting sports industry including hunter's
education. Dart has served on the boards of the Archery Manufacturers and
Merchants Association and the industry advisory board for the International
Hunter Education Association. He currently serves on the board of the
Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in Washington D.C.
"We've got a real winner in J. Dart, and I'm thrilled with his selection,"
said Bob Munson of Polson, one of the Elk Foundation's founders as well as
its first CEO and still an honorary member of the board. "Our search process
was exhaustive and J. rose to the top. I'm convinced that he brings the
passion and leadership necessary to move us to a new level of mission
accomplishment."
Working together in an ambitious campaign called "Pass It On," members,
volunteers, and supporters of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation are
conserving elk country at a pace exceeding 1½ square miles per day. Their
organizational goal is to reach 5 million total acres-an area more than
double the size of Yellowstone National Park-in 2005. Emphasizing permanent
land protection and habitat stewardship, the Elk Foundation's
state-of-the-art mapping technology focuses the work in crucial elk winter
range, summer range, migration corridors and calving grounds. To help us
"pass on" an elk country legacy for future generations, visit
www.elkfoundation.org or call 800-CALL ELK.
