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usark leadership committee and/or board of directors.

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im sure this question will go unanswered but gotta ask. ive noticed on usark.org that the list of leadership personal is blank. my question is, who is on Usark's leadership committee and/or board of directors? is Andrew Wyatt the sole proprietor of this LLC company. public records prove that its not a non-profit & that it in fact a LLC company.
 
I believe Ralph Davis, Jeff Ronne, Dan Heinz, and Andrew Wyatt is part of the leadership, but I must admit that I myself am having trouble locating the info I once found on the USARK site. Or maybe the leadership has recently changed, I don't know!

I really don't pay a lot of attention. The big thing is they let us know what is coming down and how best to get our message out to our reps. I have a busy life between the 40 to 50 hours minimum I work every week as my day job, taking care of our reptiles (nite job), planning reptile shows, doing educational events, then topping it off with other things I like to do such as BJJ, TKD, playing with my kid, and maintaining a healthy marriage I don't have all the time to do the research they do and appreciate what they do.
 
Why is USARK always comming under fire ? email Wyatt & ask or Ralph Davis??? they are the only thing we got.I dont know for sure?
 
Check over at KS,there are quite a few wagging "USARK Director" Sig lines
Not sure what it is they direct ,but . . . . . ??
 
Who did you email? Andrew? Maybe Jonathan Brady can advise, did you try contacting him? I know they have public meetings, has anyone gone to the meetings that can advise? Weird that the list isn't showing on the website.

Random internet search I found this:
"There will be an address from Chairman Gary Bagnall <zoomed, he joined in 09, source below*>, the CEO's Report from Andrew Wyatt and a presentation from our lead Washington DC and Florida Consultant, Joan Galvin from the firm of Kelley Drye based in New York City and Washington DC."
http://www.darksidereptiles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6261.0

*http://www.reptilechannel.com/media/reptile-news/2009/06/12/bagnall-zoomed-usark.aspx.pdf

When I recently made a donation I got a thank you email from Ralph Davis. I think Jeff Ronne is also involved?
 
The "Leadership Team" page on USARK's website is just their template with the page title - no content. I don't remember it being like that before, but I can't say with any certainty that there was ever anything else on it.
 
you are correct, it wasn't blank before, so I used the wayback machine and got these, but this is from 2009 so very probably out of date
 

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The USARK website was hacked (pure speculation here but I would assume it would be an animal rights nutjob) a while back and the profiles were all changed. I emailed Andrew about it as soon as I noticed and he thanked me and within minutes the page was blank. It appears that the profiles have not been rebuilt.

I don't know the reasoning behind not rebuilding the profiles on that page but I imagine that "available time" could be one, "lingering code problems from the hack" could be another, "protecting the identity of the BOD's from hackers" could be another.

I'll email Andrew and see if he has any insight.

jb
 
I received an email back from Andrew and he said that they're in the process of redoing the entire site and it should be ready and running in a few weeks.

jb
 
That is correct Jonathan. The new website is almost complete. We are essentially awaiting the final approval before going live.

Fear not folks. The new site looks spectacular and is extremely informative.

Warren
 
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