Executive Committee

Back Row L to R: Eric Gardner, Chris Servheen, Frank van Manen, Rick Hotaling, Dave Schmid, Jim Unsworth, Scott Talbott, Nora Rasure, Tony Hamilton, Jodi Bush, Chris Smith, Terry Rabot, Paul Frame, Anne Braaten. Front Row L to R: Ken McDonald, Steve Cain, Andrea Lyons, Matt Hogan, Scott Jackson, Tammy Whittington, Ellen Davis, Karen Taylor-Goodrich, Becki Heath, Jack Oelfke, Bob Everitt.

IGBC Executive Committee

The IGBC Memorandum of Understanding and the Committee Charter direct the Executive Committee to provide overall guidance for approved projects as detailed in the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan and associated management decisions. Each year the IGBC Executive Committee meets in the winter in Missoula, Montana and in the summer within one of the grizzly bear recovery ecosystems. Specifically, the Executive Committee takes the following actions during their business meetings:

Implements the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan, and all management and research activities necessary to provide for recovery of the grizzly bear
Directs research and monitoring activities
Makes joint recommendations to Federal and State agency heads
Reviews and approves or disapproves actions proposed by Subcommittees
Make provisions for implementation of approved actions

The chairmanship of the IGBC executive committee rotates every two years.

Back Row L to R: Frank van Manen, Ed Schriever, Ken McDonald, Rick Hotaling, Jim Unsworth, Scott Talbott, Tony Hamilton, Paul Frame, Chris Servheen, Scott Jackson, Joe Alexander Front Row L to R: Gregg Losinski, Matt Hogan, Claudia Regan, Karen Taylor-Goodrich, Ellen Davis, Tammy Whittington, Dave Schmid, Terry Rabot

Matt Hogan, IGBC Chair 2018-2020

Matt Hogan, Deputy Regional Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region

Matt Hogan has been the Deputy Regional Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mountain-Prairie Region in Denver since 2013. Matt joined the Mountain-Prairie Region in 2010, as the Assistant Regional Director for Migratory Birds and State Programs and later as the Regional Refuge Chief.

Prior to working for the Service in Denver, Matt worked for 20 years in the policy arena in Washington DC. During his time in Washington, Matt served as Executive Director of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) from 2006 to 2010, where he worked closely with the 50 state fish and wildlife agencies. Before taking the helm of AFWA, Matt served in several leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Interior including Deputy Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Acting Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service and Acting Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks.

Matt has also worked for a several NGO’s in Washington doing government affairs and policy work. Matt began his career working on Capitol Hill, serving first on the House Armed Services Committee and then on the staff of Congressman Pete Geren (D-TX), where among other things, he oversaw the work of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus.

Ellen Davis, IGBC Executive Coordinator, 2005 – Present

Ellen Davis has held the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) Executive Coordinator position since April 2005. The Executive Coordinator is a U.S. Forest Service position and has been for much of IGBC’s 33 years of existence. Prior to that, the position was with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It is also the only permanent staff position within the IGBC and funded by all the federal IGBC member agencies.

Davis’s Forest Service career has spanned over 27 years with the agency. Davis began her career in the Alaska Region before moving to the Northern Region of the Rocky Mountains in Montana. She held Public Affairs Specialist positions in both regions before becoming the IGBC Executive Coordinator for the IGBC.

She holds an Associate of Arts (AA) Degree with an emphasis in Communications and English from the University of Alaska, Southeast, Ketchikan Campus.