KIM CHAFFEE, Fundraising Chair

Kim Chaffee’s sales and management consulting prowess was built over many years in the air pollution monitoring instrumentation industry. Leveraging his engineering degrees from both Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley, he won millions of dollars in sales of environmental and process monitoring equipment for smokestack industries, including power, cogeneration, municipal and hazardous waste incineration, cement plants, as well as pulp and paper mills. Mr. Chaffee’s customers included Dominion Energy in Virginia, Duke Energy in North Carolina, Santee Cooper in South Carolina, and Jacksonville Electric in Florida. During his air pollution instrumentation sales management career, he sold most of the US EPA-required Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) to municipal solid waste incineration plants on the East Coast. In the 1980’s, Kim helped Fortune 500 clients navigate the new product development process, showing them how to capitalize on their existing strengths in manufacturing, marketing, R&D, finance and supply chain relationships. Outdoor Industry Entrepreneur Early in his career, Mr. Chaffee’s love of the outdoors led him to be first in the travel industry to bring discounts to college students. His nationwide network of 125 ski areas drew tens of thousands of customers, while his beach vacation venture grew to be one of the largest in the country. A USBI Leader In his current role as USBI Fundraising Chair, Mr. Chaffee is a passionate advocate for innovative strategies to reverse climate change and environmental degradation, and is dedicated to forging a strong future for the non-profit. He has been a lead organizer for two recent USBI national conferences - Biochar & Bioenergy 2019 and Biochar 2018. Mr. Chaffee helped attract hundreds of attendees from all over the world, as well as many corporate sponsors and trade show exhibitors. He has also served as Harvard Club of Virginia president for six years and takes an active role in the Divest Harvard initiative.