Dick Callahan has several decades of experience in the environmental field during which he owned the 200-person Biological Research Associates (BRA) and successor companies. His expertise includes wetland ecology, wildlife biology, resource management, environmental assessment/evaluation, environmental permitting, strategic land planning, and mitigation banking. Most recently he was the Senior Strategic Director for North American Operations for Cardno International and is currently involved in several entrepreneurial projects in the Tampa Bay area. “Callahan” received an appointment to West Point Military Academy and has focused his business career on enriching the land in Florida and throughout the US. He lives on Tampa’s Davis Islands and maintains a summer home on the coast of Maine.