In 2015, after traveling the world, SoulBuffalo’s founders recognized the urgent need to create systematic change on a global scale. To do that, we brought a broad spectrum of leaders from across the value chain to the table. Our role in all of this: to control the chaos and navigate change through learning, collaboration and action.
Our Team
Dave Ford
Dave Ford is a founder and partner of SoulBuffalo.
He is a meta-connector specializing in bringing together activist and industry leaders around environmental issues. He spearheaded SoulBuffalo’s Ocean Plastics Leadership Summit in May of 2019, which took 165 corporate and NGO leaders into the heart of the Atlantic Garbage Patch, leading to the creation of the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network (OPLN).
During a transformative two years traveling the world, Dave spent ten nights in a hut in the Amazon with no electricity or running water, which deepened his connection to the natural world. He then toured mountains of waste in India and confronted both the world’s (and his own) consumption habits head-on. After watching glaciers collapse into the sea, Dave had found his calling and began his work leading sustainability efforts.
Dave lives with his wife and four-year-old daughter in the Hudson Valley, New York
Jason Throckmorton
Jason Throckmorton is a founder and partner at SoulBuffalo.
He works to galvanize the world’s leading organizations into taking immediate action on the planet’s most significant environmental crises.
Jason is an entrepreneurial marketer and operator with deep experience in public relations, product/service development, social media and content marketing. He believes in deep learning and is passionate about addressing environmental challenges through industry collaboration, education and accelerating action towards scalable solutions.
Jason is based in Marin County, California and spends as much of his time with his wife and three kids exploring the outdoors.
Rick Fiscina
Rick Fisicna is a founder and partner SoulBuffalo.
His first non-suburban confrontation with nature led him to become a rafting guide in Glacier, Montana, driving his deep love of the natural world and a passion to preserve it.
A seasoned entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years of expertise in operational strategy, sales, and finance, Rick was the founder and CEO of ELM Exchange, a multi-disciplinary educational platform operating in the healthcare sector. In 2016, Rick began the SoulBuffalo journey.
Rick believes that fortitude of heart and mind are the center of project success. He is the reality whisperer that is unwilling to work on something that doesn’t help to solve a problem.
Jeanette Nicholson
Jeanette Nicholson is a partner at SoulBuffalo.
As an ardent environmentalist, Jeanette applies her strength of logical, methodical problem-solving techniques to the biggest challenges of our time. “I want my grandchildren to enjoy all of the wonders of our planet and not just read about how nice it was once.”
Jeanette is a performance-driven senior executive with over 35 years of experience operating small and medium businesses in multiple verticals including healthcare, insurance, salon/spa, building and financial industries. Her pivotal role directing the overall operations and management of finance, HR, client services, education and technology teams led to the successful acquisition of a major healthcare platform in 2015.
Jeanette lives with her family in outside Washington, D.C. and spends her free time touring the National Parks of the United States.