Henry Bierlink, Executive Director, Washington Red Raspberry Commission
David Bell, Executive Director, Wild Blueberry Commission
Doug Buhler, Assoc. Director & Assoc. Dean, Michigan Agriculture. Experiment Station
Bill Cline, NCSU, Southern Region Small Fruit Consortium
Joe DeVerna, Manager, Agricultural Sciences
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc
Jere Downing, Executive Director, Cranberry Institute
Thomas Fretz, Executive Director, NE Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
Ron Fujii, Oregon Strawberry Commission
Anne Geyer, President, North American Strawberry Growers’ Association
Philip Gütt, Administrator, Northwest Center for Small Fruits Research, Oregon Raspberry & Blackberry Commission, Oregon Strawberry Commission
Dr. H. Michael Harrington, Executive Director, Western Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
Shawn Crocker , Executive Director, Florida Strawberry Growers Association
Randy Honcoop, Research Chair, Washington Red Raspberry Commission
Ervin Lineberger, President, North American Bramble Growers’ Association
Nate Nourse, New England Vegetable & Berry Growers Assoc.
Tom Peerbolt, President, Peerbolt Crop Management
Sally Schneider, National Program Leader, Horticulture, Pathogens, & Germplasm, USDA/ARS, Beltsville
Rick Tomlinson, Director of Government Affairs, California Strawberry Commission
Mark Villata, Executive Director, North American Blueberry Council
Debby Wechsler, Executive Secretary & Treasurer, North American Bramble Growers Assocation, Executive Secretary, North Carolina Strawberry Assocation
Eric Young, Executive Director, Southern Regional Assoc. Ag. Exp. Sta. Directors
Support
Tom Bewick, National Program Leader – Hort., USDA/CSREES with the collaboration of ARS through Kim Lewers, ARS Fruit Lab, Beltsville and Wilda Martinez, Director – North Atlantic Area.
Interim Co-directors Henry Bierlink, Anne Geyer
Working Committees
Communications/Workshops
Tom Peerbolt, Chair
Joe DeVerna
Dena Fiacchino
Rick Tomlinson
Debbie Wechsler
Liaison
David Bell, Chair
Henry Bierlink
Ron Fujii
Philip Gütt
Ervin Lineberger
Nate Nourse
Governance
Bill Cline, Chair
Anne Geyer
Debbie Wechsler