Under the direction of executive director Andrea Koehle Jones, The ChariTREE Foundation has the benefit of an experienced board of directors who generously volunteer their time.

Hilda Wood (Toronto, ON) is a non-profit organization expert with on-the-ground experience in various developing countries. She has worked as a manager for various high-profile non-profits including World Vision and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. She and ChariTREE founder Andrea Koehle Jones have travelled to one of Africa’s highest hiv-infected regions to plant fruit trees with children.

Dr. Michael Koehle (Vancouver, BC) is a sports medicine physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and an active researcher in exercise, altitude and diving physiology. He is also a volunteer physician for the Himalayan Rescue Association in Nepal.

John Koehle (Toronto, ON) is a paramedic and computer programmer with an interest in environmental sustainability.

David Jones (Bowen Island, BC) is a CBC journalist. He has worked for a non-profit news agency in Guatemala and helped launch Love Trees powerful international tree planting projects.