Mike Wetter is a founder and Executive Director of The Intertwine Alliance, where he leads a coalition of more than 100 of the most prominent public, private and nonprofit organizations working on parks, trails and natural areas in the Portland-Vancouver area. Mike’s work is to create a movement powerful enough to change investment paradigms so that nature is integrated more deeply into the fabric of the metropolitan region, creating economic, transportation, health, educational and environmental benefits for the region and its residents. Mike previously was chief of Staff to Metro Council President David Bragdon, and spent 13 years as a management consultant creating and managing organization development and business strategies.