Darryl Young is the former Executive Director of the Merck Family Fund. Previously, he was the Director of the Summit Foundation’s Sustainable Cities Program and was the General Manager of the public relations practice at Riester, a national advertising, public relations and social marketing firm. Darryl has served as the Director of the California Department of Conservation, a $1.2 billion agency responsible for recycling, open space and farmland preservation, geological hazards including seismic safety, and oil, gas, geothermal and mineral exploration. He has also been a Member of the California Board of Forestry, and served for ten years in the California State Legislature culminating as the Chief Consultant to the Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee. In the non-profit sector, he currently serves on the boards of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the Climate and Energy Funders Group and Reloop Platform. He is a past board member of Story of Stuff, the Funders Network, the TransitCenter Foundation and President of the National Recycling Coalition.