MIRO WEINBERGER, Co-founder – Prior to co-founding the Hartland Group, Miro served as the Greyston Foundation's Vice President for Capital Projects. During his four years at Greyston the organization developed over $20 million worth of affordable housing and community development projects. Miro was also responsible for supervising the management of 10 buildings, containing 175 units of affordable housing and over 30,000 square feet of commercial space.

Miro's previous professional roles included working for Habitat for Humanity in rural Georgia and Homestead, Florida, serving as a junior staffer in US Senator Leahy's DC office, working as a campaign staffer for US Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, the Vermont Democratic Party and Gifford Miller, and a stint as a sportswriter for the Boston Globe.

Miro is a member of the Burlington Airport Commission, a Leadership Champlain graduate, and served recently on the Steering Committee for the Vermont Forum on Sprawl's Vermont Neighborhoods Project, and the CREDibility Initiative, an effort led by Vermont State Senators to explore ways to increase state economic development.

Miro was born in Vermont, raised in Hartland, and graduated from Woodstock Union High School. He earned a Masters in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a BA in Environmental Studies and American Studies from Yale University. He now lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Contact: miro@hartlandgroup.biz

CHARLES G. LIEF, Co-founder – Chuck was the first President of the Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, New York, leaving after 11 years to co-found the Hartland Group in 2003. During his tenure, Greyston grew from a small non-profit with a handful of employees into a multi-service community development organization with 180 employees and an annual operating budget of $14 million. From 1992 Greyston created $45 million of affordable housing and community development projects and expanded the Greyston Bakery, a premier national model of social enterprise with annual sales of more than $6 million and a workforce of 75.

Prior to joining Greyston, Chuck served as a managing partner of a Colorado law firm (1977-1983); built, owned and operated an award-winning historic hotel and restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia and wrote two best-selling cookbooks. He was the Chief Operating Officer of Maritime Capital Management, a Halifax-based real estate development, property management and general contracting company (1984-1992).

Chuck is the chair of the board of the Social Enterprise Alliance (www.se-alliance.org), the pre-eminent international association of organizations that advance their social missions through entrepreneurial, non-profit strategies. He is a member of the board and treasurer of the Intervale Foundation which develops farm-and land-based enterprises that generate economic and social opportunity while protecting natural resources. He is a founding trustee of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado having served since 1984. He is a member of the board of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.

Chuck earned a JD from the University Of Colorado School Of Law in 1977 and a BA in sociology from Brandeis University in 1972. He lives in Colchester, Vermont with his wife, Judith, and has two daughters and two grandchildren.

Contact: chuck@hartlandgroup.biz