MIRO WEINBERGER, Co-founder and partner - Miro focuses on design and financing elements of Hartland's real estate development efforts.

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 of affordable housing and community development projects. Miro also supervised the management of 10 buildings, containing 175 units of affordable housing and over 30,000 square feet of commercial space.

Previously, Miro worked for Habitat for Humanity in rural Georgia and Florida, and served on the staffs of US Senator Leahy, US Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, and the Vermont Democratic Party. He also worked a stint as a sportswriter for the Boston Globe.

Miro is a member of the Burlington Airport Commission and a Leadership Champlain graduate. He served on the Steering Committee for the Vermont Forum on Sprawl's Vermont Neighborhoods Project and the Burlington Mayor's Advisory Group for the redevelopment of the Moran Plant.

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 with his wife and daughter.

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 a member of the board and Treasurer of the Intervale Center, which develops farm and land-based businesses that generate economic and social opportunity (www.intervale.org), the vice chair of the board of the Vermont Community Loan Fund (www.vclf.org) and the past 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 founding trustee of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado having served since 1984.

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

JUSTIN DEXTRADEUR, Project Manager - Justin has been with the Hartland Group since August 2006, before which he spent five years as the Development Project Manager for Cathedral Square Corporation, Vermont's largest non-profit provider of affordable senior and special needs housing.

He is currently Chair of the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, where he has served as the county's at-large Socioeconomic-Housing representative since 2005. He also chairs the Plan Review and Update Committee, which is responsible for drafting the Regional Plan and reviewing municipal plans for RPC approval.

His prior work experience in Vermont includes affordable housing research and outreach for the UVM/HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center, conducting sewer capacity and build-out analyses and mapping for the Town of Williston, mapping for the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service, and researching preferential open land taxation programs for Forest Watch.

Originally from Connecticut, Justin received a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Connecticut, where he developed land cover mapping for a 90 square-mile watershed and adapted it for use in non-point source pollution modeling through an individualized program of study as University Scholar. He earned his Masters in Natural Resource Planning at the University of Vermont, researching residential development patterns and preferences in Chittenden County.

Justin and his wife Jen live in Burlington, Vermont with their dog, Gus.

DAVID DIAMOND, Asst. Project Mgr - Dave joined the Hartland Group in May 2008. Born and raised in the NYC area, he graduated from the University of Vermont in 2000. He spent several years in the medical field as an insurance billing consultant, and is currently enrolled in the MBA program at UVM's Kalkin School of Business. Dave is also an accomplished guitarist, having performed all across the country on several national tours with various jazz, rock, and funk ensembles.