Steve Schuler

Steve lives in Baltimore and is the founder and Chair of the board of WILD. His lifelong immersion in the wonders of our natural world has provided the stimulus for creating the nonprofit and offering similar experiences and opportunity to others who have not been afforded the same treasures.

Steve is a boardmember and Treasurer of the National Park Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving our national parklands and providing educational programs to youths to create park stewards for tomorrow. His work at the Park Trust was instrumental in his quest to visit all 63 of our National Parks (as of spring 2023 he is up to 40). "My journey accelerated in the summer of 2019, when I spent four weeks traveling to 9 National Parks, by campervan, in seven states and covering 4,000 miles. My first stop, of course, was Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, in honor of the one American who has done more to preserve natural lands in the US than anyone else."

Steve is a Managing Director and chair of the Philanthropy Committee of The Colony Group. As a member of Colony’s Investment Committee, he is an integral contributor to the research efforts and selection of external managers, proprietary strategies and asset allocation models for client portfolios. He also is a Senior Wealth Advisor for a select group of clients. He is also on the investment committee for Old St. Paul's Church in Baltimore, MD.

Steve earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Hobart College in Geneva, New York. He is also a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Melissa Price

Gordon Jones

Mary Zlotowitz

Charlie Sturgis

David Howard is a Senior Vice President – Institutional Business Development at First Trust Advisors specializing in Alternative Investments, Separately Managed Accounts, and Exchange Traded Funds, joining the firm in 2014. David started his career in the investment management industry in 2012 with Merrill Lynch after a career playing in the NFL.

He is a board member of WILD and a member of the Education and Leadership committee. David has always been passionate about helping youth aspire to, and realize their greatest potential. David has a firm belief that exposing youth to new, exciting, and challenging environments in nature can do wonders for personal development. David was born and raised in Columbia, MD, and now lives in Bethesda, MD with his wife, son and soon-to-be daughter. He enjoys hiking, golfing, and diving in his spare time.

David graduated from Brown University in 2010 with a degree in Business Economics.

Mary Zlotowitz is a seasoned financial professional and certified public accountant, with many years of corporate work experience in the Baltimore area. Today she works with nonprofits in a financial capacity. Mary is a board member and treasurer of the Foundation for Facial Recovery, a nonprofit that focuses on educating the public about the various facial palsy causes and treatments. She is also an active member of The Women’s Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and assists the Board with financial and accounting matters.
Mary began her career working for Coopers & Lybrand, a “Big 8” public accounting firm.
She then joined The Hunter Group, an emerging Human Resources Information Systems
company where she was CFO, Treasurer, and a Board member. Next up was a role as Chief Administrative Officer for USinternetworking, Inc. a publicly-held company that served as an application service provider that managed and hosted the Financial and Human Resource software for companies. Mary’s last role was as a CPA in a local tax services company for high-net-worth clients, Neuman & Associates, LLC.
Mary lives in Baltimore with her husband Howard, where she enjoys traveling and hosting dinners for family and friends, along with her work in the nonprofits in which she wholeheartedly believes it makes a positive difference in people’s lives. Mary believes WILD is an organization that functions as a catalyst for helping young people expand their
Horizons.
She is a graduate of Penn State University with a degree in accounting.

Melissa currently resides in Brentwood, Tennessee with her husband Jon and has two children and three, soon to be four grandchildren. She recently retired from the U.S. Navy, where she managed working capital funds of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) at the Indian Head, Maryland base. Melissa is passionate about giving youth the opportunity and the tools to set and achieve goals, pursue their passions and discover their inner-strengths. 

Over the past several years, she helped start a leadership program at an independent Catholic school in Baltimore, MD. Melissa is the chair of WILD’s Education Committee. She has been active over the years with the Alzheimer’s Association of Central MD, Cool Kids Campaign, and more recently with the IDEA Campaign at Currey Ingram Academy. 

Melissa received her finance degree from University of North Alabama in Florence, AL.

Charlie Sturgis left Chicago for Utah in 1975, attended the University of Utah and graduated with a degree in Political Science. During a very long gap year, Charlie became seriously involved with outdoor recreation, expanding his adventuring horizon to include backcountry skiing, river running, mountain biking and rock climbing. These skills led to adventuring in many parts of the world including Alaska, Peru, Europe, and Greece. He worked at Snowbird, Mountaineer Sports, and Wasatch Touring.

In 1985 Charlie and his wife Kathy moved to Park City, Utah to own and operate White Pine Touring, a human powered sport facility offering retail, guiding, and education for climbing, mountain biking, and backcountry skiing. Charlie co-founded the Mountain Trails Foundation in 1992 and after selling White Pine, and became the Executive Director for this well known Park City nonprofit. Today, Charlie is retired and still pursuing climbing, skiing and advocating for outdoor recreation. He is a board member of WILD and a member of the Education and Leadership committee. Charlie lives in Park City with his wife Cathy.

Kevin joined Edgewood in 1995 as a Partner after nine years as an institutional salesman for Credit Suisse First Boston and is a member of Edgewood's Investment Committee. He worked for First Boston in London, New York and Boston covering institutional accounts in the U.K., U.S., Australia and New Zealand, Robert Fleming Ltd. as a North American equities analyst and junior portfolio manager. Kevin is a graduate of Montana State University with a BS degree in Economics and Pre-Law. He is currently on the board of the New Canaan Public Library, the National Park Trust, and on the Board of Trustees at the University of Richmond. He serves on the Educational and Finance committees with WILD and enjoys hunting and fishing in outdoor recreation. 

David Howard

Our Board Of Directors

Gordon Jones is the owner of Coldwell Banker Seaside Realty with extensive experience managing vacation rentals and real estate development on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. 

He has served on the boards of the local association of Realtors as well as a local community development council focused on bringing affordable housing opportunities to his community and currently acts as the Secretary of WILD as well as the chair of the governance committee. Gordon enjoys many outdoor activities including fishing, hunting, hiking, paddle boarding and gardening in his free time. He lives in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with his wife Helen, near his son Brennan and daughter Chelsea and their families.

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Gordon received a BA at the University of Virginia and then settled in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.