ERIC STEVENS - INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Eric Stevens has worked as a leader in the nonprofit sector for over 30 years. He has had his own independent consulting practice, Eric Stevens Consulting, since 2005. He does strategic and business planning, board development and executive coaching with nonprofit leaders and boards.

Prior to consulting, Eric spent more than 25 years leading (and growing) nonprofit organizations in Minnesota as their Executive Director/CEO. For 20 years, he led St. David’s Child Development and Family Services, significantly expanding the organization’s services, staff and budget and successfully completing two capital campaigns. For 6 years, he served as CEO of Courage Center, a rehabilitation and social service facility for people with physical disabilities

More recently, from 2010 to early 2012, Eric served as Development Director of the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, where he helped to significantly expand fundraising revenues.

He also has served on nearly a dozen boards of directors, often taking on leadership roles (e.g. board chair and/or committee chairs).

Eric grew up in New York City, where he attended Queens College, majoring in economics. He then attended the MBA program at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and later earned Master’s Degrees in Early Child Education at Central Washington State University; and Organizational Leadership at the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) while it was at City University of Seattle.

Eric moved to Bainbridge Island in 2006 with his wife Caroline, who is a hospice nurse in Seattle.

  STEVE GRAHAM - FINANCE DIRECTOR

Steve Graham joined KHS in October 2010. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Administration. He later became a certified public accountant. He worked as the controller of car dealerships for more than 10 years. He also attended law school at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore. While working on a certificate in federal taxation, he helped start the Animal Law journal.

He is a founding member of the Washington State Bar Association’s Animal Law Section. After law school, he worked in the forensic accounting department of a CPA firm and became a certified fraud examiner. For the next six years he worked as a tax attorney specializing in the Alternative Minimum Tax resulting from stock options.