Welcome to summer OLT members, The board of directors of Orient Land Trust is excited to announce that Crystal England has been selected as the new Executive Director-Select, taking over when current Executive Director Doug Bishop retires at the end of the year. Crystal worked as part of our front desk team for years before serving as Deputy Director for the last year.

Preparation and planning for our Executive Director's retirement has been a two-year process.

First, the OLT Board of Directors created the Deputy Director position so that the person selected would have time to train, work in a management position, and be prepared to take on the role of Executive Director when the time came.

Second, the board created a job description, posted the Deputy Director position, and accepted applications from around a dozen candidates.

Third, the Governance Committee made recommendations and the board conducted the first round of interviews with eight candidates. Fourth, we had the second round of interviews and finally a third round of interviews with the final two candidates. For these final interviews, the board invited OLT managers to join them and selected Crystal England for the position.

Recently the board posted and interviewed two current OLT employees for the Executive Director position and decided to hire Crystal.

Please join us in congratulating Crystal England on her new position as Executive Director-Select.

Roger D Courtemanche
Chairman of the Board
Orient Land Trust