Craig Denisoff

Vice President

Craig Denisoff is Vice President and founding partner of Westervelt Ecological Services, a national environmental mitigation company, and subsidiary of The Westervelt Company, a 124-year old land resource organization. Denisoff also served as President of the National Mitigation Banking Association in 2007. He was Senior Vice President at Wildlands, Inc., for seven years.

Denisoff has worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California State Legislature, and was Assistant Secretary for the California Resources Agency supervising the State’s nationally-recognized wetland and coastal programs. In his role as Assistant Secretary, he served as a commissioner on the California Coastal Commission, State Coastal Conservancy, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and was the State representative on the Coastal States Organization. Denisoff has consulted on and developed several key guidance documents for California and national mitigation policies.

He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California at San Diego, a Master’s of Public Administration with an emphasis in resources planning from San Francisco State University and has performed postgraduate studies in aquatic ecology at the University of California at Davis. Denisoff has also published several articles on fisheries management, coastal issues, regional wetlands planning, and mitigation and conservation banking.

Craig Denisoff is a recognized national and international expert in the field of habitat and species mitigation banking. In addition to being an expert source in several national press articles, he has consulted with international governments on the establishment of habitat trading programs.

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