President
David Nimkin recently retired from the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) where he
served as the Senior Regional Director for the Southwest Region. NPCA is an advocacy
organization of over one million members and supporters dedicated to the protection of our
national parks, monuments, and heritage sites. His diverse career has included leadership
positions in business, finance, community development, politics as well as conservation. This has
included service as Chief of Staff for Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, formation and
management of a private company, Confluence Associates, which supported sustainable business
development in the western US and Mexico within the forest products, ranching/livestock and
tourism industries. David has served as State Director of the Utah Small Business Development
Centers, President, and CEO for the Corporate Fund for Housing in Los Angeles and as
Executive Director of Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services.
His civic duties include founder and longtime board chair for the Utah Microenterprise Loan
Fund, founder and co-chair of Local First Utah. He was a former board chair and board member
of High Country News, HawkWatch International and Salt Lake City’s Tracy Aviary. He has
also served as a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
Salt Lake City Branch and Vice Chair of the FRB of San Francisco Advisory Council on Small
Business and Agriculture.
David’s educational background includes an MBA from the Yale School of Management, MSW
from the University of Utah and BA from Franklin and Marshall College.