Paul Thomson | Co-Founder and Executive Director

Paul learned about pangolins in 2007 and has been obsessed ever since. As Executive Director and Co-Founder, Paul oversees strategy and operations of Save Pangolins. In addition, Paul is a director at the Wildlife Conservation Network, where he helped create the Pangolin Crisis Fund and the Lion Recovery Fund, among other programs. Paul is an alum of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders program and now serves on the board. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his canine sidekick, Timber.

Keri Parker | Co-Founder

Keri Parker co-founded Save Pangolins in 2008 and served as Chief Conservation Officer through 2021. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group, where she provides interdisciplinary leadership to the organized-global pangolin conservation community (www.PangolinSG.org). A systems thinker and multifaceted wildlife biologist, she develops and leads initiatives to fill critical gaps in global pangolin conservation and create the conditions necessary for collaborations to succeed. She invests particular emphasis in supporting and encouraging conservationists within the countries where pangolins occur, and fostering peaceful collaboration between diverse stakeholders.

We are grateful for past team members who played a key role in our organization:
- Randy Mazzuca
- Carly Thompson