Mark Laska is one of the United States foremost authorities on ecological restoration, environmental strategies, wetland mitigation and conservation banking, natural resource damage evaluation and restoration, and is an ecologist and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience. Laska is an environmental industry pioneer, driving innovation on the frontiers of restoration ecology and sustainability. Laska is the Founder (2001) of Great Ecology one of the fastest growing environmental consulting businesses in the US. Laska serves on the Board of Directions of the National Mitigation Bank Association. Laska also is co-founder and managing partner at Tellurium Partners, a privately held natural capital investment group that develops and operates habitat and wetland mitigation banks throughout the US. He is an investor, operator, consultant, advisor and evangelist for the “banking” industry