CLG's staff has many years of experience in conservation real estate and has completed transactions involving over 100,000 acres valued at more than $200 million. In addition to our staff, CLG utilizes a highly skilled network of partners and contractors on its projects including appraisers, attorneys, biologists, GIS specialists, local brokers and others.

KEVIN KNOWLES
CLG’s founder, Kevin Knowles, has worked in the conservation real estate field exclusively since 1989. A licensed California real estate broker, Kevin has extensive experience negotiating, managing and closing complex land and conservation easement projects on behalf of both buyers and sellers. Prior to founding CLG, Kevin was a Project Manager with The Trust for Public Land in San Francisco.

Kevin’s real estate experience also includes commercial brokerage and residential development work for Coldwell Banker Commercial and Signature Properties, respectively. He received a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University in 1987. Kevin is a California native and avid outdoors enthusiast.

ED CAMPANIELLO
Ed Campaniello is a licensed real estate professional with over 8 years of experience in conservation real estate. Ed has significant experience in both the acquisition of resource properties as well in their sale to public agencies and conservation groups. Prior to joining CLG, Ed was a Senior Project Manager with the Peninsula Open Space Trust, one of the nation’s leading land trusts.

Ed is also an accomplished entrepreneur, having succcessfully developed and sold an environmental information management business to Ecos Technologies in 2001. He began his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley where he focused on financing real estate projects. Ed has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.