Daniel Patrick (Pat) O'Connell founded Evergreen Capital Advisors, Inc. and serves as its president. Pat O'Connell has spent the last 14 years providing financial advisory services to local governments. A specialty has been financing for farmland and open space preservation. The installment-purchase farmland preservation financing program that he designed for Howard County, MD, was given the GFOA's Award for Excellence in Financial Management, and has been implemented in Harford and Anne Arundel counties, MD; Virginia Beach, VA; Burlington and Mercer counties, NJ; and six Pennsylvania counties.

Prior to his work as financial advisor, Mr. O'Connell served on the board of directors and managed the public finance activities of Butcher & Singer Inc., a Philadelphia-based investment banking firm that was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and which is now a part of Wachovia Securities. He was also associated for three years with the Wall Street investment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs and Co., where he sold fixed-income and equity securities to regional institutions.

Pat O'Connell graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in economics, and received his M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He is an associate member of the Maryland Public Finance Officers Association. Mr. O'Connell serves on the Board of Trustees of Delaware & Raritan Greenway, central New Jersey's regional land trust, and on the National Advisory Council of the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based land conservation organization. He has spoken frequently at national conferences of the Land Trust Alliance and American Farmland Trust on financing land preservation. Contact: pat@evergreenca.com; (609) 279-0068