Board of Directors

Biography

Ed joined the Save Barnegat Bay board in 2020 and currently serves as Board Chair since being first elected to that position in July 2022.  A lifelong resident of the shore area, Ed developed a love of sailing and other watersports on Barnegat Bay from a very early age.  That love of the water led to a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Webb Institute and a distinguished career in the Marine and Aerospace industries, most recently as Technical Director at Safran Aerosystems Evacuation (formerly Air Cruisers Company) in Wall NJ, from which Ed retired in 2019.  Ed is a past Commodore of both the Seaside Park Yacht Club and the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association, experiences all of which blend very well with his passion for environmental preservation and Save Barnegat Bay’s mission.  Ed and his wife Beverley currently live on a small farm in New Egypt (Plumsted Twp) at the western edge of the Barnegat Bay watershed, with summers spent on their boat which they keep in Seaside Park.

Biography

Andrew Bess is a Managing Director at TrueNorth Capital Partners. He has worked on a broad array of strategic advisory and corporate finance transactions over the past 20 years, and has a particular interest in Smart Cities and urban mobility transactions. He previously established Palmer Capital Advisors, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, on behalf of a New York-based private equity firm. Prior to Palmer, he was a founder and managing director at Daroth Capital Advisors, a boutique investment bank. Andrew previously worked as an investment banker with both Wasserstein Perella & Co. and Ernst & Young. He holds a BA from Colby College and an MBA from Columbia University. Andy has spent his life visiting the shore with his family and is passionate about helping Save Barnegat Bay grow.

Mary Judge retired from the Barnegat Bay Partnership (one of the country's 28 National Estuary Programs) in 2017.  She is the long-time chair of her town's Environmental Committee and a co-leader of the Jersey Shore Native Plant Society, which she helped form to provide post-Hurricane-Sandy homeowners resources to restore their landscaping in a more Bay-friendly manner.  She was born and raised in Madison, New Jersey, graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in English Literature, and enjoyed exploring the western part of the country for 20+ years before returning to New Jersey and putting down roots in Island Heights.

An avid outdoorsman, captain, and journalist, Karl is an International Representative of the International Game Fish Association, Committee Chair of IGFA North American Council Rules and Recognition, Co-Chair of the Legendary Captains & Crew Award Committee of IGFA, serves as a Board Member of Save Barnegat Bay, member The Billfish Foundation and the Barnegat Bayman’s Museum Tuckerton Seaport. When not writing or consulting, Anderson is a yacht broker for Merritt’s Boat & Engine Works-builders of the finest custom sportfish yachts available today. He also captains and manages several custom sportfishing yachts to some of the world’s finest sportfishing destinations with thousands of billfish and tuna releases to his credit.

Karen Argenti is an advocate for clean water, social equality and a transparent public participation process. She has a background in administration, municipal governance, politics, environment, and community participation. In addition to her Masters of Public Administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, she has a BA from Lehman College. She was employed by Council President Carol Bellamy in the Office of the Ombudsman, the Bronx Democratic County Committee, New York State Senator Jeffrey Korman, and New York City Council Member Lucy Cruz. Later. She consulted on political and environmental campaigns, including as consultant for the Gaia Institute, building Green Roofs and Enhanced Tree Pits. 

As a community leader, she was Chairperson of her local Community Board for ten years. She founded and served on the board of the Fort Independence Park Neighborhood Association, the Friends of Jerome Park Reservoir, and the Jerome Park Conservancy. She was the Democratic candidate in 1992 for New York State Senate; and was the first woman to serve on the Bronx Democratic Party at the high-ranking office of Secretary.  

As a civic leader she saved her neighborhood and the Jerome Park Reservoir from becoming the site for the Croton Water Treatment Plant. In that effort, she organized community and upstate watershed stakeholders to demand the New York City Department of Environmental Protection look at other alternatives. 

In the drinking water watershed, she advocated for extra protection as a member of the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) Advisory Committee, which was set up as a result of negotiations with the NYS Department of Transportation’s Route 120 Environmental Impact Statement Project to establish a state-of-the-art stormwater practice plan to protect the Kensico Reservoir drinking water. 

Currently retired, she serves on the not-for-profit Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) Board of Directors as Secretary. She is also a community member on Bronx Community Board 8’s Environment and Sanitation Committee, where she chairs the Water Working Group focusing on using Green Infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of severe stormwater flooding in the Bronx part of the Tibbetts Brook Watershed.  

She served on the Board of Directors of Save Barnegat Bay for several years and took a break.  She is a member of the Manchester Environmental Commission as Vice Chair.

Nick is a student at Stockton University studying Environmental Science with a concentration in soil science and hydrology. Nick is a licensed maritime captain who runs the Bayview Harbor Sunset Cruise and Kayak Ecology Tours programs, works as a nursery manager, oyster farmer, and shucker for the Barnegat Oyster Collective, is the First Mate of the Lady Grace Yacht, and interns with ReClam the Bay. Nick has spent the past three years with the Save Barnegat Bay Student Grant Program as a grant recipient for his research on shellfish and is now proud to be a part of the Save Barnegat Bay Board of Directors.

Rob Mulloy is a Professional Engineer (PE), Professional Planner (PP) and a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM).  He has lived in Seaside Park for the vast majority of his life and Barnegat Bay has shaped his life from the start.  With over 40 years of practicing Engineering, he has gained extensive experience in designing and constructing hundreds of water quality, stormwater and flood control projects in the Barnegat Bay watershed.  Besides a strong background relating to water, Rob has had the design, maintenance and construction management responsibility for the 600 plus miles of Ocean County owned roadways, dams, bridges and the joint review responsibility of the hundreds of development applications submitted to the Ocean County Planning Board each year.  Earlier work experience in the design and remediation of landfills and the remediation of EPA Superfund sites has contributed to his quest of improvement to water quality.  Rob currently serves on the Seaside Park Bayfront Advisory Committee and is an active member of the Seaside Park Yacht Club.  He also served on the Seaside Park Zoning Board of Adjustment for many years. Rob continues to boat, sail and race on Barnegat Bay and when not on the Bay, he enjoys other water activities of surfing and snow skiing.

Forrest Jennings is a recent graduate of Stockton University having earned three degrees in Marine Science, Environmental Science, and Biology, and having served as a Co-director of the SAVE Club, holding many events to champion for the environment. He has always been fascinated by nature and the local Barnegat Bay and Pinelands ecosystems, and when he is not working likes to be outdoors hiking, kayaking, or geocaching with his friends. Forrest started working with Save Barnegat Bay as the Jellyfish Education Intern in 2023, and afterwards conducted two GIS projects for the organization, mapping the sub-watersheds leading to the bay. He is currently employed as the Barnegat Bay Watershed Ambassador with the NJDEP, and hopes to use this position to teach local people about the importance of our bay and its watershed and conduct research about the day. He hopes to use the knowledge and experience he has gained as an emerging environmental scientist and marine biologist to be an asset to the Save Barnegat Bay Board of Directors.

When not working, Ed is an avid sailor, skier, and fisherman, vacationing in Florida and Vermont. He is also an active member of Mantoloking Yacht Club and Manasquan River Golf Club. In addition, he also gives his time as a volunteer and board member of Save Barnegat Bay (NJ), a volunteer for the Mt. Washington Observatory (NH), and a consultant to the Mantoloking Environmental Commission. Ed is also a member of the Point Pleasant Beach Rotary, and the Bay Head Business Association.

Joe Rizzo is an avid shellfish fisherman and lover of Barnegat Bay. A full-time bayman, Joe has worked on Barnegat Bay since childhood, harvesting clams, tending crab and eel pots, guiding waterfowl hunts and chasing down local sportfish like summer flounder, weakfish, bluefish, and striped bass. He is also a long-serving member of the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council. Joe is based in the southern part of the county and Watershed, calling Mayetta home.

Dr. Amy M. Williams, a resident of Long Beach Island, is a science teacher and research advisor at the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science.  She received her B.S. in Natural Resource Management at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, her MS and PhD in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management in coastal ecology at Texas A&M University, College Station, and has worked on living shorelines and environmental outreach as a post-doc assistant in the Coastal Engineering Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology.  One project she worked on produced the manual Building Ecological Solutions of Coastal Community Hazards through the NJDEP.  As the Ecosystem Extension Agent for NJ Sea Grant Consortium, she co-authored the Dune Manual on how to help manage one of the Jersey Shore's critical defense structures to coastal disasters.  She is currently involved in her community through her participation with organizations such as New Jersey Organizing Project, Alliance for a Living Ocean, The Lighthouse International Film Festival and Save Barnegat Bay.  Her hobbies include scuba diving, paddleboarding, going to concerts and playing with her three dogs.

Willie deCamp has been the longest standing president of Save Barnegat Bay, holding the title for 36 years. He enjoys sailing, kayaking, and walking in the woods. Willie's passion for protecting the Barnegat Bay ecosystem stems from his family's longtime love of the sport of sailing and of hiking natural areas. Willie grew up summering at the shore and currently lives year-round in Mantoloking. He was educated in Rhode Island.