In 1993, he left the New Hampshire Audubon to work on global conservation issues in Costa Rica. There he worked to start a business using local labor to harvest the valuable hardwoods that routinely fall in the region due to rainfall without degrading the land for local artisans and the timber trade.

He returned to the US where he worked for the Massachusetts Audubon on a $10 Million effort to redevelop a portion of an abandoned state hospital site in Mattapan. He also oversaw the development of a seventy-acre nature education facility for low income youth.

Andy grew up in Sharon, MA and developed a natural affinity for the outdoors from family trips to the beach and from hiking, snowshoeing, and camping in New England's mountains and forests. Andy is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Business School. He worked at Lincoln Electric after his MBA where he realized that he needed to devote more time for his interests and commitment to the environment. He serves as a volunteer pilot for several conservation organizations.