Bill Hayse

Board Secretary

Bill Hayes grew up in Houston, and he and his wife, Mary, were first introduced to Jackson Hole in the mid-1990s by a good friend who has a second home here. It took another 20 years and record heat in Texas for them to return to this valley and build their home in 2014. Never wanting to leave Jackson Hole, they moved permanently to Wilson in the summer of 2018.

Bill spent the last 40 years as an oil and gas lawyer, the majority of which was in the international energy industry, with transactional work from Bolivia to Bangladesh. This included moving his whole family to Cairo and later living in London and Dallas with Mary. After stepping aside as General Counsel at a public oil and gas company focused on West Africa, Bill managed and later consulted on the company’s environmental and social development initiatives in Morocco, Ghana, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea, among other countries. He and others in the company worked with various governments to provide materials and other forms of assistance to fishing villages, a women’s seaweed farming co-op, education, public hygiene, potable water development, and agricultural enhancement.

Bill semi-retired in 2020. Since then, he has been active in Jackson Hole with the wildlife safety on Highway 390 and as a member of The Nature Conservancy’s JH Advisory Board. Bill is involved in land and water preservation and conservation in Texas, where he is a trustee of The Nature Conservancy in Texas. Mary is a trustee of The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming. They are exhilarated by the majesty of the open spaces teeming with wildlife in Jackson Hole and the surrounding areas. Yet, the long-term survival of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is an issue that requires urgent

attention and, importantly, Jackson Hole is an integral piece of this unparalleled system.