Foundation Team - Officers and Directors
Rob Neilson with Cape Buffalo in Zambia
President - Rob Neilson
Rob Neilson, Co-Founder and President, has been bowhunting for over 40 years covering four continents. Rob is a Life Member of SCI, DSC, HSC, SCI Houston Chapter and numerous other conservation organizations. Rob was on the SCI Houston Chapter Board of Directors for over a decade, and calls himself a lucky bowhunter.
Dr. Ed Ashby and an Asiatic Buffalo taken with a prototype Ashby broadhead
Vice President - Dr. Ed Ashby
Dr. Ed Ashby, a legend in the archery hunting community for dedicating more than 27 years to the study of arrow performance and broadhead lethality on six continents. Thanks to Dr. Ashby and his crew, his Natal Study helped legalize archery hunting in South Africa. Many sub-Saharan countries followed suit. The Natal Study was the definitive document used to successfully lobby for bowhunting legalization.
Rhonda Jones with a Sable
Secretary - Rhonda Jones
Rhonda is an elementary school teacher and has been bowhunting for over twenty years. While a low poundage and short draw shooter, her understanding and application of the Ashby’s studies in her hunting excursions on three continents has made her a very lethal bowhunter on all classifications of game animals hunted.
OT with a Moose
Director - Oscar Taylor
OT has been bowhunting over forty years and has been involved in many conservation organizations, serving as the President of the SCI Houston Chapter, a global Director at Large of SCI, and most recently appointed to the newly formed Urban Outreach Advisory Board within the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The demands of hunting five continents, including dangerous game, OT understands the importance of utilizing the Ashby principles to fit the game he is pursuing. OT’s personal history of ethical bowhunting, participation in bowhunter education, participation in hunting related conservation organizations and the animals he has hunted got him chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Dr. Ed Ashby Bowhunting Award.