Foundation Team - Officers and Directors

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. (Cape Buffalo)

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. (Asiatic Buffalo)

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. (Sable)

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. (Bull Moose)

A life-long hunter, Bob Barnette began bowhunting in 2001, and became hopelessly hooked in 2003 when his first bow harvest was a personal best whitetail buck on his family’s ranch in San Saba, Texas. Since then Bob has harvested several dozen deer and over 200 feral hogs with bows. Bob’s passion for archery and bowhunting eventually led him to serve as president of Texans Archery Club in Dallas, and later as president of the Lone Star Bowhunters Association.

Steve Hall has spent 50 years as a bowhunter in Colorado and Texas. His incredible investment in the helping new bowhunters get started on the right foot is wide and deep, including 42 years as a Bowhunter Education Instructor for state wildlife agencies (CO & TX), 38 years as a State/National Bowhunter Ed Administrator (TPWD - 35.5; IHEA - 2.5), 12 years as a board member of the National Bowhunter Education Foundation, 1999 Committee Chair of the first IHEA National Bowhunter Education Standards, 2002 - Award recipient of the NBEF International Bowhunter Education Program Coordinator of the Year, and 2019 - Initiated Ashby Bowhunting Foundation's "12 Factors to Success" into Texas Bowhunter Education Manual and supported four (4) training workshops, statewide, on Arrow Lethality (reduction of wounding in bowhunting).

Jeremy loves hunting the rugged mountains of the western United States. He grew up in a hunting family and was hooked on the pursuit of elk at age 15 when he killed his first 5 point Roosevelt bull on the Oregon Coast. In 2010 he was awarded Backcountry Outdoorsman of the year in recognition of his pursuits. After having trouble with failed opportunities, long recoveries and wound/losses on elk in his early days of archery hunting, he turned his focus to resolving these issues. Resolve them he did. These days big bulls that set foot in his bow range rarely leave it alive. Under the guidance and mentorship of his friends Ed Ashby and Dwight Schuh, Jeremy authored the book "Can't Lose Bowhunting" for which he was awarded Best Outdoor Book of the Year in 2017. His book started as a means to help his fellow bowhunters prevent wounding and losing the animals they hunted.