OUR TEAM
EDWARD ERNST
Operations Advising
With a career ranging from commercial horse logging, to pack guiding in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, to custom home building across Montana, Edward Ernst brings a lifetime of strategic insights to the MBM team.
CARSON BROWN
Majority Owner, Founder
Carson Brown grew up on a small, fifth-generation family cattle ranch west of Kalispell, Montana. With a background in economics and finance, he has worked with over a dozen startups in Montana developing business growth and execution strategies. Carson founded MBM with the intentions of bringing Montana's most iconic animal closer to humans' daily lives.
CONNOR DE ANGELIS
Head Ecologist
Connor De Angelis graduated in Forestry with honors from one of the top Forestry programs in the nation. His forestry experience offers a unique insight into herd planning including mapping sufficient grazing lands, understanding local ecosystem implications, and making sure all bison herds are suited with everything they'll need to be happy and healthy.
ANDREW MCMILLIAN
Logistics and Infrastructure
Andrew McMillian, a technical genius with a wide arrangement of engineering experience, brings a unique edge to the MBM team. Andrew primarily works with real estate data to identify the optimal herd introduction areas and strategies. Andrew also oversees the majority of MBM's infrastructure design and building.
ABOUT US
COMPANY FOUNDING
MBM started in 2020 as an experimental venture to determine if there was supporting market demand of bison herd implementations. Our intentions were to work with multiple sectors including real estate sales, property management, and private and community herd introductions.
Fast forward to 2023. When MBM recognized the viability of its developed innovative business models, we got to work creating scalable internal systems and services. We look to grow to the largest bison herd introduction service provider in the US. Despite our growth mindset, our core management team continues to focus on the most important thing: quality of life for the animals we work with.
Montana founded. Montana operated.
MISSION
Our primary mission is to help introduce bison farms and micro-farms across the NW in a way that emulates the landscape and ecology of the West two decades ago, while delivering value to property owners on many fronts. These fronts include property aesthetics, owner engagement, owner nutrition, and owner financial incentives through property tax breaks. By pioneering a method to bring value to property owners while restoring ecological roots, we aim to bring bison across the west one property and one state at a time.
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