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The search has begun to replace Save Our Seabirds CEO David Pilston, who plans to retire and leave the position at the end of August. Pilston has been the CEO since 2012.
Pilston took over a struggling organization with deteriorating facilities. He has helped make the center at 1708 Ken Thompson Parkway a high-functioning seabird rehabilitation and release station that rescues about 5,000 birds a year. During his tenure, revenues have tripled, board chair Jim Curtis said in a press release. We ve got a good team in place and we ve come a long way in nine years, Pilston said. We re financially stable now, the facilities are dramatically improved and we have the capital campaign in place. When I joined in 2012, the treasurer of the board told me she thought the place had five months to live. We ve been in the black every year since then.