Perk Perkins

Board Candidate
Blackfoot Valley, MT
Perk Perkins was CEO of Orvis from 1992 to 2020, leading its growth from $88 million to $340 million in sales. Starting as a catalog copywriter in 1977, he held various leadership roles, including VP of operations and president of Early Winters. A passionate outdoorsman, he championed Orvis’s conservation commitment, donating 5% of pretax profits. He has served on numerous corporate, conservation, and civic boards, including The Nature Conservancy (former vice chairman), Trout Unlimited, World Wildlife Fund, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Montana Nature Conservancy, and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He currently serves on the board of Weston Theatre in Vermont and advises The Nature Conservancy Caribbean Program and Trout Unlimited’s Coldwater Conservation Fund. A Williams College graduate, he also completed Harvard’s Executive Management Program.