Board Members
Bruce LeBel - Executive Director
Bruce LeBel’s involvement with relief shelter began when he designed and coordinated a disaster relief shelter project in Guatemala after the 1976 earthquake, with a team from the Mohawk Nation. A year later Bruce became a student of Buckminster Fuller’s in a graduate tutorial program with an emphasis on design science and tensile structures (tensegrity). Bruce went on to become a production engineer and special projects engineer with The North Face - the first manufacturer of tents applying Fuller’s principles of tensegrity.
LeBel has twenty-five years of hands-on management and executive and consulting experience for manufacturing companies. He has led divisions responsible for operations, production, quality, logistics and information systems from tent manufacturing with The North Face to positions in the electronics, medical, and automotive industries. He has also served a range of clients such as IBM, Honeywell and PPG as an independent consultant, providing business systems integration and management consulting.
LeBel is responsible for overseeing the World Shelters organization.