Charles A. "Chuck" Flink is Founder and President of Greenways Incorporated, an environmental planning and landscape architecture company established in 1986 and based in Durham, North Carolina. He is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading greenway planners having completed comprehensive greenway and open space plans for more than 100 communities within 32 States. He has also provided consulting services to clients in Argentina, Canada, Japan and St. Croix, USVI. In 2003, Mr. Flink was elected a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects in recognition of his extraordinary work and achievement in landscape architecture. He was recently named 2006 Outstanding Alumnus of the College of Design at NC State University.

Flink has co-authored two award winning books Greenways. A Guide to Planning, Design and Development, and Trails for the Twenty First Century, Both publications have been cited by the American Planning Association as the "best single reference" on the creation of trails and greenways. Flink has been featured in prominent national and international publications including National Geographic, Landscape Architecture, Walking, American Planning, Rails-to-Trails, Good Housekeeping, Buzzworm Environmental Journal, Southern Living, Business Journal Magazine and American City County. In 2001, Flink received a Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for his involvement with the Grand Canyon Greenway project. In 1995, he received an Environmental Excellence Award from the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration for his work on the Swift Creek Recycled Greenway, the nation's first greenway built from recycled trash. Flink is the recipient of numerous other national, state and local planning and design awards for his work on greenway, open space and trail projects throughout the United States.

Flink has lectured on the planning, design and implementation of greenways at more than 150 national and international conferences since 1986. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University's School of Design and served as an Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture from 1994-1998. He served three consecutive terms as Chairman of the Board for American Trails, Inc. Washington, DC (1989-1992) and as a member of the North Carolina Greenways Advisory Commission, which was established in 1991 by Governor James Martin. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the East Coast Greenway, a 2,800 mile urban greenway that extends from Calis, Maine to Key West, Florida along the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States.