In alphabetical order

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Michelle Bernhart, CSR / Sustainability Strategist and President, True Blue Communications

Michelle Bernhart leads True Blue Communications LLC, which helps organizations in North America and Europe strengthen environmental and social performance, enhance brand, and manage risk through communications. She has 25 years of experience leading strategic communications and engagement, and has helped global companies integrate sustainability, led sustainability reporting, and developed training and outreach for employee engagement. Michelle is a Director on the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Executive Board, chairs the IABC Social Responsibility Committee, is a member of the American Society for Quality Social Responsibility Technical Committee, and is contributing to the global ISO 26000 Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility. She regularly publishes, speaks, and provides training on sustainability communications for national and global audiences.

Leigh Brady, Senior Vice President, Educational Services - North Carolina State Employee's Credit Union

Leigh Brady has worked with State Employees’ Credit Union, a not-for-profit financial cooperative serving 1.5 million members, for over twenty-two years. Passionate about the Credit Union’s “People Helping People” philosophy, she currently holds the position of Senior Vice President - Education Services, overseeing member, employee and volunteer education as well as communications for the nearly $20 billion Credit Union. She has a BA in Accounting from NC State University, a MBA from Meredith College, and has attained the Credit Union Development Educator designation. Mrs. Brady serves as Treasurer of the NC JumpStart Coalition, is on the Board of the NC Council on Economic Education and is Chairman of the NC Credit Union League’s Financial Education Committee, while also a member of numerous other credit union affiliated organizations. She is active in St. Paul’s Christian Church in Raleigh, currently serving as Chairman of Christian Education. Leigh and her husband Chris, a CPA in Apex, NC, have three children – Julian, Emmi & Stewart.

Blake Clifton, Prinicpal, Abundant Power

Blake Clifton is a Principal of Abundant Power Group. Blake has over ten years of private equity, investment banking and renewable energy experience, spanning: transaction diligence and execution, leveraged buyouts and growth equity investments, fundraising, and project development. Blake has experience originating and negotiating renewable energy investments and hands-on portfolio monitoring skills. Prior to joining Abundant Power Group, he worked with the Hastings Climate Leaders Fund, a private equity fund focused on renewable energy generation assets, and prior to that with Intrinergy LLC, a renewable energy project developer. Blake began his career in investment banking with Stephens, Inc. and Thomas Weisel Partners, and then Liberty Partners, a middle-market buyout firm.

Blake holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Arts in English (Concentration in Applied Mathematics) from Davidson College, North Carolina, where he played Division-I tennis. Blake is a “Big Brother” in the Big Brother Big Sister Program and is on the Board of Directors of Street Soccer USA, a non-profit organization that utilizes soccer and community-based programs as vehicles to eradicate homelessness

Peter Curtice, Director Client Solutions, Opower

Pete Curtice is the Director of Client Solutions at OPOWER. Working with some of the largest energy utilities in North America, Pete’s team designs and executes behavioral science based, energy efficiency and Smart Grid programs that provide verified, cost effective peak energy savings to millions of residential customers. Prior to joining OPOWER, Pete spent seven years at SAS Institute helping Fortune 100 clients leverage data mining methodologies to simultaneously increase profitability, customer engagement and product innovation. Pete holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BS from the University of North Carolina. He lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife and three children.

Stu Dalheim, Head of Advocacy and Policy, Calvert Investments

Mr. Dalheim directs the company's shareholder advocacy program, which continues to grow as Calvert engages with more companies through direct dialogue, standard-setting exercises and partnerships as well as shareholder resolutions. Mr. Dalheim has focused on the homebuilding, construction, and natural resource industries, with an emphasis on business practices. He currently serves as Steering Committee Chair of the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee (APP) of the Social Investment Forum. Before joining Calvert in 2000, he worked for Greenpeace USA and American Lands Alliance. He earned a BA in philosophy from Wesleyan University and is a LEED accredited professional.

Agnes Dasewicz, COO, Grassroots Business Fund

Agnes Dasewicz is GBF’s chief operating officer and was in charge of the restructuring from GBI to GBF. Agnes has almost fifteen years of experience investing in businesses, including SMEs and social enterprises, in developing and transitioning economies. Prior to helping establish GBF, Agnes managed GBI’s project portfolio at IFC, which consisted of over fifty global and local organizations offering integrated capacity building and appropriate capital to disadvantaged entrepreneurs in ten developing countries. Before joining IFC, Agnes worked with the Institute for SME Finance and focused on the development of SME risk capital funds in sub-Saharan Africa. (New Paragraph) Prior to her work in the development field, Agnes financed projects ranging from regional telecom companies to leading retail chains, as an investment officer for one of the top private equity funds in Eastern Europe. She holds a B.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University, and an M.B.A. from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Agnes enjoys traveling and so far has visited 48 countries worldwide.

Kristel Dorion, Founder, EnergetixClimate

Founder and principal of EnergetixClimate, a carbon consulting company that helps businesses understand what climate change means to their bottom line. Ms. Kristel Dorion combines GHG and environmental expertise with business knowledge to help realize income from carbon opportunities, among them, carbon offsets. Ms. Dorion has over 10 years experience advising clients on trends, risks and opportunities in the emerging carbon constrained economy. Ms Dorion has created carbon strategies for Bacardi Limited including developing footprint, peer and market analysis. Ms. Dorion’s company, EnergetixClimate, has developed cutting edge GHG offset projects within the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. Her offset project experience includes hydro, geothermal and solar projects and is currently developing demand side energy efficiency stove programs that help bring carbon finance to poor rural communities in Latin America. Ms. Dorion also has experience in GHG offset project verification.

Chisara Ehiemere, Director of Certification, TransFair USA

Chisara joined TransFair in 2006 with international procurement management, supply chain consulting and nonprofit experience. She began her career in strategic sourcing with Toyota Motors, and later transitioned into management and supply chain consulting with Accenture and A.T. Kearney. Her development and nonprofit experience includes working with farmers and weavers through Peace Corps Guatemala. Chisara has a BBA in Marketing from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University.

Michal Edberg, Director of Investments, Microvest

Mr. Edberg joined MicroVest in December 2008 after 13 years at the International Finance Corporation, most recently as a Senior Investment Officer in the Financial Markets Department. Mr. Edberg has particular expertise in structuring equity investments, quasi-equity and corporate finance transactions. Since 2001, he was responsible for leading investment teams developing new investments in micro and small business financial institutions in Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

For the seven years ended December 2008, Mr. Edberg invested US$160 million over 30 assets in 15 countries. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government and International Relations from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Master’s of Business Administration degree in International Business - Finance from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is also CFA charterholder.

Heather Fleming, Founder and CEO, Catapult Design

Heather is CEO and co-founder of Catapult Design, a product and technology firm that serves developing world markets. Catapult Design’s clients are organizations working in impoverished communities with technology needs – including rural electrification, water purification and transport, food security, and health. Before starting Catapult, she worked as a product design consultant in Silicon Valley, designing products for a diverse range of clients. In 2005, she also co-founded and led a volunteer group focused on developing world design through Engineers Without Borders. The team’s work was featured in a variety of media and publications, including Newsweek, WIRED.com, ABC News, and PRI’s The World. Heather was named a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow for her work with Engineers Without Borders and Catapult Design, a program aimed at high-potential young leaders with new approaches for transformational impact. Heather also lectures at Stanford University, teaching Design for Sustainability in the Mechanical Engineering department.

Neal Gottlieb, Founder, Three Twins Ice Cream

Neal Gottlieb, Founded Twin,Three Twins Ice Cream (www.threetwinsicecream.com) after graduating from Cornell University, starting his career at Gap Inc. and later joining Peace Corps Morocco, Neal was looking for a way to combine his do-gooder side with his dirty capitalist side. He started Three Twins Ice Cream with the goal of making inconceivably delicious organic ice cream produced in a sustainable manner accessible to the masses. Three Twins Ice Cream's first store opened in the last week of summer in 2005 with no employees and Neal holding the dual roles of CEO and Head Janitor. The company now consists of three stores, a thriving wholesale business and thirty employees, including Neal's parents, formerly of The Bank of Mom and Dad, which helped to fund the company's early growth. Three Twins Ice Cream has raised nearly $2 million from angel investors to open the world's largest dedicated organic ice cream factory, which he would be busy opening if he wasn't here with you. The new factory will enable Three Twins to increase its production capacity 10-fold, while decreasing the cost of its pints by over 70% as Neal works on building Three Twins Ice Cream into a major national brand.

Natalie Gourvitch, Social Marketing Manager, KIND Snacks

Natalie is the Social Marketing Manager at KIND Healthy Snacks, a brand of all-natural fruit and nut bars made from ingredients you can see and pronounce®. She develops and oversees The KIND Movement—KIND’s integrated social platform to inspire ‘not so random’ acts of kindness (www.kindmovement.com). Natalie holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of TrailTalks, an apolitical non-profit organization that empowers young Israeli travelers to develop a skillful means of communicating across cultures and foster mutual understanding with their international peers. She has lived in the US, the UK, Argentina and Israel, and currently resides in New York City.

Mike Havard, VP of Marketing, Newman's Own

Mike began his career as a corporate banker with Bank of Boston. During business school, a Proctor & Gamble seminar sparked his interest in brand management and he joined Kraft General Foods as an Assistant Brand Manager in 1990. He spent nine years in a series of leadership positions in brand management, strategy and new product development at Kraft. In 1998 he was named a Category Business Director, responsible for a portfolio of desserts businesses. Mike also helped to lead Kraft's community initiatives; chairing division United Way campaigns and serving on Kraft's hunger alliance with America's Second Harvest (now Feeding America). He was also the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of New Covenant House, a Connecticut-based hunger-relief organization, and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. In 1999, his interests in consumer markets and corporate social responsibility led him to join Newman's Own, Inc. as Vice President, Marketing. At Newman's Own, Mike has played a key role in growing the business and positioning the company for long-term success in pursuit of its philanthropic mission. He was appointed a Corporate Officer of Newman's Own Inc in 2006. Michael is a founder of Team Hole in the Wall, an athletic team fundraising initiative for Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps. He has completed four marathons with the Team and serves on the Development and Team Hole in the Wall Committees for the Camp. He has a BA in Economics from Trinity College, an MBA with Honors from Georgetown University.

Amy Hebard, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer, EarthSense

Amy J. Hebard, Ph.D. is the Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder of Earthsense, an applied marketing and research company formed in 2007 that is responsible for Eco-Insights, the largest consumer survey of its kind providing in-depth insights into consumers’ “green” attitudes and behaviors; she is also the creator of the Green Confidence Index in collaboration with greenbiz.com and SSI. She is the former head of Consumer Market Research at AT&T; is PRC-certified by the Market Research Association; has a BA from Ithaca College (philosophy) and a PhD from Columbia University (psychology). She lives in Maplewood, NJ with her Cornell graduate and LEED-accredited architect husband, Jim McRobert.

Howard Hugh, President, Green Team

Hugh worked in large, global advertising agencies on large, global accounts, before founding Green Team, the first environmental ad agency in the US, in 1993. Hugh was selected by The Climate Project to be one of the presenters trained by Al Gore to give Gore's global warming presentation depicted in An Inconvenient Truth. If he’s not at his desk, you can find Hugh cooking, camping or watching World Cup soccer.

Jonathan Jackson, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Dimagi, Inc.

Jonathan Jackson is a versatile executive and team leader with extensive experience in the design, development, and deployment of health systems. His technical areas of expertise include medical record systems, decision support, medical alert systems, data mining, information visualization, informatics, strategy consulting, training, and deployment. He has supported several national-level health projects in Africa, and is a leader in mobile health technology for community health workers. Jonathan is the principal investigator of several US National Institute of Health-funded studies related to patient adherence, remote monitoring, and care coordination. His leadership at Dimagi leverages a unique team composition of physicians, scientists, engineers, public health consultants, and management consultants to create a unique social enterprise that has completed or ongoing projects in over 15 countries.

Cary Krosinsky, Vice President - Trucost

Cary joined Trucost as Vice President in 2008 to help represent Trucost in North America. He was previously a member of CapitalBridge's Operations Committee, providing leadership on data and analytics. He maintained many of the largest banking and corporate relationships for the company in the US, Europe and Asia. He has also been a member of the 70 person Expert Group that led the creation of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

He worked in collaboration with Trucost on the award winning 2006 Carbon Counts: Trucost Carbon Footprint Ranking of UK Investment Funds, and the IFC-sponsored Carbon Counts Asia 2007 report, released at the UN climate change conference in Bali in December 2007. Cary also built and managed the world's first truly global equity ownership database for Technimetrics, and provided strategic advice regarding global databases to Citywatch.

Specialties: Sustainable Investing, Emissions Data, Environmental Subadvisory, Sustainability & Institutional Ownership, Writing, Editing, Data Management and SQL.

Daniel Kreeger, Executive Director, Association for Climate Change Officers

Daniel Kreeger is co-founder and executive director of the Association of Climate Change Officers, a professional development society for executives in the public and private sectors whose responsibilities include developing and directing climate change strategies. While leading the association, Daniel has created a forum that enables the exchange and enhancement of best practices, industry standards, and innovation in the area of climate change strategies. He has focused on educating industry and government on the importance of developing sound organizational structures and change management programs, and establishing incentives to encourage innovation and successful response to climate change considerations. Daniel is also a frequent speaker on change management, organizational structures and the human capital aspects of climate change strategies.

Beto Lopez, Senior Designer, IDEO

Beto is a senior designer leading projects from IDEOÕs Boston location. He also co-leads IDEO's sustainability initiative working to integrate systems thinking and tenets of social and environmental impact design across IDEO project work. As a sustainability content guide, he contributes to the way IDEO values design alternatives in the development of products and services by understanding the broader social and environmental context of their realization. Beto also helps IDEO clients advance their strategic social and environmental responsibility through design thinking, promoting positive impact in the made world. He regularly speaks and teaches on topics at the intersection of design and sustainable development. Beto came to IDEO in 2004 as an engineer bringing experience from automotive design and research, architectural engineering and construction, and research in sustainable development. His portfolio spans work in both products and services whose scope ranges from the detailed technical design of drug delivery devices to strategic thinking around the future of transportation. Beto earned a BSME and an MS in Dynamic Systems and Control from the University of Texas at Austin.

Marc Major, Founder, Clear Green Advisors

Marc Major helps business leaders generate value by weaving sustainability into strategic planning, product and process innovation, creative collaboration, and organizational learning. He has worked as a sustainability strategist, change management adviser, learning leader and marketing consultant for large and small companies including Walmart, Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive, Unilever, Vivendi Universal, and Leo Burnett as well as multimillion-dollar nonprofits and governmental and intergovernmental agencies including the City of Chicago and the OECD. Before co-founding Cleargreen Advisors, Marc worked as a strategy consultant for Blu Skye Consulting, where for 3 years he advised and supported Walmart executives, merchants and others with the creation and rollout of Walmart’s sustainability strategy. Prior to strategy consulting, he served in planning, analysis and education capacities with various government agencies and nonprofits. He holds an MBA in strategy and marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and an MA in curriculum & instruction from the University of Colorado.

Edward Marshall, Vice President - Legal Council, Developing World Markets

Edward Joined DWM in July as legal counsel. He focuses on legal, risk and compliance matters for DWM.

Edward has over six years of experience as a corporate and finance associate at the New York law firm of Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffly LLP and the New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. At Becker Glynn he specialized in representing development finance institutions in project and structured finance transactions in emerging markets, and at Mayer Brown he specialized in representing underwriters in debt capital markets transactions in Latin America.

Edward graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Political Science. He has a J.D. from the University of North Carolina and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.

Edward was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1996-1998. He is proficient in Spanish and is a member of the New York bar.

David S. Maurer, AIA, LEED, President, TightLines Designs

David Maurer, AIA LEED-AP, is the founding principal of TightLines Designs, an architecture firm based in Raleigh, NC specializing in the design of small, energy efficient, healthy, and sustainable single family homes. The firm also provides consulting services regarding conservation based community design, green architecture, and historic revitalization. Maurer founded TightLines Designs in response to the growing demand for quality small home designs and for the opportunity to create an educational platform for environmentally sensitive construction techniques through the distribution of construction drawings and specifications. TightLines Designs has grown into one of the most recognized firms of NC, whose community oriented, sustainable, and historically appealing home designs are now being constructed mainly by local and national non-profits such as Self-Help, Habitat affiliates, and community development corporations to meet the needs of affordable housing, urban revitalization, downsizing retirees, and first-time homebuyers. An alumnus of Virginia Tech with a bachelors in Architecture and of the University of Washington with a masters degree in Architecture, Maurer is a LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the North Carolina Board of Architecture, American Institute of Architects, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Preservation North Carolina, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the North Carolina Housing Coalition. He is also a regular feature at several leading conferences where he lectures on topics relating to affordable housing and sustainable designs.

Dr. Mark W. McElroy, Director of Research for Center for Sustainability Performance, Deliotte Consulting

Dr. McElroy leads and is Director of Research at Deloitte Consulting’s Center for Sustainability Performance (CSP) in Waltham, MA, a Center of Excellence that performs research, development and training on topics related to corporate sustainability management, measurement and reporting. He is the former founder and Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable Innovation in Vermont, and currently serves on the board of the Sustainability Institute, a global leader in the application of systems thinking to complex sustainability issues.

Mark is a 32-year veteran of management consulting, and is a frequent author and speaker on topics related to corporate sustainability management, measurement and reporting, including a forthcoming book of his entitled, Corporate Sustainability Management – A Field Guide for Practitioners (Earthscan, 2011). In 2008, he completed his doctoral dissertation, Social Footprints – Measuring the Social Sustainability Performance of Organizations.

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Dr. Andy Miller, Chief of Atmospheric Protectic Branch, EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

C. Andrew (Andy) Miller is Chief of the Atmospheric Protection Branch with EPA’s National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL), in the Office of Research and Development (ORD). Andy has conducted research at EPA to characterize particulate matter from combustion sources, develop NOx controls using combustion modification, characterize emissions from emulsified fuels, and apply artificial intelligence to control emissions from hazardous waste incineration. He currently leads a group of researchers evaluating the environmental implications – including GHG emissions – of changes in the U.S. energy system resulting from changes in technology and policy. Andy has served as the research program leader for NRMRL’s PM characterization and control program and Acting National Program Director for the multi-Lab ORD PM research program, and is currently the technical lead for the NRMRL Biofuel/Bioenergy research team that is evaluating technologies and system-wide environmental impacts associated with biofuel and bioenergy production and use. He is Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Carbon Sequestration Committee and a member of the United Engineering Foundation Founder Society Carbon Measurement Team. He received his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University, and is a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.

David Murphy, CEO, Better World Books

Better World Books President and CEO David Murphy has spent more than two decades in corporate finance, operations and mergers and acquisitions with firms such as The First Boston Corporation, Hutchinson SA (a French subsidiary of the Total Energy Group), and International Paper Company (a premonition of things to come?). He has served as CFO, COO, CEO for both privately held and publicly traded firms in the manufacturing, health care services and technology sectors. Additionally, he served on both corporate and non-profit boards and was a key mentor and advisor to Better World Books through the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Notre Dame before becoming President and CEO of the company in August, 2004. David remains actively involved in the field of Social Enterprise through the Gigot Center at Notre Dame as well as several other Social Enterprise Associations. David graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1980 from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Economics. He also received his MBA in 1984 from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, although he remains loyal to the Fighting Irish.

Peter Radtke, Co-founder, JustNeem

Peter Radtke received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Marburg, Germany. After his postdoctoral training at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, CA he worked in research and discovery of protein drugs, drug development, and manufacturing for major pharmaceutical companies, incl. Bayer Health Care, CSL-Behring, and smaller Biotech Start-Ups. In 1997 he and his family moved to North Carolina. Through a group of friends who had been working to bring economic opportunities to Mauritania, West Africa, Peter was introduced to the Neem tree, a hardy tree with potent medicinal properties and a natural, local resource in Mauritania. Recognizing the economic potential and health utilities of these trees for this impoverished Saharan nation, he and his wife Magdalena, together with friends founded JustNeem, LLC a body care company in Cary, North Carolina, that uses the power of socially responsible and sustainable business to transform people and communities and to solve social, environmental, and health problems.

Jeff Rodgers, Associate for Supply Chain & Water Risk, WRI

Jeff Rodgers is an Associate in the Markets & Enterprise Program at the World Resources Institute. His research focuses on water risk assessment, cost drivers in global supply chains and the implications of environmental trends on supply chains and investments. Before WRI, Jeff worked for several years in operations and supply chain management for a water utilities construction firm doing development projects in the southern Pacific. He also has experience teaching and conducting research at the University of Hawaii. Jeff is an MBA graduate from Georgetown University and has a BA in Communications from Michigan State University.

Shane Rogers, Co-founder, The Clarity Project

Shane grew up in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, and attended university at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Following graduation and broad world travel, he began work as an Engineer designing medical devices, where he gained experience setting up and managing complex supply chains.In the late Summer of 2008, Shane had a vision of using diamonds for development. Soon after, The Clarity Project was born, and with the help of many quickly began charting unprecedented territory within industry. Shane is currently working to complete his Masters in Engineering at Stanford University while at the same time pursuing the highest accreditation of gemology from the Gemological Institute of America.

Seth Seaberg, CEO, TREXA LLC

Seth Seaberg is the founder and CEO of TREXA LLC, manufacturer of the TREXA advanced electric drive vehicle (AEDV) development platform. He co-founded EDrive, the first commercialized lithium plug-in hybrid system for the Toyota Prius in 2004, and started EVO, the world's first clean-fuel limousine company in 2002. He is an outspoken advocate of a new industrial revolution made possible by targeted design, open-source technology and sustainable, decentralized production. He lives with his wife, the actress Clare Carey, and their two children in Venice Beach, California.

Richard Seireeni, Author of Gort Cloud & Director of Brand Architect

Richard Seireeni is a 30-year veteran in design, marketing and brand consulting. He has been art director of Rolling Stone magazine, creative director of Warner Bros. Records, and co-creative director of EnterpriseIG, New York. He coined the term Brand Architect in 1991 and co-published Marks, a compendium of logos designed by himself and his former design group partner. He has managed his own consulting business, The Brand Architect Group, in Los Angeles since 1984, with affiliated offices in Tokyo and Shanghai. Notable clients include Toyota North America, Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank, Uniqlo, and Wolfgang Puck. Seireeni graduated from the University of Washington School of Architecture and is a member of the US Green Building Council. Seireeni lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two children. Richard Seireeni is the author of The Gort Cloud: The Invisible Force Powering Today's Most Visible Green Brands

Scott Starr, Director, Utility Solar - groSolar

Scott leads the development and sales of large commercial and multi-megawatt solar solutions for groSolar, having joined the Company in 2009. Scott’s prior professional experience with renewable energy includes roles as a project developer with First Solar developing multi-megawatt solar farms, as solar product line leader for General Electric Energy & as a strategic marketing leader for GE Wind. As Director of ecomagination for GE, Scott commercialized the ecomagination Homebuilder Program, a residential whole-home solution designed to lower overall household energy consumption, emissions and indoor water use by combining building science with high performance products. Prior to his career at GE, Scott worked for Medtronic Inc. bringing implantable cardiac and neurological devices to market. In addition to earning certification as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Scott holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Duke University.(Chelsea Green, Vermont).

Drew Tulchin, Managing Consultant, Social Enterprise Associates

Social Enterprise Associates, New Mexico’s only registered B Corporation, is a triple bottom line management consulting company. It seeks to leverage the power of the marketplace to ‘do well by doing good’. It operates on a virtual, ‘open-source’ model in a network of like-minded independent consultants.

Drew defines his career making new ideas reality. His professional experience spans many sectors. He has consulted in more than 30 countries. Last years’ visits included Afghanistan, Haiti, Mexico and Mozambique. Current clients include SEEP Network, Environmental Defense Fund, USAID in Afghanistan, the City of Santa Fe Department of Economic Development, Organic Exchange, and Historic Fort Apache on the White Mountain Apache Indian Tribe (Arizona).

Previously, he served as Program Officer for the Grameen Foundation. There, he served as the founding staff person on the Capital Markets Group. Drew has extensive experience in new ventures. He has launched 15 entities and more than fifty business plans. His efforts have generated more than $100 million for positive causes. Prisma Microfinance's co-written plan was a Global Social Venture Competition award winner.

He began his career in National Community Service, as a VISTA (US domestic Peace Corps) providing Red Cross post disaster assistance after Los Angeles’s Earthquake.

In Santa Fe, Drew serves on the Board of the Permaculture Credit Union, Sponsor for Bike to Work Week, and Co-Chair of Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Future Santa Fe.

Drew completed his MBA at University of Washington. He finished his BA, Cum Laude from Washington University. His studies included a year abroad at Sussex University, UK.

In his free time, Drew plays ultimate Frisbee, hikes, and enjoys bad puns.

Rachel Weeks, Founder and President, School House: Ethical Fashion

Rachel Weeks is a social entrepreneur and founder of School House, an ethical fashion brand focused on the collegiate market. As a 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka, Weeks conducted research on socially responsible apparel manufacturing initiatives and laid the groundwork for School House. Combining living wage manufacturing with a trend-driven take on university apparel, Weeks has grown the brand to include over 50 licensed university clients through a partnership with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers. School House's living wage factory partner employs 70 individuals and counting at a rate 2-3 times prevailing industry wages in the island country.

Elizabeth Willet, Business Development Manager, Mars Symbioscience

Ms. Willett serves as the Sustainable Solutions Commercial and Business Development Manager for Mars Symbioscience, a subsidiary of Mars, Inc. In her capacity she helps set the long-term Micro/Macro algae integration and sustainability strategies for Mars, Inc as it relates to the pet and human food side of the corporation. Elizabeth also represents the company as a Board Member for the Algal Biomass Organization.Her role also includes vetting technologies and business models which provide scalable localized solutions to sustainable cocoa in order to support Mars’ ability to source Sustainable Cocoa by 2020; and managing commercial and IP contracts for the division. Previous to her role at Mars, Elizabeth was the Competitive Intelligence Manager for Trinity Industries, Inc. (NYSE: TRN). Elizabeth holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she co-founded the MIT Clean Energy Prize (a business plan competition).