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Speakers (A-D)
Rob Abbott
 Rob
Abbott is a Certified Management Consultant and an internationally
recognized authority on sustainability and its convergence with
competitive strategy. His professional and academic work focuses
on the ways sustainability influences value drivers and shapes strategy
to create competitive advantage. He has written widely on this subject,
and completed pioneering work globally.
Prior to forming ABBOTT STRATEGIES (www.abbottstrategies.com)
in 1997, Rob spent over a decade helping many public, private, and
not-for-profit organizations around the world improve their performance
and reputation. His key appointments during this time were Director
of Strategic Environmental Management Services for Golder Associates,
one of the world's most respected consulting engineering firms (1995-97);
and Principal-in-Charge of Environmental Services for Coopers &
Lybrand, one of the world's largest and most respected business
advisory firms (1990-95).
In addition to guiding his own firm, Rob is also a Founding Associate
and Director of Strategy in the Centre for Innovation in Management
(www.cim.sfu.ca)
at Simon Fraser University (SFU), a Sessional Instructor in the
School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU, and a Founding
Partner of MindStream™, a new company that harnesses the creativity
and energy of employees and stakeholders and directs this toward
creative destruction and business transformation.
The Centre for Innovation in Management (www.cim.sfu.ca)
is a collaborative partnership between Simon Fraser University faculty,
business leaders, researchers, facilitators, and social entrepreneurs.
The Centre conducts research and provides advice and support in
stakeholder relations; convenes multi-stakeholder conferences; designs
sustainability measurement and reporting systems; and offers customized
stakeholder relations education.
Bill Anderson
 Bill
Anderson has worked as director of the Resource Venture of the Greater
Seattle Chamber of Commerce for the past 12 years. Each year the
program helps hundreds of Seattle businesses implement sustainable
business practices focusing in the areas of waste prevention and
recycling, water conservation, stormwater pollution prevention and
sustainable building. He was instrumental in the Chamber's recent
establishment of a Business Sustainability Committee for its members.
Prior to joining the Chamber, Anderson was the executive director
of a nonprofit economic development organization in Moscow, Idaho.
Before that, he managed economic development and employment training
programs in Tacoma, Washington.
Matt Banks
 Matt
Banks works in World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Change Program
on Private Sector Initiatives. He works with businesses and other
stakeholders to build awareness and adoption of progressive corporate
climate management strategies. Before joining WWF Matt worked for
AtKisson, Inc., where he helped developed sustainability indicators
for Nantucket Island, the city of Pittsburgh and the Trust for Pubic
Land. Matt has also worked for the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and was responsible for launching
the greenhouse gas emissions inventory and local action planning
process for the city of Boston.
Matt’s consulting experience at ERG included with clients
on topics ranging from fuel cells, vehicle emissions testing, corporate
energy efficiency, and emerging remediation technologies. In addition,
he has worked for the Conservation Law Foundation, National Audubon
Society, Maine State Planning Office and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. He graduated from The Colorado College with a
BA in Political Economy, a Minor in Environmental Issues and holds
an MSc. In Environmental Science from Sweden’s Lund University
International Masters Programme. In 2002 he received his certificate
in Energy Planning and Sustainable Development at the University
of Oslo.
Lynn Barker
 Sustainability
Strategist. Lynne Barker works for the City of Seattle’s Department
of Planning and Development and is responsible for promoting sustainable
building and sustainable community development. Lynne focuses on
raising awareness of these issues internally and externally to market
leaders. She identifies and resolves code barriers, and creates
development incentives. Barker created her first job in sustainable
building with Sellen Construction Company by developing and implementing
Sellen’s Sustainable Building Program. Barker co-chaired the
LEED™ Committee of the US Green Building Council, serves on
the board of the US Green Building Council, and was a founding member
of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council.
David Batker
 David
Batker directs the APEX Center for Applied Ecological Economics.
An economist, he completed his graduate training in economics under
Herman Daly, one of the world's most foremost ecological economists.
David has worked at the Centralia Coal Mine, the World Bank, and
in non-profits in the United States and abroad. For the past seven
years, he has co-directed the Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange
(APEX). APEX applies ecological economics to address regional and
internationalproblems in the areas of toxics, fisheries, forests,
finance and trade. In July 2005, APEX will host the 2005 Conference
of the United States Society for Ecological Economics in Tacoma,
Washington.
In 2003, David was awarded the first Biennial Herman Daly Award
for Ecological Economics by the United States Society for Ecological
Economics for cutting-edge work in applying ecological economics.
He is also known as a leading ecological economics educator.
Andrew Beebe
 Andrew
Beebe is President of Energy Innovations. Previously, Andrew was
a partner with the consulting firm Clean Edge. Before Clean Edge,
Andrew co-founded Bigstep, the small business services company.
As CEO, Andrew led the company in building an award-winning service,
raising over $60 million from top-tier venture firms, hiring over
150 talented employees including a world-class executive team, and
developing partnerships with such leading companies as AOL, VeriSign,
Oxygen and Compaq. After reaching profitability and with 9,000 paying
customers, Bigstep was sold to Affinity. Andrew previously served
on the Board of Directors of ITU, a venture capital fund focused
on early-stage university technology transfers and was a board member
to Mixonic and Postio, two software companies based in San Francisco.
He is a Dartmouth College graduate and former White House intern.
Rob Bennett
 Rob
Bennett is manager of the Technical & Financial Services and
Research & Policy groups of Portland, Oregon's Office of Sustainable
Development, leading conservation program and policy development
in the areas of energy conservation & renewables, green building,
global warming reduction, and local food security. Rob established
the City's Green Building program, G/Rated in 2000 and is currently
developing an applied research & policy initiative to make the
financial, political and ecological case for sustainable development
and measurably advance sustainability goals in Portland.Rob has
been active in community development and environmental planning
for 10 years, including five with Portland's Office of Sustainable
Development. Prior to coming to the City, he worked with a variety
of public agencies and not-for-profit organizations. He sits on
the board of the US Green Building Council's Cascadia Chapter.
Nik Blosser
 Nik
Blosser serves as President of Celilo Group Media, Inc. Celilo Group
Media is a publishing and marketing consulting firm focused on expanding
markets for sustainable products. The company has a staff of 14
and offices in Portland, Seattle and St. Paul, Minnesota. The company's
primary publications are Chinook Book: The Coupon Book for Healthy
Living and the Northwest business publication Sustainable Industries
Journal. Nik has run the company since inception in April 1999 and
has broad management and political experience in the business, government
and non-profit sectors.
Previous work experience included managing major political campaigns
in Oregon and a marketing and government affairs consulting practice,
with clients that included Portland General Electric, Seattle City
Light, Puget Sound Energy, Liberty Northwest Insurance and the Portland
Development Commission. He is a co-founder of the Oregon Business
Association, Board Chair of Sokol Blosser Winery in Dundee, Ore.,
a board member of the Hanna Andersson Children's Foundation, and
was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Oregon State Parks
and Recreation Commission. He received a bachelor of arts and sciences
degree in aeronautical engineering and English from Stanford University
in 1993.
Michael Braungart
 Michael
Braungart is founder of EPEA (Environmental Protection
Encouragement Agency) and co-founder of MBDC, McDonough Braungart
Design Chemistry in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Braungart's work
has been published in numerous journals on science, public affairs,
design and environment in Europe and the US. In 1987, Professor
Braungart founded the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency,
which creates products oriented toward a life-cycle economy and
earned the Océ-van der Grinten Award in 1993. He also serves
as Scientific Manager of the Hamburg Environmental Institute, the
non-profit research center which produces the Top 50 Study -- ranking
the quality of environmentally sound production of companies within
the chemical industry.
Working in concert with designer William A. McDonough in their
product design and development firm, Michael’s work addresses
topics from particles to policy. He has initiated worldwide scholarly
and scientific inquiry into the adverse environmental and physiological
impacts of industrially produced consumer goods. In addition, Braungart's
EPEA co-authored the Hannover Principles of Design: Design for Sustainability,
which served as development guidelines for the World's Fair in Hannover,
2000. He currently concentrates his efforts at McDonough Braungart
Design Chemistry and EPEA by working with major industrial producers,
such as Nike, Monsanto and Interface on issues of materials assessment,
waste and energy balances, life-cycle design, and designing for
disassembly. Dr. Braungart is also active in designing new products,
and along with William McDonough, was instrumental in the creation
of the compostable fabric line Climatex®Lifecycle.
Anita M. Burke
 Anita
M. Burke is internationally recognized as a business leader in the
area of organizational change and transformation. She is a frequent
speaker on the topic of how to deliver change and profits by reducing/eliminating
ecological and social footprints of existing hydrocarbon industrial
infrastructures and new exploration. She has a proven track record
in all aspects of the upstream and downstream portions of the oil
business for delivering profitable technologies and organizational
processes that deliver on the sustainable development and climate
change strategic vision.
Ms. Burke worked for Shell Canada as a Senior Advisor – Sustainable
Development and Climate Change. Her 18 years experience in the oil
industry include: tool pusher North Slope of Alaska, offshore and
onshore development permitting and social engagement, regional manager
for environmental litigation and remediation for the retail services
business, Project Director for Waste Management of the EXXON Valdez
oil spill, refinery environmental and safety manager and recently
as advisory to the Shell International Committee of Managing Directors
on the opreationalisation of sustainable development and the energy
portfolio implications of a carbon constrained future.
Her educational background in physics and environmental science
bring a dynamic whole systems approach to problems of energy futures;
one nested in Natural Capitalism and the basic underpinnings of
nature as a model for systemic and profitable outcomes.
George Carellas
 Mr.
George Carellas is the Chief of Sustainability and Stewardship for
the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety,
and Occupational Health). Mr. Carellas recently served as the DoD/Army
Regional Environmental Coordinator for Region 4 from 1997-2003.
Mr. Carellas graduated from Georgia Tech in 1971 with a Bachelor
of Industrial Engineering degree. He served 6 years in the National
Guard, taught high school for one year upon graduation from college;
then worked as a production supervisor for a short time before entering
the intern program with the Army.
Mr. Carellas worked in the Directorate of Logistics for five years
and moved to HQs Forces Command (FORSCOM) in 1977, performing base
closure and engineering functions. From 1984 to 1992, Mr. Carellas
was the principle resource manager for the facilities and environmental
accounts totaling over $1 billion annually and served as the Division
Chief for all environmental, housing, resource management, and facilities
engineering functions at the FORSCOM installations. From 1992-1997,
Mr. Carellas served as the FORSCOM Environmental Chief.
Mr. Carellas is married to Michelynn (Mike) Carellas, who works
for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Privatization and
Partnerships) on the Residential Community Initiative. George and
Mike have three children: Gina (31), Kara (28), and Mallory (17).
In fact, Mr. Carellas considers one of his most monumental accomplishments
is having successfully raised two daughters through the teenage
years…one to go. Mr. Carellas has three granddaughters, and
they know him affectionately as “Papa G”.Mr. Carellas
is an avid sports fan, particularly following college football and
basketball. Mr. Carellas enjoys playing softball, tennis, golf,
and white water rafting; but his biggest pleasure over the last
20 years--outside of family life--has been coaching youth sports.
Tracy Casavant
 Tracy
Casavant, MES, P.Eng, Principal, Eco-Industrial Solutions Ltd. Tracy
is one of the few consultants in North America with formal training
in industrial ecology and eco-industrial networking (EIN). EIN involves
building relationships between businesses, governments, and communities
to more efficiently use resources like energy, water or land, or
even municipal infrastructure.
Tracy holds a BASC in Chemical Engineering with Honours from the
University of British Columbia, as well as a MES specializing in
EIN from Dalhousie University. She is also a Director of the newly
formed North American Eco-Industrial Development Council.
Along with its partners in the Eco-Industrial Group (Holland Barrs
Planning Group, ERIN Consulting Ltd., Mark Jeffrey Consultants in
Canada and e4 partners inc in the US), Eco-Industrial Solutions
has worked on projects in Western Canada, Oregon, China, and Peru.
These projects include the Maplewood Community Eco-Industrial Partnership
Project in the District of North Vancouver, the design of the Hinton
Eco-Industrial Park in Alberta, and an Eco-Industrial AuditTM at
a major SaskTel facility.
Larry Chalfan
 Mr.
Chalfan is the Executive Director of the Zero Waste Alliance, a
partnership of individuals, universities, businesses and government
organizations dedicated to helping organizations become more competitive
while they become more sustainable. It focuses on elimination of
wastes of all kinds and supports the use of the tools of industrial
ecology to work toward a cyclical industrial system without waste
to nature. It provides management support, technical solutions and
training and education. In addition, the ZWA is one of seven EPA
designated Local Resource Centers (LRCs) in the country, to assist
public agencies in the development o f environmental management
systems.
He is a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry and previously
was President and CEO of Oki Semiconductor Manufacturing, the first
company in Oregon to achieve ISO 14001 certification for its environmental
management system. To work toward sustainability, Oki added the
System Conditions of the Natural Step to the ISO 14001 structure.
He received MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Oregon
State University. Current and past board service includes the Oregon
State University college of Engineering and Bioengineering Advisory
boards, The board of the Center for Watershed and Community Health
and the Advisory Committee of the Oregon Natural Step Network. Mr.
Chalfan has been a recipient of the Sustainable Oregon Award and
was inducted into the OSU Engineering Hall of Fame.
Julie Colehour
 Julie
is an expert at developing strategy and managing complex accounts
that span the spectrum of communications disciplines. With over
11 years in the marketing industry, her experience includes everything
from marketing energy-efficient products and tourist attractions
to launching packaged goods and products, national branding campaigns
and issue marketing that transforms behavior. Under Julie’s
guidance as co-president and principal, PRR’s marketing team
has produced campaigns for issues as varied as health insurance
enrollment and environmentally friendly lawn care that have garnered
both regional and national awards and yielded significant results.
Her portfolio also includes projects demanding lower profile results,
such as factory closures, where subtlety is of paramount importance.
Julie’s skills enable PRR to successfully create solutions
for a diverse collection of clients. Julie holds Bachelor of Arts
degrees from the University of Washington in marketing and environmental
studies. She is co-author of The Environmental Marketing Imperative
(Probus Publishing, 1994). Julie’s work has been recognized
repeatedly over the years with various awards including four Silver
Anvils from the Public Relations Society of America. She is a respected
member of the communications profession and has given presentations
to many industry groups including the American Marketing Association
and the Washington State Recycling Association.
Dwight Collins
 Dwight
Collins, President of Colbridge & Company, provides consulting
and training services in strategic planning, sustainable business,
and green supply chain design & optimization. He also teaches
Sustainable Operations Management at the Bainbridge Island Graduate
Institute and at the Presidio World College. Dwight directs the
Collins Family Foundation, which works to make our human presence
on Earth sustainable. The Foundation organizes retreats and conferences
and supports several nonprofits focused on sustainability. It is
a cosponsor of this Seattle conference, Profitable Sustainability:
The Future of Business.
Prior to founding Colbridge, Dwight consulted for several years
in strategic planning and supply chain optimization for numerous
companies in several industries including petroleum, chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and carpet production. Major firms
with whom he has worked include BP Chemicals, NOVA Chemicals, Borden
Chemicals, Abbott Laboratories, IBM Microelectronics, LSI Logic,
Cypress Semiconductor, Shaw Industries, and Rohm & Haas. Dwight
earned a BS degree in Engineering Physics, and MS and Ph.D. degrees
in Operations Research, all from Cornell University.
Stampp Corbin
 In
1997, Stampp Corbin founded RetroBox, the nation’s leading
information technology disposal company specializing in the redeployment
and recycling of personal computers, monitors, workstations, servers,
networking equipment, and associated peripherals. RetroBox develops
customized IT disposal plans for the largest companies in the U.S.
RetroBox services reduce a company’s legal, financial, information
security and environmental risk associated with IT disposal. RetroBox
pioneered the information technology disposal industry, forging
standards and services for the recycling and reuse of computing
equipment.
Mr. Corbin also owns and is CEO of Resource One --one of the largest
Central Ohio-based technology companies offering comprehensive technology
lifecycle management services, including consulting, supply chain
management, integration, deployment, infrastructure support and
asset retirement.
Stampp Corbin has led the companies to achieve national recognition
as leading providers of information technology services. RetroBox
premiered at #115 on the Inc. 500 this past year, ranked as a top
minority-owned business in Ohio by Diversity Business, was named
#14 on the ICIC-Inc. Inner City 100, and for the second year in
a row ranked in the top three of the fastest growing companies in
Central Ohio by Business First.
Mr. Corbin’s serves on the Association of Ohio Recycler’s
board; he is an appointed member of the Governor's Minority Business
Council in Ohio; he was appointed as a National Advisor to the Small
Business Administration during the Clinton Administration; and served
on the National Board of Directors for the Human Rights Campaign
1996-2003.
Mr. Corbin graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of
Arts Degree in Economics in 1982, and earned a Master's of Business
Administration from Harvard University in 1986. From 1982 to 1987,
Mr. Corbin performed as a top marketing representative with IBM.
He has also held executive positions with Honeywell Bull.
Carolyn Corvi
 Carolyn
Corvi is vice president – general manager of Boeing Commercial
Airplanes 737/757 Programs. She is responsible for the design, production
and delivery of the Boeing 737/757 family of airplanes. She is also
general manager of the Commercial Airplanes plant in Renton, Wash.
Prior to this assignment, she was vice president of the Aircraft
Systems & Interiors (AS&I) organization and led a team of
more than 8,000 employees who design and produce assemblies for
the 737, 747, 757, 767 and 777 programs, including spares and aftermarket
support. In 1994, Corvi served as director of Quality Assurance
in the Fabrication Division, which produces a diverse range of parts,
tools and assemblies used in the production of every Boeing jetliner.
In late 1993, Corvi was appointed director of the Production Process
Redesign initiative. The purpose of this initiative was to simplify
and make more efficient the Boeing design and production system.
Corvi has been with Boeing since 1974. For her contributions to
both the company and aerospace industry, Corvi won the 2001 Women
in Aerospace Leadership award. Corvi currently serves on Virginia
Mason Medical Center’s Health System Board of Directors, is
on the president’s advisory board at Embry Riddle University
and serves on the board of governors at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School. She is co-founder of the
Northwest Children’s Fund, a former board member of the YWCA
– King and Snohomish Counties, and past president and executive
board member of Washington’s National Park Fund. Born in 1951,
Corvi has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington
and a master’s degree in management from MIT.
Bob Cowen
 Bob
Cowan is currently; Manager of Facilities Engineering, at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has served in this position
for the last 5.5 years during which time he’s overseen an
expansion program of 700,000 square feet which brought the Fred
Hutch Campus to its current 1.3 million sq ft size. Also during
this time his department has won energy conservation awards at the
local, state and national levels, survived a 6.8 magnitude earthquake,
a 100 year rain, numerous power and water outages, and more inspections
than you can count: JAHCO, DOH, FDA, AAALAC, CAP the list goes on
and on. The motto of the department is “World Class Research,
World Class Facilities, World Class Facilities Engineering”
and if you are ever in the area, please stop by so Bob can show
you what he means. Bob has also has been appointed by the Mayor
of Seattle to be on Seattle’s City Light’s Rate Advisitory
Committee and he serves on the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Sustainability
committee and on the South Lake Union Energy District study committee.
Prior to Joining Fred Hutch, Bob spent 22 years in the U. S. Navy,
retiring as a Commander in the Civil Engineer Corps. A fantastic
opportunity to “see the World” as Bob describes it.
During his 22 years, he’s served as: the Commander of the
Civic Action Teams, in Micronesia; on the staff of NATO, in Brussels
Belgium; in charge of the Bachelor Housing program in Washington
DC and with the Seabees in Cuba and Diego Garcia, in the Indian
Ocean. Additionally Bob has served with Public Works Departments
in Seattle WA, Seal Beach CA, San Diego CA, Philadelphia PA, and
Gulfport MS.
Originally from Grosse Ile, Michigan (a small island between Michigan
and Canada) Bob graduated from the University of Michigan with a
Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and from the University
of Florida with a Masters in Civil Engineering. Bob is married to
the former Kristina Lindstam of Stockholm, Sweden and has three
children Nicklas, 4, Clara, 3 and Hanna 1.
Charlie Cunniff
Mr. Cunniff has served as Executive Director of ECOSS, the Environmental
Coalition of South Seattle since 1994. During that time, he and
his staff have developed and implemented many environmental education
programs for both residents and businesses. ECOSS works between
and among the communities which represent business, residential,
government and environmental interests. Over the last several years,
he and his staff have developed the Environmental Extension Service
(EES). The EES works with small and medium sized businesses on the
issues of contaminated site cleanup, stormwater pollution prevention,
alternatives to hazardous chemicals, energy and water conservation
as well as neighborhood, political and infrastructure issues.
In addition to their Business Assistance programs, ECOSS operates
a Multi-Cultural Household Hazardous Products Education Program.
In this program, ECOSS staff work with people from a variety of
cultures in their native languages. ECOSS staff members speak Amharic,
Cambodian, Chinese, English, Spanish, Tigrinian and Vietnamese.
ECOSS also works in the community on neighborhood planning, neighborhood
building and salmon habitat restoration.Charlie Cunniff earned his
Master’s Degree in Not-for-Profit Leadership from Seattle
University and his Liberal Arts undergraduate from Boston College
and Evergreen State College with a concentration in Energy and Environmental
Systems.
For thirteen years Mr. Cunniff worked in the energy conservation
consulting industry, deploying systems that included solar energy,
heat recovery, energy management, heat pumps and radiant heat.
Oystein Dahle
 Øystein
Dahle is Chairman of the Touring Association of Norway. Mr. Dahle
is also Chairman of the Norwegian branch of Worldwatch Institute,
Worldwatch Institute Norden, chairs the Forum for Political Revitalization,
and is a Professor at the Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research in Oslo. As a former Executive Vice President for Esso
Norway, he has extensive practical experience in the energy field
that he brings to Worldwatch, along with an outstanding love and
appreciation for the outdoors. Mr. Dahle is a graduate of the Norwegian
University of Technology. He serves as Chairman of the Worldwatch
Board of Directors.
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley has served as a director of Green Mountain
Energy Company since August 1999. Ms. Dillonridgley is currently
the UN Representative in New York of the World YWCA ("World
Young Women's Christian Association") which is based in Geneva,
Switzerland. In April of 1999 she was appointed to the Oxford Commission
on Sustainable Consumption located in the United Kingdom. Formerly
the Acting Director of the Woman's Environment and Development Organization,
Ms. Dillonridgley served this organization in various capacities
starting in 1991, including Senior Policy Analyst from 1994 to 1998.
While at WEDO, from 1994 through 1997, she was also president of
Zero Population Growth, the nation's largest grassroots organization
concerned with rapid population growth and the environment. In addition,
she is a trustee of the Wallace Global Fund, a foundation committed
to advancing sustainable development. She has served on President
Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development since 1994 and is currently
co-chair of the Council's International Task Force. Since 1997,
she has been the Director of Interface Inc., a global manufacturer,
marketer, installer and service provider of products for the commercial
and institutional interiors markets.
Frank Dixon
 Frank
Dixon is an author and consultant specializing in sustainability,
system change and enhancing financial performance through increased
corporate responsibility. He is also a Managing Director of Innovest
Strategic Value Advisors. At Innovest, he has overseen the sustainability
analysis of more than 2,000 corporations around the world for six
years. Through this experience, he noticed that no company is close
to being sustainable (largely because economic and political systems
essentially compel firms to act unsustainably by not holding them
fully responsible for negative impacts on society). To address the
need for system change and provide the real possibility of achieving
sustainability, he developed the Total Corporate Responsibility
methodology. TCR is a practical, incremental, profit-enhancing method
of driving system change and addressing systemic barriers to sustainability.
The approach is used to implement advanced corporate sustainability
strategies and develop investment products with superior financial
and sustainability performance. Before Innovest, he worked as a
management consultant in the energy and manufacturing sectors. Earlier
he worked in the financial area, arranging venture financing for
early stage manufacturing companies. He has an MBA from the Harvard
Business School.
Jim Donald
Jim Donald joined Starbucks Coffee Company in October of 2002 as
president, North America. As president, Donald is responsible for
the overall management, business development and operations of Starbucks
in all North American markets. Donald began his career in the supermarket
business in 1971 as a trainee with Publix Super Markets, Inc. Joining
Albertson's in 1976, he quickly rose through its managerial ranks
in its Florida, Alabama and Texas divisions and was head of Albertson's
operations in Phoenix, Arizona.
Handpicked by Sam Walton in 1991 to build a major presence in the
supermarket business for Wal-mart, Donald was a key executive in
Wal-mart's development and expansion of the Wal-mart Super Center,
supervising all merchandising, distribution, store design and real
estate operations. Donald served as president and manager of Safeway's
130-store Eastern Division from 1994 to 1996. He was responsible
for a $2.5 billion business, 10,000 employees comprised of 130 stores
and two distribution centers. With a clear vision and inspiring
front-line leadership, he was able to reverse a four-year trend
in declining same-store sales. Donald joined Pathmark Stores, Inc.
in 1996 as chairman, president and ceo. Pathmark, a $4.6 billion,
143-unit regional supermarket chain is located in the New York,
New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan areas.
Victor Draper
 Mr.
Draper is a Senior Vice President, Member of the Board, Support
Services Group/Strategic Office, with Ricoh Electronics, Inc. Ricoh
Electronics, Inc. is the North American manufacturing arm of Ricoh
Company Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Ricoh and REI maintain a strong ethic
towards environmental stewardship. Through its operations and facilities,
Ricoh Electronics Inc. focuses on elimination of all wastes. Through
leadership, he provides strategic direction and management support
for promotion of internal and external awareness, technical solutions,
training and education in sustainable practices. In addition, holds
responsibility for Environmental Health & Safety, Administration,
Legal, External Affairs/Communications, Legal, ISO systems and Information
Technology functions. He has over 35-years experience in R&D
and manufacturing operations. Before joining Ricoh Electronics,
Inc., he held management and marketing positions with Ceradyne,
Inc. in Costa Mesa, California. Prior to this assignment, he held
both management and technical positions with Spectra-Physics, Inc.,
Mountain View, California, as well as technical positions with Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.
All Ricoh Electronics, Inc. facilities achieved Zero Waste To Landfill
(ZWTL) by February 2001. Ongoing efforts to improve this program
as well as reduction efforts focused on utilities continue to forge
ahead and are showing substantial results in reduction of CO2.
Alan Thein Durning
 Executive
Director and Founder, Northwest Environment WatchAlan Thein Durning
is founder and executive director of Northwest Environment Watch
(NEW), a Seattle-based research and communication center that monitors
progress toward a sustainable economy and way of life in the Pacific
Northwest and identifies key reforms for the region—many of
which are market-based. An Oberlin College graduate, Durning spent
eight years as a senior researcher at Worldwatch Institute prior
to founding NEW. He has authored or coauthored numerous books and
reports, including the award-winning volumes How Much is Enough?
and This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence. Most
recently, Durning coauthored NEW’s Cascadia Scorecard: Seven
Key Trends Shaping the Northwest, the first edition of NEW’s
three-project to develop a regional index of progress. Durning lectures
widely and lives with his wife and three children in Seattle. Most
of NEW’s indicators data is online: www.northwestwatch.org.
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