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Brent Erickson
 Brent
Erickson is Vice President in charge of the Industrial
and Environmental Section at the Biotechnology Industry Organization
(BIO) in Washington, D.C. BIO is a biotechnology trade association
with over 1000 members in all 50 states and 37 countries.
From 1978 until 1980 Mr. Erickson was involved in energy research
at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Laramie Energy Technology
Center. He served on the staff of United States Senator Alan K.
Simpson (R-WY) as a legislative assistant handling energy, environment,
and national defense issues. In 1993, Mr. Erickson became legislative
director managing all legislative issues for the Senator Simpson
who was then Assistant Majority Leader of the Senate.
In 1996, Mr. Erickson joined the American Petroleum Institute
(API) as a Washington representative where he directed Congressional
advocacy efforts on environmental and energy issues. In March of
2000, Mr. Erickson joined the Biotechnology Industry Organization
(BIO) and in January 2002 he was named Vice President for Industrial
and Environmental Biotechnology. In May of 2001, he was elected
vice-chair of the OECD Task Force on Biotechnology for Sustainable
Industrial Development. He currently chairs the Bioenergy/Agriculture
Working Group of the Energy Future Coalition. He also serves as
a member of the board of the Western Research Institute, a non-profit
research entity of the University of Wyoming Research Corporation.
Mr. Erickson holds a B.S. degree in Biology and an M.A. degree
in International Studies from the University of Wyoming.
Gil Friend
 Gil
Friend, founder, president and CEO of Natural Logic, Inc.,
is a systems ecologist and business strategist with 30 years experience
in business development and environmental innovation. Tomorrow Magazine
called him "one of the country's leading environmental management
consultants - a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication
with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how."
Mr. Friend combines broad business experience in management consulting,
internet services, direct marketing, and television production with
broad content experience in business strategy, systems ecology,
economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy.
"Nature's ecosystems have spent 3.85 billion years building
efficient, complex, adaptive, resilient systems," he observes.
"Why should companies reinvent the wheel, when the R&D
has already been done?"
Mr. Friend has founded and managed companies in the fields of Internet,
sustainable development and social marketing, and has developed
management strategies and business, operating and marketing plans
for large and small companies in a wide range of industries. He
was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global
Communications, and played key or founding roles in such seminal
environmental enterprises as the California Office of Appropriate
Technology, Turner Broadcasting's Planet Live, University of California's
AgroEcology Program, and Buckminster Fuller's World Game.
Mr. Friend was co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for
Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and
economic development "think-and-do tanks," and CEO of
The Arts of Peace, an early pioneer in television direct response
marketing, and of SEND, Inc., a social marketing company, and principal
in Gil Friend and Associates, a noted strategic environmental management
consultancy. He holds an MS in Systems Ecology from Antioch University,
a black belt in Aikido, and is a seasoned presenter of "The
Natural Step" environmental management system.
Mr. Friend has written extensively on business, environment, and
resource policy issues, and authors The New Bottom Line, an internationally
distributed column offering strategic perspectives on business and
environment, formerly distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate,
now published by Natural Logic. He has lectured on business strategy
and environmental policy at EnviroDesign, GLOBE 2002, the World
Bank, Pacific Industrial Business Association, Nutek (Swedish Institute
of Science and Industry), Sierra Business Council, Nike Training
Center, National Restaurant Association, National Institute for
Standards and Technology, Environment Canada (Canada's EPA), Instituto
Technologico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Oregon Solar Energy Association, and the "Systems
Thinking in Action" Conference (partial list).
Mr. Friend has served as adjunct faculty to the Master of Arts
in Business program at California Institute for Integral Studies,
as visiting faculty at University of California at Santa Cruz, Goddard
College, and University of Southern California, and has lectured
at the business schools of Stanford University, and the Universities
of California, Texas and Virginia.
He currently serves on the boards of directors of Natural Logic,
Inc., the Sustainable Business Alliance, and on the advisory board
of Future 500. He was technical advisor on industrial ecology to
the California Museum of Science and Industry, served on the founding
board of directors of Turner Broadcasting's Planet Live, Inc and
of Internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications. He is a
past board member of the International Alliance for Sustainable
Agriculture, and Suntrain Transportation Development Corporation,
and served on the City of Berkeley Environmental Commission, and
the City of Oakland Sustainable Development Commission, and Advisory
Board of the Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence.
Cate Gable
 Senior
Consultant, Director of Product Stewardship. Manages a number of
Future 500 efforts, including conference planning for our 2004 Fall
conference in Seattle, stakeholder engagement training, the Coca-Cola
North America stakeholder engagement project, and the Western Electronics
Product Stewardship Initiative (WEPSI). For WEPSI, Ms. Gable served
as a lead facilitator exploring policy options for e-waste and electronics
recycling in the eight western states, as well as a participant
in the national organization (NEPSI) where she authored an EPA white
paper on this subject. She is an experienced strategic planner and
corporate trainer, with 20 years of wide-ranging experience administering
programs, developing curricula, and delivering trainings at Citibank,
the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the University of California, Berkeley,
and a variety of other business, governmental, and not-for-profit
institutions. She has authored a book on strategic planning and
many articles in journals of corporate environmental management
and social responsibility. She teaches a planning and sustainable
business course at France's prestigious Hautes Etudes Commerciales
(HEC).
Drew Gangnes
 Drew
Gangnes is a Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates and the
firm's Director of Civil Engineering. During his 18 years of design
experience, Drew has taken a holistic approach to site design, providing
civil infrastructure in a manner that is intuitive not forced, utilizing
back-to-basics techniques wherever possible. He has been at the
forefront of Seattle's "green street" design movement
for years and was instrumental in the development of a proprietary
eco-roof storm water analysis program. Drew was recently invited
to join the newly organized Urban Land Institute's Sustainability
Committee.
Dennis Gawlik
 Dennis
M. Gawlik, C.P.M., has two decades of supply chain and changemanagement
experience, both domestically and internationally, including a broad
range of supply chain, procurement, purchasing, logistics, and transportation
experience. Dennis is the managing director of procurement at Alaska
Airlines, where he is directing their supply chain activities. He
was also director of global procurement for Seattle Coffee Company,
where he supported two brands. Dennis has also held positions as
manager-operations procurement for Amazon.com, and as vice president-supplier
management for Buyers Access, a provider of outsourced purchasing
services. In addition, Dennis has held supplier management, procurement,
and logistics positions with American President Companies, Ltd.
(APC), marketing/pricing positions for Consolidated Rail Corporation
(Conrail) and CSX, as well as Carrier Systems Motor Freight. Dennis
will be co-teaching operations management at Bainbridge Graduate
Institute (BGI) and has taught operations management as an adjunct
faculty member at the University of Washington-Bothell, as well
at Colorado Christian University, Golden Gate University, and San
Francisco State University. He has a BA degree in economics and
geography from Northwestern University, a graduate diploma in business
administration from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science
in transportation/business logistics/purchasing from Pennsylvania
State University. Dennis is a certified member (CTM) of the member
of the American Society of Transportation & Logistics (AST&L)
and a member of the Council of Logistics Management.
Billy M. Glover
 Director,
Environmental Performance Strategy, Product Development, Boeing
Commercial Airplane Group. Billy M. Glover is responsible for leading
and integrating airplane environmental performance strategy across
the Commercial Airplane Group. Airplane environmental performance
includes such concerns as noise, emissions, cabin environment, design
for environment and related issues.
Bill joined Boeing in January 1978, after graduating from Purdue
University with a Masters of Science in Engineering from the school
of Mechanical Engineering, specializing in engineering acoustics.
He received his Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering
in 1976 from Purdue University.
Bill has held various engineering assignments involving 707, 727,
737, 747, 757, 767 and 777 airplanes, as well as product development,
research programs, and government and commercial contracts. Bill
has also had several assignments associated with government and
industry relations.
Bill is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics
& Astronautics. He is Assistant Chair of the FAA Aviation Rulemaking
Advisory Committee, Occupant Safety Issues Group. He is a member
of the FAA RE&D subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
K.C. Golden
 NW
Climate Connections Project Director K.C. Golden is Policy Director
for Climate Solutions, and directs the NW Climate Connections project.
From 1999 to 2002, KC was a special assistant to the Mayor of Seattle
for clean energy and climate protection initiatives. In that capacity
he helped to engineer Seattle City Light's commitment to become
the nation's first climate neutral electric power utility, and the
City's commitment to exceed the goals of the Kyoto protocol. KC
was formerly Assistant Director of Washington’s Department
of Community, Trade and Economic Development, where he directed
the Energy Division and the state’s energy policy office.
From 1989 to 1995, he was Executive Director of the Northwest Energy
Coalition, a regional alliance working for a clean, affordable energy
future. He was a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government, where he received a Masters degree in Public
Policy.
Colin Grant
 Colin
Grant is a sustainability based entrepreneur, inventor, consultant
and coach who advises leaders in business, government and education
on sustainable business and organizational models. Colin has developed
solutions at every level of business – from the end of the
pipe to the boardroom. His inventions have included award winning
naturally based systems for treating industrial waste and contaminated
land to a triple bottom line management and communication software
tool that has been described by various appraisers as the most powerful
system available to make sense of sustainability. Colin has a strong
track record of innovation and development of sustainable solutions
for industry. In 1994, He founded multi-award winning environmental
clean-up company, Bio-Logic. Bio-Logic developed natural systems
based solutions to industrial waste materials and contaminated soil
and the company played a major role in converting the UK waste industry
to more sustainable business practices. Colin oversaw the recycling
of hundreds of thousands of tons of material that had previously
been thought of as "waste", saving many millions of pounds
for clients and demonstrating that sustainable processes save money.
Bio-Logic won a John Logie Baird Award for Innovation in 1994 and
was a recipient of the UK Government's prestigious Millennium Products
Award in 1999. In 2000, Bio-Logic was bought by a large waste industry
company.In 2001, Colin became the inaugural Entrepreneur in Residence
at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow where he had earlier gained
a BSc. Honours in Technology and Business Studies, majoring in Economics
and Biotechnology. As Entrepreneur in Residence, he prepared plans
for a university wide innovation program for the on-campus business
incubator as well as launching a business plan competition and helping
students and other entrepreneurs with business plans and company
formation.In 2002, he founded Real-Living Solutions, a company dedicated
to taking sustainability to new levels through technology and consulting.
Bert Gregory
 Bert
Gregory is President & CEO of Mithun, a Seattle-based architecture,
design and planning firm and a national leader in resource sensitive
and sustainable design. Mithun is probably best known for its design
of the REI stores and IslandWood, the innovative outdoor learning
center on Bainbridge Island. Bert served as design team leader for
both of those projects. He is currently the design leader for Lloyd
Crossing, a cutting-edge sustainable urban design plan for 35 blocks
in Portland’s city center. Bert also lead the firm’s
efforts to develop the City of Seattle’s Blue Ring City Center
Open Space Plan, which is part of an urban design strategy to enhance
Seattle’s downtown core, and the team that worked with the
Urban Environmental Institute to put together the Resource Guide
for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment. Bert’s
national impact in design leadership has been noted by the American
Institute of Architects, IIDA, and CoreNet Global, which honored
the firm with the 2003 Sustainable Design Leadership Award. He is
a recognized expert in resource efficient design and speaks frequently
around the country on sustainable building and design.
Karen Greiser
As a marketing communications specialist for the Government of
Canada, Karen has been involved with a number of industries and
innovative sectors in British Columbia. She has a familiarity with
the people and organizations related to the large energy industry
in B.C. and has developed relationships within British Columbia’s
energy sector as well as within the provincial and federal government
throughout her 11 years as a Public Servant. She has organized a
number of Ministerial visits working closely with other government
departments and the private sector. Her ability to facilitate positive
business and media relations benefiting Canada has been proven many
times over. One of her last responsibilities as a Communications
Officer was the creation of the Government of Canada’s marketing
communications materials and event presence at the Fuel Cells Conference
in June, 2003, held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Since marrying a U.S. citizen and moving to Seattle in August, 2004,
Karen has provided public relations, marketing communications, and
event management support for a few events sponsored by the Canadian
Consulate – Seattle, namely the Pacific Northwest/Western
Canada Energy Forum, an event sponsored jointly with the Pacific
Northwest Energy Region (PNWER). http://www.nwetc.com/board_karen.php
Duncan Griffin
 Duncan
Griffin is a senior associate at NBBJ with a combined focus in healthcare
and sustainable design. He joined the firm in 1996 and soon after
helped to found NBBJ's sustainable design group, strengthening motivation
among his colleagues for expanding their sustainable design knowledge
and opportunities. Duncan has a passion for creating positive long
term outcomes based on solutions that emphasize geography and context.
To explore the character of a place, then find meaningful ways to
maximize the human experience, while minimizing the project's energy
and material footprint.
In addition to healthcare, Duncan's range of experience reaches
from housing to corporate commercial to institutional projects.
One of his most significant roles was as technical architect for
the new Telenor Headquarters in Oslo, Norway. Here he encountered
a society-based demand for sustainable design coming from a workforce
that requires natural light and air, and helped create an architecture
that received an AIA National Honor Award. Duncan explores design
through a variety of means including video, watercolor, physical
models, and computer models. Currently, he is working on a regional
hospital in western Washington.
Wayne Grotheer
Wayne joined the Port in 2001 and is the Manager of Health Environmental
and Risk Services. Prior to joining the Port, he had over 20 years
of environmental management experience in the federal government
and in the chemical industry. He has also held senior management
positions in the high technology industry and has advanced degrees
in engineering and business.
Kevin Hagen
 Kevin
Hagen is principal of Shuksan Energy Consulting, a leading advisor
to business for sustainable energy and green power procurement strategy.
Over a 20 year career with Fortune 500 companies to successful entrepreneurial
organizations in the US and Europe, Mr. Hagen has held leadership
roles in Product Development, Marketing, Sales and Business Strategy.
He served as Director of Sales and Marketing for Distributed Generation
Markets with Xantrex Technology and Director of Business Development
with its predecessor entity Trace Engineering, the leading supplier
of power electronics and controls for the Renewable Energy industry.
He has been recognized for innovation on both the supply and procurement
side of the RE industry and was a founding participant in the EPA’s
Green Power Partnership Program. He is a frequent speaker, author
and advocate for Renewable Energy and sustainable business practices.
Mr. Hagen received his BS from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY
with a background in both Engineering and Business and is currently
enrolled in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute’s MBA in Sustainable
Business.AffiliationsAdvisor, Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic
Development (NWSEED), Seattle, WAPast member of the Board, American
Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), Washington DC
Debra Hall
 Debra
Hall serves as the Director of Accountability Programs, coordinating
the reporting and stakeholder engagement program involving the 70+
Ceres endorser companies and the Ceres coalition of 80+ environmental
and investor groups. She manages a number of coalition-endorser
dialogues, the Ceres-ACCA reporting awards program and program development
for the Ceres Annual Conference. Before joining CERES in 1999, Ms.
Hall was a regional manager for Business for Social Responsibility
(BSR) and led the BSR environmental team's green product design
and green building design programs, and worked with nearly 100 companies
throughout the US and Asia to develop and implement more sustainable
business practices. In the 1990¹s, Ms. Hall served as project
manager for master planning and environmental review for the $2
billion modernization of Logan Airport in Boston, and as an economic
development advisor to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. She
has a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard
University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Williams College.
Paul Harlan
 Paul
Harlan serves as Vice President – Resources for The Collins
Companies. Paul Harlan has held various positions within the Collins
Companies over the last 18 years including Resource Manager, sawmill
General Manager, Vice President - Western Lumber Operations, and
currently as Vice President – Resources. His duties cover
295,000 acres of Forest Stewardship Council lands in Pennsylvania,
California, and Oregon and their associated manufacturing facilities
needs. Paul is the current Board Chair for the Forest Stewardship
Council -US Initiative
Hamilton Hazlehurst
 Development
ManagerAs Development Manager, Hamilton Hazlehurst is responsible
for managing Vulcan's interests in a variety of commercial, residential,
biotechnology and mixed-use projects currently under development
in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.
During his 20-year real estate career, Hazlehurst has developed
more than two million square feet of office properties. Before joining
Vulcan in 2001, Hazlehurst worked at Seattle's Wright Runstad &
Co. from 1984-2001. Among his many accomplishments, he served as
the project development manager for several high-profile developments
including Seattle's World Trade Center, Microsoft's World Headquarters
and Dearborn @ 5/90.
Hazlehurst also served as a project architect from 1983-84 at Curtis
Beattie & Associates in Seattle. He holds a master's degree
in architecture from Rice University Graduate School of Architecture
and a B.A. in art history from Princeton University (Magna Cum Laude).
Judith Heerwagen
Judith H. Heerwagen, PhD., J.H. Heerwagen & Associates, Inc.
Dr. Heerwagen is psychologist whose research and consulting focus
on design ecology--the inter-relationships between people, psychosocial
context, and physical space. She has a BS in Communications from
the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University
of Washington focusing on behavioral ecology and cognitive psychology.
She currently has her own research and consulting business in Seattle.
Her consulting work centers on the psychological and social aspects
of physical space and has included research on sustainable design,
office environments, court houses, airplanes, automobiles, and personal
workstations. Typical topics she addresses include health and well
being, workplace productivity, cognitive ergonomics, and the link
between emotional experience, culture, and physical space. Her clients
are drawn from both the public and private sectors and include Boeing
Commercial Airplane Company, Herman Miller, Johnson Controls, the
National Institutes of Health, Fidelity Investments, Sun Microsystems,
Cisco Systems, Bristol Myers Squibb, the City of Seattle, and the
US General Services Administration. Her current work with GSA is
developing and testing a methodology to link strategic business
goals to workplace design and behavioral change. Prior to starting
her own business, she was senior research scientist at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory and a principal with Space, LLC. From
1982 to 1992, she was a research faculty member at the University
of Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Bracken Hendricks
 Bracken
Hendricks is the Executive Director of the Apollo Alliance for Good
Jobs and Energy Independence, a joint project of the Institute for
America’s Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The
Apollo Alliance is a non-profit issue education campaign committed
to advancing public debate on clean energy within the national political
process. Apollo is working to build labor, environmental, and civil
rights alliances for high road regional economic development that
creates high skill employment while providing environmental and
community benefits.
Hendricks has published widely on the intersection of labor and
environmental policy issues. He worked as an economic analyst with
the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute and as a consultant to
the Office of the President of the AFL-CIO. Hendricks served in
the Clinton Administration with Vice President Gore’s National
Partnership for Reinventing Government and as a Special Assistant
to the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration where he worked on the President’s Council
on Sustainable Development, the White House Liveable Communities
Task Force, and with the US EPA Smart Growth Network, as well as
working on issues of trade and environmental policy and global climate
change. He was a member of the Cornell University Eco-Industrial
Round Table, and worked on regional land use planning issues with
local government. Hendricks has a Master’s degree in Public
Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard University’s John F.
Kennedy School of Government.
Carsten Henningsen
 Considered
a pioneer in the field of socially and environmentally responsible
investing, Carsten founded Progressive in 1982 as the first investment
management company in the Pacific Northwest specializing in the
field. He co-founded Portfolio 21, Progressive's global mutual fund
committed to investing in companies that incorporate environmental
sustainability into their business strategies. He is a graduate
of Stichting Nijenrode, The Netherlands School of Business and the
University of Puget Sound. Carsten has served on the national board
of directors of The Social Investment Forum, 1000 Friends of Oregon
Foundation; ARABLE: the Association for Rural Agriculture Building
the Local Economy; the Ecotrust Council; the City of Portland Sustainable
Industries Committee; the financial advisory Committee of NCAP:
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides; and the development
committee of the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation.
Carsten testified for Oregon's Anti-Apartheid Bill which passed
in 1987 and recently worked on tobacco divestment legislation.
Today, socially and environmentally responsible investing is the
fastest growing segment of the financial services industry. More
than $2.1 trillion is invested using social or environmental screens.
One of the primary reasons for this astounding growth is the competitive
financial performance from screened investments along with growing
public awareness of the link between responsible business and a
viable future.
The classic response of business has been to view environmental
initiatives as harmful to the economy and the bottom line. However,
a growing number of corporate leaders disagree. Corporations are
now beginning to apply sustainability principles in their business
strategies. These visionary corporations recognize the environmental
crisis and see sustainable business practices as a competitive advantage.
Corporations must take a central role in creating a sustainable
economy that does not undermine the productive capacity of nature.
Many companies now recognize the enormous business opportunity in
providing products, services and technologies that are needed to
create a sustainable society. These companies are developing cleaner
energy sources, resource efficient production methods, products
that are designed to be reused and rebuilt, raw materials that are
benign, and processes that produce little or no waste. These companies
are shaping a new economy that supports a healthy human balance
with nature.
As investors, we can choose to divest from companies that are contributing
to our environmental crisis and support companies that are working
toward a sustainable future. I invite you to join the millions of
investors who are bringing their values and their investments together.
Please visit our site for more information: http://www.portfolio21.com/
Bruce Herbert
 Bruce
Herbert is founder and President of Newground Social Investment,
a Seattle-based registered investment advisory firm. Celebrating
its tenth year, Newground provides individual, institutional, and
not-for-profit clients with socially conscious (SRI) money management,
financial coaching, and shareholder advocacy consultation. www.newground.net
Bruce began his career with Merrill Lynch in 1984, and has focused
on socially responsible investment since 1986. He has served on
the national Governing Board of the Interfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility (ICCR) - whose members control more than $110 billion
in investment assets; on the Northwest Board of the Social Investment
Forum; and he co-founded and was first Director of the Northwest
Coalition for Responsible Investment. Active on community, arts
and municipal boards and commissions, Bruce co-founded in 1992 the
Edward E. Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center at the
University of Washington, served as an early Trustee of Sustainable
Seattle, and participates in air search & rescue missions for
the Civil Air Patrol.
Aileen Ichikawa
 Director
of CAP Gap Audit and CAP Alliance
Ms. Ichikawa directs the development of the CAP Gap Audit software
to simplify stakeholder performance measurement and reporting. She
is responsible for product development, design, inventorying and
validating the criteria that make up the leading global standards
of corporate ethics, accountability, responsibility, and sustainability.
Ms. Ichikawa directs the strategic alliance known as the CAP Partner
Alliance, consisting of world-class service providers in the area
of corporate accountability and sustainability. The alliance has
a global reach in over 30 countries with a combined force of 7,000
professional consultants. She has twenty years of experience in
the technology sector, serving in systems engineering, technology
marketing, channel management, country management, business development,
strategic alliances at IBM, Motorola, and Rolm, in both the domestic
as well as international arena.
Emma Johnson
 Emma
Johnson serves the northwest region’s Solid Waste and Financial
Assistance Program at the Washington State Department of Ecology
as a Sustainability Specialist. Johnson administers grants of local
waste reduction and recycling projects, moderates risk waste reduction
and technical assistance, coordinates product stewardship, composting,
and sustainable practices at the northwest regional office, and
serves as technical assistance for business applications with the
Technical Resources for Engineering Efficiency (TREE) team. Prior
to working at Ecology, Johnson completed her Bachelor’s of
Arts in “Politics, Development, and the Environment”
at Huxley College of Western Washington University.
Dan Jordan
 Dan
Jordan serves as Manager of Catering Operations for Alaska Airlines.
Dan Jordan is responsible for all Operational aspects of Alaska’s
contract Caterers located in 32 cities. LSG Sky Chefs represents
95% of the volume with independent caterers operating in Fairbanks,
Juneau, Spokane, and Vancouver and Calgary in Canada. In addition
to Operational responsibility, he also oversees security procedures,
equipment scheduling, planning and forecasting, equipment repair
programs, and liquor management.Dan joined Alaska Airlines in September,
2000 after 31 years with United Airlines where he held various positions
including: equipment planning and control, aircraft galley design,
General manager of United’s flight kitchens in Portland, Honolulu,
and Newark. He also Managed the Central Stores Warehouse at O’Hare
Airport and spent several years in Corporate Purchasing negotiating
Catering contracts.He holds a BBA in Business Administration from
the University of Notre Dame.
Tachi Kiuchi
 Chairman
of the Future 500. Tachi Kiuchi is one of Japan's most iconoclastic
corporate executives. As Chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric
America, he built the Mitsubishi Electric brand in the U.S., and
managed the company's transition from the old to the new economy.
As Managing Director of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, he broke
with Japanese corporate norms to champion a "living systems"
approach to business that included rapid adaptation, financial transparency,
openness, cultural diversity, executive positions for women, and
environmental sustainability. He even forged a bold agreement with
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to promote corporate sustainability.
Today, as Chairman of the Future 500, and CEO of Tokyo-based E-Square,
Kiuchi informs and inspires business leaders all over the world,
and develops profitable and sustainable business practices at computer,
electronics, automobile, and other companies.
Kiuchi is a popular keynote speaker at major global conferences
on business, the environment, and Japanese-U.S. relations. In his
spare time, Kiuchi skydives, runs marathons, climbs Mount Fuji,
rides his bicycle to Future 500 headquarters in downtown Tokyo,
and does 1600 push-ups a day.
Jonathan Kroman
Jonathan Kroman has been in practice with Garvey Schubert Barer
since 1982 and has been an owner in the firm since 1988. He focuses
his practice on business organization and finance. He has counseled
a broad spectrum of clients, including software developers, seafood
companies, medical device manufacturers, suppliers of security products,
telecommunications companies, and healthcare providers. Along with
his work as general corporate counsel to a number of companies and
organizations, Mr. Kroman has represented clients in a wide variety
of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity
placements, tax-exempt and other debt financings, the licensing
of intellectual property, and joint ventures. He is a member of
the Partnership Law Committee of the Washington State Bar Association’s
Corporate, Business and Banking Law Section, the Computer Law Association
and the American Health Lawyers Association. As a member of the
Partnership Law Committee, Mr. Kroman participated in the drafting
of Washington’s limited liability company act. He also serves
as the loss prevention partner for his firm’s corporate and
business practice. In that capacity, he has primary responsibility
for legal ethics issues arising in connection with the firm’s
work in that area.
David Lahaie
 David
Lahaie has 15 years experience in materials recycling and recovery.
As founder and President of Evergreen Recycling Inc. David has built
business relationships with companies like Boeing, Intel, Seagate,
Toyota, Samsung, and Sony and continues to find recycling options
diverting materials from landfill and reducing long term liability.
Evergreen Recycling works with Public and Private Sector entities
nationwide and in the EU to deliver alternatives to landfill for
various industries. Industries David has worked with include Refineries,
Steel Making, Primary Aluminum production, Cement and Brick Manufacturing,
Silicon Chip and Hard Drive Manufacturing, Automotive and Aircraft
Production, Public and Private Utilities.
Frank Lampe
 Frank
J. Lampe is president and chief executive officer of Silvercliffe
Media Inc., a media consulting firm in Lafayette, Colo. He also
serves as publications director for New York-based Dragonfly Media
Inc., which owns and operates healthy living magazines in five North
American markets. Most recently, Mr. Lampe was the conference director
and editorial director for Conscious Media Inc., in Broomfield,
Colo., where he continues to serve as a consultant. In 1996, he
co-founded Natural Business Communications, now a division of Conscious
Media. Under his direction, Natural Business Communications identified
and quantified the $226.8 billion U.S. “Lifestyles Of Health
and Sustainability” (LOHAS) market and conducted the first
research on the LOHAS consumer. Mr. Lampe was the founding editorial
director of the LOHAS Journal and the LOHAS Journal Weekly as well
as the executive newsletter, Natural Business. He led the team that
produced the LOHAS Market Trends Conference in 2003 and served as
master of ceremonies of the event in 2004.
Before Natural Business Communications, Mr. Lampe was the editorial
director for the Natural Products Group at New Hope Natural Media,
where he oversaw operations for the company’s numerous natural
products titles. At various times, he served as the associate publisher
of New Hope’s trade titles, oversaw the seminar program of
the company’s two annual trade shows and helped with the formation
of quality standards for the company’s publications and events.In
addition to extensive sales and marketing experience, Frank is an
internationally known author, analyst and lecturer on the LOHAS
marketplace, natural and organic foods, healthy living, socially
responsible business and conscious consumers. He sits on the advisory
board of P3: People, Planet, Profits, a Colorado-based socially
responsible business network.
A native of Washington, D.C., and an honors graduate of the journalism
program at Ohio University, Mr. Lampe resides with his family in
Lafayette, Colo.
Ken Larson
 Corporate
Social Responsibility Manager, Hewlett-Packard CompanyKen Larson
is the Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for Hewlett- Packard
Company. Based at HP's Roseville, California site, Larson is responsible
for ensuring that HP’s business practices add to shareowner
value as well as appropriate, desired social value and environmental
sustainability for customers, employees, partners and communities
around the world.
He works with external stakeholders to understand the emerging
standards and expectations of corporations in the area of global
citizenship and engages with groups, public/ private/ industry based,
to communicate HP’s positions and contribute to the discussion
in today’s fast changing environment.He also works closely
with teams throughout HP that are involved in developing and implementing
the various policies, programs and activities that make up our overall
global citizenship engagement. Larson has had a number of key positions
in HP in his 20 plus year career, including California Public Affairs
manager, and a variety of roles in human relations, including education,
staffing and employee relations.
Larson has a Master’s of Public Administration from UCLA
and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Affairs from Occidental College.
He completed a year of graduate study in social welfare at the University
of Stockholm, Sweden.HP (NYSE:HPQ) is a technology solutions provider
to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's
offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access
devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the fiscal
year ending on Oct. 31, 2003, HP revenue totaled $73.1 billion.
More information about HP is available here.
Gary Lawrence
 Gary
is a nationally, and internationally, recognized expert in sustainable
development. He has over 20 years of experience assisting public
sector, private sector and NGO organizations with research, analysis
and strategic planning toward the integration of sustainable development
concepts in urban & regeneration planning, strategic planning,
organizational development and evaluation. In addition to project
work, Gary is frequently an invited speaker and lecturer throughout
North and South America, and Europe on topics related to sustainable
development and urban planning.
He was honored to serve as a member of the US Delegation to Habitat
II, as Senior Policy Advisor to the Global Environment Center for
US Agency for International Development and as Scientist-in-Residence
at the University of Essen, Germany.He serves on the Leadership
Committee for the US Smart Growth Network, the Advisory Committee
for the UN Center for Urban Settlement's Best Practices Center,
Advisory Committee for the Center for Small Business and the Environment
and other organizations. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor
in the Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western Washington
University.
Profession: Sustainability Consultant Qualifications:
MA, Public Administration, University of Georgia; BA, Philosophy,
Central Washington State College
Professional Associations: Senior Policy Advisor,
Global Environment Center for the US Agency for International Development;
Advisory Committee, UN Center for Urban Settlement's Best Practices
Center; Member, Advisory Committee for the Center for Innovation
& the Environment, Washington DC; Member, Steering Committee
for Meeting America’s Housing Needs, Washington DC; Member,
Steering Committee for Smart Growth Network, Washington DC; Member,
National Summit Planning Committee for the President’s Council
on Sustainable Development, Washington DC
Valerie Lee
 Ms.
Valerie Ann Lee is co-founder and president of Environment International
Ltd. (EI), a Seattle-based environmental consulting firm comprised
of an interdisciplinary team of scientists, policy analysts, attorneys
and engineers. Since EI’s inception in 1994, the team has
been developing innovative, practical and cost-effective strategies
for environmental management and sustainable development for a variety
of business and government clients.
Ms. Lee has 20 years of combined experience as an environmental
engineer, attorney and facilitator/mediator. She has worked on a
wide range of environmental management and sustainable land use
issues, helping businesses and governments achieve win-win situations
for economies and the environment by designing and implementing
environmental management systems (EMSs), overseeing community brownfields
redevelopment projects, facilitating group strategic planning processes
and providing regulatory compliance and environmental policy advice
to many different organizations in the United States and abroad.
Before becoming a consultant, Ms. Lee spent six years as a Trial
Attorney with the US Department of Justice, where she worked on
high-profile cases involving natural resource damages, hazardous
wastes, water pollution and air pollution. She is a nationally recognized
expert on natural resource damage assessments (NRDA) and has recently
written a comprehensive reference deskbook on the subject titled
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Deskbook: A Legal and Technical
Analysis, published by the Environmental Law Institute. In recognition
of her expertise, Ms. Lee was appointed as a member of the Technical
Resource Group for the Governor’s Sustainable Washington Advisory
Panel through which she assisted in the development of a toolbox
for sustainability. As a former vice-chair of the American Bar Association
Committee on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Ms. Lee
conducted an annual summary of national progress in sustainability.
Ms. Lee received a master’s degree in civil engineering from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her law degree from
the Yale Law School. She is a member of the State of Washington
Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, and the Bar of the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia.
Michelle Long
Ms. Long is the Executive Director of Sustainable Connections,
a NW WA business network comprised of more than 300 locally owned
business and farms, committed to collaboration, buying local first,
a healthy environment, and a strong community. She also commits
20% of her time to educating other communities about sustainable
economic development through workshops and trainings. Michelle Long
has founded and run several businesses and organizations that focus
on supporting mission-driven small and medium sized business, including
coordinating the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies in
its first two years of operation, and co-founding Viatru (aka World2Market).
Her organization’s work has been featured in places such
as CNN, USA Today, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, Orion,
In Business, and Grist. She is a regular speaker about local living
economies and sustainable economic development, and gives workshops
on creating Think Local First campaigns, running successful grassroots
non-profit organizations, and forming local business networks. Ms.
Long lives with her husband and colleague, Derek Long, in their
log home in the Mt Baker foothills of Washington State.
Hunter Lovins
 L.
Hunter Lovins is the president of Natural Capitalism, Inc. A renowned
author and champion of sustainable development for over 30 years,
she has managed international non-profits, taught at major universities,
advised citizens’ groups, governments and corporations, created
several corporations, and is in great demand as an inspirational
speaker and effective consultant. Hunter believes that citizens,
communities, and companies working together within a market context
are the most dynamic problemsolving force on the planet. She has
devoted herself to building teams that can create and implement
practical, affordable solutions to the problems facing us.
Areas of Expertise
• Natural Capitalism
• Climate change
• Globalization
• Governance
• Land Management
• Corporate Social Responsibility
A member of the California Bar, Hunter helped establish and was
for six years assistant director of the California Conservation
Project (Tree People), an innovative urban forestry and environmental
education group. She served as policy advisor for Friends of the
Earth, under David Bower. Named Henry R. Luce visiting professor
at Dartmouth College, Hunter has also taught at other universities.
In 1982 she founded the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a 50-person
research center with a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned
through programmatic enterprise. Until 2002, when she left to join
the Global Academy, she was RMI’s CEO for strategy. She was
named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate
to the UN’s prep conference for Europe and North America for
the World Summit on Sustainable Development. She is a commissioner
in the State of the World Forum’s Commission on Globalization,
co-chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Goodall, George Soros and
others. In 2003, she created Natural Capitalism and the non-profit
Natural Capitalism Solutions, incorporated as a way to implement
the ideas of sustainable development on a global scale. She also
helped found, and is now a professor of business at Presidio World
College, the first school to offer an accredited MBA in sustainable
management. L. Hunter Lovins is the president of Natural Capitalism,
Inc. A renowned author and champion of sustainable development for
over 30 years, she has managed international non-profits, taught
at major universities, advised citizens’ groups, governments
and corporations, created several corporations, and is in great
demand as an inspirational speaker and effective consultant. Hunter
believes that citizens, communities, and companies working together
within a market context are the most dynamic problem-solving force
on the planet. She has devoted herself to building teams that can
create and implement practical, affordable solutions to the problems
facing us.
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