Christine Arena

Author, The High Purpose Company

Prior to entering the corporate responsibility field, Christine served as managing director of Polese Clancy, a Boston-based communications firm. Before that, she ran her own brand strategy firm, IF, while fresh out of graduate school Christine cut her teeth at Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve.  She holds a masters degree from New York University and lives in San Francisco with her husband.

Andy Atkins

Director, Client Services, Interaction Associates

Andy brings over 25 years' experience in organizational and leadership development and education to his client work. His experience includes work with clients in high tech, financial services, transportation, manufacturing, and the public sector. He has held executive positions in human resources and in leadership and organizational development. Andy holds an MBA from Columbia University and is a member of the OD Network. He has published articles on human resources, organization development, and quality in several publications.

Kim Barnes

President and CEO, Barnes & Conti Associates, Inc.

Kim Barnes is the president and CEO of Barnes & Conti Associates, Inc., of Berkeley, California, an independent learning and organization development firm. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Development and has over 30 years of experience in the fields of management, leadership, and organization development. She has worked in both internal and external roles with organizations in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, high technology, research and development, e-commerce, biotechnology, telecommunications, aerospace, finance, insurance, distribution, utilities, health care, manufacturing, and government.

Kim has been a frequent speaker at national and international professional conferences and meetings and has published many articles in professional journals in the U. S. and abroad. She is the primary developer of these copyrighted programs of Barnes and Conti:

• Exercising Influence: Building Relationships and Getting Results
• Constructive Negotiation: Building Agreements that Work
• Strategic Thinking: Leadership Practices for Innovative Organizations
• The Mastery of Change: Thriving in Interesting Times
• Intelligent Risk-Taking: From Vision to Action
• Creating a Culture for Risk and Innovation: A Guide for Leaders
• C.O.A.C.H. for Peak Performance: A Guide for Leaders in the Learning Organization
• Constructive Debate: Building Better Ideas
• Inspirational Leadership: Encouraging Others to Do Great Things
• The Art of Communication: Creating Shared Meaning
• Leading Global and Virtual Teams: Succeeding Across Boundaries

Together with David L. Francis, Ph.D., of the Centre for Research in Innovation Management at the University of Brighton, Kim has developed Barnes and Conti’s newest program:

• Managing Innovation: Optimizing the Power of New Ideas

Her work has been translated into Japanese, Hungarian, Polish, Danish, Hebrew, Spanish, Thai, Korean, and Chinese. The second edition of her book, Exercising Influence: A Guide for Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and in Your Community, was published recently by Pfeiffer.

Dr. Marvin Brown

Professor Business Ethics at USF and Saybrook Institute

Dr. Marvin Brown has been teaching and consulting in organizational and business ethics for over 25 years.  He has given workshops and presentations at Universities, businesses, and ethics centers in South America, Europe, and Asia.  He teaches business ethics at the University of San Francisco and Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco.  His books and articles have been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, and Chinese.  His latest book, Corporate Integrity (Cambridge University Press, 2006) provides a communicative view of organizational life, which shows how to improve our organizations by improving the integrity of interpersonal, social, and civic relationships.

Heather Connors and Cindy Campbell

Human Connexus

Cindy Campbell currently is an independent Organizational Development Consultant.  She has a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University and worked for Intel Corporation for 18 years. At the start of her career, Cindy worked in Purchasing and was responsible for over  $100M worth of contracts.  She transitioned to the Training & Development Department where she managed Intel University.  She spent 6 years as the International Workforce Development Manager responsible for building educational pipelines through the collaboration with the Ministry of Education Departments in 7 separate countries.   In the past 7 years, Cindy has been in a variety of positions in Human Resources focusing on leadership development and change & transition management.  She has been on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters and the NOVA Private Industry Council.

Heather Connors attended Boston University and got her degree in Exercise Physiology and Cardiopulmonary Sciences.  During her time in Boston she worked as an HR Representative and Researcher in the Diabetes and Metabolism Department at BU Medical School.  For the next eight years her research career resulted in several publications in major journals while working in Protein Chemistry, Animal Physiology and Liver Cell Discovery groups for Transkaryotic Therapies, Calydon, and Stem Cells, Inc. She made the transition back to Human Resources in 2002 bringing a unique perspective to medical device and biotechnology companies and their employees.  She worked for more than four years as the Director of HR for Micrus Endovascular seeing growth from 40 employees to over 250 with 2 international offices and an IPO before leaving in 2006.   She is currently the Director of HR for AngioScore, a small medical device start up company located in Fremont.

Both Heather and Cindy have discovered a profound desire to be entrepreneurial and to impassion others about the importance of personal connections in today’s society.  They partnered in 2007 as Co-founders to create the Human Connexus Foundation.  Human Connexus is designed to be a customized donation service that provides charitable assistance from a personal donor directly to an individual identified to have qualifying needs.  For more information on Human Connexus please visit our website at www.humanconnexus.org or feel free to contact Cindy or Heather directly at info@humanconnexus.org.

Dinesh Chandra

Founder of GlobalCitizenship, Inc.

Dinesh Chandrais founder of GlobalCitizenship Inc., which promotes business between Indo-US companies through strategic partnership. He is considered a global citizen and works in the field of global leadership development. After working as Director of Productivity /Quality at Beckman-Coulter, he successfully launched a management consulting firm and a product management company. This enabled him to work in the U.S and in fifteen other countries, acquiring a global skill set and working with leading organizations like American Express, Cisco, Eicher-Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Harley-Davidson, Larsen & Toubro, Oracle, Port of Singapore Authority, and Tata Group.

He is an engineer by training and then gained valuable experience in Six Sigma, Knowledge Management and the development of Learning Communities. He has led many workshops in Transformational Leadership, with business leaders around the globe. During the last few years he has focused on Change management issues around collaborative technologies with firms like Cisco and Oracle.

Dinesh has a MS in Industrial engineering and an MBA in Finance. He is a contributing author to "Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace" and "Community building: Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business". He has co edited a book entitled "What is True Wealth and how do we create it?" He is the author of numerous articles on global leadership and citizenship.

In partnership with Mindshare Learning Systems, Dinesh has created a "Global Leadership Forum," a 5-day workshop which strengthens global mindset and leadership in business executives from Silicon Valley and Indian firms by creating a forum for a rich exchange of ideas and an opportunity to build global leadership skills. You can learn more about his work at www.globalcitizenship.com.

David Douglas

Vice President, Eco Responsibility Sun Microsystems Inc.

As Vice President of Eco Responsibility at Sun Microsystems, Inc., David Douglas is responsible for the strategy and execution of environmental initiatives across the company, including enhancements to Sun's products in the areas of energy efficiency, cooling technologies, product recycling and clean manufacturing; continued improvements in Sun's day-to-day operations; and management of Sun's asset sharing through programs, donations and access to Sun Grid resources. Douglas brings more than a decade of experience leading organizations to build more innovative, efficient, and eco responsible products and has a long-standing passion about environmental issues.

Douglas has a wide breadth of experience in a variety of senior engineering and technology management positions in both systems and software. He served as co-founder and senior vice president of products at RFID middleware pioneer ConnecTerra, which was acquired by BEA Systems in October 2005. At BEA, he served as chief architect for WebLogic. Prior to this, he worked at Sun for nearly eight years in a number of roles including vice president of engineering for the Solaris Operating System, vice president and chief technology officer for the Network Service Provider division and director of architecture for the office of the CTO. Douglas holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts with his family. Douglas's blog can be found at http://blogs.sun.com/enviro

Salvatore V. Falletta, Ed.D. , GPHR

President & Chief Executive Officer Leadersphere, Inc.

Sal has over 20 years experience in management, human resources, training & performance improvement, and organization development. Sal founded Leadersphere and is responsible for the firm's strategic business direction and client engagements. Prior to Leadersphere, Sal was Vice President, Global Human Resources and Chief People Officer for a Fortune 1000 company based in the Silicon Valley, California, and has held management and consulting positions in human resources at several best-in-class companies, including Nortel Networks, Alltel, Intel Corporation, SAP AG, and Sun Microsystems. While at Intel, Sal managed the global employee survey program, performed organizational behavior research studies, and participated in corporate HR strategy efforts. He also led the training measurement and evaluation function at Nortel Network’s Technical Education Centers. Sal is an accomplished speaker, researcher, and author. For example, he frequently presents at conferences and seminars and has co-authored the Targeted Evaluation Process (ASTD Press, 2000), a book chapter on employee and organizational surveys in Allan Church and Janine Waclawski’s (Eds.), Organization Development: Data Driven Methods for Change, (Jossey-Bass, 2001), and a forthcoming article on the notion of workforce intelligence in HR Planning Journal (2008). Sal holds a doctoral degree with a specialty in human resource development from North Carolina State University and global HR certification (GPHR) via SHRM.

Sean Foote

Partner, Labrador Ventures

Mr. Foote has been a venture capitalist investing in early stage companies for the past 9 years. He is active on the board of directors of Eoplex Technologies, Everyone.net, Integrated Materials Inc., Altierre Corporation, Solaicx and Green Border Technologies. He also serves on the Development Council of Entrepreneurs Foundation, a non profit organization that engages high growth companies in corporate citizenship and philanthropic efforts. Before venture investing, Mr. Foote was a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, working in a wide range of industries such as telecom, computers, healthcare, banking, and automotive on topics ranging from strategic alliances to Internet strategies. Mr. Foote also worked as a systems engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing artificial intelligence systems for testing the most complicated telecommunications networks. Mr. Foote is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of California's Haas School of Business and also has taught classes on entrepreneurship and venture capital funding at the University of Michigan's Business School, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business

Mr. Foote received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri Rolla (1988), and his MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business (1993), where he received the Shermett Award granted to the top 3% of students. Mr. Foote is active in microfinance and public education improvements.

Tom Foremski

Founder, The Silicon Valley Watcher

Tom Foremski has been a reporter covering Silicon Valley since arriving from London in 1984. In June 2004 he left the Financial Times to become the first mainstream journalist to make a living as a journalist blogger by founding the online news site Silicon Valley Watcher-reporting on the business and culture of disruption. He also writes and speaks about the changing media landscape at New Rules Communications, and is a Founding Fellow of the think-tank Society of New Communications Research based in Palo Alto.  Contact:  Tom@Foremski.com

Dan Henkle

Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility, Gap Inc.

Gap Inc.’s Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility, Dan Henkle heads a team of more than 90 employees worldwide responsible for the company’s social responsibility efforts around improving conditions in garment factories and the communities in which they operate.   Dan also oversees the environmental affairs team, which seeks ways to positively impact the company’s overall environmental footprint. .  

Dan brings a strong people focus to the organization.  He joined the company in 1992 and served as the Vice President of Human Resources for the Gap division before joining the Social Responsibility team.  Prior to joining Gap Inc., he worked in the human resources function for Oracle Corporation. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and general management from Purdue University, and his MBA with an emphasis in organizational behavior from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

He currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Social Accountability International, a multi-stakeholder organization focused on improving conditions in workplaces throughout the world. 

Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, M.A., LMFT, principals of www.Corporate-Wisdom.com, have translated their business experience into the Wisdom in the Workplace training modules, to coach and to teach individual and team dynamics. They consult and teach classes to build intuitive business and leadership skills.  Clients include CEO’s, executives, and entrepreneurs in Hi-tech, Bio-tech, Insurance, University, and many other industries.  They are Directors of the South Bay Organizational Development Network, www.SBODN.com, a leading edge forum focused on making a difference in how organizations are run in the Silicon Valley.

Dr. Nick Imparato

Professor,  Department of Marketing, Globalization and Strategy, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Operations Committee, Village Enterprise Fund

Nick Imparato is a recognized scholar and corporate consultant in the areas of innovation, brand and leadership. He also works at the intersection of public policy and business strategy, including the fields of homeland security and the social impact of business.  He is currently Professor of Marketing and Management, Department of Marketing, Globalization and Strategy, School of Business and Administration, at the University of San Francisco and, for 12 years, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Professor Imparato has authored, co-authored and edited over 100 books, articles and research reports, given keynotes, seminars and corporate presentations in 30 countries and negotiated with or advised leaders in the public sector, including those at the ambassador and presidential levels. He has been interviewed frequently by major news outlets including the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio, as well as the Financial Times (London), Nikkei Information (Japan) and UAE Money Magazine (United Arab Emirates) among a host of foreign media. 

Imparato was honored in 2001 by the Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund (formerly the Sudan Relief and Rescue Foundation) for “raising the awareness of the plight of the peoples of Sudan.”

Cecily Joseph

Director of Corporate Responsibility, Symantec

Cecily Joseph is Director of Corporate Responsibility at Symantec Corporation. Symantec is the 4th largest independent software company in the world with offices in over 40 countries.  Symantec is a signatory to the UN Global Compact and was also recently added to the FTSE4Good.  At Symantec, Cecily oversees its global corporate social responsibility program which includes policy development and integration, stakeholder engagement and program communication. Cecily joined Symantec after twelve years with VERITAS Software where she managed the company's legal affairs and served as Executive Director of the VERITAS Foundation.  Ms. Joseph received a bachelors degree from the University of Miami and a law degree from Tulane University, School of Law.

Azure Kraxberger

Azure Kraxberger, PsyD is a recent graduate from the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University in San Francisco, CA. In her dissertation project she created a manual to assist small business owners and managers with step-by-step instructions on how to assess, plan, and incorporate social responsibility into their business practices. Her other research interests include women in leadership and social justice. During graduate school she did organizational development consulting with an environmental and social justice non-profit organization that worked with other non-profits in a national social justice movement. She earned her M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University and her B.S. in Psychology from Northern Arizona Univeristy. She currently lives between her home state of Alaska and San Francisco.

Rich Lang

Vice President, Human Resources, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Rich joined Sun in 1999 and has since held several leadership positions across the organization.  In his current role as VP of HR Rich splits his time between two key areas.  First, Rich leads the HR function for Sun's Engineering and Research & Development communities.  In this role Rich and his team provide the primary strategic HR business partner support to Sun's technical community.

In his capacity as the head of Sun's Organization Consulting team Rich is responsible for building a flexible and scalable internal consulting capability across several practice disciplines, including organization effectiveness, global location strategy, employee sensing and change management.

Previously, as Director of Sun's Executive Talent Management team, Rich led the Talent Management processes across the executive population, integrating executive recruiting and succession management with leadership and management development and Sun's overall performance management processes.

As Director of Strategy and Planning Rich was responsible for driving Sun's overall people strategy and the Human Resources group strategy.  In this role he also developed Sun's first global engineering location strategy, led the company-wide acquisition integration team, ran Sun's HR research lab and drove Sun's human capital measurement and employee sensing functions.

Prior to joining Sun Rich spent seven years at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, both in the regulated and unregulated portions of the California utility industry.  While at PG&E Rich held positions in the line and corporate HR groups before moving into PG&E's utility operations group as Director of Customer and Field Services.

Rich holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Ann Lewnes

Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications, Adobe Systems Incorporated

As senior vice president of corporate marketing and communications, Ann Lewnes is responsible for Adobe’s corporate brand and integrated marketing efforts worldwide. She drives the company’s corporate positioning, branding and identity, public relations, customer engagement marketing and vertical marketing to ensure strong connections with customers and constituents. As champion of Adobe’s brand to employees and the community, she also oversees Adobe’s sales and internal communications, corporate affairs and community relations efforts.

Prior to joining Adobe in November 2006, Lewnes served as vice president of sales and marketing at Intel Corporation. With more than 20 years of technology experience, Lewnes built global demand for the Intel brand from consumers, business professionals, and key computer channels. She managed the highly successful “Intel Inside” program and oversaw several groundbreaking campaigns, including Intel’s 386 SX campaign (the first-ever microprocessor campaign targeting PC end-users) and the launches of the Pentium® and Centrino® processor brands.

In 1997, Lewnes was named one of the top 25 women to watch by Advertising Age. In 2000, she was elected to the American Advertising Federation's Hall of Achievement. Lewnes holds a bachelor's degree in international relations and journalism from Lehigh University. She serves on the boards of the Association of National Advertisers and JumpStart, a nonprofit that provides support to families of autistic children. Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Donna Morris

Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Adobe Systems Incorporated

As senior vice president of human resources, Donna Morris leads Adobe’s global human resources organization which drives the recruitment, development, compensation and benefits programs for more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Among her key priorities is advancing Adobe’s culture and reputation as one of the best places to work as recognized by Fortune Magazine in the United States and other publications around the world. During her career, Morris has led both generalist and specialist human resources functions in the high technology, communications and government fields. Prior to becoming senior vice president in March 2007, Morris held several other management positions within Adobe Human Resources, providing leadership to the company’s global human resources activities. Before joining Adobe, Morris was vice president of human resources and learning at Accelio Corporation, a Canadian software company acquired by Adobe in 2002.

Morris has earned several industry honors, including Human Resources Professional of the Year in Ottawa, Canada. She is currently on the board of directors for Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties in California. Morris has a bachelor’s degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and holds the Canadian Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation. Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information – anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Almaz Negash, MBA

Almaz Negash, MBA is founder of EntwineGlobal, where she consults businesses and educational institutions on global trade, marketing, social, economic development and sustainability.  She is also a Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. As a Fellow in Global Leadership and Ethics, Almaz Negash spearheads the newly developed project on Ethics of Immigration and Migration of the Markkula Center.

Prior to becoming a Fellow, Negash was the director of the Global Leadership and Ethics Program, at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; Almaz Negash worked with global leadership organizations in their work to promote global ethical and moral issues. The program provided counsel and assistance to organizations of former heads of state and heads of government to speak to the world about the need for global leadership. The program sought to harness the moral voice of world leaders and the power of media to advance workable solutions to worldwide problems.  She actively catalyzed and fostered effective and responsive partnerships between the Global Leadership and Ethics program, organizations of former heads of states, and other groups.  These partnerships were sustained through dialogue, actions, and joint projects on global social, economical, and humanitarian issues.  

Over the last twelve years Almaz has helped build and foster vital strategic relationships between a diverse set of individuals and organizations around the world. While at the Silicon Valley Center for International Trade Development (SVCITD), Almaz helped originate marketing, distribution, export strategies, and commercial partnerships for over 200 clients, aiding in garnering millions of dollars in contracts for her clientele.  She organized and led trade missions to Japan, Europe, Africa, and Latin America and hosted missions in Silicon Valley from Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Botswana, and Macedonia.

In addition, she worked as a researcher for a Sr. Fellow at the Hewlett Foundation who was working on a book on Corporate Social Responsibility. The purpose of the research was to identify corporations that are engaged in the creation of environmental, social, and economical values within their businesses

Negash is a founding member of the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum (WLIF), a five year initiative of the Ethical Globalization (EGI) headed by the Hon. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland.  The purpose of WLIF is to enable women leaders to bridge global divides and to make strides on issues that commonly affect them.

She is also a founder of the Global Women’s Leadership Network, sponsored by the Leavey School of Business, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the School of Engineering and faculty of the Women Leaders for the World Program.

Negash serves on many committees including Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW), Board Member, Greater San Jose Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Global Women Leaders Network at Santa Clara University.  She holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and a B.A. in International Business from University of San Francisco.

James O'Toole

Research Professor and Director, Center for Effective Organizations, University of Southern California, and Fellow, Aspen Institute

James O'Toole is Research Professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California (USC).  He is also Mortimer J. Adler Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

At USC he has held the University Associates' Chair of Management and served as Executive Director of the Leadership Institute.  He has been editor of New Management magazine and Director of the Twenty-Year Forecast Project (where he interpreted social, political, and economic change for the top management of thirty of the largest US corporations).

O'Toole's research and writings have been in the areas of leadership, political/economic philosophy, ethics, and corporate culture.  He has addressed dozens of major corporations and professional groups, and has over one hundred published articles. Among his sixteen books, Vanguard Management was named "One of the best business and economics books of 1985" by the editors of Business Week and Leadership A to Z, received an enthusiastic review in Fortune (Dec 6, 1999).  His latest books are Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle’s Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness (2005), and The New American Workplace (with Edward Lawler, 2006).

O'Toole received his Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  He served as a Special Assistant to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Elliot Richardson, as Chairman of the Secretary’s Task Force on Work in America, and as Director of Field Investigations for President Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest.  He won a Mitchell Prize for a paper on economic growth policy, has served on the prestigious Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and was editor of The American Oxonian magazine.  From 1994-97 O'Toole was Executive Vice President of the Aspen Institute.  He also has served as Managing Director of the Booz • Allen & Hamilton Strategic Leadership Center, and Chair of the Center's academic Board of Advisors.

Premal Shah

President, Kiva

As President, Premal leads Kiva.org's efforts to scale its partnerships and member base. Prior to Kiva.org, Premal was a Principal Product Manager at PayPal, an eBay company. During his 6 year career at PayPal, Premal drove a number of key initiatives including a year long project defining eBay's role in economically empowering the global working poor. A number of corporate initiatives have come out of this effort, including PayPal's support of Kiva.org. Prior to PayPal, Premal was a strategy consultant at Mercer Management Consulting in New York. Premal has had a long standing interest in microfinance. In 1997, he was awarded a grant from Stanford University to research microfinance in Gujarat, India. More recently Premal co-founded the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network and spent 2 months in India working to refine / validate Kiva.org's model. In 2006, Premal was a featured speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative and Global Microcredit Summit. Premal graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

Andrew Smith

Founder and CEO of ATDynamics, Inc. and Consultant, Natural Capitalism Inc

Andrew F. Smith is an entrepreneur and management consultant committed to sustainable economic development.  Mr. Smith is Co-Founder and CEO of Advanced Transit Dynamics, Inc. (ATDynamics), a company commercializing fuel-saving aerodynamics technology for tractor-trailers.  In 2005, he also founded and served as Executive Director of the Treasure America Project, a bi-partisan initiative to promote sound energy policy and the preservation of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Prior to ATDynamics and the Treasure America Project, Mr. Smith spent five years consulting to business, government, and non-profit leaders in twelve countries.  Mr. Smith was a founding member of OTF Group, a boutique economic development consulting firm with projects in Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.  He came to OTF Group from The Monitor Group where he consulted to Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, apparel, tourism, manufacturing, and transportation industries.

Mr. Smith has promoted the rapid commercialization of environmental technologies throughout his career.  He promoted green business initiatives in locations as diverse as Afghanistan and Alabama, managed an electric vehicle demonstration program for the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources and worked for GE’s Commercial Leadership Program in wind energy.  He is retained as a Senior Advisor to Natural Capitalism Solutions, Inc., a sustainable business consulting firm.  His work with environmental technologies stems from a passion for pristine wild places.  Mr. Smith is an avid mountaineer and has led high altitude expeditions in Patagonia, the Himalayas and Alaska.

Andrew holds a B.A. in Physics from Middlebury College and is a Masters of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Adam Werbach

CEO, ACTNow

Adam Werbach is the CEO of Act Now, a unique sustainability agency with the mission of creating a world full of happy people living on a healthy planet.

After graduating with a double major from Brown University, Adam was encouraged by his mentor, legendary environmentalist David Brower, to seek the office of the president of the Sierra Club—he was elected by one vote at age 23.

As president, Werbach oversaw a rebuilding phase for the 114-year-old Sierra Club. He led the efforts to build campus organizations, tripled the size of the communications budget, negotiated protection for the Escalante Red Rock Canyons in Utah, broke with the environmental community on the Kyoto climate change treaty, and worked with grassroots leaders in every state except Hawaii. He was reelected to a second term as President.

Adam left the Sierra Club to focus on creating social change through media. He founded Act Now Productions in 1998 with the goal of reaching all Americans with stories about the fate of the planet.

In the year 2000, Werbach acquired the Video Project, the nation's leading distributor of environmental videos to high schools and universities. The Video Project today reaches over 1 million students a year in their classrooms. In 2006, Act Now created Ironweed Films, a progressive DVD film club which distributes thought-provoking documentaries on a monthly basis.

Act Now has set up a skunk works for new communications initiatives which researches methods for creating and modeling "nano-practices" that will change consumer behavior. In 2006, Act Now initiated the Media Metrics project to help refine and distribute the best methodologies for moving values through the media.

Adam has appeared on television shows ranging from the "O'Reilly Report" to "Charlie Rose" to "Politically Incorrect" and has been featured in publications like the New York Times, People, LA Times, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, New Republic, Rolling Stone and TIME magazine. He was even an answer to a question on Jeopardy. He is also a contributing editor at In These Times magazine, a Commissioner of the San Francisco Public Utilities and a member of the six-member International Board of Greenpeace.

His book, Act Now, Apologize Later, was published by Harper-Collins in 1998 and is still read widely on college campuses.