Susan M. Cischke
Group Vice President, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering
Ford Motor Company

Susan M. Cischke is responsible for establishing Ford Motor Company's long range sustainability strategy and environmental policy. That strategy, Ford’s Blueprint for Sustainability, sets the path for technology implementation across Ford’s global product line-up to achieve a 30 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020. Cischke serves as Ford's chief liaison with global organizations seeking solutions to the challenges of sustainability, environmental stewardship and energy independence.

In addition, Cischke is responsible for influencing future environmental and safety regulations and assuring that Ford Motor Company meets or exceeds all safety and environmental regulations worldwide. As Ford's chief safety officer, she leads the Driving Skills for Life program, a partnership between Ford Motor Company and the Governor's State Highway Traffic Association that teaches safe driving technique to teens.

Cischke was named group vice president in April 2008. She has served as Ford's top environmental and safety officer since January 2001. Cischke is a council member of the World Economic Forum, a member of the University of Michigan College of Engineering National Advisory Committee and serves on the boards of the Ford Motor Company Fund, the Henry Ford Health System Foundation, and the Detroit Science Center.

Aron Cramer
President and CEO
Business for Social Responsibility

Aron is recognized globally as an authority on corporate responsibility by leaders in business and NGOs and by his peers in the field. He advises senior leaders at BSR's 250 member companies and other global businesses, and is regularly featured as a speaker at major events and in a range of media outlets. Under his leadership, BSR has doubled its staff and significantly expanded its global presence. Aron is co-author of the forthcoming book Sustainable Excellence, to be published in the fall of 2010, which will explore current and future evolutions in corporate responsibility, charting its development into a core element of business strategy and activities.

Aron joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights Program, and in 2002, he opened BSR's Paris office, where he worked until becoming President and CEO in 2004.

Previously, Aron practiced law in San Francisco and worked as a journalist at ABC News in New York.

Rose Kirk
Vice President - Public Affairs, Policy & Communications
Verizon Communications

Rose Kirk is vice president - public affairs, policy and communications for Verizon Communications. She is responsible for developing, implementing and measuring Verizon’s corporate responsibility communications strategy.

Rose has held a range of executive level positions across the various Verizon business units. Previously, she served as vice president - Sales Operations for the Enterprise and Government team, vice president - Enterprise Distribution, vice president - Corporate Employee Communications, vice president - Partner Sales and Customer Services for the Business Solutions Group, executive director of Marketing Strategy and Integration, and director - Consumer Product Line Management.

She has been recognized as one of the Top 20 Working Mothers in America, and is the recipient of numerous advertising and creative marketing awards and three Verizon Excellence Awards.

She chairs the Board of Directors for the National Domestic Violence Hotline and serves on the Communications Department Advisory Board of Arkansas State University.

Rose holds a B.S. degree in Journalism from Arkansas State University and is completing a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Washington University in St. Louis.

Marc Gunther
Contributing Editor
FORTUNE

Marc Gunther writes and speaks about business and sustainability. He is a contributing editor at FORTUNE magazine, a senior writer at Greenbiz.com and a blogger at The Energy Collective and at www.marcgunther.com. His FORTUNE cover stories included "Walmart Saves the Planet," "Buffett's Electric Car" (about BYD) and "God and Business." Marc is also the author or co-author of four books, including Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business (Crown 2004), and the creator of Brainstorm Green, FORTUNE's annual conference on business and the environment. A husband and father, Marc enjoys biking, hiking and running marathons (sort of). He lives in Bethesda, MD.

Kim Jeffery
President and CEO
Nestlé Waters North America Inc.

Kim Jeffery is president and chief executive officer of Nestlé Waters North America Inc. based in Greenwich, Conn. For 32 years, Mr. Jeffery has been at the vanguard of the rapidly-growing bottled water industry. Since Mr. Jeffery joined the company, Nestlé Waters North America has grown into the leading bottled water company in America, with 7,500 employees, 27 bottling facilities and sales of $4 billion in 2009. The company is well-known for its bottled water brands such as Poland Spring, Deer Park and Nestlé Pure Life.

Throughout his tenure, Mr. Jeffery has made environmental stewardship a priority and the company is an industry leader in building green plants, reducing water use, protecting watersheds and their surroundings, and reducing raw material usage through lightweighting and self-manufacture of plastic bottles.

A native of Wilmette, Ill., Mr. Jeffery resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife and four children.

William McDonough, FAIA
Author
Cradle to Cradle

William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call “The Next Industrial Revolution.” McDonough and German chemist Dr. Michael Braungart co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things which is one of most influential and widely read books of the American sustainability movement and has been translated into 10 languages.

McDonough is founding partner in William McDonough + Partners, an architecture and community design firm. The firm has designed landmark projects in the U.S. and beyond. He is founding principal of MBDC, a product and systems design consulting firm that assists prominent companies to innovate new products and services using Cradle to Cradle® design principles.

McDonough is a venture partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners in San Bruno, California, which is one of the world’s leading clean technology investment firms with a prestigious team of industry luminaries.

Srikant M. Datar
Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting
Harvard University

Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University. Cited by his students as a dedicated and innovative teacher, Datar received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom at Carnegie Mellon University and the Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford University.

He co-authored a leading cost accounting textbook and Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Datar has published research on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives and performance evaluation in prestigious journals. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and presented his research to corporate executives and academic audiences in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Datar, a Chartered Accountant who holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, is a graduate of the University of Bombay, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. Datar serves on the board of Novartis AG, ICF International, KPIT Cummins Info Systems Ltd., Stryker Corporation, and Harvard Business Publishing.

Judith Samuelson
Executive Director
Aspen Institute Business and Society Program

Judith Samuelson is a leading public policy advocate with a background in business, public-private partnerships, and philanthropy. Since the mid-1980s, her work has focused on the role and impact of business in society.

Judith created the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, which employs research and dialogue among business leaders to build a sustainable global society. Judith recently helped spearhead the creation of the Aspen Principles, a set of guidelines for long-term value creation for companies and institutional investors. Previously, Judith led the Ford Foundation's office of Program Related-Investments and created the Corporate Involvement Initiative, managed a sales and lending team at Bankers Trust Company, and worked in Sacramento as a lobbyist, legislative aide, and in the Governor's office.

Judith holds a B.A. from UCLA and Masters Degree from the Yale School of Management. She sits on the Board of ACCION-New York and is Chair Emeritus of Net Impact.

James P. Walsh
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Management
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Jim Walsh (PhD, Northwestern University) is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Management at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

Jim’s research interests lie in the area of corporate governance. Initially doing work within the neo-classical model of the firm, he has expanded his conception of governance to more broadly consider the purposes and accountability of the firm in society.

Jim is the founding co-editor of the Academy of Management Annals. He has previously served as Senior Editor and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, Consulting Editor for the Academy of Management Review, and Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal.

A Fellow of the Academy of Management, he just completed his service as it 65th president. The Academy is comprised of 20,000 management scholars from over 100 countries.

David Blood
Senior Partner
Generation Investment Management

David Blood is Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, a fund management business dedicated to long term investment and integrated sustainability research. Previously, David served as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. His responsibilities included all aspects of the global business including portfolio management, sales and client service, risk management and infrastructure. David received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is on the Board of Hamilton College, Social Finance, New Forests and SHINE; on the Investment Committee of the Acumen Fund and the Advisory Board of Bridges Ventures.

Gary Hirshberg
Chairman, President, and CE-Yo
Stonyfield Farm

Gary Hirshberg is Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer and the author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World (Hyperion Books, 2008).

Since 1983, Gary has overseen Stonyfield’s phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school to its current $366 million in annual sales. Stonyfield has enjoyed a compounded annual growth rate of over 23% for more than eighteen years, by consistently producing great-tasting products and using innovative marketing techniques that blend the company’s social, environmental, and financial missions. In 2001, Stonyfield Farm entered into a partnership with Groupe Danone, and in 2005, Gary became managing director of Stonyfield Europe, a joint venture with Danone, with organic brands in Canada, Ireland, and France.

Gary serves on several corporate and non-profit boards including Applegate Farms, Honest Tea, Peak Organic Brewing, The Full Yield, Climate Counts, SweetGreen, RAMp Sports, Stonyfield Europe, Glenisk, and the Danone Communities Fund. He is also the chairman and co-founder of O’Naturals, a natural fast food restaurant company.

Majora Carter
President
The Majora Carter Group, LLC

Majora Carter simultaneously addresses public health, poverty alleviation, and climate change as one of the nation’s pioneers in successful urban green-collar job training and placement systems. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 to achieve environmental justice through economically sustainable projects informed by community needs. Her work has earned numerous awards including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, one of Essence Magazine’s 25 Most Influential African-Americans, and one of the NY Post’s Most Influential NYC Women. She is a board member of the Widerness Society, SJF, and CERES; and hosts a special national public radio series called “The Promised Land” (thepromisedland.org). Her work now includes advising cities, foundations, universities, businesses, and communities around the world on unlocking their green-collar economic potential to benefit everyone as President of the Majora Carter Group, LLC.

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