Featured Speakers
Felipe Albertani
President
Ecostrategy
Before founding EcoStrategy in 2007, Felipe Albertani held a variety of positions in the academic, non-profit and international development sectors. As a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank he advised on improving the sustainability of more than 300 projects financed by the organization, from large infrastructure works to small companies.
Matthew Arnold
Principal
Sustainable Finance
Matthew Arnold is a co-founder and Director of Sustainable Finance Ltd. He works with financial institutions to manage environmental and social risk and to identify environmentally superior investment opportunities. His current clients include money center banks, investment banks, private investors and public multi-lateral banks.
Jeffrey Ball
Environmental News Editor
The Wall Street Journal
Jeffrey Ball covers the business of the environment for The Wall Street Journal and edits and contributes to the Journal's new blog on the subject, Environmental Capital.
Joanna Black
Co-founder and Partner
G-Squared Group Inc.
Joanna Black is Partner and Co-Founder of G-Squared Group, a New York-based sustainability marketing consultancy. G-Squared helps companies communicate sustainability initiatives to stakeholders, or market its products and services in a sustainable way. An organizational stakeholder of the Global Reporting Initiative and an endorser of the EPA’s WasteWise program, G-Squared Group offers marketing and communication solutions for companies of all sizes—from start-ups to large multinational corporations.
Edan Dionne
Director, Corporate Environmental Affairs
IBM Corporation
Edan Dionne is Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs at IBM Corporation. IBM’s
Corporate Environmental Affairs staff sets the company’s global strategy for and oversees
IBM’s programs and performance worldwide in environment, energy and climate, product and
process environmental stewardship.
She joined IBM in 1983 and assumed her present position in 2002. Her experience included
managing a wide range of environmental and climate protection programs, partnership with
others in industry, the USEPA and nongovernmental organizations.
Ms. Dionne has a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering.
Joel Freehling
Manager, Triple Bottom Line Innovations
Shore Bank
Joel leads ShoreBank, the nation’s first community development and environmental bank in its effort to create market-based, sustainable solutions and initiatives that encourage and promote green design and energy efficient development.
Lois Grobert
Director of Sustainable Real Estate Operations
Citi
Lois has over 25 years experience within the construction and specification industry and has been with Smith Barney and Citigroup Realty Services since 1997.
In 2007 Lois accepted a new challenge as Sustainability Program Manager. In this role she is coordinating the implementation of environmental programs on a global level. As the main liaison with external associations, she serves as Citi’s LEED Advocate using the Portfolio and Volume Build certification path proposing efficient processes and educational programs. She serves on the Board of USGBC and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
Marc Heisterkamp
Manager, Market Development, Corporate/Investment Real Estate Sector
U.S. Green Building Council
As the Market Development Manager for the Corporate/Investment Real Estate
Sector, Marc Heisterkamp works closely with industry leaders and major associations
to increase the knowledge, financial incentives, and mplementation
of green building across a broad array of space types including commercial
office, hospitality, and industrial warehouse. Additionally, Marc is the key leader
in the development of initiatives related to green building finance, including
commercial lending, insurance, and appraisal.
Inci Kaya
Quantitative Analyst
TowerGroup
Inci Kaya is a Quantitative Analyst in TowerGroup's Financial Services and IT Investments practice, specializing in modeling and projecting technology spending, benchmarking IT and business performance, and identifying emerging growth trends across the financial services industry. In addition, she covers the sustainable and environmental initiatives and trends slated to impact the financial services industry in the coming decade.
Carter Kirkwood
Founder and CEO
Docuthentic LLC
Carter Kirkwood, founder and CEO of Docuthentic, is an entrepreneur whose passion for environmental issues and deep interest in the challenges of managing financial documents led to the development of VaultStreet, an innovative online financial document management service that simplifies the collection, organization and authentication of financial documents from a variety of sources.
Carter created the core technology architecture for VaultStreet based on his experience as an attorney and his knowledge of encryption and the internet. He has been an intellectual property transaction attorney at Irell & Manella, where he specialized in representing e-commerce and software businesses that developed, licensed, or acquired technology. Representative clients included AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Amgen, Broadcom, Paul Allen, Charter Communications, venture capitalists, start-up companies, and individual entrepreneurs. Carter is a Member of the University of Chicago Law Review.
Sue Larew
Vice President, Consumer Banking
First Interstate Bank
Sue Larew is a Vice President responsible for Consumer Banking in the Missoula Market Area for First Interstate Bank. Sue specializes in the Consumer Banking efforts, Marketing, PR and Community efforts. She has been with First Interstate Bank for 5 years. Before joining them she was with Bessemer Trust where she was Senior Vice President working with Clients focused on comprehensive wealth management and succession planning. Prior to this, Sue was a Senior Vice President, Consumer Executive in Miami, Fl responsible for sales, operations and administrative management for 73 banks, 1050 associates and 6 billion in deposits. She has an MBA from the University of Miami, and she is a CFP.
Chris Laszlo
Managing Partner and co-founder
Sustainable Value Partners, LLC
Chris is managing partner and co-founder of Sustainable Value Partners. He provides advisory services to senior leaders in some of the world’s largest companies to transform societal opportunities and risks into sources of competitive advantage. He has led over 100 executive seminars and spoken widely on “Sustainability for strategic advantage” inside companies and at leading business schools including Case Weatherhead, Cornell, and the European business school INSEAD in the Advanced Management Seminar and CEDEP Executive Education program.
Jean-Francois Laugel
Partner
Sustainable Value Partners, LLC
Jean-François Laugel, Partner of Sustainable Value Partner- has spent 20 years helping companies to evolve in a competitive market place. Jean-François Laugel began his career with the international strategy consulting practice of Deloitte Touche. He joined AXA in 1991 as Director in charge of Marketing and Business Strategy.
Peter Liu
Founding Partner
New Resource Bank
Peter Liu is the initial founder and vice chairman of New Resource Bank, an innovative community bank in San Francisco that is setting a new standard in customer service while financing efficient and sustainable resources in its community.
Mark Long
News Editor
Dow Jones Newswire
Mark Long oversees Dow Jones Newswires’ coverage of natural gas, electricity, and emerging greenhouse-gas emissions markets.
Mindy S. Lubber JD, MBA
President
Ceres
Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices.
Daria K. Milburn
Vice President, Environmental Affairs
Wachovia Corporation
Ms. Milburn is Vice President of Environmental Affairs for Wachovia Corporation, where she works with matters pertaining to corporate environmental stewardship and sustainable business practices. She has over has over twelve years of experience in the environmental field, and a wide range of experience providing environmental consulting services to financial institutions, municipalities, local industries, developers, and individuals in the private sector. She is a frequent presenter at technical conferences and has authored several articles on Environmental Risk Management. Ms. Milburn is an active member of the Environmental Bankers Association, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, and Equator Principle Financial Institution Organization. Prior to joining Wachovia, she served as President of the consulting firm, Environmental Risk Innovations, LLC, which provided environmental risk management services to financial institutions.
Lynda Pak
Director
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Lynda Pak is a director in Deloitte Consulting LLP's (Deloitte Consulting's) Technology Integration practice based in New York. She has served many Fortune 1000 clients in the financial services, consumer products, retail and manufacturing industries to deliver complex technology solutions, including information technology (IT) strategy and planning, IT cost reduction and optimization, IT organizational transformation, and enterprise resource planning implementations.
Lynda leads Deloitte Consulting's "Green IT" service offering, which balances People, Process and Technology, and drives to enhance the "green CIO" role, with the chief information officer as the catalyst who can jumpstart a company's sustainability program.
Amanda Pitre-Hayes
Manager, Environmental Programs
Vancity Credit Union
Amanda Pitre-Hayes leads Vancity's Climate Change Solutions Strategy and is responsible for Vancity's carbon neutral, carbon offset, and environmental granting programs. Prior to joining Vancity, Amanda worked at REDF, a foundation supporting social enterprises, and The Body Shop, an organization dedicated to environmental and social returns. Amanda is a former Manager in Accenture's consulting practice. She is an avid triathlete, marathon runner, and trail runner. Amanda holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Patti Prairie
CEO
Brighter Planet
Patti Prairie is CEO of Brighter Planet, a company that helps people take charge in the fight against global warming and build a clean-energy future. Her Brighter Planet responsibilities include developing the strategic plan, leading product launches, overseeing operations, and maximizing shareholder value. A long-time practitioner of conservation and efficiency, she joined the Brighter Planet team in the fall of 2006 to lead the development of an innovative company with a socially responsible mission: to empower individuals independently and collectively toward a clean-energy future.
Mike Rosenstein
Senior Manager, Enterprise Business Development – Eastern Region
Advanced Micro Devices
Mike is responsible for managing the Eastern Region of AMD’s Enterprise Business Development team. His role is to deliver AMD’s microprocessor value proposition to the corporate IT customer base, and create awareness, acceptance, and ultimately demand for AMD based commercial hardware. Mike joined AMD in 1995 as Regional Distribution Manager and subsequently became District Manager for the Mid-Atlantic Region microprocessor sales team. Prior to AMD, Mike spent 7 years at HP at various sales roles within their semiconductor components group. Mike also spent 5 years at a division of Litton where he was National Sales Manager for semiconductor materials. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University with an area of emphasis on Energy Systems.
Nicole M. Rousseau
Vice President of Retail Marketing
HSBC
Nicole Rousseau joined HSBC in December 2004 in a strategic marketing role developing programs for the bank's customer offering. She led the design and development of the US bank's first ever, successful Green Campaign leveraging the company's impressive environmental credentials. She is a member of HSBC's Climate Partnership Action Team (CPAT) a corporate, global advisory board that takes a leadership role in advising the corporation on its environmental progress.
Bruce S. Schlein
Vice President of Environmental Affairs
Citi
Bruce Schlein joined Citi in 2006 as Vice President of Environmental Affairs after having worked as a sustainability specialist for Bechtel managing community consultation, sustainability, environmental and social commitments on oil and gas and civil projects in China and Romania. Prior to Bechtel Mr. Schlein worked in a broad range of capacities for international development agencies including Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services in Bosnia Herzegovina, the U.S. Department of Energy on oil and gas industry environmental issues, and the U.S. Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea.
Mark Schwanhausser
Research Analyst
Multi-Channel Financial Services
Mark joins Javelin Strategy & Research as Multi-Channel FInancial Services Analyst. He worked nearly 26 years for the San Jose Mercury News, most of it as a personal finance reporter writing about money and emerging trends in financial services and payments technology. His primary responsibility was to write news and features on topics of particular interest in Silicon Valley. For 17 years he wrote or edited the publication’s annual tax guide, arguably the most thorough report on the subject year in and year out at general newspapers. During his career he helped launch “Getting Ahead,” a personal finance and careers section, and wrote the “Money Manual,” an occasional column aimed at helping consumers with their financial needs. His writing earned him awards from the ICI Education Foundation and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, and he wrote or edited graphics or packages that won design awards from the Malofiej Infographics World Summit and the Society of Newspaper Design. His work also contributed to a record eight consecutive staff awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the entire San Jose Mercury News staff.
Andrew L. Shapiro
Founder and CEO
GreenOrder, Inc.
Andrew L. Shapiro is Founder and CEO of GreenOrder, Inc., a sustainability strategy firm he founded in 2000 that helps companies make environmental excellence, energy innovation, and corporate responsibility drivers of profitable growth. Since 2004, Shapiro has worked closely with General Electric's senior management on the creation and implementation of its award-winning, multi-billion dollar "ecomagination" initiative. Other GreenOrder clients have included Allianz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Morgan Stanley, NYC2012 Olympic Bid, Office Depot, Pfizer, Philadelphia Eagles, Pitney Bowes, Silverstein Properties (WTC redevelopment), Tishman Speyer, Vornado Realty, and Warner Bros. Studios.
Anna Stark
Program Manager
ENERGY STAR Commercial Markets
Anna Stark is a Program Manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR program. She is responsible for coordinating outreach to commercial sector markets, including office, retail and hospitality, representing over 8 billion square feet of commercial space. She works with property owners and operators, and other financial stakeholders to promote whole building energy efficiency.
Rebecca Tarbotton
Global Finance Campaign Director
Rainforest Action Network
Rebecca Tarbotton directs Rainforest Action Network’s Global Finance Campaign which since 2000 has successfully challenged the world’s largest banks to develop industry-leading environmental and human rights policies to guide their lending and advisory practices. By blending inside negotiation with outside agitation, RAN is pushing banks to shift financing away from coal development and other carbon-intensive projects that contribute heavily to global climate change, and to elicit meaningful emission reduction targets for their operations and investments. Rebecca has been campaigning on environmental sustainability and social justice issues for eleven years and holds a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia.
Kevin Tuerff
Principal and President
Enviromedia Social Marketing
Kevin Tuerff is cofounder of EnviroMedia Social Marketing – the leading U.S. marketing agency providing sustainability consulting, delivering authentic, ethical campaigns, achieving measurable results since 1997 and generating $90 million in revenue.
Stuart Tyrie
Vice President and Program Manager
Wells Fargo's National Builder Division
Stuart Tyrie is vice present and program manager of Wells Fargo's National Builder Division. Based in Columbia, Md., he began his career with Wells Fargo in 1996 as a regional builder sales manager. Stuart was promoted in 2001 to head the National Builder Division. He has been a member of the National Association of Home Builders since 1990.
Craig Vaream
Managing Director and Product Executive
JPMorgan Chase
Craig Vaream is a Managing Director and Product Executive for JPMorgan Chase's International Check Deposit and US ACH businesses. Mr. Vaream’s responsibilities include product development and strategy, pricing, profitability and distribution for these businesses. Mr. Vaream is a Certified Public Accountant and received an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in accounting from Babson College.
Stuart Williams
Director, Payment Services
CheckFree - now part of Fiserv
Stuart Williams is the Director of Payment Services for CheckFree - now part of Fiserv. In this position, he maintains an active role within the payments industry on behalf of CheckFree, while also assisting in product innovation.
Fred Winegust
Worldwide Financial Services Sector Marketing Manager
IBM Canada Limited
Fred Winegust is a Marketing and Sales Professional with over 27 years experience at IBM.
He currently has worldwide responsibility for the selection, packaging and promotion of solutions targeted at various industry segments within the IBM Financial Services Sector.