This is a great site I have run across that I recommend highly. Great webinars/access to information and connection with other like minded sustainability folks around the globe.
http://www.2degreesnetwork.com
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PROFILE
Executive Management, Sustainability Strategies and Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Strategy Development / Sustainability Metrics & Roadmaps / Social Capital /Start-ups/ Due Diligence Scenario Analysis
/ Global Relationships & Alliances / Innovation & Program Development / Market Development / Macro Micro & Geo-Economic Analysis / Best Practices
Social Entrepreneur with a strong ethos around global, social, environmental, business, and political considerations. Began career as a scientist in Energy and Environment and the Natural Resources Industry, and moved into business to make a difference. In the private sector, employed mix of strategic and entrepreneurial skills that drove significant increase in revenue for large organizations such as Grubb & Ellis Commercial and Raychem, as well as smaller firms. Positioned corporations for success in both mature and rapid growth markets. Deep experience in multiple sectors spans international trade, finance, investments, alternative resources, high tech, and energy & environment with specialized expertise in business development, strategic marketing, management consulting, CSR environmental strategies and metrics, corporate social responsibility, accountability, stakeholder dialogue, and cross-sector partnerships.
•Pioneered “green” and corporate social responsibility & sustainability strategies, which provided corporations mechanisms to help preserve global bio-diversity and enhance their legacy.
•Initiated strategy for BGS, transforming transaction-centric brokerage into strategic equity advisory practice, driving revenues to $80M in annual sales.
•Revamped Pacific Rim strategy for Pivotal Strategies client, Raychem, fostering 30% regional sales boost.
•Captured new opportunity, positioning Grubb & Ellis Commercial as a “player” in a major market sector.
Key Skills: Strategic visionary with proven talent for identifying and capitalizing upon new business opportunities. Inspire and nurture talent to create a high-performance culture. Superior individual contributor to corporate growth. Skilled at building productive, long-term relationships with C-level executives. Innovator with a passion for creating solutions – especially as it relates to protecting the planet, conservation, and environmental strategies
Bachelor of Science, Conservation of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley. Professional development through executive management classes at Stanford, Wharton and UC Berkeley, among others.
Representative Accomplishments
Created collaboration for innovative ecosystem project, showcasing viable methods of protecting wildlife/enabling urban growth. For decades real estate developers and society, in general, have struggled with the issue of growth vs. protecting the environment. Collaborated with Project CAT to illustrate how to promote the project and use it as a model for projects throughout the country. Oversaw collaboration of researchers, academics, business leaders, and advisors, uniting multiple ecosystem stakeholders to devise a practical approach to combining environmental stewardship and the needs of a growing population.
Formulated strategic alliance with IUCN, enhancing business’ role in the realm of biodiversity conservation. IUCN, the World Conservation Union, is an established global network of scientists from 180 countries that is committed to maintain the diversity of nature. Played key role in connecting key US companies (i.e. Boeing, Mutual of Omaha, Starbucks, Oracle, H-P and Washington Mutual Bank) with IUCN in order to promote viable partnerships in tune with global conservation requirements as well as international business growth.
Initiated strategy for BGS, emphasizing service quality over shear volume to drive $80MM in annual sales. In the pre-2008 boom years, low rates and market mayhem were threatening BGS’ core business. Identified and developed unique market niche, positioning firm’s brokers as financial strategists/certified mortgage planners. Formed strategic collaborative alliances with financial and estate planners, attorneys and CPA’s. Employed a collaborative business model to boost referrals 400%. Incorporated industry Best Practices to increase client retention four-fold.
Initiated innovative teaching module for Commerce One, enabling diverse grouping of sales engineers to function cohesively as a single unit. IT company had quickly jumped from under $50MM to several hundred million dollars, and the dramatic increase in global engineering personnel made critical collaboration very difficult. Devised detailed proposal based upon team building in an isolated geographic environment. Created innovative “game” called Pursuit set in a wildlife preserve focused on identifying clues and tracking wildlife with the aid of wildlife biologists. Quickly developed cooperative concept among diverse, multi-lingual engineering personnel to teach them about nature and in so doing, fostered strong sense of community for the team; the exercise became a metaphor which engaged employees and communicated the importance of their individual contributions.
Revamped Pacific Rim strategy for Pivotal Strategies client, Raychem, fostering 30% regional sales boost. Asia sales channels were marginally productive and Raychem was rapidly losing its regional competitive edge. Recruited to fix the problem, performed comprehensive audit of Indian and Indonesian operations, closely examining internal plans, strategic partnerships and banking relationships. Utilized trade finance options to enable contracts more beneficial to Raychem. Restructured alliances into “win-win” agreements. Eliminated majority of operational issues to drive market share increase.
Stimulated partnerships with Nexus Asia clients, including Indonesian government, and major US corporations. A client, Indonesian think tank Nexus Asia, sought more investment opportunities for American companies and its regional partners. Created strong business case, identifying alliance opportunities with Pacific Rim governments seeking US partners. Connected with US real estate firms to devise environmentally sensitive development strategies for Indonesian properties totaling $2.8B. Positioned US firms as key players in inter-island telecom infrastructure development project.
Captured new market opportunity, positioning Grubb & Ellis Commercial as a “player” in hospitality industry. National firm had never been active in the potentially lucrative hospitality/resort sector. Identified unique situation in which a major developer had over extended itself by taking on a $40M Westin Hotel project in Ft. Lauderdale. Quickly positioned G&E as lead broker, utilizing company’s extensive global alliance network to produce the necessary funding. Re-calculated all financials and devised strategy to effectively market the property, making millions of dollars for G&E.
Career Profile:
Board of Advisors, University of California BERC ( Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative )
http://berkeley.berc.edu
Advisor
Orangutan Land Trust
http://redapes.org
Board of Advisors, TreeVestors, Inc.
http://www.treevestors.com
Chair, Send Me An Angel, Inc.
http://www.callinganangel.com
Career History:
Founder and CEO, Mirrageos, Inc. ; Mirrageos creates sustainability analytics and metrics for the agricultural markets and food industry. Our mission is to provide the tools for companies to measure and quantify their environmental footprint and make better choices for resource usage. In so doing, corporations will improve their business practices and help to steward the ecosystems that support life on our Planet.
Senior Advisor, Social Wealth Institute,. Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Consultancy focusing on High Performance CSR strategies and Organizational Development.
Managing Principal, BGS Financial,. Founded boutique finance advisory to provide unique collateralization and debt financing strategies for homeowners as well as sophisticated investors.
President & Chief Executive Officer, Canopy,. Concurrently operated consultancy focused on pioneering strategies/environmental advisory services for companies seeking to integrate sustainability and environmental stewardship into their mainstream operations, and lessen their environmental footprint while still making money.
Managing Director, Saunders & Associates, 1989 to 1998. Launched management consulting firm, growing business to $1.3M by providing strategic investment advice and communications strategies to a range of global clients including think tanks like Nexus Asia, REITS and government entities. Orchestrated productive business alliances with several trans-global corporations.
Senior Advisor, Grubb & Ellis Commercial, 1985 to 1989. Expanded scope of real estate firm’s business, opening new opportunities across the agricultural and hospitality/resort sector to add millions of dollars to the bottom line.
Earlier, served as Principal with Pivotal Strategies (Raychem was key client); and Global Marketing Manager at Tandem Computers (now HP); Chief Economist at Pacific International Rice Mills, and Environmental Researcher, Energy & Environment, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories- UC Berkeley
Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Strategy Development / Sustainability Metrics & Roadmaps / Social Capital /Start-ups/ Due Diligence Scenario Analysis
/ Global Relationships & Alliances / Innovation & Program Development / Market Development / Macro Micro & Geo-Economic Analysis / Best Practices
Social Entrepreneur with a strong ethos around global, social, environmental, business, and political considerations. Began career as a scientist in Energy and Environment and the Natural Resources Industry, and moved into business to make a difference. In the private sector, employed mix of strategic and entrepreneurial skills that drove significant increase in revenue for large organizations such as Grubb & Ellis Commercial and Raychem, as well as smaller firms. Positioned corporations for success in both mature and rapid growth markets. Deep experience in multiple sectors spans international trade, finance, investments, alternative resources, high tech, and energy & environment with specialized expertise in business development, strategic marketing, management consulting, CSR environmental strategies and metrics, corporate social responsibility, accountability, stakeholder dialogue, and cross-sector partnerships.
•Pioneered “green” and corporate social responsibility & sustainability strategies, which provided corporations mechanisms to help preserve global bio-diversity and enhance their legacy.
•Initiated strategy for BGS, transforming transaction-centric brokerage into strategic equity advisory practice, driving revenues to $80M in annual sales.
•Revamped Pacific Rim strategy for Pivotal Strategies client, Raychem, fostering 30% regional sales boost.
•Captured new opportunity, positioning Grubb & Ellis Commercial as a “player” in a major market sector.
Key Skills: Strategic visionary with proven talent for identifying and capitalizing upon new business opportunities. Inspire and nurture talent to create a high-performance culture. Superior individual contributor to corporate growth. Skilled at building productive, long-term relationships with C-level executives. Innovator with a passion for creating solutions – especially as it relates to protecting the planet, conservation, and environmental strategies
Bachelor of Science, Conservation of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley. Professional development through executive management classes at Stanford, Wharton and UC Berkeley, among others.
Representative Accomplishments
Created collaboration for innovative ecosystem project, showcasing viable methods of protecting wildlife/enabling urban growth. For decades real estate developers and society, in general, have struggled with the issue of growth vs. protecting the environment. Collaborated with Project CAT to illustrate how to promote the project and use it as a model for projects throughout the country. Oversaw collaboration of researchers, academics, business leaders, and advisors, uniting multiple ecosystem stakeholders to devise a practical approach to combining environmental stewardship and the needs of a growing population.
Formulated strategic alliance with IUCN, enhancing business’ role in the realm of biodiversity conservation. IUCN, the World Conservation Union, is an established global network of scientists from 180 countries that is committed to maintain the diversity of nature. Played key role in connecting key US companies (i.e. Boeing, Mutual of Omaha, Starbucks, Oracle, H-P and Washington Mutual Bank) with IUCN in order to promote viable partnerships in tune with global conservation requirements as well as international business growth.
Initiated strategy for BGS, emphasizing service quality over shear volume to drive $80MM in annual sales. In the pre-2008 boom years, low rates and market mayhem were threatening BGS’ core business. Identified and developed unique market niche, positioning firm’s brokers as financial strategists/certified mortgage planners. Formed strategic collaborative alliances with financial and estate planners, attorneys and CPA’s. Employed a collaborative business model to boost referrals 400%. Incorporated industry Best Practices to increase client retention four-fold.
Initiated innovative teaching module for Commerce One, enabling diverse grouping of sales engineers to function cohesively as a single unit. IT company had quickly jumped from under $50MM to several hundred million dollars, and the dramatic increase in global engineering personnel made critical collaboration very difficult. Devised detailed proposal based upon team building in an isolated geographic environment. Created innovative “game” called Pursuit set in a wildlife preserve focused on identifying clues and tracking wildlife with the aid of wildlife biologists. Quickly developed cooperative concept among diverse, multi-lingual engineering personnel to teach them about nature and in so doing, fostered strong sense of community for the team; the exercise became a metaphor which engaged employees and communicated the importance of their individual contributions.
Revamped Pacific Rim strategy for Pivotal Strategies client, Raychem, fostering 30% regional sales boost. Asia sales channels were marginally productive and Raychem was rapidly losing its regional competitive edge. Recruited to fix the problem, performed comprehensive audit of Indian and Indonesian operations, closely examining internal plans, strategic partnerships and banking relationships. Utilized trade finance options to enable contracts more beneficial to Raychem. Restructured alliances into “win-win” agreements. Eliminated majority of operational issues to drive market share increase.
Stimulated partnerships with Nexus Asia clients, including Indonesian government, and major US corporations. A client, Indonesian think tank Nexus Asia, sought more investment opportunities for American companies and its regional partners. Created strong business case, identifying alliance opportunities with Pacific Rim governments seeking US partners. Connected with US real estate firms to devise environmentally sensitive development strategies for Indonesian properties totaling $2.8B. Positioned US firms as key players in inter-island telecom infrastructure development project.
Captured new market opportunity, positioning Grubb & Ellis Commercial as a “player” in hospitality industry. National firm had never been active in the potentially lucrative hospitality/resort sector. Identified unique situation in which a major developer had over extended itself by taking on a $40M Westin Hotel project in Ft. Lauderdale. Quickly positioned G&E as lead broker, utilizing company’s extensive global alliance network to produce the necessary funding. Re-calculated all financials and devised strategy to effectively market the property, making millions of dollars for G&E.
Career Profile:
Board of Advisors, University of California BERC ( Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative )
http://berkeley.berc.edu
Advisor
Orangutan Land Trust
http://redapes.org
Board of Advisors, TreeVestors, Inc.
http://www.treevestors.com
Chair, Send Me An Angel, Inc.
http://www.callinganangel.com
Career History:
Founder and CEO, Mirrageos, Inc. ; Mirrageos creates sustainability analytics and metrics for the agricultural markets and food industry. Our mission is to provide the tools for companies to measure and quantify their environmental footprint and make better choices for resource usage. In so doing, corporations will improve their business practices and help to steward the ecosystems that support life on our Planet.
Senior Advisor, Social Wealth Institute,. Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Consultancy focusing on High Performance CSR strategies and Organizational Development.
Managing Principal, BGS Financial,. Founded boutique finance advisory to provide unique collateralization and debt financing strategies for homeowners as well as sophisticated investors.
President & Chief Executive Officer, Canopy,. Concurrently operated consultancy focused on pioneering strategies/environmental advisory services for companies seeking to integrate sustainability and environmental stewardship into their mainstream operations, and lessen their environmental footprint while still making money.
Managing Director, Saunders & Associates, 1989 to 1998. Launched management consulting firm, growing business to $1.3M by providing strategic investment advice and communications strategies to a range of global clients including think tanks like Nexus Asia, REITS and government entities. Orchestrated productive business alliances with several trans-global corporations.
Senior Advisor, Grubb & Ellis Commercial, 1985 to 1989. Expanded scope of real estate firm’s business, opening new opportunities across the agricultural and hospitality/resort sector to add millions of dollars to the bottom line.
Earlier, served as Principal with Pivotal Strategies (Raychem was key client); and Global Marketing Manager at Tandem Computers (now HP); Chief Economist at Pacific International Rice Mills, and Environmental Researcher, Energy & Environment, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories- UC Berkeley
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