GreenbBiz 18 will take place on Februry 6 – 8, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge. This is the premier annual event for sustainable business leaders. GreenBiz 18 will look at pressing challenges, emerging trends and big opportunities in sustainable business today. GreenBiz offers forward-looking big picture ideas mixed with practical things you can take back to the office. Join the world’s brightest thinkers and most influential sustainability leaders . More than 1,000 sustainability leaders from the business world, academia and NGOs will be in attendence to learn about the latest trends, make new connections with suppliers and peers and bring back innovative, actionable ideas. Check out the list of more than 160 speakers.
Speakers
- Lindsey Longendyke
Lindsey Longendyke
Communications Officer
World Resources Institute (WRI) - Aaron Nutter
Chief of Staff, Responsible Business Leadership
PwC - Abhishek Humbad
Founder & Co-CEO
Goodera - Al Iannuzzi
Sr. Director, Worldwide Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability
Johnson & Johnson - Alastair Child
Vice President, Global Sustainability
Mars Wrigley Confectionery - Alex Bernhardt
US Responsible Investment Leader
Mercer - Alex Co
Pittsburgh Living Product Hub Coordinator
International Living Future Institute - Alexa Beaver
Digital Innovation
BASF Corporation - Ali Rotatori
Associate
Rocky Mountain Institute - Alistair Hirst
SVP Global Supply Chain
Kellogg Company - Allen Wilson
Sr. Supply Chain Sustainability Program Manager
Intel - Alyson Genovese
Head of North America
GRI - Amon Rappaport
Senior Strategist
Civilian - Andrea Brown
Director, Circular Economy
WBCSD - Andrew Winston
Founder
Winston Eco-Strategies - Andrew Behar
CEO
As You Sow - Andy Butler
Associate Director
P&G - Angela Nahikian
Director of Global Sustainability
Steelcase - Anita Kedia
Senior Business Development Manager
Waste Management Inc. - Anne Kelly
Senior Program Director, Policy and BICEP Program
Ceres - Anthony Rossi
VP, Global Business Development
TerraCycle - Ariana Meinz
Associate
Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Ashley White
Director and Head of Corporate Sustainability
Clean Energy Fuels - Audi Banny
Interim Director, Market Engagement
Institute for Market Transformation - Beth Richmond
Manager
BSR - Bob Langert
Editor at Large
GreenBiz Group - Brandon Middaugh
Senior Program Manager for Distributed Energy
Microsoft - Brendan LeBlanc
Partner
EY - Brian Janous
General Manager of Energy
Microsoft - Brian Werner
Associate Director, Corporate Business
Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices - Britta Gross
Director of Advanced Vehicle Commercialization Policy
General Motors - Bruce Smith
Director Design, Global Seating & Surface Material
Steelcase - Bruno Sarda
VP of Sustainability
NRG - Bryan Sheehan
Director, US
Quantis International - Candela Montero
Director, Corporate Citizenship
Disney Consumer Products and Interactive - Cassandra Fong
MBA Student
The Wharton School - Cassandra Sweet
Senior Writer
GreenBiz Group - Catherine Banat
Institutional Portfolio Manager
RBC Global Asset Management (U.S.) Inc. - Cecily Joseph
‎Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Chief Diversity Officer
Symantec - Charlene Wall-Warren
Director of Sustainability
BASF Corporation - Charles Smith
Vice President Human Resources & Diversity
Guitar Center - Charlotte Blommestijn
Senior Manager, Net-Zero by 2050
The B Team - Chris Walker
Director, North America
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - Chris Busch
Manager
Apple - Chris Cochran
Executive Director
ReFED - Christian del Maestro
Manager of Corporate Citizenship
Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media (DCPI) - Christopher Cooke
Director, Technical Development
The Sustainability Consortium - Cindy Drucker
Executive Vice President, Global Sustainability & Energy
Weber Shandwick - Claus Stig Pedersen
Head of Corporate Sustainability
Novozymes - Cristina Mittermeier
Co-founder, Executive Director & Vision Lead
National Geographic - Dan Strechay
U.S. Representative, Outreach & Engagement
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) - Daniela Pigosso
Co-founder
essensus - Darla Stuckey
Executive Director
Society for Corporate Governance - Dave Stangis
VP, Corp. Responsibility, Chief Sustainability Officer
Campbell Soup Company - David Tulauskas
Director, Sustainability
General Motors - David Rinard
Global Sustainability & Strategic Sourcing
Equinix - Davida Heller
‎Vice President, Corporate Sustainability
Citi - Dawn Danby
Co-founder
Spherical - Dayna Baumeister
Partner
Biomimicry 3.8 - Deanna Bratter
Director, Sustainable Development Strategy
DanoneWave - Delwyn Hudson
Head of US Operations
Ellen MacArthur Foundation - Denise Naguib
Vice President, Sustainability & Supplier Diversity
Marriott International - Denise Osterhues
Senior Director, Corporate Affairs
Kroger - Derek Bingham
Vice President
Goldman Sachs - Devon Leahy
VP of Strategy
Futerra - Diane Biagianti
Vice President, Chief Responsibility Officer
Edwards Lifesciences - Diane Holdorf
Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer
Kellogg Company - Edward Farrington
Executive Vice President
Natixis Global Asset Management - Elaine Hsieh
Program Director & Senior Analyst – VERGE
GreenBiz Group - Elena Kocherovsky
Manager, Member Services and Adoption
Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) - Elim Sritaba
Director of Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement
Asia Pulp & Paper - Elizabeth Willmott
Carbon Program Lead
Microsoft - Elizabeth Sturcken
Managing Director
Environmental Defense Fund - Ellie Buechner
Conference Director
GreenBiz Group - Emilio Tenuta
Vice President, Corporate Sustainability
Ecolab - Emily Reichert
CEO
Greentown Labs - Emma Kurihara
Recent Graduate
Brown University - Emmanuelle Aoustin
CEO
Quantis - Eric Faurot
CEO
GreenBiz Group - Erin Meezan
Chief Sustainability Officer
Interface - Erin Robert
Head of Capital Strategies
JPMorgan Chase & Co. - Euan Murray
Chief Executive
The Sustainability Consortium - Faryal Diwan
Implementation Specialist & Data Analyst
Figbytes - Fawn Bergen
Global Program Manager – Water Stewardship and Carbon Footprint
Intel - Filippo Veglio
Managing Director
WBCSD - Freya Williams
CEO, North America
Futerra - Genriyetta Lund
Procurement Manager, Controlling & Governance
BASF Corporation - George Hodge
Director, Supply Chain Program North America
CDP - Greg Kandankulam
Senior Manager, Sustainability
NRG - Gregg Anderson
Managing Director
Crowe Horwath LLP - Gwen Y. Migita
Vice President Social Impact & Chief Sustainability Officer
Caesars Entertainment - Haley Rushing
Chief Purposologist
The Purpose Institute - Haley Lowry
Global Sustainability & End Use Marketing Director
Dow Chemical - Heather Clancy
Editorial Director
GreenBiz - Helena Barton
Partner
Deloitte - Holly Emerson
Sr. Analyst, Innovation & Product Stewardship, Center for Energy Efficiency
Ingersoll Rand - Ian van der Vlugt
Associate Director, Data
CDP - Iberia Zafira
Senior Analyst
UC Berkeley - Jacob Park
Director
Sustainable Futures Lab - James Barsimantov
COO
SupplyShift - James Gomme
Director, Sustainable Development Goals
WBCSD - Jeff Wooster
Global Sustainability Leader
Dow Chemical Co. - Jeffrey Hogue
Chief Sustainability Officer
C&A - Jennifer Silberman
VP, Corporate Responsibility
Target - Jessica Ginger
Director, Implementation
The Sustainability Consortium - Jill Kolling
Global Sustainability Leader
Cargill - Jillene Connors Belopolsky
Senior Associate
Earth Security Group - Jim Hanna
Director, Environmental Affairs
Starbucks - Joe Zazzera
President
Plant Solutions, Inc - Joel Makower
Chairman & Executive Editor
GreenBiz Group - Johannes Escuerdo
Founder & CEO
Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas - John Davies
VP, Senior Analyst
GreenBiz Group - Jon Radtke
Water Sustainability Program Manager
Coca-Cola - Jon Powers
Co-Founder
CleanCapital - Jon Dettling
Global Director, Services + Innovation
Quantis USA - Jorge Campana Paez
Undergraduate Student
Indiana University - JP Leous
Strategic Partnerships
World Resources Institute (WRI) - Juliette Gaussem
Senior Manager – Guidance & Practice
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - Kara Peck
Head of B Corp Growth
B Lab - Karen Hughes
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Alliance to Save Energy - Karen Hanner
Managing Director Manufacturing Product Sourcing
Feeding America - Karen S. Carter
Chief Inclusion Officer
Dow - Katherine Smith
Executive Director
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship - Katherine Pickus
Divisional Vice President, Sustainability
Abbott - Katrin Ley
Managing Director
Fashion for Good - Keith Kenny
Vice President Sustainability
McDonald’s - Kelli McCullough
Governance, Stakeholder, & Sustainability Manager
The Southern Company - Kelly Helfrich
Manager – Maven Electric Vehicles & Charging Infrastructure
General Motors (GM) - Kelly Fisher
Head of Corporate Sustainability, U.S.
HSBC - Kerry Cesareo
Vice President, Forests
WWF - Kevin Hagen
Director, Corporate Responsibility
Iron Mountain - Kevin Haley
Manager
Rocky Mountain Institute - Kevin Rabinovitch
Global VP Sustainability
Mars, Inc. - Kim Marotta
Global Senior Director, Corporate Responsibility
Molson Coors - Kim Carswell
Director of Packaging
Target - Laura Phillips
SVP for Global Sustainability
Walmart - Lauren Rogge
Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability
EY - Lauren Smith
Project Manager Renewable Energy & Sustainability Metrics
General Motors - Lee O’Dwyer
Sales Team Lead
Bloomberg L.P. - Lee Ballin
Head of Sustainable Business Programs
Bloomberg LP - Leslie Samuelrich
President
Green Century Capital Management - Letitia Webster
Vice President, Global Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility
VF Corporation - Libby Bernick
Global Head of Corporate Business
Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices - Librian Angraeni
Sustainability Manager
Asia Pulp & Paper - Lise Kingo
CEO & Executive Director
United Nations Global Compact - Liz Baldridge
Director of Sustainability and Food Waste Initiatives
Feeding America - Lois Guthrie
Director – Redefining Value
WBCSD - Mara DeFilippis
Project Engagement Manager
ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives - Maria Tikoff Vargas
Senior Program Advisor and Director, Better Buildings
U.S. Department of Energy - Mark McDivitt
Head of ESG Solutions
State Street Corporation - Mark S. Rossi
Executive Director
Clean Production Action - Marshall Chase
Associate Director
BSR - Marty Spitzer
Senior Director, Climate and Renewable Energy
WWF - Marvin Smith
Senior Manager, Stakeholder Engagement
Future 500 - Mary McCarthy
Sustainability Advisor (US)
Forum for the Future - Matt Handel
VP of Development
NextEra Energy Resources - Max Weiss
Global Social & Environmental Responsibility Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Max Scher
Sustainability Manager
Salesforce - Maya Henderson
Sustainability Manager
Kilroy Realty Corporation - Meredith Ferguson
Managing Director
TMI Strategy / DoSomething.org - Meri-Margaret Deoudes
President and CEO
EarthShare - Michael Rohwer
Associate Director
BSR - Michael MacMiller
Environmental Advocate
Doxicom Global - Michelle Fehler
Clinical Assistant Professor
The Design School, ASU - Michelle Langlois
Reporting Program Advisor
Shift - Michelle Lapinski
VP Market Development
Earth Genome - Mike Wallace
Managing Director
BrownFlynn - Nell Fry
Senior Manager Sustainability Field Support
Sodexo Inc. - Nelson Switzer
Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer
Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) - Nicola Peill-Moelter
Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability
Akamai Technologies - Nicolai Lundy
Director of Product and Partnerships
SASB - Nicole Miller
Managing Director
Biomimicry 3.8 - Nicole Lederer
Chair and Co-Founder
E2 - Nicole Labutong
Technical Manager, Science Based Targets
CDP North America Inc. - Nicole Koharik
‎Global Sustainability Marketing Director
GOJO Industries - Nicole Gaetjens
Energy and Sustainability Analyst
JLL - Niki King
Director- Responsible Sourcing
Campbell Soup Company - Nina Goodrich
Executive Director, Director of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition
Sustainable Packaging Coalition - Noah Deich
Executive Director
Center for Carbon Removal - Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye
Regional Transportation Planner
East Alabama Regional Planning Commission - Patrick Flynn
Senior Director of Sustainability
Salesforce - Patti Reiter
Executive Director
Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives/Arizona State University - Paul Hawken
Executive Director
Project Drawdown - Paul Carp
Director of Research & Sr. Analyst
GreenBiz Group - Pete Pearson
Director, Food Waste
WWF - Pete May
President
GreenBiz Group - Peter Byck
Professor of Practice; School of Sustainability & School of Journalism
Arizona State University - Philip Rudolph
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer
Jack In The Box - Rachel Rigby
Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
U.S. Department of Labor - Raj Buch
Director of Sustainability
Arizona State University - Randy Gaines
SVP, Operations & New Hotel Openings, Americas
Hilton Worldwide - Rasmus Skov
Head of Group Sustainability
Ørsted - Rebecca Lucore
Head of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
Covestro LLC - Richa Mittal
Director of Research and Innovation
Fair Labor Association - Richard Eidlin
Vice President, Policy and Campaigns and Co-founder
American Sustainable Business Council - Richard Mattison
CEO
Trucost, part of S&P Dow Jones Indices - Rob Kaplan
Managing Partner
Closed Loop Partners - Rob Threlkeld
Global Manager – Renewable Energy
General Motors - Robert B. Hirth, Jr.
Chair
COSO - Rodney Irwin
Managing Director Redefining Value & Education
WBCSD - Rolf Skar
Forest Campaign Director
Greenpeace - Rose McKinney-James
Managing Principal
McKinney-James & Associates and Energy Works LLC - Sam Hummel
Outreach Director
Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council - Samara Rudolph
Director, Global Sustainability and Philanthropy
Tiffany & Co. - Sara Allan
Sustainability Analyst
Annie’s - Sarah Mihalecz
Lead, Sustainability, North America
Tata Group - Sarah Lewis
Managing Director Members and Implementation
The Sustainability Consortium - Sarah Fischer
Undergraduate Student
The Ohio State University - Shana Rappaport
Director of Strategic Programs
GreenBiz Group - Shannon Houde
Leadership & Game Changer Coach
Walk of Life Leaders - Shannon Schuyler
Corporate Responsibility Leader
PwC - Sheila Bonini
Senior Vice President, Private Sector Engagement
WWF – ‎World Wildlife Fund - Sophia Mendelsohn
Head of Sustainability
JetBlue Airways - Sophie Beckham
Senior Manager, Natural Capital Stewardship
International Paper - Steve Lippman
Director, Corporate Responsibility
Microsoft - Steve Ardagh
Founder & CEO
Eagle Protect, New Zealand & USA - Sue Lebeck
Application Manager
Cool City Challenge - Sue Allchurch
Chief of Participant Relations and Communications
UN Global Compact - Sunya Ojure
Senior Manager, Sustainability
Salesforce - Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO
McPherson Strategies - Suzanne Fallender
Director, Corporate Responsibility
Intel Corporation - Suzanne Shelton
President & CEO
Shelton Group - Tamara Barker
Chief Sustainability Officer
UPS - Thomas Ramos
Director – Oversight Risk and Compliance
GPSC Logistics Director - Tim Carey
Senior Director, Sustainability
PepsiCo - Tim McAloone
Co-Founder & Professor
essensus - Todd Reeve
CEO
Bonneville Environmental Foundation - Todd Cort
Faculty Co-Director, Lecturer
Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) & Yale School of Management - Tom Cleves
Vice President, Global Citizenship
International Paper - Tom Murray
Vice President of EDF+Business
Environmental Defense Fund - Tommy Hayes
Policy Partnerships Manager
Lyft - Tony Calandro
President
Purposeful Strategies - Val Fishman
Chief Development Officer
BEF - Wayne Honeycutt
President & CEO
Soil Health Institute - William McDonough
Chief Executive
McDonough Innovation - William Brandt
Director of Strategic Integration, LightWorks®
ASU - Winston Vaughan
Senior Manager for Renewable Energy
Ceres, Inc. - Yuan Yuan
Manager of Regional Hub China
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