Archives: Episodes

Shannon Thomas Carroll is AVP of Global Environmental Sustainability at AT&T and is responsible for continuing to foster the company’s environmental leadership position, including its drive to carbon neutrality, climate resiliency, waste reduction and broadband-powered climate solutions that support business customers’ carbon reduction goals. Shannon brings 23 years of broad AT&T experience to this role, including expertise in ESG program management, climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, human rights and labor practices, environmental health & safety, supply chain sustainability, regulatory compliance, and circular economy systems.

Mr. Keefe joined GIE Media, Recycling Today’s parent company, in 1991 in a sales and market research capacity. In 1992 he was promoted to Marketing Manager for GIE’s recycling business and in 1993 promoted to Sales and Marketing Manager for GIE’s portfolio of media products.

In 1995 his focus returned to the recycling industry when he was promoted to Publisher of Recycling Today and its affiliate publications. Since that time Mr. Keefe has remained active in the recycling, waste and environmental services industry, meeting with industry leaders, participating in industry conferences and meetings in North America and globally. He has visited recycling, scrap processing and waste management facilities as well as consumers of recycled commodities across the globe.

Jon Powell is an entrepreneur, technologist, academic, and chemical/environmental engineer by training and is Global Lead of the Sustainability Practice at Salesforce. At Salesforce, Jon works directly with hundreds of the world’s largest forward-thinking corporations to accelerate their ESG and Sustainability strategies and actions. Prior to Salesforce, Jon led investment funds at Closed Loop Partners, an impact investment firm driving a transition to a more circular economy. Jon has also led and founded multiple startups spanning EdTech and environmental services.

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Jennifer Carlson serves as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Apprenti. Apprenti is a non-profit organization that creates alternative pathways to access tech talent, and helps organizations address digital skills shortages, while providing economic mobility to underrepresented groups by identifying, training, and placing diverse talent in tech careers. Additionally, Jennifer serves on the Tech Councils of North America (TECNA) workforce board and as an Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies at Seattle University.

In 2022, Laura Eberlin was appointed Global Corporate Social Responsibility Lead – Community Engagement & Enrichment for Deere & Company. In this role, Eberlin manages the John Deere Foundation’s global food bank strategy, which delivers nearly $3 million in grants annually to ensure equitable access to food for marginalized families and youth in John Deere home communities.

Stephen Pallrand’s background in construction, architecture, architectural history, painting, and set design has aided him in pulling together the diverse group of artists, craftsmen, architects and designers who work on the CarbonShack projects. His father was a scientist/educator and his mother an educator and patron of the arts. This exposure to art, science and education led him to realize that building in an environmentally conscious manner is unimportant if you do not communicate the need and educate the consumer, for there are no green buildings, only green users. Our understanding of the environment is changing radically and so is the fate of the earth based on our actions as a civilization. Art and architecture have always played a critical role in representing the knowledge and culture of a period and Pallrand’s use of the CarbonShack projects is to transform our shelters, our homes, into vehicles of change.

Rick Shadyac has dedicated his life to making a difference in the lives of those who need it most through his work to further the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. As a committed servant leader, he strives to instill corporate social responsibility within ALSAC, whose employees are actively encouraged to volunteer and have collectively logged 40,000 community service hours in the last three years. Rick is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on the topics of philanthropy, business and innovation, appearing in such outlets as USA Today, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, to name a few.

Carl Cricco is the CEO of K9s For Warriors. Prior to joining K9s, Carl worked at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum as a senior vice president of marketing, ensuring the stories from that day were never forgotten. Living just blocks from the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, that day left an indelible mark, as it did for many. He has spent much of his career ensuring Americans never forget 9/11, and at K9s For Warriors, he is committed to ensuring those who fought in conflicts resulting from that day and others, are also not forgotten.

Amos Wampler is a career chemist and Enterprise Capabilities Associate with W. L. Gore & Associates. After earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Bucknell University, Amos became a Chemistry teacher in the Christiana School District. Shortly thereafter, he joined Gore in 1997 as a Manufacturing Chemist where he worked to continuously improve adhesive processing and performance while collaborating with downstream partners to ensure products’ fitness for use. In 2001, Amos became a Thermal Analyst with Gore where he delivered results and analysis for troubleshooting and new product development projects. During his time in this role, he returned to school in 2003 to work toward his Masters of Material Science at the University of Delaware.

He then transitioned within the Enterprise to Characterization Technologist where he provided broad fluoropolymer characterization knowledge within Gore’s Core Technology and worked with scientists and engineers to develop meaningful R&D test methods, including introducing some new characterization methods. He continued to develop deep materials understanding through multi-faceted characterization efforts and the exploration of new materials.

Todd Zegers is a passionate entrepreneur and most recently the global leader of Ingram Micro’s ITAD & Reverse Logistics business unit from 2015 through 2022. His experience in the ITAD industry dates back to 2003, when he left his post at a top Tempe, AZ based IT reseller to co-found GreenAssetDisposal, an ITAD company focused on serving F1000 clients worldwide. In 2009, after nearly six years of incredible growth, GreenAssetDisposal was sold to CloudBlue. Zegers became part of the executive leadership team and led the sales & marketing organization from 2009 through 2013, until being acquired by Ingram Micro in 2013.