Chanelle Sladics is co-founder of Simply Straws, a California-based glass straw-making company. Chanelle is a part of the Simply Straws coalition of four family members: mother and co-founder, Cyndi Sladics, father and craftsman, Steve Sladics, and brother, Trent Sladics. The family created Simply Straws as a way to address the enormous waste (500 million daily […]

After a number of years in the Toy and Juvenile industry, Gaëlle Wizenberg founded Charlie Banana as a way to bring together quality and eco-friendly diaper design into one stellar brand. She began seven years ago, manufacturing baby diapers with other companies, and then started her own Charlie Banana brand four years ago, launching with […]

“For me, things began in my father’s fruit and vegetable store in Astoria, Queens when I was eight years old. My father had a fruit and vegetable store in a poor neighborhood, and he believed that the luxuries that we all should share together should at least be the food. So he would buy the […]

Annalisa Roger is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the new .green Top Level Domain. Roger founded the DotGreen Initiative in 2007. At that time, she created a business plan, and from there co-founded DotGreen Community, Inc. which applied to the Internet’s governing body, ICANN (the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names […]

Matt Furman is the chief communications and public affairs officer for Best Buy Co. Inc. In this role, he oversees internal and external communications, government affairs, corporate responsibility and sustainability, community relations, as well as the company’s in-house production studio and event planning functions.Prior to joining Best Buy in 2012, Matt was the vice president […]