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September 3, 2024
Investing in a Sustainable Future with James Gowen of Verizon
James Gowen is Sr. Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Sourcing, and Chief Sustainability Officer for Verizon. Since taking on the complementary roles of Supply Chain and Sustainability in 2009, his team has enlisted more than 65,000 Verizon employees in 50 countries around the globe in helping to reduce the company’s environmental footprint while increasing […]
August 27, 2024
Strategizing a Sustainable Product Footprint with Martha Issa of Veritiv
Martha Issa serves as the Senior Director of Sustainability at Veritiv where she applies her engineering and marketing background to strategize, design, and implement Veritiv’s sustainable product footprint. Based in Atlanta, GA, Veritiv is a leading North American business-to-business distribution solutions company. Previously, Martha served in management roles within Veritiv’s Facility Solutions and Marketing teams. […]
August 20, 2024
Delivering Social Impact with Dani Dudeck of Instacart
Dani Dudeck is the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for Instacart and oversees the company’s communications, social impact, policy and government affairs practice groups. Dudeck is a 20-year communications veteran and has worked with some of the fastest growing companies in the world at the intersection of entertainment, technology and pop-culture. John Shegerian: Do you have […]
August 13, 2024
Empowering Future Women Leaders with Rainy Hake Austin of The Agency
With over twenty-five years of experience leading esteemed real estate firms, Rainy Hake Austin, President of The Agency, is passionate about strategically growing companies through her unique expertise and vision. She focuses on providing the best resources, tools, and support to The Agency’s residential real estate brokerage arm, the global new development division, and the […]
August 6, 2024
Baking Up a Sustainable Future with Chris Wolfe of Bimbo Bakeries USA
Chris Wolfe is the Senior Director, Corporate Environmental / Sustainability for Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. and is responsible for leading environmental / sustainability efforts at operations throughout the United States and select Canadian locations. Chris is also active with Sustainability efforts at BBU’s parent company, Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V, assisting with various Environmental, Social, […]
July 30, 2024
Evaluating Companies’ Sustainable Growth Potential with Kristen Owen of Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer’s Kristen Owen, CFA, is an Executive Director and Senior Analyst covering Agriculture and Agriculture Technology companies as part of the Sustainable Growth & Resource Optimization research platform. As a sell-side research analyst, Kristen is responsible for analyzing the operational and financial performance of publicly traded companies and assisting institutional investors in making investment decisions. […]
July 23, 2024
Prioritizing Sustainable Agriculture with Hans Sauter of Fresh Del Monte
Hans Sauter has served as Fresh Del Monte’s Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate R&D, QA, and Agricultural Services since 2020 and 2019, respectively. Prior to that time, he served as Fresh Del Monte’s Vice President of Corporate R&D and Agricultural Services from February 2014 to February 2019. Sauter served as Director, Agricultural […]
July 18, 2024
Bringing Sustainability to the Grocery Store with Kendrick Repko of Ahold Delhaize
Kendrick Repko is the Director of Sustainable Products for Ahold Delhaize USA, the parent company to the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest grocery retail group in the US. In her current role, Kendrick is responsible for the environmental and social aspects related to the hundreds of thousands of […]
July 17, 2024
Ensuring Climate Finance for Vulnerable Nations with Erik Grigoryan of Environment Group
Erik Grigoryan is Founder and CEO of Environment Group. He also serves as the Special Envoy of Armenia on Debt-for-Climate Swap. He has more than 20 years of diversified experience in the public sector and international organizations combined with advanced education in environmental management, policy, and economics. From 2018 to 2020, he was Minister of Environment for Armenia, […]
July 16, 2024
Empowering People and the Planet to Thrive with Ellen Jackowski of Mastercard
Ellen Jackowski is Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard, where she is spearheading the integration of the company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy into the organization. As part of this work, she is driving climate leadership for Mastercard-wide programs and commitments, such as reaching net-zero emissions by 2040, and helping accelerate the company’s impact in climate […]
July 11, 2024
Building Metabolic Resilience with Dr. Thomas Seager of Morozko Forge
Dr. Thomas P Seager is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University. He is the founder of a new concept called Self-Actual Engineering that emphasizes application of design principles for the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Motivation, rather than the bottom. Seager also co-founded the Morozko Forge ice […]
July 10, 2024
Leading the Future of ITAD with Todd Zegers of Circular Integrity
Todd Zegers, the Founder and CEO of Circular Integrity, 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 […]
