Authors

Alan Bryden took up the post of ISO Secretary-General on 1 March 2003, after having served as director general of the French national standards body, AFNOR. He began his career in metrology, notably with the American National Bureau of Standards (today the National Institute of Standards and Technology) and has a strong background in the fields of quality and the rational use of energy. He was vice-president of the first Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization).

Andrew Winston helps forward-thinking companies use environmental thinking to drive growth. He is the co-author of Green to Gold, which explores what works-and what doesn't-when companies go green.

Anna Wilson serves as the multimedia services marketing leader at Nortel, where, among other duties, she holds responsibility for the penetration of Telepresence into the global marketplace. Since joining Nortel in 1992, Anna has held roles throughout Human Resources, Information Technology and Sales Operations. Anna also lead the company's Unified Communications campaign throughout North America. Anna holds a Specialist Honors Degree in French Language and Linguistics. Anna is located in Nortel's Global Headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Bob Willard is a leading expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and in the last five years has given hundreds of keynote presentations to corporations, governments, academics, and NGOs. He applies business and leadership development experience from his thirty-four year career at IBM to engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing opportunities associated with sustainability issues. Bob is the author of The Sustainability Advantage and The Next Sustainability Wave.

Chris Deri is the Executive Vice President and New York Director of Global CSR Practice at Edelman, providing counsel and support around communications strategy and programming, issues management, public affairs, CSR reporting, management training, public-private partnerships and stakeholder engagement. Select key clients include: Starbucks, Avaya, Merck, AIG and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Before joining Edelman, Chris served as Vice President Al Gore's Regional Business Outreach & Finance Director in the Northeast for three years.

Christine McEntee is the executive vice president/CEO of the American Institute of Architects. Prior to the AIA, she served seven years as CEO of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), where she distinguished herself as a leader for organizations facing increasingly complex and changing environments.

Dan Reicher is director of climate and energy initiatives at Google.org. He is the former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and former Co-Chair of the U.S. Biomass Research and Development Board, member of the U.S. Delegation to the Climate Change Negotiations, and member of the board of the government-industry Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles.

David Williams is founder and CEO of Impact Development Training Group, an international Learning and Development organization that has embraced the concept of sustainable enterprise internally and as part of their business proposition.

Dedee DeLongpre-Johnston, MBA, is director of the Office of Sustainability at the University of Florida. The office strives to make the university a model of sustainability through the integration of ecological restoration, economic development, and social equity

Diana founded Clownfish six years ago with the vision of creating an innovative brand and communications consultancy that is committed to socially and environmentally responsible business transformation and implementation. The combination of a deep understanding of brands, consumers and environmental, social and ethical issues allow Clownfish to help organisations build future proof brands.

Doug Gatlin is vice president of market development with the U.S. Green Building Council.

Dr. Joseph Romm is executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions—a one-stop shop that helps businesses and government agencies adopt high-leverage strategies for saving energy and cutting pollution. He is the author of Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity. He served as acting assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in 1997 and principal deputy assistant secretary from 1995 though 1998. Joseph holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T., and is on the board of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

Dustin J. Knutson works for NREL as an energy savings performance contract analyst in the Strategic Energy Analysis & Applications Center (SEAAC) in Golden, Colorado. His background is in energy and resource conservation management.

For more than ten years, Georges Dyer has been engaged in solutions-based, business-driven, whole-system approaches to sustainable development. He is a partner at Aedi Group and Aedi Consulting, a senior fellow at Second Nature, and a trustee of Stratleade Sustainability Education. Michelle McKay is a partner at Aedi Group and Aedi Consulting with more than ten years of experience in management consulting and project management, specializing in transformational change and sustainability. She is a member of the Green Advisory Council for Insight Real Estate’s green real estate investment trust, a senior fellow at Second Nature and an expert advisor for the Green Schools Alliance.

Gil Friend is president and CEO of Natural Logic, a leading sustainability consulting firm. Benjamin Privitt, operations manager at Natural Logic, also contributed to this article.

Greg Drysdale is co-founder and vice president of operations with ALTEN Energy Solutions. Greg grew up in the Canadian prairies and he has fond memories of developing make-shift wind turbines to power the family farm. He is a hands-on electrician with over thirty years of experience and is an inventor of patented electricity conservation technology. Greg has held senior management and consulting positions with companies like Siemens, Schneider Electric, EPCOR and Xantrex.

James Tansey is the chair in business ethics at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He is also a co-founder of www.offsetters.ca, a socially driven organization devoted to the development of high-quality, cost-effective greenhouse gas management solutions.

Jesco d'Alquen is CEO of tradeslot, a technology company in Melbourne, Australia that creates optimization and allocation platforms for carbon and other commodities in cooperation with a network of international thought leaders in strategy, market design, and auction theory. The company has won a series of U.S. and Australian patents.

John Spurway is controller for Atlantic Hydrogen Inc. and draws on more than twenty years of experience with various companies in Atlantic Canada.

Joseph Pallant is principal and founder of Carbon Project Solutions. His expertise is in developing climate change projects and managing company interactions with the carbon market. Recent work includes authoring carbon offset project methodologies and designing climate change business strategy.

71 percent of North Americans are looking for companies to exceed expectations and go beyond what is required of companies by law and governmental regulations.

Kofi Gamor, a senior manager at BearingPoint, leads the Public Sector focus on Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) within the Real Estate & Capital Asset Solutions (RECAS) team. While his professional career began at IBM, he has worked as a Management and Technology consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, and has 20+ years of Architecture/Interior Architecture and Facility Management experience. Mr. Gamor has led numerous projects involving the design, integration, management, and use of various CAD, CAFM, CMMS, EAM, and IWMS applications. Mr. Gamor earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a B.S., Environmental and Urban Design, both from Ball State University, and a MBA from American University

L. Hunter Lovins is the president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions and co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute and led that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. In 2001, Lovins was named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep Conference for Europe and North America for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Lovins has co-authored eleven books and dozens of papers, and was featured in the award-winning film, Lovins On the Soft Path. Trained as a lawyer (JD, Loyola University School of Law, Los Angeles), Lovins has managed international nonprofits, and created several corporations. She is currently professor of Business at Presidio School of Management, one of the first accredited MBA programs in Sustainable Management. In 2000 she was named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time Magazine.

Marsha Willard is CEOof AXIS Performance Advisors, Inc., co-author of The Business Guide to Sustainability and a faculty member of both the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the University of Oregon. She is also the Executive Director of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals.

Matt Kistler is the senior vice president of sustainability at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. He leads the office responsible for Wal-Mart's global environmental sustainability strategy. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Matt held management positions with General Foods, Oscar Mayer and Kraft Foods.

Mory M. Ghomshei is a professor of energy resources and systems at the University of British Columbia -- Norman B. Keevil, Institute of Mining Engineering. He is recognized internationally as a geothermal expert, and has participated in exploration and development of several geothermal fields around the world including Coso in California, Meager Creek in British Columbia, Mt. Sabalan in Iran and Mt. Labo in the Philippines. He holds a Ph.D in engineering (geothermics) and is a registered professional engineer and geoscientist. Dr. Ghomshei is also co-author of Application of Fuzzy Logic in Environmental Risk Assessment: Some Thoughts on Fuzzy Sets.

Nick Smith has more than fifteen years of publishing experience and he has consulted for several publishing groups over the last three years on topics of sales, marketing, distribution, and process. In 2007, Smith accepted the challenge of leading Kyoto Planet Publishing. Prior to that, Smith founded and served as CEO of Montgomery Media International in 2002. This new media company addressed new markets such as Internet advertising with innovative design, content, and distribution models. In 1996, Smith was involved in the founding of a thought-leadership publishing company in San Francisco, California. As publisher, he established and managed relationships with companies, including Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, and Intel.

Nicola Acutt, PhD, is a faculty member and director of curriculum development at the Presidio School of Management. Nicola has worked as a consultant to the South African government on natural resource policy and coastal management. She is a frequent guest lecturer on sustainable business at UC Berkeley.

Paul Todd Merrill, PE LEED AP, is the director of sustainable construction with Clayco, a real estate, architecture and engineering, design-build and construction firm. Paul specializes in green building practices within Clayco and leads training to clients, subcontractors, and employees of Clayco.

Peter Breitstone is the CEO of Aon Environmental Services Group, the premier global environmental risk advisor and insurance broker. Mr. Breitstone is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Aon's Environmental and related Professional Liability product offerings.

Peter Capozucca is a principal and Michael Daher is a manager in Deloitte Consulting LLP's New York office. Kathryn Pavlovsky is a principal in Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP's Houston office.

Robert Aldrich is senior manager of Data Center Solutions with Cisco. He recently joined Cisco after spending ten years in facilities design, deployment, and management. He has architected the power and cooling design of more than twenty enterprise-class data centers in North America and the Asia Pacific region. His current role at Cisco involves working with Cisco IT and the Data Center product engineering teams to help drive Cisco's sponsorship of the Clinton Global Initiative and participation in the Green Grid.

Taylor Wilkerson is a research fellow with LMI, a government consulting firm in McLean, VA. Taylor has been a part of the LMI Supply Chain Management Program for seven years. Prior to joining LMI, he worked as an environmental consultant focusing on air-quality engineering. He has a Bachelor of Engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the R.H. Smith School at the University of Maryland. He is also a member of the Supply Chain Council's Aerospace and Defense Special Interest Group Steering Committee. Taylor is the co-author of GreenSCOR: Developing a Green Supply Chain Analytical Tool, author of Can One Green Deliver Another, and a contributing author to the Air Quality Handbook.