Mainstage Speakers

METTE MORSING

Head of Principles of Responsible Management, UN Global Compact

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Mette Morsing (Ph.D.1994), Head of PRME Principles of Responsible Management Education, UN Global Compact (New York). Before May 2020, Mette Morsing was the Mistra Chair of Sustainable Markets and Executive Director of Misum: Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at Stockholm School of Economics, (Sweden) (since 2017). She was also Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Copenhagen Business School (CBS, Denmark) (since 2007). She was the Founding Director of CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility in 2002, and she was the Academic Director of CBS Sustainability Platform 2011-2016with the ambition to integrate sustainability across fifteen academic departments. In 2003, she was the co-founder of Academy of Business in Society (ABIS, Bruxelles), where she served as a Member of the Board of Directors for 10 years. Morsing was in 2010 appointed as a member of the executive board of directors at LEGO Foundation and Melting Pot, and in 2016 she was elected by her colleagues to serve on CBS Board. Morsing has held a large number of advisory and honorary positions in corporate and policy committees on issues related to sustainability.Mette Morsing has been a part of PRME’s journey, participating in the launch of PRME in 2007 in New York, and she was behind CBS’ decision in 2009 to become an early signatory to PRME in her then capacity as Director of the CBS Centre of Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2013, CBS spearheaded the establishment of a PRME Nordic Chapter, and in 2018 Morsing was the Nordic Chapter Chair. In 2019, she was invited to produce the 2019 PRME Strategic Review in her capacity as Senior Strategy Advisor for UN Global Compact for PRME. Morsing’s research interests concern how organizations are governed in the context of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. With a PhD in Organization Theory, she is particularly interested in identity, communication and cross-sector partnerships in this regard. Morsing has published extensively in international books and academic journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Business Ethics Quarterly, and Organization Studies, Organization, Journal of Business Research and other outlets. She has won several prizes for her research. She is also the co-editor of a textbook on Corporate Social Responsibility published by Cambridge University Press (Rasche, Morsing and Moon, 2017).

HALLA TOMASDOTTIR

CEO & Chief Change Catalyst, The B Team

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Halla Tomasdottir is the CEO and Chief Change Catalyst for The B Team, where global business and civil society leaders work together on confronting our crisis of conformity in leadership. She has long been on a quest to inspire and empower leaders to embrace purpose-driven, gender-balanced and principled leadership. Halla has passionately pursued this purpose as a business leader in Corporate America with M&M and Pepsi Cola, as the first female CEO of Iceland’s Chamber of commerce and as an executive and non-executive director for diverse businesses. An entrepreneur at heart, Halla joined the founding team of Reykjavik University where she founded the Executive Education department and led a successful initiative focused on empowering women and girls as entrepreneurs, leaders and investors. In 2007 Halla co-founded an investment firm with the vision to incorporate feminine values and ESG metrics into finance. The company made international headlines when it successfully survived Iceland’s infamous economic meltdown. In 2016, Halla ran for President in Iceland. She was an independent candidate with no prior political experience and surprised everyone as she emerged from an initial 1% in the polls to becoming the runner-up with nearly 30% of the vote.
Halla has an international MBA from Thunderbird and has lived and worked in the US, the UK and across the Nordics. Her work has led me to the TED stage a few times and she has delivered keynotes and participated in dialogues about leadership and change for companies and conferences around the world. Newsweek named Halla to a list of 150 women who “shake the world” and the New Yorker called her a “Living Emoji of Sincerity”. Who needs a formal title when you can be an Emoji?

NICOLE LINDSAY

COO, Sustainability & Center For Inclusive Growth, Mastercard

Nicole Lindsay is the Chief Operating Officer of Sustainability and the Center for Inclusive Growth at Mastercard, and oversees the philanthropic activities of the Mastercard Impact Fund. Nicole began her career in corporate and community development finance at Wachovia Bank, before transitioning to career and leadership development roles at the Yale School of Management and Goldman Sachs. For the last 15 years, Nicole has held several executive roles in the social impact space, including as the Deputy Director of The ZOOM Foundation, the founding Executive Director of New York Needs You, a nonprofit that helps first-generation college students realize their career ambitions, and as the Vice President of Talent Development at Management Leadership for Tomorrow. 
 
Nicole is the author of The MBA Slingshot for Women: Using Business School to Catapult Your Career. She has spoken extensively about increasing diversity in graduate management programs and has supported more than 1,000 students in navigating their educational and career pursuits. She earned her J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Virginia, where she currently serves as a Trustee of the Darden School Foundation and Vice Chair of Dean’s Diversity Advisory Council. She earned her B.S. degree from the University of Connecticut, where she has served as an adjunct professor of leadership in the graduate business school. Nicole is a member of The Links, Incorporated, serves on the Boards of Directors of LiveGirl and the Delta Research and Educational Foundation, and she is licensed to practice law in Connecticut and Georgia.

FEATURED PANEL:
​Can the CPG Industry Achieve Sustainability?

Rohit Kumar

Product Development Lead, Package Free Shop & Founder, Brush with Bamboo

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Rohit is Product Development Lead at Package Free Shop and Founder of Brush with Bamboo, both renowned brands in the field of sustainable consumer-packaged goods. As a product developer and entrepreneur, he has developed natural and sustainable consumer goods in the home, beauty and personal care categories. His clients have included Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom and Marriott Hotels.

Product Development Lead, Package Free Shop & Founder, Brush with Bamboo

Shelbi Orne

YouTube Influencer, Sustainably Shelbi

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Shelbi is a sustainable lifestyle YouTuber who also holds a bachelors degree in environmental science from Texas A&M University. She runs a YouTube channel that is aimed at equipping viewers with the knowledge necessary to make sustainability an attainable goal. Shelbi is also the host of the podcast "The Rise of the Ecopreneur," dedicated to amplifying the voices and expertise of eco-conscious entrepreneurs, academics, environmental experts, and corporate stakeholders. 

YouTube Influencer, Sustainably Shelbi​

John Roger

​John Rogers, U.S. Sustainability & Procurement Officer

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Passionate about creating a better world and enabling growth among Anheuser-Busch employees and business, John is responsible for leading teams to deliver a more sustainable future and a resilient, dynamic and efficient supply chain. John joined Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2012, and has since held various positions across Europe and Africa focusing on agricultural development, procurement, technology and business operations. John led the design and launch of Anheuser-Busch’s SmartBarley program, a global platform supporting farmers across the world, and most recently was responsible for leading the business operations and digital transformation agenda in Africa before stepping into the role of U.S. Chief Sustainability and Procurement Officer.

​John Rogers, U.S. Sustainability & Procurement Officer

Panels

THE BUSINESS OF ENERGY

Simon Seaton
CEO, Sodexo Energy & Resources Worldwide Segment

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Simon Seaton is the CEO of Sodexo’s Energy & Resources Worldwide segment, dedicated to delivering Quality of Life services to energy and mining clients and consumers across the globe. Operating in over 60 countries, Sodexo serves 75 million consumers each day through its unique combination of On-site Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services. Prior to his current role, Simon was CEO of Onshore Energy Worldwide & Head of Middle East (2016 – 2019). He joined Sodexo in 2012 as COO for the Remote Sites Western Region, running operations in U.S. shale markets, Alaska, California, the Gulf of Mexico and four North Sea countries. His track record includes driving profitable growth and exemplary Health & Safety standards / performance, achieving gender-balanced leadership teams and championing First Nations / Indigenous People relationships. 

Melissa Peterson, VP Origination and Power Marketing at Orsted

​Melissa Peterson is the Vice President of Origination and Power Marketing at Ørsted. She directly manages a team of originators while also creating and sustaining lasting strategic relationships across multiple customer verticals within the power industry. Prior to joining Ørsted, she spent five years on Apex Clean Energy’s business development team and five years as a project developer for EDF. Melissa has developed over 1000 MW operating renewable energy projects and executed over 2GW of Power Purchase Agreements.. Melissa holds a Master’s degree from SUNY-Albany and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

James Wagoner CEO, Joule Case

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​As Joule Case’s CEO, James Wagoner builds teams, manages resources, and aligns to the long-term vision. As a licensed professional engineer with years of developing technical projects and products, he comes from a technical background and understands the importance of people for any large technical project, product, or organization. James excels at building rapport and aligning incentives to unify diverse teams and organizations. Throughout his career, he drives for a better, greener world through technology development and implementation. He enjoys both professional and personal challenges, such as climbing Mt. Rainier and cycling from San Francisco to LA.

Farnaz Amin, Head of World Wide Business Development, Carbon Free Grid at Amazon Web Services

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​Farnaz Amin is the Head of Worldwide Business Development for Carbon Free Grid at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Energy. She helps customers accelerate their energy transition and sustainability journey using IoT, cloud computing and AI/ML analytics. Farnaz has an engineering background and has worked in the energy sector across Oil &Gas and Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution for over 15 years. Prior to AWS, Farnaz worked at GE Digital as Global Director of Product Management, Grid Analytics & Software. She has an MBA from University of Warwick.

TECH FOR GOOD

Alex Lofton, Co-founder & President, Landed

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Alex has served in leadership positions at numerous social enterprises and technology start-ups in D.C., London, and San Francisco. He worked as a member of Barack Obama's field team in 2007 and 2008, managing hundreds of paid staff who organized thousands of volunteers for the then-Senator's successful presidential primary and general election campaigns. Alex then served as a Founding Regional Director of Obama for America – the political mobilization wing of the Democratic National Committee – until 2010.
 
Alex got his start in real estate at real estate developer Forest City (now Brookfield Properties). He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sheri Hinish, Global Executive Partner Sustainable Supply Chain at IBM

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Sheri is a senior executive leading IBM's Global Sustainability practice focusing on Sustainable Supply Chain, Finance, Circularity, and BPO. She help customers design and build supply chains of the future that strategically champion stewardship, and creates change that is impactful, equitable, responsible, and profitable.

Sheri is recognized as the 2021 Top Supply Chain Leader by Supply Chain Digital, a 2021, 2020 & 2019 Supply & Demand Chain Executive "Pro to Know," the "People's Choice 2020 Global Woman in Supply Chain Leader,” a Corporate Vision Excellence award recipient for “2020’s Most Influential Leader in Supply Chain & Technology,” and a trusted partner that companies consistently leverage for insights and a unique PoV in supply chain, retail, manufacturing, sustainability & the SDGs, leading with purpose, diversity as a business imperative, and change leadership in digital transformations.

Sheri also hosts a top podcast that evangelizes the future of supply chain called the “Supply Chain Revolution”. Her vision is to change the world through shared purpose & sustainable supply chain, circularity, and building technology grounded in the principles of sustainable development. 

Kelly Froelich Co-Founder of Balanced

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Bio coming soon

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MORE THAN CAPITAL

Panel Moderator: Megan Walsh Thompson
Missions Investments Officer at the Ford Foundation

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With a focus on impact investing, Megan has been responsible for underwriting and monitoring investments for the foundation’s $280 million Program-Related Investment (PRI) fund. Megan’s current work builds on her background in traditional and social finance. Before joining Ford in 2011, she worked for several years in Citigroup’s Global Securitized Markets group, focusing on auto, credit card and middle market loan transactions. She interned with social finance organizations including Trickle Up, an international non-profit that supports ultra-poor women, and SJF Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on resource efficiency, sustainability and technology-enhanced services. Megan serves on the credit committee of Living Cities Blended Catalyst Fund. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from The College of the Holy Cross and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Beth Bafford
VP Syndications and Strategy at Calvert Impact Capital

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Beth leads Calvert Impact Capital's strategy and new business development efforts to build new products and services that accelerate private capital for the benefit of communities in the US and around the world. She also oversees the organization's communications and impact management and measurement functions. Beth serves on the Advisory Board for the CASE Initiative on Impact Investing (CASEi3) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, the Investment Committee for the Aaron and Lillie Straus Foundation, the Advisory Board of Higher Ground Labs, and the Board of Founder’s First Capital Partners. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and four young children. Prior to Calvert, Beth has enjoyed experiences across the public, private, and social sectors. Immediately prior to Calvert, she was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's D.C. office where she focused on U.S. Health Reform strategy. She has also worked as a Special Assistant at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act, as a Regional Field Director and Community Organizer on the 2008 Obama for America campaign and as a Senior Associate at UBS Financial Services. Beth received both her B.A. in Public Policy and MBA in Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University.

Daryn Dodson
Managing Director & Founder of Illumen Capital

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Daryn is a passionate advocate of social and economic justice, especially for disadvantaged and marginalized groups. His work with impact investors, private equity funds, Fortune 100 companies, universities and foundations has been viewed through the lens of addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Daryn previously led the Special Equities Program as a consultant to the Board of the Calvert Funds, a $12 billion pioneer of the impact investing field. Through this vehicle, Calvert maintains a portfolio of more than 40 funds on five continents, representing over 350 underlying portfolio companies. Prior to serving as a consultant to Calvert, Daryn served as Director of University and Corporate Partnership for The Idea Village, where he created a platform engaging leading private equity firms, business schools and Fortune 500 companies to invest over 100,000 hours and $2 million into more than 1,000 New Orleans entrepreneurs post-Hurricane Katrina. Daryn currently serves on the Board of Directors for Ben and Jerry’s. He earned his MBA from Stanford, where he serves on the Dean’s Management Board, and his A.B. from Duke University.

Anne Park
Global Director of Impact & Deputy Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED) at Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)

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SEAF is an impact investing firm which invests in small and growing businesses (SGBs) in emerging and frontier markets and CEED is a business unit within SEAF which supports entrepreneurs in their growth through know-how and networks. Anne has developed the impact measurement strategy at SEAF and works closely with her team to integrate these practices into the organizations investment processes. Prior to joining SEAF, Anne was an Investment Officer with USAID’s, Private Capital Group for Africa and a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of State’s Global Entrepreneurship Program. During pandemic times, Anne has rediscovered her love for playing the piano, hiking with her two kids and she has learned the lyrics to almost every Pixar and Disney song from the last 10 years.

Thomas Van Dyck
Managing Director–Financial Advisor of the SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Wealth Management

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Tom has been a leader in the field of socially-responsible investing for over 30 years. As Managing Director–Financial Advisor of the SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Wealth Management, Tom consults on $1.5 billion of ESG-screened assets. Tom is also the founder of As You Sow, a shareholder advocacy organization, which engages corporations on environmental, human/labor rights and corporate social responsibility initiatives. In 2014, Tom was a featured guest on Bill Moyers and Company. In 2013, Tom was named one of the Financial Times Top 400 Financial Advisors. Tom was also a featured speaker at the TedX Wall Street conference in 2012 and provided his expertise on SRI investing for long-term safety and returns. Tom graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) and holds his Series 7 and Series 66 FINRA licenses.

MANAGING THE FUTURE OF WORK

Panel Moderator: Erin Worsham
Executive Director of the award-winning Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

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CASE is a leader in the field of social innovation, serving as a hub for research, teaching and practitioner engagement. CASE’s work includes premier educational programming, the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing, and the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), an accelerator focused on scaling global health ventures in India and East Africa. In her role at CASE, Erin leads the development and execution of center strategy, establishes relationships with key constituents, oversees operations and programs and contributes to thought leadership on social entrepreneurship. Her work has been published in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, Huffington Post, Next Billion, DevEx and Social Impact Exchange and she most recently served as the lead author of CASE’s Scaling Pathways series in partnership with the Skoll Foundation, USAID’s Global Development Lab and Mercy Corps. Erin has been at Fuqua since 2009, having held a variety of roles within CASE as well as developed the strategy for and launched a new position within the Fuqua Career Management Center focused on social impact careers. Prior to Fuqua, Erin worked in the nonprofit, public and private sectors including consulting with government and nonprofit clients at Booz Allen Hamilton, helping to develop public-private partnerships at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), working on private sector development issues at the World Bank and working for a nonprofit think tank in Washington D.C. She earned her BA from Duke University and her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Erin was recognized as a “40 under 40” awardee by the Triangle Business Journal in 2014.

Ronda Harris Thompson
Chief Diversity, Equity Inclusion & Belonging Officer at Year Up

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Ronda Harris Thompson is the National Director of Alumni Relations and Chief Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging Officer at Year Up. Since joining Year Up in 2007, she has served in several critical capacities, including Senior Director of Program and Academics and Executive Director of Year Up’s National Capital Region. In this position she drove the outreach, admissions, college enrollment, and academic components of 300 young adults annually, consistently exceeding expectations for each area of responsibility. Ronda also developed and implemented a groundbreaking dual enrollment partnership with Northern Virginia Community College. Prior to joining Year Up, Ronda served as Deputy Director for City Year in Washington, D.C., where she oversaw the site’s training, corps member support and service initiatives. Ronda, a D.C. native, graduated from Bowie State University, an historically Black university, with a B.A. in Psychology and a Master of Science in Administration (M.S.A.) in Organizational Development from Trinity Washington University. She currently serves on the board of Gifted Servants (Maryland).

Cat Ward Managing Director of JFFLabs at Jobs For the Future

Cat Ward is managing director of JFFLabs. She leads JFF’s efforts to engage the private sector as a strategic force for good. Cat founded and manages JFF’s Corporate Action Platform and Advisory Services practice. She leads a team that advises companies on envisioning, developing, and implementing strategies that are good for multiple stakeholders—including workers, businesses, and communities. Cat is an experienced leader who has worked across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. Before joining JFF, she ran Taproot Foundation’s corporate advisory practice, leading a team that worked with prominent companies to create strategies that drive social impact and develop talent. Earlier in her career, she worked at the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where she led efforts to create jobs and help people advance. She started her career in New York City theater as a director, producer, and educator. Cat is a frequent speaker on the topics of strategic corporate talent management, effective corporate social impact strategies, and cross-sector partnership.

Maurice Jones
CEO at OneTen

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As the CEO of OneTen, Maurice draws on his deep leadership experience in the public and private sectors to spearhead the coalition’s mission to create 1 million family-sustaining jobs for Black talent in America over the next 10 years. In his role as OneTen’s first CEO, Maurice leads the efforts to establish the coalition’s capabilities and elevate its reach and impact while reimagining how business leaders come together to effect positive social change and create a more equitable society. Before joining OneTen, Maurice served as President & CEO of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), one of the country's largest organizations supporting projects to revitalize communities and catalyze economic opportunity for residents. Prior to joining LISC in 2016, Maurice served as the Secretary of Commerce for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he managed 13 state agencies focused on the economic needs in his native state. He has served as Deputy Secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), overseeing operations for the agency and its 8,900 staff members, and was Commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Social Services and Deputy Chief of Staff to former Virginia Governor Mark Warner. Trained as an attorney, Maurice worked under the Clinton Administration on legal, policy and program issues at the Treasury Department, where he also helped manage a then-new initiative called the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) fund—a federal program that has grown to be a critical supporter of nonprofits that leverage capital to bolster their communities. In the private sector, Maurice was the general manager of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk and went on to become president and publisher of its parent company. He also worked for a Richmond law firm and a private philanthropy investing in community-based efforts to benefit children in Washington, D.C. Raised by his grandparents in a rural southern Virginia community where his family had a tobacco and corn farm, Jones was awarded a full merit scholarship to Hampden-Sydney College, a small liberal arts school. In 1986, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was selected as a Rhodes scholar. At Oxford University, he earned a master’s degree in international relations. In 1992, he graduated from the University of Virginia Law School.

Meg Garlinghouse VP, Social Impact at LinkedIn

Passionate about connecting people with opportunities to use their skills and experience to transform the world, Meg has more than 20 years of experience working at the intersection of nonprofits and corporations, developing strategic and mutually beneficial partnerships. Meg has articular expertise in leveraging media and technology to meet the marketing, communications and brand goals of respective clients. She is passionate for developing innovative social campaigns that have a business benefit.

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