Ross Gibby is the Chief Operating Officer of CRDC Global and President of CRDC USA. Ross is on a mission to end plastic waste and reduce CO2 through market-driven innovation. He is an entrepreneur with a diverse background inoperations, business development, marketing, communications, brand innovation and content creation. Following an MFA from Rutgers University, Ross was…
Natasha Dyer currently serves as Community Programs Manager for the City of Atlanta straddling the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and the Department of City Planning. In this role, she works on a Food Systems Team where she focuses on creating programs that divert food from the waste stream as part of the City’s Food Access…
Eve leads the environmental strategy for Cisco’s supply chain sustainability team. In this role, she is focused on embedding circular economy principles across the value chain to achieve net zero goals and ensure Cisco products are designed, built, used, and reused sustainably. Previously, Eve worked at an NGO focused on combatting global deforestation. She also…
James Rhodes (Jamie) is an attorney, organizer, and strategic consultant. Currently serving as a Policy Consultant for Upstream, he was formerly the Program Director from 2015 – 2018. In between roles with Upstream, he launched his own law practice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Rhodes Consulting, that focused on environmental policy, working for the RI…
Ruth Corona is the Energy & Sustainability Services Director in Mexico, and responsible for delivering business results for the whole division. Her role includes leading the Mexico team with overall responsibility for achieving results, seeking new clients and properties, as well as driving new business lines. For the Energy & Sustainability Services, she leads the…
Amy King is the Co-Founder of Good Coworking in Dallas, TX, the first LEED Gold, City of Dallas Green Business Platinum and SUPER™ Bronze certified coworking space in the world focused on inclusive sustainability, powered by solar. As a champion of the triple bottom line, Amy works with entrepreneurs to build profitable businesses that allow…
As leader for Sustainable Operations at JLL, Paulina Rivera’s main responsibility is to develop strategies based on the analysis of carbon footprint for the main activities of real estate operations, and giving solutions for water and energy reduction of consumption, as well as waste reduction. She joined JLL in 2011 as a Trainee in the…
Matthew Senesky founded Iterant in 2021 to provide market-based incentives to reduce packaging waste. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering and GM of US Operations at Amber Kinetics, a grid-scale energy storage startup. He also worked in corporate R&D at Texas Instruments, and was a hardware designer at Tesla. Matthew has a Ph.D….
Steven Sherman, resource economist/planner, is a leading technical and policy expert on the development of municipal organics programs; in addition, he has extensive board experience. His consulting, research, operations, policy, education, and training efforts over a 30-year period have helped to lay the groundwork for food scraps management as a cornerstone of zero waste, and…
Kendall Vanderhoof is a sustainability analyst at Niagara Bottling, focusing on water and zero-waste sustainability projects. Here, she is leading the initiative to certify all Niagara Bottling manufacturing sites through the TRUE Portfolio Program. Kendall holds an MS in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of Denver, a BA in Physics, and has previous…