Gary Niekerk has spent over twenty years working with stakeholders, customers, and employees on sustainability and reputation issues; in his effort to protect and build the brands of some of the world’s leading high-tech companies. He has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Apple and Intel Corporation where he has spent the past fifteen years. His current position is in the Office of Corporate Responsibility but he has held a variety of leadership positions, including: Regional Environmental Health & Safety Manager and External Affairs Manager. Speakers

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Kathryn oversees the corporate communications, corporate social responsibility and crisis management functions worldwide for The Clorox Company, a Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods company based in Oakland, Calif. Clorox is a leading manufacturer and marketer of consumer products with fiscal year 2009 revenues of $5.5 billion. Clorox markets some of consumers' most trusted and recognized brand names, including its namesake bleach and cleaning products; Green Works® natural cleaners; Armor All® and STP® auto-care products; Fresh Step® and Scoop Away® cat litter; Kingsford® charcoal; Hidden Valley® and K C Masterpiece® dressings and sauces; Brita® water-filtration systems; Glad® bags, wraps and containers; and Burt's Bees® natural personal care products. With approximately 8,300 employees worldwide, the company manufactures products in more than two dozen countries and markets them in more than 100 countries. Speakers

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Robert has developed and implemented sustainability program at Jackson Family Wines over the last two years. He has twenty one years of wine business experience in a broad spectrum of positions evenly split between operations, marketing and sales.

JFW is a family owned company founded in 1982. To ensure the highest quality they own and manage over 33,000 acres of estate vineyards throughout California’s coastal regions. They market over 35 brands from their 21 wineries in California, Bordeaux, Tuscany, Chile and Australia. Achievements of their sustainability program include installing procedures and equipment to conserve 9,200,000 kWh per year equal to 1,500 homes usage. They’re currently launching a program for ISO 14001 and LEED certification for all facilities.

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Kevin Moss is responsible for implementing BT’s corporate social responsibility strategy in North America, which covers a broad scope of sustainability issues, including environment and climate change impact, community investment, and business ethics. His key focus areas include sharing BT’s CSR experience with customers and helping them understand how BT can help them meet their CSR objectives. Moss previously oversaw voice and data product management for BT Americas, including product strategy, new product development, and geographic expansion across systems, networks, operations, and channels.

Visit his blog at CSRPerspective.com. Speakers

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Michelle Price is worldwide environmental strategic marketing manager in the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) at HP. She is responsible for global environmental marketing strategy and planning across all of the group’s businesses, segments and regions. Additionally, Price has penned a guidebook to environmental communications, titled 42 Rules of Green Marketing, which is scheduled to release in September 2010. Previously, Price managed IPG’s global marketing readiness for the Microsoft Windows Vista® release. She also held advertising, marketing communications and new product introduction management positions in IPG and the Personal Systems Group at HP. She additionally has experience in the consumer, small and medium business and enterprise segments. Prior to joining HP in 1998, Price worked as account executive and creative business manager at Rives Carlberg Advertising. Based in Vancouver, Wash., she has a master’s degree in marketing and finance from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design from Mississippi State University. Speakers

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Scott works within SAP’s Sustainability Organization, where he leads a core team of sustainability experts that define and ensure the execution of our sustainability strategy as well as orchestrate our participation in the portfolio process. Previously, Scott was a VP for SAP Portfolio Strategy Group (PSG), which is responsible for the company’s portfolio governance process and drives key cross-topics portfolio priorities. Scott focused on three cross-topic priorities: software-as-a-service, mergers & acquisitions, and sustainability solutions . Previously, Scott was a consultant for both McKinsey & Company and Accenture. While working in McKinsey's Silicon Valley Office, Scott provided guidance on corporate strategy, go-to-market plans, and partnership opportunities to the world's leading independent software and hardware vendors. During his time with Accenture (then Andersen Consulting), he recommended and implemented technology designed to improve the business processes of media and entertainment clients. Scott also served as the Vice President, Secure Networks Solutions and Applications, at Enterasys Networks. In this role, Scott provided leadership for the company's security software to include product management, solutions marketing, and partnership development.

Additionally, Scott served in various leadership roles in the US Army during his five years of service. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from the United States Military Academy (West Point). Speakers

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As Director of brand marketing for Jenn-Air and KitchenAid, Maynard oversees a broad range of worldwide marketing activities for the brands.

Previously, as Global Director of Corporate Social responsibility, he was responsible for guiding efforts to advance the positive reputation of Whirlpool Corporation.

In 2001, Maynard co-created Cook for the Cure, which has raised more than $8 million globally for Susan G. Komen for the Cure and other organizations dedicated to the fight against breast cancer.

Prior to joining Whirlpool, Maynard held community college administrative and faculty positions and spent many years in the hospitality business. He has spoken at numerous professional conferences, and holds an MBA and undergraduate degrees in business administration, hotel management and the culinary arts. Speakers

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Sustainability Strategist, 25 Years in Social and Environmental Responsibility for Large Corporations, Complex Supply Chains and Government. As Former Director of Environmental Sustainability at HP, Ms. Nixon managed the vision, strategy, marketing, messaging, employee engagement and stakeholder relations program for the corporation. As HP’s Ethical Sourcing Director for more than a decade, Bonnie implemented the world’s largest and most complex electronic ethical and sustainable supply chain program. Prior to HP, Ms. Nixon owned an environmental planning and Communications Firm, Circlepoint, where she managed public and private sector projects with business, community and public agencies. Bonnie led the public relations program for the Boston Harbor Cleanup Project for the Mass Water Resources Agency. Speakers

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Sean works for the Salesforce.com Foundation, where he leads their National Employee & Community Engagement program for the US & Canada. It is Salesforce.com’s integrated philanthropic model that has enabled the Foundation to successfully engage with nonprofits and meet their needs. Sean has been instrumental in building a sustainable employee volunteer engagement program for Salesforce.com. He has been working in the nonprofit industry for over 10 years and began his service in the US Army. He holds an MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology from Golden Gate University. Speakers

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Geetha Murali is Development Manager on Room to Read’s Global Corporations and Foundations team. Geetha has over eight years experience across the corporate and non-profit sectors, having worked with pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Chiron, as well with educational technology programs like the Digital Equalizer Program (American India Foundation) and Adobe Youth Voices (Adobe Systems Incorporated). During her time with the American India Foundation, she was responsible for several corporate partnerships with technology companies that supported the growth of the Digital Equalizer program into 13 states across India. More recently, she was also Marketing Director for a technology company in the mobile web and social marketing space that launched at DEMO Fall 2008. Geetha received her M.S. in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.A. and Ph.D. in South Asian Politics from the University of California at Berkeley. She has also held an Adjunct Faculty position at Mills College. Speakers

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Jay Simons joined Atlassian in 2008 and leads the company's sales and marketing teams. Prior to joining Atlassian, Jay was a Vice President of Marketing for BEA Systems. Before working at BEA Systems, he held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles at Plumtree Software, where he also oversaw that company's expansion throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. He lives in San Francisco. Speakers

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Jessica L. Bier is a Director in Deloitte Consulting LLP and leads Deloitte’s Human Capital Enterprise Sustainability practice. She focuses on preparing, leading, and supporting the behavior changes required for Sustainability initiatives, including technology and process adoption, and capability building. She is the co-author of Crossing the Green Divide, a whitepaper that discusses the opportunity to increase engagement of employees in organizational sustainability efforts. She believes that there is untapped energy in employees around sustainability and works with clients to access it. To this work she brings over 15 years of organizational development experience in change management, communications, employee engagement, and talent management where she works with clients to diagnose, discuss, and deliver the solutions relating to the HR and people aspects of their business objectives. In addition Jessica has worked with the not-for-profit organizations of Girls Inc., The Robin Hood Foundation, and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Jessica holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in History and Theatre from Carnegie Mellon. Speakers

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Jamie is focused on sustainability and resource efficiency analysis and implementation. This includes the areas of general organizational sustainability, renewable energy, energy efficiency, water efficiency, climate change. She is an environmental engineer with experience in strategy development, financial analysis, market studies and the prioritization, design and implementation of value-added projects. Jamie has been able to help coordinate and execute plans which strike a balance between big-picture drivers and effective technical delivery. Over the past several years, she has worked with key decision makers and leadership to help lead overall operational planning efforts as well as integration of sustainability and resource efficiency into projects and organizations. Jamie earned a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BSE from the University of Michigan in Environmental Engineering. Speakers

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