Staff and Board

Called a "master of environmental entrepreneurism," Mr. Shireman has over 20 years of experience developing and implementing programs that align the interests of major corporations and their stakeholders. Shireman develops profitable business strategies that drive pollution down and profits up. As President and CEO of the Future 500, Shireman helps the world's largest companies and most impassioned activists - from Coca-Cola, General Motors, Nike, Mitsubishi, and Weyerhaeuser, to Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, and the Sierra Club - work together to improve the profits and performance of business.

Advocating technology as a driver of green growth, Shireman has led the development and deployment of these and other tools, at diverse companies in Asia, Europe, and throughout North America. While CEO of the largest state recycling lobby in the U.S., he wrote California's bottle bill recycling law, shown by EPA and academic studies to be the world's most cost-effective. He advocates market-based environmental policies - contending they can be more effective than many command-and-control laws.

Most recently, with former Mitsubishi CEO Tachi Kiuchi, Shireman wrote the popular book, What We Learned In The Rainforest - Business Lessons from Nature, featured in the Harvard Business Review, which declares the business-as-machine era over, and shows how companies can become as innovative as the rainforest, leveraging feedback to grow more profitable and sustainable than ever.

Tachi Kiuchi is one of Japan's most iconoclastic corporate executives. As Chairman and CEO of Mitsubishi Electric America, he built the Mitsubishi Electric brand in the U.S., and managed the company's transition from the old to the new economy. As Managing Director of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, he broke with Japanese corporate norms to champion a "living systems" approach to business that included rapid adaptation, financial transparency, openness, cultural diversity, executive positions for women, and environmental sustainability. He even forged a bold agreement with Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to promote corporate sustainability.

Today, as Chairman of the Future 500, and CEO of Tokyo-based E-Square, Kiuchi informs and inspires business leaders all over the world, and develops profitable and sustainable business practices at computer, electronics, automobile, and other companies.

Kiuchi is a popular keynote speaker at major global conferences on business, the environment, and Japanese-U.S. relations. In his spare time, Kiuchi skydives, runs marathons, climbs Mount Fuji, rides his bicycle to Future 500 headquarters in downtown Tokyo, and does 2000 push-ups a day.

He is the co-author with Bill Shireman, of the popular book What We Learned In The Rainforest - Business Lessons From Nature, featured in the Harvard Business Review, which declares the business-as-machine era over, and shows how companies can become as innovative as the rainforest, leveraging feedback to grow more profitable and sustainable than ever.

We must learn to provide affluence without effluence - by consuming less from the environment, not more. We can use less, and have more. Consume less, and be more. The interests of business, and the interests of environment, are not incompatible.

Professor Zhouying Jin is a Senior Researcher and Professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Director of the Center for Technology Innovation and Strategy Studies (CTISS) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She also is president and founder for the Beijing Academy of Soft Technology, and since 2004, President of Future 500 China.

A graduate of the Chinese University of Science and Technology, Dr. Jin has been a researcher at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Deputy Chief Engineer of Changchun Electric Industrial Administration; and Vice secretary-general of China enterprise Directors (Managers) Association, State Economic Committee of China.

She has been a visiting professor at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Senior Research Fellow, Institute For The Future; and a Special researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology policy of Japan. Jin is currently a Guest Professor Tsinghua University in Beijing and Hohai University in Nanjing. She also holds the title of Research Fellow at the World Business Academy, is a Planning Committee Member of the Millennium Project and Co-chair of the China node of the United Nations University of Americas council.

She has more than 100 published monographs, theses, and research reports to her credit.

Erik oversees Future 500's North American operations and stakeholder engagements across the organization’s core programs. He manages the ongoing refinement of the organization’s methodologies, tools, and processes that progress engagement between companies and NGOs.

Erik's career has focused on finding common ground between the corporations and NGOs to advance systemic solutions to sustainability - economic, social, and environmental. He has worked in both the Corporate and NGO sectors: as a PIRG activist and lobbyist for non-profits and as an environmental consultant for Arthur Andersen and in Public Affairs at Ciba Geigy. He has a MBA from Yale School of Management with a concentration in Competitive Strategies and Master's degree in Environmental Management from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, with a concentration in Industrial Environmental Management. He also received a B.A. in history from Yale College, focusing on development of the American West.

During his free moments, Erik spends time with his wife and two young daughters, travels, plays squash, cooks, and recreates outside whenever possible.

Mary Ann McDonnell is responsible for Future 500's outreach to various stakeholders, including corporations, NGOs, academics, foundations, and governmental agencies. She holds a degree in Journalism and Communication from Wayne State University. Her background includes working in Washington, DC as a Consumer Protection Specialist for the Federal Trade Commission. She has 20 years experience in New Business Development with major corporations. She brings her enthusiasm and love of making a difference in the world to her work with Future 500, a spirit she fosters among the Future 500 community.

Juliette Terzieff, is a journalist with fourteen years experience covering complex political, environmental, and rights issues in hot spots and war zones around the world. As a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, CNN, Newsweek and other media, she covered controversies in the Balkan, South Asian, and Middle East regions. She engineered a three-week entry into Kosovo during NATO bombing campaign in 1999 to become one of only eight international journalists operating independently from Serbian supervision inside the Yugoslav province, and contributed to Newsweek's win of the 1999 American Society of Magazine Editors Award for Reporting. Juliette established and implemented policies in South Asian bureaus of Western media outfits generating more than 300 stories, including 60 front page features and an unparalleled six-part series from Pakistani tribal areas. In addition to her work with Future 500, she publishes a weekly column for World Politics Review and is a Contributing Editor to SmartBrief's daily UN Newswire covering health, environmental, developmental and human rights issues.

Matt Turner possesses experience in operational and reputational risk, having worked as an intelligence manager for Latin America at International SOS (medical and security assistance company) and as a corporate responsibility consultant for The Coca-Cola Company. For Coke, Turner collaborated with both internal and external stakeholders on social issues and initiatives involving ethical sourcing, union relations, public relations and crisis management. In addition, Turner has extensive project management and outreach experience in the private and non-profit sectors.

Turner earned a MS in International Affairs at the Sam Nunn School at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BA in Government and International Studies, with a concentration in International Relations, at the University of Notre Dame.

Interested in nexus of the private, public and non-profit sectors, in addressing current and future environmental and social challenges, Turner is working to develop and expand Future 500's Global Stakeholder Initiative, while also assisting to build partnerships between businesses and NGOs on climate issues.

Matt enjoys traveling, running, photography and, on occasion, Notre Dame Fighting Irish football.

Scott directs climate policy work for Future 500. Based in Sacramento, he is actively engaged with regulators and stakeholders as California prepares to fully implement its AB 32 climate law. He tracks and analyzes federal climate policy and proposals, including the proposed Waxman-Markey bill, and engages stakeholders in order to improve the federal approach. Scott spent 5 years as the Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Californians Against Waste, where he coordinated relationships with California Integrated Waste Management Board and other state and local agencies regarding greenhouse gas policies, as well as solid waste reduction and recycling issues. Before joining CAW, Scott practiced law for the Golden Gate University Environmental Law & Justice Clinic and Lawyers for Clean Water. Scott enjoys wildlife photography, backpacking, and participating in triathlons in his spare time.

Danna Moore came to Future 500 with a background in grassroots organizing and coalition building.  Working on a wide range of campaigns, she helped forge strong alliances between key stakeholders and policy makers on international justice issues.  By establishing an SF-based grassroots action network, Danna helped put pressure on policy makers for the 2007 Farm Bill and Oxfam America's Make Trade Fair and Climate Equity Campaign(s).  Before coming on to the Future 500 team, she worked as a political consultant fighting against a billion dollar project that would result in the loss of one of the last pieces of undeveloped, environmentally sensitive land in the Bay Area.  Danna studied Communications and International Relations at San Francisco State University, and globalization at the Universidad Belgrano de Argentina and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  She also volunteered in France at Amnesty International, working on a global human rights campaign for political prisoners.

At Future 500, Danna works as Director of Stakeholder Campaigns, helping to mobilize coalitions around important social justice issues in climate change, recycling, water, and human rights.  In her free time, Danna enjoys studying language, dancing, reading and traveling.

Elizabeth Redman specializes in bringing people together to understand how environmental challenges can become economic opportunities. From building coalitions to support stronger national climate policy to designing regional green economic development strategies, Elizabeth can always be found making connections between people, organizations, and ideas for sustainable business growth.  As a graduate student at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, her research focuses on understanding how environment policy can be a driver of economic growth and the various approaches to cross-sector collaboration.  From creating the Cluster Network to help the Oregon Governor�s Office and statewide economic development groups align public sector resources with industry needs, to coordinating the many initiatives developed by the Oakland Partnership�s Green Technology Cluster, to designing a strategy for the East Bay Green Corridor Partnership, Elizabeth has had experience building bridges across sectors and finding ways to align the interests of leaders with a diverse set of goals.

Nikole Wilson-Ripsom has 20 years of non-profit organizational experience. Ms. Wilson-Ripsom has been instrumental in creating new non-profit organizations (NPOs), as well as in the daily administration, long-term planning, implementation of special marketing projects, and fundraising for a number of Bay Area NPOs. Ms. Wilson-Ripsom has also worked as an editor of children's books, and a finder of on-air talent for a grassroots radio station.

She holds a Master's degree in Education from the University of California at Berkeley, where she also obtained her undergraduate degrees in Mass Communications and African American Literature.

Bodhi Garrett founded North Andaman Tsunami Relief after the December 2004 wave claimed his job, home, and the communities he had been living with. With a total budget of over million, the grassroots disaster relief effort grew under his leadership to encompass over 150 projects in 12 villages. Since 2007, Bodhi has guided the formation of a number of ongoing sustainable development projects, including the Tsunami Crafts Cooperative, Andaman Discoveries, Youth In Action, and a Community Tourism Network.

Bodhi is also a well-known speaker on sustainable tourism and community development, with recent presentations to the Global Ecotourism Conference, and the Asian Institute of Technology, among others. More information on Bodhi’s work can be found at www.andamandiscoveries.com and www.northandamantsunamirelief.com

Ms. Morikawa holds a Master's degree in Environmental Management from Yale University, with a concentration in Industrial Environmental Management. Her current work at the Future 500 focuses on the review of environmental and social standards and development of a corporate social responsibility assessment tool. Ms. Morikawa also holds a researcher position at the Pacific Institute with the emphasis on the study of ISO's international standard development in environmental and social issues. Before coming to the Future 500, she worked with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition on projects relating to the benchmarking corporate environmental reporting, and the comparative evaluation of legislation relating to extended producer responsibility. She received a B.A. in Foreign Studies from Sophia University, Japan.

Robert J. Shapiro is the co-founder and chairman of Sonecon, LLC, a private firm that advises U.S. and foreign businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations on market conditions and economic policy. Dr. Shapiro and Sonecon have advised, among others, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Senator John Kerry; private firms such as MCI, Inc., New York Life Insurance Co., SLM Corporation, Nordstjernan of Sweden, and Fujitsu of Japan; and non-profits including the American Public Transportation Association, the Education Finance Council, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and PhrMA. He is a Senior Fellow of the Progressive Policy Institute, Economic Counselor to the U.S. Conference Board, and a director of the Ax:son-Johnson Foundation in Sweden and the Center for International Political Economy in New York .

From 1997-2001, Dr. Shapiro was U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. In that position, he oversaw the nation's major statistical agencies, including the Census Bureau while it planned and carried out the 2000 decennial census, and economic policy for the Commerce Department. Prior to his appointment as Under Secretary, he was co-founder and Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute and the Progressive Foundation. He also served as principal economic advisor in Bill Clinton's 1991-1992 presidential campaign, Legislative Director for Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Associate Editor of U.S. News & World Report , and economics columnist for Slate. Dr. Shapiro has been a Fellow of Harvard University, the Brookings Institution and the National Bureau of Economic Research. He holds a PhD from Harvard, a MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an AB from the University of Chicago.

D. Perry Cutshall, a Future 500 Senior Fellow, assists corporate partners in enhancing their strategic vision, organizational structure and executional performance, particularly in terms of corporate citizenship and social responsibility. President and Founder of Cutch Group, Inc., Mr. Cutshall joined Future 500 as a Senior Fellow in 2007 following a 28-year career with The Coca-Cola Company. During his tenure at Coke, Mr. Cutshall's responsibilities spanned both domestic and international markets across several disciplines, including Marketing, Operations, Public Affairs and Communications. His most recent Coke experiences focused on the development and implementation of system-wide citizenship/corporate social responsibility initiatives involving both company-owned and bottler-owned operations. He led the company's Citizenship@Coca-Cola program, which enabled the company and its global network of bottlers and partners to measure and build their commitment to good citizenship. For more than three years, he provided leadership, oversight, and collaborative development and implementation of global citizenship programs as well as other strategic cross-system initiatives.

Prior to that role, he spent four years as Vice-President of The Coca-Cola Company's Latin America Group. In his capacity as Director of Field Support, he focused on improving the performance of Latin American operations, through his leadership of numerous de-centralized support networks, including Finance, Technical and Legal

From 1979-1998, Mr. Cutshall held numerous positions within The Coca-Cola Company, most notably as Director of Worldwide Sports Marketing in the Corporate Marketing Group, with responsibilities for maximizing the business impacts of global sports properties such as the Olympic Games and World Cup Football. He also led and directed significant organizational, customer service and in-market executional initiatives for the North America business as Director, Field Operations in the North America Group as well as other operations and marketing positions.

Mr. Cutshall received a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Marketing from Georgia State University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee.

Adam Davis is the President of Solano Partners, Inc., a consulting firm focused on environmental investment and the financial value of natural systems. Adam has worked on programs that integrate sustainability principles into business strategy since 1985, solving problems across the full range of environmental issues involving materials, energy, toxics and land. Since 1997 he has been involved in developing market mechanisms and incentives that allow landowners and land managers to benefit from conservation and restoration actions. He is a co-founder and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Ecosystem Marketplace which is a global information service on these market mechanisms and incentives for conservation. He is also a Partner in Ecosystem Investment Partners, a new private capital solution that delivers returns through conservation and restoration actions across a portfolio of real estate holdings.

Current clients include the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Nature Conservancy, and the Parametrix corporation.

Chandran Nair is the founder of a possible "first": The Global Institute for Tomorrow, a fledgling think-tank based in Asia that is focused on the inter-relation of Asian society and values with those of the rest of the world. Mr. Nair was chairman of ERM in the Asia Pacific until March 2004. During his leadership the business in Asia remained consistently profitable, producing some of the best results within ERM's international network. He was a member of the management board of the global company.

For more than a decade, Mr. Nair has strongly advocated a more sustainable approach to development in Asia, and has helped the governments of Taiwan and Hong Kong instill these principles into how they make key decisions. He continues to advise the Hong Kong Government, devising a new approach that gives the public a bigger role in key policy making decisions - another first for Asia.

Mr. Nair is a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's School of Business, running a course "Leading in Asia for the Future" as part of the Kellogg-HKUST MBA programme. He advises the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, the World Wildlife Fund in Asia, and is a director of the Jane Goodall Institute. He is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

A keen sportsman, Mr. Nair managed the Hong Kong hockey team for seven years, taking it to the 2002 Asian Games in South Korea. He plays the saxophone and used to head a band in Africa. He has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and Africa.

As an Ecopsychologist, concerned with our human nature connection, Dr. Cappadonna examines the effect of global climate change on our individual psyche, our local communities, and multinational groups, and how the earth informs us in the creation of vital and sustainable processes.

Building upon 30 years of post-doctoral work and recent training in Ken Wilber's Integral Sustainability, Joanna Macy's The Work The Reconnects, Angeles Arrien's Collective Wisdom seminar, all associated with furthering "glocal" (global and local vitality) and inner sustainability. These trainings assist Dr. Cappadonna with her commitment to Boulder's Climate Action Plan and Colorado's renewable future, including being on the Advisory Board for the Colorado Climate Change Conference. Internationally, Dr. Cappadonna has guided Social Action Training with Brazilian entrepreneurs who create programs to eliminate poverty in the cities and care of resources in the rainforest. She has also taught year-long women's leadership trainings, seminars and workshops, including introspective work with the World Business Academy. She also has an abiding interest in China's environmental thriving, its challenges and solutions, as well as in Asian cultural ways.

Although Mark Satin has at various times been invited to write for the Christian Science Monitor op-ed page, the Washington Post Outlook section, Mother Jones, The Nation, and other entities, he's chosen to focus instead on writing -- and administering, and helping with the grunt work on -- his own political newsletters, New Options and Radical Middle. Now temporarily (we hope) retired from monthly newsletter articles, Mark is working on two new books, and lending his extensive experience to Future 500's efforts to bring together the people and ideas of the political left and right.

Mark was born in 1946 and raised in small cities in West Virginia, north Texas, and northern Minnesota.� He graduated University of British Columbia in 1972, and earned a law degree from the New York University School of Law in 1995, at the age of 49.

In the 1960s he was a New Left activist -- civil rights worker for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in Holly Springs, Miss., in 1964-65 (see photo here, sixth from bottom), and president of a college chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in 1966. In 1967 he emigrated to Canada to avoid killing people in Vietnam for no good reason, and to protest the war.� There he co-founded and ran the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme, Canada's major draft dodger assistance organization, and wrote the controversial Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, an underground best-seller."

In the 1970s and 1980s he became more "New Age" or "transformational" in his views. In the mid-70s he co-founded a free love commune, and wrote an honest, self-critical autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Young Exile (Toronto: Gage / Macmillan of Canada, 1976). He also wrote a political pamphlet called New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society that eventually grew into a 350-page book (New York: Dell, 1979; orig. Canada, 1976; also Denmark, Germany, Sweden).�

After President Carter declared amnesty, Mark toured North America with his book for over two years. His book tour evolved into an organizing tour for the New World Alliance, the first national New Age political organization. Later he helped draft the U.S. Green Party's founding document, "Ten Key Values."

From 1981-92 he published and edited New Options, well known as "Washington, D.C.'s Idealistic Political Newsletter." He built it into the second largest independent political newsletter in the U.S., and it won Utne Reader's first "Alternative Press Award for General Excellence: Best Publication from 10,000 to 30,000 Circulation," and made the Washington Post's chart of 10 periodicals spearheading "The Ideology Shuffle."

His 21st century newsletter, Radical Middle, was his attempt to synthesize the political savvy from his New Left days, the humane sensibility from his New Age days, and to add depth and complexity to his and his generation's idealistic political journey.� For a more programmatic effort to outline a new politics, see Mark's book Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now (Westview Press / Perseus Books Group, 2004).

Dr. Ravi Chaudhry is a strategic management consultant with a specialty in business strategies, global competitiveness, and corporate governance. He has over 35 years' experience in international strategic alliances and joint ventures, including 10 years as CEO of five Tata Group Companies and is the founding Chairman of the Cemex Consulting Group.

A Mechanical Engineer with a Doctoral Award in Business Strategy, Chaudhry has advised scores of multinational corporations, sovereign states, and NGOs in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America. He is the accredited consultant to the Government of Brazil, and "India Representative" and "Consultant, New Global Markets" for Western Switzerland, comprising Cantons of Vaud, Valais, Jura and Neuchatel, with the mandate to assist global corporations to set-up a pan-European operations base in their Region.

Chaudhry has also been a consultant to Governments of Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Canada and Uganda. His other clients include UNIDO, World Bank and international NGOs. He has served on the Boards of several companies as Director and Chairman.

Janet McElligott, President of McElligott Associates, is an international business and political strategist, with a successful record in engaging stakeholders and negotiating agreements in zones of conflict in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. She has been involved with almost since its founding, with projects in Asia, North America, and South America.

McElligott was the spokesperson of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) for the Sudan Peace talks, and served on the task force that freed the ICRC aid workers from rebel territory in 1996. She serves as an unofficial liaison between the Catholic Church of Sudan and the Sudanese Government and was instrumental in helping to commute 27 death sentences as well as the chief negotiator to solve many of the complex refugee issues in the outlaying capitol region. From 1997 through 2001, McElligott was the liaison between the Sudanese intelligence service and the US FBI, focusing on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, some of which is chronicled in the book Losing bin Laden by Richard Miniter (2003), as well as Vanity Fair’s ‘The Secret bin Laden Files’ by David Rose (2002).

In the Middle East, Ms. McElligott was instrumental in assisting the first environmental symposium of the Arab Organization of Agricultural Development in Damascus, Syria. In the United States, McElligott served under President George Bush on his personal staff in the White House in 1990, and prior to this served on the staffs of three U.S. senators. McElligott speaks conversational German and Chinese, functional French, and limited Arabic and Russian.

Raman Bhatia, a senior executive for 32 years in international finance and industrial production, is a long-time advocate of corporate social responsibility in India. Committed to providing relief to the physically challenged, the illiterate and the economically weaker sections of society, he has raised many millions of dollars in corporate and other support for health, education, and development initiatives.

Mr. Bhatia is a Member of the India National PolioPlus Committee, was an advisor to the World Health Organization as a Corporate Affairs Specialist, served as a Campaign Associate for Rotary's Polio Eradication Private Sector Campaign, Trustee of the Institute of Head and Neck Oncology of Indore Cancer Foundation, and Trustee of the Ananth Shishu Palan Trust of India, an orphanage & school at the Sri Ram Ashram, Hardwar. He is a senior functionary of Rotary International, the world's oldest and perhaps largest service organization, and is deeply involved in Rehabilitation of Polio victims through the Polio Corrective Surgery project for the past 12 years.

Mr. Bhatia is currently Managing Director of an engineering export company. An effective and articulate orator, he talks at various forums on different subjects close to his heart - Leadership, Values, Education and care for the underprivileged.

Lawrence Bloom is a Fellow and Prizeman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has a significant reputation in London as a commercial property developer having developed the head offices of the National Bank of Kuwait and the Beyerische Landesbank. He was also instrumental in the James Stirling development at One Poultry opposite the Bank of England.

For a number of years Lawrence sat on the Executive Committee of the Intercontinental Hotel Group and managed their billion international property portfolio. Whilst at Intercontinental he also co-created an environmental manual with the CEO John van Praag, which was sponsored by Prince Charles and adopted by all the other five star hotel groups. It currently is operating in just under four million hotel rooms worldwide.

Lawrence co-founded the environmental initiative Global Action Plan with David Gershon which is currently operating in seventeen countries. He sits as an advisor to the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, a Rockefeller-funded US thinktank. He lives in London and Cambridge with his partner Pippa and has three children Rebecca, David and Jo.

John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist. He graduated in 1969 with High Honors in comparative religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. More recently, he co-founded and still co-chairs the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was the first to apply the term Cyberspace to the "place" it presently describes.

He has written for a diversity of publications, including Communications of the ACM, Mondo 2000, The New York Times, and Time. He has been on the masthead of Wired Magazine since it was founded. His piece on the future of copyright, "The Economy of Ideas" is taught in many law schools and his "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" is posted on thousands of web sites.

In 1997, he was a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and has been, since 1998, as a Berkman Fellow at the Harvard Law School.

He lives in Wyoming, New York, San Francisco, On the Road, and in Cyberspace. He has three teenaged daughters and aspires to be a good ancestor.

Bill is the General Manager of Bayer's Corporate Communications for Greater China. He has been working for Bayer in China since 1987.

He is also currently at Tsinghua University, as the co-director of the Tsinghua-Bayer Public Health and HIV/AIDS Media Studies Program and also a Research Fellow and Senior Guest Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Center for International Communications.

He holds an MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management in Arizona and a Masters degree in Instructional Technology and Media from Columbia University, New York.

Bill chairs the European Chamber's CSR Working Group in Beijing and is also a longstanding member of the Amcham CSR Committee. In 2006 he was selected to be a member of the National Committee on United States-China relations and in 2007, he joined the International Advisory Board of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, at the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

Manages a number of Future 500 efforts, including conference planning for our 2004 Fall conference in Seattle, stakeholder engagement training, the Coca-Cola North America stakeholder engagement project, and the Western Electronics Product Stewardship Initiative (WEPSI). For WEPSI, Ms. Gable served as a lead facilitator exploring policy options for e-waste and electronics recycling in the eight western states, as well as a participant in the national organization (NEPSI) where she authored an EPA white paper on this subject. She is an experienced strategic planner and corporate trainer, with 20 years of wide-ranging experience administering programs, developing curricula, and delivering trainings at Citibank, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the University of California, Berkeley, and a variety of other business, governmental, and not-for-profit institutions. She has authored a book on strategic planning and many articles in journals of corporate environmental management and social responsibility. She teaches a planning and sustainable business course at France's prestigious Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC).

Greg Voelm is Chairman of Global Futures/Business For The Environment. Mr. Voelm's experience goes back to the beginning of modern recycling - he was the director of the first source separation recycling project in the early 1970s. He owns Personal Health Organization, L.L.C., which provides health care testing for thousands of Americans through major retail and pharmaceutical corporations. He provides consultation support to national and western health care organizations besides his own. He continues to serves on the Boards of environmental organizations.

Ms. Ichikawa directs the development of the Global Citizenship 360 and sMAP process and software to simplify stakeholder performance measurement and reporting. She has twenty years of experience in the technology sector, at IBM, Motorola, and Rolm, in the Asia Pacific region. Ichikawa is responsible for software development, strategic alliances, and major initiative program development. Ichikawa has worked on the majority of Future 500 Asia partnerships, is the lead liason with the Future 500 China organization and is responsible for developing future relationships and networks in the region. She is the major account lead on key partner relationships and is an advisor and facilitator to companies regarding the Global Citizenship 360 and sMap process.

Robert Greeley is the President of Greeley Linsey Associates, with financial clients through the western US business and banking community. Mr. Greeley serves as court appointed administrator for corporations and partnerships in reorganization and with several non-profit agencies.

PK Agarwal has more than 20 years of experience as a chief information officer in both the public and private sectors. Prior to his current position as director of the Department of Technology Services, he was vice president of ACS, Inc. for three years, where he worked with state and local governments to help transform information technology. Previously, he served as executive vice president and chief information officer for NIC, Inc. from 2000 to 2003. From 1996 to 2000, Agarwal was chief information officer for the Franchise Tax Board and from 1984 to 1996 he was chief of the Office of Information Services within the Department of General Services. His state government experience also includes three years as manager of the Database Development Bureau for the Department of Social Services and one year as a technical project manager for the Department of Health Services. Agarwal began his career as a management consultant and customer manager for EDS Corporation from 1975 to 1978.

Mark Serlin is Managing Partner at Serlin & Whiteford, a commercial litigation firm with an emphasis on commercial collections, receivership, business litigation and business counseling. Their clients range from individuals to Fortune 500 companies. Serlin attended the University of California at Berkeley, obtained his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a Masters of Economic Philosophy from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Serlin is married and the father of one child and in his free time enjoys fishing, fly fishing, tennis and wines & spirits.