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Speakers from the 2008 Conference
Richard Alloo
Project General Manager, Advanced Engineering,
Production Engineering Division,
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America
Richard Alloo is project general manager for advanced engineering at Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc. (TEMA) and a TEMA Executive in Residence at the University of Kentucky, Center for Manufacturing. He is responsible for development of research relationships and projects for various new technologies with potential application to manufacturing processes and products. Alloo holds an electrical engineering degree from General Motors Institute, and a law degree from Stanford Law School.
Tim Bailey
Vice President, Product Supply, The Clorox Company
Since May 2005, Tim Bailey has served as vice president of product supply at Clorox. In this position, he has overall responsibility for the company’s manufacturing and supply chain operations. Prior to joining Clorox in 1996, Bailey spent 10 years working for the Quaker Oats Company in numerous roles, his final position being regional supply chain manager. A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Bailey holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee and an MBA in operations management from Loyola University of Chicago.
Kevin Bice
Senior Technical Consultant,
Ashland Water Technologies
Kevin Bice graduated from University of Western Ontario in 1981 with a
Bachelor of Science in Honors Chemistry. Bice has been in the
water treatment industry for over 25 years. In addition to
Ashland, he has worked for Grace Dearborn and Calgon Chemical.
His technical expertise is in raw water and waste water
clarification as well as biological oxidation treatment in
industrial applications.
Jamais Cascio
Affiliate, Institute for the Future
Jamais Cascio covers the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation, focusing on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking. Cascio co-founded WorldChanging.com, the award-winning website identifying models, tools, and ideas for building a “bright green” future, and now blogs at OpenTheFuture.com. Cascio is an affiliate at the Institute for the Future, the director of impacts analysis for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
James Collins
IDEO
As one of many leaders of IDEO’s grassroots Design for Environmental and Social Impact movement, Jim Collins challenges clients and design teams to look for efficient, equitable, and economical solutions. Prior to joining IDEO, Collins worked at Johnson & Johnson. At IDEO, he has contributed his skills to the creation of medical products, sporting goods, computer equipment, consumer electronics, and more. Collins holds a BSME from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSME from Stanford.
Matt Chwierut
Research Manager, Institute for the Future
Matt Chwierut came to IFTF to help develop a foresight literacy for organizations addressing social problems. As a research manager for the Ten-Year Forecast Program, he has supported research on future forces affecting public education, sustainability strategies, emerging forms of leadership, and faith and religion. He explored various research and futures methodologies, ranging from ethnographic fieldwork to executive strategy workshops to futures maps. He was educated at Stanford University, where he studied philosophy, literary criticism, and social enterprise.
Joshua Cohen
Professor, Political Science, Philosophy and Law, and Director, Program on Global Justice, Stanford University; Editor, Boston Review
Joshua Cohen teaches political theory at Stanford, and has written extensively on issues of democratic theory and global justice. At Stanford, he directs the Program on Global Justice, and is co-coordinator of the Just Supply Chains project. Cohen is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has edited Boston Review magazine since 1991.
Larry Coburn
Director, Lean Learning Center, NIKE, Inc.
Larry Coburn is a 26-year veteran of Nike, currently directing the education and training efforts of the lean manufacturing initiative at the Lean Learning Center in Vietnam. That center is a collaborative effort of Nike and partner factories to learn and apply lean principles to their business. Coburn has spent the past five years there leading the effort to cultivate a global community of change agents across multiple countries, cultures, and factory/organizational boundaries.
Mark Dwight
Founder & CEO, Rickshaw Bagworks, Inc.
Mark Dwight is the founder and CEO of Rickshaw Bagworks, a new San Francisco-based manufacturer of messenger bags, computer carrying cases, and lifestyle luggage. Dwight was formerly the CEO of Timbuk2 Designs. Previously, he worked at Cisco Systems. Dwight has a BS in mechanical engineering (’82) and an MBA (’89), both from Stanford. Dwight currently serves on the board of directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Mavericks Surf Ventures.
Christopher Field
Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University and Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution
Chris Field (PhD Stanford, 1981) is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. His research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. Field was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delegation that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. (Photo credit: Odd-Steinar Tøllefsen)
Judy Glazer
Director for Global Social and Environmental Responsibility (SER) Operations, Hewlett Packard
Judy Glazer’s role at HP is to drive programs that implement SER policy into HP’s products and supply chain, from design and materials through manufacturing, distribution and end-of-life. This charter includes HP’s programs to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of HP’s ~$50B supply chain and implementation of HP’s supply chain code of conduct. Glazer joined Hewlett-Packard in 1989 and has held a variety of supply chain and engineering roles. She holds MS and PhD degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Carol Welsh Gray
Executive Director, Raising A Reader®
Carol Welsh Gray is the founding executive director of Raising A Reader, three-time winner of the Fast Company Magazine Award for Entrepreneurship. In 33 states, the program prepares at-risk children for kindergarten success. As an early pioneer of “venture philanthropy,” she adapted venture capitalist practice to the nonprofit world with a track-record of eight acclaimed social innovations. She founded the Center for Venture Philanthropy at the former Peninsula Community Foundation, now Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Priya Haji
CEO and Co-founder, World of Good, Inc.
Board Chair, World of Good: Development Organization
Priya Haji is the award-winning CEO and co-founder of World of Good, a for-profit/nonprofit fair trade gift company working with more than 6,000 artisans in 34 countries. Haji was just awarded the Social Venture Network’s Innovation Award for her work with World of Good. World of Good has also recently partnered with eBay to build the world’s largest online marketplace for people positive products.
Dan Henkle
Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility, Gap, Inc.
Leading a team of 90 employees worldwide responsible for the company’s social responsibility efforts, Dan Henkle oversees the department’s factory monitoring, environmental affairs, and external engagement efforts. He joined the company in 1992, and served most recently as the vice president of
human resources for the Gap division. Prior to joining Gap Inc., Henkle worked in the human resources function for Oracle Corporation. He received a BS in accounting and general management from Purdue University and his MBA with an emphasis in organizational behavior from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jonah Houston
Sr Project Leader/Head of Manufacturing/Realization Group, IDEO
While at IDEO Jonah Houston has worked on a wide variety of products from medical devices to office furniture, consumer electronics to food and beverage, with companies ranging in size from five-person start-ups to the Fortune 50. Houston has deep experience with Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA), Design for X (DFX), production readiness and process capability, as well as extensive experience in metal processes—extrusion, stamping, casting, powdered metals, etc.—and their use in complex electromechanical assemblies. Houston has also taught a series of courses at Stanford University and Santa Clara University on the subject of materials and process selection as well as DFMA.
Ted Howes
Sustainability Domain, IDEO
Ted Howes leads IDEO’s efforts in integrating sustainability and business factors. He has dedicated his career to exploring the intersection of business and environmental issues and is passionate about using the lens of business and sustainability to guide corporate strategy. Howes is expert in assessing, designing, and implementing corporate sustainability and procurement programs that are customized to the needs and markets of individual clients, as well as examining and reconciling sustainability issues for academic, nonprofit, and corporate stakeholders.
Lyn Jeffery
Research Director, Institute for the Future
Lyn Jeffery is a cultural anthropologist who works on qualitative research and ethnographies of the future. She works across IFTF’s research programs, with a focus on the future of work, digital youth, and the Chinese-language Internet. Jeffery is the co-editor of China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture, as well as author of articles on post-socialist entrepreneurialism and Chinese network marketing. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology, is fluent in Mandarin, and
blogs at www.virtual-china.org.
Julie Juergens
Director of Programs, Stanford Center for Social Innovation
Julie Juergens began her career at the Close-Up Foundation in Washington, D.C., and later led Stanford’s Public Management Program and served as a Vanderbilt University adjunct professor. She recently co-edited Conversations in Philanthropy, an examination of the purpose and obligations of contemporary philanthropy. Juergens is a trustee for Start Up, an economic development nonprofit, and serves on the advisory council for New Sector Alliance, a national nonprofit strategy consulting firm. She received her AB from the University of California, Davis, and her AM from Stanford University.
Lee Kindberg
Director, Environment, Maersk Inc.
Lee Kindberg is director, environment for Maersk in North America. Her responsibilities include environmental policies and programs, compliance assurance, and support to safety and environmental management systems. She is active in the Clean Cargo Working Group, a global group dedicated to assessing and improving environmental impacts of shipping, and ensuring responsible corporate citizenship. Kindberg’s BS and doctorate are in
chemistry, and she spent 20 years in the chemical industry before joining Maersk.
Andrea Larson
Professor, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of
Virginia
Andrea Larson’s work targets entrepreneurial innovation designed to address challenges at the nexus of economic growth, business and supply chain strategy, human health, and ecological system viability. She has developed curriculum focusing on clean commerce examples of innovations in material selection, product/service design, and strategic differentiation, and she has a book forthcoming on sustainability innovation/ entrepreneurship. Larson received her PhD from Harvard University.
Hau Lee
Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology and
Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum
Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners. Lee obtained his BSocSc in economics and statistics from the University of Hong Kong, his MSc in operational research from the London School of Economics, and his MS and PhD degrees in operations research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Shannon Loew
IDEO
Shannon Loew designs with the intent of instigating social change. He holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard School of Design and a BA in environmental architecture from Vassar College. Prior to his career in architecture, Loew worked in marketing for seven years. At IDEO, he has worked on a range of issues from athletic apparel launches to sustainable mineral resource extraction. His clients have included Marriott, Nike, Rio Tinto, and a large-scale residential community developer.
David Munnikhuysen
VP, Best Practices, Manheim
David Munnikhuysen currently serves as vice president of best practices at Manheim. Prior to taking this role, he was the vice president of operations. Before joining Manheim, Munnikhuysen was an auction general manager at GE Capital and served in a number of other positions at the company. He earned his MBA at the Wharton Business School in 1989 and holds a BSME from Duke University.
Kevin O'Marah
Chief Strategy Officer,
AMR Research
Kevin O’Marah has led AMR’s global supply chain research since 2000, publishing seminal work on sustainability, product innovation, and the AMR Supply Chain Top 25. He was previously vice president at Oracle and a strategy consultant in London, Washington, and Warsaw. A graduate of Boston College, Oxford University, and Stanford Business School, O’Marah speaks at industry events and has been featured in business media including Financial Times, Fortune, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, CNBC Squawk Box,
and Bloomberg.
Jim Phills
Professor of Organizational Behavior (Teaching) and Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Jim Phills specializes in social innovation; exploring the growing exchange of ideas, talent, capital, and values across sector boundaries. He is faculty director of the Stanford Center for Social Innovation. Professor Phills is the author of Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations and is the academic editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He developed and directs many of the Center’s executive education programs and teaches MBA courses on general management, nonprofit strategy, and
social entrepreneurship.
Buddy Polovick
Chief Shipper Coordinator, SmartWay Transport Partnership,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Transportation & Air Quality
The SmartWay Transport Partnership is an innovative collaboration between EPA and the freight industry to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution. Before joining the EPA, Buddy Polovick served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa. His education background includes a BA in international relations from Ohio State University and graduate studies in environmental and natural resource policy at Michigan State University.
Shawn Rosenmoss
Senior Environmental Specialist, Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco
In her two decades in program development, Shawn Rosenmoss has worked in the corporate, nonprofit, government, and public education arenas. She is almost proud to be a bureaucrat in a city that is doing so much to green its own supply chain and drive the market for other entities to do the same. Rosenmoss facilitates an array of programs with private sector companies, workforce development organizations, arts groups, museums, educators, foundations, and other municipal departments. A former aerialist, she holds a BS in electrical engineering and a secondary math teaching credential.
Dan Rudolph
Senior Associate Dean for Operations, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Dan Rudolph is senior associate dean for operations at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is responsible for all non-academic areas of the MBA, Sloan Master’s, and Executive Education programs. Rudolph has nearly 20 years of marketing and general management experience. Prior to joining Stanford, he was president and chief executive officer of Imparto, an Internet software company that he sold in late 1999. Rudolph holds a Stanford MBA and a BA from Williams College.
Andrea Saveri
Senior Research Director, Institute for the Future
Andrea Saveri’s focus is on understanding how individuals, families, organizations, and communities make sense of the diffusion and reinvention of new technologies and media, and create new social, cultural, civic, and economic institutions. She leads IFTF’s practice area in the Future of Cooperative Strategy. Her research examines the principles and underlying technologies of cooperation and collective action, and their potential to transform society. Saveri holds an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Hispanic studies from Harvard University.
Frederick Schilling
Founder, Dagoba Organic Chocolate
Dagoba Organic Chocolate was founded in 2001 by Frederick Schilling, who was then just 30 and guided by utilizing cacao to impact the world in a positive way; primarily environmental conservation/rehabilitation and farmer welfare. Schilling regularly travels to producing countries to locate high quality cacao, establish direct and equitable trading partnerships, collaborate on post-harvest processing, and support self-sustaining social and environmental programs. The company uses artisan methods to craft this cacao into exceptional products, and integrates ecological practices across all operations.
Sonia Syngal
Vice President of Production and Supply Chain, Gap, Inc.
Sonia Syngal joined Gap Inc. in 2004 as vice president of sourcing strategy and services. In 2006 she transitioned to the Outlet Division as vice president of production and supply chain to lead all aspects of production, sourcing, and technical design. Previously she spent nine years at Sun Microsystems, where she
held leadership roles in supply management, logistics, and manufacturing. Syngal holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Kettering University and an MS in manufacturing systems from Stanford University.
Chris Van Dyke
President & CEO, Nau, Inc
Chris Van Dyke has been a product creation and marketing professional in two of the most successful sports apparel companies in the world, Nike and Patagonia. Nau is an eco-friendly clothing company started by former executives from these two companies. Trained as an attorney, Van Dyke joined Nike in 1984 as its East Coast legal counsel, eventually moving into the product and marketing side of the company as the global marketing director for the apparel division and later as brand director for the Asia Pacific region. At Patagonia Van Dyke worked as VP of marketing and product development.
Karl Walk
Director, Cocoa Department,
The Blommer Chocolate Company and
Chairman, World Cocoa Foundation
Company, and Chairman, World Cocoa Foundation
As director of the Cocoa Department for the Blommer Chocolate Company, Karl Walk’s responsibilities include the procurement, import logistics, and quality control of the company’s cocoa bean supply. In addition, Walk leads Blommer’s global CSR program and was recently elected chairman of the World Cocoa Foundation. Utilizing a combination of public and private expertise, the Foundation promotes a sustainable cocoa economy through economic and social development, and environmental conservation in cocoa growing communities.
