Cynthia Hester, Director, Customer Reference Program, VMware BOARD PRESIDENT Cynthia Hester is a senior marketing professional with over twenty years experience in global marketing, strategic planning, communications, and business development primarily in the high technology arena. As a senior level manager, she has developed and implemented global strategic marketing plans, including advertising, marketing communications, third party relations, events and public relations. Cynthia has managed multi-million dollar budgets and cross functional internal/external teams during the course of her career. LEARN MORE
	Susan Mac Cormac, Partner, Morrison & Foerster Law Firm BOARD SECRETARY Susan Mac Cormac is a partner at the San Francisco law firm Morrison & Foerster, where she serves as co-chair of the firm’s Cleantech Group and Business Department. Susan has extensive experience representing start-up to late-stage private companies primarily in the Cleantech or Sustainable space. She also teaches sustainability and corporate governance at both the Stanford Director’s College and the Northwestern Corporate Counsel Institute, and is co-chair of the Clean Technology & Climate Change Committee for the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. She was recognized by the San Francisco Daily Journal as one of the Top Ten Rainmakers in California in 2008. LEARN MORE
	Paul Tripp, Former Deputy Chief of Operations for the National Security Administration and Financial Manager for the Navy BOARD TREASURER Paul Tripp has over 20 years experience leading multi-million dollar programs as a project manager and is skilled in the areas of information assurance, strategic budget planning, execution, and reallocation. His business acumen has currently drawn his entrepreneurial side to the forefront, developing local businesses throughout the Northwest region of the United States. His firm grasp of strategic communications, outreach, and stakeholder engagement for both national and international audiences lends itself to working with new stakeholders in the areas of business development. LEARN MORE
	Janine Benyus, Owner, Biomimicry 3.8 Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including her latest − Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She co-founded the world’s first bio-inspired consultancy, bringing nature’s ideas to the design table and board room of 250+ companies including Nike, HOK, GE Procter and Gamble, Levi’s and General Mills; and an educational non-profit dedicated to promoting the study of biomimicry. In 2011, Janine and her co-founders combined staffs and administration services into a single entity, to create Biomimicry 3.8. In addition to her biomimicry work, Janine teaches interpretive writing, lectures at the University of Montana, and works towards restoring and protecting wild lands. She has received several awards including the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Mind Award, the 2011 Heinz Award, Rachel Carson Environmental Ethics Award, and the Lud Browman Award for Science Writing. LEARN MORE
	Lynelle Cameron, Senior Director, Corporate Philanthropy and Sustainability, Autodesk Lynelle Cameron is the director of sustainability at Autodesk, a leading provider of design innovation software to architects, engineers and designers. Before joining Autodesk, Lynelle spent seven years building a corporate social and environmental responsibility program at Hewlett Packard. She joined the private sector after working in the environmental nonprofit sector with The Mountain Institute, World Wildlife Fund, National Outdoor Leadership School, and the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance. LEARN MORE
	David Oakey, Owner, David Oakey Designs David Oakey founded David Oakey Designs in 1985 and leads global efforts in sustainable or “smart design” by learning from nature. Oakey challenges industrial designers, architects, teachers, and students to take action and impact change today. He has been featured in Business Week, Fast Company, Interior Design magazine, The New York Times, Green Futures magazine, I.D. magazine, and Smithsonian magazine. LEARN MORE
	Duke Stump, Principal, Northstar Manifesto Duke Stump is the principal and chief architect of The Northstar Manifesto, a dynamic culture and leadership studio focused on cultivating and nurturing bonfires with soul—positive systemic change-makers who are out to transform the world and have a great time along the way. Prior to creating The Northstar Manifesto, Duke worked as a brand builder for more than 20 years, most recently as the chief marketing officer for Seventh Generation and prior to that as a senior executive for NIKE. LEARN MORE
	Ashok K. Goel, Professor, Computer & Cognitive Science, Director, Design & Intelligent Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology Ashok Goel is a professor of computer science and cognitive science in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is director of the school’s Design & Intelligence Laboratory (DILab)and a co-director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID). He serves on the advisory board of the Bioinspired! digital newsletter. Ashok recently co-chaired two workshops on Computer Aids for BioInspired Design sponsored by the US National Science Foundation. He is co-editing a volume on Computational Methods and Tools for Biologically Inspired Design to be published by Springer in late 2012. LEARN MORE
	John Elkington, Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures John Elkington is the founding partner and executive chairman of Volans (2008 to date) also co-founder of SustainAbility (1987-2008, where he remains a non-executive member of the board) and of Environmental Data Services (ENDS, 1978), John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development.John has written or co-authored 18 books, most recently The Zeronauts: Breaking the Sustainability Barrier, published May 2012. The Zeronauts spotlights a new breed of innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and policy-makers who are pushing towards zero in such areas as population growth, pandemic risk, poverty, pollution and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The book explores ways in which corporations, citizens, cities and countries can tackle the civilizational challenges at the intersections between demography, consumerist lifestyles, natural resource availability, and climate change. LEARN MORE