AHC Group 14th Annual Corporate Affiliates Workshops
Biographies of January Speakers and Workshop Chairs
- Management Risk Reduction and Site Remediation Workshop Speakers
- Emerging Issues Workshop Speakers
- Governance and Innovation Workshop Speakers
- Shareholder Value and Financial Risk Workshop Speakers
- Workshop Chairs & AHC Senior Associates
Management Risk Reduction and
Site Remediation Workshop Speakers
Arden David Ahnell
Strategy and Planning Manager
Remediation Management at BP
Arden Ahnell is currently is a strategy and planning manager within Remediation Management (RM), BP's global functional organization for managing environmental liability. Based in London, his role involves functional planning and the integration of remediation management with the rest of the BP Group, especially the exploration and production segment. His responsibilities are global, ensuring a coordinated strategy for RM's E&P efforts.
Previous to strategy & planning, Arden was head of RM's U.S. retail operations. In this role he was responsible for retail remediation across the United States. Co-located with the retail business, his group managed 3,500 sites in 40 states and an annual budget of $130M+. Before joining RM, Arden was HSE External Affairs Director for North America and Program Manager for Climate Change activities at BP America, with a coordinating role for climate change technology across the BP Group.
Other assignments included an assignment in London as manager of a health, safety, and environmental (HSE) team providing support across BP world-wide. There he also managed HSE divestment/acquisition issues of major transactions and was also responsible for HSE at BP Sunbury, a technology site of 1,600+ staff. Earlier in his career he was a division manager in BP Research and, prior to joining BP in 1982, he held various positions in U.S. state government.
He is a University of Illinois graduate with an M.S.in Environmental Engineering.
Phil Hillman
Divisional VP
Health, Safety & Environment at Polaroid Corporation
[Biography to come....]
Bob Goldman
CEO/Chairman of the Board
Blasland, Bouck & Lee
[Biography to come....]
Charles A. Pittinger
Senior Toxicologist
BBL Sciences
Charles graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1975. He earned a master's degree in ecology from the University of Tennesee in 1978, and worked for AWARE Engineering in Nashville, Tennessee, as an project ecologist for two years. He went on to earn his doctoral degree in environmental toxicology from Virginia Tech University in 1984.
Charles accepted a position as a Research Scientist with the Procter & Gamble Company in 1984, where he focused on ecological risk assessments of consumer product ingredients. Over the course of 17 years with P&G, served as Principal Scientist, Section Head, and Technical External Relations Manager. During his career with P&G, he gained unique business and technical experience in risk assessment, product stewardship, and sustainability. He assumed a global perspective in working with multi-national corporations, trade associations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and regulatory agencies at all levels of government.
In the past ten years, Charles has focused on the sound management of chemicals and products. Working closely with chemical suppliers, NGOs, and regulatory authorities, he formulated sound technical strategies and risk communications to address a broad range of issues, including chemical detection in environmental media and human tissues, ingredient sourcing questions, solid waste issues, animal testing, the precautionary principle, and community right-to-know programs.
His extensive experience in legislative and regulatory policy includes a one-year science fellowship with the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee in the 103rd Congress (1993-94). He served as Business and Industry Advisory Council (BIAC) representative to the OECD's Risk Assessment Advisory Body. He has had leadership positions in the American Industrial Health Council's Ecological Risk Assessment Committee, the Soap & Detergent Association, and the American Chemistry Council. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), and on the U.S. EPA's Science Advisory Board. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters and is a recipient of the SETAC Herb Ward Exceptional Service Award.
Mike Csedrik
Head of Management Systems and HOS Integration
Honeywell
[Biography to come....]
Emerging Issues Workshop Speakers
David A. Skiven
Executive Director,
Worldwide Facilities Group at General Motors Corporation
As GM's Center of Facilities Expertise, David is responsible for providing global leadership in the facilities, utilities, construction, and environmental segments, allowing corporate clients to focus on their core business, resulting in structural cost savings and improved utilization of assets.
Since joining GM's Fisher Body Division in 1965, Mr. Skiven has worked in various Engineering Operations. He was Plant Engineer at the Fisher Guide—Trenton, New Jersey, plant from 1981 to 1985. Subsequently, he was named Manager of Manufacturing Planning, Industrial Engineering and Facilities at Fisher Guide Division's General Office. In 1985, he was appointed Manager of Facilities and Future Programs — Manufacturing Engineering for the Saturn Corporation. In 1992, Mr. Skiven was promoted into the position of Director of Plant Environment and the Environmental and Energy Staff; and in early 1993, Mr. Skiven was appointed Executive Director of Worldwide Facilities Group.
Mr. Skiven has a Bachelor of Science degree from General Motors Institute (GMI) and a Masters of Science degree from Wayne State University. He is also a registered Professional Engineer.
Noteworthy Professional Affiliations:
- Member — Board of Infrastructure and the Construction Environmental (a National Committee of the National Academy of Science)
- Member, Board of Directors — Engineering Society of Detroit
Daniel V. Steen
Vice President, Environmental
FirstEnergy Corp.
Mr. Steen is responsible for developing environmental protection strategies that comply with laws and regulations pertaining to all of the company's facilities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He also plays a key advising role regarding the operation and maintenance of environmental systems throughout the company and manages clean coal technology demonstrations and coal byproduct disposal and reuse projects.
Mr. Steen began his career as a co-op engineer at Ohio Edison Company in 1966, which merged with Centerior Corporation in 1997 to form FirstEnergy. He has held a variety of engineering and management positions, including substation design, transmission and power supply planning, and power plant operations. He was assistant plant superintendent at the R.E. Burger Plant in Shadyside, Ohio. Mr. Steen was promoted to director of the Environmental Department in 1997 and named to his current position in 2005.
A Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, Mr. Steen earned his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and a law degree from The University of Akron. He also is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University's Advanced School of Power Systems Engineering, and attended the Program for Executive Development at Northwestern University's Graduate School of Management.
He is a member of the environmental committees of several key industry groups, including the Electric Power Research Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and the Electric Power Generation Association.
Mr. Steen is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Boys and Girls Club of Summit County, Ohio.
Skiles Boyd
Director
Environmental Management & Resources at DTE Energy
Skiles Boyd, 50, is director of environmental management & resources for DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE), a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. Boyd is responsible for managing the company's environmental issues which include setting environmental policy, representing the company on environmental issues with the public and in environmental regulatory and legislative development, coordinating environmental studies and conducting environmental audits. He manages a department of approximately 70 people. Boyd has worked in DTE's environmental department for over 27 years.
Boyd earned a bachelor of science degree in environmental resource management from Pennsylvania State University and a master of business administration degree from Wayne State University. He is active in the Air and Waste Management Association and the environmental committees of the Michigan Manufacturers Association, the Michigan and Greater Detroit Chambers of Commerce, the Electric Power Research Institute, The Edison Electric Institute (vice chair of the Executive Environmental Advisory Committee), the Center for Energy and Economic Development, and the Business Environmental Leadership Council of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Ben Packard
Director of Environmental Affairs
Starbucks Coffee Company
Ben is responsible for designing the strategy and developing programs in support of the Company's commitment to environmental leadership. Using the Natural Step framework for sustainability, Ben was responsible for completing an environmental footprint analysis for the Company in 2001. From the footprint analysis, Starbucks has established focus areas and performance metrics that are woven into the strategic planning process. Ben lead a sub-group of this Footprint team to perform the company's first climate inventory in 2004.
In January 2000 Ben received a Fellowship from the Environmental Leadership Program, an organization seeking to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting a network of visionary, action-oriented emerging leaders. Ben was named Starbucks "Leader of the Year" for 2002 for his work on the Environmental Footprint Project. Ben received his MBA & Certificate in Environmental Management from the University of Washington in 1998. Ben lives in Seattle with his wife Julie and sons Sam (8), Leo (6), and George (2).
Lisa Nelowet Grice
Vice President
GHG Management Services at CH2M HILL
Lisa Nelowet Grice is CH2M HILL's dedicated Vice President for GHG Management Services, and a nationally recognized expert in GHG management. She has advised the U.S. EPA, the California Climate Action Registry, and numerous private sector clients such as The Dow Company, PPL, Suncor, SC Johnson, Diageo, and Starbucks Coffee, on methods for accurately accounting for and managing GHG emissions. She is actively involved in monitoring climate change issues and integrating GHG management programs into overarching sustainability programs for our clients worldwide.
Governance and Innovation Workshop Speakers
Joan Wales
VP of Strategy & Planning
Remediation Management at BP
Born in Scotland, Joan graduated from Glasgow University with a Batchelor of Science degree in Chemistry in 1981. She then went on to study heterogeneous catalysis at the University of Cambridge, and earned a doctorate in Physical Chemistry in 1984.
In 1984, Joan joined BP as a research chemist at the Sunbury Research Centre, working on gas conversion processes, designed to utilize remote gas deposits otherwise unable to be brought to market. From there she moved to BP's corporate centre, working within a regionally focussed team which analysed business, political and technical opportunities for the BP Group.
Joan moved to oil trading within BP in 1991. Initially crude oil trading co-ordinator for the team who sell BP's North Sea production, she moved through a number of project and risk management roles prior to becoming Derivatives Trading Manager (exchange and OTC paper markets). While Trading Manager, Joan led the initial design of the trading system underpinning BP's internal CO2 trading scheme.
With the BP/Amoco merger in early 1999, Joan moved to Chicago as Commercial Manager of BP's Pipeline activities in North America. Staying within the Pipeline Business she became the general manager of the US Crude Pipeline network in 2001, responsible for the operations of some 12,000 miles of pipeline over eight states.
Joan moved to the role of Chief Operating Officer of BP's remediation operations within the Americas in late 2002; responsible for environmental liability management, physical remediation, technology support and strategy development. She became VP of Strategy and Planning for the global remediation function within BP in January 2004, and moved back to BP's corporate headquarters in London.
Married with two sons, both avid White Sox supporters from their time in Chicago, time out of work is dominated by sport and coping with a large German Shepherd who was part of the deal for moving back to the U.K.
Dr. Andreas Pohlman
EVP
Chief Administrative Officer at Celanese AG
1985: 1st Law State Exam
1988: 2nd Law State Exam
1988-1989: Attorney-at-law in Private Practice
1989-1996: Legal Counsel in the Corporate Law Department of Hoechst AG, Frankfurt am Main
1994: Law Department Hoechst Celanese Corporation, New Jersey, USA
1996-1999: Corporate Secretary of Hoechst AG; Member of the Board of Management of Hoechst Foundation, the internationally active culture foundation of Hoechst AG
1996-1997: Head of "Corporate Public & Governmental Affairs" in Corporate Communications of Hoechst AG
1997-1999: Corporate Projects in Corporate Controlling & Development of Hoechst AG
1999-2002: Vice President Corporate Secretary of Celanese AG, Head of Corporate Services
2002: Managing Director of Celanese Ventures
10/2002-10/2004: Member of the Board of Management and Labor Director of Celanese AG
Since November 2004: Chairman of the Board of Management and Labor Director of Celanese AG
Since December 2004: Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Celanese Corporation
Bob Stiller
CEO and Founder
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Bob Stiller has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters since the company's inception, in July 1981. Previously, in September 1971, Bob co-founded his first consumer products business, Robert Burton Associates, which developed and sold E-Z Wider products. Bob served as its President and a Director until June 1980, when Robert Burton Associates was sold.
Prior to starting up Robert Burton Associates and then Green Mountain Coffee, Stiller was employed over a period of ten years by Stillman Manufacturing, a closely held family business that went public in 1963 and was later acquired by Teledyne, Inc. Stiller holds a B.A. from Parsons College, Iowa, in mathematics, business administration and accounting. Currently, Bob serves on the Board of Advisors for the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont. He is an advocate for Appreciative Inquiry and using business as an agent for world benefit.
Bob is a certified meditation instructor, and he leads Inner Solutions, a non-profit organization devoted to that area of training. He has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine two times, most recently in October 2001 when he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year."
David Harvey
Vice President
Environmental Affairs at Louisiana-Pacific Corporation
Dave Harvey, vice president environmental affairs, has more than 20 years of environmental field experience, and is responsible for environmental compliance and performance at LP's manufacturing facilities. Prior to joining LP six years ago, Mr. Harvey spent 15 years as a consultant. Mr. Harvey holds a B.S. and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and a Professional Engineering License in Mechanical Engineering.
Shareholder Value and Financial Risk Workshop Speakers
Bruce Sampson
Vice-President, Sustainability at BC Hydro
Bruce joined BC Hydro in 1997. Prior to joining BC Hydro, Bruce held several positions in the British Columbia Government including Director, Debt Management Branch and Executive Director, Provincial Treasury Division.
Bruce received his undergraduate degree in Economics in 1976 from the University of Victoria and he received a Rotary Foundation scholarship to attend the University of Essex in England where he completed graduate studies in Mathematical Economics in 1979.
Gil Friend
President and CEO
Natural Logic, Inc.
Gil Friend is President and Chief Executive Officer of Natural Logic, Inc., a strategy and systems development company that helps companies and communities prosper by embedding the laws of nature at the heart of enterprise. Tomorrow Magazine called him "one of the country's leading environmental management consultants — a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how."
Natural Logic provides advisory services in strategy, design, operations and information systems that help clients build economic advantage through exceptional environmental performance ("Sustainable performance you can take to the bank"™). Clients have included Agilent Technologies, Ex'pression Center for New Media, General Mills, Gilead Sciences, Granite Construction, Green Mountain Energy, Hewlett Packard, Nike, Odwalla, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Administration.
A systems ecologist and business strategist with 35 years' experience in business, communications and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. "Nature's ecosystems have spent 3.85 billion years building efficient, complex, adaptive, resilient systems," he observes. "Why should companies reinvent the wheel, when the R&D has already been done?"
He was a founding board member of internet pioneer Institute for Global Communications, and played key or founding roles in such seminal environmental enterprises as EcoNet, GreenLine, the California Office of Appropriate Technology, Turner Broadcasting's Planet Live, University of California's AgroEcology Program, and Buckminster Fuller's "World Game." He was co-founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, one of the nation's leading urban ecology and economic development "think-and-do tanks," pioneering the "green roof" trend 30 years ago.
Amy Davidson
JP Morgan
[Biography to come....]
David Monsma
Professor of Law and Corporate Social Responsibility
Loyola College
Attorney David Monsma is Assistant Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Loyola College in Maryland. He has worked on environmental management and protection in both the public and the private sectors. His current research interest is in the area of the legal materiality of non-financial (social and environmental) disclosure as it relates to investor confidence. He has expertise in corporate social responsibility as well as an extensive background in environmental policymaking.
Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola, he directed the business and environmental initiative for Business for Social Responsibility in San Francisco in efforts to advance environmental sustainability and social responsibility with brand-name companies. He has also served as Environmental Management Task Force Coordinator for President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development, and at the Environmental Action Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he was staff counsel and director of the pollution prevention project. He has been a leading participant in many major environmental regulatory and management reform dialogues including the Aspen Institute's Series on the Environment, Enterprise for the Environment, EPA's Common Sense Initiative, and EPA's Project XL. He also developed and taught a clinical law program on environmental justice with the University of Baltimore School of Law. At the EPA, he was an attorney advisor in the Office of Toxic Substances.
Workshop Chairs & AHC Senior Associates
WALT ROSENBERG
Vice President, Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility at Hewlett-Packard Company
Chair of the AHC Group Governance & Innovation Workshop
Walt Rosenberg is responsible for the development of HP's programs, policies and strategies in the areas of employee and customer data privacy, corporate business practices, and social and environmental responsibility. Rosenberg and his group work to establish innovative programs that support community development, customer and business needs. Rosenberg was named to his position in May 2002.
Prior to the merger with HP, Rosenberg served as the director of corporate environmental, health and safety for Compaq Computer Corporation. During his tenure at Compaq, Rosenberg was responsible for leadership and management of worldwide environmental, health and safety teams. He was named to this position in 1988. Before joining Compaq, Rosenberg spent eight years as an environmental health and safety specialist in the oil and semi-conductor industries with emphasis on air, water and hazardous waste permitting, waste minimization, auditing and risk identification and evaluation.
Rosenberg holds a bachelor's of science degree in environmental chemistry from Northern Arizona University and a master of science in environmental management from Southern Methodist University. Rosenberg is certified as an industrial hygienist in comprehensive practice by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. He is also a member of the Air & Waste Management Association and the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
MR. HEWSON BALTZELL
President of Innovest
Chair of Shareholder Value Workshop
Mr. Baltzell is President of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., and is a commercial and investment banker with a specialization in corporate and environmental finance. His recent consulting and advisory clients have included such leading Wall Street investment houses as Lehman Brothers. Prior to joining the Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., he served as a Vice President with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City, where his responsibilities included the restructuring and securitization of the bank's multi-billion dollar real estate portfolio. Prior to his tenure at Chase Manhattan, Mr. Baltzell managed debt and equity portfolios for a privately held, foreign-owned investment company. His career in finance and investment has also included working in the international division of Mellon Bank. Mr. Baltzell holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
A. DWIGHT BEDSOLE
Chair of Site Remediation Workshop
As Business Director for the DuPont Corporate Remediation Group, currently provides leadership to a group chartered with the responsibility of managing the global environmental liabilities of DuPont. Over 34 years' experience with DuPont in a variety of plant manufacturing, technical, project design/liaison and business roles. Business assignments included negotiating international joint ventures and acquisitions, facility planning for global sites, and the development of a long-term business strategy and plans for a $1 billion/year global business. Also worked closely with the US EPA and the United Nations to negotiate a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) phase-out plan with the international community (i.e., the Montreal Protocol) to address global concerns regarding depletion of the earth's ozone layer. Led restructuring of DuPont global Freon® business, including the phase-out of existing products and introduction of alternative new products.
During the last 12 years in remediation Dwight participated in the formation and startup of a 100% DuPont subsidiary — DuPont Environmental Remediation Services (DERS) — to address DuPont internal remediation needs as well as external marketing of remediation services. Later participated in the dissolution of the 350-person organization and restructuring of the DuPont Corporate Remediation Group to focus only on internal liabilities.
Represented the concerns of DuPont and industry over the onerous interpretation of environmental regulations through the presentation of testimony at state, federal, and public hearings. Participated in numerous state, federal, industry forums as a presenter and panelist on issues related to Superfund, RCRA, Cost/Benefit, Tort Reform, Brownfields, NRD, Risk Assessment, Eco-Assessments, and Sediments. Led and participated in numerous benchmarking efforts. Dwight is a graduate of Auburn University with a MS in Chemical Engineering.
Dennis R. Minano
Chair of Emerging Issues and Stakeholder Value Workshop Series
Dennis R. Minano currently acts as an advisor on energy, environment and transportation issues. He served as General Motors (GM) vice president of environment and energy and chief environmental officer until his retirement in 2002. He was elected, as Vice President by the GM Board of Directors in 1992, and in that position, was responsible for overseeing environmental and energy policies worldwide.
During his 30-year career at GM, Minano remained at the forefront of public policy debates affecting the transportation and energy industries. He joined the company in 1971 as an attorney involved in marketing, product liability, energy and environmental law. He was appointed practice area manager of the environmental and energy legal group in 1990, representing the company's interests on major national policy issues. During 1995-1996, he also served as vice president for GM Communications, helping to integrate communication with business strategy.
Minano was instrumental in establishing GM's environmental vision. Under his leadership, GM published its first Environmental Report in 1994, demonstrating a corporate commitment to public accountability. Since that time, the annual reports have addressed GM's accomplishments and challenges at its facilities and with its products in both environment and energy. During his tenure, GM's progress in advanced vehicle technology, creation of unique partnerships with organizations like The Nature Conservancy, and improved environmental and energy performance for GM facilities received wide recognition.
Minano currently chairs an energy and transportation group charged with formulating recommendations for future U.S. policy. In this role, he is building on his previous work with diverse stakeholders aimed at crafting new public policy through forums such as the Department of Energy's Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicle, President's Council on Sustainable Development and the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Evaluation Committee. He has published and spoken in public policy forums on issues involving technology, transportation, environment and energy.
Minano is also a member of the Keystone Center Board of Trustees and is Co-Chair of the Board's Science and Public Policy Committee. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy of Michigan, the Board of Trustees of the University of Detroit Mercy, and the Board of Trustees of the Sonoran Institute. He holds a law degree from the University of Detroit Law School where he was adjunct professor of environmental law, and is a graduate of the University of Dayton (Ohio).
Alan Banks, MA
Former AHC Group Senior Associate
Co-Chair of the Emerging Issues and Stakeholder Value Workshop Series
From January 2004 to January 2006, Alan Banks is a Senior Associate of the AHC Group.
Alan Banks, MA (Oxon), ACA is a senior executive with extensive international experience primarily in the financial services industry (management consulting, equity research, investment banking). Until January 1998 Mr. Banks was a Senior Investment Banker, latterly Managing Director and Head of the European Financial Institutions Group at UBS. Since then he has successfully led, as CEO, management buy-ins of two private companies: Bibliomania Ltd. and CoreRatings Ltd.
Mr. Banks' prime skill is the analysis and valuation of public and private companies. Through his leadership of CoreRatings he has become an acknowledged expert on corporate governance and on the environmental, social and ethical risks of corporate activity. As a Chartered Accountant with extensive knowledge of US GAAP accounting he is qualified to sit on the Audit Committees of US and UK public companies.
In December 2001, Alan Banks was appointed interim CEO of Global Risk Management Services, a specialist research company. He led the buy-out of this company in April 2002. After refocusing and increasing revenue using new analytical approaches he sold the business to Fitch Ratings, in September 2003.
In 1994 Mr. Banks joined the investment banking division of UBS, to set up their European Financial Institutions Corporate Finance group. In three years he built it to 25 professionals (12 different nationalities) and $28 million of annual revenues, leading more than 30 public equity, debt and M&A transactions with a total gross value of more than $50 billion.
Prior to UBS, in 1991 Mr. Banks joined the specialist financial institutions investment-banking group, Fox-Pitt, Kelton (now part of the Swiss Re group) as Executive Director, Corporate Finance. Working directly with the Chairman, he built up the investment banking function from scratch.
In 1987 he was made a Partner in the specialist financial institutions research firm, DIBC. DIBC's main business was benchmarking studies for international banks and strategic equity research carried out for Solomon Brothers (now Solomon Smith Barney, part of Citigroup).
Mr. Banks has an MA in Engineering Science from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University. He is 48 years old.
STEVE W. PERCY
AHC Group Senior Associate
Chair of EHS Governance Workshop
Steve Percy is the former Chairman and CEO of BP America, Inc., BP's U.S. subsidiary prior to its merger with Amoco Corporation, and served in that capacity from 1996 until 1999. Prior to assuming those duties, he was President of BP Oil in the U.S. from 1992 to 1996, and since retiring from BP has also served as the head of Phillips Petroleum's Refining, Marketing and Transportation Company.
Mr. Percy returned to BP America from London, England where he served as Group Treasurer of The British Petroleum p.l.c. and Chief Executive of BP Finance International.
Born in 1946, Mr. Percy is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Michigan and graduated with a Juris Doctorate from Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar.
Mr. Percy joined The Standard Oil Company in 1976 following service in the U.S. Army and several years with Babcock & Wilcox as a Senior Planning Analyst. By 1987, following the merger of BP and Standard Oil, Percy moved to London to become Manager, Oil Planning and Control in BP Oil International.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Omnova Solutions, Inc. and the Advisory Board of Transtar International. Past corporate board memberships include GenCorp. Inc., and the Transonic Companies, and Key Bank International Association.
Mr. Percy currently serves on the boards of Resources for Future and Junior Achievement International. He is a member of the University of Michigan Business School Corporate Advisory Board, and the Advisory Board of its Corporate Environmental Management Programs, Rensselaer's Engineering School's Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the Cleveland Marshall College of Law.
Previously, he has served as a member of President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development in the role of Co-Chair of its Climate Change Task Force. Mr. Percy is married to Barbara, a math educator, and has two daughters, Amy-a graduate business student at the University of Michigan, and Sarah-who is a student at Middlebury College.
DR. BRUCE PIASECKI
AHC Group President and Founder
Professional History:
Dr. Bruce Piasecki is the President and Founder of the AHC Group, a management consulting firm specializing in energy, materials, and environmental corporate matters since 1981.
Dr. Piasecki is the author of five seminal books on business strategy, valuation, and corporate change, including the Nature Society's book of the year, In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Technology Review, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Since 1990, Dr. Piasecki and his staff have run hundreds of benchmarking workshops for 42 multinational Corporate Affiliates, involving key executives in site remediation, power markets, emerging issues, and governance concerns since ENRON.
Since finding that his 1995 Corporate Environmental Strategy book attracted the attention of change agents and Board members in his client and affiliates network, Dr. Piasecki has moved the field of environmental and energy strategy closer to financial markets and mainstream financial diagnostics. The AHC Group has done this through a series of key alliances, including a multiyear agreement with INNOVEST and a new workshop series on Capital Markets and Trends, which has hosted IRRC, S&P, and GEMI as alliance partners.
Sample Publications:
Dr. Piasecki is the author and co-author of five books: Environmental Management & Business Strategy: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century (1998); Corporate Environmental Strategy: The Avalanche of Change Since Bhopal (1995); In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame (1990); America's Future in Toxic Waste Management (1988); and Beyond Dumping (1984).
Please see thePublications section of this site for more details on Dr. Piasecki's publications.