Joseph W. Allen, Director of Sustainable Development and Lifecycle Products for Caterpillar's global Remanufacturing business and a member of Caterpillar's corporate Sustainable Development Team. Mr. Allen is working to increase awareness of the positive impact remanufacturing has on reuse, recycling, and sustainable development.

Christina Behr-Andres is a 1992 Civil Engineering graduate of Michigan Tech and is currently a Deputy Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the International, Space, and Response Division. She served in management positions in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division and the Water Stewardship Program at LANL.

A. Harvey Bell IV is former Executive Director of General Motors North American Advance Vehicle Development, responsible for the Vehicle Integration Center, Performance Managers, Harmony & Human Factors, Vehicle Architecture & Design Check/Integration, Energy, Drive Quality & Environment, Noise & Vibration, HVI Innovation Program, Aero/Thermal/Sealing Integration Center, Vehicle Dynamics & Control Systems and Vehicle Concept Engineering.

Damien Ejigiri is Dean and Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs,    Southern University and A&M College (SUBR) in Baton Rouge, LA. SUBR partners with Michigan Tech in the direction of SFI’s IGERT program.  Dr. Ejigiri’s research is primarily in Urban and Regional Planning. He has won several awards of excellence for his teaching

Mike Hales: Director, Corporate Environmental Compatibility Program, Dow Corning Corporation, He leads the initiative to integrate a design for the environment approach into Dow Corning's business and decision-making processes. He is a member of Dow Corning's Corporate EHS and Global Issue Management Councils. He represents Dow Corning on the State of Michigan's Green Chemistry Roundtable.

Kevin Kuske is General Manager, Turnstone and Wood, divisions of Steelcase North America. Our job is to help create great experiences wherever work happens. All solutions are designed with Cradle to CradleTM and lean thinking to create sustainable products and processes.

Clare Mendelsohn is the Director of the Air Force's Western Regional Environmental Office, located in San Francisco. She also serves as the Department of Defense Regional Environmental Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest. In those capacities she is responsible for stakeholder outreach and advocacy on environmental and mission sustainment matters, as well as in-house consulting and analysis.

Mark Mleziva, a 1992 Chemical Engineering graduate of Michigan Tech, is Research Manager at Kimberly-Clark Corporation in its' Corporate Research & Engineering Department in Neenah, WI.  His responsibilities include longer range sustainable and environmental technology exploration and development focused towards solutions for Kimberly-Clark's global branded consumer and B-B products.

Bill Olson is Director of the Office of Sustainability and Stewardship for Motorola Mobile Devices.  In his role, Bill leads the ECOMOTO program and is responsible for driving go-to-market strategy for green mobile device products like the Motorola W233 RENEW.  Bill graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry. Bill has 23 US patents and more than 40 technical publications.

Victoria Pebbles has served with Great Lakes Commission since 1993. She has been working on Great Lakes policy for 15 years and on national environmental policy for 25 years. Ms. Pebbles currently directs the Commission’s program on Economy and Society, which addresses clean energy, coastal management, ports and navigation, and tourism and recreation.

Chris Swanston is Director of the Northern Institute of Applied Carbon Science (NIACS), and a Research Ecologist in the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. Swanston studies carbon biogeochemistry and cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, and NIACS develops synthesis products, fosters communication, and pursues science in carbon management, climate change, and bioenergy.