Advisory Board
| Terry Mollner |
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Terry Mollner, Ed.D., is Founder, Chair, and Executive Director of Trusteeship Institute, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm founded in 1973 based on the economic theories of Mahatma Gandhi. Trusteeship Institute focuses on the development of socially responsible businesses. In the 1970s, Dr. Mollner was one of the earliest pioneers of socially responsible investing and, in 1982, was one of the founders of the Calvert Socially Responsible Investment Fund, the first such fund with the full panoply of social screens. Today it is the largest family of such funds with nearly $7 billion under management. He also provided the leadership to create the Calvert Foundation that is pioneering "community investment" - investment to end poverty - as another new asset class in the professional investment community. Calvert Foundation currently manages over $200 million and is about to launch a program to make its note available to over 300 million EBay and Pay Pal customers. Dr. Mollner is on the board of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., the United Way of Hampshire County, Inc., a fellow of the World Business Academy, a member of the Social Venture Network, and a founder and member of Business Association of Local Living Economies (BALLE) of the Pioneer Valley. He was also one of the founders of Spirit In Business, Inc. in the USA. Mollner has written numerous articles and books, particularly on the Mondragon Cooperatives, and is currently working on a book entitled The Love Skill: It Determines How We Experience Everything Else and How We Change Our World. |
| Jeffrey A. Smith |
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Jeff is the partner in charge of the environmental practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he works on financings, underwritings and mergers and acquisitions nationally and internationally in all industries. The group also provides day-to-day counseling on environmental management and corporate governance issues, environmental issues of interest to the SEC, shareholder relations involving environmental matters and environmental litigation. Jeff frequently speaks on environmental issues, including guest lectures at Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Georgetown, NYU, Pace and Vanderbilt law schools. He was the first Chairman of the ABA’s Special Committee on Environmental Disclosure. He has written a chapter on SEC disclosure issues in real estate transactions in the ABA book Environmental Issues in Real Estate Transactions, chapters on SEC disclosure and officers’ and directors’ fiduciary obligations for the ABA treatise Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, articles in the Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation, the Carbon and Climate Law Review and the Capital Markets Law Journal on corporate disclosure relating to climate change, an article on the implications of global warming on business transactions, published in the N.Y.U. Journal of Law and Business, and a series of articles on climate change in the U.S. courts, published in Environmental Liability. In October 2007, Jeff testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment regarding potential SEC requirements for disclosure relating to climate change. He has been cited by numerous guides as among the leading environmental lawyers in the country. He serves on the Board of The Urban Assembly, the Adams Street Foundation and Environmental Advocates of New York. Jeff is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. At Cravath, Jeff served a five year term as Managing Partner (Administration). Jeff received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. |
| Lee Valkenaar |
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Lee Valkenaar has built a successful career on the belief that high quality relationships are the bottom line. In a competitive, price-driven industry, he has risen into a leadership role and contributed to the growth of the world’s largest natural foods company by simply focusing on what matters most—people. Valkenaar currently serves as Co-Chair of the Whole Planet Foundation, Whole Foods Market’s non-profit organization dedicated to micro-credit loans in developing communities around the globe. Prior to moving to Whole Foods Market’s non-profit, he served in multiple Leadership roles, most recently as Whole Foods Market Executive Vice President of Global Support and Chief Executive Officer for Whole Planet Foundation. After joining Whole Foods Market in 1987, Valkenaar was consistently promoted from team leader to the executive level within less than 10 years. During that time, he sought out increasingly more complex challenges, greater responsibility, while continuously achieving excellence. Lee sits on the Board of Directors for the following organizations: Organic Farmers Research Foundation (OFRF) a non-profit organization; Blue Avocado - a mission driven, triple bottom line manufacturer of reusable grocery bag systems; Volunteer Spot - an online, volunteer organizing & coordinating service that offers multiple solutions to the traditional volunteering hassles. Lee is a member of the Advisory Board for The CSR Group, LLC as well as HUGO NATURALS, a manufacturer of high quality all natural body care products. |