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  Career Road to Get Here:

  o Eight years, 2000 to 2008, as Nike’s Director of Footwear Sustainability

     leading technical efforts to reduce the environmental impact of footwear

     products and the vendor supply chain.


  o Established and managed, from 1996 to 2000, Nike's Asia environmental

     programs and the efforts to green Nike's Asian footwear supply chain.

  o Part of the Nike senior management team that built the "best corporate

     environmental program in the United States" according to Business Ethics

     Magazine in 2006.

  o Part of the Nike product team that earned the prestigious Gold Industrial

     Design Excellence Award (IDEA) from Industrial Design Society of America

     (IDSA) for the “Nike Considered Boot.”

  o Chosen by Al Gore’s “Climate Project” to be one of the 1,000 people globally who were personally trained by Al Gore

     to deliver his climate change presentation.

  o Prior to Nike, worked as an independent consultant teaching environmental sustainability in India, Thailand and China

     under contract to US EPA.

  o Worked for Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for five years in early 1990's teaching "resource

     efficient manufacturing" and "toxics substance reduction" to businesses.

  o Prior to DEQ, spent nine years developing and implementing environmental programs for a series of corporate

     employers in Northern and Southern California.

  o Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Science, with emphasis in Economics and Anthropology, from Portland State

     University, Oregon.