Megan Weidner joined Bunge North America in 2015 as the vice president, corporate responsibility and sustainability. Megan is active in the industry with organizations such as Field to Market and MANRRS (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences) and is on the Board of Directors for Agriculture ...
Jenni Harris, Will's middle daughter, is the fifth generation of the Harris family to tend cattle at White Oak Pastures. After living on the farm her entire life, Jenni went to Valdosta State University and earned a degree in Business Marketing, graduating in 2009. ...
Jeff Moyer; Executive Director, Rodale Institute: Jeff Moyer is a world-renowned authority in regenerative organic agriculture. His expertise includes organic crop production systems with a focus on weed management, cover crops, crop rotations, equipment modification and use, and facilities design. Jeff is perhaps most ...
Paul Rice is Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, the internationally-acclaimed social enterprise and leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America. He launched the award-winning nonprofit organization in 1998 after spending 11 years organizing farmers in the highlands of Nicaragua. There, ...
Founder and CEO Maria Uspenski is the innovative force behind our Steepware® designs. Drawing on her background as an MIT mechanical engineer, she is listed on four U.S. patents for Steepware® inventions. As the inspiration behind our 10% Pledge to cancer and community wellness ...
Jeanne Wilson is the Associate Director of Brand Marketing at Kashi, a company founded on the belief that food should do more. Food should go beyond taste and nutrition to do more to nourish communities and the planet. For over 14 years, Jeanne has ...
Philip Taylor, Ph.D. is executive director of Mad Agriculture, which he co-founded with his life partner, Nicole Brinks, to create a culture that loves and restores our relationship to the land, sea and one another. Our work spans the story, community and practice of ...
Ethan Soloviev is a farmer and Executive Vice President of Research at HowGood.com, where he manages the world’s largest product sustainability database. His work with Fortune 100 retail and CPG companies combines on-the-ground agricultural expertise with sustainability-driven market insights. Ethan farms apples and sheep ...
Calla Rose Ostrander is a Climate Change Innovations Advisor to individuals and organizations dedicated to stabilizing Earth’s climate. From 2008-2016 she was the Climate Change Projects Manager for the City & County of San Francisco where she created and managed the City’s internal agency ...
Rebecca Burgess is the Executive Director of Fibershed, and Chair of the Board for Carbon Cycle Institute. She has over a decade of experience at the intersection of restoration ecology and fiber systems, and over two decades of experience as a trained weaver and natural dyer. ...
Galit Laibow is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Foodstirs, where she’s taken a no-holds-barred approach to reinventing the incredibly stagnant billion-dollar baking mix industry and upgrading the pantry one organic baking mix at a time. Her tenacious approach and business acumen have ...
As Patagonia’s VP of Social and Environmental Responsibility, Cara leads a team of professionals that set strategy and implement Patagonia's sustainability initiatives. Responsibilities include guiding Patagonia's social and environmental supply chain programs that protect people and our planet (factories, mills, farms), ensuring animal welfare, ...
Alison is the Director of Social Impact & Sustainability at Gaia Herbs, a leading US herbal products brand whose purpose is to connect people, plants, and planet to create healing. Alison leads the company’s sustainability strategy and programs, ensuring Gaia’s business operations create positive ...
Carlotta Mast is the senior vice president of content and insights for Informa’s Global Health & Nutrition Network, which includes the New Hope Network. Carlotta is also the board president of Naturally Boulder, a 1,200-member trade group with the mission of nurturing community, leadership ...
Erin Stokes, ND is the Medical Director at MegaFood, and a registered Naturopathic Doctor in the state of Colorado. Dr. Erin Stokes received her Naturopathic Doctor degree from Bastyr University in 2001. Shortly afterwards she began to pursue her passion for educating others by ...
Hammad Atassi is CEO of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), the leading policy advocacy group representing the interests of responsible businesses nationwide. He leads the organization in building a business-focused movement for policy changes to achieve a sustainable economy, based on the triple-bottom-line ...
The Bare Ranch in Surprise Valley, California is the headquarters for the Rambouillet sheep operation and Lani’s Lana~Fine Rambouillet Wool. Located in the High Desert area of Great Basin in Northwest Nevada and Northeast California, the ebb and flow of sun-to-sun work make Lani ...
Scott is the Director of Business Development at the Sustainable Apparel Coalition where he is focused upon growing membership and Higg Index adoption. Scott represents the SAC at key industry events across the Americas and Asia where he educates wide-ranging industry stakeholders on the ...
Erin Heitkamp is the Senior Vice President of Impact at Pipeline Foods. She has worked in the fields of corporate environmental management and sustainability for more than 20 years, and has been part of the Pipeline Foods leadership team since its inception in 2017. ...
Marci coined the term and pioneered the market for ECOfashion, and is an internationally-recognized ECOlifestyle entrepreneur, educator and expert. Founder of Under the Canopy, Producer of THREAD|Driving Fashion Forward, and Co-Founder of Good Catch and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Marci has been instrumental ...
Mark Stavro is senior director of marketing for Bunge’s North American operations. Bunge North America is a leading innovative food company providing oil and grain ingredient solutions to food producers, restaurants, bakeries and the retail market. In his current role, Mark oversees all marketing ...
Lara has nearly twenty years of consumer packaged goods marketing, sales, and general management experience with an emphasis on bringing healthy product innovations to the natural and mass market. For the past five years, she has provided strategic sales, marketing and leadership consulting to ...
Chris Kerston has dedicated his life to helping connect innovative ranchers and farmers with progressive brands in ways that create true synergistic value for both sides. Chris managed ranches and farms full time for nearly 15 years before joining the Savory Institute. In that ...
Matthew Reynolds is acting President and Co-Founder of INDIGENOUS Organic + Fair Trade Fashion, a pioneer and leader in the areas of sustainable supply chain, fair trade, human rights, artisan community development, organic products, and the movement toward regenerative and sustainable solutions. Matthew’s path ...
Jim is CEO and co-founder of Other Half Processing SBC, producer of identity-preserved byproducts from the “other half” of regenerative, organic and other more sustainably raised livestock. OHP’s mission, as a Minnesota Specific Benefit Corporation (SBC), is to create high value and high quality ...
Janice Hall is President, Natural Network International since 1991 -- a business development, marketing and trends forecasting company, specializing in natural health, organic, environment and sustainability policy, issues and products. Additional expertise includes environmental sciences, climate change and supply chain issues, as well as ...
Elena Lécué is a mission-driven executive in the organic and natural products and consumer packaged goods industries. As EVP of Sales and Marketing at Gaia Herbs, she leads the growth for the #1 herbal supplements brand in the United States. Gaia Herbs is a ...
Amy Keller, CCN, is the Director of Education and Training for ORGANIC INDIA. With a background in nutrition science and social work (specializing in Gerontology), she pursues her passion for educating others and promoting conscious, heart-centered leadership. After years of running her private nutrition ...
Carol is the Senior Manager of Global Sustainability at The North Face, where her work spans all aspects of TNF’s environmental footprint, from retail waste to regeneratively-grown raw materials. She oversees the brand’s sustainability initiatives and helps teams across the brand action on The ...
Deanna Bratter is the Senior Director of Public Benefit and Sustainable Development for Danone North America, the largest public benefit corporation and the largest Certified B Corporation in the world. Deanna drives the company sustainability strategy and programs to support the interconnectivity between the health ...
Dave Haynes is co-founder of rePlant Capital, a new impact investment group focusing on soil health and regenerative transition at the farm level. He served as Managing Director for Greenmont Capital Partners II since its inception in 2008. He also serves on the board ...
Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, is the founder of Ethical Markets Media LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and ...
Considered a leading brand-building architect, Larry Kopald spent over twenty years at some of the world's leading advertising agencies overseeing advertising fro companies ranging from American Express and McDonalds to Honda and Pepsico. Also a committed environmentalist (Director of Greenpeace, Oceana, 1% For The ...
Aria McLauchlan is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Land Core, a non-profit organization advancing soil health policies and programs that create value for farmers, businesses and communities. In her role at Land Core, she has shepherded the organization’s rise to the center of ...
For thirty years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization. Green America develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on tackling climate change, building fair trading systems, stopping corporate abuse, and growing the green economy. ...
Elizabeth has worked at the intersection of food, climate, and agriculture for the past fifteen years. She is Chief Strategy Officer for Mad Agriculture, a non-profit that works with farmers as agents of change to move from extractive, conventional agriculture to regenerative, organic farming. ...
As head of corporate development, Phil reports to Patagonia’s CEO and plays a significant role in investments, innovation, strategy, and new business ventures. Phil oversees Patagonia’s Tin Shed Ventures, which invests in environmentally and socially responsible startup companies, and Patagonia’s Worn Wear business. For ...
Tina Owens is the Senior Director of Food & Agriculture Impact for Danone North America, the largest public benefit corporation and the largest Certified B Corporation in the world. Tina leads the charge for embedding regenerative agriculture practices, farmer resiliency, regenerative financing and industry ...
A native Argentinean, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Daniela is an agronomist by profession and holds a MS in Natural Resource Management and Economics. With over 25 years of international experience in ranching, Holistic Management, and collaborative ecosystem restoration programs, Daniela co founded ...
Katherine DiMatteo is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trade Association as of November 2013. She has worked in a variety of capacities within the organic industry since 1990. In addition, DiMatteo continues as a managing partner at Wolf, DiMatteo + Associates, a ...
Fleishman has created and grown some of the world's largest and most successful brands during his 20-year career - launching 1,500+ items across 17 food and beverage categories into 12 countries - focusing primarily on the “natural green space.”In 2016, Fleishman co-founded Foodstirs Modern ...
Katie is the Co-Founder and Chief of EPIC Provisions, a company specializing in creating nutrient dense meat based superfoods. EPIC is the first consumer packaged goods company to successfully scale a “nose to tail” approach to optimizing the use of the whole animal. The ...
Woody Tasch is the Founder and Chairman of the Slow Money Institute and author of Soil: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green). Since 2010, dozens of local ...
Since 2007 Dr. Timothy J. LaSalle has championed his science-based hope for a regenerative food system that will mitigate climate change by carbon sequestration in place of soil carbon loss.LaSalle has served as the first CEO of Rodale Institute; Executive Director of the Northwest ...
Rebecca Hamilton is an owner and the co-CEO at Badger in Gilsum, New Hampshire. She oversees new product innovation from concept to market as well as Badger's sustainability initiatives, including a focus on regenerative agriculture and the adoption of a new purchasing philosophy to ...
Steve Farrell is the Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity's Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness. Humanity’s Team presently has over 665,000 friends in over 150 countries.Humanity’s Team projects ...
Lauren Ivison joined Ridgeline Ventures in 2016 with broad transactional and advisory experience across finance, law, and management consulting. Prior to joining Ridgeline, Lauren spent five years in boutique investment banking where she advised emerging growth companies across a variety of industries on capital ...
In 2006, Marc Ian Barasch founded one of the pioneering organizations of the global regeneration movement, the Green World Campaign, based on an ethos of “green compassion” that integrates ecological health, social wellbeing, and universal spiritual values. The GWC has planted millions of trees ...
Finian Makepeace is the co-founder of Kiss the Ground and a renowned presenter, media creator, and thought leader in the field of regenerative agriculture and soil health. His dedication to Kiss the Ground’s mission of “inspiring participation in global regeneration, starting with soil”, has ...
Nova Sayers is passionate about building integrity, health and sustainability in our food & agriculture system - in a way that creates value for brands, suppliers, and consumers. Nova represents NSF International, a global not-for-profit public health organization that helps organizations use tools like ...
As former founder and CEO of Eco-Products, Steve has been instrumental in increasing awareness of environmental issues and sustainability for the past 25 years. Steve is originally from Boulder, Colorado and received a Bachelor’s of Economics from Kansas University.Steve is a committed conservationist and ...
Steve Hughes is a pioneer in the natural and organic food and beverage industry with over 35 years of experience. Steve co-founded Sunrise Strategic Partners in 2016 to bring growth capital and expertise to emerging brands in the healthy, active and sustainable living space. ...
Tracy Miedema is Vice-President of Innovation & Brand Development at Presence. In this role she is responsible for optimizing the growth and profitability of brands in the company’s investment portfolio. Before joining the Presence team in 2014, Tracy served as Director of Product Innovation ...
Keith Paustian is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University, in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. A major focus of his work involves modeling, field measurement and development of assessment tools for ...
Walt Freese has served as the CEO, or President of three iconic businesses that have each played an important role in transforming our Food System: Celestial Seasonings, Ben & Jerry’s and Stonyfield Farm. He became CEO of Teton Waters Ranch this year, based on ...
MILA POPOVICH, Ph.D., is the founder of EVOLvED Leadership – educational program, practice and community for transformational leadership on the scale of personal development and excellence, organization building and institutional innovation, to planetary path-finding. As an independent academic, she is a humanities expert, systems ...
Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises LLC and founder of Restoration Agriculture Development. He runs New Forest Farm, the 106-acre perennial agricultural savanna considered by many to be one of the most ambitious sustainable agriculture projects in the United States.New Forest ...
Dan Kittredge has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years, and is the founder and executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA). The BFA is an 8 year old non-profit educational organization whose mission is to "increase quality in the food ...
Scott Marcus is the VP Marketing for Vital Farms, the largest producer of pasture-raised eggs. He has spent the past 20 years building brands and businesses, with a passion for marketing real food. Scott’s focus at Vital Farms, as well as past brands including ...
Kyle Garner is the CEO of Organic India USA. Organic India is a leading mission-driven manufacturer of herb-based wellness teas and functional supplements based on the principles of Ayurvedic medicine. Kyle joined Organic India USA in April 2015 following 3 years as CEO of ...
An interest in community development and a passion for travel led Brook Eddy to India in 2002 to research a movement based on the principles of Bhakti, or devotion through social action. While there, she fell in love with fiery masala chai and it ...
As a child, Mark Guttridge lived a typical country kid’s life on his grandmother’s 6 acres of land off of Hover Road. He played in the creeks and ditches, raised sheep, chickens, rabbits and vegetables for 4H to show at the Boulder County Fair ...
Les is currently Director of Constructive Capital at Dr. Bronner’s. He oversees business development activities for the company, which includes impact investing, philanthropy, and commercial support of supply chain projects around the world. He currently sits on the boards of Serendi Coco Samoa Ltd., ...
Richard is the Vice President for Policy and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), which represents over 225,000 companies. He spends time on Capitol Hill, the White House, federal regulatory agencies and state legislatures advocating for policy change on issues ranging from ...
Eric is a strategic marketing and market research professional who brings business management experience and consumer behavior perspectives to his work. Specializing in helping businesses develop strategy and identify and prioritize opportunities; Eric is sought after as a speaker at industry events and for ...
Gregory’s passion for creating healthy relationships through trade and agriculture has lead him on a journey to explore all phases of the value adding process from farming and agriculture through processing and manufacture to marketing to the end customer. Balancing expertise in regenerative agriculture ...
Lisa Stokke has been a lifetime advocate for healthy food systems and through this commitment co-founded Food Democracy Now!, a nonprofit organization of 750,000 members where for 9 years she advocated and brought awareness to the importance of organic and regenerative agriculture through progressive ...
Ralph Freelink is a transformational coach, healer and teacher from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has a passion for assisting leaders in maxing out their potential for consciousness. He knows from experience the ins and outs of leadership and what it means to serve a tribe. Ralph has been an ...
Mark’s 35-year career spans the vanguard of the organic movement including: the early UCSantaCruz Agroecology Program, co-founding the Molino Creek Farming Collective, establishing the CCOF statewide office, instigating the U.S.Organic Foods Production Act and midwifing the California Organic Foods Production Act, co-designing the Organic ...
Sara has been described by friends as “a force of nature.” She is a passionate advocate for great ideas and great people — and is dedicated to the hard work of building unlikely alliances to solve society’s toughest challenges. Sara’s background as a competitive ...
Steve serves as Founder and Managing Director of Compass Natural, a full-service public relations, marketing, brand communications, and strategic business development agency specializing in the $300-billion LOHAS – or Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability – market. He is Co-founder of LOHAS Journal and the ...
Victoria Kindred Keziah is a twenty-five year strategist with a proven history of building businesses from the bottom up. She began her career in the New York advertising world as a strategic planner and market researcher. She then co-founded and built one of the ...
Kate Dillon Levin is the VP of Marketing for North America at Ecosphere+, a venture founded by the award winning Althelia Climate Fund, whose mission is to grow markets that value carbon and incentivize sustainable business models. Kate has worked on REDD+ and sustainable ...
Jeff Herrick is a soil scientist USDA-ARS in Las Cruces, New Mexico and holds adjunct faculty appointments at NMSU and CU-Boulder. He works closely with the NRCS and BLM on the development and application rangeland assessment and monitoring protocols. He also serves on UNEP’s ...
Former (R) US House of Representative from Rhode Island, Claudine is an enlightened leader in Climate, Energy, Environment and Ecological Economic policies which drive global environmental responsibility while proactively enhancing U.S. competitiveness. A seasoned business professional, with broad experience in both consulting and executive ...
John Fullerton is the founder and president of Capital Institute, a collaborative working to illuminate how our economy and financial system can operate to promote a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth. He is the author of Regenerative ...
As President and CEO, Vince Siciliano leads New Resource Bank, a certified B Corporation, in serving values-driven companies and organizations working to achieve well-being for our community and the planet. The bank seeks to transform the banking industry into an agent of positive social, ...
Silencia Cox is the inspiration for, and now CEO of Motherlove Herbal Company, a family business that began in a Colorado Rockies meadow and has grown into an international leading manufacturer of organic herbal products for pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. Motherlove was started by ...
Kiran Stordalen is the Co-owner of Intelligent Nutrients, a certified organic health and wellness beauty and lifestyle company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company’s mission “Everything we put in and on our bodies must be nutritious and safe” carries through every product from outset ...
Dr. TC North is co-author of the Amazon bestseller, Fearless Leaders, a high-performance executive coach and leadership speaker. Dr. North has accelerated individuals and organizations in attaining their visions and dreams since 1988. He has coached Olympic teams and a professional sports team in ...
Stacy Malkan is co-founder and co-director of U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit food industry research groups that advocates for truth and transparency in our food system. She is author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the ...
Lisa Turner is a chef, nutritionist, food writer and product developer in Boulder, Colorado. She is the co-founder and recipe developer of Wholly Bites Paleo Snacks, and is also a former co-founder and recipe developer for Boulder Organic Foods, Boulder Soup Works and other ...
John W. Roulac is founder and Chief Hemp Officer of RE Botanicals, the Pure Organic Hemp Apothecary brand. In 1999, John founded the organic superfoods brand Nutiva. For seven consecutive years, under John’s leadership, Inc. Magazine selected Nutiva as one of American’s fastest growing ...
Nearly 15 years ago while exploring southern Brazil, Justin Bley embraced the magic of Yerba Mate. As an outdoor enthusiast, Yerba Mate quickly became his "fuel' of choice on all of his backcountry adventures. Through his experience with the Program for Ecological Agriculture and ...
Linda Appel Lipsius is a serial entrepreneur. She is Co-Founder & CEO of Teatulia Organic Teas, the mamahood and Teatulia Tea Bar all located in one building in the LoHi neighborhood of Denver. She is also Executive Producer of her husband's feature film production ...
Chris Feuille, founder and president, started WB Kitchen in 2012 with his wife Anna. Creating is what Chris enjoys best. Whether it be new recipes in the kitchen, making spreadsheets, or fumbling through the finances Chris always enjoys a new challenge to navigate. WB ...
As the founder and CPO of the award winning Pangea Organics™ brand, Joshua Onysko is a skin care authority with a high-performance, natural product line created with organic superfoods sourced from 54 countries. After founding Pangea Organics in 2000, Joshua has grown as an ...
For over 18 years, Errol Schweizer has dedicated his career to improving the natural and organic food industry. As Whole Foods Market’s Global Grocery Coordinator since 2008, Errol has helped to bring more than 6,000 culinary finds to the US marketplace. Errol and the ...
Bill Weiland is President and CEO of Presence Marketing / Dynamic Presence. After nearly a dozen years working in the natural products industry in varied roles in sales and retail, Bill launched Presence Marketing in January 1990. He is surrounded by a dedicated cast ...
Esther is the CEO of Cienega Capital, a regenerative investment firm utilizing an integrated capitalapproach to systemic change in the areas of soil health, regenerative agriculture, and local food systems.Cienega Capital is also part of the #NoRegrets Initiative, a regenerative asset strategy focused on ...
Maria Rodale is the CEO and Chairman of Rodale Inc., the global voice for health and wellness with a mission to inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them. Reaching more than 100 million people worldwide, Rodale publishes some ...
Zhena Muzyka is a socially responsible business leader who founded Zhena's Gypsy Tea in 2000 and pioneered fair trade in the industry. An inspirational speaker, author, meditation teacher, and podcast host, she is celebrated for her work in sustainable business practices. Zhena's critically acclaimed ...
S. David Freeman was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by Jimmy Carter in 1977. He was named an “eco-pioneer†for his environmentally-oriented leadership of the Sacramento Municipal Utility. He also headed  New York Power Authority and the Los Angeles Department of Water and ...
After making advertising history as a founding partner of the world’s most awarded agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Alex Bogusky changed course to pursue a new way of doing business. In 2010, he turned his focus from being a brand advocate to a consumer ...
Hunter Lovins is President of Natural Capitalism Solutions. NCS helps companies, communities and countries implement more sustainable business practices profitably. Hunter has worked in countries from Afghanistan to New Zealand, and was recently asked by the King of Bhutan to serve on a team ...
Before leaving the private sector to form B Lab with two long-time friends and college mates, Jay Coen Gilbert and Bart Houlahan, Andrew spent 16 years in the private equity business; as a Partner at MSD Real Estate Capital, an affiliate of MSD Capital, ...
Nick and Helen Forster, are co-producers of eTown, a nationally syndicated radio show heard on more than 300 stations across the US and around the world, with one purpose: to educate people about community and environment through entertainment. Nick, is an internationally renowned bluegrass ...
Jenn Vervier started on the bottling line at New Belgium Brewing Company 20 years ago. She became NBB's first Chief Financial Officer and later the Chief Operating Officer. As the Director of Sustainability her responsibilities include the sustainability management system, corporate responsibility reporting, greenhouse ...
Michael H. Shuman is director for research for Cutting Edge Capital, Business Development Director for Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and A Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He is the lead author of Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace, ...
A pioneer in plant-based personal care and aromatherapy, Horst M. Rechelbacher (1941 – 2014) was an active environmentalist who changed the world of beauty. He’s excelled in several lifetimes of pursuits and passions: innovative businessman, artist, provocateur, organic farmer, artist, author and speaker. In ...