GoGreen Conference Seattle

Keynote Speakers 2012

Maud Daudon | President and CEO, Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation

In 2006, the Board of Directors of SNW appointed Maud Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to joining SNW, Ms. Daudon served for four years as Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff for the City of Seattle. Prior to this role, she was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Port of Seattle. She gained significant experience in public finance by working for six years completing transportation and public works-related bond financing for a national investment banking firm from its New York and Seattle offices. Ms. Daudon serves as the immediate past chair of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, where she also sits on the Executive Committee.

Dr. Gary Kaplan | Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Health System

Dr. Kaplan is chairman and CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason Health System, where he has led the implementation of the Virginia Mason Production System, based on the Toyota Production System, to reduce costs and improve quality, safety and efficiency. Under Dr. Kaplan's leadership, Virginia Mason was named a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence by Health Grades in 2011, a Top Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for five consecutive years and was one of two hospitals named a Leapfrog Top Hospital of the Decade for patient safety and quality. Dr. Kaplan is also a clinical professor at the University of Washington, secretary-treasurer of IHI and chair of the National Patient Safety Foundation's board of directors. He serves on the board of Washington Healthcare Forum and is a founding member of Health CEOs for Health Reform. In 2009, Dr. Kaplan received the John M. Eisenberg Award for patient safety and also was a recipient of the Harry J. Harwick Lifetime Achievement Award from the Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Medical Practice Executives. Modern Physician and Modern Healthcare ranked Dr. Kaplan 12th on the 2011 listing of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives.

Pamela Hinckley | CEO, Tom Douglas Restaurants

Pamela joined Tom Douglas Restaurants as CEO in January 2009. The company was poised for growth, adding 4 new restaurants and a production bakery during a 12-month period over the winter of 2010/11. Tom has always been the marketing engine behind the restaurant company but with the addition of the new properties and new employees the executive team needed to expand beyond Tom, his wife Jackie and their partner Eric Tanaka. Pam’s management experience with two local growth companies, Redhook Brewery and Theo Chocolate honed her valuable skills in growing a brand and simultaneously nurturing internal company culture.

Jim Weber | President and CEO, Brooks Sports

Jim Weber joined Brooks Sports as president and CEO in April 2001. His professional repertoire includes such positions as chairman and CEO of Sims Sports, president of O’Brien International, vice president of The Coleman Company, and various roles with The Pillsbury Company. Prior to joining Brooks, Weber was managing director of U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Seattle Investment Banking practice and also served on the Brooks Sports board of directors. Weber received a master’s of business administration degree with high distinction from The Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota.

Emcees 2012

Leslie Helm | Editor, Seattle Business Magazine

Helm is a twenty-year veteran of business journalism. He spent seven years with Business Week, first as Tokyo correspondent, where he covered many environmental issues, and later as Boston bureau chief. He worked briefly for the Seattle Post Intelligencer before joining The Los Angeles Times, reporting at various times out of Japan, South Korea and the Pacific Northwest. In 2006, Helm was appointed editor of Washington CEO where he launched the Green Washington Awards program to recognize the state’s business leaders in sustainability. Helm was appointed editor of Seattle Business Magazine in 2009, soon after the publication acquired Washington CEO. Helm has a BA in Political Science and an MA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Dave Ross | Host, Seattle's KIRO-FM

Dave has been a Seattle radio institution for more than three decades beginning his career in 1978 as a news anchor. Ross has spent the last 23 years hosting, "The Dave Ross Show." Dave leads the Eastlake Avenue Crusaders for Common Sense, speaking daily with the major newsmakers of the moment and taking listeners calls. Dave has been recognized with a Marconi nomination and the 2001, 2005 and 2008 Edward R. Murrow Awards for Commentary. Dave is also an accomplished actor, performing in more than 30 productions with the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Occasionally, Dave will subject his listeners to a singing commentary... such as "Dictator Boy" - an ode to Saddam - and "Ichiro, Ichiro, Ichiro," an operatic tribute to the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, which is now on file at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Dave took a leave of absence in 2004 to run for Congress in the 8th District, winning the Democratic primary, but losing the General Election. He was back on the air the next day. Dave has been recognized with a Marconi nomination and the 2001, 2005 and 2008 Edward R. Murrow Awards for Commentary.

Featured Speakers 2012

Rico Quirindongo, AIA | Principal, DKA Architecture

Driven by the desire to have a meaningful impact on both the urban and natural landscape, Rico works with community organizations to have a greater positive influence in their own neighborhoods through design. In 17 years of professional experience, thirteen of which have been at DKA, Rico has also developed a keen awareness of the special requirements for non-profit and public projects. His clients include King County Housing Authority, Department of Labor, and Seattle Public Schools. He has extensive experience and knowledge in the adaptive reuse of existing buildings, and as project manager and architect for the Urban League Village at Colman School, he became well versed in the intricacies of historic renovation. Rico believes that existing buildings provide a rich context for our daily lives and that maintenance of this building stock, both in preservation and in adaptive reuse, is the ultimate expression of a sustainable architecture and a critical component of a new green economy.

Sarah Patterson | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Virginia Mason Health System

Sarah Patterson has been a member of the leadership team at Virginia Mason Medical Center for more than 27 years and currently serves as the executive vice president and Chief operating officer. She has responsibility for all operations of the clinic and hospital along with the Kaizen Promotion Office, Human Resources, Quality and Compliance, Facilities and Pharmaceutical Services. Over the past five years she has received extensive training in the Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS). VMPS is a management method based on manufacturing principles that seeks to continually improve how work is done. The training has included four study missions to Japan. As part of the executive leadership team, she has responsibility for leading the implementation of the Virginia Mason Production System throughout the VM system. She maintains certification in Lean methodology.

Riggs Kubiak | Co-Founder and CEO, Honest Buildings, Inc.

Riggs is co-founder and CEO of New York City & Seattle based Honest Buildings, Inc. — an innovative web platform and mobile application utilizing transparency to make buildings better. It brings together building service providers, occupants, owners, and other stakeholders onto a single portal to exchange information, offerings and needs to catalyze transactions. Honest Buildings is currently in beta testing and is actively partnering with service providers and owners. The platform already has over 50,000 buildings representing over 10 billion square feet indexed globally, through which users can connect, showcase projects, and provide feedback.

Carol Sanford | Author, The Responsible Corporation

Carol Sanford has been leading major consulting change efforts in both Fortune 500 and new-economy businesses for more than 30 years. Her client list includes long-term relationships with Colgate Europe and Africa and DuPont Canada, US, Asia and Europe. She also works with new-economy companies like Intel, Agilent and leaders of corporate responsibility such as Seventh Generation. Carol has published dozens of works in 10 languages, including a series of articles in Executive Excellence, Stephen Covey's newsletter and At Work, a Berrett-Koehler Journal. She is the author of The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success (March 2011). Carol was shortlisted for Best Business Book of the Year (out of 11,000 Biz books) and she was named to Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior — 2012. Central to Carol's philosophy and approach is a fresh look at what makes an organization truly responsible. Carol believes that business can and will play a major role in creating a better world. She has worked with businesses for four decades who have successfully done so BY building great businesses.

John Bowser | CEO & President, NewWood

John Bowser is a visionary and entrepreneurial-spirited leader with more than 30 years of success building and growing successful companies. John has proven time and again his entrepreneurial skills marked by successes in starting and growing Trespa North America and Bowser Cabinet and Casework Corporation. Both companies relied on John's strong entrepreneurial leadership and experienced accelerated growth. As president and CEO of NewWood Manufacturing, John will establish a leadership team of highly successful individuals focused exclusively on the creation of a world class manufacturing company.

Jacqueline Gjurgevich | Founder & COO, Stockbox Grocers

As founder and COO of Stockbox Grocers, a miniature grocery tucked inside a reclaimed shipping container and placed into the parking lot of an existing business which focuses on fresh produce and grocery staples in food desert communities, Jacqueline is working to improve food access and create community through food. She has a background in the hospitality industry having spent nine years working for Marriott International in sales, event management and revenue strategy. Jacqueline has an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Jimmy Jia | Co-Founder and CEO, Distributed Energy Management

Jimmy Jia, LEED® Green Associate, is an energy entrepreneur. As co-founder and CEO of Distributed Energy Management, he helps reduce energy consumption by "translating" energy data into operational costs. Formerly, he worked at Olympus as a Territory Manager, selling industrial-grade inspection equipment to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that, he was at Panasonic as an Associate Engineer where he helped develop and patent new applications for femtosecond laser drilling technology. He holds a BS and MS in Material Science and Engineering from MIT where he was appointed lecturer for the Microelectronics Processing Technology Laboratory Course. He received his MBA from the University of Oxford and was an active participant in the Oxford Business Network and Oxford Entrepreneurs. He is a committee member with the MIT Enterprise Forum of Seattle, an MIT Energy Ambassador, and a cleantech advisor to TiE-Seattle. He also is on the faculty of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute where he is creating and co-instructing the new Energy Certificate program.

DeAnna Poling | Regional President for the Pacific Northwest, One PacificCoast Bank

As a member of the bank's senior management team, DeAnna oversees all business development activities for Washington and Oregon and also plays a key role in the strategic development of the overall bank. More than 25 years of commercial banking background with both US Bank and Key Bank and working in a variety of industry areas has given DeAnna extensive experience with developing commercial loan portfolios. With high awareness of the need for positive social change, DeAnna is very active in the Puget Sound nonprofit community and has held a variety of leadership roles, including serving on the Habitat for Humanity Seattle/South King County Board of Directors for ten years. Currently, DeAnna serves on the board of directors for Lumana, an organization that utilizes microfinance to alleviate poverty in rural African communities and on the advisory board for the NBIS, the Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability.

Kevin Wilhelm | CEO, Sustainable Business Consulting

Kevin Wilhelm is the pre-eminent business consultant in the field of sustainability and climate change. He is the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting, a Seattle based consulting firm focused on practical solutions that deliver profit improvement through the use of sustainable business practices. Kevin brings over fourteen years of experience working with businesses ranging from Fortune 500 multinationals to government agencies to renewable energy start-ups. Some of his clients include Nordstrom, REI, The North Face, Amazon.com, Drugstore.com and Brooks Sports. His firm works with companies to measure their sustainability and carbon impacts, develop successful implementation goals and strategies, engage employees through sustainability training, and help them communicate their CSR efforts both internally and externally. He has spent the last eight years demonstrating the business & bottom line benefits of sustainability locally, nationally, and internationally. He is the author of the acclaimed: Return on Sustainability: How Business Can Increase Profitability & Address Climate Change in an Uncertain Economy. He is an adjunct professor at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute where he teaches Sustainable Business.

Ralph Allora | Principal, Marketing Director, Tray Creative

At TRAY Creative, a Seattle-based, full-service marketing, branding and digital design agency, Ralph Allora leads marketing and advertising campaigns, content development and management for client projects, and in-house business development and marketing programs. TRAY Creative has a wide range of consumer and B2B clients including Caffe Vita, Anodia Systems, Talent Technology, Mimic Technologies, and Hemispheres Research. Ralph and TRAY Creative partner Bridget Perez—both longtime supporters of causes such as sustainability, poverty relief, education and the arts—founded the company in 2009 with an imperative to make social responsibility an integral part of their business model.

Chuck Collins | CEO, Cascade Power Group LLC

Chuck Collins is the CEO of Cascade Power Group and has worked as a consultant and strategic advisor in the energy efficiency and clean tech industry for over 17 years. He is a former program and project manager for the US Department of Energy's Western Regional Office where he led regional programs and activities for energy efficiency, renewable energy, distributed generation, and smart-grid technologies in the Western US. His expertise in energy efficiency and renewable energy is well recognized by the industry and Chuck has received various local and regional awards for his accomplishments, including PSE's "Power Player Award", King County's "Earth Hero Award", and the 2011 AEE "Renewable Energy Innovator of the Year" award.

Byron McCann | Co-Chairman, Northwest Energy Angels

Byron is managing partner of Ascent Partners, an advisory firm to clean technology companies; venture partner at Prism Capital; a member of the Keiretsu Forum and Hawaii Angels, two angel investment networks; and NW Regional Co-chair of the Clean Tech Open. He was a founder of genSoft, which had the first Windows database and was acquired by Computer Associates; COO of a cable television advertising venture, acquired by TCI; and a senior consultant for Ernst & Young's national telecommunications consulting practice. He is on the board of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network; formerly vice chairman of the WTIA (Washington Technology Industry Association); on the board of the non-profit Broadway Bound Theatre and the NatureMapping Foundation. He is a cum laude graduate from Harvard and has an MBA from Stanford.

Robert Bunting | Chair, Moss Adams' International Services Group

Robert Bunting, Seattle, Washington, is the Chair of Moss Adams' International Services Group which provides tax, accounting, and advisory services to the Firm's over 1,300 international clients. He also chairs the Sustainability Services Group. Bunting served as CEO of Moss Adams for 23 years before stepping down from that role in June 2004. Moss Adams is among the 11 largest accounting firms in the U.S. with 18 offices in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Bunting was President of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) from November 2008 until November 2010, after having served two years as IFAC's Deputy President. He also served on the IFAC Board and chaired the Compensation Committee, Nominating Committee, and the International Regulatory Liaison Committee.

Dave Low, LEED AP | Director, Sustainability Practices, Kidder Mathews

Dave Low joined Kidder Mathews' Sustainability Practices group after working as a sustainability consultant at Bluegreen Consulting. As Director of Sustainability Practices, his responsibilities include developing the sustainability strategy for Kidder Mathews and keeping the company on the forefront of sustainability efforts. He also handles sustainability projects for clients from LEED projects to Energy Star reporting issues. Dave is a LEED accredited professional and his responsibilities include LEED certification management and organizational sustainability analysis. He is instrumental in the LEED certification process for projects varying from single floor tenant improvements to high-rise apartment buildings. Dave's experience includes sustainability assessments and working extensively with clients, architects, consultants, general contractors and suppliers to ensure projects achieve the highest degree of sustainability possible. His current and past projects include over 3.5 million square feet of LEED certified space. He has been instrumental in helping clients achieve all levels of LEED certification.

Brian Howe | Co-Founder, The Hub Seattle

Brian is Co-Founder of Hub Seattle, a gathering place for social entrepreneurs taking market-oriented approaches to social and environmental issues. Hub Seattle provides coworking and meeting spaces, trusted referrals, targeted events, and a vibrant community for sustainably-minded individuals and organizations. Brian is also a teacher, attorney and entrepreneur. He founded Vox Legal PLLC, Washington's only B Corp certified triple-bottom-line law firm. Working with clients as large as NASA and as small as you, the firm limits its practice to providing general counsel to hybrid nonprofit/for-profit businesses, B Corps, and global social ventures. As an adjunct professor at both Seattle University School of Law and Northwest Graduate University, Brian teaches graduate courses in Law and Social Entrepreneurship and Global Development and Social Justice.

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