Bo has 30 years business development, funding, strategic consulting, and team building experience. His primary focus is to bring money to companies via angel, corporate, private equity, VC investment, strategic alliances, development partnerships, or OEM sales. Bo has operations, sales, & marketing management experience in computer software & peripherals and in leading edge reconfigurable computing systems.
In her capacity as an associate partner, design engineer, and project manager in IDEO’s Palo Alto office, Annetta has contributed her expertise to projects ranging from the engineering of computer servers to the design of children’s car seats. Before joining IDEO in 1996, Annetta worked as a manufacturing engineer for Hewlett Packard’s Microwave Instruments Division, where she worked with lab engineers on the development of new products while designing the manufacturing lines on which those products would be assembled.
Nicole is a strategist, foresight specialist, and facilitator with a passion for creating “better futures.” For 12 years, she has been on the forefront of foresight, futures thinking and innovation, and is now managing director of Adaptive Edge LLC in San Francisco, CA. Nicole has worked in over a dozen industries and sectors around the world. Her client sare leaders from Fortune 100 companies, governments, and civil society organizations. She learned her unique tradecraft at Global Business Network (GBN), a pioneering think-tank in San Francisco.
At Patagonia, Kevin led the company's brand strategy group, coordinated survey research efforts and developed marketing strategies and materials; he supervised the art, Internet and public affairs staffs. As environmental strategies director, he oversaw the company's environmental vision, including the grants program, ecological assessments of production practices, and employee activism. He was a member of the company's six-person management team. He served on the White House Apparel Industry Partnership, an effort to rid the industry of sweatshops.
Dr. Jean Rogers is a Principal with Arup and leads the sustainability consulting group in the San Francisco office. Jean has 20 years experience in sustainability and management consulting, leading development projects that focus on integrating sustainability into planning and design in order to reduce risk and improve performance across the triple bottom line.
Mathis is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and has worked on sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia and Australia, and has lectured for community groups, governments and their agencies, NGOs, and academic audiences at more than 100 universities around the world. Mathis previously served as the director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, California, and directed the Centre for Sustainability Studies / Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad in Mexico, which he still advises.
Susan leads the overall strategic direction of Global Footprint Network and oversees communications, partnership, project development and finance. Prior to launching Global Footprint Network, Susan founded the pioneering sustainability consulting firm Natural Strategies. She has over 18 years of experience working with more than 50 corporations and other organizations on a variety of sustainability-related issues including: product design, consensus building, management systems, business strategy, forest policy and stakeholder communications.
As leaders who in the 1960s and 1970s helped shape the modern environmental movement, in government service, and as advisors to industry, governments and the public interest, Joe Browder and his partner Louise Dunlap have contributed to strategies that influence the relationship of business, technology and markets to environmental protection and social responsibility. Louise Dunlap, the first woman CEO of a major national U.S. environmental organization and a key strategist in behalf of energy efficiency, joined the firm in 1986.
Dr Johnson was previously a managing director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to the time Dr. Johnson was a managing director of Bankers Trust Company. Dr. Johnson served as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire and before that Senior Economist of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici. Dr. Johnson received Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.S.
As some of you may have heard, Google last week made a surprise decision to stop developing Google Wave at the end of this year. At Next Agenda, we are very disappointed by this news.
