CEO + CO-FOUNDER (RHEAPLY)

Dr. Garry Cooper is the Co-founder and CEO of Rheaply, a Chicago-based tech company that enables Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and universities to better visualize, quantify, and utilize their physical resources. He also serves on the boards of directors of P33 Chicago and 1871, and the investor team at LongJump Ventures, of which he is a founding partner. Previously, Dr. Cooper served on the faculty of Northwestern University and facilitated supply chain and performance improvement for enterprise businesses at Ernst & Young. As a result of his work, Dr. Cooper has received recognition on the Forbes Next 1000, Chicago magazine’s The New Power 30, and Crain’s 40 Under 40 lists. Dr. Cooper has also been recognized as a Scholar at Google for Entrepreneurs, a 2021 Emerson Collective Dial Fellow, and a member of Goldman Sachs’ 2021 Launch With GS Entrepreneur Cohort. Dr. Cooper has published in high-impact, peer-reviewed international journals and holds a U.S. patent. He holds a PhD in neuroscience from Northwestern University, a certificate in management from the Kellogg School of Management, and a BS & BA in mathematics and chemistry from Indiana University.

DIRECTOR FOR SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS (WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY)

Betty serves as the point person for supply chain sustainability in the Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Previously, she helped expand CDP’s (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) global environmental disclosure platform, led corporate engagement for 1t.org (Trillion Trees Platform) with the World Economic Forum, and served as a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project. Betty is a “climate intrapreneur”, leveraging transparency and accountability to drive climate action across the world’s largest public and private institutions.

GLOBAL DIRECTOR, CORPORATES + SUPPLY CHAINS (CDP)

Dexter leads CDP’s work to support companies in building a truly sustainable economy, by measuring and understanding their environmental impact in their own operations and in their global supply chains. His remit includes developing market-leading products for companies through CDP’s Reporter Services team, working with CDP’s corporate partners, and overseeing CDP’s involvement in the We Mean Business ‘Commit to Action’ campaigns with corporations. Prior to his current role, Dexter ran CDP’s program to enable major multinationals and governments to achieve sustainable supply chains, and in 2013 he launched Action Exchange, after joining CDP, in 2008.

STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT & FOUNDER (PROJECT INSIDEOUT)

Renée Lertzman PhD is a psychological strategist and advisor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with leaders and organizations who seek to scale impactful engagement across stakeholders, consumers and employees on ESG, climate and ecology.

Clients include Google, VMware, Unity, and numerous start-ups and philanthropic organizations.

She has a MA from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Social Sciences from Cardiff University.

She has published Environmental Melancholia (Routledge 2015), and is currently working on a trade publication about applying the psychology of climate and ecological threats to our business and personal practices.

Tim Mohin is a globally recognized sustainability/ESG executive. He is the former Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s largest sustainability reporting standard.

With more than 20 years’ experience leading sustainability at three Fortune 500 companies – Intel, Apple and AMD – Tim has deep experience developing strategies to embed sustainability into business. He also led the development of environmental policy in the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Senate, including the Clean Air Act.

Tim serves as an ESG advisor to large company Boards such as BASF and was a founder and Chairman of the Board for the Responsible Business Alliance. He is the author of Changing Business from the Inside Out and a frequent speaker and writer on sustainability and corporate responsibility.

Tim Mohin is consistently recognized in the top 20 of Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders (Assent Compliance).

BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS (CLIMATE INTERACTIVE)

Christina Page is a sustainability consultant and systems thinker with experience in government, inside two Fortune 500 companies, and in the nonprofit sector. Prior to her work with Climate Interactive, she was Director of Energy and Environment at Amazon and Global Director of Energy and Sustainability Strategy at Yahoo!, where her responsibilities included carbon reduction strategy and renewable energy procurement. Chris has also worked at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a think tank led by energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins, where she helped to to build their corporate sustainability consulting practice. Past consulting clients include PepsiCo, Solstice Solar, Rocky Mountain Institute, Xanterra Parks and Resorts, Point 380, and T. Rowe Price. She has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from Brown University and a Masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is also a member of Mount Rainier Nordic Ski Patrol and a certified Wilderness First Responder.

Director, Global Procurement Sustainability, PepsiCo

Natasha Schwarzbach is the Director, Global Procurement Sustainability for PepsiCo. In this role, she leads a team dedicated to ensuring that pep+ commitments (PepsiCo’s sustainability strategy) are integrated into the goals and initiatives of the Global Procurement (GP) function. Her main focus areas include: driving the GP sustainability strategy; embedding sustainability into decision-making across the function; and developing new supplier capabilities to deliver sustainability goals for 2025.

Prior to this role, she was a member of PepsiCo’s Global Sustainability Agriculture team and the global lead for Forest-Based Commodities. Natasha has a passion for addressing sustainability issues with a focus on delivering successful programs that drive measurable environmental, economic, and social impacts through effective engagement and strong collaboration.

Some of the work she is most proud of is developing a number of landscape programs within Indonesia and Mexico that support conservation and smallholders within palm and cane sugar and supporting the development of the NDPE Implementation Reporting Framework.

She and her family live in London, and enjoy exploring the countryside whenever possible.