EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (PASSPORT FOUNDATION)

Bill Walsh joined the Passport Foundation as Executive Director in 2022 after serving as Executive Director and Strategic Advisor to the Healthy Building Network (HBN), which he founded in 2000. HBN defined the leading edge of healthy building practices that increase transparency in the building products industry, reduce human exposures to chemicals in building materials, and create market incentives for healthier innovations in manufacturing. Bill has been Visiting Professor at Parsons School for Design, is a Fellow of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts, and a founding board member of the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative. During his tenure, Bill and HBN were recognized with the Design for Humanity Award by the American Society of Interior Designers (2019); WEACT for Environmental Justice Leadership Award (2018); Healthy Schools Network Hero (2013); US Green Building Council’s Leadership In Advocacy Award (2012). Previously he served as a national campaign director at Greenpeace USA, and held staff attorney positions with the US Public Interest Research Group and the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center. He holds a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and LLM in Public Interest Advocacy from Georgetown University.

DIRECTOR, EDF+BUSINESS (ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND)

Boma has over 15 years’ experience in working with businesses to improve product sustainability. As Director of EDF+Business, Boma leads EDF’s corporate engagement to eliminate toxic chemicals from consumer products, packaging and food in order to create a safer marketplace. She works closely with major retailers and consumer brands, advocating for smart corporate chemicals policies, ambitious corporate sustainability programs and increased value chain transparency. She launched EDF’s Five Pillars for Safer Chemicals Leadership and SustainaBuy: The Future of Sustainable E-Commerce. Prior to joining EDF, Boma worked at Whirlpool Corporation, helping to establish the company’s sustainability strategy and working across the industry to create the first ever appliance sustainability standards in North America.

Boma has an M.S. in Technology & Policy from MIT and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University.

SENIOR ADVISOR (SPLC, LACEWING COLLABORATIONS)

Chris Geiger led the Buy Green Program for the San Francisco Department of the Environment for almost 19 years. He was involved with drafting the original Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Ordinance in 2003-2004, along with crafting and rolling out the program, organizing commodity-oriented “Green Teams,” developing the SFApproved.org website, and creating the Buy Green Directors’ Dashboard. Chris has served on a variety of regional and national committees, including the Green Electronic Council’s EPEAT Advisory Committee, the US Green Building Council’s Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group, the Steering Committee for the Responsible Purchasing Network, and the Board of Directors for the Bay Friendly Landscaping Coalition. Chris also managed the City’s Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program during this time, and worked previously with the California Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Pesticide Regulation, as well as conducting research on sustainable pest management in California and abroad. His passions are wilderness, music, and travel.

DIRECTOR, GLOBAL PURCHASER ENGAGEMENT (TCO CERTIFIED)

Clare Hobby leads purchaser engagement globally for TCO Certified, the independent sustainability certification for IT products. She specializes in educating and engaging IT buyers, policymakers and other stakeholders around the world to collaborate, influence and drive collective action in some of tech’s most difficult challenges in environment and supply chain responsibility.

She currently serves on the Board of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, and the Design Team for the Clean Electronics Production Network. Her educational background is in international business, communications and Sustainability Leadership from Northwestern, University of Melbourne and Harvard.

MONITORING COORDINATOR (ELECTRONICS WATCH)

Omana George is the Monitoring Coordinator at Electronics Watch based in Asia. She has been an organizer and promoter of occupational health and safety in Asia with more than a decade of regional experience in the area of labour rights. She has played an essential role in building and supporting the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims (ANROEV), a network of grassroots organizations in more than 20 countries and territories in Asia. She has carried out trainings and other OSH initiatives in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Mexico and Nepal with trade unions and worker organizations in the electronics industry and in other sectors like garments and construction.

SENIOR DIRECTOR (CLEAN ELECTRONICS PRODUCTION NETWORK)

Pamela has over twenty-five years of program management and multi-stakeholder facilitation experience, with the last 15 years focused on promoting environmental and corporate social responsibility in the electronics industry via standards development and stakeholder processes. She is currently the Senior Director of Clean Electronic Production Network (CEPN) – a multi-stakeholder, cross-industry collaboration that launched in 2016. CEPN serves as a platform for collaborative innovation where diverse stakeholders – including technology suppliers, brands, labor and environmental advocates, governments and other leading experts – work together to understand, address, and eliminate worker exposures to toxic chemicals in electronics production.

Previously, Pamela was Green Electronics Council’s Director of Standards Management, designing and managing multi-stakeholder processes to maintain the sustainability standards on the EPEAT Registry for product categories including personal computers and displays, servers, imaging equipment and PV modules and inverters. Before joining GEC, Pamela was an independent consultant, with projects including management and facilitation of the development of the ground-breaking Outdoor Industry Association and European Outdoor Group Eco Index Green Standard.

TERESA AND H. JOHN HEINZ III PROFESSOR IN THE PRACTICE OF CHEMISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (YALE UNIVERSITY)

Paul T. Anastas is the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment. He has appointments in the School of the Environment, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Anastas took public service leave from Yale to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and worked as an industrial consultant. He is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the Director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program. Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability including eleven books, such as Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.

SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY TEAM (DELL TECHNOLOGIES)

Leveraging more than 18 years’ experience in various roles in procurement and product management, Romi moved to the Social Environmental Responsibility team where she has worked for the last 7 years. Romi enjoys working cross-functionally with supplier management teams to assess and mitigate risk. Risks include forced/child labor, health and safety risks, discrimination, and excessive working hours, among others. This full team approach helps protect workers in the global supply chain.

Since no single company can mitigate all risk, external collaborations are essential to drive faster progress. Key collaborations include work groups within the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), Clean Electronics Product Network (CEPN) and Next Wave for ocean-bound plastics. As information about risks and opportunities continues to evolve, listening to stakeholders is also required to ensure the fuller context is understood.

She received a BS of Finance from University of Florida and an MBA from Florida International University. (Yes, the change from Florida BBQ to Texas BBQ in Austin was tough at first, but well worth it.)

CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (CHEMFORWARD)

Stacy is responsible for executing on the strategic plan for growth, impact and scale. Stacy develops key partnerships, collaborations and stakeholder engagement that support the mission of ChemFORWARD to create broad access to chemical hazard data and illuminate safer alternatives in partnership with industry. Through this work, she pursues her vision to end toxic chemical exposure and advance human and environmental equity.

SENIOR CRITERIA MANAGER (TCO CERTIFIED)

Stephen is an expert on supply chain social responsibility and chemical management, responsible for the development and implementation of the public TCO Certified Accepted Substance List since 2015. TCO Development is the organisation behind the world's most comprehensive sustainability certification for IT products, the TCO Certified label. The certification is designed to drive social and environmental responsibility throughout the product life cycle.