Presenters' Bios
"How to Green Your Campus"
An EACUBO and ICCD Pre-Conference Workshop
November 4, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Greenbrier Resort
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
John Cusack
Cusack is the founder of Gifford Park Associates, a management and policy consulting firm specializing in the areas of strategic environmental/sustainability management and implementation, climate change risks, environmental finance risks and disclosure, energy, and the relationship between the environmental and financial performance of publicly traded companies. Typical projects have included short-term consulting assignments for clients as well as provision of longer-term executive services. Major GPA clients have included a variety of multinational industrial and financial firms, venture capitalists, and educational/not-for-profit organizations. It also included assignments for a number of venture-funded companies and international agencies/governments, including the government of the UAE, the UN, OECD, the ICC and the US State Department.
Prior to his experience of starting Gifford Park Associates and managing it for the past decade, Cusack was the lead executive in North America and Europe of several subsidiaries of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). ABB is a leading multinational energy and industrial products/services firm, where Cusack also served as liaison with ABB’s energy/environmental venture capital funds, and as advisor to ABB Corporate Environmental Affairs and the ABB Foundation. One of the companies he started for ABB was ABB Sanitec, Inc., a New Jersey-based environmental biotechnology company using a unique energy-efficient technology to treat medical wastes. Cusack was also responsible for managing ABB Sanitec GmbH and its sales agents in a number of European, South American and Asian countries, and serving as its liaison with EPRI. He also served as the Director of Technology Marketing, Biotechnology & Environmental Services, for ABB’s engineering subsidiary, Lummus Crest.
Earlier he had worked in Consolidated Edison’s Office of Environmental Affairs, and was on the Corporate Technology staff of Combustion Engineering Inc. in Stamford CT, where he was responsible for energy/ environmental/biotechnology development funding & policy, internal dissemination of technology information via newsletters, seminars and conferences, preparing strategic plans, and representing CE at board meetings of venture-backed companies.
Mark Blaire
Blaire has over 25 years experience in environmental, health and safety (EHS). Prior to joining The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in 2005, Mark was the Director of Environmental, Health and Safety Services for BEM Systems, Inc., an international environmental engineering and consulting firm. In addition to his extensive experience in developing and managing complex EHS programs for multinational companies, Blaire served eight years in the U.S. Air Force as the base Bio-Environmental Engineer and Radiation Protection Officer. In this capacity Blaire was responsible for assessing personnel exposure to various chemicals and environmental conditions and evaluating the potential health effects.
Blaire has helped educate and implement the award-winning Greening the Cleaning® Program and green building initiatives for healthcare facilities, schools, businesses and government agencies throughout the country. In addition, he serves as the chairperson for HUMC’s Sustainable Hospital Committee and oversees a multi-disciplinary team that is responsible for identifying and implementing environmentally sustainable initiatives for the hospital.
Kevin Lyons
Dr. Lyons is the Director of Purchasing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and is a Research Professor in Supply Chain Environmental Management and Policy at Rutgers-Cook College. In addition to his procurement, contracting eProcurement responsibilities, Dr. Lyons conducts applied research on developing and integrating global environmental, social, economic, ethical criteria and data into supply chain/procurement systems and processes. His work includes environmentally preferable products and services research, designing and implementing local, national and international environmental economic development systems and environmental and sustainable social policy and financial impact forecasting (e.g. SOX Environmental Impact Reporting).
Clay Nesler
In his role as vice president of global energy and sustainability for Johnson Controls, Nesler leads a worldwide team responsible for coordinating marketing, legislative affairs, resource management, product/service innovation and energy program management.
Nesler's responsibilities also include leading a professional services organization that develops collaborative planning tools and provides consulting services to Johnson Controls customers and third-party clients on a global basis. Since joining Johnson Controls in 1983, Nesler has held a variety of leadership positions in technology, new product development and marketing in both the United States and Europe.
Program
For the Cost and to Register, please visit EACUBO's website.
It is not necessary to register for the entire EACUBO conference to attend this ICCD pre-conference workshop.
This is the fifth workshop ICCD has offered with EACUBO (see Past Programs).
For more information about this program or other ICCD programs and customized services, contact Lee Riddell, Assistant Director, at lee.riddell@cornell.edu or (607) 254-8260.
"How to Green Your Campus" is a Resource Development program, part of Gravitational Leadership.
