Speakers

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Marc Alt
Principal
Marc Alt + Partners
Marc Alt is president and creative director of Marc Alt + Partners, a design and brand strategy firm specializing in environmental strategy, innovation and sustainability. Marc works with select companies in a wide range of industries on developing green strategy and communications. He has spoken at a variety of industry events and to private companies, including GE, Bloomberg LP, Estee Lauder, Liz Claiborne, Lippincott, Neenah Paper, AIGA, GAA and the PSFK Trends Conference and is quoted frequently in media. As an advocate of business transformation, Marc develops environmental conferences, including Grow, the first conference dedicated to the intersection of design, sustainability and commerce, and Greener Gadgets, a conference exploring the challenges, possibilities and trends in the greening of the $170 billion consumer electronics industry. He is also involved with a number of initiatives that are helping designers and companies come together to accelerate understanding of sustainable design principles. Marc serves on the advisory board and is Vice President of the The Designers Accord and is founding co-chair of the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design. Marc previously served on the board of the NY Chapter of AIGA, The Professional Association for Design.

Ralph Avallone
National President
The Green Energy Council
Mr. Avallone has testified on behalf of Smart Growth to the New Jersey State Environmental Committee as well as the Federal Government in regards to the need for affordable workforce housing needs in America. His company American Dream Custom Builders LLC has presented a redevelopment package to state legislators that will bring economic recovery to South Jersey in the form of rail revitalization as well as sustainable smart growth projects. Mr. Avallone travels the United States promoting the Green Energy Councils Education Initiative. He also travels worldwide discussing climate change, global warming and environmental stewardship. He has educated many large corporations and businesses worldwide in regards to greening their daily practices to increase their triple bottom line: economic, environmental and social benefits. His presidency as the leader of the National Green Energy Council has led him to 14 countries and 37 states educating from US Congressional leaders to kindergarten students across America. He is one of the founders of the Green Energy Council.

Raphael Bemporad
Founding partner and Principal
BBMG
As a founding partner and principal at BBMG, Raphael Bemporad is a passionate champion for a new approach to branding that puts values behind every marketing initiative and image campaign. "Our philosophy is simple: who you are is what you do," he says. "And our process is designed to align our clients' values with their actions to create deep, meaningful communications programs. When you do that, you get great results and move people to do great things."
An expert in brand strategy, cause marketing and public affairs, Raphael has launched national media campaigns, drafted public policy, created consumer and nonprofit brands on aggressive timelines and budgets, and managed communications for local, state and federal elected officials.

Hugh Hough
President
Green Team Marketing
In 1993, Hugh walked away from the security of a bi-weekly Madison Avenue paycheck, and opened Green Team, New York's first (and only) environmental advertising agency. In the subsequent years, Hugh expanded his agency's core capabilities to include social and cause related marketing, natural products and sustainable tourism. Today Green Team has grown to eighteen full-time staff with alliances around the globe. Green Team has worked for numerous non-profits, including WWF, Environmental Defense, Conservation International, National Geographic and the Smithsonian Institute. Green Team travel clients include Britain, Scotland, Ecuador, Dominica and Lindblad Expeditions. Green Team also works with a number of major corporations, helping them with their environmental and cause campaign. These include Johnson & Johnson, BP and Coca-Cola. Hugh was recently selected by Al Gore and The Climate Project to be one of 1,000 individuals chosen to present a modified version of Gore's presentation about global warming, chronicled in the film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Gary Kibel
Attorney
Davis & Gilbert LLP
Gary Kibel is a partner with the law firm of Davis & Gilbert LLP. He practices in the areas of New Media, Advertising, Corporate and IP law. Gary regularly counsels clients with respect to technology and intellectual property issues such as licensing, interactive advertising, enterprise technology implementations, entertainment, privacy and security, joint ventures, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and laws affecting the Internet. Davis & Gilbert is widely regarded as the premier law firm in the U.S. representing advertising, marketing and promotions agencies, and also represents prominent technology and entertainment companies, marketers, and advertising trade associations. Prior to becoming an attorney, Gary was an Information Systems Analyst with Merrill Lynch.

Chris Kimm
Vice President, Sales Engineering
Verizon Business
He is responsible for strategically aligning Verizon Business capabilities with the world's largest multinational businesses to help them do business more effectively on a global basis. Prior to his current role, Kimm was Director, Technical Consulting Services at MCI, where he led a team of second-level technical subject matter experts on key areas of focus for the company, including IP Networking, Voice over IP and Unified Communications and Security Solutions. Since joining the company in February 1997 as a Senior Engineer with UUNET, Kimm has focused on responding to the company's most-major customer opportunities, and frequently finds himself operating in the overlapping space of Engineering, Product Marketing and Sales. Kimm?s IP heritage and exposure to the business needs of the company's largest enterprise customers has made him a frequent presenter to business executives worldwide. Though broadly knowledgeable about Verizon Business' key areas of focus, Chris? strongest expertise is in areas such as MPLS-enabled IP Networking and IPSEC and SSL VPN based solutions data networking.

Steven Salsberg
Vice Chairman of Council on the Environment of NYC and Principal
Salsberg Group
Steven Salsberg is a well known New York City entrepreneur in the Technology and events businesses and a leader in sustainable business practices. He serves on the boards of City University of New York Law School, Friends of Hudson River Park (www.forhrp.org) and Council on the Environment of NYC (www.cenyc.org) where Mayor Bloomberg appointed him Vice Chairman. As a way to thank the city The Salsberg Group (www.salsberggroup.com) has committed to building 5 sustainable restaurants, first of which is Cafe Notte (www.NotteWineBar.com) located on 84th Street & 2nd Ave. His companies include the two largest passenger ships in New York City (www.nysail.com), catering businesses (www.whenfoodmatters.com and www.inhouseny.com) and technology ventures (www.taspllc.com) in NYC, Washington Israel & Latin American. In every one of these businesses The Salsberg Group incorporates responsible social policy and sustainable operation policies in all of its ventures. Steven is working with the EPA on a National recycling initiative in the Restaurant and event industry and would be happy to discuss the Waste Wise program with interested event companies. Steven and his wife Orly participate in "green" and sustainability forums around New York City often. Orly, the CEO of Salsberg Group, is this week's featured executive on www.newyorkwomanonline.com which speaks about the Salsberg's sustainability practices.

Martha Shaw
Creative Director
Earth Advertising
Martha is the founder of eFlicks Media and Earth Advertising, a full service communications collaborative known for successful pr and advertising campaigns in all mediums. During her 20-year career in media communications, Martha has served in the capacity of executive creative director, copywriter and department manager in major U.S. and Pacific Rim advertising agencies. She has won top industry awards in e-media, radio, tv, print, outdoor and field marketing, including Adweek Creative All-Star, the Radio Mercury Award, New York One Show, LA Belding, San Diego Best of Show, and New England Broadcast Awards Best of Show.

Gwen Sheinfeld
Manager
Corporate Sustainability Services
Steven Winter Associates, Inc
Gwen Sheinfeld directs Steven Winter Associates, Inc's. (SWA) Corporate Sustainability Services group. She has consulted with a range of businesses on sustainability practices; has experience with high performance and green buildings, and a background in environmental city planning and environmental education. Her work at SWA focuses on environmental and carbon footprinting and designing and implementing sustainability programs for clients. She also conducts energy audits in commercial and multifamily buildings. Additionally, she conducts training in the classroom and the field for architects, owners, developers and building management staff on green and high performance building design strategies, cost effective building system operation, and energy-saving maintenance practices. Gwen implements SWA's own company-wide sustainability program, including purchase of renewable energy, and offsets.

Samantha Skey
EVP, Strategic Marketing Group
Alloy Media & Marketing
Samantha Skey is a leading expert and influential voice in the youth marketing industry. She is regularly quoted in the press, contributing her expertise to a wide variety of industry outlets such as the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age and many others. She is also a respected speaker at high profile industry events, having served as a keynote for Adweek's "What Teens Want" conference and as a featured expert at many other industry recognized conferences such as iMedia, Ad-Tech and OMMA. Along with her enthusiasm for youth culture and an outside-the-box ingenuity, Samantha has a broad range of experience in sales and marketing, spanning the youth and interactive industries. Prior to joining Alloy, Samantha held roles as Director, E- Commerce Development at the Walt Disney Company, Advertising Sales Manager at CNET and Director of Sales for Interactive Imaginations.

Rick Steele
CEO
NuRide, Inc.
Rick is co-founder and CEO of NuRide, the nation's largest incentive-based online ridesharing community. Rick developed the unique business model whereby individuals are rewarded for riding together, resulting in reduced traffic congestion, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. NuRide currently has thousands of members in a half dozen major U.S. markets who have shared over a million rides while earning more than $1,000,000 in rewards from corporate sponsors.

Laddie Suk
Global Partner, Innovation and Transformation Solutions
BusinessEdge Solutions
Laddie Suk is a Global Partner for Innovation and Transformation Solutions at BusinessEdge Solutions, an EMC consulting practice. Mr. Suk leads a practice that assists global Communications and Media clients to leverage the ever-increasing pace of technology change for their businesses. He will be working to orchestrate BusinessEdge and EMC services and products for Communications and Media clients. Mr. Suk is a seasoned industry veteran with deep experience in communications service providers as well as professional services firms. As a former Verizon Network CIO and Network Executive at AT&T and Bell Labs, he has extensive hands-on experience in managing telecom service provider environments.