List of advisory board directors

Scott Sklar, President Stella Group, Inc - Scott founded this firm which assists emerging distributed power clean energy companies in developing strategic partnerships, to attract capital, and build marketshare. Stella Group also advises federal, state, and local governments in the creation of public policies to promote use of advanced batteries and controls, concentrating solar power, energy efficiency, fuel cells, heat engines, microgeneration, modular biomass, photovoltaics, and small wind. In addition to ICR, he serves on the Boards of Directors of the Export Council for Energy Efficiency, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Renewable Energy Policy Project, and the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.

Miranda Anderson – Vice President for Investor Analysis - Ms. Anderson specializes in strategic and operational non-profit management, corporate responsibility, and organizational development. Her career has spanned both the non- and for-profit sectors, holding management positions in such industries as energy and environmental development in emerging markets, international development, and wireless telecommunications. Prior to joining the DGA team, Miranda served as the Director of Operations for Environment2004 (E’04) and the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), and provided independent consulting services to a number of private and public organizations. Ms. Anderson graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Psychology from Colorado State University, and earned a M.B.A. from George Washington University, specializing in Environmental Management and Policy, with particular research on multi-sector partnerships, market-based environmental solutions, and organizational policy at the business, NGO, and government levels.

Dr. Beverly Winterscheid - Founder and Partner of The Institute for Nature and Leadership - a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that promotes environmental stewardship and nature-based personal development through stakeholder engagement, citizen education, seminars, retreats and individual counseling, which she founded after a 20 year career in business and academia.

She is a business professor in the Sustainable MBA program at Marlboro College in Vermont teaching Leadership Development and Sustainable People Practices and her past publications have concerned the development of core competencies in organizations and trans-national organization learning processes. She assisted in the creation of the Cleveland World Trade Center and was a founding member of the Board of the Sustainable Business Network of Washington DC.

Lea Sloan - Vice President of Media Relations, the Public Broadcasting Service - Ms. Sloan leads the strategic development and management of communications with the press, member stations, public officials and other key stakeholders. She oversees the staff of the Corporate Communications, Education and Online Communications, as well as the Program Information and Special Events departments.

Ms. Sloan came to public television from Paxson Communications' PAX TV, where she served as senior vice president, Cable Marketing and Public Relations. In this role she was responsible for all marketing and public relations strategies and initiatives for the network's cable division, especially those focused on building PAX's brand and its value to viewers, MSOs and cable operators. Previously, she served nearly two-and-a-half years as PAX TV's vice president, Marketing and Public Relations, and as such was part of the small team that launched the network in August of 1998.

Prior to joining PAX TV, Ms. Sloan was executive vice president/partner at Gordon Sloan Diaz-Balart beginning in 1994. During her tenure, she managed business development, marketing and public relations for clients such as The Box, Cinecanal, GEMS Television, Paxson Communications, Silver King Communications ( Miami), Travel Channel Latin America, Weather Channel Latin American and others. She has also held the positions of senior vice president/managing director at Bender, Goldman & Helper; vice president, account management, at Shaw/Spelling Associates; and columnist at the Boston Globe.

Ms. Sloan holds a B.A. from Connecticut College and has done graduate work in broadcast journalism at Boston University.

Ellen Mignoni Senior Vice President in APCO Worldwide’s Washington, D.C., office - helped to build APCO’s global corporate responsibility practice. She provides positioning, corporate responsibility and communication counsel for APCO’s corporate clients. She also assists private foundations and nonprofit organizations with strategic planning, positioning, program development and communication.

Her corporate work focuses on helping clients advance their business goals, as well as meet their corporate responsibility, government affairs and public relations objectives. Recent corporate initiatives have focused on global health, labor, education and environmental issues. For nonprofit clients, Ms. Mignoni’s work focuses primarily on strategic planning, fundraising and organizational development activities.

Ms. Mignoni also works with APCO’s executive committee in developing and managing the company’s strategic initiatives.

Prior to joining APCO in 1988, Ms. Mignoni designed, implemented, and evaluated state and community-based alcohol and drug abuse treatment and education programs. She worked as a therapist and trainer on issues related to substance abuse for a wide variety of community-based groups, including members of the business community, educators, law enforcement and parent groups.

In addition to serving on the advisory board of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility, Ms. Mignoni also serves on the Advisory Council of the Harvard Malaria Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Ms. Mignoni holds her Master of Business Administration in Organizational Behavior and Development from George Washington University, a master’s from Catholic University of America and a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College.

David Logan - Joint Chair of Corporate Citizenship - He began working on corporate responsibility in 1980 when he joined Levi Strauss & Co in Europe. He later became Director of Special Programs based in San Francisco, where he researched and managed a wide range of ethics, community, social responsibility and environmental concerns worldwide. From 1988 he consulted in the field in the USA and in 1996, was a co-founder of The Corporate Citizenship Company in London.

He has worked extensively on corporate social responsibility issues in Europe, the USA and more than 30 emerging markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America. He advises on CSR and sustainability strategy and has done pioneering work in management and social reporting systems to, measure and report corporate responsibility across all company stakeholders.
Project work has been undertaken globally for companies such as Unilever, Diageo and Vodafone, and in local markets for Ford India and Guinness Nigeria. His work for Cadbury Schweppes has included visiting five pilot countries to review the company’s application of their human rights and ethical trading policy. For Unilever his work has included advising on business codes and principles, writing the first Social Review in 2000 based on the global CSR Self-Assessment survey of 9 countries and helping manage the joint study with Oxfam on the impact of Unilever Indonesia.

He has published several studies on issues like the impact of HIV/AIDS on business and how the lack of healthcare impacts on the productivity of women workers in developing countries. He also co-wrote “Corporate Citizenship: Rationale and Strategies” for the Hitachi foundation in the USA.

David is a graduate of London University, with an MA degree in Philosophy and an Advanced Diploma in Education. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of the National College of Ireland, and a Visiting Fellow in corporate philanthropy at the City University, New York.

Geoff Allen – Founder of the Allen Consulting Group - Started career as a Federal Public Servant. ThenSenior Advisor to the Minister for Labour, FederalTreasurer and Leader of the Federal Opposition.Senior Research Fellow and subsequently Adjunct

Professor, Melbourne Business School. Pioneered the research and teaching of 'Social and Political Environment of Business' and 'Business-Government Relations' in Australia.

Executive Director (1978-83), Australian Industries Development Association; pioneered

research based business advocacy in Australia. Co-founder and Foundation Executive Director, Business Council of Australia (1983-88). Designed the 'Structure and Modus Operandi' of the Business Council. In 1988, he founded the Allen Consulting Group

and the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs. Centenary Medal for Services to International Trade Policy. Geoff Allen was educated at Wesley College, Queens College and Melbourne University. B.A. (Hons) History; MBA.

George Littlewood

George Littlewood is an Adjunct Professor at Deakin and RMIT Universities, Chair of the Victorian Forest Industries Association Sustainable Forests Council and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He is also a member of the Communications Committee of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and Deakin University’s Advisory Committee for its Masters Degree in Public Policy. Internationally, he is a member of the Advisory Board of George Washington University’s Institute for Corporate Responsibility and a mentor for the International Business Leaders’ Forum Partnership Brokers’ programme.

He has worked in many senior public affairs and community relations roles, including Vice President External Affairs for the CRA Group (1989-1997); and, upon CRA’s merger with RTZ, as Head of Community Relations for Rio Tinto Limited (1997-1998). In that role he was based in London and, among other things, was directly involved in developing the Group’s global community relations policies.

Upon his return to Melbourne in late 1998, Mr Littlewood undertook, over several years, a major consultancy project for WMC Resources Limited (now absorbed into BHP-Billiton) which joined with eight other major international mining companies in a global project aimed at progressing the industry’s role in a sustainable future. He was a Senior Associate of the Allen Consulting Group from 1998 to 2003.

Mr Littlewood’s other professional interests have included: Representative of both the Business Council of Australia and the mining industry on several Federal Government Advisory Bodies on Biodiversity and Ecological Sustainability (early 1990s); Chairmanship of the CSIRO’s Advisory Committee for its Division of Atmospheric Research (1996-1997); President of the Institute of Public Affairs (1996-1997) and a Trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature. He has also been Deputy Chair of the Australian Science Olympiads, and a member of the Boards of the Earthwatch Institute, the Myer Foundation’s Cranlana Programme and the Sovereign Hill Museums Association.

Igor Abramov

Flynn Bucy

Thaddeus A. Lindner

James Clark

Kevin Eckerle