Jeffrey Hollender
As Chief Inspired Protagonist, co-founder, and Executive Chairperson of Seventh Generation, Jeffrey is a well-respected leader in the socially and environmentally responsible communities. Jeffrey has led Seventh Generation from its humble beginnings to its current position as the leading and fastest-growing brand of natural products for the home and the leading authority on issues related to making a positive difference in the health of the planet and its inhabitants through consumers’ everyday choices.
Hollender currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Greenpeace Fund; the Environmental Health Fund; Verite; the Advisory Board of Healthy Child Healthy World; and is a member of the Resource Education Foundation of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. He is also on the board of Alloy Inc., a publicly traded company.
Jeffrey Hollender and his wife Sheila have three children: Meika, Alexander, and Chiara. The Hollenders live in Vermont.
Jennifer V. Orgolini 
Jennifer Orgolini started on the bottling line at New Belgium Brewing Company over 17 years ago. Subsequently she became NBB’s first CFO and, later, COO. As Sustainability Director, her initiatives include creating a Sustainability Management System, writing the company’s first corporate sustainability report, completing a life cycle assessment of the carbon footprint of a six-pack of Fat Tire Amber Ale, and securing over $1 million in funding from the Department of Energy for peak electrical load reduction.
Orgolini received a B.A. in Humanities from Washington College in Maryland. She has an MBA in Finance from Regis University and completed the course work for a Masters in Applied Ethics from Colorado State University.
Gus Speth
James Gustave “Gus” Speth, is the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy. He has announced he is retiring from Yale in 2009 and will assume a professorship at Vermont Law School in Royalton, Vermont.
From 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council.
Throughout his career, Dean Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President’s Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America’s Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Blue Planet Prize. Publications include
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability; Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment; Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment; and articles in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Environmental Science and Technology, the Columbia Journal World of Business, and other journals and texts.