Boards of Directors - ASBN & ASBC
Denise Bowyer
Consultant, American Income Life
Denise Bowyer is a Mission based leader with a lifelong passion and vocation in advocating for Workers’ Rights, while contributing to key support in building and growing a billion – dollar company.
As Secretary of the National Labor Advisory Board and National Vice President of Public Relations for American Income Life, she successfully built trusting, lasting relationships with 45 International Union Leaders, State AFL-CIO Leaders, Central Labor Council and Local Union Leaders with American Income Life.
April De Simone
Principal, WE-ARCH
April De Simone is a transdisciplinary design practitioner with over 20 years of experience. Her work navigates the intersectionality of architecture, planning, and systems thinking to develop contextualized frameworks advancing more equitable, humane, and just representations of spatial authorship.
Jeffrey Hollender
CEO & Co-founder, ASBN
Jeffrey Hollender is CEO and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Network, which through its national member network represents more than 250,000 businesses in a wide range of industries. He was co-founder and CEO of Seventh Generation, which he built into a leading natural product brand known for its authenticity, transparency,
Seungah Jeong – Chair
President & CEO of MPOWERD
As the President & CEO of MPOWERD, Inc., Seungah has spent her career shaping global brands and driving them toward success. With decades of experience in consumer products and tech, Seungah is the holder of multiple international patents, and she’s passionate about the potential companies have to create positive impact through innovation, inclusion, and disruptive change.
Rose Yee, CPFA, CHSA
Chief Visionary Officer, Green Retirement, Inc.
Rose has worked in various management roles in banking and international trade finance. She grew up in the Philippines and credits her parents, the late Rodolfo (a retired labor judge) and Julia (a columnist for a local paper) for instilling strong values of community engagement and environmental responsibility.
David Levine
Co-founder and President, American Sustainable Business Council
David is the co-founder and president of the American Sustainable Business Council. He has worked as a social entrepreneur for over 30 years focusing on the development of whole systems solutions for a more sustainable society through building strategic partnerships and broad stakeholders initiatives.
Annarie Lyles, Ph.D.
Managing Director, Bio-Gist Ventures, LLC
Annarie Lyles, PhD, is on a mission to protect and restore the health of living systems, from individuals to habitats. Her work spans governance and activism with corporations (both for-profit and tax-exempt), supporting applied R&D initiatives, and managing impact investments. She also leads the family side of a closely-held private business, and advises several entrepreneurs and funds. She leads working groups on how businesses can better align with eco-health for a few impact business networks.
Heather Mason
Founder and CEO, Caspian Agency
With over 20 years experience and numerous international and local awards of recognition, Heather Mason is an expert when it comes to event innovation, design and execution. Heather founded Caspian Agency in 2005, a firm known for convening strategy, production and training.
Michael Peck
Co-founder & Executive Director, 1worker1vote
Michael Alden Peck is executive director & cofounder of the non-profit worker ownership movement, 1worker1vote (www.1worker1vote.org); co-founder & managing director of a second for-profit start-up, The Virtuous Cycle Collaboratory (tvc2) – a worker cooperative & social enterprise whose mission is to “flatten unequal socioeconomic curves into shared prosperity virtuous cycles”; board member of the American Sustainable Business Network
Michael Pirron
Founder & CEO, Impact Makers
Michael founded Impact Makers in 2006. Before establishing Virginia’s first benefit corporation, he spent the early years of his career as a Senior Consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in France. His tenure allowed him to consult, with increasingly complex engagements, throughout the EMEAI (Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India) region. As a result, Michael has lived or worked in seven countries and spent significant time in over 25 nations. Later, while an independent consultant, Michael completed an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. After returning to the States, he accepted a position as the Manager of Application Development at Health Management Corporation (HMC), a subsidiary of WellPoint Blue Cross / Blue Shield. Prior to launching Impact Makers, Michael was the Director of Product Development at First Health Services Corporation.
Carissa Reiniger
Founder & CEO, Silver Lining
Carissa Reiniger is the Founder & CEO of Silver Lining, a company with a mission to change the global economy, one small business at a time. She started the company in 2005 and designed the Silver Lining Action Plan (SLAP TM ) methodology based on interviews with 400 Small Business Owners.
Anne Robertson
Founder, Toxic Free Future for Our Children
Anne is a dedicated advocate of environmentally conscious organizations and has served on the boards of several national environmental health organizations and has concentrated her energies on toxic chemicals and human health, especially the health of our children. She has recently launched Toxic Free Future for Our Children to address the global toxicity crisis.
Mitch Rofsky – Secretary
President and CEO, Better World Club
Mitch brings nearly two decades of experience of leading businesses and non-profit organizations that champion social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and environmentally friendly products. Mitch was also the first chair of Business for Social Responsibility. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of California at Los Angeles and a
Juan Saldaña III
Founder & Managing Principal, P3 Markets, LLC
Juan Saldana is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovator with a passion for real estate and entrepreneurship. Currently, he serves as the Founder and Managing Principal of P3 Markets, LLC, a position he’s held since February 2018. At P3 he co-developed a 100MM mixed-use/mixed-income commercial/retail property that includes 50% affordable housing, and leads efforts with TIF, acquisition, project investment, community equity RDA, WBE/MBE procurement opportunities, local ownership/leasing, and project management. Juan is also the developer of Xquina Cafe, an impact investment in real estate with the Foundation of Little Village responsible for delivering 11K of commercial retail, office, and shared office space with 5MM budget. He is also the Technical Assistance provider to the City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund and provides owner-representative services to 15 companies that represent 12MM of local investment
Anasa Troutman
CEO & Founder, The BIG We
Cultural strategist, writer, producer, & real estate developer, Anasa Troutman is living a life driven by love, and committed to cultivating safe, abundant, joyful communities through storytelling, community building, and strategic investment.
Working at the intersection of culture and the economy, Anasa is founder and leader of The Big We, Big We Foundation, Big We Capital, and Historic Clayborn Temple, home of the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike in historically South, Black Memphis. Leaning into the future of social impact, her cultural wellness framework and culture shift methodology come together to create a pathway towards healing, justice, and abundance.
Lisa White Pipe
Council member for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Councilwoman White Pipe is a Council member for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe representing the Bull Creek Community, which is located in Gregory, SD. Lisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Business with and emphasis in Management and a minor in accounting. Lisa has worked for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe for over 18 years, most recently employed with the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court as an assistant Public Defender.
Rose Penelope Yee, CPFA, CHSA
Chief Executive Officer, Green Retirement, Inc.
Rose leads Green Retirement, an immigrant, woman, and minority owned firm that is the first-ever advisory firm in the country focused on fossil-free and socially and environmentally responsible 401k’s. The firm has advised more that 90 retirement plans across the country and guided thousands of working people to save for their 401k’s toward a financially secure retirement while also helping protect people and planet by rooting their investment decisions on the principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Kyle Datta
Senior Advisor, Roland Berger
At Ulupono, Kyle is responsible for developing partnerships with stakeholders, policy makers, and community organizations. He also oversees the systems thinking approach for Ulupono, where he supports sustainability by promoting the acquisition of large-scale catalytic changes to improve the quality of life for and self reliance by promoting
Pat Heffernan
Founder and President, Marketing Partners, Inc.
Pat established Marketing Partners, Inc in 1992, where she has produced a portfolio of award winning marketing, communications, and media plans for public information campaigns and products. Prior to founding Marketing Partners, Inc., she served as the associate dean at the Vermont Law School. She is a founder and first president of Vermont Businesses for
Susan Inglis
CEO, Sustainable Furnishings Council
Susan served as founding Executive Director of Sustainable Furnishing Council (SFC) and continues to support the organization. She has worked alongside furniture industry leaders to establish a set of standards for the sustainability of furniture products and manufacturing practices. Susan developed programs to promote and educate the industry and attracted hundreds of companies to join the organization.
Sandra McCardell
President, Current-C Energy Systems, Inc.
Sandra joins the ASBC Board of Directors with more than 22 years of promoting energy efficiency and sustainability. She founded Current-C Energy in 1996, an energy efficiency consulting firms to businesses, nonprofits, government, and educational institutions. Her passion for the responsible use of water and energy generation drives her consulting
Wiley Rhodes
CEO, One Step In Foundation and Newpoint Gas, LLC.
CEO & Founder of the Newpoint companies including Newpoint Gas, LLC, a net zero emissions at source energy engineering company specializing in designing efficient gas processing facilities including a full range of modular gas processing and treating units. Previous experience with cryogenic gas processing facilities and technologies.