Boards of Directors - ASBN & ASBC

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.

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,

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.

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.

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 

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.

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

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.

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

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.