Caitlin Bristol, Global Manager, Green, eBay Inc.
A creative strategist focused on the design and development of more sustainable forms of commerce, Caitlin believes you can have your organic cake and eat it too. As eBay Inc.’s Global Manager of Green, she helps to catalyze, incubate and bring to scale new programs and initiatives that enable both business and social value. A couple of the more well-known programs she has helped to develop include partnerships with Patagonia’s Common Threads Initiative and the PGA Trade-In Network. Before joining eBay, she led content and creative for San Francisco-based green media company ecofabulous.com, where she worked on strategic programs and media campaigns with companies such as Intel, Safeway, Method, Levi’s, and Electrolux. When she’s not working towards the seamless integration of sustainability into our everyday lives, Caitlin can be found exploring the San Francisco Bay Area on two wheels.

Ashley Koff, Ashley Koff Approved
Ashley Koff RD is an internationally renowned registered dietitian who’s “Ashley Koff Approved” (AKA) list is a tool to help consumers, media, and healthcare practitioners choose better quality groceries, dietary supplements, and prepared food. Koff regularly appears as an expert on TV, print, radio, and online including “The Dr. Oz Show,” “The Doctors,” ABC7, The New York Times, O! The Oprah Magazine, Whole Living, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Redbook, Women’s Health, The Huffington Post, and EmpowHer. Additionally, she writes freelance articles for many of these outlets. Koff started and continues to manage her AKA Craft Services makeover project for popular shows such as ABC’s “Private Practice,” and CBS’ “CSI: New York,” as well several major movies. She is currently a contributing editor for Natural Health Magazine, and on the advisory board of Fitness Magazine. Koff is the co-author of Mom Energy: A Simple Plan to Live Fully Charged. Based in Los Angeles, California, Koff maintains an international private practice and is faculty at NYC’s Beth Israel Integrative Medicine Center The Continuum Center for Health and Healing

Jorge Lee, Founder, Marin House Cleaning L.L.C.
Jorge is an avid self-starter passionate about using entrepreneurial principles to further broader social, cultural and environmental goals.  After graduating from Cornell University in 2007 with a degree in psychology, Jorge founded Marin House Cleaning L.L.C., a nontoxic housecleaning business servicing the clients of the San Francisco Bay Area.  The first and only Bay Area Green Business Program certified housecleaning business in Marin County, Marin House Cleaning has been responsible for making hundreds of homes healthier for residents in the Bay Area as well as significantly reducing the toxins that enter the outside environment. In 2010 Teens Turning Green and Marin House Cleaning partnered to launch Teen Turning Green’s own nontoxic cleaning line, which can be found in retailers throughout the Bay Area.  Jorge received his Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University in 2012.

Michelle Paratore, Consultant, Bain & Company

James Schurz, Attorney, Morrison and Foerster
Mr. Schurz’s practice encompasses all manner of commercial transactions and intellectual property matters, including actions for breach of contract and business torts, including unfaircompetition, fraud, trade libel, products liability, and jointventure/distributor termination. Mr. Schurz has broad experience representing energy companies, resource companies, electronics manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies.  He has appeared extensively in courts throughout Northern California, and, in particular, San Francisco Superior Court, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of California, and the California Courts of Appeal. He is an adjunct professor of law at the University of California, San Francisco, Hastings College of the Law (1998 topresent)  is the co-author of “How to Choose a Forum that is Right for You” (International Commercial Litigation 2002) and “Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Mechanisms in International Environmental Conventions and Multilateral Trade Agreements,” (United Nations Environmental Programme 1995) and a series of articles for California Law Business, California Real Property Journal, and International Commercial Litigation.

Eben Schwartz, Staff Member, California Coastal Commission
Eben directs California Coastal Cleanup Day, California’s largest volunteer event, and oversees the year-round Adopt-A-Beach Program. In addition, Eben provides policy advice, technical expertise, and guidance to non-profits working on marine debris issues in California and along the West Coast. Eben also serves as the Chair of the Marine Debris Action Coordination Team for the West Coast Governors’ Alliance on Ocean Health, which is currently drafting an overall marine debris strategy to be used as guidance for comprehensive marine debris programs in Washington, Oregon and California. From 2007 to 2010, Eben served as the Chair of the California Ocean Protection Council’s Marine Debris Steering Committee, in which role he helped craft and pass the Council’s Resolution on Marine Debris and its corresponding Implementation Strategy.

Prior to his work with the Coastal Commission, Eben worked in conservation programs at the Sierra Club, at both the local and national levels. Eben recently completed a two-year program as one of the inaugural members of the Catto Fellowship with the Aspen Institute, designed for emerging leaders in the environment and energy sector. Eben holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University.

Sarah Shaw, Philanthropist, The Shaw Fund
Having been raised and schooled in San Francisco, Sarah wanted to go East for college. After graduating from Boston University in 1986, Sarah went on to earn a secondary degree in Design which she put to use back in her home town at Levi Strauss. Eventually wanting to follow her entrepurnerial desires, Sarah left Levi Strauss in 1998 to open her own business. In the Spring of 1999 Sarah founded her eponymously named store, Sarah Shaw, on Sacramento Street in San Francisco and now splits her time between her retail business and her philanthropic endeavors.

As a San Francisco native, Sarah has a history of philanthropy in her local heritage. Her grandmother, Martha Gerbode, founded The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation in 1961 and Sarah was the first grandchild to become a board member in 2012. Sarah also shares the Shaw Fund, a donor advised fund housed at the SF Foundation, with her brother Lionel. Together, Sarah and Lionel have been granting funds to Bay Area non-profits since 2006, primarily focusing on education and environment.

Judi Shils, Executive Director, Teens Turning Green
Judi Shils has spent the last 10 years of her life spearheading grassroots community projects. While attending a Marin County Supervisors meeting in 2002, she listened to concerned citizens pose questions about the high cancer rates in their neighborhoods and express thoughts as to possible causes. The dearth of answers led Shils to form the Marin Cancer Project: Search for the Cause, and now the teen-driven force for sustainable change, the non-profit, Teens Turning Green (teensturninggreen.org). As well, Shils worked with campaign members and green businesses to create the first line of eco body products for teens launched nationally with Whole Foods Market in 2008. After attending Temple University and American University, she started her Emmy Award-winning career with ABC Sports in New York and remained in television for 25 years. in 1988, Shils moved to Los Angeles, where she produced the first critically acclaimed reality television special “3,000 miles, 21 days, 10 cents” for Fox Television. Moving to the Bay Area and becoming a mother to daughter Erin, changed the course of her life. In 1995, Shils created the successful Diary Project (diaryproject.com), one of the very first on-line forums for teenagers to discuss their lives, as well as an accompanying newspaper component and Emmy Award-winning television series called “Life in Progress” on Oxygen TV series. As well she produced a stage version of the DP, the script was created with entries from the website. She founded and ran the annual student art show “Celebrate Arts” for 10 years. Shils’ environmental work began at the California Coastal Commission, where she has been a consultant since 1996, focusing on public education programs and the annual California Coastal Cleanup Day.

Erin Schrode, Co-Founder, Teens Turning Green / College Student, New York University
Erin Schrode is a young ecoRenaissance woman. As the “face of the new green generation,” the co-founder and spokeswoman of Turning Green promotes global sustainability, youth leadership, environmental education, and conscious lifestyle choices. After working in disaster response in Haiti, she founded and launched The Schoolbag, a youth education project to provide tools and materials for students in need, as well as initiate active citizenry and environmental stewardship. A “sustainability prodigy” and eco expert, Erin has been featured in the NY Times, Vanity Fair, SF Chronicle, NY Post, Seventeen Magazine, Teen Vogue, National Geographic, ABC, NBC, BBC, CNN, FOX, MTV, E!, AOL, GOOD, Slate, and other multimedia outlets. The “juggernaut in the non profit and green world” speaks frequently, serves on panels, hosts events and videos, and writes columns for The Huffington Post, elephant journal, ecofabulous, and Eco Age, as well as her own blog. An award-winning ecopreneur, Erin is US Ambassador to One Young World, spokeswoman for top organic brands, and, as The White House said, “a dynamic, passionate and ambitious young woman committed to creating big change everywhere she goes.” She is in her third year as a DEANS Scholar at New York University – studying abroad in South America, after terms in the Middle East, West Africa, and Europe. Having visited over fifty countries, Erin has developed a keen global perspective and hopes to inspire her peers to take action and make the world a more sustainable and just place for future generations.

Heidi Locke Simon, Partner, Bain & Company (Board Chair)
Heidi Locke Simon is a Partner of Bain & Company, a globalstrategy consulting firm.  She is a leader of the firm’s performance improvement capability area and manages Bain’s marketing and client development efforts on the West Coast. Prior to joining Bain in 1993, Heidi worked in investment banking for Goldman, Sachs & Company and spent time in brand management with Colgate-Palmolive Company. Heidi earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Politics and Economics with highest honors from Middlebury College, including course work at the University of Paris.