Photography by Barbara Kyne and others
Board of Directors
Frank Teng
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Chair
Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability
Jones Lang LaSalle at Yahoo!
Jose Iglesias
Sustainable Silicon Valley Secretary
Vice President, Education and Enablement Services
Symantec Services Group (SSG)
Symantec Corporation
Carl Hekkert
Sustainable Silicon Valley Treasurer
Controller, Strategic Investments
SVB Financial Group
Andrew “Drew” Clark
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Director of Strategy, IBM Venture Capital Group
Drew is a top strategist for many of IBM’s key business imperatives including Energy & Environment (Cleantech) and Cloud Computing. A serial “intrapreneur", Drew has led a range of internal startup initiatives, including a key role in formation of IBM's Internet Division. He has helped lead several of IBM's most innovative development initiatives – including creation of IBM’s Internet unit, Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing units. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Western Carolina University in 1978 and has completed coursework toward a PhD in Theoretical Plasma Physics at the University of Texas Austin.
Mike Mielke
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Senior Director, Environmental Programs & Policy, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Mike moved to Silicon Valley in 2008, after living in Washington DC for over 13 years. Mike’s life's work involves promoting stronger and more sustainable businesses and communities. He has held jobs in the non-profit, government, and private sectors, including posts with a number of consulting firms, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Estuary Program. His direct experience encompasses assignments in the developed and developing world, where his work requires close collaboration with business, non-profits, local and national governments, and bi- and multi-lateral donor organizations. Prior to joining SVLG, Mike was the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Washington, a non-partisan not-for-profit dedicated to working with companies and local governments to advance the principles of corporate social responsibility. Mike holds a Master's degree in Public Policy, with a specialization in Ecological Economics, and a B.S. in Environmental Science. Mike recently was named to the Cambridge Who's Who. He is also on the Advisory Board for Green at Work Magazine.
Chris Schwarz
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Associate
Canyon Snow, LLC.
Rosemary Kamei
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Principal, Kamei Consulting Group
Rosemary's business focuses on water policy, non-profit development and communications.
For 17 years, Rosemary served as one of 7 board members responsible for water policy development and management oversight of the Santa Clara Valley Water District. As previous VP of Development and Senior Manager at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, Rosemary was responsible for the leadership and management of the fund development department in 7 regions in California and Northern Nevada. She has experience as past a Media Specialist for the U.S Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. She also had managed and performed a full range of management functions for the family owned horticulture business. Rosemary has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an M.U.P in Urban and Regional Planning from San Jose State University.
Jamie McLeod
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Planner, Santa Clara Water District
As a policy maker and planner, Jamie works to promote the sustainable use of water and energy. She co-founded the Santa Clara County Green Building Coalition, and helped develop regional policy for phasing out single-use carryout bags and polystyrene for take-out food containers. Her experience includes environmental analysis and design of mitigation programs, organizational effectiveness and capacity building, community dispute mediation, reconstruction of schools in Bosnia and Kosovo, and assisting refugees attain self-sufficiency.
She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MRP in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, and completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at Harvard University.
Heyward Robinson, Ph.D.
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Senior Scientist, SRI
Heyward's work focuses on developing novel optical and electronic materials for emerging applications in optics, renewable energy, and information processing. In 2006, Heyward was elected to the Menlo Park City Council. He served as Menlo Park’s Vice Mayor in 2008 and as Mayor in 2009. In 2007, he co-founded Menlo Park’s Green Ribbon Citizen’s Committee (GRCC). Heyward was also on the Board of Directors of the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (serving as Board Chair in 2009 and 2010), the Dumbarton Rail Policy Committee and the San Mateo County Congestion Management and Environmental Quality Committee.
Heyward and his wife Joanna Mountain were presented Menlo Park’s 2002 Environmental Quality Award for their “outstanding efforts to conserve energy and water and to reduce pollution and waste” as they remodeled their Menlo Park home. Heyward holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford.
Andrew Barnes
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Founder & Managing Director
National NNN Investment Group, Palo Alto
Andrew Barnes is the Founder of Asia Cleantech Partners. He has ten years of experience with corporate real estate and facilities, energy efficiency initiatives, and utility cost recovery programs as the Managing Director of National NNN Investment Group and the Founder of Greenworks Utility Billing.
Prior to this he spent ten years in Tokyo and Hong Kong in the wireless and telecom sectors.
Andrew holds a Masters of Commerce from Waseda University in Tokyo and a B.A. from Penn State University. He has worked at the United Nations and has completed economics study at the Universitat zu Koln in Germany.
Ray Martin
Sustainable Silicon Valley Board Member
Ray is a product developer who enjoys driving new product development programs to successful completion. Ray is Vice President of Technology for Daewon, and in this role he evaluates new green technologies and he develops high-efficiency LED lighting products.
Ray cofounded Power Knot, an energy efficiency products company, worked ar Articmaster, Asyst Technologies, and for 14 years in Intel's Technology Development organization in technical and managerial roles.
Ray holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering and certificate of energy engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a masters of science degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University. He is named inventor on ten US patents, has published fifteen technical articles, is a trained mediator, and was adjunct professor at Santa Clara University teaching a course in new product development with an emphasis on rapid time to market.
SSV Board Emeritus/ Emerita
Margaret Bruce
SSV Board Chair, Emeritus
Director, Center for Climate Action
Jim Crowley
SSV Board Chair, Emeritus
Engineering Unit Manager - Utility Support Programs
Santa Clara Valley Water District
David Kaneda
Principal
Integrated Design Associates (IDeAs)
Bruce Paton
SSV Board Chair, Emeritus
Chair, MBA Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Peter Melhus
Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
Julia Miller
Former Mayor, City of Sunnyvale
Former Board Member Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)
Scott Green
City of San Jose
Jennifer Shepherd
Principal, Canyon Snow
Jennifer Smith Grubb
Jennifer Smith Grubb Consulting
SSV Legal Counsel
Brad Rock
General Counsel
DLA Piper
SSV Advisory Council
Bonnie Nixon
Executive Director, The Sustainability Consortium
Jack Broadbent
Executive Officer/Air Pollution Control Officer
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Jeff Byron
Commissioner
California Energy Commission
Ralph Cavanagh
Senior Attorney
Natural Resources Defense Council
Jim Davis
Executive Director, Sustainability Energy & Climate Impact Solutions
SAP
Carl Guardino
CEO
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Winston Hickox
Partner
California Strategies LLC
Jerry Hill
Assemblymember
19th District, State of California
Paul Holland
General Partner, Head of Cleantech Practice
Foundation Capital
Art Jensen
General Manager
Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency
Bruce Klafter
Senior Director, Environmental Health and Safety
Applied Materials, Inc.
Liz Kniss
Supervisor, Board Chair
County of Santa Clara
Waidy Lee
Environmental Activist and EV Advocate
Linda J. LeZotte
Director, Santa Clara Valley Water District Board
Attorney, Law Office of Linda J. LeZotte
Julia Miller
Former Mayor, City of Sunnyvale
Former Board Member Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD)
Nancy Noe
Senior Manager, Govt. Affairs
Alza Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson Company
Robert Parkhurst
Climate Protection and Analysis Manager, Climate Smart
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Wendy Pulling
Environmental Affairs Director
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Keith Smith
Sustainability Manager, retired
California Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Robert Stephens
United Nations Environmental Program Secretariat
Multi-State Working Group
Dr. James Sweeney
Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
Professor, Management Science and Engineering
Stan Williams
VP Project Development
Poseidon Resources