Meet Our Team
Denise is a seasoned financial professional with over 27 years of accounting, finance and operations experience. Denise spent her first 9+ years out of college working for the San Francisco office of the international CPA firm, BDO Seidman where she left as a Senior Audit Manager. During her time with BDO, Denise worked with numerous small to mid-size companies where she managed various audit...
SLM co-founders KoAnn and Scott have known each other for well over half their lifetimes. While each has pursued different paths and logged individual successes, their shared passion for life and for learning about how the world works has always kept them in touch. Sustainable Life Media offers them the wonderful opportunity to apply complimentary skills and experience to an interest they both...
Jonathan is dedicated to helping SLM partners pursue both purpose as well as profit. Prior to joining Sustainable Life Media in 2008, Jonathan was Vice President Membership Development with Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO). Jonathan previously served sales, marketing and business development leadership roles in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America with Cendant Travel Distribution, Jet...
After studying traditional business for several years, Marianne decided to follow her passion for environmental and sustainability issues and moved to California to pursue a degree with a special focus on Sustainability in Business. After finishing up her education with a semester at INCAE Business School in Costa Rica, she joined our team to manage the Sustainable Brands Conference and other...
Sarah joined the SLM team after pursuing a M.S. in Sustainability Management at Columbia University. She is focused on making sustainability easy and wants to empower people to make decisions that protect both society and the planet. Sarah is passionate about corporate social responsibility and has created customized platforms for companies large and small centered around volunteering,...
Mike joined SLM after cultivating a diverse background in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. In college, he spent a summer in Washington, D.C. serving as a Public Affairs Intern for the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, assisting her press office with day-to-day media relations duties.
After graduating from the University of California, Davis with a double major in Political...
Jason's independent practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies, counseling them throughout their lifecycles on strategic business transactions such as formation, debt, and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, and others. Jason also represents venture capital investors in private convertible debt and equity financings. Jason was a partner at Baker and McKenzie...
Jessica is a native of Sacramento, and graduated with a B.A. in Interpersonal & Organizational Communication at the California State University of Long Beach. After earning her degree she spent time traveling across North America in her previous position for International Student Volunteers, and also lived in Seville, Spain, where she worked in the tour and hospitality industry. Although...
Born and raised in Ireland, Patrick joined Sustainable Life Media in January 2012.
With over 10 years’ experience in leading businesses, building professional relationships, and educated with three degrees, Patrick has developed an expertise in his field and a passion for business excellence. His previous experience ranges from energy and sustainability consulting to business...
Sustainable Futurist, Speaker, Facilitator and Journalist, Jim McClelland has a media and events background in magazine publishing and direction of conference and awards programmes.
With a Master’s degree in ‘The Word & the Visual Imagination’, Jim has amassed over 20 years’ experience as publisher, editor and journalist for leading B2B titles, having founded the first dedicated UK...
An accomplished operations professional dedicated to developing competitive advantage through sustainable business strategies, Thomas’ specialties lie in driving operational efficiencies and project management. His experience ranges through a variety of industries including agriculture, renewable energies and online media. Professionally, his passions lies in aligning sustainable business...
A Native of the East Bay, Alex attended the University of Oregon and is currently finishing his B.A. in Environmental Studies and Political Science. After indulging his passions for technology as a tech writer and assembly technician for the robotics manufacturer Asyst Technologies in Silicon Valley, Alex collaborated to build entrepreneurial websites, developing online marketing strategies to...
Ben is a versatile designer with years of experience in graphic, web and industrial design. After graduating in Industrial Design BS from Brunel University (U.K.) Ben began working as a Project Manager for Peterborough Environment City Trust before creating a new, profit generating design services branch for the organization. In 2007 Ben co-founded a sustainable design company and successfully...
Lara Pearson has practiced intellectual property (IP) law exclusively for the past decade. Lara handles trademark and copyright issues including: identification/audits; clearance; registration; transfers; dispute resolution; and litigation.
Lara helped co-found the State Bar of Nevada's Section of Intellectual Property law and is a past President and former CLE Chair of the Section...
Marie is a marketing and brand strategist dedicated to fresh insights, authentic messaging and measureable results in sustainability. Her professional experience spans over 15 years working in the advertising, marketing and design industry in both Chicago and San Francisco, including several years engaged in corporate identity development and brand strategy at Landor Associates. She has...
Jonathan has over 15 years experience in sustainable business leadership, most recently in sustainability-related events management and consulting. He brings to SLM a strong desire to match our company offerings with businesses that will benefit from them, while aiding in the creation of new opportunities and refining them through community feedback and internal dialogue. He strongly believes...
Nikos is an Online Marketing and Social Media Specialist with many years of experience in web marketing and strategy to bring to the Sustainable Life Media team. As the Online Marketing Manager for SLM, Nikos manages email marketing, social media and the website customer funnel strategy.
His passion for utilizing the web for communication brought him to California, where he completed...
Sandy, a senior sustainability communications strategist, gives established businesses, early stage companies and organizations insight on the intersection of brand, communications and purpose. With her clients, Sandy is creating programs that give organizations a way to focus, share, and motivate change in the world – change that values people, respects planetary resources and fosters...
KoAnn is a seasoned business-to-business media executive who’s involvement with the intersection of environmental and human issues in business dates back to the mid-1980s when she launched international conferences on improving log utilization, reducing Waste Paper, and eliminating ozone-layer destroying chemicals (CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons). Since 2003, she has devoted her full attention to...
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, is the author of Green Recovery, a strategic plan for using environmental thinking to survive hard economic times. He is also the co-author of Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works – and what doesn’t – when companies go green. Andrew is a globally recognized expert on green business, appearing regularly in major...
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