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Corporate Responsibility Leadership:
Strategic Innovation for Competitive Advantage
Tony Kingsbury is Executive-In-Residence for the Center for Responsible Business. Tony joined the Center for Responsible Business in September 2007 on secondment from The Dow Chemical Company to launch a new interdisciplinary program at UC Berkeley on sustainable products and innovations. Prior to joining Haas, Tony worked out of Dow’s headquarters in Midland, Michigan where he lead a group responsible for plastics sustainability activities and industry affairs globally. He served as the key link between the $20+ billion plastics half of Dow and the corporate reputation and sustainability efforts. He has worked with value chains in markets ranging from packaging to toys, building products to footwear and consumer electronics to medical devices.
Tony is a recognized expert in global sustainability, environmentally preferred purchasing, plastics and chemical environmental issues and public policy. He is known for using his wide ranging knowledge of the whole supply chain from raw material extraction, to manufacturing, to final use and disposal, to distill complex messages into understandable language.
During his twenty-four year career with Dow, Tony has worked in a variety of roles, including plastics production engineer in Southern California, technical service & product development engineer covering packaging, electronics, medical, toys and consumer goods markets, product marketing manager for consumer electronics, and plastics sustainability, issues & industry affairs manager covering the world.
He represented Dow and held leadership positions on numerous organizations such as: American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division, Environment & Plastics Industry Council of Canada, Ocean Futures Society & The Ocean Conservancy, Wal-Mart’s Packaging Sustainable Value Network, and the Sustainable Packaging Council.
Tony received his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University.
Lloyd Kurtz is the lead portfolio manager for socially responsible investing at Nelson Capital, and co-manages the Wells Fargo Social Sustainability Fund.
Before joining Nelson Capital in 2004, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Quantitative Research at Harris Bretall Sullivan & Smith in San Francisco.
Prior to joining Harris Bretall in 1995, he spent five years as Senior Research Analyst at KLD, a Boston research firm specializing in social investment research. At KLD, he did much of the initial quantitative work in the development of the Domini Social Index.
Lloyd is a Lecturer at the Center for Corporate Responsibility, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, and at Santa Clara University. He maintains the sristudies.org database of quantitative studies of social investing.
He holds a BA from Vassar College and an MBA from Babson College.
Candace M. Taylor, Director - Strategy & Sustainability, Wal-Mart
