Lindsay James is Director of Strategic Sustainability for InterfaceFLOR in Chicago, Ill. Mikhail Davis is Manager of Strategic Sustainability for InterfaceFLOR in San Francisco, Calif. InterfaceFLOR is the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet, and has promised to eliminate its negative impact on the environment by 2020.
Lindsay and her team are responsible for strategically leveraging and expanding Interface's thought leadership in sustainability. She is passionate about the potential to harness our economic system to improve our natural systems and has become one of Interface's internal experts on biomimicry through her participation in the Biomimicry Professional Certificate Program. She aspires to integrate the deep principles of biomimicry and resilience into Interface's organizational design -- and ultimately demonstrate how biomimicry can allow business to become sustainable and regenerative.
Lindsay earned an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, where she first met Ray Anderson. Lindsay's previous professional experience includes economic consulting, commercial real estate acquisitions, and environmental economics research with RTI International.
Mikhail is responsible for strategically leveraging and expanding InterfaceFLOR's thought leadership in sustainability with a focus on the US Pacific and Southwest Regions. He has over 14 years of experience as a strategic advisor, analyst, designer, and manager for sustainability programs in the non-profit and for-profit sectors. His favorite sustainability challenges to tackle include: unlikely stakeholder alliances, greener chemicals and materials, and closed loop systems.
His previous work includes three years as personal manager to environmental icon David Brower (an original member of Interface's "Eco Dream Team" in the late 90s) and five years with Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting building sustainable business strategies for Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Waste Management, Bunge and Staples. He holds a B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
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