Please join GreenBiz, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Hara for a complimentary webcast, “Taking Sustainability to the Bank: Energy Optimization and the Bottom Line.”

This webcast will feature Paul Baier, VP of Sustainability Consulting, Groom Energy, Matt Arnold, Principal, PwC and Michel Gelobter, Chief Green Officer, Hara. Join us for a discussion around how organizations are realizing significant cost savings and value opportunities through comprehensive, strategic energy and sustainability initiatives. Register now for this complimentary webcast that will cover topics including:

  • Why companies are treating energy and resource utilization as a business imperative
  • How organizations are saving money and creating value through transparent, results-oriented sustainability initiatives
  • How to enable a comprehensive, auditable energy and environmental system of record across stakeholders and supply chains
  • Identifying, prioritizing and tracking optimal CAPEx allocation for energy, resource and emissions reductions
Speakers:

Matt Arnold, Principal, PwC

Matt Arnold is a Principal and leader of Sustainable Business Solutions, at PwC in the US. His team helps clients achieve business success from their sustainability strategies and investments. They focus on revenue growth, cost reduction and risk mitigation in industrial, financial, airline, food and consumer product companies. Matt was a co-founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, which helps financial services companies to develop sustainability strategy, manage environmental and social risk and to identify environmentally superior investment opportunities. His clients include commercial and investment banks, insurers, real estate companies, industrial products and development banks. Sustainable Finance was acquired by PwC in December 2008.


Michel Gelobter, Chief Green Officer, Hara

Michel Gelobter is Chief Green Officer at Hara and one of the country’s leading sustainability and climate strategists, having worked for more than 25 years in business, policy, research, and advocacy on energy, environmental, and social policy. Michel is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Cooler, a for-profit social venture whose mission is to connect every consumer purchase to a solution for global warming. Prior to Cooler, Michel was President of Redefining Progress, the think-tank that helped design the world’s most aggressive climate legislation which was signed into California law in August of 2006. Michel also founded and directed the Environmental Policy Program at Columbia University, worked as a Congressional Black Caucus Fellow as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, was Director of Environmental Quality for the City of New York, and served as an Assistant Commissioner for its Department of Environmental Protection. He is also a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ceres.
 
Moderator:

Paul Baier, VP of Sustainability Consulting, Groom Energy

Paul Baier is Vice President of Consulting at Groom Energy Solutions, which designs, engineers and installs renewable and energy efficiency solutions for corporations such as Budweiser, General Electric, Ocean Spray, Raytheon and Thermo Fischer Scientific. His background includes senior executive roles in enterprise software and management consulting firms. Mr. Baier earned a MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Kenyon College.
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