Greg Sebasky
Keynote Panelist
Senior Vice President and
CEO of Global Customer Services
Philips Healthcare
Greg Sebasky is Senior Vice President and CEO of Global Customer Services for Philips Healthcare. Prior to accepting this role, he was President of MedQuist, Inc., a public company 70% owned by Philips Electronics. In his current position, Mr. Sebasky is responsible for the growth and profit of Healthcare’s Customer Services business globally. He is based in Andover, Massachusetts.
With more than twenty-three years of experience in healthcare at Hewlett Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Philips, Sebasky has been in a variety of senior general management and financial roles. Greg graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's of business administration degree. He also holds a master's of business administration degree from the Harvard Business School.
He is a member of the Harvard Healthcare Forum and participates on a number of philanthropic boards in his local community.
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Leslie A. Collins
Keynote Panelist
Global Operations, REACH Program Manager,
Social Environmental Responsibility
Hewlett-Packard
Leslie Collins is responsible for managing HP’s global REACH program specializing in the development of business processes company-wide. This team also provides strategic program leadership for HP’s efforts to restrict potentially hazardous substances, track the presence of designated substances of concern in HP products, and notify or register with authorities the chemical substances HP is shipping into certain jurisdictions. Leslie joined HP in 1997 with previous environmental leadership roles in product end-of-life recycling and re-use strategies.
Leslie sits on the USGBC Northern Colorado branch board and is located in Fort Collins, CO. She received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics/Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
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Rick Rommel
Keynote Panelist
Vice President, Transformational Technology
Best Buy
Rick Rommel is the vice president of transformational technology for Best Buy Co., Inc., a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services. In this work, Rommel will build internal and external partnerships to help the company accelerate time to market of new growth opportunities and challenge current business model conventions.
Rommel is known for his ability to incubate and grow business initiatives. Most recently at Best Buy, he led the company’s private label business and playing a key role in defining and building out the business in the U.S., Canada and China. Before that, he was vice president/general manager for Best Buy’s digital imaging business. In this position, he was responsible for the rapid growth of Best Buy’s digital camera business and introduced advanced photo services to the consumer.
Prior to Best Buy, Rommel was director of retail digital systems for Eastman Kodak. In this position, he oversaw Kodak’s global strategy for the company’s retail kiosk and photofinishing solution businesses. Previous to Kodak, he worked for North Communications as vice president of operations and senior vice president of sales and marketing, where he managed the design, development and operation of kiosk and internet solutions. No stranger to innovation and problem-solving, Rommel also worked as a rocket scientist for the Hughes Space and Communication Company for ten years where he developed ground segment software in addition to developing satellite controls and satellite modeling.
A native of southern California, Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in computer science from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
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Helen Howes
Keynote Panelist
Vice President, Corporate Environment, Health & Safety
Exelon Corporation
Helen Howes is responsible for governance and oversight of the environment and safety function across the company. In this function, she is responsible for environment and safety compliance, environmental auditing, development of corporate environment policy and strategy, as well a programs on climate change, internal energy efficiency and recycling, and external stakeholder outreach. Howes joined Exelon Corporation as vice president, environment, health and safety (EH&S) in July 2003. Howes has 25 years experience in environmental management, environmental strategy/policy development, environmental planning and sustainable development work.
Howes sits on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Environment Council and the Board of Trustees for the Illinois Nature Conservancy. She is also a member of the PA Governor's Energy Advisory Board and the Advisory Council of the Women’s Council on Energy & the Environment.
Howes received her master’s degree in environmental studies from York University, Canada in 1977, and a Bachelor of Science in aquatic biology from Queens University, Canada in 1975.
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Pamela J. Gordon
Conference and Keynote Chair
President, Technology Forecasters Inc.
Lead Consultant, TFI Environment
President and Founder, Ms. Pamela J. Gordon leads a growing strategic consulting firm serving some of the world's best-known electronics companies in best-practice outsourcing and supply-chain methods. Before founding Technology Forecasters Inc., in 1987, Ms. Gordon was a senior analyst at Gnostic Concepts, Inc., an electronics industry market-research firm. She wrote the book Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment, published October 2001 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Ms. Gordon is a Certified Management Consultant by the Institute of Management Consultants, and was Chair of the IMC's Northern California chapter. A prolific author, Ms. Gordon has penned hundreds of articles for trade and business journals. Ms. Gordon is also quoted in more than 50 journals and newspapers and is a popular guest lecturer. She is a Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society graduate from San Jose State University.
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