Justin Zeulner - Green Sports Alliance 

Justin Zeulner is a pioneer in sports sustainability. As the Senior Director of Sustainability for the Portland Trail Blazers, Justin developed the Moda Center into the first LEED Gold certified facility in professional sports. Now Justin serves as the Chief Operating Officer and founding board member for the Green Sports Alliance, a collection of sports industry leaders who catalyze sustainable action in sports leagues worldwide.

Amy Jarvis - ZGF

 As a mechanical engineer at ZGF committed to sustainable design, Jarvis works on projects of varying scale from buildings to urban districts, including Nike's World Headquarters expansion and Stanford's new Redwood City campus. Deeply involved in her community, Amy serves as co-chair of the Cascadia Portland Collaborative of the Cascadia Green Building Council, advocating for policies that advance sustainability. Jarvis was a contributing author to the LEED(r) for Healthcare Reference Guide and served as the energy analyst and LEED coordinator for Kaiser Permanente's first LEED-certified hospital project. Recently, Amy was recognized as the 2012 New Face of Engineering by ASHRAE.

David Kenney - Oregon BEST

David Kenney is the President and Executive Director of Oregon BEST, a catalyst organization that supports promising clean technologies, products, and services from an early stage of development through commercialization. Kenney has led the development of programs that assist researchers, inventors, and entrepreneurs in activities that include technology development, proof-of-concept demonstrations, laboratory validations, prototype development, small scale pilot programs, technology trials, and market validation. Kenney spent twelve years at Intel, seven of which he helped build Intel Solution Services, a technical consulting form producing $20 million in revenue across ten counties. He also co-founded and led the Intel Employee Sustainability Network. Kenney has 24 years of business, nonprofit and public sector management experience, including 18 years in technology sectors.

Carrie Hearne - Climate Solutions 

Carrie Hearne serves as the Oregon Business Partnerships Manager for Climate Solutions. Carrie has lived in Portland for over a decade and originally hails from the mountains of West Virginia. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Earlham College in Indiana and sustainability certificates from the University of Oregon and Willamette University. Carrie successfully created and ran the first sustainability program at The Standard, a financial services company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. This program attracted new customers, reduced operating expenses, increased employee engagement. She is a current member of the Climate Action Plan Steering Committee for the City of Portland and Multnomah County and has served on the board of directors for the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) since 2008. She is also on the advisory board for Women in Sustainability and the Environment (WISE).

Franklin Jones - B-Line

The seeds for B-line were planted into Franklin’s life long before he knew it.  A formal genealogy of B-Line began with Franklin’s first “real” job out of school as a bicycle and pedestrian planner in Bend, OR for David Evans and Associates. The concept silently percolated over a thirteen-month, 10K bicycle trip from Japan to Ireland and then had some time to rest as Franklin entered a rewarding career in education as a sixth grade teacher in the SF Bay Area. In 2008, his entrepreneurial and adventurous spirit took over and Franklin departed sunny San Francisco for the greener pastures of Portland, OR. Never short on ideas to enhance the community around him, Franklin combined his interest in seeing how business can be a catalyst for social and environmental change with his love of cycling and founded B-Line.  

Carolynn Duncan - Northwest Social Venture Fund

Carolynn Duncan is the Founding Partner of the Northwest Social Venture Fund and TenX, an impact venture fund and startup accelerator that focuses on reducing suffering in the world through maximizing social & financial returns. Carolynn has assisted businesses raise capital from $10K to $8MM, and has mentored TenX teams in generating more than $30MM in revenues and funding. A popular speaker and thought leader, Carolynn has been featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Sustainable Business Oregon, Oregon Business Magazine, Portland Business Journal, and has spoken, mentored, or judged at events for Keiretsu Forum Impact, TEDx, Elevating Impact, Mercy Corps, Tech4Change, Startup Weekend, The Indus Entrepreneurs, the White House Business Council, Startup America, WebVisions, and IMN Impact Investing Summit. She is passionate about humanitarian work and the intersection of impact capital + scalable social entrepreneurship.

Holly Meyer - NW Natural 

Holly Meyer is the Energy Policy and Sustainability Manager at NW Natural, an independent natural gas utility headquartered in Portland, Oregon. She works to expand the confluence of interests between NW Natural and its third-party energy efficiency provider, influence policy that promotes the cost and carbon advantages of natural gas, and cultivate a culture of corporate sustainability. Holly serves on many corporate and nonprofit advisory groups, including, the Energy Trust of Oregon Conservation Advisory Council and Multnomah County’s Climate Action Plan Steering Committee. Before joining NW Natural, Holly worked as a CPA at Ernst and Young.

Jim Huston

Jim is a tech industry veteran with close to 20 years of experience advising and investing in early stage technology companies around the world. Prior to his role as Managing Director for the Portland Seed Fund, Jim was the Managing Director at Blueprint Ventures, a Bay Area technology growth capital firm and Director of Strategic Investments at Intel Capital. While at Blueprint and Intel Capital, he led investments worth more than $67 Million in 19 companies which have returned more than 2.5 times invested capital. He currently sits on the boards of 4-Tell and Oregon Public Broadcasting.