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JUDGES

Darrel has more than 20 years experience in engineering, manufacturing, enterprise software, and joint venture development in the diverse fields of commercial nuclear power, semiconductor wafer fabrication, personal computers/electronics and, at Cisco, networking technologies.

 

At Cisco, Darrel leads Cisco's environmental strategy and initiatives, including those related to circular economy, connected conservation, energy/greenhouse gas emissions, and employee engagement. He is also responsible for reporting on Cisco's environmental efforts in Cisco's annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, responding to customer and stakeholder sustainability-related inquiries, and managing strategic relationships with key environment advocacy organizations.  Darrel has managed Cisco's corporate environment program since its inception.

Darrel Stickler

Global Environmental Lead, Corporate Affairs, Cisco

Dr. Raj Buch

Director, Sustainability Practice, Arizona State University

Lori Osterback

Senior Director,

Supply Chain Operations, Cisco

Dan O'Neill

CEO, DJT Enterprises

Dan O’Neill is CEO of DJT Enterprises, which provides sustainability consulting services to a wide variety of stakeholders in the commercial, government, NGO, and academic sectors. Previously, he created and led the Global Sustainability Solutions Services (GS3) for the Global Institute of Sustainability. In this role, he connected the sustainability needs of stakeholders to the knowledge and delivery capabilities of ASU and its global network of partners through the delivery of real, practical, effective sustainability solutions. He led GS3's partnership with the City of Phoenix Reimagine Phoenix program. The partnership, called RISN (the Resource Innovation and Solutions Network) helps Phoenix move toward a Circular Economy through research, education and practice. The RISN relationship includes one of the first-ever Circular Economy incubators.

 

In prior roles with ASU, Dan was Lecturer and Program Director for the Technological Entrepreneurship and Management (TEM) program in the College of Technology & Innovation on the Polytechnic Campus. Dan's role includes growing the TEM program, as well as developing and teaching a variety of technology development, innovation and entrepreneurship courses.  Dan worked for ASU in the Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development as the Director of Venture Acceleration where he helped faculty, student, alumni and community entrepreneurs create and grow their ventures.  For OKED, Dan also helped create and grow the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative. 

 

Prior to ASU, Dan co-founded and ran Hologix, an enterprise software company backed by $25 million of venture capital. Dan is Past President of the Board of Trustees of Childsplay, Arizona's professional theatre for young audiences, and is a member of the boards of Arizona MultiBank and Navajo FlexCrete Building Systems.  His research focus is applying sustainability frameworks to innovation and entrepreneurship, with a concentration on innovation and entrepreneurship in a developing world context.

Judges are listed below in alphabetical order. 
John Trujillo

Consultant and former Public Works Director for the City of Phoenix

John Trujillo recently retired as the City of Phoenix Public Works Director in April 2017. During his tenure, he was responsible for the fourth largest city department in Phoenix with more than 1,000 employees in seven divisions and a gross operating budget of $250 million. He was instrumental in the rise of Phoenix as one of the world’s most sustainable cities by collaborating with other public agencies, businesses, institutions and nonprofits. He helped reinvent the city’s waste collection and recycling programs to streamline pickup, dramatically increase resident participation and move the city toward zero-waste.

 

In order to meet these goals, John provided the vision and leadership that led to the development of Reimagine Phoenix, a circular economy initiative to create economic value from city waste. Through the initiative, the city offered new solid waste services, increased education and community outreach, while also creating public/private partnerships that diverted waste, fostered economic development, encouraged entrepreneurship and sparked innovation. As a result, Trujillo expanded the Phoenix Public Works Department beyond its role as an excellent service provider to a viable job creator and driver of sustainable economic growth for the city.

John is internationally recognized for his leadership in sustainability and Circular Economy. In 2015, John was selected as one of the Top Ten Public Works Leaders of the Year by the American Public Works Association and in 2017 he received the Gabe Zimmerman Public Service Award from  the Center for the Future of Arizona.

Lori is an insatiably curious Senior Director of Supply Chain Operations at Cisco. A Silicon Valley veteran, Lori started her career in electronic distribution sales and then worked her way through almost every supply chain discipline. She currently serves as the Chief of Staff and head of the Executive Operations team, managing the strategic alignment across leadership, the budget planning process, communications and stakeholder management, and workforce strategy.

 

Lori’s years in the business anchor her current passion of workforce enablement where she is deeply invested in empowerment and educating the people who make supply chains run in the digital era. In addition to being a mentor to many across Cisco, Lori is deeply invested in the next generation. Lori currently sits on the board of two educational institutions that focus on Supply Chain. First, she sits on the Arizona State University Supply Chain Executive Consortium where industry leaders mentor university students and advise on university curriculum development. Second, she sits on the Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce Board, a Supply Chain high school in Harlem, where she has been able to mentor students and connect Cisco’s STEM resources with the school.  

 

Lori seeks inspiration for her work from the people she meets, the books she reads, and the quotes she collects. She holds degrees from Lasell College, Boston, MA and the University of Dijon, France.

Abbey is a Sustainability Manager on Cisco’s Supply Chain Sustainability team, which leads regulatory compliance, sustainability, and risk management for Cisco’s worldwide supply chain. Abbey is responsible for reducing the carbon footprint of Cisco’s supply chain through engagement with suppliers, industry groups, regulators, and internal stakeholders involved in product and manufacturing process design. The team has set a goal of reducing 1 million metric tonnes of CO2e from Cisco’s 100% outsourced supply chain by 2020. She has also recently taken up the role of Program Manager for Cisco’s Circular Economy program, which aims to minimize “take, make, waste” consumption and create new forms of value for Cisco and the company’s broader ecosystem of suppliers, partners, and customers.

 

Ms. Burns holds an M.E. in Sustainable Engineering and a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her previous experience includes life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting of products at Xerox, Inc. in Rochester, NY. She currently lives in San Rafael, CA and enjoys fashion, fitness, and Irish music & culture.

Abbey Burns

Sustainability Manager,

Supply Chain, Cisco

As a Services Delivery Manager on Cisco’s Emerging Technology & Innovation team, Pam leads a Collaboration Technology Adoption practice. Her team is comprised of a diverse group of business strategists and change management practitioners focused on building business use cases and implementing new adoption and change management service delivery models developed and created to drive our customer’s desired outcomes. Pam’s passion lies in creating compelling new services and developing strategies to scale in an agile, continuously innovative environment.

 

Pam earned a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Phoenix and is certified in Project Management (PMP), Scrum (CSPO), and Prosci Change Management. In addition, Pam is actively engaged as a volunteer serving as Arizona Co-Chair for Connected Women, a global community committed to attracting, developing, retaining and celebrating talented women as part of a competitive and diverse workforce.

Raj drives ASU’s efforts to provide solutions to the complex sustainability challenges facing the developing world by linking ASU’s world-class researchers to international development funding agencies, and by fostering partnerships with NGOs, the public and private sectors, and foundations. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University. His Ph.D. research was focused on institutional energy systems, taking a participatory approach to strategically and systematically developing sustainable energy systems. During his engineering and business development career, he developed renewable and waste gas distributed energy solutions at Ingersoll Rand, delivering financial and energy efficiency value for clients. He is also collaborating with local partners to develop circular economy solutions and teaches an introductory class in ethical circular economy. 

Raj Buch
Abbey Burns
Dan O'Neill
Lori Osterback
Darrel Stickler
John Trujillo
Pam Tucker

Services Delivery Manager, Emerging Technology & Innovation, 

Cisco

Pam Tucker
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