BC3 Newsletter - Summer 2010

Meet BC3's Newest
Advisory Committee Members

Franky Mo

Senior Manager of Environmental Affairs/Global Responsibility
Gap Inc. (Member Seat)

Franky Mo is the Senior Manager of Environmental Affairs/Global Responsibility for Gap Inc. (Gap) and has over 13 years experience in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. Franky manages Gap's corporate environmental footprint strategy and sustainability efforts and leads supply-chain environmental responsibility program globally. Prior to joining Gap, Franky worked in an international environmental consulting firm, ERM, in Hong Kong .

Franky has a Master's degree in Environmental Management from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from UCLA. He is also Registered Environmental Auditor under the UK 's Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA).

Nancy Shaw

Social Responsibility Manager
Blue Shield of California (Member Seat)

Nancy Shaw is the social responsibility manager at Blue Shield of California, a not-for-profit health plan with 3.4 million members. Nancy's role includes strategy, communications, employee engagement, public policy, and championing and implementing environmental practices. She is most passionate about transforming corporate culture to embrace sustainability.

Nancy has over 15 years experience in sustainable business and philanthropy, including work for Craigslist, the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, HBO, Williams-Somona and BrightSource Energy. She holds an MBA in sustainable management from the Presidio School of Management and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley. Her goal in joining Business Council on Climate Change is to help create an even more powerful coalition of business leaders who are actively addressing climate change.

Stephanie Glazer Stephanie Glazer Cropped

Senior Climate Change Specialist
ARUP (Member Seat)

Stephanie has 14 years of experience as an environmental consultant, managing strategic sustainability projects, supporting cleanup and reuse of Brownfield sites, and advancing climate change mitigation measures, with a focus on carbon accounting and GHG emissions reductions. As an accredited GHG lead verifier in both the voluntary and compliance markets, she has developed and verified GHG emissions inventories for clients in the telecommunications, power and water/wastewater utilities, waste management, retail, and entertainment industries.

Her work includes creating quantification models to evaluate the potential effectiveness of various policy options aimed at prioritizing implementation measures and forecasting likely results. Stephanie is currently drafting a carbon accounting protocol for development projects, which incorporates both the embodied carbon and operating emissions associated with buildings and infrastructure, and evaluates the possible tradeoffs between them to optimize design decisions that support a low-carbon, sustainable development.

Laura Tam

Sustainable Development Policy Director
SPUR (Partner Seat)

Laura Tam is the Sustainable Development Policy Director for SPUR, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. In this role, she directs SPUR's work in five major policy areas: green buildings, water supply, wastewater, energy and climate change. She led SPUR's assessment of 42 options for San Francisco to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, evaluating them by cost and carbon reduction potential, and making recommendations for climate mitigation priorities for the city and region. She recently wrote two white papers on sea level rise in the Bay Area, and is the staff leader of SPUR's task force on climate change adaptation, whose recommendations are forthcoming this year.

Besides serving on BC3's Advisory Committee, Laura serves on the Citizens Advisory Committee of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. She previously worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for the Northern Forest Center, where she wrote the book, At Home in the Northern Forest. She has a Master's degree in environmental management from Yale and a BA in Geography from Dartmouth College.