Sustainable Business Board
- Rich Lechner
- VP, Energy & Environment
- IBM
Rich Lechner was named vice president, Energy & Environment in September 2008. In this role, he leads IBM’s efforts in helping clients address the issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability. He is responsible for defining strategy and managing the broad portfolio of capabilities and offerings that leverage IBM’s technology innovation, deep industry insight, and business process strategy.
Mr. Lechner has a strong track record for driving key cross IBM initiatives that deliver value to clients of all sizes.. Previously, he was vice president for Enterprise Systems addressing IBM’s large enterprise customer base and market opportunity by bringing to market a unified set of systems, software and services designed to optimize large-scale IT infrastructures. He has held a number of other senior leadership positions at IBM across the hardware, software, and services organizations including: IT Optimization, Storage Systems, Mainframes, Software Strategy, and Systems Management. Mr. Lechner spent ten years as a programmer for IBM and began his career as a micro-code programmer in the Financial Services Industry.
- Nick Milne-Home
- COO & President
- 1E
Nick joined 1E in July 2004 and in January 2008, he became President of 1E Inc, 1E’s North America subsidiary, with responsibility for executing 1E’s growth strategy in North America.
Working in unison with the CEO, Nick is responsible for driving 1E’s business in North America. Nick has taken 1E Inc from inception to an organization of 35 people and is responsible for sales, marketing and technical delivery of 1E’s solutions in North America. North America is 1E’s most important market and accounts for over 60% of group sales. 1E Inc is headquartered in New York City.
Prior to his appointment as President 1E Inc, Nick was COO of 1E Ltd where he was responsible for the day-to-day management of the company. In his 3 years as COO, Nick oversaw a rapid growth in the company and its transformation from a niche UK services business to a worldwide software company. Under his watch, 1E grew from 30 to 100 people and revenues and profits increased by over 300%. At the same time, the customer base more than tripled, and the number of software licenses increased from 2m to 8m.
Nick is passionate about reducing wasted energy and resources in IT. He has successfully translated the CEO’s vision and leadership in green IT into commercial plans, and helped establish 1E as the market leader in PC power management. Nick was awarded the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 Best Use of Technology award in 2006 for tripling the company’s customer base and driving adoption of Nomad EnterpriseTM and NightWatchman® in particular.
- Michael Valletta
- Director, Sustainability and Technology Centers
- Microsoft
Michael Valletta is the Technical Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in New York City. He has been with Microsoft for over 12 years in various roles ranging from software architect to his current leadership role.
Michael has over 15 years experience in the industry and as part of his role, he was asked to develop, engineer, and manage the Sustainable IT initiative for the Microsoft Technology Centers across the 16 facilities worldwide. He also is a member of the Environmental Sustainability team at Microsoft headquarters assisting with collateral creation, strategy and messaging. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and resides in Westchester County New York.
- Kathrin Winkler
- VP, Sustainability
- EMC Corporation
Kathrin is charged with providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of EMC’s strategy for environmental and social sustainability. She founded and sponsors the company’s Engineering Green Team and its Design for Environment program, which are driving leadership designs in environmental stewardship and energy efficiency throughout EMC’s product portfolio.
Kathrin spends much of her time working with her peers in consortia and coalitions such as The Green Grid, the Storage Networking Industry Association, and the World Resources Institute. Kathrin has led EMC’s engagements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and European Union Code of Conduct, and is a frequent speaker and panelist in conferences on Sustainability and Green IT.
In her previous role as Senior Director of Product Operations for EMC's Storage Platforms Operations group, Kathrin managed the organization responsible for leading development of EMC’s hardware platform strategy, for material management throughout the engineering organization, and for technical publication services for the Enterprise Storage Division. In her prior position, she led the NAS Product Management team in transforming the organization’s requirements management and governance processes.
Kathrin joined EMC in 2003, and past positions include Vice President, Technical Marketing in a Web services security startup, Principal Consultant/Analyst specializing in enterprise management systems and service level architectures at Renaissance Worldwide, and Consultant Software Engineer in Network Systems Engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation.
executive council strategic partners
