Specials
Join Your Colleagues for a Night of Awards at the CRO Summit October 6, 2009 6:30pm-8:30pm at the Union League Club of Chicago.
The October 6, 2009 Awards Dinner at CRO Summit Union League Club Chicago Represents the Most Star-Studded Evening in the Corporate Responsibility Profession. Don’t Miss It.
Our Dinner Keynote: Interface, Inc. Chairman Ray Anderson. 
The story is now legend: the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce, seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision. Fourteen years and a sea change later, Interface, Inc., is nearly 50 percent towards the vision of “Mission Zero,” the journey no one would have imagined for the company or the petroleum-intensive industry of carpet manufacturing which has been forever changed by Anderson’s vision. “If we’re successful, we’ll spend the rest of our days harvesting yester-year’s carpets and other petrochemically derived products, and recycling them into new materials; and converting sunlight into energy; with zero scrap going to the landfill and zero emissions into the ecosystem. And we’ll be doing well … very well … by doing good. That’s the vision.” The once captain of industry has eschewed a luxury car for a Prius and built an off-the-grid home, authored a book chronicling his journey, Mid-Course Correction, and become an unlikely screen hero in the 2004 Canadian documentary, “The Corporation” and in the 2007 film by Leonardo DiCaprio, “The 11th Hour.” He was a master commentator on the Sundance Channel’s series, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” and was named one of TIME magazine’s Heroes of the Environment in 2007, with a similar honor from Elle Magazine that year. Interface has been named to CRO Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List for three years, and in 2006 GlobeScan listed Interface #1 in the world for corporate sustainability.
Awards Dinner Tickets.
Tickets to the CEO of the Year Awards Dinner are limited to 150, first-come, first-served, at $250 each for non-CROA Members ($2500/table of 10) and $125 each for CROA Members ($1250/table of 10). Please contact Vince Albergato at VAlbergato@CrossingMedia.com or Adam Bleifeld at adam.bleifeld@sharedxpertise.org to get yours.
The Awards.
We will announce each of the Awards in all 8 categories at the dinner. 2009 nominees are as follows (see the Summer, 2009 issue of CRO Magazine, or online at www.thecro.com, for full profile of each nominee):
Large Market (public companies with $1 billion+ revenues)
2008 Winner: Paul Otellini CEO Intel Corp.
2009 Nominees:
- John Hess CEO Hess
- Sam Palmisano CEO IBM
- Ken Powell CEO General Mills
Mid-Market (public companies with $100 million-$999 million revenues)
2008 Winner: Marc Benioff CEO Salesforce.com
2009 Nominees:
- Daniel Hendrix CEO Interface Inc.
- Tom Werner CEO SunPower Inc.
- Lawrence Blanford CEO Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Small Market: (public companies with <$100 million in revenues)
2008 Winner: Neil Eckhart CEO Climate Exchange PLC
2009 Nominees:
- William Saxelby CEO Landauer Inc.
- James Herbert CEO Neogen
- Neil Eckhart CEO Climate Exchange PLC
Private Companies
2008 Winner: New category for 2009
2009 Nominees:
- Scott Lang CEO Silver Spring Networks
- Ian Davis Managing Director McKinsey & Co.
- Al Gore Chairman Generation Investment Management & Partner Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers
Non Profit/NGO
2008 Winner: Charles Moore Executive Director Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
2009 Nominees:
- Mindy Lubber CEO Ceres
- Paul Dickinson CEO Carbon Disclosure Project
- Tensie Whelan President Rainforest Alliance
Government/Regulatory
2008 Winner: Richard Daley Mayor Chicago
2009 Nominees:
- Sheila Bair Chairwoman Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Lisa Jackson Administrator United States Environmental Protection Agency
- Richard Daley Mayor Chicago
Corporate Foundation (CECP member or must be endowed at $10 million annual level in cash or in-kind)
2008 Winner: Stanley Litow President IBM International Foundation
2009 Nominees:
- Stanley Litow President IBM International Foundation & Vice President Corporate Citizenship
- Megan Smith Executive Director Google.org & Vice President New Business Development Google.com
- Catherine Babington President Abbott Fund
Social Entrepreneur (leveraged non-profit, hybrid non-profit or social business)
2008 Winner: Jeffrey Hollender President & Chief Inspired Protagonist Seventh Generation
2009 Nominees:
- Jeffrey Skoll Founder Skoll Foundation
- John Mackey CEO Whole Foods
- Michael Eckhart President American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)