The following is a list of the WSBC Advisors:
Pam Barker, Environmental Health and Product Safety Executive Director, Appleton Paper
John Fojut, VP of Corporate Sustainability, Kohl’s Department Stores
John Fojut joined Kohl’s Department Stores in 1981. John has held leadership positions in Store Management, Logistics, Transportation, Facilities and Sustainability. Currently, John is responsible for leading corporate sustainability strategy for Kohl’s. In his tenure in sustainability, his achievements include-over 135 activated solar power arrays, over 300 USGBC LEED certified stores and buildings, over 750 ENERGY STAR labeled stores, 100% green power usage goal as well as Kohl’s goal to achieve net zero emissions. Through John’s leadership, Kohl’s has received numerous environmental awards including- ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year and EPA Green Power Partner of the Year.
Lisa Geason-Bauer, President, Evolution Marketing
Lisa Geason-Bauer is President of Evolution Marketing, a green marketing, design and environmental communication firm. She has presented talks on: green marketing, environmental communication, grass roots marketing and how to establish accepted “green credentials.” In addition to managing Evolution Marketing, Ms. Geason-Bauer has actively volunteered her time with a variety of community organizations. Ms. Geason-Bauer served as President of Greener Oconomowoc from 2009-2011 and founded the Oconomowoc Winter Farmers’ Market. Ms. Geason-Bauer was the PR chair for the Oconomowoc Community Built Playground – Imagination Station Project in 2008 and 2009. In 2012 Ms. Geason-Bauer was appointed the Waukesha – Ozaukee- Washington (WOW) County Workforce Development Board of Directors.
LeeAnn Glover, Real Estate and Planning Director, American Family Insurance
LeeAnn is currently the Real Estate and Planning Director for American Family Insurance. She is responsible for all aspects of real estate, design, construction and moves corporate-wide. Her responsibilities also include development of The American Center office park as well as divisional planning, project management and process improvement. As co-lead of the Workplace Sustainability program she has had the opportunity to advance the concepts and projects related to environmental sustainability since 2008 and partner with others around social and economic sustainability on a national level. LeeAnn has as BS-Chemical Engineering from UW-Madison, Masters of Science from Cardinal Stritch and a Masters Certificate in Sustainability Leadership from Edgewood College. She lives in McFarland with her husband Bob and their three children.
Kevin Grodzki, President, Mercury Marine
Kevin Grodzki is President of Mercury Global Sales & Marketing. He has been with Mercury since 2005. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Brunswick’s Life Fitness Division. Kevin spent the first 22 years of his career with E.I. DuPont DeNemours. At DuPont, he held several senior management positions in the company’s chemical, electronics, medical and printing and publishing divisions in 11 different locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia. These businesses focused on the development, manufacture, sales and support of high-tech equipment for medical and electronic imaging applications. Kevin earned his BS in accounting from St. Francis University and an MBA from the University of Delaware.
Russ Klisch, President, Lakefront Brewery
Russ provides the vision and directs the operations of Lakefront Brewery, founded in the Riverwest Neighborhood of Milwaukee in 1987. Under his leadership, the company has grown from a 60 barrel-a-year operation to 33,369 in 2012. After graduating with a Chemistry degree from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Russ started working as a mechanical engineer with Johnson Controls’ Battery Division. While working at Johnson Controls, Russ and his brother Jim turned a home brewing project into a business. In 1995, Klisch left Johnson Controls to devote his entire efforts to the brewery operations. By 1998, the brewery had outgrown the old bakery building they were in and moved to the current historic building located on Commerce Street on the Milwaukee River. Lakefront is the first organically certified brewery in the United States, brewed the first government approved gluten free beer in the United States, and brewed the first beer (Local Acre) made with malt and hops 100% grown in the State of Wisconsin.
Shane Lauterbach, President & CEO, Lauterbach Group
Theresa Lehman, Director of Sustainable Services, Miron Construction
Theresa provides sustainable leadership to employees and clients of Miron Construction. Over her career, Theresa has been a team member on over 75 LEED projects. Theresa has been a member of the US Green Building Council Faculty™ since 2006. and was selected to be on the development team of the original LEED®AP – Existing Buildings exam. She also volunteers as a congressional advocate to represent the construction industry, briefing legislators on the economic benefits of high performing buildings. Most recently, she was selected as the co-chair for USGBC’s 2013 Establish Common Ground Around Green Schools national advocacy campaign. In Wisconsin, Theresa is a member of Wisconsin Green Building Alliance’s (WGBA’s) Green Schools Committee and chairs the WGBA Advocacy Committee. She was appointed to the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (WEEB), the advisory board of the Fox Valley Technical College’s (FVTC’s) Construction Management program, the Town of Menasha’s Sustainability Committee, and is an advisor to UW Stout’s Construction Management program. Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management from Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Paul Oswald, President, Environmental Systems Inc
Paul Oswald is president of Environmental Systems, Inc. (ESI). Paul has over 30 years of experience in building automation, system integration and energy management. His experience includes global product strategy and development, business and channel development, service and contracting. He has authored numerous articles and presented at national and international conferences on control system architectures and open communication standards. He has served on several industry committees for open communication protocols and standards development.
Randy Peterson, Vice President, Land’s End
Randy is currently the Senior Director of Engineering, Corporate Services and Sustainability at Land’s End Inc. He has been with Land’s End for fifteen years and has lead a group of responsible for corporate wide facilities (planning, design, construction & project management), process/systems engineering, administrative services and enterprise wide sustainability. Randy currently serves on the Executive Board of Directors for the Clean Lakes Alliance and has led Land’s End in their journey to become a Green Master level company for the third straight year. Randy possesses a B.S. from the College of Engineering, Arizona State University, an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Illinois and a professional certification from Georgia Institute of Technology in Supply Chain and Logistics.
Jeff Neubauer, Chairman & CEO, Kranz, Inc
Jeff Neubauer is the 4th generation of his family to serve as the President of Kranz, Inc., a wholesale distributor of sanitary paper products, cleaning supplies, and industrial packaging. The late Gaylord Nelson, former Wisconsin Governor, U.S. Senator and the founder of Earth Day said this of Jeff Neubauer in 1993: “Jeff understands how to balance economic considerations with environmental concerns. He is uniquely qualified to bridge the historical differences between the business community and environmentalists.” Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a MBA from the University of Chicago. He leads by the Native American Proverb, “We do not inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.”
Jessy Servi, Sustainability Manager, Outpost Natural Foods
Jessy Servi is Outpost Natural Food’s Sustainability Manager. She is a graduate of the U of MN – Twin Cities with a BS in Interior Design. Following college, she taught English as a Foreign Language in Chile. She brokered this experience into travels through South America and Southeast Asia. In Thailand she was introduced to permaculture, where she learned first-hand about living sustainably. When she returned to the states, she taught at the Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California before moving to Indiana to open a healing arts center and organic CSA farm, now called Living Roots Ecovillage. She left Indiana to move back to Milwaukee to help with her family’s business (Rawson Contractors, Inc.). She is currently earning her an MBA with an emphasis on sustainable business practices from Alverno College. She is also involved in developing sustainable urban agriculture leaders in Milwaukee.
