Stephen Badger serves as Chairman of Mars, Incorporated’s Board of Directors. He was a key investor in Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company, and also served as President. As Global Director of Corporate Affairs, Badger led Mars to be the first company among its food and confectionery peers to eliminate marketing its products to children under 12, a move which has since shaped industry-wide practices. Badger also financed and produced the film Muscle Shoals which premiered at Sundance to a standing ovation in 2013.

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Patrick Temple-West is a journalist at the Financial Times in New York covering ESG and sustainability issues. He has written recently about asset managers, rulemakers in the ESG sector—such as the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board—as well as the sustainable investing deals involving biofuels and recyclable coffee cups. Before joining the Financial Times in July, Temple-West was in Washington, D.C., covering financial regulations and he reported internationally from Brazil, Nigeria, Taiwan, and Turkey. Earlier in his career, he was a correspondent for Reuters.

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Seth Goldman is co-founder & TeaEO emeritus of Honest Tea and executive chair of Beyond Meat.  Honest Tea is the nation’s top selling organic bottled tea, specializing in beverages that are just a tad sweet, organic, and Fair Trade Certified™. In March 2011, Honest Tea was acquired by The Coca-Cola Company, becoming the first organic and Fair Trade brand in the world’s largest beverage distribution system.  Honest Tea and Honest Kids are sold in more than 150,000 stores in the USA and Europe, including McDonald’s, SUBWAY, and Chick-fil-A. Beyond Meat is also rapidly expanding distribution, as the company seeks to expand the availability and accessibility of plant-based protein. Godman graduated from Harvard College (1987) and the Yale School of Management (1995), and he is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

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Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak serves on the Boards of eHealth, Inc, a public company that provides a leading private online health insurance marketplace and services to health insurance exchanges, and SHEEX, Inc., a private company that has transformed the bedding industry by creating bedding made of high-performance athletic fabrics. She retired as the Global Vice-Chair, Public Policy at EY and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Board. Brooke-Marciniak had public policy responsibility for the firm’s operations in over 150 countries and was the global sponsor for EY’s Diversity and Inclusiveness efforts. She is a prominent voice around the world on Diversity and Inclusion, most prominently on LGBT inclusion and women. She has been named 11 times to the Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women list. In 2017, Brooke-Marciniak received the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the top individual honor bestowed by the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and has also been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. During the Clinton administration, she worked in the US Department of the Treasury, where she was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care. She played important roles in the healthcare reform and Superfund reform efforts.

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