Tiffany Apczynski is vice president of public policy and social impact at Zendesk, a customer support software company founded in Denmark, with its global headquarters in San Francisco. In this role, she drafted the City of San Francisco’s first-ever Community Benefits Agreement, a controversial piece of policy borne out of legislation tied to pre-IPO tech companies. Other policy work includes serving on San Francisco’s Workforce Investment Board from 2012-2016, founding the Mid-Market Business Association in 2014, and sitting on the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s Tech Council since 2014. She is a passionate supporter of the arts and currently serves as the vice president of the board of directors for the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. 

Raheem Cash joined Lockheed Martin in 2017 as the senior manager for corporate sustainability. He is responsible for executing the corporation’s Sustainability Management Plan, leading Lockheed’s Enterprise Energy and Chemical Stewardship programs, enhancing the understanding of sustainability concepts across the corporation, and identifying opportunities to maximize the business value of sustainability innovations. Cash is a veteran sustainability professional with 25 years of experience developing and implementing business-focused sustainability strategies for a variety of organizations.  Cash’s prior experience includes serving as director of environment, health, and safety for the U.S. General Services Administration and 13 years as an environmental management consultant to clients in the real estate, defense, postal services, and transportation sectors.  

Jason Rahlan is the director of social impact and philanthropy at Chobani. In this role, he oversees philanthropic investments and grants for the company. He manages the organization’s nonprofit and public sector partnerships on issue- and policy-related initiatives, advocacy campaigns, and natural disaster response efforts. In this work, he partners with senior internal leaders to define goals and priorities and seeks to drive meaningful change at the local, state, and national level through an effective use of the company’s voice, profits, and people. He also co-develops internal wellness initiatives that establish policies of greater inclusion, diversity, and equity for Chobani’s more than 2,000 employees. Prior to Chobani, Rahlan served as communications director for the Human Rights Campaign, as communications director for Ambassador Capricia Marshall at the U.S. Department of State, as press secretary for Congresswoman Jackie Speier, as press aide at the Center for American Progress, and on then-Senator Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Alison leads BSR’s sustainability management practice and oversees the supply chain practice and the Sustainable Futures Lab. She previously led BSR’s energy and extractives practice. She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change.

Previously, Alison was a senior managing director at Control Risks, where she helped companies operate with integrity, particularly in high-risk environments. She has also worked at Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. She has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She speaks and writes regularly on risk and organizational culture. She is a board member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School and the Gabelli Business School.

Alison holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford University.

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