Our Advisors – Goal17Media

Jerry Greenfield

CO-FOUNDER OF BEN & JERRY’S ICE CREAM AND VICE PRESIDENT OF BEN & JERRY’S FOUNDATION

Jerry Greenfield and his long-time friend and business partner Ben Cohen, are the men behind one of the most talked-about and least conventional success stories in American business. Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., Greenfield has helped to build a store front venture into an ice cream and business marvel by making social responsibility and creative management strengths, rather than weaknesses.

Today a model for American business success, Greenfield and Cohen have been recognized for fostering their company’s commitment to social responsibility by the Council on Economic Priorities and by the U.S. Small Business Administration. They have also received the James Beard Humanitarians of the Year and the Peace Museum’s Community Peacemakers of the Year Awards.

Presently, Greenfield’s official title at the company is Co-Founder. He is involved in promoting the social and environmental initiatives that Ben & Jerry’s undertakes. He is also Vice President of the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation.

Meesha Brown

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PCI MEDIA

Ms. Brown serves as Executive Director of PCI Media Impact, an international NGO that specializes in storytelling and strategic communication to inspire change for a healthier, more sustainable, and just world. Through her work with PCI Media, she has the opportunity to produce award winning education and social and behavior change campaigns, including the #ISurvivedEbola campaign – a multi-media education effort to share life-saving health knowledge and encourage reintegration of survivors during the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

In addition to experience in the international development sector, she has spent considerable time in pk-12 public education including a tenure as Director of Literacy for New York City Public Schools.

Ms. Brown grew up in West Texas, with nine siblings. In all of her work, she aspires to employ a pedagogy of love.

Seth Goldman

CO-FOUNDER OF EAT THE CHANGE, PLNT BURGER, HONEST TEA, AND CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF BEYOND MEAT

Seth Goldman is Co-Founder of Eat the Change®, a planet-friendly snack and drink company that recently launched Just Ice Tea, a line of organic bottled tea to go along with the company’s Cosmic carrot snacks. Seth is also Co-founder of PLNT Burger, Honest Tea, and Chair of the board of Beyond Meat. He has been widely recognized for his entrepreneurial success and impact, including the Washington DC Business Hall of Fame, Partnership for Healthier America’s CEO of the Year, Organic Trade Association’s Organic Social Impact recipient, and EARTHDAY.ORG’s Climate Visionary of the year.

Amy Domini

FOUNDER OF DOMINI IMPACT INVESTMENTS

Amy Domini is the Founder and Chair of Domini Impact Investments (“Domini”), a women-led SEC registered investment adviser that harnesses the power of finance to help create a better world. With an exclusive focus on impact investing, Domini aims to help create positive outcomes for the planet and its people while seeking competitive financial returns. Amy serves as co-Portfolio Manager for the Domini Impact Equity Fund, Domini International Opportunities Fund, and Domini Sustainable Solutions Fund.

Amy has been a leader and innovator in the development of impact investing for over 30 years. Widely regarded as one of the world’s eminent authorities in the field, she was named to Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2005. Barron’s selected Amy as one of the 30 most influential people in the mutual business. In 2009, she was named to Time magazine’s list of 25 “Responsibility Pioneers” who are changing the world. Amy was also acknowledged by the Clinton Global Initiative citation for innovation and finance.

Simon Mainwaring

FOUNDER & CEO, WE FIRST

Simon Mainwaring is the founder and CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy that accelerates growth and impact for purpose-driven brands. He is a member of the Senior Leader Network Advisory Team of Conscious Capitalism LA, the Advisory Board of Sustainable Brands, The Forbes Business Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.

Simon’s book, We First: How brands and consumers use social media to build a better world is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestseller. It was named an Amazon Top Ten Business Book, 800CEORead Top Five Marketing Book, strategy+business named it the Best Business Marketing Book of the Year, and Sustainable Brands listed We First as one of their Top Sustainability Books of the decade. It has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean. Simon also authors of the popular ‘Purpose At Work’ blog in Forbes.

David Skinner

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Led by David Skinner, ShadowCatcher Entertainment has been developing, producing and investing in Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions since 2002. Broadway credits include this season’s The Ferryman, The Cher Show, Ain’t Too Proud, and Moulin Rouge!, as well as Tony-winners Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Memphis, Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, and Gentleman’s Guide. Off-Broadway: Satchmo at the Waldorf, Buyer and Cellar, My Name is Asher Lev, and The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Film: Smoke Signals, winner of 1998 Sundance Film Festival (Executive Producer), Outsourced (Executive Producer). Television: The Hive (Co-Creator).

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George Northcroft

OBAMA APPOINTEE

George has executive experience in business management & operations, economic development and public administration. His prior experience includes his appointment by President Barack Obama in 2010 to serve as the Regional Administrator of GSA Northwest/Arctic Region where he oversaw the management of Federal real estate, acquisition, and information technology in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. He has also held the positions of Director-Business Relations & Economic Development for King County Government, and Director-Treasury & Cash Management for Nordstrom. He serves on the Advisory Board-University of Washington-Bothell; Board-Lenny Wilkens Foundation; Board-Seattle Theatre Group; Advisory Board-University of Washington-Consulting & Business Development Center.

Julie Davitz

FOUNDER & CEO, +MEDIA SOLUTIONS

Julie Davitz is an internationally recognized impact leader. Prior to founding Plus Media Solutions, Inc., she was the Head of Impact Solutions for BNP Paribas/Bank of the West, the 8th largest private bank in the world, where she was responsible for developing the bank’s strategic wealth efforts towards sustainability and impact. She had her own global consulting firm and worked with hundreds of organizations from the US to India to Africa. Her perspective and deep experience with nonprofits, for-profit companies and UHNW philanthropists and investors have led to her being an in-demand speaker and panel participant at major conferences. Julie recognizes the urgency of interest, the rise in viable solutions and the technological delivery mechanisms. Her vision is to connect these three to offer scalable actions in order to address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Sidney Beaumont

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR

Sidney Beaumont has worked in film and television for more than two decades in a variety of roles, including director, showrunner, executive producer, and producer. His work has garnered two Prime Time Emmys, a Peabody, and other industry awards. He directed and produced Paris to Pittsburgh, a feature documentary about climate impacts and solutions being implemented around the US (NatGeo). Previously he produced and was segment director of the feature documentary From the Ashes about coal, climate, and the energy future (NatGeo). Other roles have included consultant for Vulcan Productions, developing a short-form series on climate change, and consultant to create a slate of content for The Solutions Project, an NGO working on the transition to 100% clean energy.

As Executive Producer of Media & Entertainment for RadicalMedia, a global media company based in New York City, he executive produced numerous projects including: What Happened, Miss Simone?, a documentary about legendary artist Nina Simone (Netflix); United States of America v. James J. Bulger about the Boston gangster Whitey Bulger (CNN FiIms); The System with Joe Berlinger, a series about the criminal justice system (Al Jazeera America); Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (HBO); Visionaries, a series featuring artists and creators (OWN); Dean of Invention, a series about the technological frontier (Discovery); and Iconoclasts, the Sundance Channel series. He has also produced, executive produced, and overseen creative development for many short-form, commercial, and digital projects, as well as worked with advertising agencies on short-form and branded content campaigns. Projects include the YouTube Channel THNKR, as well as those for other organizations and brands, including Apple, J. Crew, American Express, Discovery, PBS, Grey Goose, IBM, Boost Up, and NASA.

Ricardo Frazer

PRINCIPAL-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ZAKI ROSE CORPORATION

Ricardo Frazer emigrated from Costa Rica to New York as a child but has spent most of his career in the Pacific Northwest, where he has been described as a pioneer of the music and arts community for decades.

Ricardo has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Theater Group (STG), which operates multiple historic performance venues in Seattle, including the Paramount, the Neptune and the Moore Theaters. These theaters have formed the backbone of the live music and theater scene in Seattle. Ricardo received his start at STG in the custodial department. Over time Ricardo worked his way up within the organization and simultaneously in the Seattle arts community, getting to know every aspect of the business and he was subsequently invited to serve on STG’s Board of Directors.

Ricardo has worked helping to make Seattle one of the top music and arts communities in the country.

Ricardo has served as the Chair of the Seattle Arts Commission, as a Board Director of 4Culture, the cultural funding agency for King County Washington and as a Trustee for WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation), a regional nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to strengthening the financial, organizational, and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West.

Ricardo is also Grammy Award winning Rap artist, Sir Mix-A-Lot’s longtime manager – a relationship that has spanned almost 30 years. You know Mix from iconic rap and hip-hop songs like Baby Got Back, and Posse on Broadway. Ricardo has also worked with The Presidents of The United States of America (PUSA) in a group that featured PUSA and Sir Mix-A-Lot called Subset. In addition to music management, Ricardo is the co-founder of Zaki Rose Media, a full-service creative agency, production and entertainment company. Ricardo has worked in conjunction with Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony Music, Warner Brothers Records, and Rick Rubin’s American Recordings.

Ricardo is a father and an aspiring writer.

Dan Barry

FOUNDER & CEO, PEAK CARBON

Mr. Barry is a leading expert in the clean energy and environmental commodities sector. Since 2018 he is founder of SparkChange a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, serving global institutions and their clients, as well as a partner at Peak Carbon, private equity firm specialised in clean energy and carbon sequestration investments.

From 2012 until 2018, he was Global Commodity Head at British Petroleum (“BP”), where he conceived, implemented and managed the creation of the Global Environmental Products division with offices in Chicago, Houston, Irvine, Calgary, London, Singapore and Shanghai. In 2017, his team was independently benchmarked by management consultancy Oliver Wyman as the leader in their sector and the Energy Risk trade organization named his team ‘Carbon Trading Bench of the Year’. Mr. Barry and his team also became market leaders in the development of forest carbon projects – identifying, sourcing and structuring more than half of all U.S. forest carbon transactions from 2015-2017.

Prior to BP, Mr. Barry worked at the Russian gas major Gazprom, as Global Head of Clean Energy acquiring Carbon Rights from a portfolio of more than 110 clean energy projects from around the world. At Gazprom he supported the development of the Rimba Raya forest conservation project, the first of its kind in Indonesia formally permitted with a conservation license in that country, and the first forest conservation project to be rated as triple gold by the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard.

He began his career at Goldman Sachs in their Equity Research group in London before moving to China to pursue Mandarin language studies at Beijing University and working as Director of International Finance at Arreon Carbon throughout Asia.

Mr. Barry graduated from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University in 2003 with an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (MA 2007), an MPhil in Biological Sciences from Cambridge University in 2004 and an MA in Management Studies from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University in 2005. He has been an elected board member of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) since 2015.

Gay Browne

ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATE, HUMANITARIAN, AND FOUNDER OF GREENOPIA

Gay Browne is an environmental advocate, humanitarian, and is the founder of Greenopia: a comprehensive guide to over 110,000 sustainable, healthful and eco-friendly businesses that was first launched as a print city guide series for Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York and quickly expanded nationwide with the launch of Greenopia.com. Greenopia is based on life cycle analysis principles, tracking impacts from material extraction, manufacturing, packaging, transportation, usage and disposal as opposed to just one supply chain area of a business or product. Gay’s green journey was inspired by her own health challenges. As a former asthma sufferer, she began to search for ways to improve her family’s living environment.

Gay has received numerous awards for her work in the environment; most notable was the Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), presented by Lisa Jackson, for recognition of her outstanding work fighting climate change. Gay also was chosen to speak at the Green Inaugural Ball, welcoming President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to the White House.

Before launching Greenopia, Gay enjoyed a successful 15-year career in advertising and public relations with various publishing companies including American Express Publishing and Times Mirror.

Gay is a trustee for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s environmental organization, Waterkeeper Alliance, and serves on the board for the safe soil movement, Kiss The Ground. She has served for Women for Women, the French Heritage Society, P.S. Arts, St. Andrew’s School in Delaware, and the Los Angeles Women’s Foundation.