diegotamburini

Diego Tamburini identifies manufacturing trends and needs to help define Autodesk’s vision for the industry, which he shares by delivering talks, writing, and engaging with the media and industry analysts. Prior to Autodesk, he held roles at Microsoft, developing the first cloud release of Dynamics ERP for Professional Services, and working with the company’s developer and platform evangelism group. Tamburini also has held engineering positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Product and Systems Lifecycle Management Systems (PSLM) Center, and at SDRC (now Siemens PLM), where he helped customers such as Boeing and Goodrich Aerospace.

Frank Koller is an author and former foreign correspondent who spent decades covering economics for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His book, Spark, examines the corporate addiction to layoffs that fueled much unnecessary unemployment since the Great Recession. The book shares lessons from Lincoln Electric, a highly profitable Fortune 1000 multinational company that maintained global dominance in welding for a century without laying off employees. Spark won praise from the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, economists, and unionists. Koller writes for the Huffington Post, PBS-TV’s Making$ense, and MotleyFool, and he lectures across North America. Photo credit and copyright: Courvette/Ottawa.

Susanhau

At Microsoft, Susan Hauser’s team drives innovative corporate social responsibility programs on issues such as accessibility, privacy, responsible sourcing, and human rights—all in support of the company’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. As a 25-year Microsoft veteran, Hauser has held a number of executive positions, most recently as Corporate Vice President of the Worldwide Enterprise and Partner Group, where she helped Microsoft successfully meet the needs of its global customers. She began her career as a special education teacher in the New York City public schools.

With more than 20 years of sustainable development experience, John Hodges leads BSR’s global infrastructure and financial services practices, advising companies on corporate sustainability strategy, responsible investing and project development, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk management. Before BSR, Hodges was Founder and President of SunOne Solutions, a leading carbon project developer in North and South America. He was a staff member in the World Bank’s sustainable development group, the Vice President for sustainable development’s front office, and served as the infrastructure advisor in the Thailand and Kosovo country offices. He has also held positions in the airline transport industry, with a private infrastructure project developer in Chile, and with an impact investing fund in the Balkans.