Sahil Sahni Sahil Sahni, a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is currently a senior PhD student at MIT. His work involves the use of conducting life cycle assessment to reduce the environmental impacts from material consumption. He has helped improve LCA theory focused on waste management; and has also conducted over 25 product LCA case studies including textiles, furniture, electronics, engines, tires and others. This has helped him contribute 4 publications in the LCA space. He has also worked as a consultant at Quantis International, one of the leading LCA consultancies, where he served the California Department of Conservation, as well as businesses in the oil and gas, and healthcare sector. |
Alex Loijos Alex Loijos is a resident LCA expert and aspiring entrepreneur. In 2007, he co-founded and directed FoodPrint, which merged with CarbonLabels, introducing the first carbon label on consumer goods in North America, and constructing a database of life cycle climate impacts of 100 different foods, which is currently the largest dataset in the “open supply chain” platform Sourcemap.org. He has worked as an environmental consultant at Nike, and built a climate model of California’s industrial sectors while working at the think tank Redefining Progress. To complete his MS in MIT’s Technology and Policy Program, his research focused on life cycle greenhouse gas impacts of concrete pavements, in order to provide cost-effective strategies to reduce their impact at a national scale. He has managed teams to serve clients and ultimately reduce their environmental impact. |
Pracha Chuacharoensiri Pracha Chuacharoensiri has an enthusiastic interest in industrial ecology. Previously, he worked as an application engineer for a trading company representing world-class quality products which serve various upstream and downstream industries in Thailand, after which he made a career change to follow his dream to become an environmental sustainability consultant by coming to study in Sweden, one of the most sustainable countries in the world. To earn his Master of Science in chemical engineering with an emphasis on sustainable development, his focus was on the efficient use of resources and energy including Ecodesign and LCA. Following graduation, he joined LinkCycle as an intern before continuing his work with LinkCycle as a consultant to develop expertise in LCA standards (i.e. ISO 14040/44 and ILCD handbooks) and Product Carbon Footprint standards (e.g. PAS 2050 (2011) and Product GHG Protocol). |
Sandesh Agrawal Sandesh Agrawal is pursuing his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. There he has implemented logic gate circuits and algorithms, and developed mobile applications, and is adept in several languages and technologies, including C++, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. When not coding for LinkCycle, he enjoys solving puzzles and participating in coding competitions such as Google Code Jam and CodeChef. |
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 Tim EnwallChief Information Officer, Tendril Inc Tim has 25 years of high-tech business management experience. As Founder and CIO of Tendril Inc, Tim has overseen the growth of the business from inception and is currently responsible for corporate and customer insight. He is also chair of the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition, and was recently appointed to the Colorado Governor’s Advisory Committee on Venture Capital Investments. Most recently, he was Vice President and Research Area Director at Gartner, Inc. after the company he founded, Solista, was profitably acquired. Prior to Gartner, Tim launched an entrepreneurial career founding two successful technology companies and began his career with almost a decade at Apple. |
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 Randolph KirchainPrincipal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Kirchain conducts research concerning the resource intensity of the materials economies, including the robustness of material recovery infrastructures and instruction of engineers in technology decision making, especially in assessing the economic and environmental consequences of such decisions. To address this, Dr. Kirchain’s research deals with two broad topic areas: 1) the development of methods to model the cost of manufacture, using limited design information and 2) the sustainability of current and emerging materials systems. He has published dozens of papers on LCA and worked with companies like Ford and Walmart. He enthusiastically endorses that “the LinkCycle concept embodies the types of innovations that would make low cost, pervasive LCA a possibility.” |
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 Sean MartinChief Technology Officer, Cambridge Semantics Sean Martin has been on the leading edge of Internet technology innovation since the early nineties. His greatest strength has been the identification and pioneering of next generation software & networking technologies and techniques. Prior to founding Cambridge Semantics he spent fifteen years with IBM Corporation where he was a founder and the technology visionary for the IBM Advanced Internet Technology group. Sean has an astonishing number of Internet “firsts” to his credit. These include inventing and implementing both IBM’s first Web application server and content-manager, WOM, along with its distributed Web application hosting environment, the Womplex, not to mention a number of other important web site scaling technologies. |
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