Lorinda R. Rowledge PhD, Co-founder of EKOS International, has provided strategic consulting and implementation methodologies and support to management teams of Fortune 50-500 companies including Boeing, CPC, Nortel, SmithKline Beecham, Telus, US West and Weyerhaeuser. She has led global benchmarking studies and developed models and methodologies for world-class excellence in Business-Driven Sustainability, Value Stream Management, Total Quality, Customer Loyalty, New Product Development, Business Process ReDesign, Lean Production, Design for Environment, and Urban and Regional Sustainability. Dr Rowledge's current work focuses on Sustainable Value Creation, Innovation and Knowledge Creation, Social Sustainability, and Enterprise Agility. She holds a PhD, specialising in Organisational and Community Psychology, from the University of Oregon. Russell S. Barton PhD is Co-founder of EKOS International. Since 1982, Dr Barton has been a leading consultant to the senior management teams at many of North America's most well-known companies, helping them understand best practices worldwide, design comprehensive strategies, and execute successful multi-year transformations. Currently, his primary consulting is assisting vanguard managers in designing and implementing strategies that combine world-class management technology and strategic sustainability. He has led 12 in-depth Executive Study Missions, benchmarking Total Quality Management in Japan and Strategic Sustainability in Europe, and has shared his breakthrough perspectives with hundreds of audiences throughout North America, Europe and Japan. He holds a PhD in organisational psychology from the University of Oregon. Kevin S. Brady is a Director of Five Winds International. He has been active in environmental work for the past ten years, primarily at the business and environment interface. Mr Brady has worked in areas such as product-focused environmental policy, life-cycle assessment, eco-efficiency indicators, sustainable consumption and production, state-of-environment reporting, packaging and pollution prevention. He is currently Canada's Head of Delegation to the International Organisation for Standardization's (ISO) sub-committee on Life Cycle Assessment and he also represents Canada on ISO's Climate Technology Task Force. Mr Brady provided technical support to Canada's National Round Table on Environment and Economy in their recent work on eco-efficiency indicators. He holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from York University in Toronto. Cynthia L. Figge, the third co-founder of EKOS International, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Over the past 20 years, Ms Figge has been a leading new venture and technology executive in the US, most recently as an officer responsible for the pioneering effort at broadband wireless data broadcasting for McCaw Cellular (now AT&T Wireless). James A. Fava, Konrad Saur and Steven B. Young are Directors of Five Winds International. Dr Fava has 25 years' experience integrating product sustainability into organisations' strategic planning processes and practices. Dr Fava co-chairs the design for environment ad hoc group under the International Organisation for Standardization and chairs the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) LCA Advisory Group. Dr Young is an international expert in evaluating and improving the performance of product systems. He serves as an expert to ISO 14000 standards committees, and chairs the LCA committee of the Canadian Standards Association. He has a PhD in materials and environmental engineering from the University of Toronto. Dr Saur, an international expert in decision-making, environmental analysis and product engineering, has worked with a wide variety of clients including Ford, Daimler-Benz, Alcoa, Thyssen, Dow, DuPont, BASF, Motorola, Siemens, Magna, ABB, Bosch, LG Electronics and German Rail. He holds a PhD in decision theory from the University of Stuttgart.