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Chris is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who spent the better part of eight MLB seasons with the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. A Southern California native who grew up as a natural environmentalist, Chris is the co-founder of Players for the Planet and helps oversee One Tree Planted’s sports partnerships, including the Play for Trees program.

Massimo Calvelli began serving as ATP Chief Executive Officer in January 2020. The Italian has been a highly respected sports executive in global sales, marketing, operations and product development for the past 20 years. Most recently, Calvelli was employed by Nike where he worked across multiple functions and oversaw all aspects of global tennis sports marketing. During his time at Nike, he led negotiations with many of the sport’s global icons. Previously, Calvelli was the Global Business Director for Wilson Sporting Goods.

For over twenty years Jonathan has dedicated his career to helping advance sustainability and climate action, in and through golf.

A geographer and graduate of the University of St Andrews, he led the environmental team at Scottish Golf before founding GEO in 2006.

He advises some of golf’s leading associations, tours and tournaments including: The R&A; European Tour Group; Ryder Cup; LPGA; Ladies European Tour; and Olympic Golf. Also advocating widely at events and through media; and helping represent golf in the mainstream sustainability movement amongst governments, NGO’s and businesses.

In addition, Jonathan has led the Foundation to become the only body in sport to meet the rigorous ISEAL Alliance ‘Code Compliance’ for sustainability standards, certification and reporting systems, joining peer groups such as Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance, Forest Stewardship Council and Marine Stewardship Council.

Jonathan is a full member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, and a former Board member of the ISEAL Alliance. He lives near Edinburgh, enjoys playing and watching many sports, and spending time in the great outdoors.

Industrial engineer with more than 39 years of experience in marketing and sports marketing, senior management and strategic planning in consumer companies, mass media and sports institutions. Current marketer of the Colombian Olympic Committee and other properties of sports and athletes. manager of Acting Green Forum, Top Athlete Forum, E+V and other activities and events.

Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo, a GreenBiz 30 Under 30 recipient, is determined to make sports and organizations more sustainable. She was appointed as the first Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Director at New York Road Runners (a UNFCCC Sports for Climate Action Signatory), where she develops and implements sustainability strategy for the world’s largest marathon, 50+ annual races, and multiple facilities. Previously, she worked at Kickstarter as the organization’s in-house Environmental Impact Consultant and General Electric in the environmental risk and energy project finance space. Alexandra has an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College and a BS degree in Finance from Fairfield University with minors in Environmental Studies and Spanish. She was a Division I swimmer and enjoys competing in road races and triathlons.

David is an internationally renowned specialist on sustainability in sport and global mega-events. For the last ten years he has been providing strategic and technical support to leading sports, entertainment and event businesses, including the International Olympic Committee, English Premier League, World Rugby, Lawn Tennis Association, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, Formula 1, World Economic Forum, The Economist Group and Smyle.

Previously, he led the award-winning sustainability programme of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, widely recognised as the most sustainable Games in modern times, and which pioneered many of the key processes, methods and standards that have become sustainability best practice in the event sector.

Dale Vince has led a remarkable life. From “enemy of the state” to “green energy tycoon” he has dedicated his life to challenging conventional wisdom in pursuit of a better way to live.

As a traveller Vince was an outlaw, living a decade outside of society, on the road and off the grid in constant tension with the police. After an epiphany in the 90s, he ‘dropped back in’ to build a big windmill on the hill he parked on and from there, went on to start the world’s first green energy company, Ecotricity.

Dale kickstarted the now-global green energy movement using the goals and values he developed on the road to bring green energy into the mainstream. He pioneered the electric car, built the Electric Highway to power them and runs Forest Green Rovers – the word’s first green football club. Created diamonds out of carbon in the sky. Most recently he launched a new range vegan burgers. His whole life has been a strive for change and the result of a questioning mind that doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

He is the UN Ambassador for Climate Change.

Energy, Transport and Food – these are the pillars of his manifesto for a better world and in his first book, Manifesto, Vince explores what must be done to turn the tide on climate change, drawing on his personal experience as a self-professed eco-nut. It’s a manifesto of hope, backed up by solutions from someone with real life experience of disrupting the energy industry and paving the way to a greener planet.

Anne is passionate about sustainability. She has an educational and professional background in creating strategy for and implementing sustainability initiatives in the non-profit, chemical, and energy sectors. Anne’s other big passion is sport. By pursuing her Ph.D. in sport and sustainability at Texas A&M University, she combines her two loves with the goal of helping sport organizations and events make strategic decisions for sustainable development. Anne is part of the Sustainability in Sport Lab at Texas A&M University, Sport Ecology Group, and the German think tank sportainable.

Brian McCullough, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sport Management and the Director of the Center for Sport Management Research and Education at Texas A&M University.

His research focuses on the environmental impacts of sport, organizational strategy and decision making, and stakeholder engagement campaigns.

He has written over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, edited two books, authored one book, and presented his research over 130 times to national and international audiences. In addition, Dr. McCullough assisted in the United Nation’s Sport for Climate Action Framework and is the Director of the Sustainability in Sport Lab at Texas A&M and the Co-Director of the Sport Ecology Group.

After a successful career in sports marketing communications and advertising sales, Lew Blaustein became passionate about the environment and climate change as a patriotic reaction to the 9/11 attacks. He turned that passion into a successful career as a sustainability-focused marketing, communications and business development consultant helping a myriad of businesses and nonprofits build their green brands since 2005.

Blaustein married his passion for sports and the environment with the launch of GreenSportsBlog in 2013. Since then, it has become a must-read for the Green-Sports community. Its average monthly audience of 12,000 includes commissioners, team and league executives, sustainability leaders, eco-athletes and more.

Convinced that the sports world needs to do more to fight climate change, Blaustein launched EcoAthletes in April 2020 with the mission to “inspire and coach athletes to take and lead climate action”.  Since then, the nonprofit has built a global community of climate-active EcoAthletes Champions — as of today, the organization has welcomed 84 Champions, from Olympic gold medalists to NFL and major league baseball players and more. The organization provides the Champions with the tools — Community, Social Media Content, Coaching, Thought Leadership Opportunities and Sponsorship Connections to Climate Active Brands — to grow from “climate curious” to “climate leader”.