North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit

Brian Tippens is Senior Vice President and Chief Social Impact & Sustainability Officer at Cisco. In this role, Brian leads the company’s integrated social impact and sustainability work, overseeing crisis response, accessibility, employee community impact, environmental sustainability, inclusion, and the Cisco Foundation to advance Cisco’s purpose to Power an Inclusive Future for All. He helps drive long-term value for Cisco, its stakeholders, and communities around the world by connecting social impact, resilience, and sustainability across the business.

Brian is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in global social impact and sustainability. He is a World Economic Forum (WEF) Contributor, a proud member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), and has served as a director or advisor to several organizations including Operation HOPE, the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC), Corporate Eco Forum (CEF), the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), the Cisco Foundation Board of Trustees, and the UN Global Compact Network USA, the American chapter of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.

Brian’s career spans more than 30 years of leadership in the IT industry. Prior to joining Cisco, he served as Chief Sustainability Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and President of the HPE Foundation, where he led the company’s sustainability strategy and social impact initiatives. He previously spent five years as HP/HPE’s Chief Diversity Officer, reporting to the Chief People Officer. He was also a member of HPE’s Political Action Committee (PAC) and AI Ethics boards. Prior to joining HP in 2000, Brian spent three years at Intel Corporation providing legal support for the manufacturing and IT organizations.

Brian is a purpose-driven leader committed to advancing opportunity, resilience, and responsible business practices to address the world’s most pressing challenges. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of San Francisco and a Juris Doctor from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Brian and his wife live in Houston and are the parents of three adult children.

Josh Parker joined NVIDIA in 2023 to lead the company’s corporate sustainability program.  Josh studied electrical engineering and spent several years practicing IP law at a large law firm and later for the computer storage company Western Digital.  While at Western Digital, he was asked to lead the company’s ethics and compliance program in Asia and later to build a new corporate sustainability program for the company.

At NVIDIA, Josh is pursuing a data-driven approach to sustainability, believing that accurate and credible data is a prerequisite for effectively managing impacts.  Josh is also deeply persuaded that technology—especially AI—can play a critical and dramatic role in solving world-scale sustainability challenges.

Olivia Jefferson serves as Vice President of Social Impact at Best Buy where she is responsible for developing, executing and enhancing Best Buy’s Social Impact strategy to align company objectives and the external environment. In this role, Olivia also serves as the Executive Director for the Best Buy Foundation, leading giving and ensuring sound governance and fiscal responsibility for the Foundation’s multimillion dollar annual grants programs and employee engagement.

Prior to Best Buy, Olivia was the Vice President of Philanthropic Programs at UnitedHealth Group, leading their largest philanthropic commitment – $100M to diversify the healthcare workforce by providing 10,000 scholarships to underrepresented future and current health professionals. While at UnitedHealth Group, Olivia also led the strategic oversight and execution of the Empowering Health local partnerships and grant program focused on expanding access to care and addressing social determinants of health for people who are uninsured and underserved along with the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation, and employee volunteerism programs. Olivia is driven by the possibility of creating a more equitable society.

Over the past 30 years, Paulette has held various positions in the fields of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Sustainability that has taken her from the field to the boardroom. She joined Johnson & Johnson in 1997 and previously served as Vice President, Global Environmental Health, Safety & Sustainability. She is committed to supporting diverse talent and is proud to serve as the Executive Sponsor of the youth pillar of her company’s Women in STEM²D (WiSTEM²D) initiative as well as the Executive Sponsor of our Global Operations Leadership Development (GOLD) program. She also serves as an Advisory Board member (and previous co-chair) for the Center for Business and Environment at Yale (CBEY). Paulette was honored to be selected to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Impact in 2021 and to be named a Top 100 Woman in Sustainability by Sustainability Magazine in 2022 and 2023.

Sam heads up the global sustainability program at Tesla, ensuring that sustainability is integrated into all aspects of the business and not only through the products. She has been leading global sustainability and climate change initiatives for over 15 years within the UN climate change talks and policy advocacy and directly implementing with large multinational companies. Sam was most recently awarded Futur/io’s  top 100 CSOs in North America, and Sustainability Magazine’s Top 250 Women and Top 10 Women in ESG. She holds an M.A. from Tufts University and B.A. from Boston University.

Jen Huffstetler is the Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President of Sustainable Impact and Compliance at HP. In this role, Jen is responsible for developing and leading the company’s integrated Sustainable Impact strategy to deliver sustainable computing for a sustainable future. She also leads product compliance and global technical regulations. She is a keynote speaker and expert on Sustainable AI and deployment of AI to achieve sustainability goals.

Previously, Jen was the Chief Product Sustainability Officer and Vice President/General Manager of Future Platform Strategy at Intel. Jen brings a diversity of business, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, product development and engineering experience from her 25+ years at Intel spanning chips to software to data center systems.

Jen holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Babson College, F.W. Olin Graduate School in Corporate Entrepreneurship. She is also a certified Executive Leadership Coach from the Hudson Institute, a Korn-Ferry Interpreter, and Birkman Certified. She enjoys spending time with her husband, two adult daughters, and Malinois/Greyhound mix, traveling, Pilates, reading, volleyball, sailing, running, and cycling.

As Colgate-Palmolive’s Chief Sustainability Officer Ann leads Colgate’s Global Sustainability strategy and key initiatives, integrating a strong technical foundation across people, performance and planet into commercial strategic purpose. Ann holds a BA degree in Applied Science, a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master’s of Engineering degree in Manufacturing Systems. Most recently Ann has completed a Certificate of Sustainability from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Currently she is on the Boards of the UNGC Network USA and FLOW Beverages.

April 1, 2023, Dirk Voeste, PhD,  joined Volkswagen Group as its Chief Sustainability Officer. In this function he together with his team is responsible for the development and implementation for the Groups sustainability strategy regenerate+, all ESG-related topics as well as stakeholder relationship.

As a graduated Ph.D. in biology from University Bonn in Germany and M.Phil. from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in England he held various positions in the field of space science, biotechnology, breeding, crop protection and sustainability. For example, as a Vice President Dirk has taken the lead of BASFs corporate sustainability strategy and as a Senior Vice President he was responsible for of regulatory, public affairs and sustainability for BASFs Agriculture Solution Division.

Allyson Anderson Book is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR), an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide.

In this role she oversees Baker Hughes’ net-zero strategy by driving sustainable operations, supporting commercial energy transition solutions for customers, and ensuring market creation of these solutions via stakeholder engagement and policy development.

Before joining Baker Hughes, Allyson served as the executive director of the American Geosciences Institute, and has held several academic, policy and senior government positions, including working for the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and serving as the associate director of strategic engagement of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Allyson is frequently covered by media and globally recognized for her contribution to energy transition and sustainability.  She was recently honored by Hart Energy as an ‘Agent of Change in Energy’ for its 50th anniversary Hall of Fame series honoring industry pioneers; named “Sustainability Leader of the Year” (energy technology) by C-Suite Insider 2024,  and was the only CSO to be listed among “Top 10 Energy Leaders in the Americas” by Energy Digital. Allyson was also among top 50 powerful women – Power 50 – by National Diversity Council, honored at one of the largest diversity conferences in USA. In addition, she has been recognized by Petroleum Economist among Top 10 Women Leading Energy Transition in Sustainability and by Oil & Gas Investor as among 25 Influential Women in Energy.

Scott Collick leads DuPont’s sustainability strategy, driving the company’s commitment to innovation and sustainable solutions. With over two decades of experience in the chemicals and materials industries, Scott has been instrumental in integrating sustainability into DuPont’s core business practices. Under his leadership, the company has advanced initiatives in sustainable manufacturing, circular economy, and reducing environmental impact across its value chain. Scott’s collaborative approach fosters partnerships that create value for both society and business, reinforcing DuPont’s role as a leader in sustainable development.