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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.

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.