Catherine Greener’s experience includes Vice President of Environmental Affairs and Sustainability for Xanterra Travel Collection, VP of sustainability consulting at Saatchi & Saatchi S, team leader commercial and industrial team at Rocky Mountain Institute and Director of Quality and Customer Focus for ABB Flexible Automation. She is regularly invited to speak on various sustainability topics including strategy, employee engagement and integrating sustainability into marketing messages. Catherine has significant experience in the implementation of sustainability, lean manufacturing and industrial quality management systems. She has led sustainability and resource efficiency projects for companies and clients, from entrepreneurial start-ups to the industrial facilities of multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies. She combines her sustainability, quality management and lean manufacturing experience with acute problem solving skills and an exceptional ability to uncover process waste. Catherine has given numerous talks, facilitated visioning sessions and conducted training classes in sustainability, continuous quality improvement and other disciplines, developed waste reduction programs and led problem-solving groups for manufacturing strategy.

Major General (ret) Irv Halter is a highly experienced government and private sector leader. He served for over 32 years as an officer and fighter pilot in the United States Air Force including over 14 years overseas in Europe and Asia, as well as combat service in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. In 2009, he became the Vice President and General Manager of the largest division in Computer Sciences Corporation directing support and IT services for the Air Force, NASA and Missile Defense Agency. In 2015, he was chosen by Governor John Hickenlooper to join his cabinet as the Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, working with municipalities and counties to build critical civil infrastructure and affordable housing. As a result of this work, Irv is focusing on addressing the causes and symptoms of rapidly eroding economic sustainability. In addition to The Alliance Center, Irv is on the Board of Directors for the Springs Rescue Mission and Chairs the Board of Directors for Wholly Kicks, a nonprofit homeless outreach effort based in Aurora. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife Judy.

Lynn’s primary career has been in the field of education as a university and high school administrator, teacher, and most recently, Director of Community Outreach for an education nonprofit. She is also an environmental activist, working closely on the issues of preservation with Rainforest Action Network and fracking with Food and Water Watch and other local organizations. As a former professional dancer, she serves on the board of two Boulder-based dance companies. She is the mom of two grown sons with whom she shares a passion for the ocean and surfing in particular. Lynn has extensive experience articulating and promoting the mission and vision of educational organizations and nonprofits. She is recognized leader in development, marketing and program management.

Sonrisa is the sustainability strategist in the Office of Sustainability for the City and County of Denver. She works to establish sustainability as a core business value for the city and engage community partners to instill it as a public value. She also partners with leaders in the community to achieve each of the city’s 2020 Sustainability Goals. A sustainability engineer with over 12 years of experience, Sonrisa brings with her a deep knowledge of energy resources and all facets of sustainable buildings and their impact on the natural and built environment. She has leveraged this experience in the city to assist with the development of the citywide sustainability policy for city assets and operations, updating of the city’s building codes, the implementation of the benchmarking and transparency ordinance for existing commercial buildings, the development and adoption of commercial PACE to fund energy efficiency and renewable energy for commercial buildings and to evaluate the upgrade of city streetlights to LED. Sonrisa is a graduate of Stanford University with a self-designed degree combining energy resources, policy and economics in the School of Engineering. She is also a Denver native, is passionate about the outdoors and traveling and lives with her amazing wife, Cristina.

K.J. McCorry is the founder of Eco-officiency, which offers sustainability consulting services to small and medium businesses. She specializes in sustainability planning, assessments and employee training. She is a contributing author to Simple Path to Sustainability; Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium Sized Businesses released in 2011. She currently serves on the Eco-Cycle and Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center boards. She also serves on the University of Colorado Denver Managing for Sustainability Council and an adjunct faculty member for the University of Colorado Boulder Masters of the Environment program. K.J. has served on multiple nonprofit boards committed to social and environmental responsibility including International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy (CORE), Businesses for Social Responsibility- Colorado Chapter; Past President and founding member of Colorado P3: People, Planet Profit. K.J. is an MBA graduate of the University of Denver, and she received her undergraduate degree from Metropolitan State University. She has certifications in LEED, GHG Accounting and the Global Reporting Initiative. She is also is a LEAD Fellow, an international sustainability leadership program.

Betsy Moszeter is the COO of Green Alpha Advisors, ensuring the firm successfully serves an expanding client base at the highest levels. This means she wears a lot of hats, including that of an active Investment Committee member. Prior to Green Alpha, she was a Managing Member and the SVP of First Affirmative Financial Network. Included in her responsibilities was speaking at conferences and working with many organizations to promote the sustainable, responsible, impact (SRI) investing industry and The SRI Conference. Betsy was the COO and CCO of TAMRO Capital Partners, in Alexandria, VA from 2004 to 2013, growing the business to $2 billion in client assets before relocating to Colorado because of her love of hiking and need for nature. She has served on the Alumni Board of Directors for the Darden School of Business since 2012.

An experienced corporate attorney with a passion for social enterprise and community development, Beth helps mission-driven companies leverage business as a force for good through the design and implementation of market-based strategies that maximize both financial and social returns. She also guides nonprofit organizations of all shapes and sizes in navigating complex tax, governance and structuring matters. Beth is a recognized leader in the social enterprise space, having practiced on the frontier of the evolving movement for more than 10 years. In 2018, she was honored by Denver Business Journal as Who’s Who in Impact Investing. As a Colorado native, Beth’s personal interest in sustainability makes her right at home with The Alliance Center.

Founder of Alliance for Sustainable Colorado in 2004 and full-time volunteer, John has been on the board since inception. He is a board member of Conservation Colorado and the Educational Foundation of America. From 2006 to 2012 John was a member of the Greenprint Council, a citizens’ advisory committee to the Mayor of Denver’s Sustainable Development Initiative.