Please check back on October 1st, 2010 for a full list of judges in the 2011 awards. The judges for the 2010 awards program are listed below:

Andy Savitz - A creative business leader, advisor, and author, Andy Savitz is the author of The Triple Bottom Line: How the Best Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too. Savitz experienced the "triple bottom line" as a lead partner in Pricewaterhouse Cooper's global Sustainability Business Services practice, representing the firm on environmental and sustainability issues, and authored its 2002 Sustainability Survey, the first of its kind in the United States. Now, as a senior consultant at Sustainable Business Strategies, Savitz helps businesses assess, devise, and develop sustainable business practices to become leaders in their industries. Savitz's wide-range of experiences with sustainable practices make him a true expert in guiding businesses to success through environmental policy.

Richard Alderson - Richard Alderson is co-founder of UnLtd India (www.unltdindia.org), an angel investor & incubator for social entrepreneurs in India. He is also the co-founder of Journeys for Change (www.journeysforchange.org), which takes exceptional leaders to learn from the world's most inspiring social entrepreneurs, and Careershifters (www.careershifters.org), which helps people who want to make a career change find what they want to do and make a successful shift. Previously, he worked as a management & technology consultant with IBM, where he was based in London, Amsterdam and Dubai. He has also been a teacher and journalist in Japan, an environmental researcher in Tanzania and a monk's assistant in India.

Christine Arena - Christine is an award-winning author, syndicated blogger and corporate strategist. Her books, "The High-Purpose Company" (Collins, 2007) and "Cause for Success" (New World Library, 2004), as well as her Case in Point blog, separate the strategies and companies that make a positive difference from those that don’t. Christine’s work is published on websites including CSMonitor, Global Post, Fast Company, 3BL Media and APEsphere. Christine is also a contributor to Ethical Corporation magazine and a video journalist for 3BL Media. Through all of her work, Christine’s purpose is to serve as a trust agent for corporate radicals. Now more than ever before, the public needs to understand the importance of investing in, buying from and otherwise supporting corporations that authentically embrace sustainable business models. Christine's writing inspires stakeholder activism and a greater level of transparency among America’s largest corporations.

Michelle Bernhart - Michelle is a CSR/sustainability strategist, advisor, and communicator who founded True Blue Communications LLC in 2008 to help organizations strengthen sustainability and business performance, enhance brand and manage risk through credible, engaging communications. Her background includes 20+ years as an award-winning communications pro leading strategic communications and engagement, establishing sustainability systems, leading sustainability and financial reporting and providing training. Michelle also has been active in promoting diversity, ethics and continual learning. She chairs IABC's Social Responsibility Committee; works on the ASQ Social Responsibility Tech Committee; and contributes to ISO 26000. True Blue is a certified women’s business that supports women- and minority-owned businesses and provides mentoring and internships. The company serves clients in the U.S., Canada and Europe (and is pleased the CSR gap between North America and northern Europe is narrowing)!

Elaine Cohen -Hi there, I am the co-founder-manager of the leading CSR consulting and reporting firm, Beyond Business Ltd. We serve our clients in developing CSR strategy and implementing processes, writing sustainability reports and assuring reports. Our clients are leading multinational and local companies, SME's and non-profits. BeyondBusiness is a GRI stakeholder, an AccountAbility member, we actively support the UN Global Compact, and I am the only IRCA certified Assurance Practitioner in Israel. Through BeyondBusiness, we make a contribution to our community via cash grants to socially-conscious MBA students, mentoring of non-profit organizations and many many other initiatives. My background includes 16 years with MNEs P&G (supply chain executive roles, Europe) and Unilever (VP HR and CSR, Unilever Israel). I write widely on CSR including Expert CSR Report Reviews for CorporateRegister.com.

Andre de Freitas - Prior to his current role as FSC Executive Director, Mr. de Freitas served as FSC Head of Operations and FSC Head of Policy and Standards. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Institute for Forest and Agriculture Management and Certification (Imaflora). He was also responsible for developing the social and environmental policy for Rabobank in Brazil as the Social and Environmental Manager where he worked as regional forest coordinator for forest workers unions in Latin America.

Hannah Doran - Hannah Doran joined Sustainable Business Strategies as a Consultant in 2008. Hannah has worked for the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship to identify sustainability developments and trends, as well as on their Global Benchmarking Initiative, identifying best practices in corporate citizenship. Previously, she worked for an organic beverage start-up company in Melbourne, Australia, and as the Director of School Age Programs at a non-profit in Boston. Hannah holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Melbourne Business School.

Jessica Harris - Jessica is the producer and host of "From Scratch," a public radio show about the entreprneurial life. The show airs weekly on NPR's Sirius and XM channels, NPR Worldwide, and NPR Berlin. "From Scratch" features personal stories of business, social, and cultural pioneers. Jessica has also been a regular contributer to CNNMoney and Fortune Small Busines Magazine. Jessica is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School.

Matt Harris - Matt is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Village Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City and Williamstown, MA. Matt invests primarily in financial services companies and sits on the board of OnDeck Capital, BlueTarp Financial, ISend, Native Energy and Vico Software, among others. Matt is also the President of the Board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Cheryl Heller - Cheryl Heller is CEO of Heller Communication Design in New York City. She has had successful careers in branding, advertising and design, and draws on this unique perspective to help clients embed corporate responsibility into their brands, and create communications that engage stakeholders. In addition to her work for
large corporations, Cheryl works with a group of leading non-profits, including WWF, Audubon New York, International Development Enterprises (IDE, a leading international organization dedicated to poverty elimination), The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, Wildlife Trust and SafeHorizon. She is helping to launch a new NGO called D-Rev: Design for the other 90%, and serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. She helped curate an exhibit for the Cooper Hewitt Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, with the same name. Cheryl sits on the boards of the PopTech conference, which explores the social impact of technology and the future.

Anup Jacob - Anup Jacob is a Partner of Virgin Green Fund and a member of its Investment Committee. Prior to founding VGF with his partners Shai Weiss and Evan Lovell, Anup was an investment professional with TPG and a partner in TPG’s Aqua Fund, which focused on growth capital investments in the water and renewable energy sectors. Anup serves on the Board of Solyndra, a solar company based in California. He previously served on the board of Jain Irrigation Systems. He has also served as a CFO of various portfolio companies and has chaired several audit and strategic committees. Anup started his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York and India in the Global Power and Merchant Banking groups. Anup is involved in several children’s charities and environmental charities in India and the US and is a national judge for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year for Energy and Mining Awards. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.

Chris Jarvis - Chris Jarvis is the co-founder of Realized Worth, located in Toronto, Canada. His expertise is in designing and implementing Employee Volunteer Programs. Over the past 20 years, Chris has worked alongside NPO's across North and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia utilizing a model that elevates volunteerism from a task-oriented activity to a transformative experience. Recently, Chris and his partner Angela, were advisers in the writing of “Mapping Success in Employee Volunteering: The Drivers of Effectiveness for Employee Volunteering and Giving Programs and Fortune 500 Performance”; authored by Bea Boccalandro of Boston College. Chris and Angela also act as expert writers on several websites including, 3BLMedia.com, SocialFinance.ca, and Volunteer Canada’s CorporateVolunteering.ca. Chris is currently collaborating on a book which will be a comprehensive guide to Corporate Social Responsibility for HR managers.

John Katzman - John Katzman is the CEO of 2tor, which works with research universities to create high-quality online degree programs. 2tor’s first partner is the University of Southern California (USC); with its Rossier school of education, they have launched the MAT@USC, the world’s first high-quality, selective online Masters of Arts in Teaching program. Prior to founding 2tor, Katzman founded The Princeton Review, and served as its CEO until 2007. By then, the Review helped over 50% of students applying to US colleges and universities each year find, get into, and pay for school. Further, it worked with hundreds of colleges and K-12 school districts to help them improve educational outcomes and university admissions. Katzman’s innovative ideas on educational reform have made him one of the nation's leading authorities on assessment, K12 choice, and university admissions. He is the co-author of five books on testing and admissions, and a frequent lecturer and panelist.

Cheryl Kiser - Cheryl Yaffe Kiser, Managing Director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship is a leading voice in the U.S. on the role of business in society. For more than 12 years she has played a central role in creating the largest research center of its kind in the U.S. and oversees all strategy, positioning, marketing, media, member relations and communications and fundraising.  For over a decade she has managed the content and delivery of the largest annual conference in the world on corporate citizenship, the International Corporate Citizenship Conference which draws representatives from over one third of the Fortune 500 every year.  Prior to Boston College, Cheryl was the Director of Marketing for WFD, Inc. (formerly Work Family Directions) where she was on the cutting-edge of developing policies and practices that companies adopted to create a work environment that allowed employees to balance their professional obligations with their changing family dynamics. Before WFD she headed up the communications and community relations for the Metropolitan District Commission, which was the largest state agency in Massachusetts.  

Melissa Paschall -Melissa Paschall is a Senior Consultant with Sustainable Business Strategies (www.getsustainable.net), where she helps major corporations and non-profits develop and report on their sustainability strategies. She is also a doctoral student in Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, with a research focus on sustainable agriculture. Melissa teaches on topics such as sustainable design, social and eco-innovation, and climate change policy. She previously worked with the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College to identify key sustainability developments and trends. Melissa has also worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, where she focused on case-writing and curriculum development related to social enterprise. Separately, she has written case studies for the World Bank Institute's CSR Team and for Net Impact case competitions. She holds a Master’s in International Affairs from the Fletcher School and a bachelors in Economics from Princeto

Cliff Prior - Cliff Prior is the Chief Executive of UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs. UnLtd’s mission is to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can transform the world in which they live: we call these people social entrepreneurs. In its first 5 years, UnLtd has supported 7,000 people with cash, coaching and networking, creating the world’s largest group of social entrepreneurs. UnLtd is the creative force behind unltdworld.com the online community for social leaders, and the SHINE UnConference, as well as the groundbreaking Big Boost for young social entrepreneurs. Cliff is also a Healthcare Commissioner, on the Third Sector Advisory Body, Comic Relief’s UK Grants Committee, the Clore Third Sector Leadership Group and the DH Social Enterprise & Third Sector Taskforce. He has set up several organisations such as Strutton Housing for people living with HIV 20 years ago, through to recent work on National Voices.

Kathee Rebernak -Kathee Rebernak is the founder and CEO of Framework:CR, a corporate responsibility strategy and communications firm. She has twenty years of experience as a strategist and communicator. She began her career as an attorney representing federal and private-sector financial institutions in complex commercial litigation and appellate matters; during that time she served as in-house counsel for a bank and owned a commercial litigation practice. For the past decade she has leveraged her analytical skills and business experience in her work as a consultant to multinational companies on strategy and communications. In 2003, she founded Framework:CR, which works with clients to improve and communicate corporate responsibility and financial performance. Kathee is a regular contributor to Ethical Corporation magazine and Sustainable Life Media, an online corporate responsibility publication, and is a member of the Ethical Corporation Editorial Advisory Board.

Marcia Stepanek - Marcia Stepanek is Founding Editor-in-Chief and President, News and Information, of Contribute magazine and Publisher of Cause Global, a group blog about the use of social media in social advocacy and innovation. Previously, she was executive editor and co-founder of CIO Insight Magazine and Web strategies editor at BusinessWeek, as well as the national economics correspondent and special projects writer and editor at Hearst Newspapers' Washington bureau. She also served as Hearst's Asia correspondent based in Tokyo, where she also worked as a writer, producer and reporter for PBS-NHK public television in Tokyo, a contributing reporter for NPR in Asia, and an editor at Kyodo News Service in Tokyo. She also was a business writer and reporter for Knight-Ridder Newspapers in Detroit and Washington. Marcia has won numerous national awards for her work, including a George Polk Award, a National Press Club Award for Washington Correspondence and a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.