Steve Parker (President): Steve is the Director of Facilities for Fort Wayne Community Schools. Fort Wayne Community Schools and the Board of School Trustees are supportive of green measures for our school district. Lakeside Middle School will be the first school to achieve LEED Certification. As a school district, Steve started the Sustainable School Committee. This is a group of 13 folks in the district that mange departments or represents schools. We are working on reducing our waste, increasing our recycling, and reducing our energy consumption. As the second largest school district in the state, with 53 schools and approximately 4,200 employees, we have an obligation to lead as well as educate the community we support.
Tom Carpenter (Vice President): Tom is the Managing Director for Waste Management’s Customer Sustainability Program –Green Squad®. Tom brings over 17 years of business and sustainability experience spanning strategic, operational and technical projects. His systems thinking approach to sustainability helps clients discover new possibilities and uncover the broadest range of opportunities. He has extensive experience developing and leading zero waste solutions within large organizations by focusing on product lifecycle.
Tom graduated from Tri-State University with a BS in Environmental Engineering and holds an Executive MBA from Colorado Technical University.
Maureen O'Donnell (Treasurer): Maureen has been employed with Raytheon’s Information Technology organization for more than 10 years. In her most recent role as Internal Effectiveness Manager, she worked collaboratively with technology strategists across the company to establish a Green Technology strategy for Raytheon. Maureen and the team were recognized by InfoWorld in 2009 with a Green 15 Award.
Maureen also serves on the Board of Three Rivers Co-operative, and is a graduate of Leadership Fort Wayne class of 2008. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from IPFW in 1994 and another in English in 2005. She is now pursuing an MBA from Green Mountain College.
Evan Davis (Secretary): Evan is a librarian in the Business, Science and Technology Department at the Allen County Public Library. Previously, he was a journalist for 25 years, including 13 years as an editorial writer for The Journal Gazette. Many of his editorials were about prevention of child abuse and neglect. As a reporter in southern Illinois, he wrote extensively about reclamation of coal strip mines and about the relationship of high-sulfur coal to acid rain.
He is active in the Democratic Party and has served on the board of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fort Wayne.
Laura Bailey (Immediate Past President): Laura is a graduate of IPFW with a bachelor's degree in Construction Engineering Technology.
She is an estimator at Hagerman Construction Corp. Laura is also a LEED Accredited Professional and has done volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity and The Great Tree Canopy Comeback.
David McDonald is a Tri-State University graduate. David is the Employer Outreach Coordinator at Trine University in Angola. He has been in Industrial maintenance field for over 13 years with a particular interest in industrial electricity. This is David’s first role as a board member and he is enthusiastic about educating others about sustainable living and energy consumption.
David is an active member in several organizations including SHRM, International Lions Club, American Management Association, NACE, and Treasurer for the NICE Expo to name a few.
Ann Beeching has a bachelors degree in Home Economics / Secondary Teaching from the University of Utah and an associates degree in Interior Design from Purdue. She has worked as an interior designer for 25 years and now teaches at IPFW in the Interior Design program as well. Her art has been published in writer Ted Andrews 2009 Animal Peak Calendar. She won best in show for the NEIGBC Christmas Tree in the 08 Festival of Trees at the Embassy. She believes that it is time for her to give back by actively helping to educate people on how to live in harmony with the Earth.
Dan Ernst is partner at Earth Source, Inc. and a registered landscape architect. Dan graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture and an Associate degree in Agriculture from Purdue University in 1990. At Earth Source, Dan is responsible for landscape architectural design and planning, stormwater management and treatment, park and recreation design, fairgrounds site planning, native landscape design, soil bioengineering, ecological restoration, erosion and sedimentation control, and constructed wetland/mitigation design. Dan is also a board member of Friends of the Parks of Allen County and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Candace Imbody is an owner and President of Construction Recycling Solutions. Construction Recycling Solutions is a company originated in Fort Wayne in 2005.
Candace and her partner started CRS with 2 employees and a dump truck. The inspiration came from an EPA report on a 1996 pilot program in Oregon where 90% of construction waste was successfully diverted from the land-fill. Today thousands of tons of construction waste are taken from the waste stream and used beneficially in our community. “Sustainability and pollution prevention are the focus” for the seedling company….”today we are the exception, tomorrow this will be the rule!”
Matt Kubik is a Registered Architect in Indiana and Illinois; NCARB Board Certified. He is a design Partner with Kelty Tappy Kubik Architects. As a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London England as one of the first graduates of the Energy Programme. He also did post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Art, School of Environmental Design, London, England. Matt is also an Associate Professor of Interior Design at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne where he has been teaching principles of energy efficient design and detailing since 1983. His creative professional work utilizes user interactive design processes. Projects have included urban design proposals for, Fort Wayne’s Broadway Corridor, reuse of the Valspar industrial buildings, Ligonier City Hall, and space planning for the IPFW Engineering, Technology and Computer Science Building. He is the winner of two awards for Excellence in Architecture and the 1996 American Institute of Architects Award for Community Service granted by the American Institute of Architects.
Dr. Regina Leffers (Former Board President and Founder) is the Director of the Center for the Built Environment and professor of Construction Engineering Technology at IPFW. She is a founding member and past President of the Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition. Regina was Co-Chair of Mayor Graham Richard’s Green Ribbon Commission for the City of Fort Wayne. The Commission was charged with establishing environmental goals and implementation strategies for Fort Wayne in the areas of air quality and energy conservation. Our current Mayor, Tom Henry, is committed to going forward with this cause. She is the founder of Synergid Commercial, Inc., a commercial construction company specializing in sustainable construction. Her book, Sustainable Construction and Design, is due on bookshelves from Prentice Hall in May, 2009.
Mark Joseph is a Purdue University graduate. He is a principle of MSKTD & Associates, Inc. Architects Engineers Interiors, a business that has embraced sustainable design. He has led Business Development efforts for this firm for 18 years.
Mark also takes an active role in other organizations including GFW Chamber of Commerce, Mad Anthony’s Golf Charity, the Society of Marketing Professional Services, and the Fort Wayne Zoological Society.
