Board
Apollo Alliance Advisory Board of Directors
Chairman
Phil Angelides, President, Riverview Capital Investments
Members
Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
Cathy Calfo, Executive Director of the California Certified Organic Farmers
Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
Kate Gordon, Vice President of Energy Policy, Center for American Progress
Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Michael Peck, Founder, MAPA Incorporated
Carl Pope, Chairman, Sierra Club
Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
Apollo Alliance Members of the BGA Board: Phil Angelides, Robert L. Borosage and Mindy Lubber
Phil Angelides has made his mark in California and the nation as an effective public leader, as a successful businessman, and as a trailblazing environmental innovator. Mr. Angelides is President of Riverview Capital Investments and was Chairman of the Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission, a ten-member bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to investigate the causes of the financial and economic crisis which has gripped the nation. From 1999-2007, he was the California State Treasurer from 1999-2007 and the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 2006. For over two decades, Mr. Angelides has been a leader in the movement for sustainable economic progress. In the 1980’s, he pioneered the planning and building of smart growth communities long before the concepts of sustainability were embraced by the marketplace. Among his ventures was the town of Laguna West which was featured in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America,” and sparked a national dialogue around building more livable, environmentally responsible communities. During his eight years in elected office, Mr. Angelides transformed the State Treasurer’s Office into a force for progress, launching ground breaking policy initiatives. He directed $26 billion in state investments to promote smart growth and create jobs, housing, and opportunities in inner cities, catalyzing a wave of reinvestment in America’s urban centers. He put the weight of California’s $400 billion pension funds behind investment in clean energy and the fight against global warming – seeding the “green tech” investment revolution. And, he mobilized investors across the nation to usher in a new era of corporate social and environmental responsibility. Mr. Angelides has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Inner City Leadership Award from the Initiative for Competitive Inner City; the California League of Conservation Voters’ Environmental Leadership Award; and the Congress for the New Urbanism’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Robert L. Borosage is the President of the Institute for America’s Future. He writes widely on political, economic, and national security issues for publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Nation. Mr. Borosage was the founder and Director of the Campaign for New Priorities, involving over 100 organizations in the call to reinvest in America in the post-Cold War era. He has served as an issues advisor to progressive political campaigns, including those of Senators Carol Moseley-Braun, Barbara Boxer, and Paul Wellstone. In 1988, he was Senior Issues Advisor to the presidential campaign of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson.
Cathy Calfo is the executive director of the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF). Since 1973, CCOF has been a leader in enforcing standards for organic certification and in shaping policies that ensure the reliability and integrity of the organic brand. Based in Santa Cruz, California, CCOF certifies 2,400 organic farmers, processors, retailers, and private labelers. More than 175 businesses and over 100 individuals and families are supporting members of CCOF. Ms. Calfo served as deputy state treasurer between 1999 and 2004, leading strategic initiatives and overseeing the department’s legislative and communications programs. Most recently, she served as the executive director of the national Apollo Alliance, based in San Francisco, working to promote clean energy and good jobs. Ms. Calfo is a founding member of the City of Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of Violence against Women, and has served on the city planning commission and the board of directors of a local homeless shelter for teens. She graduated from University of California Santa Cruz with a Bachelors of Arts degree in American Studies. Ms. Calfo has lived in Santa Cruz since 1975. She has three sons – Kris, Kaj, and Elijah.
Erik S. Emblem is a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico; He worked as a journeyman, foreman and superintendent in the sheet metal trade since the late 1960’s. He worked on and ran many construction projects including major projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratories and many other commercial and industrial construction projects throughout the Southwest United States. Mr. Emblem served as business manager/financial secretary of Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 49 which had jurisdiction in New Mexico and West Texas from 1980 – 1999. The Board of Directors of National Energy Management Institute (NEMI) offered Mr. Emblem the position of executive director in late 1999. He accepted and served in that position until he left in July of 2007 to pursue other interests. As the executive director of NEMI, Mr. Emblem spearheaded and lead many prestigious and visionary programs. One such program is the Testing, Adjusting and Balancing Bureau. TABB the first certification program to synchronize all components of the complex HVAC industry and is now ANSI recognized as a first-rate testing, adjusting and balancing program that assures building owners and managers their HVAC systems meet the design specifications. Through NEMI and a partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Mr. Emblem led a prestigious group from business, academia and labor to acquire a US Department of Energy grant. The grant funded a feasibility study to determine if there was a need for a national center to identify research gaps in energy management and indoor air quality. As a result of that work the United States Congress provided funding for the creation of the National Center for Energy Management and Building Technologies. The NCEMBT operates today as one of the few research centers that brings emerging technologies to the market place. Mr. Emblem founded 3 E International Incorporated a professional consulting firm that performs services for selected clients. 3E provides consulting services to the Cal SMACNA and CAL SMWIA Local Unions providing services in energy management the environment, green sustainable building, codes and standards. Working with the Industry in California Mr. Emblem assisted in setting up a statewide joint labor/management committee focused on energy and environmental policy, The Joint Committee on Energy and Environmental Policy. This group works collaboratively with state boards and commissions to foster positive relationships while providing input on code and standard development. On July 1st of 2010 Mr. Emblem assumed the position of executive administrator of the Western States Council of Sheet Metal Workers, in this position he maintains his responsibilities with the JCEEP as well as working with the other State’s Local Unions in their endeavors to foster positive relationships with their respective governing agencies that affect the energy efficiency and HVAC markets.
Leo W. Gerard is President of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA). The son of a union miner who started working at INCO’s nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ontario at age 18, and inspired by a lifelong commitment to economic and social justice, Mr. Gerard rose through the ranks of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) to be appointed the Union’s seventh international president on February 28, 2001. Under Mr. Gerard, the USWA has heightened its focus on reversing the alarming decline of U.S. manufacturing and the negative impact of it on America’s growing health care crisis. He has worked with equal fervor in developing strategies to inject the rights of workers into trade agreements, investment priorities and corporate governance. Mr. Gerard is the driving force behind the Heartland Labor Capital Funds; a network that is creating conceptual, financial and educational tools for capital strategies that will inject the welfare of workers into investment priorities.
Kate Gordon is the vice president for energy policy at American Progress. Most recently, Ms. Gordon was the co-director of the national Apollo Alliance, where she still serves as senior policy advisor. Ms. Gordon is nationally recognized for her work on the intersection of clean energy and economic development policy. She also has a long history of working on economic justice and labor issues. Before she joined the Apollo Alliance, Ms. Gordon was a senior associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, where she focused on corporate tax policy, progressive federalism, and rural economic development. Prior to that, she served as an employment and consumer rights litigator at Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in Oakland, CA. She is a primary or co-author on most of Apollo’s major reports, including “The New Apollo Program,” “Make it in America: The Apollo Green Manufacturing Action Plan,” “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” and the “New Energy” series. She is also the author of several published articles on contract fairness, federal preemption, mandatory arbitration litigation, and regional economic development. Ms. Gordon earned a J.D. and master’s degree in city planning from the University of California-Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. She is a member of the State Bar of California.
Gerald Hudson has served as Executive Vice President of SEIU since leads the workJune 2004. He of the union’s Long Term Care Division, which represents nearly 500,000 nursing home and home care workers nationwide. Hudson’s outstanding commitment to labor spans decades. Mr. Hudson came to SEIU in 1978 from the Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, N.Y., where he was a member of SEIU Local 144. Elected as executive vice president for the former-District 1199 in 1989, Mr. Hudson spent more than a dozen years supervising 1199 New York’s political action, education, publications, and cultural affairs departments. During his tenure with 1199NY, Mr. Hudson coordinated the merger of the 30,000-member Local 144 into SEIU/1199. He also founded the 1199 School for Social Change – a former alternative school in the Bronx – and served as a trustee of the Local 1199 Training and Upgrading Fund, Home Care Workers Benefit Fund, and Michelson Education Fund. As a long-time champion of environmental justice, Mr. Hudson has served on the board for Redefining Progress, the nation’s leading public policy think tank dedicated to developing innovative public policies that balance economic well-being, environmental preservation and social justice. He participated in the first-ever U.S. labor delegation to the United Nations’ climate change meeting in Bali in 2007.
Mindy Lubber is President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change. Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations, including the National Environmental Law Center, which she founded. Ms. Lubber was the Senior Advisor and Communications Director to former Governor Michael Dukakis, and for a decade, held leadership positions with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), including Chairwoman of the Board of Directors.
Michael A. Peck founded the MAPA Group consultancy in 1994 where he specializes in green economy best practices and jobs-producing economic development. Presently, Mr. Peck serves on the volunteer boards of the Apollo Alliance, Blue-Green Alliance, and Wind Energy Foundation. Michael works closely with the leadership of the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA) to frame green economy economic development opportunities under Michael’s approach of “no energy community left behind.” Working closely with Pennsylvania’s Administration and Legislature on a bipartisan basis during the 2002-2004 timeframe, Mr. Peck was instrumental in bringing the leading global wind turbine manufacturer and developer, Gamesa, to the Commonwealth in 2005 where the company since has invested over $220 million in two factories, one headquarters office, one central administration office, and multiple wind farms, and has created 850 in-state direct good and green jobs, and hundreds of indirect jobs with local Pennsylvania contractors. Gamesa has achieved a number of firsts with Mr. Peck’s direct involvement: the first overseas wind turbine manufacturer to start building in the U.S., the first to sign and embrace an award-winning, progressive relationship with organized Labor (the United Steelworkers Union), the first to transform an abandoned brownfield industrial site into a green energy manufacturing hub, the first to achieve upwards of 65% domestic content, and the first to sign a R&D partnership with a major U.S. defense aerospace & shipbuilding prime contractor (Northrop Grumman) to develop and build next generation off-shore wind turbines “made in the USA”. Mr. Peck is part of a team seeking to replicate the progressive “Gamesa model” in Ohio through the Turning Point Solar project that will place the nation’s largest PV project on reclaimed mine lands in rural Appalachia. Recently, Mr. Peck helped to engineer a union-coop partnership between Mondragon and the USW to create next generation jobs opportunities involving worker empowerment and ownership. Previously, Mr. Peck served as a naval officer on active duty from 1976 –83, winning the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe Leadership award in 1981, and completed his service as a Commander in the Naval Reserves in 1996. Prior to founding MAPA, Mr. Peck also served as defense and economic development assistant to the U.S. Senate Majority Leader (1984-86), as executive assistant to the President of the BDM Corporation (1986-88), and as a senior vice president for corporate business development at SAIC (1988-94).
Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for nearly thirty years. During Mr. Pope’s tenure as Executive Director, Sierra Club added 150,000 new members, growing to 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. In addition to his work with the Sierra Club, Mr. Pope has had a distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership. He has served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. Mr. Pope was also Executive Director of the California League of Conservation Voters and the Political Director of Zero Population Growth.
Joel Rogers co-founded the Apollo Alliance and served as its first chairman. He is professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a longtime government and campaign adviser and democratic activist. In his academic work, Mr. Rogers has written widely on democratic theory, American politics, and public policy, including such books as On Democracy, Right Turn, The Forgotten Majority, and What Workers Want. He is currently working on problems in energy efficiency, government performance, and egalitarianism capitalism. Mr. Rogers is also director of COWS, an applied research center and field laboratory for high road (”triple bottom line” + democracy) competitiveness and government; Center for State Innovation, which promotes high-road policy innovation among elected state executives (governors and others), and the Mayors Innovation Project, which does the same with local elected executive. A contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, Mr. Rogers has received many academic honors and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellowship. Newsweek identified him as among the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.
