Between her manufacturing experience as a Global Head of Sustainability, co-leading and supporting the creation of third-party certification schemas for products and projects, and leading a non-profit and Parallel, it might be more helpful to list what Annie doesn’t do. As a former D1 soccer player, she believes deeply in the power of the team and isn’t afraid of a little friendly competition.

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Loves: USWNT, Coolest Aunting
Doesn’t Love: Black Pepper

With a background in physics, sustainable engineering, and third-party auditing, Rebecca has a wide range of expertise to offer when it comes to sustainability. Largely focused on the technical side of things—Rebecca says she would rather calculate operational carbon than do anything “creative” (but ironically she tends to have amazing creative ideas). She is driven by setting and seeing tangible change.

Loves: Running, dogs

Doesn’t Love: Grilled Cheese

Victoria is a sustainability strategist combining her expertise in sustainable design and engineering with experience scaling hypergrowth startups to help organizations embed sustainability into decision-making and operations. She’s passionate about helping business leaders connect their sustainability actions to strategic value, making positive-impact choices a no-brainer for business.

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Loves: Travel

Doesn't Love: Lost Luggage

Ken is the financial maestro orchestrating Parallel Sustainability's fiscal symphony. As CFO, he ensures our green initiatives are backed by solid financial strategies, balancing technical accounting with timely performance analytics and back-office administration. With Ken’s stewardship, success in offering best-in-class sustainability services is not just a vision—it's a perpetually realized and financially supported achievement that we never take for granted.

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Loves: Family, Friends, Golf, Skiing
Doesn’t Love: Bureaucracy

Colleen is the organizational powerhouse who keeps Parallel Sustainability running like a well-oiled, eco-friendly machine. As COO, she blends strategic vision with operational excellence to ensure our green goals are met with precision and flair. With her at the helm, sustainability isn't just a mission — it's a well-executed plan.

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Loves: Hiking desert trails, vintage cookbooks
Doesn’t Love: Single-use plastics

Taylor is a multidisciplinary creative leader and strategist who brings a sharp eye for design, a deep commitment to sustainability, and a talent for translating complex ideas into powerful brand stories. As Director of Marketing and Creative Strategy across SMS Collaborative and its affiliated brands, Taylor supports all facets of brand identity, content development, and strategic communications for a suite of companies advancing sustainable transformation across industries.

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Loves: Cats, Popcorn
Doesn’t Love: Cilantro

Meet Luke, once a diligent manufacturing waste auditor, now he gets to bring his dynamic approach towards transforming the world of unseen building materials – an area often overlooked, yet pivotal for environmental change. He specializes in sustainability program development, training and education, market communication, and any hobby you can think of. 

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Loves: Tinkering + Motorcycles 

Doesn't Love: Sour Beer 

Sofía supports client projects across Parallel through organization, coordination, and data management — helping turn complex sustainability frameworks into clear, actionable insights. With a background in campus sustainability and a knack for Excel, she loves finding the story behind the numbers and helping manufacturers visualize their path to impact.

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Loves: Trying new foods
Doesn’t Love: Being cold

Jen is a wordsmith wizard, message wrangler, and strategy sleuth — aka the content strategist who can take your sustainability vision and turn it into powerful, plainspoken magic. If you’ve got a story to tell, she’s already drafting it in her head.

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Loves: Golden retrievers, needlepoint
Doesn’t Love: Loud chewing

Michelle values collaboration and clarity in the verification process and is committed to helping organizations accurately and transparently communicate their sustainability achievements while upholding the integrity and independence that third-party verification depends on. 

Justin has spent 25 years working in testing, inspection, certification, and consulting, with a focus on sustainability for the past 17. Much of that work has been with building product manufacturers, helping them navigate product certification and verification, LCAs, EPDs, greenhouse gas accounting, and sustainability reporting.  He brings a strong technical background to the team, along with a practical understanding of what it takes to turn sustainability goals into tangible outcomes for products and operations. He’s passionate about helping companies implement positive changes and communicate the work in a way that’s clear and credible. 

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Loves: Exercising, hiking, traveling
Doesn’t Love: Pickles, icy roads

Ankur is an MIT-trained LCA strategist and modeler who helps building product manufacturers turn complex product and supply chain data into credible environmental claims. His work spans LCAs, EPDs, embodied carbon and greenhouse gas accounting, with a particular interest in making that work scalable across large product portfolios. A former NREL/DOE research scientist, he also builds the data infrastructure and tools behind the numbers. At the heart of it all is a pretty simple idea: better data leads to better decisions about the materials we use and the buildings we create.

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Loves: Dogs, electric cooktops
Doesn’t Love: People who don’t pick up after their dogs, gas stoves

Linda has spent five decades asking a simple question: How can design better support life? From interiors and A&D sales to leading change in sustainability, materials, health, and resilience, she loves bringing people and ideas together to turn possibility into everyday practice. She is co-author with Barbara Marini of the forthcoming "Design Strategies for Resilient Interior Environments". Linda believes we inherit a path, add something meaningful, and make room for the next generation to go further. Resilience, Made Human.

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Loves: Restorative nature at the edge of Lake Erie
Doesn’t Love: A warming planet for the next generation