Staff
Michael Marx, Executive Director, Corporate Ethics International and Business Ethics Network, received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught Persuasion in the Communication Arts school and Organizational Behavior in the business school. He was the president of Selection Sciences, Inc. a San Francisco based management consulting firm for 10 years. His clients included Hewlett-Packard, Memorex, Fireman's Fund, Transamerica, Pacific Bell, American Express, Riggs Bank, and other Fortune 1000 companies.
Michael was a Board member of the Rainforest Action Network. He designed and then directed the International Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign for the Rainforest Action Network for four years. Michael then became the executive director of the Coastal Rainforest Coalition (CRC), to coordinate campaign efforts of five organizations (Greenpeace International, Rainforest Action Network, American Lands Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club) engaged in the Great Bear Rainforest Campaign. At the successful conclusion of the campaign, the coalition dissolved and he transformed CRC into ForestEthics, of which he was the executive director until 2003.
Michael founded Corporate Ethics International in 2003 and its first project, the Business Ethics Network (BEN) now comprised of over 150 corporate campaign organizations. He wrote the white paper for and directed the Big Box Campaign which targeted Walmart and helped motivate that company to become a leading company for environmental change. He founded the Strategic Corporate Initiative (SCI) to develop a 20 year blue print for reducing the power of corporations in our society. Several of the recommended strategies are now underway through other organizations. In 2007 he was asked to begin the process of designing an international tar sands oil campaign and is now working closely with nearly a 100 organizations in the US, Canada, and Europe that are part of the network to stop the expansion of the most environmentally destructive energy project on earth.
Anne Pernick, Director, Business Ethics Network. Anne received her masters in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a freelance reporter for several years, doing much of her reporting on health, science, and the environment for outlets including KQED in San Francisco and Oregon Public Broadcasting. In 2003 she began working at the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. She was the Field Organizer for three counties, working on election campaigns for pro-environment candidates for state and local office in Oregon, as well as lobbying and holding elected officials accountable on environmental issues.
Kenny Bruno is Campaign Director at Corporate Ethics International, with a focus on the effort to stop the reckless expansion of the Canadian tar sands industry. Kenny has been an integral part of the environmental movement in the US and internationally for over 20 years, working in the area of toxic waste and chemical policy, oil, and envionmental rights. He has worked for Greenpeace, CorpWatch, EarthRights International, Environmental Health Fund and Oil Change, and has been a consultant to other environmental and labor groups. Kenny has traveled to over a dozen countries to document environmental and public health conditions relating to oil and toxic chemicals, including India, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Haiti, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and Pakistan. In addition to documentation, writing, organizing and strategic advocacy, he has extensive experience lobbying internationally, at the UN and other intergovernmental forums. He was part of the team that achieved a ban on waste trade under the Basel Convention.
Kenny is the co-author of two books, "Greenwash: The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism" and "EarthSummit.biz: The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development." His articles have appeared in Multinational Monitor, Change.org, The Ecologist, Sierra Magazine, The Nation, and many other publications. He is also the co-founder of two Schools for Human Rights and the Environment, one in Ecuador and one in Peru.
CEI Team:
Eloise Brown brings over 15 years of experience to her role as Executive Assistant. Eloise (rhymes with "Joyce") has served in administrative and public relations roles for various healthcare and technology organizations, including Sutter Health, Blue Shield of California and Sybase, Inc. Prior to joining Corporate Ethics, Eloise served as Executive Assistant for Sutter Regional Medical Foundation, where she was responsible for the overall administrative management of the office of the CEO, including coordinating and tracking the schedules, activities, and project responsibilities of the CEO, CFO and medical group President. She also provided support to the Foundation's Board of Trustees and to the medical group Board. Eloise lists taking care of her human and the canine families as her favorite activity. But in her non-existent spare time, she also enjoys needlework, music, volunteering and flower arranging.
Heather Lehman is a Research Librarian who has worked on educational and social justice projects for over 15 years. She is interested in resources for interdisciplinary collaboration, technologies for small groups, and community driven local-first initiatives. Heather is also an avid literacy advocate as she is a firm believer in informed decision making as the root of democracy. Heather is a technology consultant and maintains the CEI/BEN website. She is also the administrator for BEN's Corporate Campaign University learning management system and is a BENmember liaison. When she is not learning how to leverage benefits from digital tools she is advocating for local farms and human-scale economies.
