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Richard Holme (1936–2008)
Richard Holme had an active career in business and in public life; and in recent years had been at the forefront of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development. He was a main board director of Rio Tinto, and Adviser to BG Group, Standard Chartered Bank and NTL, and a member of the Advisory Board of Liberty Global in Boston and Montrose Associates in London. He was the recipient of special awards for his contributions to both the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the International Chamber of Commerce. He was Chairman of the World Business Awards in 2004. Outside of business, he was Chairman of LEAD International and Chair of the Royal African Society as well as Chancellor of the University of Greenwich. He was also a Trustee of Bennington College in Vermont and a Visiting Professor at the Thunderbird Graduate School of Business in Phoenix, Arizona. He was Chairman of the Select Constitution in Parliament.
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Doug Miller
Doug Miller is a leading pollster and commentator, regularly briefing corporate leaders and government officials in North America, Europe, and Asia on global public opinion and stakeholder views. He has presented GlobeScan findings and their strategic implications at Davos, UN Headquarters, the White House, the World Bank, Oxfam International and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. After starting his career at 3M Company, Mr. Miller worked in both NGOs and government agencies before founding Synergistics, the issues management and social marketing firm, in 1978. In 1987, he founded Environics International, which he re-branded GlobeScan in 2003.
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Lloyd Hetherington
Lloyd Hetherington is a leading business strategist with an extensive background in behavioral research and segmentation analysis, and a frequent speaker at congresses and conferences around the world. Mr. Hetherington has been deeply involved in issues management and strategic market research across the consumer goods and petroleum industries for more than 20 years. At GlobeScan, he focuses on all aspects of multi-nation custom stakeholder and public opinion research projects and advises clients of the implications for both corporate strategy and public policy development. Mr. Hetherington is a member of ESOMAR, the World Association of Research Professionals.
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Steven Kull
Steven Kull is a political psychologist specializing in the study of public and elite attitudes on public policy issues and the Director of the University of Maryland's Program for International Policy Attitudes, which he founded in 1992. Dr. Kull regularly gives briefings for Congress, the State Department, NATO, the UN and the EU. The author of several books, his articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Harpers, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor. Dr. Kull is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
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Richard G. Fitzsimmons
Richard Fitzsimmons is President of Fitzsimmons & Company Professional Corporation, a Toronto-based law firm specializing in tax litigation and is general counsel for several private corporations.
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Greig Clark
Greig Clark is the Founding and Managing Partner of the Horatio Enterprise Fund, a venture capital fund that brings both management and money to growth companies. He also serves on the board of a number of small and medium sized companies. He also served as the CEO of several of the portfolio companies in times of transition. Most recently he was CEO from 2002 to 2006 of Arxx Walls and Foundations of which he continues to be a board member. Greig is also known as one of Canada's successful entrepreneurs. He founded College Pro Painters in 1971 while attending university. He grew it to $40 million in sales, with 550 franchisees and over 4000 painters in 1989. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in 1979 and Top Ten Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1990. College Pro remains the largest residential painting company in the world today. He is also a writer for Profit Magazine--the Canadian magazine for growth companies.
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