Jib Ellison. Jib assists senior leadership in creating new, innovative, wealth creating strategies. Through an unprecedented angle of attack, he helps clients create visions that have the power to transform markets. He helps CEOs understand sustainability as a business proposition, align behind a plan, and commit to the actions necessary to capture business value. He brings a select network of content experts and organizations to deliver the best solutions to his clients.

His work includes designing and overseeing organization-wide transformation processes for Fortune 50 companies, building high performance leadership teams, improving cross-functional teamwork, strengthening corporate culture to deliver results, and one-on-one coaching for CEOs.

Recent clients include: Wal-Mart, Kleiner Perkins, Environmental Defense, Conservation International, Vodafone, McKesson, Gap Inc., The Home Depot, Nokia, YMCA, and Barclays Global Investors. A class V river guide, he has lead whitewater expeditions on five continents.

Dave Sherman. Dave helps executives formulate and execute breakthrough strategies that combine stakeholder-based insights with industry and company specific sources of advantage.

For the past 20 years he has served clients on five continents. He was a founding partner of Sustainable Value Partners and a Vice President with A.T. Kearney where he led an Asia-based practice. Clients include: Wal-Mart, Bunge, Cathay Pacific, Philips Electronics and other leaders in sectors such as chemicals, consumer products, energy utilities, financial services, government, healthcare, high-tech, oil and gas, retail, and transportation.

He earned his doctorate in management at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University where he researched social entrepreneurship and actively participates in the school's Center for Business as an Agent of World benefit. He also holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.

Sean Martin. Sean’s experience in leading engagements, focused on all manner of strategy development and implementation projects, has led him to conclude that business sustainability is taking a seat at the table along side of quality and efficiency as a basic measure of organizational health and performance. His focus is on helping leaders develop and implement new ways of getting performance from their teams and organizations through the lens of sustainability. Through his skills in clarifying direction, planning for action and improving team effectiveness he helps clients create results that they previously did not believe possible.

Prior to joining Blu Skye, he was a founding member of The Trium Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm. Before making the shift to business management, Sean worked in the field of psychology and provided counseling under the supervision of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health - which some might assert is perfect preparation for working in many of today's corporate environments.

Recent clients include: Wal-Mart, Hilton, Burt’s Bees, Cisco, Comcast, Gap Inc., and Barclays Global Investors. He received his BA from Boston University, his MBA from the University of California at Davis, and studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

John Whalen. John's focus is creating breakthrough value-creation strategies by peeling back the barrier between the impossible and the possible. He does this through engaging stakeholders and experts who don't usually work together in conversations they've never had, creating a shared vision of a future they all want to see happen, and aligning around the actions that create real value for the organization and its stakeholders. He uses a variety of methods that break down barriers, challenge assumptions, open avenues for innovation, and foster collaboration.

His clients include: Wal-Mart, Verizon, American Express, NASA, Pfizer, Cable & Wireless, and Target. John has an M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame.

Tom Curren. Having worked with senior executives in leading companies for 30 years, Tom specializes in strategy execution. Tom has served as SVP Corporate Strategy at Marriott Corporation, has been a Fellow at the McKinsey Change Center, an Account Executive for Procter & Gamble and a Naval Officer. He holds an MBA, with Honors, from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania.

Recent clients include: Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser, Virgin Atlantic, McKesson and PBS.

John Buffington. John has worked with corporations, start-up ventures and non-profit organizations over the last decade to show that, with creativity and leadership, doing the right thing for the environment and society can provide competitive advantage. Since 2004, John has helped to create and implement sustainable business strategies for clients in the retail, food products, and hotel industries. John puts an emphasis on understanding corporate culture and becoming part of the client team in order to help create new leaders.

John has an MBA and Masters in Environmental Management from the University of North Carolina. After business school, he helped launch an eco-friendly venture in Tibet. In 2005, he won first prize for the Oikos International Sustainability Case Writing Competition. John enjoys travel, movies, college sports and dining out with family and friends.

Mikhail Davis. Mikhail uses the lessons of ecology and effective advocacy to help you find unexpected allies and new business value. His knowledge and skills gained working alongside seminal leaders in both environmental and business sustainability can help you make your journey toward sustainability both profitable and inspiring.

With over nine years working in the NGO community, Mikhail understands activist tactics and perspectives and helps clients create leadership strategies that get them ahead of stakeholder demands and regulatory changes while driving innovation.

Mikhail’s previous work includes being project manager for environmental icon David Brower, developing wetlands restoration projects in Southern California, creating a national environmental leadership program, organizing sustainable business conferences, and studying indigenous history and language in the Peruvian highlands.

Mikhail enjoys spending time with his young son and watching or playing the world’s favorite game (soccer!).

He holds a B.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Rebecca Harris. Rebecca wears many hats to ensure that her team is successful in providing the absolute best results possible.  From coordinating meetings to architecting a footprint analysis, Rebecca injects the process with knowledge of sustainability issues and a passion for finding business value and opportunity therein.

Prior to joining Blu Skye, Rebecca worked in construction consulting, providing project management support and assisting clients with conflict resolution on contentious projects.  From her experience in the construction industry, Rebecca has gained a deep interest in sustainable building and community development.

Rebecca graduated with honors from Humboldt State University with a BS in Environmental Science with an emphasis on Ethics and Policy.

Amy Horton. Associate Amy Horton brings 7+ years in project management experience, helping clients to strategically leverage technology and create tools to influence policy, share best practices and promote sustainability. She has contributed to the strategy and implementation of multiple projects for a range of non-profit and international organizations focused on public health and the environment, and has experience working in-depth with diverse project stakeholders to gather data for insight. Amy earned her degree in Journalism and Communication from the University of Oregon. She thrives on taking her passion for inquiry and investigation to new heights through her work supporting the Blu Skye team and clients.

Adam Hyde.  Adam has 15 years of experience incubating small-scale social enterprise. His focus has been on restoring natural systems agriculture to New England landscapes, and promoting early market adoption of renewable energy systems through the micromanufacture of appropriate technologies in the global south. Adam serves as chair of the board for the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG). He brings many years of practical action and community building to his roles as on-the-ground development practitioner and organizational leader. While co-founding the AIDG, he received his MSc (with distinction) from Schumacher College, UK, concentrating in complexity science in biology and management, social entrepreneurship, and open-source innovation.

Previously, Adam served as associate director of Land’s Sake Inc., a community farm and forest stewardship organization. There he developed and executed a variety of conservation stewardship initiatives, including a portfolio of goods and services linked to land-based production-funded not-for-profit enterprise. Before this, Adam was founder and manager of a successful Community Supported Agriculture project in Massachusetts. He has also worked as a land conservation planner on both the East and West coasts.

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Sarah Lugaric. Sarah's expertise is in helping clients create and implement visionary strategies consistent with their highest aspirations, with a belief that developing strong leaders and high-functioning teams is an essential foundation for successful execution. Her work is designed to recognize immediate gains, while ensuring clients develop the skills, capabilities and sense of ownership required to sustain momentum and create lasting results.

Prior to joining Blu Skye, Sarah was an Associate Partner at The Trium Group, a boutique management and strategy consulting firm. She has experience leading projects across a wide variety of industry-leading clients, including eBay, Gap, Inc., 24 Hour Fitness, YMCA, Cisco, Wal-Mart, and Barclay's Global Investors.

Earlier in her career, Sarah managed over 40 national and global relationships for J.P. Morgan's Institutional and Private Asset Management practice. Sarah earned her BA from Dartmouth College and completed several months of outdoor leadership courses at both Colorado Outward Bound School and NOLS.

Marc Major. Marc helps managers shift their organizations to achieve greater environmental and social sustainability, while maximizing business value from the improvements. He has worked as strategist, change management adviser, and marketing consultant for many organizations--including Wal-Mart, Vivendi Universal, Leo Burnett, multimillion-dollar nonprofits, and government bodies including the City of Chicago. He emphasizes improving stakeholder relations and cross-functional performance. He has also designed and facilitated strategy planning sessions, seminars and trainings for hundreds of corporate executives, government employees, and university students.

Marc holds an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management and an MA in Education from the University of Colorado

Leslie Oestreicher. Leslie enjoys helping organizations capture value from innovations in sustainability.  She specializes in helping organizations recognize opportunities for environmentally responsible changes by understanding organizational strengths, applying the latest technologies, and anticipating emerging issues. Leslie’s areas of expertise include strategy, marketing and operations.

Prior to joining Blu Skye, Leslie worked in the fields of health care consulting, marketing for a consumer packaged goods company, and strategy for some of the nation’s leading non-profits and foundations.  Leslie has studied art in Amsterdam, learned Zulu in South Africa and designed infant incubators in Nepal.

Leslie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a BA in History and International Studies and received her MBA from Stanford University.

Beth Rattner. Beth enjoys helping companies grow in a healthy and productive way: growing their restorative impact on natural and social issues, as well as growing revenue. As an attorney and business consultant to Fortune 500 companies for over 12 years, Beth brings “out of the box” thinking to immediate, practical and actionable steps. Formerly with Hewlett Packard, Beth helped establish its Emerging Market Solutions (EMS) group, a group established to amplify ecological, social and economic development for the Bottom of the Pyramid and adjacent economic markets, while returning profitable incremental annual revenue for HP. Prior to HP, Beth worked for a Kleiner-Perkins start-up, Icarian, and America Online's AOL.com division, architecting business development strategies and deals.

In addition to her year-long work with Blu Skye where she worked with hospitality, retail and agriculture clients, she is working with sustainability visionaries William McDonough and Michael Braungart on the sequel to Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Beth has a J.D. from Loyola Law School and a B.A. in Political Science from U.C.L.A.

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Diana Rothschild. Diana enjoys helping large companies solve complex problems with innovative solutions that lead to strong competitive advantages. She has experience in operations, merchandising, and supply chain strategy in international business arenas in the retail and consulting worlds. She holds a passion to simultaneously increase corporate responsibility efforts and profitability for market leaders.

Diana has worked in the fields of management strategy consulting, investment banking, accounting audit, branding design strategy, logistics, and strategic business planning, working with Banc of America Securities, Deloitte & Touche, McKinsey & Co., and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Diana received a B.S. in Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University.

Pic Walker. Pic’s decade of experience in the environmental sector allows him to recognize emerging sustainability trends, research and evaluate needs in the marketplace, and implement innovative strategies to align the organization’s environmental principles with market potential. He assists clients in research and development of sustainability and environmental programs. Prior to joining Blu Skye, Pic worked at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation leading research and development efforts for the Environment team. 

He was a charter member and co-developed the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative, a $190 million effort to have a substantial and measurable impact on the long-term sustainability of wild Pacific Salmon.  Pic actively developed and managed grants as well as refined strategy with the initiative's team and partners in the field.  Pic has worked with several conservation organizations including Conservation International, CI-Guatemala, and Rainforest Action Network.

He was born and raised in New England and holds a B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont and an M.B.A in sustainable enterprise from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Jenyng Wu. Jenyng’s passion lies in the interconnectivity of people and their relationship to each other. Having spent the majority of her personal and professional life helping emerging companies, non-profits and local communities understand the social context of diversity and intercultural relations she helps people foster understanding and appreciation for the different ways we look at each other. Within the corporate context, she brings a high level of detail and structure in creating the necessary building blocks and tools for ensuring stability and successful growth.

Prior to Blu Skye, Jenyng spent almost five years working for a Taiwan based electronics distribution company. She helped build their US operations and developed tools to streamline communications, production and delivery from factories in China to customers in US and Europe. Prior to that, she produced for PBS in Las Vegas: projects included working with Apple to develop technology ‘how-to’ videos for the State of Nevada’s school system as well as producing an Emmy-nominated international documentary on the social context of China/Taiwan/US intercultural relations.

Jenyng received her BA in Communications from Evangel University and holds a Masters in Asia Pacific Studies from the University of San Francisco. Her ambitions are to maintain balance in life and harmony in the world.

Tony Hansen. Tony is a consultant and entrepreneur that has found his niche in the strategy, design and implementation of sustainability solutions. Specialty areas include market analysis, project design, project management and client relationships. He has a flair for identifying and developing competitive advantage through the strategies implemented.

Tony has eighteen years of experience in marketing, event management, general management and sustainability consulting. He has worked in over twenty countries with leading multi-national corporations, the public sector and NGOs. He holds undergraduate and post graduate business degrees from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Leah Seligmann. Leah’s interest lies in the connection between people and the environment. At Blu Skye she fills many roles to ensure that the partners have the time to do the things that only they can do. She comes to Blu Skye from the nonprofit sector and is excited about helping business become a regenerative force in the world.

Prior to coming to Blu Skye, Leah worked in the fields of conservation and education. She lived in the Galapagos Islands combating invasive plant species and creating a model for sustainable agriculture. Leah is an avid traveler, who is happiest when she is hiking, diving, snorkeling or just hanging out in a beautiful place.

Leah graduated from Columbia University and has a BA in Political Science with an emphasis on environmental policy.

Tripp Borstel. Tripp's passion lies in creating "aha" experiences for business leaders about how to create business value through the lens of sustainability. He believes that with the right combination of stakeholder dialogue and potent data, insights can be generated that transform businesses and move them to adopt sustainable practices. Tripp envisions a world in which business and industry, through triple-bottom line practices, step up to become the leading drivers of change within the sustainability movement.

Prior to joining Blu Skye, Tripp worked as an analyst in the real estate finance industry and as a project manager for California's largest affordable housing development company. He was also a co-founder of the local Emerging Green Builders network within the U.S. Green Building Council, a committee that connects students and young professionals to the green building movement.

Tripp studied liberal arts and business administration Gonzaga University and University of San Francisco, and received his MBA from University of California at Berkeley.

Our Team.

Blu Skye was founded by Jib Ellison in early 2003 based on the personal epiphany that sustainability was the greatest untapped source of competitive advantage in the 21st century. Since then we have grown into a thriving organization comprised of individuals who all share Jib’s vision. Today we are a passionate team comprised of best in class management consultants, scientists and business leaders who realized that sustainability provides access to the only enduring form of long term business success.