Practical Sustainability Strategies

George P. Nassos worked for International Minerals & Chemical, Inc. for 16 years with his last four as managing director of subsidiaries in Germany and The Netherlands. He then worked for Chemical Waste Management, a subsidiary of Waste Management, Inc., for 15 years developing treatment technologies for hazardous waste. His next 25 years have been in academia where he was Director of the MS in Sustainability Management programs at Illinois Institute of Technology and DePaul University. He is currently a co-founder and Dean of Environmental Sustainability at the Ariston Institute of Chicago, a new nonprofit business college. He is also Vice President of Hydronergy, a new hydrogen production company based on waste aluminum. He earned his BS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois (1961), an MS (1962) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (1965), and an MBA (1972) all at Northwestern University. Nikos Avlonas is founder and President of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE) a global Sustainability and ESG Strategic Advisory and Training firm with activities in North America, Europe, MENA and Asia. Nikos has been awarded in 2021 as Top 100 Environmental Leaders by the Environmental Leader Magazine, in 2018 by Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest foundation in US, and as Practitioner of the year in 2017 by PR News for setting new standards of excellence. He was also be awarded for teaching excellence from AUEB in 2020 and is currently an adjunct Professor at Athens University of Economic and Business (AUEB), MBA international program since 2015. He is a well-known international speaker in topics related to ESG & CSR and has delivered speeches and educated professionals in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.