ASBN Live: Sustainable Pathways: Building Inclusive Supply Chains

Angele Doyne
Strategist | Innovator | Cultivator
Ampersand Group | National Supplier Diversity Institute

Angelé is a strategist, innovator, and cultivator of multi-stakeholder ecosystems that intersect business, education, social equity, and public service to advance positive outcomes for diverse communities. Angelé has served in the Obama Administration, where she supported federal supplier diversity initiatives, and has also consulted with Fortune 500 corporations to develop diverse business practices.

At the Ampersand Group, Angelé leads initiatives to stimulate diverse business investment, robust supplier diversity, and intentional talent development in emerging industries.

Her passion for building sustainable ecosystems connects businesses, people and places to nurture strategic partnerships and equitable supply chains that ignite a shared responsibility toward the longevity and well-being of networks and communities. This work advances equitable engagement of stakeholder groups and public/private interest to adopt innovative technologies and collaborative practice.

Brian Moore
National Director | Local Content

Mr. Moore is the National Director at Local Content – a trusted source for local content measurement, reporting, and compliance. Local Content bridges the worlds of industry, community, and government to ensure the use of local services, goods, workforce, and community benefit investments within infrastructure developments a national supplier diversity and development firm.

Mr. Moore’s role as National Director ensures local content compliance and measurement of economic development, workforce development, community benefit investment, and stakeholder engagement for large industry projects throughout the country.

Mr. Moore is a Senior Associate with Chasing Winds, an energy efficiency business providing clean energy services in New York and New Jersey.

Monica St Claire
CEO, US Offshore Group

As CEO of the US Offshore Group, a growing number of companies dedicated to the clean energy transition and other vital infrastructure projects, Monica St Claire works with a talented team of global and domestic specialist who build, connect, dive, repair, inspect, train, and provide other services and solutions for renewable energy, telecommunications, and other sectors.

Committed to building a skilled, equitable, and representative domestic workforce, US Offshore is creating a US hub of marine, construction, workforce development, and strategic intelligence solutions that capitalize on what we have learned in the wind farms and waters across the globe.

Paula Bowens
Co-Founder & CEO – One Degree Consulting
Director of Growth Strategy – MRV Group

Paula Bowens is a highly experienced marketing and business development consultant with decades of expertise in sales and marketing across various industries. She began her career with Xerox, which sparked her passion for technology and enabled her to work in diverse fields such as healthcare, media, sports marketing, and supplier diversity. With her background in corporate America, nonprofits, and entrepreneurship, she has a deep understanding of what it takes to achieve success. Paula’s latest obsession is working with AIs, hanging in the Metaverse and Cryptocurrency!

Ross Gould
Oceanic Network, Vice President for Supply Chain Development & Research

Ross oversees the growth and evolution of the offshore wind supply chain as well as the offshore wind industry’s workforce development. He is also responsible for designing, developing, and coordinating the Network’s Northeast Corridor strategy, including planning, policy and regulatory engagement, programs, and research.

Ross has experience in private, public, and non-profit sectors. Before following his passion for energy, Ross spent nearly 10 years as an attorney. In 2007, Ross attended an evening continuing education class at NYU that focused on the use of natural resources and energy. From this moment, Ross was hooked on the energy sector.

From 2010-2013 Ross served as the Air & Energy Program Director at Environmental Advocates of NY working on clean energy jobs, energy efficiency, renewable energy, state energy planning, siting of electricity generation, and global warming. After that, he worked as Legislative Counsel in New York State Senate from until 2015. In 2015, he joined the Workforce Development Institute (WDI) where he focused on growing the workforce and supply chain of the offshore wind industry.

David Levine
Co-founder and President
American Sustainable Business Network

David is the co-founder and president of the American Sustainable Business Network. He has worked as a social entrepreneur for over 30 years focusing on the development of whole systems solutions for a more sustainable society through building strategic partnerships and broad stakeholders initiatives. Previously, he was the founding director of Continuing Education & Public Programs at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. From 1984–1997, David was founder and executive director of the Learning Alliance, an independent popular education organization. David is also a principal partner at Miracle Springs Farm, a family farm in the Hudson Valley.