Robyn Collver

Senior Vice-President, Risk and Regulatory Affairs, for Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited

She has led the Sustainability efforts at Canadian Tire since 2012. Following a year in which she also acted as Chief of Staff/Senior Adviser to the CEO and led the Communications function for an interim period, she is now focused on further developing the Company’s ESG strategy.

Robyn joined Canadian Tire Corporation in 2002 as Associate General Counsel, was appointed General Counsel of Canadian Tire’s Financial Services division in 2004 and served as General Counsel of Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited from 2008 to 2015.

Robyn is currently on the Boards of Directors of Alzheimer Society of Toronto and Stewardship Ontario.

She holds a law degree from University of Toronto and an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration from Acadia University.

Wedad  Elmaghraby

Professor, University of Maryland 

Wedad Elmaghraby is a Professor in the Operations Management and Management Science group at the Smith School. Her current research interests focus on the impact of market structure on the profitability and performance of business-to-business markets. Using both controlled lab experiments and proprietary data from industry collaborators, she has explored market frictions and  behavioral factors that influence bidder behavior (how much they bid and when they bid) in secondary market auctions for used/returned electronic merchandise, the role of ambiguity and risk in a retailer’s selection of product assortment in retail settings, and interaction and influence of decision support tools on operations decision of employees using such tools (such as pricing). Her current areas of application include online markets for the fashion sharing economy, online markets for excess inventory, energy markets and the retail sector. Prior to joining the Smith School, she was on the faculty of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and NYU Stern School of Business in the Operations Management group.

Kathleen  McLaughlin

Chief Sustainability Officer at Walmart and President of the Walmart Foundation

Kathleen is responsible for programs that help Walmart create economic opportunity through jobs and sourcing; enhance the sustainability of food, apparel and general merchandise supply chains; and strengthen the resilience of local communities. Through business initiatives and philanthropy, her teams work with Walmart associates, suppliers, nonprofit organizations and others to drive significant and lasting improvements to economic, social and environmental systems. Last year, the company awarded more than $1.4 billion in cash and in-kind donations, including $1 billion of food donations. Before joining Walmart in 2013, she spent more than 20 years with the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Kathleen serves on the board of the Council on Foundations and is a member of CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative Advisory Board. Kathleen earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Boston University, as well as a master of arts in politics, philosophy and economics from Balliol College at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also has a diploma in theology from Oxford. She is married with three children and divides her time between Bentonville, Arkansas, and Toronto, Ontario.

H. Scott Matthews

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Scott is  a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.  He is also a member of the Green Design Institute, an interdisciplinary research consortium at Carnegie Mellon focused on modeling energy and environmental problems as systems, building decision support tools, and supporting robust policy decisions under uncertainty.  

Carrie Snyder

Former Director of closed loop supply chain for Cisco, presently a circular economy consultant

Carrie is the Founder of CSS Consulting, a circular economy consultancy, and an Instructor at Harvard Extension School, teaching "Introduction to the Circular Economy." During a multi-faceted 15-year career Cisco Systems, Snyder's roles related to "what happens to products after they are sold to customers?" To this end, Snyder developed extensive expertise in product take back and reuse. She helped transformed a USD$8M cost center into a USD$100M profit center through circular economy principles, and later on was the Director of a closed-loop supply chain and related program supporting over $1B in sales. Snyder brings her extensive business expertise and academic interests to help organizations advance the circular economy. 

Matthias Winkenbach

Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) at MIT & Director of the MIT MegacityLogisticsLab, Center for Transportation &  Logistics

Dr. Matthias Winkenbach is the Director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab and a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). Together with his team, Dr. Winkenbach is working on quantitative and data-driven research in the field of urban logistics and last mile delivery. His lab is engaged in a variety of sponsored research projects with industry partners from around the world, including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola Femsa, Walmart, B2W Digital, Flipkart, and Adidas, as well as public sector partners such as the World Bank, the US DOT and several city and regional governments.