“My biggest accomplishment was working at my job for 44 years,” my grandmother, Rhonda Ferguson, shared as she sat at the kitchen table and had a warm cup of coffee. Ferguson’s favorite person at work was a lady named Norma Fowler because she made things enjoyable and made Ferguson laugh.
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January 27, 2021
Clockwise, from top left: Laura Lane, UPS; Darnell Grisby, TransForm; Guy Grainger, JLL, Boma Brown-West, EDF; Miriam Nelson, Newman s Own Foundation; Asheen Phansey, Circular Fashion Group; Clare Shine, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership; Janelle Heslop, Amgen. Middle row from left: Claire Bergkamp, Textile Exchange; Steve Quarles, AWEA; Elliott Rodgers, Ulta Beauty; Maribel Bostic, SunPower; Dana Worth, Plenty.
You dared to dream that some of the upheaval of 2020 would let up at the New Year s stroke of midnight? The speeds and feeds of 2021 already have left us winded. That means accelerating need for sustainability professionals to step up. Plenty of people in this space have spruced up their LinkedIn pages and changed roles in recent months. There s noted activity in the sustainable apparel space, and boards are getting more intentional about inclusivity.
Union Pacific names new chief legal officer
Union Pacific today named Craig Richardson executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary. Richardson is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s legal affairs, including commercial transactions and litigation, regulatory matters, labor and employment. Richardson also supervises the railroad’s compliance and ethics program, and risk management initiatives, including Union Pacific’s police department. He succeeds Rhonda Ferguson, who served as executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary.
Richardson most recently served as vice president of commercial and regulatory law. He’s also held the position of associate general counsel.
Two New Chairs for the World Shipping Council Leads Logistics Related Appointments
Who is Going Where and When in the Transport Sector
WORLDWIDE – The World Shipping Council (WSC) Board of Directors elected two Co-Chairs of the Board to succeed outgoing Board Chair Ron Widdows. Effective since November 24, the WSC Board will be co-chaired by Rolf Habben Jansen, CEO of Hapag-Lloyd and Jeremy Nixon, CEO of ONE, serving for an initial two-year term.
Widdows, who has served as the WSC Chairman for over a decade, previously announced his intention to step down once his successor was elected by the newly expanded Board of Directors.