DFJ Wins SF Business Time Green Business Award
Jun. 1, 2008
DFJ was honored at the SF Business Times 1st annual Green Business Awards ceremony. All of the winners, finalists and nominees were recognized as being the leaders in the green movement and they were congratulated on their commitment towards environmental stewardship.
A group of high profile, sustainability experts were chosen to extensively research hundreds of nominated green businesses. After months of research the judges narrowed the awardees down to a winner and a finalist in 14 different categories (sometimes multiple winners/ finalists were selected in order to acknowledge the many achievements of a number of exceptional businesses- in other words there were just too many amazing candidates that it was too difficult to choose).
Green Business Award results:
Finance:
Winner: Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Raj Atluru- Managing Director)
Finalist: Bank of America (Richard Cohen- Environmental Banking Team Leader)
Finalist: Wells Fargo (Joanne Schultz- SF Regional President)
Builder:
Winner: Swinerton (Charlie Kuffner- Nor Cal President)
Architect:
Winner: HOK (Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum INC.-Paul Woolford- Senior VP)
Finalist: Leddy Maytun Stacy Architects (William Leddy- Founder)
Entrepreneur:
Winner: New Resource Bank (Peter Liu- Founder and Co-Chairman)
Finalist: Recurrent Energy (Arno Harris- Co Founder)
Finance:
Winner: Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Raj Atluru- Managing Director)
Finalist: Bank of America (Richard Cohen- Environmental Banking Team Leader)
Finalist: Wells Fargo (Joanne Schultz- SF Regional President)
Energy- Solar:
Winner: Solar City (Lyndon Rive- CEO)
Finalist: BrightSource Energy (John Woodlard- CEO)
Energy- Fuel:
Winner: LS9 INC. (Robert Walsh- CEO)
Finalist: ZeaChem (Jim Imbler- CEO)
City:
Winner: San Francisco (Jared Blumenfeld- Director of SF Environment)
Finalist: Berkeley (Tom Bates- Mayor)
Green Business Champion:
Winner: California Clean Tech Open (Michael Santullo and Marc Gottschalk- Co Founders)
Finalist: Build It Green (Brian Gitt- CEO)
Green Community Champion:
Winner: Sustainable San Mateo County (Tyler Hammer- Executive Director)
Finalist: Alameda County Green Business Program (Pamela Evans- Program Manager)
Non-Profit:
Winner: KQED (Donald Derheim- Executive VP)
Finalist: TransFair USA (Paul Rice- CEO)
Best Practices- Large:
Winner: Kaiser Permanente (Christine Malcolm- Senior VP)
Winner: Safeway (Joe Pettus- Senior VP of Fuel and Energy Operations)
Winner: Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants (Hotel Triton-Tuscan Inn. Steve Pinetti)
Best Practices- Small:
Winner: Alcatraz Cruises (Cameron Clark- Director of Environmental Affairs)
Winner: Bode Concrete (Dan Boardman- President)
Winner:Orchard Garden Hotel (Stephan Muhle- General Manager)
Transportation:
Winner: PG&E (Brad Whitcomb- VP of Marketing and Innovations)
Finalist: City Car Share (Rick Hutchinson- CEO)
Green Products/ Services:
Winner: ETwater Systems (Bruce Cardinal- CEO)
Finalist: Excellent Packaging (Allen King- CEO)
