As a visionary of the socially responsible business movement, Joe Sibilia is founder and CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) (www.meadowbrooklane.com), described by the Wall Street Journal as a "socially responsible investment bank" specializing in turning values into valuation.

He is also the CEO of CSRwire, (www.csrwire.com), the social responsibility newswire service that distributes and archives corporate social responsibility and sustainability news and information to journalists, analysts, investors, activists, academics, public relations and investor relations professionals worldwide.

Joe also founded the Gasoline Alley Foundation (www.gasolinealleyfoundation.org), a 501(c) 3 corporation that has incubated forty-three small businesses since 1985 and teaches inner city and/or underprivileged persons to be successful entrepreneurs using socially responsible/sustainable business practices while revitalizing inner city neighborhoods.

Through MLBC, Joe has worked with a number of Socially Responsible Companies and has been widely recognized for his work in attempting to take Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream private, while creating a private stock exchange for CSR companies. MBLC successfully preserved many of the founders' social initiatives, and advanced the connection between good corporate citizenship and increased share value.

Joe recently co-authored, street smart sustainability: the entrepreneur's guide to profitably greening your organizations DNA, with David Mager.

His long range plan for the CSRwire is to establish a "platform for innovative revenue sharing applications advancing the 'movement' towards a more economically just and environmentally sustainable society and away from single bottom line capitalism."

Steve Lydenberg is Founding Director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, and Partner, Strategic Vision for Domini Social Investments LLC. For over three decades he has been active in responsible investment with the Council on Economic Priorities, Trillium Asset Management and KLD Research & Analytics. He is author of numerous articles on responsible investment including, most recently, "Reason, Rationality and Fiduciary Duty" and "On Materiality and Sustainability: The Value of Disclosure in the Capital Markets" (written for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board). He is also author of several books on responsible investment including Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand (Berrett-Koehler), and with Céline Louche Dilemmas in Responsible Investment (Greenleaf).

R. Paul Herman created the HIP (Human Impact + Profit) methodology and scorecard for investors, companies and entrepreneurs worldwide to understand how higher sustainability can drive financial performance.

Herman is a wealth manager and investment adviser for individuals, family offices and foundations -- and manages the HIP 100 portfolio and investment index. "The HIP Scorecard" investment approach is featured in his 2010 book (The HIP Investor; Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World; John Wiley & Sons,http://bit.ly/HIPinvestorBook), Fast Company magazine, business school curricula, and atwww.HIPinvestor.com. Herman's financial acumen was honed at the Wharton School and McKinsey & Co., and he accelerated social entrepreneurs at Ashoka.org and Omidyar Network. Herman has advised leading corporations (including Walmart and NIKE) and investors, family offices and foundations on how to be more HIP. His insights have been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and on CNN, Reuters, Morningstar.com and CNBC.

R. Paul Herman is CEO and a registered representative of HIP Investor Inc., an investment adviser registered in California, Washington, and Illinois.

Chad Spitler, Managing Director, is the Global Chief Operating Officer for BlackRock's Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment team within the Strategic Product Management Group. He is responsible for the daily operations of the team worldwide and strategic planning. Mr. Spitler is the Proxy Facilitator for the Securities Evaluation Group of the International Standards Organization (ISO), and is a member of the International Corporate Governance Network's (ICGN) Shareholders Responsibility Committee, and the Broadridge Global and Domestic Steering Committees.

Mr. Spitler's service with the firm dates back to 2000, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, Mr. Spitler last managed the Americas proxy voting team, responsible for analyzing and voting proxies, and engaging with the corporations of which BGI was a shareholder. Throughout his tenure he managed the corporate actions, trade operations, cash analysis and central control departments. Prior to BGI, Mr. Spitler was a Senior Market Research Analyst with the Franklin Templeton Group.

Mr. Spitler earned an MA degree in Anthropology from the University of Colorado in 1996, and a BS degree in Resource Management from the University of Michigan in 1992. He is a Series 7, 6 and 63 FINRA Registered Securities Representative.

Paul Griffin is professor of management at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. Prior to Davis, he served as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He has published over 50 articles in leading accounting and finance journals, four research monographs for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and two case books on US corporate reporting. His research has had a substantial impact on the profession. According to a study of influential articles, he is one of a small group whose articles are now "classics" in the field. His recent publications in accounting focus on corporate governance under Sarbanes-Oxley, stock option compensation, and SEC reporting under Regulation FD. His latest articles investigate accounting for carbon allowances and how CSR voluntary disclosure relates to shareholder value and other stakeholder interests. Professor Griffin currently serves as co-editor of Accounting Horizons, an academic journal of the American Accounting Association.

Examples of Griffin media mentions re most recent research
http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/599-will-this-study-swing-the-presidential-election
http://news.silobreaker.com/socially-responsible-corporations-with-heavy-pac-contributors-associated-with-higher-stock-returns-uc-davis-graduate-school-of-management-study-finds-5_2266088121907019851
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/blog/morning-roundup/2012/11/uc-davis-study-social-responsibility.html