Board of Directors
Larry Kopald
Founder & President
Larry Kopald has been a communications and branding professional for over twenty-five years, working at some of the world’s top advertising agencies. He has overseen the advertising for brands ranging from McDonalds to American Express to Honda, and has helped launch multibillion brands like Acura, Oracle, and Huggies. Larry has also been a lifelong environmentalist serving on boards like Oceana, the National Marine Sanctuaries, 1% For The Planet and others. He has done the environmental communications for the UN and the Olympics, and his work for the Earth Communications Office was seen in over 100 countries by over a billion people. Larry has been nominated for both Emmy and Grammy awards.
Earl Katz
Earl Katz, Founder and President Emeritus of Public Interest Pictures, is an activist and Emmy Award ® nominated documentary film executive producer. Katz is Executive Producer of Unprecedented, Unconstitutional, Hacking Democracy, Heist, Last Hours, and others. He is presently working on an environmental film series and a feature environmental documentary. Earl was the U.S. senior staff member of the team that organized and produced “The Menton Statement” that linked the environment, poverty, and war. The statement was signed by over 5,000 international scientists and became the cover story and first issue of the UNESCO Courier dedicated to the environment. He served as Executive Director of Campaign to Defend America’s Environment and Entertainment Coordinator of International Earth Day, 2000.
Field Garthwaite
Field Garthwaite is the Co-Founder and CEO of IRIS.TV, the worlds largest video intelligence platform. Since creating the core technology behind IRIS.TV, Field and his team have continually innovated new business models to deliver machine learning as a service (MLaaS) to top broadcasters, publishers, and brands like Fox, CBS, Gannett, and Oprah. At The Carbon Underground, Field helps in the development of operational systems to ensure successful program execution that enables data collection at large scale and low cost.
Howard Fisher
Howard Fischer founded Basso Capital in 1994 in partnership with a subsidiary of AIG, and is the Chief Executive Officer. He is Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist of Gratitude Railroad, a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed/startup, middle market, incubation, growth capital, and buyout investments in food and agriculture, health and wellness, resource efficiency, environmental and social problems. He previously was the head trader and co-manager of the institutional convertible trading desk at Smith Barney and a convertible trader at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Cohen Feit & Company. Before this he worked as a Certified Public Accountant in both public and private practice. Howard serves as CFO of the Board of Directors of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) and The Carbon Underground. In addition, he was a fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative.
Darcy Winslow
Darcy is the President and co-founder of the Academy for Systems Change, an organization focused advancing the field of awareness-based systemic change in order to achieve economic, social, and ecological wellbeing.
The Academy designs, develops and delivers a range of programs to support, coach and build community among emerging and existing leaders who are at the pioneering edge of systems change work. Unlike conventional leadership training organizations, the Academy’s approach fosters deep understanding of the powerful connection between change within the individual and changing the systems in which they work.
Darcy also worked at Nike, Inc. for 21 years and held several senior management positions, most notably starting the Sustainable Business Strategies in 1999, Global Director for Research Design and Development, General Manager/VP for Nike’s Global Women’s Footwear, Apparel and Equipment division, and Senior Advisor to the Nike Foundation.
