April 2022

Ron Unnerstall was the 2019 Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor and is a teaching faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Univ. of Virginia. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from Purdue Univ. and MS in management from Stanford Univ. He has received the Purdue Univ. Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award, and the Purdue Distinguished Alumnus award from the School of Engineering. Before joining UVA, Unnerstall spent more than 34 years in the oil and gas industry, predominately within refining and marketing in Chicago, London, and Shanghai. He has...Read more

Sasha joined geno in January 2021, where she is Head of Impact (Sustainability, Government Affairs, Corporate Communications, ESG Investor Relations, and PR). Prior to joining geno, Sasha led Sustainability at Beautycounter, where she built the beauty brand’s responsible sourcing, sustainable packaging, and climate action programs. From 2015 to 2018, she was the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact at Josie Maran Cosmetics. Sasha is also the founder of Resilience, an impact agency that works with CPGs and private equity firms and funds to consult on ESG and risk...Read more

CHARLES A. BROWN, P.E., is a retired chemical engineer (Bellingham, WA; Phone: 360-650-9511; Email: casibrown@msn.com). He received his BS in chemical engineering from Washington State Univ. and his MS with emphasis in environmental from the Univ. of Washington. His career included process engineering and process design work in petroleum refining (BP, VECO), air pollution control and regulations (Radian), aluminum production (Kaiser), and nuclear power reactor support systems (General Atomic). He has been an instructor of “Designing Air Pollution...Read more