Speaker profile
Holly Elwood
As Vice President of Strategic Engagement and Category Development, Holly Elwood leads the formation of key partnerships and programs to expand GEC’s scope to achieve our vision of a world with only sustainable electronic technology. This includes the exploration and selection of future product categories to be addressed by EPEAT, as well as sponsorship of the Criteria and Category Development team, responsible for developing and updating the sustainability criteria products must meet to become EPEAT registered and deliver sustainability leadership. As a member of the senior leadership team, Holly collaborates with the CEO and GEC’s leadership to shape and implement GEC’s mission, operational strategy, and hiring needs.
Holly has over 25 years of experience using the power of procurement to create a more sustainable marketplace for all. She has held leadership roles in creating, managing and facilitating federal use of environmental performance standards and ecolabels, influencing federal and international policy on sustainable procurement, and providing technical assistance to federal purchasers seeking to procure more sustainable products and services. Her work has included co-management of the formation and leadership of EPA team responsible for creating a new label for low embodied carbon construction materials, chairing interagency sustainable IT initiatives, including the CIO Council's Federal IT Sustainability Working Group, coordinating interagency technical input into sustainable standards development efforts, spearheading EPA engagement in the development and spin off of the EPEAT ecolabel, and contributing to the formation of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council.
Holly holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Macalester College.