Amie Vaccaro
Amie Vaccaro is a guest blogger at GreenBiz.com, and a Program Manager at社会投资科技集团旧金山咨询公司致力于helping organizations maximize their social and environmental returns by using innovative metrics, analysis and information management tools. Amie has a background in consulting, marketing and business development. Previously as an Associate Consultant with Bain & Company, Amie worked with Fortune 500 and nonprofit clients on critical business issues in the healthcare, retail, and utilities spaces. She focused on growth strategy, cost reduction and organizational performance improvement. While at Bain she also founded and led a company Green Team which achieved significant strides in reducing the company’s carbon footprint. Projects included implementation of office-wide sustainable purchasing, assessment of the carbon offset provider landscape with an eye toward firm-wide carbon neutrality, and significant improvements to existing recycling efforts; these efforts resulted in enhanced office environmental awareness and engagement, significant reductions in landfill waste, green vendor support, and improved office quality of life. Amie has social entrepreneurial experience from her work in market research and business development with a start-up green media company, Green Zebra, where she refined the venture’s sustainable savings guides, built and managed relationships with local businesses, and was instrumental in the development of many corporate, government and small business sponsor relationships. Amie received a B.S. with high honors from Brown University. She is fluent in Spanish and writes for several green business blogs.
