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Ron is the Co-Founder of RecycleBank. During his tenure as CEO from 2004-2010, RecycleBank grew from an idea to a company with contracts with over 100 cities and a service that rewards millions of people for their positive green actions across North America and the UK was recognized by a number of leading business and environmental organizations including the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, the United Nations Environment Programme as a Champion of the Earth, The Pennsylvania Environment Council with the Philadelphia Sustainability Award, The Social Venture Network with their Innovation Award and the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 Venture Backed Clean Tech Companies of 2010. Ron is currently a member of RecycleBank's Board of Directors.
Prior to RecycleBank, Ron was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting. He was a co-recipient of Deloitte Consulting's National Impact Award for the development of a consulting unit that provided pro bono service to NGO's.
Ron is a frequent guest speaker on the role of business and the environment at universities, conferences and companies. He is a past member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Sustainable Consumption and is currently a Research Associatte the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University and a Henry Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Ron was a recipient of the 2010 University Medal of Excellence from Columbia University which is awarded annually to an alumnus under the age of 45 for outstanding achievement in scholarship, public service and professional life. He joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 2011 as an Adjunct Professor.
Ron is a Founding Partner of Linhardt Design Studio, a jewelry company that designs and manufactures fine jewelry with a focus on high design merged with sustainable principles. The Linhardt Design store was recently chosen as the "Critic's Pick" by New York Magazine. He serves on the Board of Directors of Fitango and JobRooster and is on the Board of Advisors of Source4Style.
Ron received a BA in History from UMass-Amherst where he graduated with Departmental Honors and was a Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School where he was a Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship award winner.
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