User:SustainAbility545/Steve Boston Profile

Steve Boston is CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer for Corporate Sustainability, Inc., a consulting company dedicated to helping Fortune 500 companies increase profits and strengthen brand value by identifying and implementing high-quality solutions to global social and environmental challenges. His proprietary Boston Sustainability System offers a clear roadmap to cost savings and revenue opportunities as well as to capturing the hearts and minds of internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, investors, and media.

Previously, as VP and Chief Sustainability Officer for CA Technologies, Inc. (formerly Computer Associates), Boston shaped global sustainability strategy from the ground up, ultimately slashing the company’s global carbon footprint 41% in 18 months and creating a new Ecosoftware product on track to contribute $1B in revenue over the next two years. He also drove an organization-wide cultural shift toward sustainability and resource efficiency-thinking across 13,000 employees, and implemented a vendor environmental accountability system that monitored vendor environmental impacts and required vendor compliance with sustainability standards. Boston is a contributor to the World Economic Forum, the US Council on Competitiveness, and EPA Climate Leaders forums. He co-authored Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise (published December 2009) and served as a primary source for Tailoring the Green Suit by Daniel T. Smolen (published March 2010). Both publications are available on Amazon.com. He is an industry spokesperson and thought leader, and has delivered numerous presentations on sustainability to CEOs and executives in the financial, technology, and media sectors Steve has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, CIOzone, and a wide array of industry analysts and sustainability and technology-focused websites. He has also spoken nationally at Columbia Business School and other key venues.

Prior roles at CA Technologies, Inc. included VP, Corporate Strategy as well as Director, R&D Operations Strategy. In this latter role, Boston conceived and implemented a virtual software development environment that facilitated a cohesive product development and testing cycle for more than 50 software products crafted by 7,000 employees. He also co-founded the Council of Technical Excellence, a forum where the company’s brightest technologists collaborated to create new technology strategies.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, Boston held several high-impact strategy and operational roles at IBM Software Group. As Senior Software Strategist, he evaluated emerging software trends to determine IBM’s best strategic response. In this capacity, he gave IBM an early lead in the exploding multibillion-dollar multi-media Web market and ensured a level playing field for IBM software products operating on Intel’s Itanium II processor chip. Previously, as Manager of Technology Operations, Boston drove enterprise wide business re-engineering and global outsourcing projects impacting the OS/2 development group (about 2,000 employees in 3 locations). Key achievements included initiating and successfully guiding new development partners in Latvia and India. Earlier IBM roles included Project Leader, Internal Tools, where he championed/executed the internal shift from mainframe to client-server applications resulting in a massive cultural change for 350,000 IBM employees.

Prior to IBM, Boston was Managing Partner, Boston-Brownell Associates -- partnering with product inventors to commercialize new products. He was also General Manager, Group “M” Enterprises, Inc., a 600-associate telemarketing firm.