Who We Are

Members

The Council represents industries and businesses with significant investments, facilities, products, or services in the Great Lakes region. Members are drawn from manufacturing, utilities, transportation, natural resources, financial, services, and trade. Current members include:

Officers

Chairman
Robert C. Stempel

President and Chief Executive Officer
George H. Kuper

Treasurer
Robert A. Rosenblum

Secretary
Robert Weyhing, Partner, Clark Hill

CGLI Board of Directors

Jon W. Allan, Executive Director of Environmental Policy and Intergovernmental Affaires, Consumers Energy
Skiles W. Boyd, Vice President, Environmental Management & Resources, Detroit Edison Company
Kristine Krause, Vice President, Environment, Wisconsin Energy Corporation
George H. Kuper, President and Chief Executive Officer, CGLI
Paul Loeffelman, Director, Environmental Public Policy American Electric Power Company
Albert E. Matthews, Jr, President & CEO, Pliotron Corp.
Robert A. Rosenblum, Altarum, retired
Robert C. Stempel, Retired, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

Consultants

Dale Phenicie, Program Manager
Evelyn Strader, Public Relations

Biographies

George H. Kuper
President and Chief Executive Officer
Council of Great Lakes Industries

During the past three decades, George H. Kuper has been a recognized leader in national and regional efforts to establish productivity growth and sustainable development policy.   Before being retained by CGLI in 1994, George Kuper spent six years as President and CEO of the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) - a not-for-profit manufacturing research, development, and deployment organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   Under Kuper's leadership ITI became the largest organization of its kind assisting manufacturers in the United States. During his career Kuper was appointed by President Gerald Ford to serve as executive director of the then newly created National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life.   In the last decade, Kuper has been chairman of the Working Group on Dual Use Technology policy for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a member of the Boards of the Rentrak Corporation (RENT) and the Arlington Institute.   He has also been an advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Committee for Economic Development; chairman of the National Association of Manufactures Committee on Productivity; a founder and vice president of the American Productivity Management Association; and, a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Council on Trends and Perspectives and the Technology Managerial Program Advisory Committee of the Conference Board. He holds an undergraduate degree in political science from John Hopkins University and graduate degrees from the London School of Economics (International Law) and Harvard Business School (Business Administration.

Robert C. Stempel
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ECD

Robert Stempel is the retired Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ECD. He is also the vice chairman and director of Ovonyx, Inc. and a member of the Management Committee of Cobasys LLC. From 1990 until his retirement in 1992, he was the chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Corporation.

Robert retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from General Motors Corporation after 34 years with the auto giant. One of the world's foremost automobile engineers, he brings to ECD Ovonics his vast experience in the auto industry as well as a vision to produce zero emission vehicles by the end of this decade.

ECD Ovonics' forward-looking technology, and the intent to pioneer battery development and solid hydrogen storage, brought Bob out of retirement and to ECD Ovonics.

 

Jon W. Allan
Executive Director of Environmental Policy and Intergovernmental Affaires, Consumers Energy

Jon is the Executive Director of Environmental Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs for Consumers Energy Company where he has responsibility for integration of the Utility’s environmental strategy and its relationship to state and federal governmental and regulatory affairs. He has been with the company for more than sixteen years.

Jon was previously Manager of Environmental and Laboratory Services Department where he oversaw corporate environmental compliance and prior to that was Manager of Next Generation responsible for technical, planning and policy work related to the development of new generation assets.

He has worked on many environmental policy issues within the State and region. He is the former chairman of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce’s Environmental Quality Committee, served as advisor to the Great Lakes Compact negotiations and was co-chair of Michigan’s Groundwater Conservation Advisory Council. He served on the Michigan Climate Action Council and the Midwest Governor’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Advisory Group. He currently serves on the Environmental Advisory Council for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Environment.

Prior to joining Consumers he worked for the Institute for Environmental Toxicology at Michigan State University. He has taught courses over the years in ecology and natural sciences, environmental impact assessment and marine biology at Michigan State University, Lansing Community College and for the Philadelphia Academy of Science. He has participated on a number of community boards and commissions including as Chairman of East Lansing’s Commission on the Environment and as President of the Michigan State University Museum Associates Board of Directors.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Fisheries and Wildlife, a Masters Degree in Zoology (Aquatic Ecology) from Michigan State University, and completed post-graduate (ABD) work in Environmental Policy and Law also at MSU. He is a published author on topics related to wetlands, stream ecology and impact assessment..

Skiles Boyd
Vice President, Environmental Affairs DTE Energy

Skiles Boyd is vice president of environmental affairs at DTE Energy, a Detroit-based diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. Boyd is responsible for managing the company's environmental issues which include setting environmental policy, representing the company on environmental issues with the public and in environmental regulatory and legislative development, coordinating environmental studies and conducting environmental audits.   He manages a department of approximately 77 people.   Boyd has worked in DTE's environmental department for over 27 years.

Boyd earned a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental resource management from Pennsylvania State University and a master of business administration degree from Wayne State University.

Boyd is active in the Air and Waste Management Association and the environmental committees of the Michigan Manufacturers Association, the Michigan and Greater Detroit Chambers of Commerce, the Electric Power Research Institute, The Edison Electric Institute (vice chair of the Executive Environmental Advisory Committee), the Center for Energy and Economic Development, and the Business Environmental Leadership Council of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Kristine M. Krause
Vice President, Environmental
Wisconsin Energy Corp.

Kristine Krause is vice president - Environmental, a Wisconsin Energy group formed October 2000. Krause is responsible for compliance strategy and planning, mitigation and risk management, environmental permitting of new projects, compliance assurance and identification of new and/or enhanced means of benefiting the environment through the business practices of Wisconsin Energy and its subsidiaries.

Krause joined the company in 1978 as design engineer - Power Plant Betterment.   She has held various positions in power plant engineering, construction, maintenance and operations. In 1992 she was named manager - Valley Power Plant and Steam Services. Krause was named vice president - Fossil Operations in May 1994. Prior to joining the company, Krause was a design engineer in the transmission group of Allegheny Power Service Corp. in Pennsylvania.  

Krause graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. She earned a master's of science in civil engineering from Marquette University in 1983 and a master's of business administration from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1990.

Krause is a registered professional engineer in the state of Wisconsin and, in 1992, was recognized by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of the "40 Under 40" Next Generation of Business and Community Leaders. She is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Chi Epsilon Honor Member. She was inducted into the Academy of Civil and Environmental Engineers at Michigan Tech in 1997 and is a member of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Professional Advisory Council and President's Council of Alumnae. In December of 2001, Krause was recognized as a "Woman to Watch" in Commodities Now magazine's "50 Key Women in Energy" worldwide survey. She is a Trustee of Mount Mary College, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Natural Resource Foundation of Wisconsin.

Dale K. Phenicie
Environmental Affairs Consulting

Dale Phenicie has worked with industrial organizations on environmental matters during his entire working career.   He has identified pollutant release sources, been involved in the development of effluent and air emission control systems, overseen control measure implementation, worked on new industrial process designs which reduce or eliminate environmental impacts, and actively monitored the results of these efforts in plant effluents, air emission streams, and the ecosystem.   Dale has been involved in Great Lakes related environmental issues since 1991.   He served on a U.S. EPA task force regarding the Great Lakes Initiative (GLI), the IJC Virtual Elimination Task Force, has organized and chaired several industry oriented committees and working groups on Great Lakes matters, coordinated industry activity in the Great Lakes Binational Toxics Strategy, and has been a member of the SOLEC Steering Committee since 1994.   Since 1996, Dale has pursued an independent consulting practice primarily focused on Great Lakes issues.   A primary client has been Council of Great Lakes Industries.   His industrial expertise includes pulp and paper making processes, lumber and wood products production, chemical manufacture, hydro-electric and thermal electric generating systems.   Dale holds degrees in Industrial Chemistry Technology and Paper Technology from Ferris State University and Western Michigan University respectively.

Evelyn Strader
Strader & Company

Evelyn Strader is a public relations consultant with more than 25 year experience developing communications and public relations programs for associations, business, and non-profit organizations.   She has been consultant to the CGLI since 1994 providing environmental issues management and communication services.   She specializes in communicating complex issues in a clear and understandable manner.   She has provided communication council to start-up companies, associations, software manufacturers, and agencies.   She has a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America.

Organizations

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Sediment Management Work Group

 

    
 
   
 

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