CEO Graceful Solutions A Chicago based real estate development and management consulting firm specializing in twenty first century data centers that are more verdant and serve the community. Regional Director and Board Member of Repair.org Advocating for Right to Repair legislation, focusing on agriculture issues. Senior Policy Advisor on Right to Repair for Farm Action. Co-Principal Investigator on NSF Grant: SaTC: CORE: Small: Managing Privacy and Environment for Used and End-of-Life Electronic Devices. Co-author of 9 academic papers on Sustainability of Used Electronics. Our first publication was in 2015. We have also submitted 4 additional full conference papers. Researcher of software vulnerabilities. Served on several electronic sustainability standards development teams. Actively participating in the creation of ULE 110 3.0. Have participated in 3 other sustainability focus consensus standards, R2, NSF 487 and IEEE 1601.1. Founder and CEO PC Rebuilders & Recyclers/Computers for Schools Program Mission: To contribute to sustainability and to bridge the digital divide by refurbishing used computing equipment, 2000 to 2017. Employed over 300 people who had been previously incarcerated. Original Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR): One of Microsoft’s first Community Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher in the US. Conference founder Electronics Sustainability Summit: ESS Powered by SERI (formerly: International Computer Refurbisher Summit). Winner of the Jim Lynch award, the computer refurbishment industry’s highest honor. P.A.C.E. Stakeholder and Co-Chair of Environmentally Sound Testing, Refurbishment and Repair of Used Computing Equipment Project Group The Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment of the Secretariat of the Basel Convention of the United Nations Environmental Program. Adjunct Faculty, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign Designed and taught “Sustainable Life Cycle Design” in the Department of Art and Design. Co-Principal investigator on several National Science Foundation grants. YouTuber Channel: DeereFacts Educational content about Right to Repair so Producers own their equipment and it doesn’t own them. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_xSiGIL1s) Provided testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology for the 111th Congress on electronic reuse. Appointee to Caterpillar’s external sustainability advisory board, (retired) Advisor to promote their mission of enabling economic growth through infrastructure and energy development, and to provide solutions that support communities and protect the planet. Participated in the creation of Caterpillar’s 5th value; sustainability. Chair of the Board of Montgomery Place. (retired) A retirement facility owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. After first year of membership I was name treasure and then became Chairman. (I forgot not to ask good questions) Personal Education: BS Chemistry with honors, University of Hawaii—Manoa, Language studies at La Sorbonne Université—Paris. Amateur standup comedian. Level 1 WISE certified Cell Phone repair tech. Grandson of Theo, John Deere Chief Engineer who accumulate 158 patients, lead the development of the tractor for Deere & Company, and served on the board of directors of John Deere for 30 years. Auctioneer for charity fund raisers. Parent to four grown children, and very proud grandfather of four, one granddaughter and three grandsons. Married to Carol Cade for 46+ years. I am my bride’s full time care giver and homemaker as together we struggle living with her Alzheimer's diagnosis.