Suppliers Partnership for the Environment Announces 2012 Executive Committee

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) has announced its new Executive Committee for 2012. 

Chairing the SP Executive Committee for 2012 will be Randy Leslie, Vice President and General Manager, Johnson Controls, Inc., Automotive Experience. "I am pleased that the SP membership has selected me to serve as the Chair of the Executive Committee.  SP continues to expand and innovate as it seeks to develop creative projects and programs to advance environmental sustainability in the automotive supply chain, and I am honored to be selected to help lead SP in 2012," stated Leslie.

Leslie added, "We have two new members of the Executive Committee in 2012: Barbara Boroughf, Vice President, Global Environment, Health & Safety, Lear Corporation, who will be the new Work Group Chair; and Doug Yates, Manager Facility Sustainability Initiatives, General Motors Company, who will be an At-Large Chair."

"We would also like to thank the two committee members who will be leaving the SP Executive Committee this year: Vickie Mecsey, General Motors Company and Adam Westerdale, Aevitas Specialty Services Corp.  We thank them for their continued leadership and service to SP," said Leslie.

SP's 2012 Executive Committee includes: 

Chair: Randy Leslie, Vice President and General Manager, Johnson Controls, Inc., Automotive Experience
Vice Chair: Russell Brynolf, CEO, FTS Technologies Inc.
Finance Chair: Reg Modlin, Director - Regulatory Affairs, Chrysler Group LLC
Membership Chair: Jim Laney, Senior Manager, Environmental, Safety & Health, DENSO International America, Inc.
Work Group Chair: Barbara Boroughf, Vice President, Global Environment, Health & Safety, Lear Corporation
At-Large: Andrew Hobbs, Director, Environmental Quality Office, Ford Motor Company
At-Large: Doug Yates, Manager Facility Sustainability Initiatives, General Motors Company

Steve Hellem, Executive Director of SP stated, "The SP membership has elected a remarkable group of environmental sustainability leaders from across the automotive supply chain to meet the strategic goals and objectives of the organization and our member companies in 2012."

The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) is an innovative collaboration between automobile manufacturers, their suppliers, and the U.S. EPA. SP's members include:  2V Industries, Inc., Aevitas Specialty Services, Albemarle Corporation, ARCADIS, Asset Recovery & Management Group LTD, Atwater Steel Trading Co, BAE Industries, Chemico Systems, Inc., Chrysler Group LLC, Crystal Filtration, DENSO International America, Inc., EDSS, Electricfil, Environmental Quality Company, Federal-Mogul Corporation, Ford Motor Company, FTS Technologies, Gage Products Company, Gayle Technologies, Inc., GDC Inc., General Motors, Goodwill Association of Michigan, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Green Tree Products and Technologies LLC, Haley & Aldrich, Inc., Heritage Interactive Services, Johnson Controls Inc., Lear Corporation, Mobile Fluid Recovery, Inc., MPS Group, Oemeta, Peter Feamster & Associates, Inc., Quaker Chemical, RTI Laboratories, Sustainable Research Group, TestAmerica Laboratories, Inc., The Polar Companies, US Industrial Technologies, Inc., VMX International Inc., Work Force Network Inc.

More information about SP can be found at www.supplierspartnership.org.

For More Information Contact:
Kellen Mahoney: (202) 530-0096

SOURCE Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP)