About the Author
Tim Albinson is the Founder, CEO, and chief visionary at Aravo Solutions, a San Francisco-based software company focused on sustainable supply chain management (www.aravo.com). With a technology background dating back to the early 1980s, he has held cross-functional positions in marketing, product strategy, and sales management. Prior to founding Aravo, he worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York and as an associate with Core-Capital Partners, a $350 million early-stage venture capital fund. He has also served as President of the Adelante Consulting Group, a professional services firm he founded to advise Global 2000 corporations and conservation groups on issues of sustainability and cause-related marketing.
Mr. Albinson has been an advocate for conservation and sustainability for over two decades, and has worked with organizations including World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, American Forests and Fundacion Natura, Ecuador’s leading conservation group. In the early 1990s he helped formulate sustainability strategies for companies including Eddie Bauer and Timberland, and has written numerous articles on sustainability and environmental issues.
Mr. Albinson holds an MBA from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Walter A. Haas Scholar and served as student body president. He also holds a BA in English literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a member of the SF Bay Chapter of the Young President’s Organization.
Outside of Aravo, he serves on numerous advisory boards, teaches entrepreneurship and startup finance at the University of California, Berkeley Extension, and works with the Painted Turtle Camp serving the needs of children with life-threatening diseases.
Tim,
My name is Bill Hawthorne, and I represent maacenter.org, a leading web resource for asbestos exposure and mesothelioma cancer information. Our organization is dedicated to increasing awareness of the terrible health consequences of asbestos exposure.
I found your site through a search and decided to contact you because of its high environmental and green presence which is extremely important in our movement. Your viewers are extremely savvy and motivated. The promotion of how buildings should now be built using sustainable green products to avoid asbestos and mesothelioma as well as the awareness of past buildings and preventative steps in avoiding asbestos exposure are extremely important. My goal is to get a resource link on your site/blog or even to provide a guest posting to be placed.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to check out our website. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Bill Hawthorne
1bhawthorne@maacenter.org
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Mr. Albinson
Ketera Technologies is interested in working with you to expand our current knowledge base. We have decided to write you to acquire permission to repost choice information onto our site. We are interested in blog entries. We will not be posting any of these cachets in full form, but will instead use the ideas and areas of interest to your visitors as a springboard to create brand new content. That content will contain attribution to your site.
We are also interested in obtaining new, original article submissions to be incorporated into Ketera.com. Those pieces will be available to our substantial client base and will become part of a new reference base for their use.
Unfortunately, this reference area of our website is not live as of today, but we will be previewing the area. If you are interested in working with Ketera on our new site, please let me know. I would like to begin reviewing web content for inclusion this week.
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3Hello Tim, I was wondering if I could copy some of the text from your Oct. 16, 2009 report on the Port of Oakland. I have been monitoring this issue and volunteering with the “Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports.” I was going to put together a short year-end report on the campaign and I see you have done a good piece of work already. Please let me know via email if I can have your permission to reprint. Thanks.
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