Colorado / London/ Ottawa, August 29^th 2016 –The Anthesis Group, a leading global sustainability services and solutions provider, has today announced that Jim Fava has joined as Chief Strategist.

Fava, a pioneer in his field, has over 30 years of experience of working with businesses in advancing organizational excellence through Sustainability. As part of this strategic thought leadership role within the organization, Fava will use his extensive experience to expand the demand for sustainability excellence, enhance the services and solutions offered to clients, and further develop the Anthesis brand both in North America and globally.

Chris Jones, President Anthesis Group, North America said:

“We are delighted to welcome an individual of Jim Fava’s caliber to Anthesis. Jim has an unrivalled reputation for improving business performance through the application of strategies, management systems, and tools to create sustainable business value” he continued “Jim’s knowledge and experience, make him a tremendous asset to our leadership team."

Fava’s extensive experience in the field includes the establishment of the Product Sustainability Round Table (PSRT) over 20 years ago, which bring together the product sustainability leaders of the world’s leading companies to provide benchmarking, support and best practice advice to their product programs. His work with the PSRT also led to the development of a sustainability implementation framework over 15 years ago which has informed dozens of companies understand their strategy, management systems and data need to achieve their business goals.

Fava said:

“Anthesis is an excellent organization for me to join, providing alignment in priority areas for us both, including an interest in building partnerships to meet the needs of clients through a full range of solutions to realize measurable business value through the practice of accelerating sustainability as a major business imperative."