Ruth Cox is a respected leader in both the private and public sectors currently serving as the Principal of RFC Enterprises. In this capacity, Ms. Cox is consulting to Third Way in the development of a Federal Buy Clean program and to EIT Climate-KIC CA. Her career is distinguished by the demonstrated ability to successfully transform organizations, introduce new leading-edge products and build high growth businesses. With Hewlett Packard, Tandem Computers and Oracle Corporation, Ms. Cox led efforts to expand market share in the telecommunications industry, defining telecom-specific products, establishing strategic alliances, acquiring new customers, and driving exponential revenue growth through direct sales and distribution channels. She also led sales, marketing and business develop efforts for companies offering leading-edge technologies in voice mail, teleconferencing and network management. In the public sector, Ms. Cox was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as the Senior Sustainability Officer (SSO) for the US General Services Administration (GSA) and the Regional Administrator for GSA’s Pacific Rim Region. As SSO, she was responsible for ensuring the President’s sustainability policies were firmly and consistently manifest in day-to-day operations across GSA. As chief executive of the Pacific Rim Region, she headed a workforce of nearly 1,000 with an annual operating budget of almost $1 billion. She oversaw operations of both the Public Building Service, providing real estate solutions to the civilian Federal government, and the Federal Acquisition Service, managing a supply chain to deliver goods, services, telecommunications and information technology to both civilian and military operations. Prior to GSA, Ms. Cox served as the President and Executive Director of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association, the industry’s premier trade association and as the VP of Marketing for a start-up developer of utility-scale solar and wind power generation facilities. She also assisted a start-up IoT company in developing a market strategy and raising Series B funding. Most recently, Ms. Cox served as the Chief Executive Officer of Prospect Silicon Valley, a cleantech innovation hub in San Jose, CA.