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“ AS A COMPANY , WE CONTINUE TO EXPAND AND GROW , BOTH ORGANICALLY AND THROUGH ACQUISITION . OUR GOAL IS TO BETTER SERVE OUR CLIENTS GLOBALLY ”
— Nick Franco , Director of Sustainability Services , Kinect Energy Group
there were the companies who innovated their way out of having to comply with environmental regulations .” Franco remembers : “ My goal was to go help those companies and build up those companies , the ones that were being more innovative and not taking it as a drag on business , but seeing it an opportunity to innovate and lead in their industries .”
He notes that , prior to the public sector , “ I had worked in industry before : I had worked at General Motors for a while . I worked at Cray Research , which was a supercomputer company for five years . I have experienced both in the government side and then the business side of things .” He pauses , momentarily , before another of the many strings to his bow leaps to mind . “ And then , actually , I also worked for the Sierra Club , which is the largest environmental nonprofit here in the United States , for about a year .” With Kinect ’ s global client base spanning multiple industries in the public and private sectors , the Director of Sustainability Services role fits him to a tee .
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“ It ’ s an important strategy to meet your customer where they are in their sustainability journey .” Kinect focuses on tailoring its services to client companies with different levels of sustainability infrastructure , from businesses starting along the road to reducing their carbon footprint , to those already operating at a high degree of sustainability . Regarding the former , Franco says , “ I ’ ll do a seminar for a client on the very basic ‘ what is a sustainability strategy ?’, ‘ How would you approach it ?’ What are the
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