James Gowen
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James Gowen
Title: Chief Sustainability Officer Company: Verizon Industry: Telecommunications
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As Verizon’ s Chief Sustainability Officer, James leads the company’ s sustainable growth strategies and oversees its initiatives. This includes enhancing energy resilience, e-waste reduction, recycling and management of material recovery. He has been working at Verizon for more than 24 years, becoming CSO in 2009. Across the company, he has also worked in supply chain operations, fleet services, business strategy and strategic sourcing. James has a Master’ s degree in business administration from Long Island University. sustainabilitymag. com 91