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Sodexo Expands Corporate Citizenship Team to Provide Client-Focused Sustainability Training
Company’s corporate citizenship leadership team adds senior director to innovate, train managers and bolster client programs
(CSRwire) GAITHERSBURG, Md. - December 2, 2008 - Sodexo, a leading food and
facilities management services company, has appointed Holly Fowler as
senior director of corporate citizenship training and innovation, a move
intended to more deeply connect the company's sustainability strategy with
its 120,000-person workforce in order to drive enhanced results for its
6,000 clients in North America.
Fowler, who has been with Sodexo in leadership and training roles on the
global level for nearly ten years, is an expert on corporate social
responsibility and sustainable development. She is a frequent presenter at
academic conferences worldwide and is currently vice president of outreach
for the Net Impact Boston professional chapter, a global network of
leaders who are generating social and environmental change through
business.
In her new position, Fowler will lead Sodexo's sustainability innovation
by leveraging the company's expertise and experience in serving more than
10,000 individual sites across North America. The effort will extend
Sodexo's ability to deliver unsurpassed sustainability solutions to its
clients and help them achieve sustainability goals. Fowler will play a key
role to help Sodexo achieve its goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
energy and water use, waste generation, and to promote sustainable
community development.
"Promoting sustainable development is one of today's most important
priorities for our clients and achieving it requires commitment, action,
and innovation," said Arlin Wasserman, vice president, corporate
citizenship. "Holly is an excellent addition to our team with
her experience in promoting innovative and sustainable business
practices in our industry as well as her insights, which add another
dimension to Sodexo’s global corporate citizenship commitment."
Prior to joining Sodexo, Fowler was an English professor at the Centre de
Langues Vivantes of the Universite de Grenoble in Grenoble, France from
1998 to 1999, and English lecturer at the Universite de Bretagne
Occidentale in Brest, France from 1997 to 1998. Fowler is a graduate of
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and holds an A.B. in French and
European history. She is currently pursuing an M.B.A. at Babson College in
Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a focus in sustainability.
Sodexo, Inc.
Sodexo, Inc. (www.sodexoUSA.com) is a leading
integrated facilities management services company in the U.S., Canada, and
Mexico, with $7.7 billion (USD) in annual revenue and 120,000 employees.
Sodexo serves more than ten million customers daily in corporations,
health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college
campuses, government, and remote sites. Sodexo, Inc., headquartered in
Gaithersburg, Md., is a member of Sodexo Group, and funds all
administrative costs for the Sodexo Foundation (www.sodexofoundation.org), an
independent charitable organization that, since its founding in 1999, has
made more than $11 million in grants to fight hunger in America.
For more information please contact:
Jaya K. Bohlmann
301 987 4550
www.sodexousa.com
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