Partners And ASSOCIATES
Jill Dumain
With a desire to apply the learnings gleaned from over three decades of experience, Jill is looking forward to helping shape the next steps in the business and sustainability journeys of organizations as a founding partner of Fractal CSOS.
The early part of Jill’s career gave her an in-depth knowledge of the entire supply chain from raw materials, both agriculturally based and synthetic polymer production, through the intermediate processing steps to finished products ready for the consumer. The latter part of her career has been spent in management and executive positions, utilizing the collective experience of her previous roles.
Given the myriad of projects she has worked on, she has a proven ability to unpack complex issues, create manageable and implementable solutions and create the communication pieces to bring the stories forward.
Through all these years, Jill has curated and cultivated a global network working extensively in the USA, Asia, Europe and South America. Having recently lived in Switzerland for over 4 years, she now makes her home in California with her husband and 24-year-old cockatiel bird.
Chad Dorgan
As a Partner of Fractal CSOs, Dr. Dorgan brings deep executive, integration and implementation experience to organizations in or starting their sustainability journeys.
Throughout Chad’s 30-plus year career in engineering, consulting, business optimization, design, construction and supply chains, he has played a significant role in the evolution of sustainability across all industry sectors. Dr. Dorgan most recently developed and drove Sustainability Solutions for SGS, the largest international test, inspection and certification company, working across the globe and through complex and deep supply chains.
For 15 years, Chad was the Vice President - Sustainability and Quality for McCarthy Holdings, Inc., a 100% employee-owned national construction company specializing in complex, high-technology facilities such as hospitals, research laboratories and industrial plants. He created and integrated the Leaving Green Footprints sustainability program, the innovative Quality without Question program and their Virtual Design and Construction efforts – all spanning nearly $100 billion in capital projects.
Chad is a LEED Fellow of the United States Green Building Council and a Fellow member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Lena Pripp-Kovac
As a a holistic and creative thinker with strong business analytic skills Lena offers hands-on strategic leadership based on proven business and sustainability expertise. As one of the founding partners of Fractal CSOs LLC she is today part of a network developing and offering services as a fractional CSO.
Lena brings more than 30+ years’ experience of working with sustainability innovation and business development in various businesses, industries and countries. She has been an Executive management team member and acted as an advisor to the Board of Directors. Most recently as Chief Sustainability Officer at Inter IKEA Group – covering the IKEA product and food range, supply, production and franchising. Prior to Inter IKEA Group she worked with the IT industry, medical device industry, academia and NGOs.
She started her career as a financial analyst in the semiconductor and medical device industry. Thereafter she acquired a Master of Science in Environmental Management and Policy. For many years, she has participated and acted as an international spokesperson at different international sustainability forums. She also serves as an advisor, coach, and mentor in the area of sustainability. Lena is especially passionate about working with regenerative business solutions, ecosystem restoration and biodiversity. She has been a board member of Sow a Seed 2015 – 2022, a large rainforest restoration project in Borneo.
Jim Hanna
In his 30 years in sustainability, Jim Hanna has become a passionate industry expert in driving companies to link their investments in sustainability directly to business outcomes. As one of the pioneers advancing the “business case for sustainability” he’s spent his career working to help companies move beyond anecdotal, qualitative and non-business metrics to justify and compete internally with other business priorities for their sustainability and community investments. In the last several years, he applied that expertise and business-linkage lens to the area of corporate community investments, a field that is still essentially a philanthropic endeavor at most companies. He’s built a groundbreaking methodology to quantify community thriving, link investments to substantive community impacts, and monetize the ROI of corporate community investments.
Jim joined Microsoft in 2006 as the company’s first director of datacenter sustainability, providing strategic environmental direction in the fields of land-use, green building, energy, and water to the company’s growing cloud computing platform. He then transitioned to lead the company’s focus on urban planning and community prosperity in its datacenter communities around the world.
Previously, Jim served as chief sustainability officer for Starbucks, leading the company’s global sustainability mission in green building, energy conservation, and circular economy, in addition to serving as Starbucks external environmental policy voice and advocate on Capitol Hill.
Prior to Starbucks, Jim served as Director of Environmental Affairs for Xanterra Parks & Resorts at Yellowstone National Park.
A native of Washington state, Jim earned a BS in Environmental Sciences from Washington State University and is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED-accredited professional. He serves on the advisory council of the Yellowstone Park Foundation and the Washington State University College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council.