Senior Business Consultant & Vice President of Science Strategy

Susan is a mechanical engineer with almost 20 years experience in environmental and biomedical issues. As Vice President of Science Strategy, she ensures the suite of programs and services delivered by TerraVeritas and UL TerraChoice has the scientific rigor and responsiveness depended on by clients, stakeholders and the public. She is a recognized expert in the fields of environmental standards development, claims validation and independent verification processes, and has been helping UL TerraChoice clients strengthen the “scientific backbone” in their marketing messages since 1995.

Susan has provided consulting services for a range of clients around the world in a diverse range of sectors including, but not limited to: environmental non-profit organizations, Fortune 500 companies, wind farm developers, and consumer packaged goods manufacturers. She has been involved in the development of hundreds of environmental standards, prepared environmental screening guides, designed and delivered verifier training programs, and managed multi-stakeholder consensus-based development processes.

Susan oversees much of the science-based work at UL TerraChoice, including “greenwashing” assessments of clients’ environmental claims, the opportunity and risk analyses for clients’ environmental positioning, and clients’ sustainability program development and implementation processes. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering, and undertook postgraduate studies in mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto.