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Dave Williams is the CEO of ShoreBank Pacific, the first commercial bank in the United States with a commitment to environmentally sustainable community development. He came to this position after two prior careers one in academia and another in manufacturing and 10 years in commercial banking.
A physicist with Masters degrees in both Physics and Economics, Williams taught Physics at both the secondary and collegiate level with a focus on energy issues. Moving to the commercial world, he has held progressive positions from MIS director through CFO, manufacturing manager and chief engineer, to CEO in companies in the oil and gas, robotics, boat building and steel fabrication industries. These companies have been both local to the Pacific Northwest and international in scope including boat building in Taiwan at the early stage of its transition to an industrial economy.
Through ShoreBank Pacific's leadership in Triple Bottom Line sustainable banking, the bank has demonstrably changed the behavior of its borrowers as well and stimulated the economy of rural communities in the Pacific Northwest and has developed the premier positive evaluation system for assessing the business choices that companies make toward sustainable practices.
Williams has been a speaker on sustainable business activities and opportunities to universities and at various sustainability conferences throughout the west. Many of these talks are to organizations such as The World Bank's senior executives who were seeking help developing an environmental agenda as part of their selection criteria, CaisseD'Epargne a large French bank seeking to promote sustainability in their lending practices, the MIT Enterprise Forum on green buildings, and well as many of the universities on the West Coast on issues of sustainability.
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