Nicole Lederer
E2 Co-Founder
Nicole Lederer is Chair and Co-Founder of E2, an advocacy, research and communications platform for business leaders to advance strong environmental policy, grow a resilient clean economy, and create jobs. Nicole works with E2 members across a spectrum of American industries to establish collaborations between business, military, agriculture and environmental leaders, and to engage with legislators at the state and national levels to promote policies that foster economic and environmental resilience. Nicole serves on the Board of the NRDC.
Bob Epstein
E2 Co-Founder
Bob Epstein is an entrepreneur and engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of five companies: Sybase, New Resource Bank, GetActive Software, Colorado Microdisplay, and Britton-Lee. Bob is an elected Director of the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District, a co-founder of E2, serves on the advisory board of the Goldman School of Public Policy and UC Davis Institute for Transportation Studies, and on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Food Institute. Bob led the E2 team that helped to pass California’s major global warming bills – the “Clean Cars Bill” and the “Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006”. In 2020, Bob co-founded Project 2030 which is focused on California policies to manage carbon, decarbonize industrial sources expand the use of re-generative agriculture practices. Bob’s community activities are focused on the environment, public education, sustainable food systems and music. Bob is a classical pianist and performs four-hand and solo piano.