Oracle
CEF Lead Executives
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MAX TWOGOOD
Director of Sustainability
Max leads the environmental sustainability strategy at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Since 2010, he has built a diverse career in sustainability, covering building energy efficiency audits, renewable energy procurement, green tariffs, employee engagement programs, sustainability accounting software design, and corporate ESG reporting. Max believes that the climate crisis is the defining challenge of our generation, and that the key to accelerating progress is through collaboration. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Duwamish Native American Proverb.
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ANDREA LEWIS
Bio coming soon!
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SAM MITCHELL
Global Sustainability Director
Focus areas include renewable energy adoption, customer enablement, non-financial reporting (CDP, Global CSA, EcoVadis & TCFD), and transparency related to Oracle’s sustainable performance. Also act as the Green Team lead, which is a grassroots program focused on driving environmental, and volunteering efforts with a local impact.
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IAN MURTY
Global Sustainability Program Manager
Ian works on developing strategies to embed and improve Sustainability within Oracle’s Real Estate & Facilities (RE&F). Prior to his current role, Ian worked within Oracle’s EMEA Environment and Health and Safety (EHS) team. There is a strong synergy between Sustainability and EHS, and the EHS experience has allowed Ian to bring compliance and risk management expertise to the role. Ian is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), and has an MSc in Corporate Environmental Management from the University of Surrey.
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GERRY GURTLER
Global Energy Director
Gerry is responsible for managing Oracle’s energy procurement activities including renewable energy and core grid alternatives in all global markets. In addition, he is responsible for developing and driving energy efficiency strategies in owned Real Estate offices, labs and regional data centers. He provides guidance to regional RE&F technical staff with respect to energy efficiency retrofit opportunities ensuring time is spent responsibly pursuing practical and rational technologies. His work also includes developing on site solar PV systems and working with local utilities to obtain alternative renewable energy options to help attain the corporation’s 100% renewable energy goal by 2025. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and has a Masters in Corporate Real Estate.
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AMY AVES
Senior Director, Global Real Estate Operations
Amy is the Senior Director of Oracle’s Global Real Estate Operations team, and leads Oracle’s Environment Health and Safety function. She is a 30-year Oracle veteran with responsibility for supporting the Global Real Estate organization with communications, technology, process standardization, information security, environment health and safety, and energy management, and she leads the Real Estate Sustainability Program. She also is a member of Oracle’s Environmental Steering Committee. Outside of work, Amy enjoys reading and outdoor activities with her family in her beautiful town of Truckee, CA. She also serves as Vice President of the Board for the Friends of the Truckee Library non-profit organization.
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DON WATSON
SVP, Global Real Estate, Facilities, and EHS&S
Don joined Oracle in January of 2021 and is responsible for Oracle's Global Real Estate and Facility Management Operations, including: real estate strategy, dispositions, and transactions; hard & soft service facility services, cafes & dining; EH&S; campus design & build; workplace strategy; Integrated Facilities Management program; energy conservation and environmental sustainability; maintenance/reliability engineering; and hotel & apartment management.Prior to joining Oracle, Don spent 13 years with Merck where he led the Global Workplace and Enterprise Services Organization and spent 12 years at Stepan where he was the Plant Manager at their Maywood, NJ facility. Don holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University, an MBA from Seton Hall University, and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He has a passion for disability inclusion in the facility-built environment. Don is a past president for the New Jersey CoreNet chapter and served on the board of directors of the New Jersey Chemistry Council.
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LYDIA PIZZI
Supply Chain Sustainability and Circular Economy Lead
Latest Sustainability Reporting
Social Impact Datasheet (December 2024)
Highlights
Recent News
2025
Open Power AI Consortium — Launched by The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), this new consortium will use AI within the power sector to improve grid efficiency, reliability, and resilience, deploy sustainable technologies, and lower costs. It aims to do this by developing and maintaining an open AI model to address power sector-specific challenges, establishing a collaborative platform to test AI use cases, and deploying AI models to accelerate innovation. The consortium includes over 35 members, including CEF members Amazon, Duke Energy, Microsoft, and Oracle. (March 2025)
2023
FORBES
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Released its first-ever Net Zero Leaders list, highlighting the 100 U.S. public companies (with at least $1 billion evaluation) that are best positioning themselves “to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately offset them by 2050.” Forbes developed the list using data from research firms Sustainalytics and Morningstar, and all companies were considered in the context of their industry.
CEF members in the Top 100 include: Northrop Grumman (#3), Bank of America (#4), Procter & Gamble (#9), Wells Fargo (#11), JPMorgan Chase (#21), Microsoft (#30), Salesforce (#36), BlackRock (#37), The Walt Disney Company (#38), Alphabet (Google) (#45), Ecolab (#48), WM (#51),
Oracle (#59), CBRE (#65), PepsiCo (#77), Morgan Stanley (#80), Honeywell International (#87), Lockheed Martin (#88), UPS (#96), and 3M (#100).
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2022
HRC FOUNDATION 2022 “CORPORATE EQUALITY INDEX” (CEI) — The Human Rights Campaign Foundation released its annual report measuring company policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality. A record 842 companies employing 14.3 million workers earned a perfect rating and the title of “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality,” up from just 13 companies in 2002. The Foundation also released new criteria going into effect for the 2023 CEI, including gender-affirming health care and workplace policies. CEF members Apple and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have received a perfect scored every year of the CEI’s 20-year history.
CEF members with a perfect rating for 2022: 3M, Amazon, Apple, Archer Daniels Midland, Bank of America, BASF, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Boeing, CBRE, Chevron, Cisco, Comcast NBCUniversal, Dell, Dow, Duke Energy, Ecolab, Google, HP, HPE, Hyatt Hotels, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kaiser Permanente, Kimberly-Clark, Liberty Mutual, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International,
Mastercard, McDonald’s, McKesson, McKinsey & Co., Meta, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman,
Oracle, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Samsung Electronics America, Siemens, TD Bank Group, The Walt Disney Company, Tiffany & Co., TPG Capital, Unilever, UPS, Visa, and Wells Fargo.
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2021
Impact Management Platform — Global providers of sustainability standards and guidance formed a new collaboration “to mainstream the practice of impact management.” It is the next phase of a five-year, global collaboration facilitated by the Impact Management Project (IMP). The Platform’s Steering Committee will advise the new International Sustainability Standards Board, and Platform partners will work to “consolidate existing sustainability resources, collectively address gaps, and coordinate with policymakers and regulators.” IMP advisors include CEF members Bank of America and BlackRock, and IMP Practitioners include CEF member Oracle. Founding Platform partners: standards organizations (including GRI), NGOs (including CDP), UN initiatives (including the UN Global Compact), multilateral organizations (including the OECD), and groups such as Principles for Responsible Investment (including CEF member Bloomberg L.P.), the Capitals Coalition (including CEF members Dow, TD Bank, and Unilever), and the Global Impact Investing Network (including CEF members Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Morgan Stanley). (Nov 2021)
1.5°C Supplier Engagement Guide (1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders /
Exponential Roadmap Initiative)
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A
new online platform with open-source tools, case studies, and resources
to help businesses engage with their suppliers to halve GHG emissions by 2030. CEF members
Google, Oracle,
Mastercard, Microsoft, and
Unilever
belong to the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, the last three of which also belong to 1.5°C Supply Chain Leaders.
(Nov 2021)
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2019-2020
Recognized as one of 120 companies — out of more than 5,500 companies analyzed — on CDP’s Supplier Engagement leaderboard (“Global Supply Chain Report 2019”) for their work with suppliers to reduce emissions and lower environmental risks in the supply chain. (Feb 2019)
Included on CDP “2018 A List” for demonstrating leadership on climate change. (Jan 2019)