Rona Fried, Ph.D. | 231 W. Pulaski Rd. | Huntington Station, NY. 11746 | 631-423-3277
rona@sustainablebusiness.com
BIO
Rona Fried, Ph.D.
Rona Fried is known for her wide-ranging, deep knowledge of sustainable business and environmental issues in general. She is president and founder of SustainableBusiness.com, and speaks and writes on topics related to sustainable business, green jobs and green investing..
SustainableBusiness.com (SB.com) has been on-line for 12 years providing global news and networking services to help green business grow. By covering all sustainable business sectors worldwide, the site offers visitors a unique lens to view the field as a whole: clean energy, green building, green investing, organic products, climate change and all subjects that impact sustainability.
In addition to providing daily sustainable business and investor news, SustainableBusiness.com runs Green Dream Jobs, the only sustainable business job service, and Green Business Connections, an online networking forum for green businesses. The company publishes Progressive Investor, one of the few hands-on sustainable investing newsletters.
Dr. Fried writes an "Investing in Clean Energy" column for Solar Today Magazine, a "Money Matters" column for E Magazine, along with articles for numerous other magazines. She is widely quoted as an expert in green business and green investing.
Rona serves on several Advisory Boards: the WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ECO), the bellweather Index that tracks the clean energy sector; the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (NEX), which tracks the clean energy sector worldwide; Greensource Partners, a venture capital firm investing in sustainable early stage companies; and Alternative Construction Technologies, a green building products manufacturer.
Previous to her shift into the environmental arena, Dr. Fried directed an organizational effectiveness consulting practice for ten years. She received her Ph.D. in Social/Organizational Psychology from SUNY/Buffalo in 1982, and her B.A. in Psychology from University of Wisconsin/Madison in 1976.
