Joe Sibilia of CSRwire

In the fourth installment of On Paper, host, David Crew, interviews Joe Sibilia, President of CSRwire, the leading global source of Corporate Social Responsibility news. In this episode, Sibilia discusses the role of corporate social responsibility and how it can impact a company’s image.

As a visionary of the socially responsible business movement, Joe Sibilia is founder and CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC), described by the Wall Street Journal as a “socially responsible investment bank” specializing in turning values into valuation. He is also the President of CSRwire.com, the social responsibility newswire service that distributes corporate social responsibility news to journalists, analysts, investors, activists and thought leaders. Through MLBC, Joe has worked with a number of Socially Responsible Companies and has been widely recognized for his work in attempting to take Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream private, while successfully preserving many of the founders social initiatives, and advancing the connection between good corporate citizenship and increased share value.

Throughout his career, Joe has purchased and sold nineteen of his own companies. He was previously the Founder and President of Marty’s Juice Creations, which designed and developed proprietary fruit beverage technologies to dispense fruit beverages at food service locations. The creation of these technologies resulted in the elimination of bottles, cans, packaging, and refrigeration, and in 1994 alone, saved 50,880 trees, 20,966,400 gallons of water, 9,974 cubic yards of landfill space, 12,579,840 kilowatt-hours of energy, and 179,712 pounds of effluents from polluting the air.

Among many achievements, Joe also founded the Gasoline Alley Foundation, a 501(c)3 corporation that has incubated forty-three small businesses since 1985 and teaches inner-city and/or underprivileged persons to be successful entrepreneurs using socially responsible/sustainable business practices while revitalizing inner city neighborhoods.

Joe is married to Claire Sullivan and has three daughters: Kristen, Kendra and Kayla. The Sibilia family lives in Western Massachusetts.