Board of Directors

Lauren DeMasi is a Managing Director at Roc360. She gained significant in-house experience in multiple roles as general counsel, after spending the first decade of her career at a law firm. She received a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University in International Studies and a JD from Cornell Law School.

Kathryn M. Huarte is an entrepreneur and senior executive with over 25 years of experience across internet technology, finance, and government. She began her career in the NASA Science Internet Planning Department and has held senior roles in both the private and public sectors, including leadership positions at B2B Technologies, eBay’s Shopping.com (Australia), and CIBC Oppenheimer’s M&A Technology Group, as well as contributing to the founding team of Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Private Equity group in Central Europe. She also served in public policy roles, including on Governor Gavin Newsom’s first mayoral campaign. She is the Founder and President of Huarte Advisors LLC, where she advises innovative organizations on strategy, operations, fundraising, and partnerships.

She holds a B.S. from the University of California, Davis, and an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School, with coursework at MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School. Kathryn serves on Pure Earth’s Board of Directors as Treasurer. 

Troy has held finance, operations, and strategy leadership positions across various industries. He specializes in strategic finance, enterprise risk management, and operational excellence.  He has held finance, operations, and strategy leadership positions across various industries including consumer banking (Bank of America), insurance, annuities, and wealth management (Jackson National Life Insurance/Distributors), broadcast and streaming media (NPR), and management consulting (Deloitte). Troy obtained a Masters from Columbia University, and both a Masters and Bachelors from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Gloria “Glo” Janata is an award-winning public relations strategist, marketing communications expert and issues management specialist with more than 25 years of agency, corporate and non-profit experience, focusing on health, well-being and beauty. As president of TogoRun, she is responsible for global operations, business development and the financial management of the agency, and provides senior counsel across accounts.

Since joining TogoRun in November 2012, Glo has led the team to achieve several of the most prestigious industry awards, including TogoRun being named by PRWeek Global as 2014 International Agency of the Year and best in class for Corporate Social Responsibility, and shortlisted by PRWeek Global as 2015 International Agency of the Year.

Glo has played a pivotal role elevating corporate reputations and brands for world-leading pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Allergan, Schering-Plough, Bayer and Amgen. Programs under her leadership have won more than 220 industry awards, including the 2018 Sabre Award for Best Global Campaign for her work with Pure Earth on the launch of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, which reached over 2 billion people worldwide.

Glo is also a seasoned advocate and licensed attorney, admitted to practice in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Her proudest accomplishments include serving as senior vice president for non-profit Children’s Health Fund (CHF), where she focused on driving support for policy changes to provide access to healthcare for homeless and indigent U.S. children. She currently serves on CHF’s Advisory Council.

Glo began her public relations career at APCO and Hill & Knowlton in Washington, D.C. She was also part of the original leadership team at Chandler Chicco Agency (CCA), serving 16 years in various roles including co-head of the New York office, digital lead and the first managing director of Biosector 2. Immediately prior to assuming the helm of TogoRun, Glo served as Cohn & Wolfe’s global head of health and well-being.

Andrew (Drew) McCartor is a lawyer and internationally recognized leader in pollution management and environmental health with 15 years of experience designing and leading strategies to reduce public health impacts from toxic chemicals. Drew has managed complex and diverse multi-partner programs across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas focused on pollution assessment, remediation, risk mitigation, health surveillance, research, education, and public policy.

During his 25-year career on Wall Street, Mr. Meyer was a founding member of Lehman Brothers’ Mergers and Acquisitions Department and went on to run the global M&A new business development efforts of Morgan Stanley and Gleacher Partners. In retirement, he has been involved with a variety of not-for-profit institutions and is currently an active member of the board of the American Red Cross in Greater New York. Mr. Meyer holds an undergraduate degree from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Roux received an M.A. in geology from Queens College, City University of New York, and a B.S. in engineering science from C.W. Post College, Long Island University. A Certified Professional Geologist and Hydrogeologist, he has served on the editorial board of “Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation” and currently is on the Board of Registration of the American Institute of Hydrology, the Technical Advisory Board of Pure Earth and the Board of Directors of the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund.

Roux Associates, which Mr. Roux founded in 1981, currently has more than 250 professional employees in six offices across the country. The firm provides a broad range of consulting and project management services to solve complex environmental problems. Roux Associates was twice named as one of America’s 500 fastest-growing private companies by “Inc. Magazine,” and since 1996 has been listed as one of the top 200 environmental consulting firms by “Engineering News Record”.

Ethan Sawyer is the Global Head of Media Investment Banking for UBS. Prior to joining UBS, Ethan was a Senior Managing Director with Guggenheim Securities and a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he led the Global Entertainment Investment Banking practice. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ethan worked as a consultant for Mercer Management Consulting in New York City.  Ethan holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. from Dartmouth College.

Raised on a dairy farm in the English countryside, Ms. Triefus got her first significant taste of life in a developing country when she spent a year after high school in New Delhi, India managing quality control for an American fashion company. She came to America and received her bachelors degree from the University of Maryland, where she ran the Public Interest Resource Group’s Bottle Bill initiative. She subsequently earned her Masters degree in Media Ecology from New York University. After earning her masters, Ms. Triefus was the Program Coordinator at Tender Planet Marketing, developing environmental educational opportunities for corporations such as ACE Hardware and Thompson Vitamin, and then became Associate Account Manager at Markham Novell Communications where she created events for various luxury brands including Krug Champagne and Remy Martin. She later started her own company representing English fashion designers, and then inaugurated the Hands-On volunteering program at UJA Federation of New York. Ms. Triefus joined the Pure Earth board in 2012.

Betsy Doyle is a partner in The Bridgespan Group’s San Francisco office and leads the organization’s philanthropy practice. Since joining Bridgespan in 2001, her work has focused on supporting nonprofit, public, and philanthropic leaders to increase the flow of philanthropic funds toward transformative social change. In particular, she has deep expertise in strategic planning, sourcing and due diligence, philanthropic collaboratives, and management priorities such as scaling impact and building leadership capacity. In recent years, she has advised individual donor families and philanthropic platforms on outcome-driven grantmaking. Since 2018, she has led Bridgespan’s partnership with TED Audacious, a platform that has unlocked more than $4B of philanthropic capital to support a global portfolio of social-change organizations. Betsy is a graduate of Princeton University, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received both her MBA and MEd from Stanford University.

Dr. Hu, a physician-scientist-epidemiologist, has been a tenured Professor, Director, Department Chair, and Dean in positions at Harvard (1990-2006), the University of Michigan (2006-2012), and the University of Toronto (2012-2018).  He most recently served as  the Flora L. Thornton Chair of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).  After stepping down as Department Chair and completing a 1 year sabbatical in 2025, Dr. Hu returned to USC as a tenured Professor focused on research and teaching a popular new course on Global Environmental Change and Human Health. Regarding research, Dr. Hu has led international teams investigating the environmental, nutritional, social, genetic and epigenetic determinants of adult chronic disease and impaired child development in population-based studies based in the U.S., Mexico, India, China, and elsewhere around the world.  His team’s work has been continuously funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and has generated over 400 publications and won many awards.  In 2026, he also began serving as Senior Science Advisor to Pure Earth, leveraging 30+ years of research on lead exposure and toxicity to assist Pure Earth in the expansion of its work on addressing lead poisoning in low- and middle-income countries around the world.