Who We Are
Patricia Conroy
Principal and co-director of E4 Partners. Ms. Conroy has over 15 years experience in environmental program planning and implementation, policy development, and budget and financial analysis for public and private organizations. Tricia is one of the nation’s leading experts in the area of product stewardship. She has developed general product stewardship policy and approaches for state and local governments and has created specific programs for products such as electronics and carpet. Ms. Conroy has led the development and implementation of a Consumer Electronics Recycling Program for Best Buy Company, the nation’s largest electronics retail company. This program is the first U.S. retail-oriented recycling program for consumer electronics. In addition, she has conducted policy analysis and managed programs in a variety of environmental and community issues, from recycling to hazardous waste management to groundwater cleanup programs.
Tricia has extensive knowledge regarding funding options for waste and resource conservation programs and has conducted budget and financial analysis for a many types of environmental, natural resource management, and community development programs.
Maureen Hickman Swanson
E4 works in association with Maureen H. Swanson. Maureen has over 10 years of experience in environmental policy planning and development. While at the Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance in the 1990s and early 2000s, she was instrumental in guiding the state of Minnesota through development of product stewardship policies for a variety of products, including paint and electronics. Her work helped shape the direction that state policy makers pursued to encourage increased responsibility for managing products at the end of life.
Her expertise and knowledge in environmental stewardship and policy issues led to Maureen’s selection to be part of the United States delegation to the OECD meetings in Paris, France in 2001.
More recently, Maureen has helped private industry identify strategies for managing cell phone recycling in a changing regulatory framework, assisted governments in researching effective third party organizations for product stewardship activities and identifying critical elements that must be present for success in using third party organizations as a technique in environmental management. Maureen also assists in a variety of environmental policy and regulatory assistance activities involving electronics equipment management for private sector clients.
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