CEO of Green Seal Stepping Down at Month's End

Washington, DC, September 11, 2017-After two decades at the helm of Green Seal, Dr. Arthur B. Weissman has announced that he will be leaving the organization on September 30.

To ensure a smooth transition, Green Seal’s vice president of certification, Mary Swanson, will serve as interim president, effective October 1 until the next president assumes his or her responsibilities.

Lochlin Partners, a McLean, Virginia-based firm, has been retained to lead the nationwide search.

Weissman joined Green Seal in 1993 as its vice president of standards and planning and became president and CEO in 1996. He served as founding chair of the Global Ecolabeling Network from 1994-1997, and as international convener for ISO 14020 guidelines for environmental labeling.

Prior to joining Green Seal, he was responsible for developing national policy and guidance for the Superfund program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and also served in the U.S. Senate as a Congressional Science Fellow and worked for The Nature Conservancy. He is the author of In the Light of Humane Nature: Human Values, Nature, the Green Economy, and Environmental Salvation, published in 2014.