Yalmaz Siddiqui is Vice President, Corporate Sustainability at MGM Resorts International. He leads the company’s overall Environmental Management Program including policy, goals and reporting, and manages a number of specific initiatives including sustainable events, food waste reduction, environmentally preferable purchasing, and circular economy. Prior to MGM, Yalmaz was Senior Director, Sustainability at Office Depot where he set strategy and led a number of industry-leading social and environmental programs. He helped the company reduce total carbon emissions 40%, grow sales of environmentally preferable products from $1.2B to $3.2B, and reach a ranking of #1 greenest large retailer in America in Newsweek’s green rankings, for three consecutive years. Before Office Depot, Yalmaz was a management consultant at PwC and IBM Consulting where he focused on business-to-business customer strategy and operational performance improvement. A global expert in sustainable purchasing, Yalmaz was the Founding Chair of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, He also serves on the Board of Impact NV, Nevada’s leading sustainability non-profit. Yalmaz has a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill in Canada. He also completed a Master’s in Environment & Development in 1994 at Cambridge in England. His thesis focused on industrial ecology, biomimicry, materials reutilization, and life cycle analysis.