About Liberty & Justice
Liberty & Justice is committed to a future in which farmers, manufacturers, transporters,
distributors, retailers, and consumers are completely aligned in making choices that result in
the eradication of poverty, the responsible stewardship of the environment, and the empowerment of workers.
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Management
Chid Liberty, CEO
Before co-founding Liberty & Justice Chid worked in finance and information systems for several high growth technology companies including Metavante Corporation (now Fidelity National Information Services), Mindjet, and Trilogy Integrated Resources. A Liberian native, Chid left Africa as an eighteen month old baby when his father became the Liberia’s Ambassador to Germany with residence in Bonn. Chid’s family later fled to the United States to escape Liberia’s deteriorating political situation. In addition to his work at Liberty & Justice, Chid lectures extensively on social entrepreneurship and innovation, most recently at Princeton University, Tennessee State, and the University of Liberia where he serves as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Monrovia Business Startup Center, a program funded by SPARK, a Dutch NGO, and other European partners. He sits on TransFair USA’s Fair Trade Certified Apparel Multistakeholder Group where he helps to guide Fair Trade Certified apparel policy for the United States. Chid was also awarded the Cordes Fellowship in 2010 and sits on the 2011 Cordes Fellowship Selection Committee where he helps give emerging social entrepreneurs a chance to attend the Opportunity Collaboration, a four-day problem-solving, strategic retreat for change-makers engaged in poverty alleviation and economic justice enterprises.
Adam Butlein, President
Prior to founding Liberty and Justice, Adam was a leading sales executive for Techteriors and pioneered new sales territory for Federal Building Services. Adam began his professional career as a fine-art photographer. A student of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Adam incorporates his acute artistic eye and visual sensibilities into his growing portfolio that includes work for several highly visible retail brands including Victoria’s Secret, Parisians Catalog, Dupont Lycra, Coca-Cola, and Kodak. A serial entrepreneur by experience, and a third generation start-up founder by birth, Adam sits on the Board of Directors of Tikkun Olam, a private foundation where he oversees grants and investments in numerous projects and organizations addressing some of the globe’s most pressing social issues.
Board of Directors
Eric Butlein, Director
Eric has over 35 years of experience in banking and IT services, and has held management positions with IBM and US Bank. In 1984, Eric became cofounder and CEO of Computer People Unlimited (CPU), a software consulting company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. CPU was acquired by Compuware in 1994. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of Health Payment Systems, a revenue cycle management company in the healthcare industry. Eric also serves as a board member and advisor to multiple businesses.
Allison Duncan, Director
Allison Duncan is the founding principal of Amplifier Strategies. She is widely known for her unique expertise in financial and operational risk management, program portfolio management, and defining creative strategies for increasing program success. Before launching Amplifier Strategies, Allison held various executive positions at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. Allison also has extensive experience managing large-scale global environmental initiatives. She was the Foundation’s program director for the Conservation International & Global Conservation Fund, operating in Brazil, Guiana, Madagascar, Andean countries and countries of Melanesia. Prior to joining the Moore Foundation, Allison was a client service manager at Deloitte & Touche, LLP. At Deloitte, Allison was chosen for high-profile assignments in Russia, New York and Silicon Valley. Allison contributes frequently to national trade journals and has developed several technical training modules. She routinely leads implementation and facilitated technical training for professionals of all levels nationwide and internationally.
Heather Hiles, Director
Healther is COO of rrripple. Prior to joining rrripple, she was Partner and National Director, Foundation Division of IFF Advisors LLC, a firm that provides strategic and operational support to a wide range of foundations, family enterprises, corporations, public agencies and nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining IFF, she was President of The Hiles Group LLC, a philanthropic consulting firm. Ms. Hiles was the first CEO of San Francisco Works, a nationally recognized public-private workforce development intermediary, and a co-founder of EARN, a city-wide asset accumulation and economic development program for low-income families. Prior to SFWorks, she created and ran the Affluent Market Practice for Spectrem Group, a financial services consulting firm. Her early career was spent in direct service and program management with educational programs serving low-income teens and families in the Bay Area. Ms. Hiles served as a Commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education and a member of the San Francisco Workforce Investment Board. In 2003, she was Communications Director for the Gavin Newsom for Mayor Campaign. She holds a MBA with emphasis in Finance and Strategic Planning from Yale University School of Management, and a B.A. in Development Studies and Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Michael Kleinmann, Director
Michael Kleinmann has been a visionary in the apparel industry for several years, consulting, speaking and writing about upcoming trends in Cosmopolitan and DNR fashion magazines, The New York Times and The New York Post, and others major news outlets. His expertise extends across both the men’s and women's markets in fabrication, design, e-commerce, marketing, and customer service. Since becoming president of Freshpair.com in 2002, Kleinmann has drawn on his information technology and digital branding background to assemble a world-class team and establish an adaptive, consumer-friendly, leading edge e-commerce site. Kleinmann's entrepreneurial spirit and creative marketing have helped Freshpair to quickly become a recognized force in the intimate apparel industry. Michael is also co-founder of National Underwear Day.
Jeffrey Stein, Director
Most recently, Jeffrey served as the President of the Textile and Apparel Division of Shinyei, a global trading company established 123 years ago in Kobe, Japan. He and his team specialized in design, sourcing, and manufacturing sportswear. For the last 34 years, Jeffrey has explored the clothing industry from all perspectives — he was an assistant buyer at Macy’s, an account executive at Haggar, an EVP of Hagale (a private label company), and a senior executive at two Fortune 500 corporations, Kellwood and Oxford. Fluent in brand licenses through his most recent work at Oxford Industries, Jeffrey was responsible for running and growing existing clothing brands, as well as being part of reinventing and introducing new brands to the marketplace. Jeffrey also has extensive experience marketing and producing Private Label brands for clients including Brooks Brothers, Jos A. Bank, LL Bean, J Crew, Orvis, and Abercrombie & Fitch.
