Ed Quevedo is Senior Counsel at Katovich & Kassan Law Group and Chair of the firm’s Sustainability Practice.  He is also the Director of Sustainability and Innovation Services at Cutting Edge Capital.  Ed has over 27 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international environmental and health & safety (EHS) law compliance and litigation matters and EHS auditing program development, strategic sustainability and corporate development strategy, implementation of environmental management systems (EMS) and Sustainability Management Systems (SMS), and green building and sustainable master planning.  He is also pioneering the implementation of Regenerative Management Systems (RMS), which promise to move organizations beyond sustainable development.  His clients include major colleges and universities; private sector firms in the high technology, wine, agricultural, food and beverage, life sciences, biotechnology, automotive, and manufacturing industries: and public agencies at the municipal and state levels.

He began his Green House Gas and carbon reduction management practice in Europe in 1994, and more recently has advised large multinational clients on AB32 and related national and international greenhouse gas reduction protocols.  Ed has advised over 15 cities and 20+ multinational corporations on all aspects of Carbon Strategy, climate adaptation, vulnerability assessment, and GHG reduction programs.

During his legal career, Ed has argued cases before the California Supreme Court, the International Board of Arbitrators in The Hague, and the European Court of Justice.  He has led high-impact pro bono litigation teams in civil rights, Clean Water Act, and environmental damages recovery litigation brought in state and federal courts.

In January 2011, Ed joined the Faculty of the Presidio Graduate School, where he teaches the MBA Integrative Capstone Course and the MPA Capstone Course.  In October 2011, Ed was appointed Interim Dean of the Faculty at Presidio.  From 2004 through 2010, Ed served on the faculty of the Dominican University School of Business & Leadership MBA Program in Sustainable Enterprise.  He has lectured on environmental management, applied ethics, sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and sustainable business practices at various universities, including the Haas Business School and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; Tulane University; Lund University (Sweden); the San Jose State University School of Law; the Technical University of Berlin; and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.