Gifford Pinchot is co-founder and President of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

BGI offers an MBA that integrates environmental sustainability and social responsibility with innovation and profit. BGI is one of the first graduate schools to weave sustainability throughout its entire curriculum, so that standard business subjects include ethics, cutting-edge sustainability practices, and students’ spiritual perspectives. For the past three years, BGI has ranked at the top of Net Impact's survey of business schools interested in socially responsible business. Mr. Pinchot is a well-known author, speaker, and consultant on launching businesses and innovation management. He has helped to launch over 700 businesses, several of which are each doing over a billion dollars in sales. He has built four companies and sold three of them, one for a profit of over 100-to-1 for the original investors. He is a partner in a successful angel capital firm, Alacrity Ventures.

Mr. Pinchot has published three books. The first, in 1985, INTRAPRENEURING: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, was a business best-seller and introduced the concept of intrapreneuring – creating innovation within existing organizations. Intrapreneuring has now been published worldwide in fifteen languages and is a classic text in business education.  The word “intrapreneur,” which was coined by Mr. Pinchot to describe the intra-corporate entrepreneur, has been included in the American Heritage Dictionary and Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.  In 1999, he co-authored Intrapreneuring in Action – A Handbook for Business Innovation, the long awaited follow-up. Mr. Pinchot has appeared on Larry King Live and the Today Show to discuss his approach to innovation.

Prior to BGI, Jill served as a member of the core faculty at Antioch University/Seattle for 7 years, teaching courses in marketing, strategy and general management. In her private industry career, she served in a variety of senior level marketing positions at Aldus Corporation, creators of PageMaker software and architects of the desktop publishing revolution.

Jill has recently completed a book on the challenges of bringing mission-driven businesses to scale. Titled Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out, it was published by Berrett-Koehler in the summer of 2006. She has a BA in English from Washington University and an MBA from Stanford University.

For the last twenty years, as co-founder and president of Pinchot & Company, Libba has taught leadership development and intrapreneurship to senior executives in many Fortune 100 companies.

She also has advised the executive directors and senior staff of numerous nonprofit organizations.  Libba also co-authored The Intelligent Organization with her husband, Gifford Pinchot III.

Libba has chaired the boards of a model progressive school and a start-up environmental education facility and was a staff clinician in an outpatient setting, delivering psychological services to individuals, groups and families. Libba was senior curriculum developer for the first computer-assisted education project at Stanford University, a joint venture of IBM and Stanford University. She was awarded a two-year fellowship from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and received a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Oregon. She was founding director for the University of Oregon Day Care Center in Eugene, Oregon and taught Child Development at Lane Community College, while also holding the Director position of the LCC Laboratory School, a Head Start teacher-training program.

Sherman co-founded BGI with Gifford and Libba Pinchot in 2002. He served as an Executive in Residence in 2005 and taught leadership informally, which to him is as natural as breathing.

Sherman has retired from active involvement for health reasons but is honored as Chairman Emeritus of the Board.

Sherman was the co-founder and the former chairman of Marylhurst University’s Graduate Department of Management and author of In the Twinkle of an Eye – Corporate Extinction & Rebirth, a book about personal and corporate rebirth during downsizing.

He has been a national keynote speaker on corporate change, management, generational work issues, and sustaining innovation in large corporations. As a principle management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, he specialized in creating alternative scenarios in business strategies and implementations. Sherman worked on energy deregulation in California and new environmental technologies. Sherman's extensive business and entrepreneurial history includes: cofounder and former acting VP of Business Development, CTO at a national retail energy transaction exchange information clearinghouse, and President and CEO of United Epitaxial Technologies, an engineered materials company.

 As a material scientist, he played a significant role in developing markets for gallium arsenide technology. This effort included the rapid expansion of applications for Intel’s 80286 microprocessor and its successors. The 80286's clear value proposal was due to the superior performance yields derived from changing the material basis of the chip to epitaxial silicon.