Ray Anderson's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Ray Anderson is the founder, chairman and CEO of Interface, the world's largest producer of commercial carpet, which Fortune magazine listed as one of America's "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 1997 and 1998.  He was named co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development in 1997, and received the inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in September 1996. Ray Anderson, who has been featured in Fast Company, was recognized in 1996 as the Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of Year for the Southeast Region, as the Georgia Conservancy's Conservationist of the Year in 1997, and in 1999 was named among the top 15 American innovators by US News and World Report.  In January, 2001, Ray was selected by the National Academy of Sciences to receive the prestigious George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development, the first corporate CEO to be so honored.  Ray Anderson's book, Mid-Course Correction, describes his and Interface's transformation to environmental responsibility.

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Since the days after his graduation from Georgia Institute of Technology as an industrial engineer, Ray Anderson has quietly gone about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that has resulted in his building one of the world's largest commercial interior furnishings companies, Interface.

At the same time that Interface is noted for its commitment to high-quality design and innovation, the company is fast gaining a reputation as a corporation carrying the banner for the environment. Ray Anderson has championed a vision of Interface as a sustainable corporation by leading a worldwide war on waste and pioneering processes of sustainable development. That mission, and the company's subsequent action to realize it, have turned Interface into one of the most eco-friendly and daring firms in North America.  Ray believes that if Interface, a petro-intensive company, can get it right, it will never have to take another drop of oil from the earth. The philosophy guiding Ray Anderson's passion for this cause is simply that it is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing too.