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Sun Kim is a consultant focused on development and implementation of international standards for non-sewered sanitation for global application for customers that currently do not have access to safe, affordable, and aspirational sanitation systems and services. He is currently the chair of ISO Project Committee PC305 and Working Group convenor

Most recently, Sun was a Senior Program Officer on the WSH team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working as a product development and compliance manager. He joined the foundation in 2014 and supported the effort to help enable access for billions of people without safely managed sanitation. As a member of the Transformative Technology Commercialization team, Sun managed philanthropic investments in the area of international standards development, implementation, testing, and certification as well as reinvented toilet development and commercialization working with R&D organizations and commercial entities.

Prior to the foundation, Sun was an Associate Technical Fellow at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, working for 28 years on pressurized doors structures, mechanisms, and systems design, analysis, build, test, and validation. His areas of focus were safety, certification, reliability, functionality, ease of production, reduced weight, reduced costs, and value to the customer. He was also an Authorized Representative of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration interfacing with regulators from the U.S, European Aviation Safety Agency, United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority, Russian, Chinese, and other national aviation authorities.

Straight out of university, Sun worked in the oil fields of the Middle East as a geophysical test engineer for Schlumberger Wireline Services, based out of Dubai, UAE.

Sun was born in Seoul, South Korea, lived in Brunei from the age of 6 to 8, and then moved to Washington state with his family. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1984 with a BS in mechanical engineering.

At only 28 years of age, Richard J. Bryan took the reins of a 100-year-old, $120 million, family-owned, car and truck dealership in the UK after his father was forced to retire due to illness. That alone was a challenge. Worse, the business was losing $3.5 million a year and there was no leadership succession plan in place.

Richard was CEO of the dealership group for 10 years before selling the business via a successful trade sale and embarking upon a new career.

Today, Richard is an in-demand keynote speaker, executive coach, and author who shares with business owners and leaders the  leadership strategies that have proven to be the driving force behind his continued business success. He is a professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and a former Board Member of NSA Colorado.

Richard's clients include John Deere, Marriott, MassMutual, the Society for Human Resource Management, and and Academy for Chief Executives.