Stan Rhodes is the company founder and President. A Ph.D. chemist, he has provided the strategic vision and scientific insight driving SCS Global Services to become one of the world's leading providers of third party certification and assessment services in the environmental and sustainability fields.

Before launching SCS, Dr. Rhodes worked as an analytical and advanced research chemist, first for Eastman Kodak Co., and later at Delta Labs in Rochester, New York. Following his passion for safe, healthy foods, he started and ran several businesses focused on food production, distribution and retailing, and began conducting laboratory analysis to verify claims on food products. This was the genesis of his ultimate decision to form SCS.

Since founding the company, Dr. Rhodes has spearheaded the development of each of SCS's major certification and assessment programs, and has been a hands-on manager of strategic company projects and initiatives. Starting with pesticide residue analysis and certification of residue free foods, he introduced HACCP food safety principles and practices to his clients, launched nutrition and flavor analysis and management initiatives, and began putting together the components of what would become a full-blown sustainable agriculture business. He then turned his attention to the burgeoning area of environmental claims, launching three major initiatives over the next several years: Environmental Claims Evaluation and Certification, the Forest and Marine Conservation Programs, and Life Cycle Assessment services, including Environmentally Preferable Product and Power certifications.

Dr. Rhodes has been a central figure in the international effort to advance the science of life-cycle assessment and put an end to greenwashing. He was a U.S. expert delegate to the ISO 14000 standards setting process, serving on the Subcommittees on Life-Cycle Assessment, Environmental Labeling. He introduced the concept of Type III environmental labeling to the ISO community, based on SCS's LCA-based environmental declaration labeling system. He is also a lead technical editor of the new national LCA standard being developed through the American National Standards Institute process, LEO-SCS-002, aimed at improving the accuracy and environmental relevance of LCA studies and LCA-based public declarations, claims and comparisons.

Dr. Rhodes is a featured speaker at scientific and business workshops, seminars and conventions, and provides executive training sessions on LCA and other topics. He is also the author of numerous patents and articles.

Ph.D., Organic Chemistry; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

B.S., Chemistry; University of California, Berkeley, CA