HP Innovation Journal Issue 06: Spring 2017 | Page 25

In the next issue:
EMPLOYEE PROFILE
The future of printing
concern from our products in the early 1990s,
long before regulators called for it.
In my job, I feel like I’m carrying on the tra-
dition that Bill Hewlett and David Packard es-
tablished of “doing the right thing” by HP, our
customers, and society. I believe I’m having a
positive impact. And I work with great people
who feel the same way.
Jennifer Reece
Materials Program Manager, Sustainability
and Product Compliance, HP
Jennifer Reece joined HP 19 years ago as a manu-
facturing development engineer in the Enterprise
Storage Division, then worked in the Inkjet Printer
Division as a reliability engineer and quality program
manager. Today she leads several of HP’s worldwide
materials environmental policy and compliance pro-
grams — helping to continue the company’s long-term
commitment to sustainable product design.
What are your focus areas?
There are three main areas I’m responsible
for. The first is setting the sustainable materi-
als strategy for HP, which includes eliminating
substances of concern and partnering with ex-
ternal stakeholders to set materials standards
and find alternatives to those substances of
concern. I also manage the disclosure process
for substances that are in our products to meet
governmental regulations and market access
requirements. And I focus on ensuring that our
paper and paper-based product packaging are
responsibly sourced, as we drive towards our
goal of zero deforestation by 2020.
Why do you like working at HP?
I love that from the beginning HP focused not
just on business, but also on the betterment of
society by developing programs, technologies,
and best-in-class practices that address soci-
etal and environmental issues. For example,
we began proactively removing substances of
Why is sustainability important
to you?
I first became interested in environmental issues
in college when I began to notice the wasteful-
ness of our society and the carelessness with
which we treated the environment. So for a
senior project, I wrote a paper, called “Local
Solutions to Global Environmental Problems,”
that outlined how people can make a difference
at a local level, like petitioning their town gov