Welcome to EcoPlum! We are an environmentally focused digital media and ecommerce company specializing in stylish and unique eco friendly products and original articles about green living and environmental action. We've got more fabulous eco-chic products, new expert contributors, and all of the eco-resources you need to make it easy, fun and rewarding to go green.

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Our Management Team

Gia Machlin - President & CEO

Gia is a successful entrepreneur with a track record of building strong teams and lasting companies. She has 20 years of consulting/training experience and a deep commitment to helping combat environmental issues through social enterprise.

Prior to founding EcoPlum, Gia was President and Principal of MMC 20/20 Systems, Inc. MMC 20/20 is the leading provider of software and consulting services to the Medicare managed care industry.

In 1998, Gia co-founded Plan Data Management, Inc. (PDM), and grew it into a thriving software and data services provider servicing Fortune 500 companies. PDM was acquired by a public company in 2006. Read more...

Michael Forlini - Senior VP, Environmental Matters

Michael is an environmental attorney in Baltimore, Maryland. Many of his clients are commercial developers involved in the redevelopment of environmentally stressed properties. Michael also provides environmental legal services to the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority. The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority works with counties on waste management options by combining recycling with combustion and energy recovery, composting and landfilling. Read more...

Marcia Robbins - Senior VP, Marketing and Strategy

Marcia Robbins is an international Media & Entertainment executive with 20 years' experience launching cable channels, multiplatform content, and digital media in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific. Her corporate and consulting career includes start-ups and new business for the BBC, Discovery, CBS, Rainbow Media, Scripps, Gaylord, online portal StarMedia, and all the major studios of the Motion Picture Association of America. Committed to growing our green economy, Marcia is active in marketing and advising sustainable business initiatives, including EcoPlum. She is affiliated with HAF Consulting, a global boutique supporting investors in pursuit of telecom, media and technology properties. Read more...

Amit Aysola - Interim VP of Business Development

Amit has more than eight years of investment banking, management consulting, and startup experience, which he is leveraging as he pursues his interests in the renewable energy and sustainability spaces. Amit was most recently with Demeter Group, a consumer products-focused investment bank based in San Francisco. Prior to Demeter Group, he worked in the investment banking groups at Robert W. Baird and Bank of America Securities in Chicago. Amit also worked for Plan Data Management, a healthcare IT startup, and for Deloitte Consulting as a management consultant. Read more...