Stanley P. Rhodes

Stan Rhodes is founder, president and CEO of SCS Global Services. Since the company’s launch in 1984, Stan Rhodes has provided the strategic vision and scientific insight driving SCS to become one of the world's most prestigious providers of third-party certification and assessment services in the environmental, sustainability, and food quality fields. Stan has spearheaded the development of each of SCS's major divisions – Environmental Certification Services, Natural Resources, and Food and Agriculture – and continues to provide hands-on leadership in the management of strategic company projects, initiatives and partnerships around the world. He has played a central role in international efforts to put an end to greenwashing, to define sustainability, to advance the science of life-cycle assessment, and to develop leadership standards and up-to-date climate accounting metrics.

Stan has a Ph.D. in chemistry, earned under advisor and Nobel Prize winner Herbert C. Brown at Purdue University. After graduating, Stan initiated his career in Rochester, New York as an analytical chemist conducting advanced research, both at Eastman Kodak Co. and at Delta Labs. Following his passion for safe, healthy foods, he launched and ran several businesses focused on food production, distribution and retailing, and began conducting laboratory analysis to verify claims on food products. This ultimately led to the formation of SCS Global Services.