Fred Profeta was Mayor of Maplewood Township from 2004-2008 and also served as the Deputy Mayor for the Environment. He was Chair of the New Jersey Mayors’ Committee for a Green Future from 2006-2011, co-founding the Sustainable Jersey Municipal Certification program. Profeta speaks widely around New Jersey and beyond to promote Sustainable Jersey, and presented at the 2009 Local Government Climate Change Leadership Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Environmental Leadership Excellence award and is also a New York lawyer, and has been the senior partner of Profeta & Eisenstein since 1987.