Martha Coopersmith-Gray

Martha Coopersmith-Gray is the Director of Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) and Sustainability and Product Stewardship (PS) for Amphenol CS, a business unit of Amphenol Corporation. Amphenol CS is an industry leader in backplane and board to board interconnect. Martha has over 30 years of experience in the EHS&S and PS area. She started her career as a project manager for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for Superfund Clean-Up Projects. She has worked in senior level EH&S management positions in the electronics industry working for AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems and now Amphenol CS.

She has managed the EH&S compliance and management systems programs at over 100 global locations and was responsible for the development of manufacturing risk assessment criteria and auditing protocols for operations. Martha has audited internal business locations as well as suppliers. She has also performed facility reviews for Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) programs that are being used by the electronics’ industry for compliance and conformance with the RBA codes.

Martha’s recent work has focused on the integration of product level requirements into the business process. She has developed customized software programs for the management and reporting of material content along the supply chain to ensure that products meet regulatory and customer requirements.

Martha has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as well as completed course work in Business Administration at Pace University. In addition, she has attended the Yale University course entitled Sustainability as a Strategic Business Enabler. She has her OSHA 1910 Certification as well.