Micheal Austin

Vice President
BYD America

Micheal Austin received his undergraduate in Design Engineering and completed a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from BYU in 1992. He began his career at Motorola where he served for 15 years. While there, he served as the senior ODM director for the Mobile Devices business unit responsible for over 60M phone purchases annually. His procurement experience also included serving as the Global Energy Commodity Manager for Motorola. While an Engineering Manager, he was selected as one of Motorola's Distinguished Innovators (with 22 US patents).

Micheal has considerable Asian international business experience which proves invaluable in his role as Vice President at BYD America. BYD is a $4B Chinese company listed on the Hong Kong exchange (HK1211) and has over 140,000 employees. Recently, Warren Buffett purchased a 10% stake in BYD and placed David Sokol on the BYD board, joining Austin as only the second Caucasian in the company.

Kurt Barth

Founder and Senior Technologist
Abound Solar

Kurt Barth is a founder of Abound Solar and an inventor of Abound Solar's proprietary thin-film manufacturing technology. He has over 17 years experience in solar photovoltaics research and manufacturing process development and has many patents and patent applications in the solar field. He is Abound Solar's Senior Technologist and directs the company's Solar America Initiative project with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. Barth has served as project director on many federally sponsored programs totaling more than $18 million in funding. Barth has served Abound Solar as Vice President of Product Development, on the Board of Directors and as the corporate secretary.

Marc Bracken

CEO
Echologics Engineering Inc.

Marc Bracken is CEO of Echologics Engineering Limited, a developer of acoustic leak detection and condition assessment technologies for water pipes. Since starting Echologics, he has led the company in taking new technologies to market, and has overseen the R&D that has advanced signal processing, sensor, and hardware design of leak detection systems. Of particular focus recently has been the development of a new acoustical correlation technology for leak detection in large diameter trunk mains, and advancement of a new pipe wall thickness assessment technology. He has presented numerous technical papers on leak detection and water pipe condition assessment.

Marc received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto.

Bernie Bulkin

Former Chief Scientist, BP
Venture Partner, Vantage Point

Bernie Bulkin is a leading voice on issues related to energy and environment. His activities span business, government advisory, communication, and education. Dr. Bulkin was formerly Chief Scientist of BP. He is now Chairman of Chemrec AB, and a board member of Severn Trent plc, Ze-gen Corp. REAC Fuel AB, and Accelergy Corp. He is Venture Partner with the leading California firm Vantage Point, and chairs the CleanTech Advisory Council.

Bernie is Chair of the UK Office of Renewable Energy Deployment, a member of the UK Government Renewable Advisory Board, and has had several other UK Government advisory roles on sustainable energy and transport. He is a Professorial Fellow of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and serves on numerous charitable boards, including Council of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of Chicago School of Physical Sciences Advisory Board, and Editorial Advisory Board of Energy and Environmental Science. Bernie Bulkin's radio broadcasts, Environment on the Edge, have been heard on VoiceAmerica and his blogs regularly appear on the Green Pages of Huffington Post. He is the author of more than 100 papers and two books.

Dr. Adrian Burden

President, Europe
Bilcare Technologies

Dr. Burden was the co-founding director and CEO of Singular ID, an award winning nanotechnology company that commercialized an innovative system for anti-counterfeiting and brand security. The company was later acquired by Bilcare, an Indian headquartered healthcare solutions provider, that is now marketing the system as nonClonable to a variety of industrial sectors. Dr. Burden is currently responsible for developing the business of Bilcare Technologies in Europe. Previously he worked at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore where he was lead facilitator for technology road-mapping small medium enterprises, and he worked in the displays sector and founded the OLED Network of Singapore. Dr. Burden has an MA from the University of Cambridge and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. He is a Chartered Engineer, Professional Member of the IOMMM, and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society where he is currently scientific editor for their publication infocus.

Dr. Seth Coe-Sullivan

Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Member of the Board of Directors
QD Vision

Seth Coe-Sullivan is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of QD Vision. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in May 2005, and his thesis work on incorporating quantum dots into hybrid organic/inorganic LED structures is the technology basis of QD Vision. His work spans quantum dot materials, new fabrication techniques including thin film deposition equipment design, and device architectures for efficient QD-LED light emission. Seth has over 20 papers and patents pending in the fields of organic light emitting devices, quantum dot LEDs and nanotechnology fabrication. He was awarded Technology Review Magazine's TR35 Award in 2006, naming him one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the top young entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

Seth graduated in the class of 1999 from Brown University with an Sc.B. in electrical engineering. He then spent a year as a Staff Engineer at the Boston based research company Foster-Miller, Inc., in the Emerging Technology division of the Materials Technology Group, before departing for MIT. Seth is honored to sit on Brown University's Engineering Advisory Council.

Craig Cornelius

Managing Director
Hudson Clean Energy Partners

Craig Cornelius is a Managing Director at Hudson Clean Energy Partners, specializing in solar energy investments. He joined Hudson in January 2008 as a Principal. Mr. Cornelius was Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE"), in charge of the Solar Energy Technologies Program, where he led the $1.5 Billion "Solar America Initiative" and secured a 240% increase in annual program funding over his tenure. Mr. Cornelius led due diligence on 278 companies in the domestic photovoltaic sector of which 90 were funded, and on 26 companies in the concentrating solar power sector of which 11 were funded. Additionally, Mr. Cornelius led due diligence on over 25 applicants for loan guarantees from the DOE, of which 2 were selected for full loan guarantees — including a thin film photovoltaic manufacturing company and a utility-scale concentrating solar power plant.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Cornelius directed strategic reviews of the DOE's 11 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs. Before joining the DOE, Mr. Cornelius served as Program Integration Manager for Development Programs at NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (2003 - 2004), an organization that grew to employ over 6,500 employees with an annual technology development budget of $4 billion.

Previously, Mr. Cornelius served terms at the Geoinformatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand, the National Academies of Science and Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates. Mr. Cornelius holds a BA from Princeton University, and an MA in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from the George Washington University. He was a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar and received the DOE's Special Service Award for his work in creating the Solar America Initiative.

Martin Flusberg

Chief Executive Officer
PowerHouse dynamics

Martin has been a technology entrepreneur and executive for over 30 years, with the past 20 focused on energy and clean tech. He currently is CEO of PowerHouse dynamics, a pioneering firm in the Home Energy Management space. Prior to that he was co-founder and President of Nexus Energy Software, a provider of enterprise software solutions to the utility industry addressing smart grid, smart meter, energy efficiency, demand-response and related issues. Nexus was successfully sold in 2005 and integrated with its sister companies to become Aclara Software.

Martin previously served as Director of TASC's Commercial Systems Division with responsibility for the firm's Lodestar® product line for the utility industry (later spun out as LODESTAR Corporation and sold to Oracle in 2007). He was also founder and CEO of REALink Systems, a software firm serving the real estate industry, and CEO of Multisystems, a software and management consulting firm serving the transportation industry. Martin has an MSCE degree from MIT and a BEE degree from CUNY.

Jeffrey J. Fulgham

Chief Marketing Officer
GE Water & Process Technologies

Jeff Fulgham is Chief Marketing Officer of GE Water & Process Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for global strategic marketing initiatives on existing and emerging markets, and leads the business intelligence, regional segmentation, and commercial training functions for the business. Before assuming his current role in 2006, Jeff was the General Manager of Global Marketing.

A 27-year veteran in the water industry, Jeff began his career in 1981 in industrial water treatment chemical sales at Nalco. In 1989, he joined Betz Laboratories, Inc. as a field salesman in the Power Division and was promoted to Corporate Sales Manager for Power Generation in 1994. From 1998 to 2002, he held positions of increasing responsibility within the commercial and corporate sales organizations until the company was acquired by GE Water & Process Technologies. From the date of acquisition, Jeff held a variety of senior leadership roles in the global marketing function.

Jeff has been a key speaker at numerous industry events, including UN International Water Conference, Goldman Sachs Global Water Conference, US-India Business Council for Green India, NASA Environmental & Energy Conference, and Executive Energy Forum. During his career, he has published numerous technical papers on power and water topics.

Jeff was recognized as a member of the Marketing Dream Team by Event Marketer Magazine in 2007. In 2008, he was recognized with the Ex Award by Event Marketer Magazine for his leadership driving GE's World Water Tour. He was also awarded multiple GE "Proof Not Promises" awards for delivering enhanced customer value.

Jeff holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University. He resides in Doylestown, Pennsylvania with his family.

Dr. Zhongxue Gan

Vice Chairman of the Board
and Vice President
ENN Group

CEO and GM
ENN Science and Technology

Dr. Zhongxue Gan earned his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1993. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Gan joined ABB Research Center North America and rose to Technical Director and Chief Scientist in Automation within ABB. In 2003, Dr. Gan returned to China and founded ABB Research Center-Shanghai. During his 13 years with ABB, a number of new technologies were developed in the field of robotics under Dr. Gan's leadership, including robotic regulation, robotic programming, real-time control of robots, and precision control of material removal using robots. These advancements made ABB the world leader in intelligent control and robotics operation.

In 2004, Dr. Gan joined ENN Group as the Chief Scientist, CTO and VP. He founded ENN Bowei Technologies, specializing in robotics and medical imaging. He now devotes himself to the ENN Energy Research Institute. Dr. Gan proposed an innovative approach of utilizing CO2. As a strong advocator of scientific management of research projects, he is the architect of ENN's highly efficient research project management model and Industry-University-Research Institute collaboration model. Under his leadership, a research organization consisting of renowned experts, technical leaders, and professionals has taken shape.

Dr. Gan has received numerous awards and is the recipient of the distinguished "Thousand Talents Program" sponsored by the Chinese government. He has over 30 publications in journals and dozens of issued and patent applications.

Bryan Hansel

Chief Executive Officer and President
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S.

Mr. Hansel is one the country's foremost authorities on rapid product development, having been immersed in the industry for over 14 years in such capacities as Chairman of the Board, CEO, and Consultant. Prior to joining Smith Electric Vehicles U.S., Mr. Hansel served as Chief Executive Officer of evo Medical Solutions. During his term at evo Medical Solutions he successfully launched a number of industry shaping technologies, most notably portable oxygen concentrators changing the way oxygen dependant patients manage their lives.

Mr. Hansel was CEO and chairman of the board of ReyHan PGF, a national graphics art pre-press manufacturer for 13 years. Under his leadership, ReyHan was listed on the Inc. 500 fastest growing private companies (2003). Mr. Hansel was leading visionary in development of Rapid Tooling and Prototyping in the early to mid 90's and lead the company to become the turn key product development partner to such companies as IBM, Medtronic, Guidant, and more. Mr. Hansel also served as lead negotiator in numerous acquisitions, mergers, and key manufacturing and licensing agreements for a wide range of companies. He is a graduate of the MIT Birthing of Giants program for America's best CEOs and entrepreneurs.

Arno Harris

Chief Executive Officer
Recurrent Energy

Arno Harris is CEO of Recurrent Energy, a distributed power company and a leading provider of solar electricity to utilities, government, and commercial customers. Recurrent Energy is reinventing the business of distributed generation—using proven solar technology to meet rising energy demand with clean power plants located right where they're needed most.

Prior to Recurrent Energy, Arno was general manager of EI Solutions, serving large-scale commercial and government solar customers. EI Solutions was formed when Arno sold his pioneering solar business, Prevalent Power, to Energy Innovations in 2005. Arno's previous experience includes founder and leadership roles for high tech startups. His background combines marketing, business development, and consulting with experience serving such clients as Berlex, Toyota Motor Sales USA, GlaxoWellcome, MCI, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Nikon Precision, IKEA International and NBC Digital Publishing. Arno writes about solar and renewable energy on his blog Clean Energy Future.

Alan J. Heeger

Nobel Laureate
Co-Founder, Konarka Technologies, Inc.

Widely known for his pioneering research in and the co-founding of the field of semiconducting and metallic polymers, Professor Heeger is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2000), the Oliver E. Buckley Prize for Condensed Matter Physics, the Balzan Prize for the Science of New Materials, the Eni Italgas Prize for Energy and the Environment, the President's Medal for Distinguished Achievement from the University of Pennsylvania, the Chancellor's Medal from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and honorary doctorates from more than a dozen universities in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Professor Heeger is a member of the National Academy of Science (USA), the National Academy of Engineering (USA), the Chinese Academy of Science and the Korean Academy of Science. He founded UNIAX Corporation in 1990, which was acquired by DuPont in 2000. Professor Heeger is Chairman and Co-founder of CBrite Inc. in Santa Barbara. He is Vice-chairman and Co-founder of CytomX and Cynvenio, biotechnology start-up companies. He is Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Konarka Technologies, which is focused on developing low-cost plastic solar cells comprising semiconducting polymers.

Robert Kirschbaum

VP Open Innovation
DSM

Robert Kirschbaum graduated from the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands) as a Chemical Engineer in 1977. His career with DSM consists of more than 30 years fostering various innovations (fibers like Dyneema, films and plastics like Stanyl) up to full commercialization.

From 1997, Rob was in charge of the DSM New Business Development Corporation. In this Corporate "Incubator" several early phase commercial activities and new ventures were combined to grow into sustainable businesses. In 2006 the NBD Corporation was integrated into the DSM Innovation Center. Until 2009 he fullfilled the role of Vice President Innovation, focussing on the DSM cluster of Performance Materials. Recently he was promoted to VP Open Innovation of DSM.

Emily Bockian Landsburg

Chief Executive Officer
Black Gold Biofuels

Emily Bockian Landsburg is the CEO of BlackGold Biofuels, a wastewater company licensing its technology to transform grease from sewer grease into biodiesel. She has led BlackGold from pre-revenue to post-revenue and secured a contract with the City of San Francisco. Prior to BlackGold, Landsburg served as the Manager of Business Development at The Energy Cooperative, which she built into Southeastern Pennsylvania's leading biodiesel distributor from the ground up. She played a key role in leading the first school district in Pennsylvania to switch to B20 and secured accounts with the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Eagles, and Exelon-PECO, along with many others. In February of 2008, Landsburg was appointed Chairman of the National Biodiesel Board's first Sustainability Task Force. Prior to working in renewable energy, Landsburg started and sold a business addressing sewage disposal in the marine industry. She is a magna cum laude graduate in applied mathematics from Columbia University, named one of Philadelphia's 101 Emerging Connectors, a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and a Fellow in the SJF Ventures Cleantech mentor program.

Dr. Mark M. Little

Senior Vice President
GE Global Research

Mark M. Little was named Senior Vice President of GE Global Research in October 2005, becoming the ninth director in the organization's 105 year history. Mark is responsible for leading one of the world's largest and most diversified industrial research and technology organizations.

At Global Research, some 2,500 people from virtually every major scientific and engineering discipline focus on the company's long-range technology needs. The organization has research facilities in the United States, India, China and Germany, working in collaboration with GE businesses around the world.

Prior to becoming Research Director, Little was Vice President of GE Energy's power generation segment headquartered in Schenectady, New York. GE Energy is a world leading supplier of power generation equipment including gas, steam, wind and hydro turbine-generators, turnkey power plant services, gasification technologies and IGCC (integrated gasification combined cycle).

Mark joined GE in 1978, starting out in the company's Turbine Business. After holding several management positions in engineering, he was named Product General Manager for generators in 1989. In 1991, he became General Manager – Business Development for GE Energy, responsible for strategic planning and joint venture development. In 1992, he was appointed Product General Manager for gas turbines and in 1994 was named Vice President, Power Generation Engineering. In 1997, Mark became Vice President GE Power Generation, responsible for the turbine, generator, and power plants business. In 2004, the hydro and wind turbine businesses were added to his portfolio.

Mark holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Tufts and Northeastern universities, respectively, and in 1982 earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2009, Mark was made a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

James Macnaghten

Chief Executive Officer
Isentropic Ltd.

James Macnaghten is a serial entrepreneur. He trained as a Mechanical Engineer at Cambridge University before starting his first business at the age of 21. He founded Isentropic with Jonathan Howes in 2005 and incubated the business within the facilities of another of his companies. He owns and is the non-executive Chairman of Cambridge's largest leisure business. Since 2007 he has been the full time CEO of Isentropic.

Isentropic Ltd. has developed and demonstrated a new kind of exceptionally efficient heat engine/heat pump that has the potential to revolutionize utility scale electricity storage. The Isentropic "pumped heat" system uses its heat pump to generate hot and cold (up to +500C and -150C). These temperatures are compactly stored in silos of ordinary gravel. The process is reversed to regenerate 70% of the input electricity.

David J. Moll

Chief Scientist, Innovation
Dow Water & Process Solutions

David Moll is Chief Scientist, Innovation for Dow Water & Process Solutions, a position he has held since 2003. David is responsible for scientific leadership in the business' basic technologies of reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, membrane bioreactors, electrodeionization, and ion exchange, as well as applications of those technologies. He also participates in new business development activities aimed at identifying new opportunities in water purification.

David joined The Dow Chemical Company in the Research Assignments Program in 1983, but he has broad interests that bridge technology and applications. His past research activities have included nanocomposites, medical applications of Dow materials, personal care, cleaning, wood science, wood composite panels, natural fibers, automotive plastics, electrical properties of materials, and wound care. He also worked extensively on gas separation membrane technology and is an expert on sorption and diffusion of small molecules in polymers.

David earned a bachelor's degrees in chemistry and physics from Andrews University, and a doctorate in chemical physics from The California Institute of Technology. He also participated in a Surface Science Research Program sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. He is from Midland, Michigan.

Dow Water & Process Solutions has a 50 year legacy of providing innovative water and process solutions to both communities and industries alike. A differentiated business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, Dow Water & Process Solutions offers a broad portfolio of ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis membranes, ultrafiltration membranes and electrodeionization products, with strong positions in a number of major application areas, including industrial and municipal water, industrial processes, pharmaceuticals, power, residential water and wastewater and water reuse.

Bill Musiak

Commercial & Technical Director
Norit X-Flow N. America

Bill Musiak is the Commercial and Technical Director for Norit X-Flow North America. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Environmental Engineering, both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and 15 years of experience selling and engineering membrane based water, wastewater and process systems. Much of this experience was gained at Ionics Inc., where Bill spent a number of years in the Build-Own-Operate group, working on ultrapure water systems for the power generation industry. Bill is knowledgeable with many different types of membranes, including MF, UF, NF, BWRO, SWRO, EDR and EDI. In his current role at X-Flow, Bill is responsible for both the capillary and tubular ultrafiltration membrane products in the municipal and industrial markets.

Paul Nahi

President & Chief Executive Officer
Enphase Energy, Inc.

Paul Nahi has over 20 years experience in both entrepreneurial and multinational high technology companies. Most recently, Paul was the CEO of Crimson Microsystems, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in large scale SONET ICs for the telecommunications industry, with customers in Russia, India and the United States. Prior to Crimson, Paul was the CEO and co-founder of Accelerant Networks, a semiconductor company that designed and developed intelligent multi-gigabit transceivers. Accelerant was acquired by Synopsis, Inc. Prior to Accelerant, Paul served as General Manager of the Communications and Media Divisions for NEC Electronics. Before NEC, Paul was the Senior Director for Diamond Multimedia where, as an early member of the executive team, he helped grow Diamond from a small, privately held enterprise to a publicly traded company with offices worldwide and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Paul has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Dmitry Orlov

Author
"Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects"

Dmitry Orlov is the author of the award-winning book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects. Born in Russia, he moved to the US while a teenager, and has traveled back repeatedly to observe the Soviet collapse during the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer who has worked in many fields, including high-energy Physics research, e-commerce and Internet security.

Recently, Dmitry has been experimenting with off-grid living and renewable energy by giving up his house and car. Instead, he has been living on a sailboat, sailing it up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and commuting by bicycle. Dmitry believes that, given appropriate technology, we can greatly reduce personal resource consumption while remaining perfectly civilized.

Prabhakar Patil

Chief Executive Officer
Compact Power, Inc. (CPI)

Prabhakar Patil is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Compact Power, Inc. (CPI), the North American subsidiary of lithium-ion battery-maker, LG Chem (LGC), Korea. In this position, he has overall responsibility for the strategic direction, business development, engineering, and manufacturing activities of the company.

Prior to joining CPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent his entire professional career of 27 years at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. He served as chief engineer for Ford's Hybrid Technologies during 2003 and was also chief engineer for the Ford Escape Hybrid from 1998 to 2003.

Dr. Patil received his undergraduate degree from IIT, Bombay, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has 12 patents, published 25 articles and received the Henry Ford Technology Award in 1991 for his work in Electric Vehicle Powertrain Development. He was elected a Fellow by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in 2007.

Amir Peleg

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
TaKaDu Ltd.

Amir Peleg founded TaKaDu in late 2008 with the vision of reducing water loss using advanced mathematics and software. Today, TaKaDu's innovative Water Infrastructure Monitoring solution is already operational with the water utility of Jerusalem and under advanced evaluation with leading utilities in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Amir is a serial high-tech entrepreneur: he founded YaData in 2005 (sold to Microsoft in 2008), Unipier in 2000 and EVS in 1991 (NASDAQ: EVSNF).

Amir co-founded YaData, a Behavioral Targeting software company, and led its rapid growth until its acquisition by Microsoft in early 2008. YaData raised capital from leading VCs, recruited top notch scientists and generated early revenues from its first product. YaData's solution was recognized as a breakthrough in its field.

At Unipier, Amir led the company vision, strategy and fund raising from major VCs. He was responsible for the organization's development and sales growth to annual revenues of $5M from tier-one mobile carriers.

In 1991, Amir was one of the founders of EVS Ltd. (Elbit Vision Systems, NASDAQ: EVSNF), and played a key role in its management, sales and marketing activities in Europe and Asia. He also established and managed EVS-US Inc., the US subsidiary of EVS. Amir holds a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (via the IDF TALPIOT program) and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

As a teenager, Amir won a special prize for young inventors from the Weizmann Institute, Israel.

G.G. Pique

President & Chief Executive Officer
Energy Recovery Inc.

As President and CEO of ERI since 2002, G.G. has driven the evolution of the ERI business model from a $1.5 million/year operation into one of the fastest-growing global companies in the water desalination industry with 70% market share. Under his leadership, ERI has implemented their energy saving devices in desalination plants on every continent in the world, saving more than 890 MW of energy and reducing CO2 emissions by more than 4.7 million tons per year worldwide. ERI is also recognized and admired for its successful IPO in 2008, which raised over $76 million.

G.G. has more than 35 years' experience in the water industry. Before joining ERI he was a Senior Vice President of US Filter Corp., a Fortune 500, NYSE company, where he directed and managed 660 employees in 16 operating businesses in Latin America. G.G. has also held senior management positions in global companies including Ionics, Fluid Systems, Fluor, Dorr Oliver and Combustion Engineering. He is a board member of the International Desalination Association (IDA) and a member of several other industry associations. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut and a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Hartford.

William (Bill) N. Reinert

National Manager of Advanced Technology
Toyota Motor Sales, USA

Bill Reinert is National Manager of Advanced Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His primary function is to coordinate Toyota's various development and marketing activities related to alternative-fueled vehicles and emerging technologies. He is currently working on several advanced hybrid electric products, direct hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, reformed fuel approaches for hydrogen, full-featured electric vehicles, city electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid concepts, advanced biofuels and sustainable transportation systems.

Bill graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with a Masters of Energy Engineering.

Bill has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, The National Science Foundation and is currently part of the Principal Voices Program with CNN, Fortune and Time.

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Bill lives in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA with his wife Pam.

Terry R. Taber

Chief Technical Officer
Eastman Kodak Company

Terry Taber joined Kodak in 1980. In January 2009, he was named Chief Technical Officer reporting to Kodak Chairman and CEO Antonio M. Perez. The Board of Directors elected him a corporate vice president in December 2008.

Mr. Taber was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Kodak's Image Sensor Solutions (ISS) business, a leading developer of advanced CCD and CMOS sensors serving imaging and industrial markets. Prior to joining ISS in 2007, Mr. Taber held a series of senior positions in Kodak's research and development and product organizations. During his 28 years at Kodak, Mr. Taber has been involved in new materials research, product development and commercialization, manufacturing, and executive positions in R&D and business management.

Mr. Taber's early responsibilities included research on new synthetic materials, an area in which he holds several patents. He then became a program manager for several film products before completing the Sloan Fellows program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was the worldwide consumer film business product manager from 1999 to 2002, and then became an Associate Director of R&D from 2002 to 2005, followed by a position as the director of Materials & Media R&D from 2005 to 2007.

Mr. Taber received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He also received an MS in General Management from MIT as a Kodak Sloan Fellow. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Trustees at Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary. Mr. Taber serves on the Board of Directors for Infotonics Technology Center, Inc. and on the Executive Advisory Board of FIRST Rochester [For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology].

Dr. John C. Tao

Vice President, Open Innovation
Weyerhaeuser Co.

Dr. Tao is currently responsible for crafting Weyerhaeuser's bio-based products portfolio through Early Business /Venture Development, Licensing (in and out), Technology Partnering, Government Contracts, and Intellectual Asset Management. Dr. Tao and his organization also work across Weyerhaeuser's business units to commercialize economically viable innovation. Within Weyerhaeuser, Dr. Tao is affiliated with bio-based products, forest-based feedstock development and supply, bio-based fuels and the economies associated with these technologies. Weyerhaeuser is an $8 billion integrated Forest Products Company.

Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser, Dr. Tao was the Corporate Director of Technology Partnerships for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a $10 billion company headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was responsible for worldwide external technology development, Intellectual Asset Management, government contracting and licensing/ technology transfer. His contributions in over 30 years included the venture that commercialized a new family of polymers, a JV that the company profited with over $200MM in invested capital and IP value extraction of over $100MM in tax credits.

Dr. Tao holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon. Dr. Tao is a board member of the Industrial Research Institute and the Lehigh Valley Ben Franklin Technology Partnership, and is a Board member and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He serves on the Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation's IIP/SBIR, and the Advisory Board of the Chem. Eng Dept of Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a member of the Licensing Executive Society and of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association.

Dr. Tao has presented and published over 80 papers and holds 9 patents and one pending.

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of Technology
Strategic Advisor, Citigroup

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM in May of 2007 after a 37 year career with the company, where his primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order to capitalize on them. He led a number of IBM's companywide initiatives including the Internet and e-business, supercomputing, Linux, and Grid computing. He continues to consult for IBM on major new market strategies like Cloud Computing and Smart Planet.

In March of 2008, Dr. Wladawsky-Berger joined Citigroup as Strategic Advisor, helping with innovation and technology initiatives across the company. He is helping to formulate Citigroup initiatives related to the future of global banking, including mobile banking, Internet-based financial services, and financial systems modeling and analysis.

He is Visiting Lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, Adjunct Professor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School, and Senior Fellow at the Levin Institute of the State University of New York. He is a member of the InnoCentive Advisory Board, the Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations Board, the Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and the Board of Visitors for the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

He was co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board Of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories, the Board of Overseers for Fermilab and BP's Technology Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago.