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.

Raghu Belur

Co-founder, Vice President of Marketing
Enphase Energy

Raghu Belur has 15 years of experience in engineering and management mostly in venture backed startups. He started his career as an engineer at the Indian Institute of Science where he developed an alternative energy gasification system. He was an early engineer at Cerent where he developed high-speed optical communications equipment. Cerent was acquired by Cisco for $7 Billion. He co-founded Enphase Energy Inc. in March of 2006. At Enphase he is responsible for both product marketing and product management.

Raghu has a MSEE from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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.

John R. Bryan

President
Secure Smart Grid Association

Mr. Bryan is the President of the Secure Smart Grid Association and Director of Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage for a $100M in capital start up. He previously was the Project Director of the Rocky Mountain Secure Smart Grid Initiative and was Xcel Energy's Utility Innovations' program manager responsible for their Vehicle-to-Grid Plug In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (V2G PHEV) project, SmartGridCity™ Distributed Generation project, and the utility's Wind to Battery Energy Storage project. Mr. Bryan is an ex-quality engineer and manufacturing engineer from the automotive manufacturing industry. He has worked for a Tier 1 supplier to Ford, GM, Toyota, and others and has also led telecommunications deployment programs for Qwest Communications. Prior to that, he was the owner and operator of a 25-employee rapid prototyping manufacturing plant. His full bio can be seen at: http://www.johnrbryan.com

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.

Scott Carson

Director
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp.

Scott Carson leads the sales and business development efforts for Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corporation. Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. brings a fresh American vision and perspective to 80 years of demonstrated expertise in electric vehicles.

Mr. Carson is an accomplished senior management, sales, general management and operations professional responsible for the development, growth and expansion of Smith's national sales and client support group.

Mr. Carson came to Smith Electric Vehicles following a 28 year career with St. Louis, Mo. based Enterprise Holdings, Inc. and Enterprise Fleet Management, most recently ranked 21st on Forbes 500 list of largest privately held companies in America, with annual revenues exceeding $12 billion. Mr. Carson held corporate officer positions at Enterprise Holdings, Inc. that included A.V. P. & Director of Fleet Management and Vice President of Corporate Training and Development.

Donald Cho

Executive Vice President, CMO
Finetex EnE, Inc.

Donald Cho currently is the Executive Vice President/CMO for Finetex EnE, Inc., based in Seoul, Korea. Finetex EnE is a listed company under KOSDAQ and a worldwide leading manufacturer of nano-fibers for use in the textile and filtration industries. The company also has other areas of business and is a major innovator in power storage technology and solar cell applications.

Finetex EnE was created from the October 2008 merger between the Hong Kong-based nano-fiber technology company, Finetex Technology Global Ltd., and Korean-based, EnE Systems, Inc., a leader in energy conservation building technology. Mr. Cho was the COO of Finetex prior to the merger. He is now responsible for the global sales, marketing and all nano-technology-based business units for the company in North America, Europe and East Asia.

Before joining Finetex EnE, Mr. Cho held various management and operational positions of mature and emerging growth companies. Over the course of his 23 plus year career, Mr. Cho has gained the proven reputation for commercialization of new products to market through revenue creation. He also held various advisory and board positions as well as direct hands-on management roles of a wide range of companies and industries in which he helped shareholders and investors exit successfully and or raise significant equity working capital to move companies to the next stage in their corporate development. Mr. Cho's corporate experience before coming to Finetex EnE includes executive positions with Grace Funds, Ideal Systems, Advisory and Intermediary Services (AIS), Sun Computers, and Ernst and Young. Mr. Cho started his career at Arthur Young and Company in Los Angeles in the auditing group of the Entrepreneur Services Group (ESG).

Mr. Cho's academic training was in business administration with an emphasis in accounting at San Diego State University. He has also done post-graduate work at Westminster.

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.

Scott DePasquale

Partner
Braemar Energy Ventures

Scott DePasquale is a Partner at Braemar Energy Ventures, an early to growth stage energy venture capital fund with offices in Boston and New York. Mr. DePasquale has more than 15 years of industrial and financing experience in the global energy industry, ranging from renewable technologies to infrastructure and upstream oil and gas. Prior to joining Braemar, Mr. DePasquale was a senior vice president at GE Energy Financial Services, where he led the group's Boston-based venture capital activities. He currently serves on the board of Grid Net and has previously served as a director or board observer in a number of other clean tech start ups including A123 Systems, Danotek Motion Technologies, Beyond Compliance, and Advent Solar.

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.

Michael Hall

Director of Trait Development
Monsanto

Dr. Michael Hall is currently the Director of Trait Development within Monsanto, and is responsible for the evaluation and identification of next generation transgenic products that will create more sustainable and higher yielding crops for the future.

In his 25 years with the company, Dr. Hall has made significant contributions in germplasm improvement and transgenic development. He is the developer of 15 commercial inbreds with cumulative sales in excess of 35 million units. He served as the North American Trait Integration Lead, the Western Line Development Lead, and as the EMEA Corn Breeding Lead. He was a key contributor to multidisciplinary product teams, including those responsible for Roundup Ready Corn, Corn Rootworm, YieldGard II. He also was a leading contributor to an internal Climate Change panel to advise management of the potential impacts of global warming.

Dr. Hall has a B.S. from the University of Illinois, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is a Monsanto Senior Research Fellow and a 2007 and 2008 Edgar M. Queeny Award winner.

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.

Michael Kontranowski

Strategic Marketing Director
Dow Building Solutions
The Dow Chemical Company

Mike Kontranowski is the Strategic Market Director of Architectural Markets for Dow Building Solutions. He is responsible for the strategic direction and development of thermal, moisture and air barrier solutions for the commercial building envelope, such as Dow Roofing Systems and the THERMAX™ Wall System. Kontranowski has 20 years of experience with the Dow Chemical Company with most of that time spent in the Building and Construction industry with focus on global trends in sustainable building designs that are impacting the future of cities through efficient resource management, quality of life for their occupants and reduction of green house gas emissions effecting climate change.

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.

Derek Lim Soo

Vice President Business Development
Stirling Energy Systems, Inc.

Derek Lim Soo joined SES as VP of Business Development in January 2009. Prior, Derek worked for the General Electric Company in numerous senior Sales roles, and held various global positions across GE's Power Generation business, from Hydro to Gas Turbines to Renewables (Wind, Solar and Bio-fuels). Most recently, Derek held the position of Renewables Sales Leader for Canada and North East USA, responsible for a Sales operating plan in excess of $2.5 billion, representing the largest sales region in the world for GE Energy. During this time, Derek also served as a Director on the Canadian Wind Energy Association's Board, and on the Natural Resources' Canada Wind Technology Road Map Advisory Board.

Derek has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from McGill University and recently completed a joint certification course on Business Strategy for the Energy Industry with GE in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Executive College of Management.

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.

Keith McGrane

Head of Energy
Gaelectric

Keith McGrane is Head of Energy at Gaelectric, a group of companies, each active in the different fields of renewable power generation and energy storage. Keith is head of the storage division of the Gaelectric Group with a particular focus on the development of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) projects in Europe and the United States, including the commercialization of emerging storage technologies in the European market.

Keith joined Gaelectric in June 2008 from Barclays Bank where his role was relationship director for structured finance in Ireland with a particular focus on energy and renewables financing. Previously Keith worked for Airtricity as corporate finance executive with responsibility for offshore wind and Ireland's first offshore wind farm, the Arklow Banks project. Prior to that, he worked for the project finance division of KBC Bank originating, assessing and completing major oil/gas, mining and wind energy transactions in Europe and Africa.

Keith graduated from the University College Dublin with an honours degree in geophysics and following graduation worked as a scientific researcher with the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, specializing in the geophysical investigation of offshore western Ireland. He also holds a MSc. in Geophysics completed by research. His research has been published in the world's leading Geological Journal of London.

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.

Matthew Nordan

Vice President
Venrock

Matthew Nordan is a vice president at Venrock, a premier venture capital firm originally established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family. He focuses on breakthrough energy, environmental, and materials technologies from the firm's Cambridge, MA office.

Prior to Venrock, Matthew was president of Lux Research, an advisory services firm for science-driven innovation that he co-founded in 2004. Under Matthew's leadership, the Lux Research analyst team became a globally recognized authority on the business and economic impact of emerging technologies, advising corporations, start-ups, financial institutions, and governments. Before Lux, Matthew held a variety of senior management positions at emerging technology advisor Forrester Research in the U.S. and Europe.

Matthew has testified before the U.S. Congress four times on emerging technology issues, advised the Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative of the National Academies, and been an invited speaker at universities including Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies and has advised the OECD on technology development for energy and environmental applications. A regular speaker at technology conferences, Matthew's views have been cited by news outlets including CNBC, ABC News, The Economist, Forbes, and Newsweek.

Matthew is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, where he conducted cognitive neuroscience research on the neural pathways mediating emotion and memory.

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.

Dave Pearce

President and CEO
NuvoSun

Dave Pearce is the President and CEO of NuvoSun, Inc. a thin-film solar manufacturing company based in Palo Alto which he founded in January 2008.

Prior to NuvoSun, Mr. Pearce founded Miasolé, a thin film solar company where he served as CEO for six years. Mr. Pearce has founded and served as CEO or President of five venture backed companies including Miasolé, OptCom, an optical component company, SciVac, a vacuum system capital equipment company, and JTS Corporation, a disk drive company. He came to Silicon Valley in 1985 as CEO of Domain Technology, a pioneer in thin-film media for the data storage industry, a company he took public in 1987.

Mr. Pearce holds a BS in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Texas.

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.

Robert Petrina

Managing Director
Yingli Green Energy Americas

Robert Petrina is the Managing Director for Yingli Green Energy Americas (NYSE: YGE), Yingli's wholly owned subsidiary based in San Francisco and New York. The company is an established leading supplier of reliable solar power products focused on the commercial, utility and residential markets. Mr. Petrina has more than 10 years of experience in international business development and entered the solar sector in 1998 with Atersa (currently Elecnor, S.A.) in Spain. Previously, Mr. Petrina worked at Chori America, Inc., where he was responsible for Mitsubishi's product sales in Latin and South America. Since leaving Chori in 2002, Mr. Petrina has focused on the solar sector exclusively. He worked at AstroPower, Inc., managing the company's silicon sourcing in Asia, Europe and North America, as well as in General Electric's Solar Technologies business unit, leading the company's global silicon procurement. Mr. Petrina received his Bachelor and MBA degrees from Cornell University where he was a Park Fellow.

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.

Steve Rhoades

President and Chief Executive Officer
Satcon

Steve Rhoades joined Satcon in May 2008, as President and Chief Executive Officer with more than 20 years of experience in executive leadership positions across the renewable energy arena. He is widely noted for bringing both leadership perspective and operational excellence to Satcon, as well as the wider renewable energy arena.

Mr. Rhoades is credited with revitalizing Satcon's leadership position, by focusing on the company's core key strengths and introducing new products and solutions that will continue to significantly shape the landscape of the solar power environment and support the world's increasing dependence on renewable energy. This approach has led to Satcon's significant gain of market share and increase in revenues. As leader of the Satcon team, sought by some of the world's smartest utilities to help address grid-related issues, Mr. Rhoades is on the forefront of solving some of the most pressing and complex challenges in the renewable energy arena. He was one of the first in the industry to identify PV inverters as a product that offered significant growth potential well beyond the through-put of energy, and led the creation of a power conversion system that significantly improves the way energy is harnessed, managed, controlled and delivered.

Prior to Satcon, Mr. Rhoades served as Chief Operating Officer at Advanced Energy where he was responsible for substantially improving profitability, margins and restructuring the organization's product portfolio. Prior to Advanced Energy Industries, Mr. Rhoades held senior leadership roles including management, product development and engineering at Portera Systems, Lam Research, Trikon Technologies and Applied Materials.

Mr. Rhoades' experience, success and future perspective on the renewable energy arena, have made him a sought-after thought leader in the world of renewable energy. He holds both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois.

Bradford P. (Brad) Roberts

Power Quality Systems Director
S&C Electric Company

Brad Roberts is the Power Quality Systems Director for the Power Quality Products Division of S&C Electric Company, which specializes in low- and medium-voltage power protection systems.

Mr. Roberts has over 35 years experience in the design and operation of critical power systems, ranging from single phase UPS systems to medium voltage applications. He began his engineering work as a systems reliability engineer in the Apollo Lunar Module Program at Cape Kennedy. He held senior management positions in two of the major UPS manufacturers during his career. Brad is a senior member of IEEE and has published over 40 technical papers and journal articles on critical power system design and energy storage technology.

Brad is a registered professional engineer and has a BSEE (Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Florida. He is Past-Chairman of the IEEE Power Engineering Society's Emerging Technologies Committee and Executive Director of the Electricity Storage Association (ESA) and Past Chairman of the Board. He has been a member of the ESA Board for 10 years. Mr. Roberts is a member of the US Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Energy Storage Sub-committee.

Brad is the 2004 recipient of the John Mungenast International Power Quality Award.

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.

Miguel Verhein

Executive Director
ALGASOL RENEWABLES SL
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Miguel Verhein is the Executive Director of Algasol Renewables, a company focused on algae as the best feedstock for next generation biofuels. Miguel is responsible for the commercialization of a proprietary low-cost photobioreactor technology for cultivation of micro algae. In September, Algasol Renewables successfully launched a new photobioreactor with a fully integrated internal aeration system. The new internal aeration system has lowered the production cost of algae oil by 10% and the results in terms of productivity and biomass density are very promising.

Miguel is part of the Algasol Renewables management team with primary responsibilities including technology (inventor), communications, government relations, and purchasing.

Miguel has an economic background from the Stockholm University in Sweden. He has led and completed a number of successful startups in many different areas, ranging from crude oil to complex technical inventions within the food industry. Miguel holds several patents and his life-long love and work for the environment has peaked during the last 18 years, establishing Miguel as a force within biofuels.

Dr. Bhima Vijayendran

Chief Research Officer,
Senior VP Global R&D
Battelle

Dr. Bhima Vijayendran is the Chief Research officer for the Renewable Energy Laboratory (REL) that is being launched in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has more than 35 years of experience in industrial R&D and product commercialization.

Dr. Vijayendran joined Battelle in February 1995 and is one of the leading recognized authorities on specialty chemical and polymer systems for a wide range of applications. He has several inventions and new products/processes to his credit in the fields of colloid, polymer, and surface chemistry, adhesives and adhesion, interfacial phenomenon, specialty coating, composites, water-based emulsions, synthetic and natural water soluble polymers, rheology, plastic processing and additives, paper chemicals, and recycling of plastics and paper. More recently, he has taken a leadership role in identifying opportunities and relevant technologies in the areas of Renewable Resources, Fuel cells, Nanotechnology, and Photonics. He has been recognized with numerous awards from R&D 100, the Life Time Achievement Award from United Soybean Board, and Battelle's Inventor of the Year, among others.

Prior to joining Battelle, Dr. Vijayendran served as the Director of Discovery Research at PPG Industries, in Pittsburgh, PA. Prior to PPG Industries, he has held senior leadership roles in management and research at such organizations as Air Products & Chemicals Inc., Celanese Corporation, and Pitney Bowes Inc.

Dr. Vijayendran earned a bachelor's degree in Chemical Technology from the University of Madras, India, a Master of Science in Chemical Technology from the University of Madras, India, a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Haven, and a Ph. D. in Polymer and Surface Science from the University of Southern California.

Paul Wickberg

Chief Executive Officer
EnviroTower

With over 20 years of business leadership and senior management experience, Paul Wickberg brings to EnviroTower a proven track record of driving rapid growth and value creation for technology start-ups as well as Fortune 200 organizations. Most recently, as President and COO of Verisae, Inc., a provider of energy and asset management software, Paul grew the company from startup to multi-national status in just 4 years. Prior to Verisae, Paul was President at Emerson Climate Technologies Solutions, where he oversaw multiple divisions. This was a position he assumed after Emerson's acquisition of Computer Process Controls where he was the President and one of the original founders. He is credited with creating and building Emerson Retail Services, now the leading provider of energy services to the supermarket industry, growing revenues from $19M to $80M over a 5-year period and is the recipient of Emerson's Technology Achievement award.

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.