Keynote Speakers
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick was elected in November of 2006. He brings to the Governor's office a broad range of leadership experience at the top levels of business, government, and non-profits. From an early age, he has built his life on hope, and traced a trajectory from the South Side of Chicago to the U.S. Justice Department, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and now the Massachusetts State House.
Governor Patrick came to the Commonwealth at the age of 14. An excellent student despite the difficult circumstances of under-funded and often violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization.
After graduating from Milton, Patrick went on to Harvard, the first in his family to attend college. He received his degree, with honors, in 1978 and spent a post-graduate year working on a United Nations youth training project in the Darfur region of Sudan. He returned to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School in the fall of 1979.
Following law school, Patrick served as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge before joining the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 1986, he joined the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow and was named partner in 1990, at the age of 34.
In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation's top civil rights post. At the Justice Department, Patrick worked on a wide range of issues, including prosecution of hate crimes and abortion clinic violence, employment discrimination, and enforcement of fair lending laws and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
During his tenure, Patrick led the largest criminal investigation prior to September 11th, coordinating state, local and federal agencies to investigate church burnings throughout the South in the mid-1990s.
Patrick returned to private practice in 1997 with the Boston firm of Day, Berry & Howard. That same year, he was appointed by a federal district court to serve as the first chairperson of Texaco's Equality and Fairness Task Force. Working with employees at all levels, Patrick and his Task Force examined and reformed Texaco's complex corporate employment culture, and created a model for fostering an equitable workplace. Patrick was hired by Texaco in 1999 to serve as Vice President and General Counsel leading the company's global legal affairs.
In 2001, Patrick joined The Coca-Cola Company as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. He was elected to the additional role of Corporate Secretary in 2002, and served as part of the company's senior leadership team as a member of the Executive Committee.
Governor Patrick has served on numerous charitable and corporate boards, as well as the Federal Election Reform Commission under Presidents Carter and Ford, and as Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Council by appointment of Governor Weld.
The Commonwealth's first African-American Governor, Deval Patrick came into office with a grassroots message of hope, community and hard work. By focusing on transparency and inclusion, he hopes to increase accessibility to government and encourage the civic engagement so crucial to shared progress in education, health care, economic development and other issues.
Diane and Deval Patrick have been married for over two decades and have two college-age daughters, Sarah and Katherine. The Patrick family has lived in Milton, in a house on Deval's high school paper route, for the last 17 years.
Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts
Ian Bowles, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in the Deval Patrick administration, has nearly 20 years of experience in the energy and environmental sectors. He was a Director or Advisor to three clean energy technologies companies and has broad leadership experience with environmental policy. Bowles served in the Clinton Administration as Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Senior Director of the Global Environmental Affairs directorate at the National Security Council.
Following his service in the Clinton Administration, Bowles held appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and as Senior Advisor at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where he oversaw the foundation's strategic analysis of energy and climate change issues.
In 2003, Bowles served as President and CEO of MassINC, a Boston-based research institute, and as Publisher of CommonWealth magazine. Earlier in his career, Bowles served for eight years in key leadership positions at Conservation International, a national environmental organization focused on biodiversity conservation. Bowles serves on the Board of Overseers of the Museum of Science and on the Governing Board of the John Adams Innovation Institute. He is co-author of Footprints in the Jungle (Oxford University Press) on the energy and natural resource industries and environmental practices.
He holds an A.B. in economics cum laude from Harvard College and a Masters degree from Oxford University, where he remains an adjunct faculty member at the graduate school of the Environment and Geography.
Chief News and Features Editor, Nature
Oliver Morton is a writer and editor who concentrates on scientific knowledge, technological change and their effects.
He is currently the Chief News and Features Editor at Nature, the world's leading interdisciplinary science journal, supervising its journalistic output in print and online. He previously edited the science and technology pages of The Economist, and was editor in chief of Wired UK, Wired's European sister magazine, from 1995 to 1997. He has been a contributing editor at Wired and at Newsweek International. His writing has also appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Discover, Time, The American Scholar and the New Scientist, as well as in newspapers including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal. He is on the editorial board of the leading UK magazine Prospect. He currently blogs at heliophage.wordpress.com
His first book, Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World was published in 2002 by Picador (US) and Fourth Estate (UK). It deals with scientific and other ways of understanding a place that cannot at present be visited. It was shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the British Science Fiction Award for best related book. He was also one of the authors of SAFE, a book on technology and terrorism published by HarperCollins in 2005. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet, was published by Fourth Estate in the UK in 2007. Listed as one of the "Ten Best Nature Books" in The Independent, and as a book of the year in The Spectator, the reviewer Jon Turney wrote that it contains "everything you could possibly want from a popular science book. There is wonder here, and intellectual excitement; clear explanation and lyrical writing; and much new insight into how the world works."
While focusing in his writing on planetary and earth systems science, Oliver also maintains interests in molecular biology, fundamental physics, global public health issues, the science and policy of energy use and climate change, the technologies of manufacturing, entertainment and warfare, science fiction, and, now and then, industrial design. He has twice won the annual science writing award administered by the Association of British Science Writers, and has also won the David N. Schramm award from the American Astronomical Society; his articles have been anthologised in Best American Science Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing, and his only published foray into science fiction was selected to appear in Year's Best SF 11 (2006). He has served as a consultant to the Near Earth Object working group of the International Astronomical Union and to the EU's New and Emerging Science and Technology programme. He's a founding fellow of the Hybrid Vigor Institute, a not-for-profit organisation devoted to studying and fostering successful interdisciplinary research, and a member of the World Technology Network. He has made numerous appearances on radio and television, and spoken at many conferences and other events on a range of issues.
Oliver has a degree in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University and normally lives with his wife in Greenwich, England. Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton is named in his honour.
Vice President, Equity Research, and energy analyst at Loomis Sayles
Robert (Bob) Goodof is a Vice President, Equity Research, and energy analyst at Loomis Sayles ($100 billion assets under management), in Boston. He has covered manufacturing and energy industries for twenty five years, including renewable energy since 2005, and has worked at Loomis since 1995. An avid cyclist, Bob and his wife, Cindy, have raised over $750,000 for the Pan Mass Challenge over 23 and 15 years' participation, respectively. Bob has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Executive Director, Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Carter Wall is the new Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust. In this role she oversees the implementation of the Trust's programs in renewable energy development. Her background is in energy finance. Prior to joining the Trust, Carter was the Executive Vice President of PowerOptions, an energy supply program of the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Carter has also served on planning teams for large-scale developments with significant energy infrastructure and sustainable development components, such as Harvard University's Allston campus and the City of Chicago's expansion of Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Carter has an AB from Bryn Mawr College and an MPP from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She lives in Leverett, MA.
Panelists and Moderators
President and CEO, Wilson TurboPower, Inc.
New England Clean Energy Cluster Panelist
Bruce Anderson co-founded the New England Clean Energy Council last year along with more than a dozen other people and serves as its co-chair. He is CEO of Wilson TurboPower in Woburn, MA, one of four MIT-related spin-offs launched by IGNITE, which he co-founded in 2000 to start companies to commercialize MIT technologies. Wilson is commercializing both an ultra-efficient industrial heat exchanger and an ultra-efficient microturbine for distributed power generation and as a replacement for diesel engines. Bruce started his clean energy career in 1973 by completing his masters thesis at MIT on solar energy. Twelve years later, Bruce became the first recipient of the American Solar Energy Society's "Outstanding Solar Contribution" Award. He was a founding director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (then the New England Solar Energy Association), authored the New York Times best seller The Solar Home Book and 8 other books, served on the National Advisory Board of the Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) and has twice testified to Congress on energy matters. Bruce ran for governor of New Hampshire in 1986. He has served as director of numerous national organizations and companies and recently was president of the MIT Alumni Club of Boston. Currently, he serves on the International Board of MIT's Alumni Association.
President, RCG Ventures, LLC
Seed Investment Panelist
Venture Capital Panelist
Henri-Claude ("HC") Bailly is the President of RCG Ventures LLC, an early-stage investment company focused on renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and services. He is a director of Solartrec, a solar electric technology venture; Nexamp, a provider of energy and carbon reduction solutions; PanelClaw, a company providing innovative mounting systems for PV modules; Lunera Lighting, a company which develops and manufactures LED fixtures for office applications; and Nextep, a French energy monitoring services company.
HC is the former chairman of Hagler Bailly, an international management and economic consulting firm to the energy and utility industries (NASDAQ: HBIX) which merged with PA Consulting Group in 2000. He served as Hagler Bailly's chief executive officer from the firm's founding in 1980 until April 1999.
HC is currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Energy Future Coalition. He has served on the board of directors of numerous energy associations including the United States Energy Association (1990-2001) and the Alliance to Save Energy (1990-2001). In 1999, he received the USEA/Johnson Control Energy Efficiency Award in special recognition for outstanding leadership in energy efficiency.
HC holds bachelor (1969) and masters (1970) degrees in architecture from the University of Washington (Seattle) and a masters in business administration (MBA) from Harvard University (1972). From 1964 to 1968, he studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France.
Co-founder and Co-chair of the Energy Technology & Renewables Practice, Foley Hoag LLP
Project Finance Panel Moderator
Mark Barnett is a co-founder and co-chair of the Energy Technology & Renewables practice at Foley Hoag LLP, a leading Boston law firm, where he has worked since 2005. Mark serves as general and project-specific counsel to companies developing and commercializing clean energy technologies in the areas of solar energy, wind energy, biomass gasification, energy efficiency, cellulosic ethanol, wave energy and others. Mark also counsels clients on carbon credit purchases and other strategies for complying with emerging mandates on greenhouse gas reduction. Mark is a frequent participant in industry conferences and forums relating to clean energy policies and to the development of the clean technology industry in Massachusetts and throughout New England.
Mark also serves as an advisor to a number of non-profit groups including the Boston Community Capital, Energy Access Foundation, Green Markets International, Occupational Knowledge International, Root Capital and Red Tomato.
Prior to joining Foley Hoag, Mark served as Counsel to the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, a quasi-public agency that receives $20 million per year to invest in the development of clean energy. Mark advised on the development of commercialization programs, equity investments and policy matters.
Mark received his J.D. from Yale Law School and had over ten years of experience prior to law school advising and helping to develop clean technology ventures and environmental policy initiatives. Mark is also a graduate of Yale University with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and History.
Founding Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
New England Clean Energy Cluster Panel Moderator
Dr. Abigail Barrow is the Founding Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC). She is responsible for the overall management of the MTTC and the development of its programs. Prior to joining the MTTC, Dr. Barrow served as managing director of William J. von Liebig Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The von Liebig Center was created in 2001 to support the commercialization of research being performed in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies Consortium (CCAT), which assisted in the identification and commercialization of technologies in the area of crisis and consequence management and received more than $25 million in federal funding from the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Barrow worked in a variety of roles at UCSD CONNECT from 1990 to 2001. At CONNECT, she developed and expanded many of its programs to support early-stage company formation and technology commercialization. The CONNECT program is now internationally recognized and has been successfully replicated in other regions of North America and in Europe. Dr. Barrow is on the board and is Chair of the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment (MOITI) and is on the board of the National Collegiate Inventors and innovators Alliance (NCIIA). In addition, she is a Fellow of the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management at UCSD. Dr. Barrow received her Ph.D. from the Science Studies Unit and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh.
Co-founder, Cambrios Technologies, Inc. and Siluria Technologies, Inc.
University Spinout Panelist
Angela Belcher is a Materials Chemist with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces and solid state chemistry. She received her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1997. Dr. Belcher joined the faculty at MIT in 2002 and was appointed Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering in 2006. She was selected as Research Leader of the Year by Scientific American in 2006, was featured as one of ten to watch by Fortune magazine for "how the world will work in the next 75 years" in 2005, and was named among the Popular Science Brilliant Ten in 2002. Other awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Four Star General Recognition Award (US Army), Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), and a 2002 World Technology Award (Materials). She is co-founder of two companies: Cambrios Technologies, Inc. (2002) and Siluria Technologies, Inc. (2007).
CEO, CellTech Power
Stationary and Backup Power Panelist
Jeff Bentley is the CEO of CellTech Power, which is developing a revolutionary direct carbon fuel cell. He is responsible for company management, business development and strategic relationships. Jeff has over 15 years of leadership experience in the fuel cell industry and 30 years of experience including development of military and high technology products. He holds 12 patents in fuel cells, fuel processing and heat transfer. For ten years he was a Vice President and energy consultant for Arthur D. Little, now TIAX. He has founded four energy technology ventures including Epyx, a fuel processing start-up, Nuvera Fuel Cells and Fideris, a manufacturer of test equipment for alternative energy technologies. Mr. Bentley's functional experience includes military and computer product engineering, technical sales, marketing, business development and general management. He has a BSME and MSME from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Senior Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC)
and Founder, Green Fuel Technologies
International Panelist
Dr. Berzin is a Senior Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC) and an Affiliated Scientist at MIT. Isaac was named one the 100 most influential people in politics, business, and science in 2008 by the Time Magazine. He is the founder of Green Fuel Technologies in Cambridge; and, his innovative work in Clean Energy has won numerous awards. Dr. Isaac Berzin is the inventor of over 12 patents and holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Senior Vice President and Group Head-Life Sciences, Comerica Bank
Project Finance Moderator
Janice Bourque has been Senior Vice President and Group Head-Life Sciences for Comerica Bank for the past 4 years. She is responsible for leading Comerica's national strategy for the life sciences, delivering value to the industry and generating portfolio growth in the Northeast positioning Comerica to be the "Bank of Choice" for the life sciences. Formerly, Ms. Bourque was President/CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBC) for 12 years where under her leadership the MassBiotech 2010 was released which provided a blueprint for Massachusetts to remain at the forefront of the biotechnology revolution. She has held several previous senior managerial positions, including CFO/controller of Cambridge Medical Technology Corporation, senior public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand Emerging and Middle Market Group, and as a NASA Space Science grant project manager for the first satellite payloads to be repaired by the space shuttle missions.
Ms. Bourque is currently on the Board of the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Board Chair of the Boston History and Innovation Collaborative, treasurer for National Foundation for Family Homelessness and board member of the Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology (WEST). She has won numerous awards and was a Boston Magazine 100 most influential woman. Ms. Bourque received her MBA degree in finance and accounting and her BS degree in veterinary science from the University of New Hampshire.
Consul & Head of Trade & Investment, The British Consulate-General
Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Resources Moderator
Cynthia Bouthot joined the British Consulate General in October 2003, bringing with her extensive experience in international business development, consulting, and management. In this role she manages a team of international business advisors working with the most innovative New England and UK companies to develop trans-Atlantic business and R&D opportunities.
Prior to this role she was the founder and CEO of a project management consultancy. Cynthia previously worked as the Global Lead for Business Readiness during EMC's Oracle ERP implementation, and as the director for industry consulting at the technology consultant Benchmarking Partners. In addition Cynthia has served as Vice President of a sports marketing firm, Executive Director of a community charity, and as the Director of Management Systems for Massachusetts Port Authority. Cynthia also worked in London as the Director of the Massachusetts Office for Trade and Investment.
Cynthia has a Bachelors degree in Business from Boston College and a Masters degree in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University.
President, Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition
Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Resources Panelist
Mr. Bradshaw is a senior executive who helps organizations define and implement high performance strategies. Mr. Bradshaw has focused most of his career in the energy industry, spanning electric and gas utility strategies, renewable energy, energy services, and energy management. Mr. Bradshaw is the Interim CEO of Hy9 Corporation, a hydrogen generation and purification company. Mr. Bradshaw also founded and is President of the Masachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, focused on building jobs and investment in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry. Mr. Bradshaw also co-founded the New England Clean Energy Council, an industry association focused on significantly accelerating the devlopment of the clean energy economy in New England. He also co-hosts the annual Conference on Clean Energy, a multi-day regional conference focused on addressing the commercial interests of companies in the clean energy cluster. Illustrative consulting engagements include: developing a near term market and business plan for an advanced membrane technology company; developing the commercialization strategy for an innovative emissions control process coupled with low cost hydrogen generation; and realigning the product and market focus of an advanced energy storage technology company. Mr. Bradshaw has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College with a major in engineering, and an MBA from Babson College.
Managing Director, MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems
Research Center Directors Panelist
Browne was appointed Managing Director of the MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) in February 2008. A solar industry alumni, he previously worked for the Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar, where he was responsible for developing business relationships around Evergreen's advanced module and business expansion efforts. In this capacity, he successfully sourced three major polysilicon deals and played an instrumental role in siting Evergreen's first large integrated solar module factory in North America. Prior to this, Browne served as a senior associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, where he started up CERA's Clean Energy Study. As a student at MIT's Sloan School of Management, he founded the MIT Energy Conference and was involved with a number of MIT energy startups, including GreenFuel Technologies. As an entrepreneur, Browne has founded two successful for-profit companies to date. He holds an MA and BA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
VP Business Development, GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
Project Finance Panelist
Cary Bullock, VP Business Development, has been active in the industry for thirty years, as senior executive, founder, principal or investor in several energy related companies dealing with a broad cross section of technologies, including biofuels, independent power, renewable energy generation, demand side management, enterprise software systems for billing and energy trading/settlement, as well as project financing and structured financing related to energy infrastructure projects. These companies include GreenFuel (former CEO), Excelergy (Chairman, CEO and co-Founder), KENETECH Services (VP and General Manager), KENETECH Energy Management (President and CEO), Econoler/USA (Chairman, CEO, co-Founder), Xenergy (Principal, VP Operations and Engineering), ECRM (Director of Special Engineering). He has served on the board of many early stage energy companies, utility subsidiaries, and investment companies over the years. During this experience, he has worked with most of the investor owned utilities in North American. Bullock has received numerous honors during his career. In 2000 Hart's Energy Markets named Bullock as one of the 100 most influential people in energy and power in the 20th century for his work developing standardized methodologies for energy savings assessment which have been translated into several different languages by USDOE and which are used widely around the world today.
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
University Spinout Panelist
George M. Church is a Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics. 1984 Harvard PhD included the first direct genomic sequencing method and molecular multiplexing tags, which lead to automation & software used at Genome Therapeutics Corp. for the first commercial genome sequence -- pathogen, Helicobacter in 1994. This multiplex solid-phase sequencing evolved into polonies (1999), ABI-SOLiD (2005) & open-source Polonator.org (2007). Innovations in homologous recombination and array-based DNA reading & writing lead to current research and new ethics/safety strategies in Personal Genomics (PGP, 23andme, Knome) & synthetic biology (Codon Devices, SynBERC, LS9).
Vice President of Marketing, Protonex
Portable Power Panelist
Greg Cipriano is Vice President of Marketing and Military Development for Protonex. Mr. Cipriano has 30 years of experience in high technology and is a successful entrepreneur. He excels at envisioning, creating, and commercializing innovative products by applying technology to solve real-world problems. Mr. Cipriano has founded, successfully built, and sold three businesses. He was the founder and former CEO of both Internexsys and Affinity, and he was a co-founder of HealthCom. His extensive business and product development experience includes OEM products for military, commercial, and medical markets. Mr. Cipriano has held executive positions at California Microwave, Prime, Instrumentation Labs, and PR Mallory. He is a board member of Internexsys and a founding board member of the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition.
Executive Director, New Fuels Alliance
Founder, Northeast Biofuels Collaborative
Biofuels Panel Moderator
Brooke Coleman is the founder of the Northeast Biofuels Collaborative, a coalition of northeast biofuel producers and stakeholders, and is the Executive Director of the New Fuels Alliance, a national advocate for the production and use of non-petroleum fuels. Mr. Coleman led an effort in Massachusetts to pass the Clean Energy Biofuels Act, signed in July, and is currently working on the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the implementation of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. Mr. Coleman is a graduate of Wesleyan University, the Northeastern University School of Law, and is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar.
CFO, FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp
Wind Power Panelist
Matthew Commons is Chief Financial Officer for FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp., which manufactures high efficiency utility-scale shrouded wind turbines. He is responsible for financial management, business development and strategic planning. He has worked with renewable technologies since 2001 in positions at Enron, American Electric Power, LS Power Equity Advisors and The NorthBridge Group. His experience includes development, financing, and power sales agreements for over 500 MW of wind resources.
Managing Director, Braemar Energy Ventures
Energy Storage Panel Moderator
Dennis R. Costello is a Managing Director of Braemar Energy Ventures II and is a member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Costello has been an active venture capital investment professional for over twenty years. From 1990 to 2000, Mr. Costello was with Advent International, where he focused on early stage to later stage middle market companies. From 1995 to 2000, he served as the chief investment officer for the North American operations of Advent International. Mr. Costello is also a managing director in Rock Maple Ventures, an early stage technology venture fund in Boston. Prior to Advent International, Mr. Costello was a general partner of Zero Stage Capital of Pennsylvania, a venture capital partnership investing in early stage technology companies in Pennsylvania. Mr. Costello began his career in alternative energy with positions at Midwest Research Institute and a member of the original staff of the National Solar Energy Research Institute ("SERI"), now renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ("NREL"). During that period, Mr. Costello published numerous papers and articles on the economic and market issues of solar energy commercialization. He is also the author of the Dow Jones Irwin book New Venture Analysis: Research, Planning, and Finance. Mr. Costello holds an MS degree in business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He also holds an MA in economics from Ohio State University and a BA in economics from the State University of New York (SUNY), College at Fredonia.
Founder and CEO of Hy-SyEnce
Biofuels Panelist
Don Crookes is the Founder and CEO of Hy-SyEnce, a development stage systems design and manufacturing company focused on designing, manufacturing and installing energy systems that convert bio-waste streams from food manufacturers into electricity while significantly reducing waste disposal costs. Hy-SyEnce was formed in 2006. Earlier, Mr. Crookes founded and led several other entrepreneurial ventures, including Technivox, an interactive voice systems company; Somnographics, a sleep disorder evaluation and diagnostics company; and Real Bagel, a wholesale food manufacturer. Earlier, Mr. Crookes was with Texas Instruments, involved with their telecommunications IC product line.
Mr. Crookes is an active member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum, Brown University Forum for Enterprise, Merrimack Valley Venture Forum, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Venture Forum and is affiliated with Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, as well as the national organization of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).
Senior Associate, General Catalyst Partners
University Spinout Panel Moderator
David focuses on investing in advanced materials and clean technology businesses.
Before joining General Catalyst, David performed his doctoral work on clean energy materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also created and taught multiple MIT courses on materials for clean energy. David has a background in the semiconductor industry, having worked for Intel, Applied Materials, and IBM. He is the author of 20 scientific articles in the field of advanced materials and is the holder of one U.S. patent, which has been licensed to industry
David is the founder of the MIT Energy Club and currently sits on its Executive Committee. He is also the co-founder of the MIT Energy Conference and the New England Clean Energy Council, a non-profit collaborative organization focused on bringing together regional thought leaders and experts to apply New England innovation towards solving the world's energy problems. For his work toward building a strong multidisciplinary energy community at MIT, David was awarded the Karl Taylor Compton Prize, MIT's highest award presented to a student. He also sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chesonis Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization devoted to supporting fndamental research in the field of clean energy.
David holds a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor and Director, Fuel Cell Center, Worcester WPI
Research Center Directors Panelist
Ravi Datta is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of WPI Fuel Cell Center. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1981 to 1998, he was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, when he moved to WPI, and served as Chemical Engineering Department Head until 2005.
Ravi's research interests are in fuel cells, hydrogen catalysis, and renewable fuels. He has published extensively in these areas including 125 journal articles, 185 conference papers, and 6 patents, and has been advisor to 35 graduate students, including 20 doctoral students. His recent work has focused on developing novel catalysts, fuel cell membranes, and novel fuel cells. He established the WPI Fuel Cell Center in 1999, and is looking forward to establishing the Massachusetts Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Institute, which is planned as a consortium of many Massachusetts universities and companies.
President and CEO, Ze-gen
Project Finance Panelist
Bill Davis is President and & CEO of Ze-gen, a renewable energy company he founded in 2004. Ze-gen is an emerging leader in the field of advanced gasification technology for converting ordinary waste streams, such as manufacturing waste and construction debris, into renewable energy.
Prior to founding Ze-gen, Mr. Davis' career in business has included launching numerous companies: Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark Advertising in 1997, and Cambridge Brand Analytics in 2003.
Mr. Davis serves on the Board of Directors of New Bedford Economic Development Council, the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, and The Commonwealth Corporation. He also serves on the CEO Council of the New England Energy Innovation Collaborative. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1979.
Principal, Green Economy
Clean Energy Careers Panelist
Kevin Doyle is an independent consultant "doing business as" Green Economy. Green Economy provides research, education, facilitation, program evaluation, and strategy development for government agencies, businesses, colleges and nonprofit groups building a more sustainable world.
Kevin is the co-chair of the New England Clean Energy Council's workforce development task force and is currently leading a research project to identify employment and training needs in the energy efficiency and renewable energy industries in Massachusetts.
He is the co-author of The Eco Guide to Careers That Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World, The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century, and The New Complete Guide to Environmental Careers. Kevin writes the green careers feature for www.grist.org, and delivers workshops about environmental, conservation and sustainability careers on college campuses nationwide. He is currently writing a new book about climate change careers.
Prior to Green Economy, Kevin was a senior executive at The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) for over fifteen years. He has also worked as a comprehensive community planner in the Seattle area, and directed a community development corporation in Eugene, Oregon.
General Partner, RockPort Capital Partners
Project Finance Panelist
Mr. Hap Ellis is a General Partner of RockPort Capital Partners.
Mr. Ellis has extensive operating experience in electric power and renewable energy. He was a member of the management team at Kenetech Corporation from 1991-1995, where he was responsible for expanding the portfolio of wind generation opportunities and introducing wind into utility systems across the country. He later was a partner in several electric-related companies, including Casco Bay Energy Company, LLC, which developed a 520MW gas-fired electric generating station operating in ISO-New England, and Acadia Bay Energy Company, LLC, which developed a 638MW gas-fired electric generating station in ERCOT and sold it to Allegheny Energy. In 1998 Mr. Ellis joined RockPort Partners, a merchant bank specializing in the energy and environmental sectors and helped form RockPort Capital Partners in 2001.
He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Catalytic Solutions, Inc.(AIM:CTS), Powerspan Corporation, PPT Research, Inc., Southwest Windpower, ISE Corporation, and Eka Systems, Deerpath Energy, and Wind Power Holdings. He previously served on the board of Comverge, Inc. (NASDAQ:COMV). He is also a member of the Finance and Administration Committee of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Mr. Ellis received a BA from Colorado College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Vice President, On-site Power Solutions for UTC Power
Backup & Stationary Power Panelist
Ken Fox is Vice President, On-site Power Solutions for UTC Power. He is responsible for all aspects of the company's stationary power businesses.
Fox joined UTC Power in 2007 after 17 years with Carrier Corporation, a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) sister division. At Carrier, Fox led the profitable growth of the residential and commercial controls business from a small break-even entity to one of Carrier's highest growth and most profitable businesses. Fox led the acquisition of Automated Logic Corporation in 2004, further growing Carrier's presence is the building automation sector. In his most recent assignment at Carrier, he was responsible for the North American commercial business, which included sales, service, national accounts, Automated Logic and Carrier Electronics.
Prior to joining UTC, Fox was vice president at Bank of America's Investment Banking Group, specializing in alternative energy project funding. Previously he served as group manager at Exxon Corporation where he was responsible for project management of petro-chemical facilities.
Managing Director, Citizens Energy
Wind Power Panelist
Roger Freeman joined Citizens Energy in 2005 as Managing Director, Energy Ventures. He is responsible for managing Citizens Energy's for-profit energy ventures, including Citizens Wind. Mr. Freeman is responsible for all aspects of Citizens Energy's wind development business, including business planning and strategy, wind project development and finance, and legal and regulatory affairs. Mr. Freeman also leads Citizens Energy's initiatives in energy efficiency and distributed generation. Prior to joining Citizens, Mr. Freeman practiced corporate and energy law in Boston where he had a national practice representing alternative energy companies and investors. In addition to wind power, Mr. Freeman has extensive experience with distributed generation.
Mr. Freeman has served on the editorial advisory board of Distributed Energy magazine and is a frequent speaker and moderator on alternative energy issues. He was one of the primary drafters of the Massachusetts Model Interconnection Tariff. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Combined Heat and Power Initiative and the Energy Conference Committee of the New England Canada Business Council. Mr. Freeman is a member of the American Bar Association and served as vice chair of the ABA's Renewable Energy Committee.
CEO, SunEthanol
BioFuels Panelist
Prior to joining SunEthanol, Dr. Frey led DuPont Biofuels, a worldwide business development effort to commercialize advanced biofuels and new cellulosic process technologies. He has broad partnership experience with industry leaders such as BP, British Sugar, Statoil and Genencor, as well as significant experience in working with various government agencies, including the U.S Department of Energy. He has served as a Board member for Vivergo Fuels, the DuPont representative on a 100M+ gal. capacity biofuels joint venture in the UK with BP and British Sugar. Dr. Frey received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University. He had been with DuPont for 28 years before accepting the position as CEO of SunEthanol.
Vice President, Advanced Technology Ventures
Backup and Stationary Power
Andrew joined ATV in 2007 and focuses on investments in clean technology companies in the firm's Waltham, MA office. He is an observer on the boards of Rive Technology and Wakonda Technologies.
Andrew co-leads the Renewable Energy Business Network (www.rebn.org), and also serves on the advisory board of the New England Clean Energy Council (www.necec.org).
Previously, Andrew was a Director at Idealab in Pasadena, CA, where he evaluated energy and clean technologies for possible investment and company creation. He focused on various areas including solar PV and thermal, fuel cells, hydrogen generation, flywheels, small-scale wind, advanced batteries, and new transportation concepts. He played an active role with Idealab companies, serving on Boards, assisting with strategy, developing partner and customer relationships, and securing venture capital.
Prior to Idealab, Andrew was a Partner at Clean Edge, a strategic consulting practice for the cleantech sector and senior manager of Business Development & Strategy at Zambeel, Inc. Andrew also spent five years at The White House in a variety of positions including personal aide to President Clinton and senior advisor to the Special Envoy for the Americas where he worked with Congress to design trade legislation and assisted U.S. companies in gaining access to Latin American markets.
Andrew holds an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. from Middlebury College.
Founder, President and CEO, Wakonda Technologies
Solar Energy Panelist
Les Fritzemeier is Founder, President and CEO of Wakonda Technologies. He has nearly 25 years of successful business development experience in power conversion technologies. He spent 12 years in aerospace power development and 7+ years in the electric power technology industry where he established and directed a successful strategic product development effort and major corporate alliances from 1996-2001. Les's background includes extensive experience in strategic alliances, intellectual property strategy and organization development. Immediately prior to founding Wakonda, he directed the business development activities of the Infotonics Technology Center in upstate NY, negotiating equity investments valued at over $10 million, managing intellectual property and marketing functions and helping to launch three startups. Fritzemeier is a named inventor on 23 U.S. Patents.
Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations, ENSYN Technologies
International Panelist
Mr. Goodfellow joined Ensyn on January1st, 2008, but is no stranger to the company, as Ensyn had been a long standing client of the consulting firm that ran until the end of 2007. In his current capacity he oversees the public affairs, government relations, and communications activities of the company. In 17 years as a consultant he advised senior executives from the private, public, and academic sectors on policy and communications issues related to the bio-based energy, chemicals and materials that can be generated from renewable natural resources. Randal was the founding President of BioProducts Canada and currently sits as the Chair of BioteCanada's Industrial and Environmental Committee as well he is the of OCRI's CleanTech Initiative. Ensyn's patented Rapid Thermal Process RTP(tm) technology has commercially produced bio-oil in facilities in Wisconsin since 1989 and it remains the world's only, fast pyrolysis technology that has proven to operated on a sustained commercial basis. Fast Pyrolysis converts, in less than 2 seconds, residual biomass from the forestry and agricultural sectors, to liquid bio-oil, for the production of bio-energy and renewable transport fuel, and for the subsequent extraction of natural chemicals. Ensyn has designed, built, and commissioned seven RTP(tm) commercial plants in the United States and Canada; the largest, its' own, is located in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada processes 100 bone dry metric tonnes of residual wood per day. Projects are underway to build plants that are approximately 5-10 times the size of the Renfrew plant. Ensyn's corporate strategy is to jointly build facilities with secure feedstock suppliers and/or users of the products that are produced from the pyrolysis of biomass; these would include forest products companies, agricultural materials processing companies, as well as energy and fuel production companies looking to green their market offerings.
President, Peregrine Energy Group
Energy Efficiency & Demand Response Panel Moderator
Paul Gromer, Peregrine's President, is a former Commissioner of Energy Resources for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is also a former Chairman of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council, where he had regulatory responsibility for the siting of electric generating plants.
Since founding Peregrine in 1992, Mr. Gromer has assisted numerous clients in matters regarding electric industry restructuring, utility regulation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. He has spoken widely on these issues, and has participated in regulatory proceedings in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Gromer is a graduate of Middlebury College and Harvard Law School.
Co-founder and CEO, Soltage
Project Finance Panelist
Jesse Grossman co-founded Soltage and has served as the company's Chief Executive Officer since October 2005. Grossman has formal training in emerging markets, physical science and business development. Prior to co-founding Soltage Mr. Grossman worked in venture development and management, project finance, marketing, and resource use strategies in diverse locals including East Africa, Indonesia, as well as the U.S. east and west coasts. Grossman has worked with energy demand management, solar, as well as wind companies and project developers and has developed and managed projects for the USAID, USGS, and the Carnegie Mellon Foundation. He has an undergraduate degree in biology from Carleton College and a graduate degree in environmental science from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with business development certification from Yale's MacMillan Center.
General Partner, Foundation Capital
Venture Capital Panelist
In addition to coordinating the CleanTech practice at Foundation Capital, Paul's primary focus is on helping early-stage start-ups go from zero to $100M in revenue. He helped take public two venture-funded software start-ups, Kana Communications (KANA), and Pure Software (RATL). Paul currently serves on the board of directors for Bella Pictures, CalStar Cement, Conformia, Coverity, Edge Dynamics (acquired by iMany), Ketera, Serious Materials, and TuVox; and previously for Talking Blocks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard) and RouteScience (acquired by Avaya).
Prior to joining Foundation Capital, Paul was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Kana Communications, a leading supplier of Enterprise Relationship Management solutions to strategic e-businesses. Paul went on to build a team of over 350 people that secured more than 900 customers worldwide, helping Kana become one of the top ten IPOs of 1999. Before Kana, Paul was a vice president and general manager for another highly successful start-up, Pure Software, helping raise their market value from $2 million to over $1 billion in his five-year tenure there. He began his professional career at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute).
Paul enjoys spending time with his wife Linda Yates, and their three daughters, Kylie, Devon, and Piper. In his spare time he enjoys golf, volleyball, poker, traveling (he has visited over 50 countries to date), and is building a LEED Platinum home in Portola Valley. Paul has been guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, Harvard Business School, James Madison University, and the Stanford Graduate School of Engineering. He is an active advisor and supporter of Project BUILD in East Palo Alto, the Bing School at Stanford and Sustainable Silicon Valley.
Paul received an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley; an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and a BS from James Madison University.
Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University Spinout Panelist
George W. Huber is the John and Elizabeth Armstrong Professional Development Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research focus is on Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Biofuels. Three different companies (Virent, KiOR and Renewable Oil International) are commercializing biofuel technologies that George has developed. His discovery of Raney-NiSn catalyst for hydrogen production from biomass-derived oxygenates was named as one of top 50 technology breakthroughs of 2003 by Scientific America. George is currently working with numerous governmental and industrial institutions to help make cellulosic biofuels a reality. George did a post-doctoral stay with Avelino Corma at the Technical Chemical Institute at the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain (UPV-CSIC) where he studied bio-fuels production using petroleum refining technologies. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005) where he helped develop aqueous-phase catalytic processes for biofuels production under the guidance of James A. Dumesic. He obtained his B.S. (1999) and M.S.(2000) degrees from Brigham Young University.
Chief Technology Officer, Vectrix Corporation
Transportation Panelist
Peter Hughes is Chief Technology Officer for Vectrix Corp. leading a development team focused on 2 and 3 wheel electric transportation solutions. He manages all technology development activity for Vectrix. Peter has over 31 years of engineering management experience in the fields of electrical energy generation and distribution, renewable energy products and power electronic drive systems. Prior to Vectrix, he was Executive Vice President for Atlantic Orient Corporation, a developer of advanced wind turbines. He has also worked for Advanced Energy Systems, a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, with primary responsibilities in the area of emerging energy technologies.
He has worked for the New England Electric System, Westinghouse Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Gould Power Systems, Atlantic Orient Corporation and 12 years at Vectrix.
Economic Development Officer, Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Resources Panelist
Portable Power Moderator
Karl serves as the Economic Development Officer for the Renewable Energy Trust - working to increase the job and economic development potential of the clean energy industry in Massachusetts through investments in early-stage companies, and forming partnerships and alliances with industry, universities and clean energy organizations. He also conducts the clean energy research activities for Trust.
He has over 17 years experience in clean energy technology. Prior to joining the Trust, Karl founded a startup technology company and has worked throughout his career with emerging and advanced energy technologies with Arthur D. Little, the Yankee Group and Honeywell. His work has taken him to Europe, the Far East and South America, as well as throughout North America. Karl was an officer in the US Air Force and holds an MBA from Babson College and a BS in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Co-Founder, Aeronautica Windpower
Wind Power Panelist
Brian Kuhn is Co-Founder of Aeronautica Windpower and VP of Marketing and Sales. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for 'Renewable Energy Systems and Business', he was involved in the Wind Furnace I project, one of the Department of Energy's first Windpower projects in the 1970's. He is also a 30 year veteran of the wind and solar energy markets, and serves as the company's VP of Marketing where he supervises all marketing and sales. Mr. Kuhn is the principal author of 'Plymouth 2020', a plan to have all of Plymouth, Massachusett's municipal electricity produced by renewable resources, most notably wind power, by the year 2020. Mr. Kuhn Co-Founded Aeronautica Windpower in late 2007, along with Mr. Sergio Quadros-Anaya.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Boston-Power
Energy Storage Panelist
Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud serves as one of the world's foremost authorities on energy storage, with substantial expertise in battery system innovation and design. Strategy and technology advisor to the top players in the portable power and energy storage industries, she has pioneered the use of Lithium-ion battery technology to deliver higher performing, longer lasting, safer and environmentally responsible batteries initially targeting notebook computers. Dubbed Sonata, the technology also offers an energy storage solution capable of benefitting a wide range of products, from consumer electronics to hybrid and electric vehicles. With more than 40 patents filed, Dr. Lampe-Önnerud is sought-after to share her insights at industry events and government organizations around the world.
Dr. Lampe-Önnerud has helped Boston-Power to raise $70 million in VC funding to date, including one of the largest portable power investments in 2007. The award-winning company's success is further underscored by its commitment to environmental sustainability, which has been recognized internationally by organizations including China's Environmental Certification Centre and Nordic Ecolabel. Prior to founding Boston-Power, Dr. Lampe-Önnerud was one of the youngest partners ever appointed at Arthur D. Little/TIAX, where she ran the company's globally-renowned battery labs. Earlier in her career, she served as a director and senior scientist at Bell Communications Research. Dr. Lampe-Önnerud earned a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Calculus from Sweden's Uppsala University, along with a post-doctorate at MIT.
Project Manager,
Oslo Renewable and Environment Cluster
International Panelist
Per-Olav Lauvstad is the former Chairman of the Board for a regional hydro-power electricity company, and the company's district heating system based on biomass (woodchips). Lauvstad is now project manager for OREEC, Oslo Renewable and Environment Cluster. OREEC is a cluster of universities, colleges, municipalities, county's, industry and organizations' engaged in renewable energy and the consequences of the use of fossil energy. OREEC is working in close cooperation with the Norwegian Research council and Innovation Norway.
Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Beacon Power Corporation
Energy Storage Panelist
Mr. Lazarewicz is Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Beacon Power Corp. Prior to joining Beacon Power, Mr. Lazarewicz worked for 25 years in the General Electric in various engineering and managerial capacities in Power Systems and Aircraft Engines. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Electricity Storage Association and is a member the IEEE Power Engineering Society, where he serves as Vice-Chairman of the Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Working Group within the Energy Development Subcommittee (EDS). He is also a member of ASME and CIGRE.
Professor and Chair, Department of Management and Marketing,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
International Panel Moderator
David L. Levy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his doctorate from Harvard Business School. His research examines corporate strategic responses to climate change and the growth of the renewable energy business sector in the New England region. He has published and lectured widely on these topics, and his most recent book, co-edited with Peter Newell, is The Business of Global Environmental Governance, MIT Press, 2005.
Investment Manager, SEED Capital, Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Seed Investment Panelist
As Investment Manager at the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, Sissi focuses on providing assistance to early-stage renewable energy companies. She manages the $8 million SEED Fund for investing in and incubating seed-stage clean energy technology companies. Since 2004, SEED has committed nearly $6 milion in 16 Massachusetts startups. More than half of the companies have received follow-on investment from the private sector since closing and currently provide almost 170 full time jobs in Massachusetts. In addition, she is serving as lead Limited Partner of the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, a $17 million venture capital fund.
Prior to joining the MTC, Sissi worked for Sentech, Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based clean energy consulting firm where she led policy and market research and analyses on the clean energy sector. Before that, she held key roles at high-tech startups in business development and management. Sissi also worked in corporate finance with UBS's Telecom and High-Tech investment banking practice.
Sissi hold a B.A. from Wellesley College in Economics and a M.P.P from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Partner,Virgin Green Fund
Venture Capital Panelist
Evan Lovell is a Founding Partner of the Virgin Green Fund ("VGF") a private equity fund focused on growth capital investments in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors. Prior to founding VGF Mr. Lovell was a private equity investor with TPG Growth, a $1.5 billion private equity fund focused on growth capital, LBO and late stage venture investing in North America and Asia. At TPG he was a Principal focusing on consumer product, retail and cleantech related investments.
Prior to joining TPG Growth, Evan was a Partner with Aqua International, a TPG fund focused on the cleantech sector where he led over $250 million of equity investments globally. Prior to joining Aqua in 1998, Evan was Director of International Development for Culligan Water Technologies (1994-1998).
Mr. Lovell serves on the board of DTX Oil, Duratherm Inc. and Seven Seas Water.
General Partner, Flagship Ventures
The New England Clean Energy Cluster Panelist
Jim joined Flagship Ventures in 2000 and focuses on new ventures in the IT and special technology (e.g. nano-technology, specialty materials, and energy) arenas. He brings to this task 20 years of technology and leadership experience across a variety of organizations and roles designing, engineering and deploying sophisticated technology platforms. Jim formerly served as a Navy fighter pilot including duties flying combat missions from aircraft carriers, and as a TOPGUN Instructor. He also gained broad experience in emerging weapons system design, testing and procurement, and was deeply involved in many of the military's IT modernization initiatives. Jim earned an MBA from The Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Science (with honors) from the United States Naval Academy and he continues to serve as a Commander in the US Naval Reserves. He serves on the boards of Flagship portfolio companies Avidimer Therapeutics, e-Dialog, Genstruct, Mascoma, Novomer, Tira Wireless and vmSight, and is Chairman of the Board of Ze-gen. He was previously a director of Yantra (acquired by Sterling Commerce / SBC), Flamenco Networks (acquired by SOA Software), and e-Dialog (acquired by GSI Commerce Inc. Nasdaq: GSIC). Jim is on the Board of New York-based hedge fund Black Horse Capital, Common Impact (a non-profit providing IT services to other non-profits), and the Center for Women & Enterprise, and is actively involved in numerous entrepreneurial and venture capital organizations including the New England Clean Energy Council, the MIT Enterprise Forum, The Deshpande Center, and The Service Academy Business Network.
General Partner, RockPort Capital Partners
Venture Capital Panelist
Mr. McDermott began working in the energy and environmental area in 1984 when he joined Citizens Energy Corporation as Manager of Project Development, helping to pioneer the creation of the nation's first bulk electric power trading company. He later served as Campaign Director and then as Chief of Staff for a U.S. Congressman from 1986-1990, directing all political, constituent, and legislative matters. In 1990, Mr. McDermott joined the government relations staff of Waste Management, Inc., the world's largest environmental services company. He was made Vice President and officer of the corporation in 1993, making him responsible for the company's federal advocacy before the White House, U.S. Congress, and other federal agencies. He relocated to Boston in 1998 and helped form RockPort's merchant bank in that year and the venture fund in 2001.
He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Advanced Electron Beams, Renaissance Lighting, Soliant Energy, Tioga Energy, Project FROG and Sustainable Spaces, Inc. He is also President of the Smart Grid Policy Caucus, a Member of the Board of Directors and President of the CEO Coalition to Advance Sustainable Technologies, a Board Member of the Venture Capital Advisory Committee to the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a Board Member of the GridWise Alliance, and a Board Member of the Flax Trust, a business incubator in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Mr. McDermott studied at Yale University before becoming a producer, performer, writer, and music company executive, recording three albums, and founding Homecoming Records with John Stewart in 1982.
VP of Business Development, Azure Dynamics
Transportation Panelist
Dean McGrew is VP of Business Development for Azure Dynamics. He is responsible for the sale of components used in on-road and off-road vehicle applications. Mr. McGrew served formerly as vice president of manufacturing and engineering for SuperSteel Schenectady, Inc., a manufacturer of rail locomotives, and as manager of trucks and mechanical design for General Electric Transportation Systems.
Director, Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC)
Research Center Directors Panelist
John is the founding Director of the Marine Renewable Energy Center (MREC). He has 25 years of experience in technology commercialization in a variety of high technology businesses including Polaroid and GTE, has been President of two companies, and led a startup, Micro Magnetics, that transitioned an advanced materials sensor from university demonstration to Beta ready tool in 11 months. He has a BS degreee in Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, an MS in engineering degree from the University of Washington; and an MBA degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. John is active in the New England Clean Energy Council, oyUniversity of Massachusetts Clean Energy Working Group, and sits on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. He actively employs his own renewable energy rowing whale boats.
Vice President of Marketing, Nuvera
Transportation Panelist
Bill Mitchell is Vice President of Marketing at Nuvera. He is also the Global Market Leader and sponsor of the firm's automotive product platform and shares responsibilities for managing OEM/partner relationships for automotive customers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. His primary responsibilities include business development, strategic planning, product strategy, market research, and marketing communications. Prior to taking on his role in marketing, Bill was Vice President of Engineering and Operations. He has been involved in advanced power systems, combustion, alternative fuels, fuel cells, catalyst technology, and environmental engineering since 1990.
Previously, he was a co-founder and Vice President of Epyx Corporation where he helped launch this technology-intensive start-up company. Before that, he was employed at Arthur D. Little, Inc., as an Engineer and Program Manager of its Hydrogen Technologies Group. Earlier, Bill was a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University.
Partner, Foley Hoag LLP
Venture Capital Moderator
Jerry O'Connor is an business attorney at Foley Hoag LLP. He has a wide-ranging business law practice that focuses on corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities law and intellectual property matters. He represents clients in a variety of industries, including advanced and renewable energy, software and information technology, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, venture capital and professional services.
Jerry practices at Foley's Emerging Enterprise Center. He advises early-stage technology companies with formation, securities offerings, employment and intellectual property issues, and in connection with carrying out strategic alliance and joint venture agreements. He represents buyers and sellers of private and public companies, and advises public companies and their directors and officers on securities law, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and reporting obligations.
Jerry's practice has particular focus on advising early stage energy technology companies. He serves as Clerk of the New England Clean Energy Council.
Senior Program Manager, AECOM
EnergyEfficiency & Demand Response Panelist
David Ortiz has over 24 years of experience in engineering, planning, construction management and project management in the energy & power industries. As a senior program manager with AECOM Energy, Mr. Ortiz has been involved in every aspect of sustainable program development, including energy master planning, renewable energy, architecture, water/wastewater, transportation and marine infrastructure, environmental analyses and management, and social equity.
Over the last several years, Mr. Ortiz has been involved in some of the most progressive efforts in helping to bring sustainability and integrated design principals into the mainstream of the design process. Mr. Ortiz was instrumental in securing and launching his company's assignment as Technical Advisor to the Mayor's Office for implementing the Carbon Footprint Reduction component of PlaNYC, a long term, all inclusive, programmatic sustainability strategy for the City of New York. Most recently, Mr. Ortiz has been involved in the analysis of alternative energy related technical and policy issues and in formulating and mobilizing policy initiatives within New York City that will enable wide scale deployment of solar energy.
Mr. Ortiz is also an adjunct instructor in geo-thermal energy at the Center for Sustainable Energy and serves on the consultancy board for Manhattan College's School of Engineering.
President, Nxegen LLC
Energy Efficiency & Demand Response Panelist
Thomas W. Philbin is the President of Nxegen LLC, one of the EnergySolve companies. As President, Dr. Philbin is responsible to grow and develop the market for Nxegen's proprietary patented energy monitoring and "smart meter" technology as well as for the marketing and sales of the energy services offered by the EnergySolve companies as a whole.
Prior to joining Nxegen, Dr. Philbin served as Sr. Vice President for Acumentrics Corporation. Dr. Philbin was the President of HEC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northeast Utilities for over ten years.
For over 30 years, Dr. Philbin has served as an officer in various engineering and environmental consulting organizations. His past technical work focused on directing energy conservation and power projects in dozens of countries around the world, as well as in the United States.
Vice President of Business Development, Lilliputian Systems
Portable Power Panelist
Mouli Ramani currently serves as Vice President of Business Development at Lilliputian Systems Inc., a Wilmington MA based startup focused on developing the world's first Personal Power? solution for Consumer Electronics (CE) devices, a revolutionary family of products targeted at the $50 billion portable power market. Prior to Lilliputian Systems, Mouli served in various senior management roles at Polychromix, Jasmine Networks and Nortel Networks, closing sales contracts worth over US$1.7B throughout the globe and has pengineering (on both the buy side and sell side) in numerous M&A transactions. He has been instrumental in helping customers and carriers refine technology decisions, business cases, and optimize many of the long haul and metropolitan area networks in North America, Europe and Japan.
Chief Financial Officer, Conservation Services Group (CSG)
Clean Energy Careers Moderator
At CSG, Wanda Reindorf works to promote clean and renewable energy in addition to overseeing the company's Finance and HR functions. Ms. Reindorf brings more than 20 years of results-oriented financial management and strategic experience for a variety of public and private companies. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from Yale University. Wanda co-chairs the Workforce Development Committee for the New England Clean Energy Council, and has recently been appointed by Governor Patrick to the Massachusetts Workforce Investment Board. She is involved in a number of clean energy activities such as the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and the MIT clean energy competition in addition to work on a number of professional associations. CSG-founded 1984, designs, develops, and delivers energy efficiency and clean energy programs and services nationwide. More information is at www.csgrp.com
Managing Director, DanePartners
Clean Energy Careers Panelist
Matthew has more than 10 years of retained search and executive recruiting experience, currently as Managing Director of DanePartners, and on the executive recruiting team at Cognizant, a global IT consulting leader. Matthew's past experiences include a global retained search firm, a small boutique, and as the Director of Recruiting at a high-growth startup. Matthew founded DanePartners to focus on recruiting for energy & cleantech companies. He serves on the steering committee for several clean energy organizations including the TiE Energy & Cleantech Special Interest Group, The MIT Enterprise Forum's Energy Special Interest Group, the Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) Business Plan Competition, and the MTTC's Conference on Clean Energy. Please visit www.danepartners.com for more info.
Founding Partner, SourceSquared, LLC
Seed Investment Panelist
James Rosenfield is a founding partner of SourceSquared, LLC, a holding company focused on building technology-enabled information services businesses in energy, power and efficiency. He is co-Founder and Senior Advisor to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a leading energy research and advisory firm that provides independent insight into the energy future. CERA was sold in 2004 to IHS, Inc (NYSE "IHS").
At SourceSquared, Mr Rosenfield co-founded and serves on the board of Azima, Inc, a portfolio company that provides web-enabled condition monitoring, diagnostics and reliability services for industrial equipment. He also is on the board of Aircuity, a leading manufacturer of integrated sensing and control solutions to reduce building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving its indoor environmental quality. Mr. Rosenfield serves as Chairman of Acumentrics, a SourceSquared company pioneering the development of solid oxide fuel cells and clean, reliable power electronics. Previously, Mr. Rosenfield co-founded Xcellerex, LLC, a biomanufacturing firm leading the development of disposables-based technologies for developing, manufacturing and commercializing biotherapeutics; nominated as one of the "Top Ten Companies to Watch" by ContractPharma Magazine.
Mr. Rosenfield was a driving force behind CERA's growth over 25 years, including oversight of strategy, new products, sales and marketing and operations. He is engaged in digital strategies and emerging energy technologies; and created CERAWeek, ranked as one of the top five top level conferences in the world. Mr. Rosenfield is on the Board of the New England Clean Energy Council and is an advisor to a variety of firms in energy and technology He has presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; the United Nations in Geneva; CERAWeek, and at other international forums . He was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2006-7). He is a Member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He attended Harvard College and holds an MBA from Boston University. Mr. Rosenfield lives with his wife and three children in Lexington, MA.
President and COO, American DG Energy
Efficiency & Demand Response Panelist
Barry J. Sanders is President and Chief Operating Officer of American DG Energy. He has served as Executive Vice President of MicroLogic, Inc., where he directed the company's B2B group. He has previously been the Marketing Manager at Andover Controls Corp. and at Tecogen Inc. where he directed the successful introduction of that company's DG chiller products in 1988. Mr. Sanders has also managed R&D projects for the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) in Albany, NY, where he created the highly successful University-Industry Energy Research Program to accelerate commercialization of new technologies. Mr. Sanders has a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and an MBA in marketing from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Principal, Atlas Venture
Seed Investment Panelist
Peter Shannon is a Principal in the technology group, and joined Atlas Venture in 2005.
Before joining Atlas Venture, Peter was an MBA student at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. During business school, he worked as a Summer Associate at Bain & Company's San Francisco office, serving a life sciences instrument manufacturer supporting genomic and proteomic research.
Prior to business school, Peter was Vice President of Technology at Browz Group, a company he invested in and advised throughout start-up. Browz Group provides large customers in power generation, chemical, and other heavy industries with on-line supply chain verification services, to help them and their suppliers exchange compliance-related information.
Peter led the company's software development organization through a turnaround to bring its software infrastructure in line with the complex needs of Browz Group's rapidly growing client base. Peter's leadership resulted in improved communication between the technology group and the rest of the company and the development of a flexible data-driven compliance database. This helped Browz Group scale gracefully to meet the sophisticated needs of its clients.
Prior to joining Browz Group, Peter built several years of software design and leadership experience serving as a technology consultant to Orbitz, Bank of America's Global Derivative Products Group, and Sprint.
While an undergraduate, Peter co-founded Eye Response, Inc., a company that pioneered computer eye tracking systems. He received a U.S. Patent for his inventions and drove commercialization of the technology for applications in healthcare as an assistive aid for quadriplegics.
Peter holds an MBA, with High Honors, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a BS, with Distinction, in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Associate Director, Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration
Tufts University
Massachusetts Clean Energy Industry Resources Panelist
Martin Son is Associate Director of Tufts University's Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration. At Tufts, Martin is responsible for identifying, evaluating, marketing and commercializing early stage technologies as the primary case manager for the School of Engineering and the School of Arts and Sciences. Major areas of focus include engineering, tissue engineering, biomaterials, nanotechnology, clean energy and computer science. Martin has successfully negotiated many collaboration, sponsored research, option and license agreements and has also facilitated the formation of numerous start-up companies. Prior to joining Tufts in 2000, Martin was a licensing associate at Harvard University's technology transfer office. Martin holds a degree from Harvard University in physics and East Asian studies. He has been an active member of AUTM since 1996 and LES since 2002. Martin was grandfathered as an inaugural LES Certified Licensing Professional in 2008.
President and CEO, Magnolia Solar, Inc.
Solar Energy Panelist
Ashok Sood is a Co-Founder, President and CEO of Magnolia Solar, Inc. The company is funded by DOD and NASA for development of key technologies and processes that will provide low cost thin film solar cells. Magnolia is developing next generation of thin Film Solar cells on low cost substrates such as Glass and Polymer. The goal is to reduce the cost from $3-5 per watt for Silicon to less than $1 per watt.
He has over 30 years of experience in Solar Cell development, Optical Technologies and their Applications. He has held many lead Technical and Management positions at Mobil-Tyco Solar Energy Corporation ( Now Schott Solar), Honeywell, Loral, Lockheed-Martin and BAE Systems. He was instrumental in development of Ribbon Silicon Solar Cells at Mobil-Tyco Solar Energy Corporation and the company was sold to Schott in Germany. He has also developed a variety of Optical products for large companies and these products led to successful businesses.
Ashok has had advisory roles with University of Pennsylvania Engineering, Penn State Electro-Optics Center and EE Department at the University of NH and has chaired many conferences and has given numerous talks on Optical technology.
General Manager, Greasecar
BioFuels Panelist
Jeremie Spitzer joined the Greasecar team in February 2007 as General Manager. A UMass Amherst graduate, Jeremie went on to found All inPlay, the pioneer of online games for the visually impaired. Jeremie hopes to draw from his business and organizational skills to help Greasecar continue its success as the company expands into new markets.
Vice President of Marketing, Premium Power Corporation
Energy Storage Panelist
Bic Stevens is the Vice President of Marketing of Premium Power Corporation, a manufacturer of grid-scale flow batteries. Before joining Premium Power, Bic was a Managing Partner of Ardour Capital Investments, a research and investment-banking firm focused on assisting alternative energy and clean technology companies. Previously, Bic was a Managing Director at Zero Stage Capital, where he was involved in its alternative energy and clean technology investments. He was previously the founder and President of Eastech; a Boston-based early stage venture fund, and was a Vice President at Paine Webber, where he worked in its venture capital and corporate finance operations. Bic received a B.I.E. from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Chief Executive Officer
Solar Energy Panelist
Chris Straka is CEO of Ascendant Energy Company, Inc. of Rockland, Maine, that he founded in 2002. Working with University of Maine, Orono, Ascendant is developing and commercializing Chris' PV/Thermal modules to deliver electricity and heat for higher module efficiency. He has also developed models for financing solar systems and monetizing carbon offsets according to a Voluntary Carbon Standard that are being used by state housing authorities to fund solar system acquisition. Chris has overseen the installation of over 100 PV and thermal systems including Oakhurst Dairy of Portland, ME where 2900 ft2 of thermal collectors offset 600 gallons of oil consumption in one month. Based on his work, Chris has been a national speaker on solar at conferences that include the National Renewable Energy Lab's Clean Energy Forum, the National Science Foundation & EPSCor conference on technology transfer, and the Massachusetts' Clean Energy Conference.
Chief Engineer for Technology Systems, U.S. Army Natick Soldier R&D Center
Portable Power Panelist
Andrew Taylor is the Chief Engineer for Technology Systems and Program Integration Directorate and is responsible for overseeing and leading the design, development, fabrication, and integration of Soldier related science and technology products for U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research and Development Center. Mr. Taylor is also responsible for oversight of the system architectures and critical design decisions related to Soldier systems and to ensure that the technical approaches selected maintain open systems architecture that maximize both user acceptance and combat effectiveness. With 20 years of civil service, Mr. Taylor has served in a variety of diverse duty assignments from building level A chemical protection systems too fully integrated Soldier systems. Mr. Taylor is focused today on improving capabilities for the Soldier and reducing size, weight, power, and cost requirements.
Shareholder, WolfGreenfield
Wind Power Moderator
Joe Teja has significant experience in counseling clients with substantial and complex portfolios in connection with IP protection strategies. Joe represents clients in a variety of technical areas, including energy-efficient lighting technologies, efficient power generation from organic fuel cells, high speed optical memory, precision nanoscale light sources, and semiconductor device fabrication.
Joe's areas of technical expertise include optoelectronic devices and optical communications, as well as several areas of electronics and electrical engineering, including analog and digital circuits, electronic devices, semiconductor design and fabrication, telecommunications, and networks.
Before entering law school, Joe had over 10 years experience as a researcher and engineer in electronics and optics. He was an electrical engineer with Rheometrics Incorporated and went on to perform research at Hoechst Celanese Corp. Joe has a B.S., Electrical Engineering, and a B.A., Italian Language and Literature, both from Rutgers University. He also has an M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from MIT and a J.D., from Suffolk University Law School.
Joe was selected as a Massachusetts Super Lawyers' "Rising Star" by Law & Politics magazine.
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Center Directors Panelist
Professor S. "Thai" Thayumanavan is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also the Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Fueling the Future, which is focused on designing new molecules and materials for renewable energy applications. The Fueling the Future Center is especially focused on solar cells and fuel cells applications. Professor Thayumanavan is also one of the two Co-directors of an umbrella organization of the University of Massachusetts' renewable energy research enterprise, Mass-CREST (Massachusetts Center for Renewable Energy Science and Technology). He obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a postdoctoral stint at Caltech in Optical Materials Chemistry, he started his independent career at Tulane University in New Orleans. After 4 years at Tulane, he moved to UMass Amherst in 2003.
Thai's research interests are highly interdisciplinary. His research group is involved in designing novel molecules and materials, especially nanoscale materials, which are of interest in biomedical and renewable energy applications. In the renewable energy area, he is particularly involved in designing novel molecules and nanomaterials for organic solar cells and for proton exchange membranes and catalysts for fuel cells applications. The goal of his research program is to enhance the performance of solar cells and fuel cells through creative molecular engineering.
Director, Solar Grid-Tie Projects, Ameresco
Solar Energy Panelist
Jim Walker is Director, Solar Grid-Tie Projects for Ameresco, where he is responsible for developing and building Ameresco's solar photovoltaic business. Jim brings 30 years of diverse energy experience in the power and natural gas industry, which included a focus on energy conservation engineering early in his career, then gas and power supply trading and delivery during the deregulation period, then technology business development to the utility sector, and up until recently, strategic energy market analysis.
Jim has founded two businesses, the Gas and Electricity Supply Management Services for XENERGY, which was sold to New York State Electric and Gas Corporation, and TechAdoption, a marketing company helping energy and technology companies increase sales to commercial and industrial energy users. To help major corporations make better investment decisions under energy price, supply, and technology uncertainties, Jim provided strategic energy analysis while at Global Insight and Forrester Research. Framing energy industry problems and solutions enabled Jim to help Sun Microsystems grow its global technology sales to electric utilities when he led Sun's utility business development. Early in Jim's career he was Corporate Energy Manager for GTE's100 industrial plants and a heat pump product development engineer for Carrier Corporation, earning a patent on a new heat pump design.
Jim has written more than 50 industry reports, spoken on strategic energy topics across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has been interviewed by Dow Jones Newswires, CNN, Business Week, and 20 other publications.
During Jim's after-work time, he created and co-founded the Ignite Clean Energy Business Plan Competition and the MIT Enterprise Forum's Energy Special Interest Group. Currently Jim is Treasurer and Board Member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.
Jim earned an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Sloan School of Management and a BS in mechanical engineering degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Loren Walker
Vice President for Sustainable Development & Renewable Energy, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
The New England Clean Energy Cluster Panelist
After the extraordinary accomplishments Greg made through the first phase of the Trust's development, he is taking the lead role on the Offshore Wind Collaborative working with the U.S. Department of Energy and GE. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Prior to that he has been with: Second Nature as its Director of Educational Programs; The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Regional Office as its Director; and Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture as Commissioner. Prior to that, Greg was the Executive Director of the New Alchemy Institute. In 1983, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Affairs, a post he held until 1989. From 1983 through 1986 he also served as Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Centers of Excellence Corporation. He became the first Director of the Massachusetts Office of Science and Technology in 1986. Greg serves on the board of directors of Ocean Arks International and the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture. He attended Tufts University where he majored in Civil Engineering. He also developed a self-directed program in Environmental Design Science at Campus-Free College in Boston.
Vice President, FuelCell Energy
Backup & Stationary Power Panelist
Frank Wolak is Vice President for FuelCell Energy, a Danbury, Connecticut based developer and manufacturer of advanced ultraclean fuel cell power systems. An executive with over 25 years of experience in many facets of energy with both corporate and entrepreneurial organizations including oil and gas operations (Tenneco), power plant investment and development (Independent Energy Corp. and Equitable Resources), energy services (Noresco) and as well as independent management consulting working with renewable and emerging energy technologies.
At FuelCell Energy, Mr. Wolak focuses on developing strategic business alliances, identifying business development opportunities and in creating a regulatory and policy environment conducive to wide scale deployment of FuelCell Energy's power plants.
Mr. Wolak is on the board of the Connecticut Power and Energy Society and is a founding member of the Connecticut Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Coalition.
Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Project Finance Panelist
Marianne Wu is a Partner at MDV where she focuses on Cleantech investments. These typically involve significant technology or business model breakthroughs applied to large, evolving markets such as solar, biofuels and chemicals, clean coal, energy efficiency and water treatment and management. She leverages a decade of technology development and business experience to help entrepreneurs build meaningful, successful businesses. At MDV, she works closely with a number of the portfolio companies including ZeaChem and Catilin.
Prior to joining MDV, Marianne was VP Marketing at ONI Systems where she was responsible for product strategy and market development. Earlier in her career, Marianne was a consultant at McKinsey and Company where she advised major technology clients on strategic and operational issues. Marianne has conducted state-of-the-art research in materials, devices, and systems at Stanford University and started her career as a design engineer at Nortel Networks where she developed high-speed networking technologies.
She is a member of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA) VC Group, Environmental Entrepreneurs, and is on the Advisory Committee of the Western Governors' Association.
Marianne earned both her doctoral and master's degrees from the School of Engineering at Stanford University and her bachelor's in Applied Science at the University of British Columbia.
Associate Director for Research Liaison and Development, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Center Directors Panel Moderator
Loren Walker is Associate Director for Research Liaison and Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. On behalf of the Vice Chancellor for Research, he coordinates the Advanced Energy Research Initiative at UMass Amherst, which fosters the advancement and expansion of large-scale interdisciplinary research programs in clean energy. Loren was project leader for the 2008 UMass Clean Energy for the Commonwealth report, a comprehensive assessment of clean energy-related R&D throughout the University of Massachusetts system. He previously worked as freelance scientific and technical writer and as a Research Associate with Exelixis Plant Sciences in Portland, Oregon. Loren earned a BS in Biology from Roanoke College and a MS in Biology from Portland State University. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Science Writers.
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