Opening Remarks
Mark Donohue
Conference Chairman
Babson Cleantech Entrepreneur-in-Residence; Babson College '88
 Moderator
In June 2008, Mr. Donohue was appointed Babson College’s first Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He is primarily teaching, and conducting research, within the Olin Graduate School and Arthur Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, yet he will also lecture in the executive education program. In 2001, he was the sole Founder, Managing Partner and Chairman of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, a pioneer in Clean Technology venture capital investing, which manages over $100,000,000. Mr. Donohue sold most of his interests in Expansion Capital Partners in June 2008.
During the last twenty years, Mr. Donohue has built three successful investment management, investment banking and financial service companies. He has a broad background in venture capital, both on the buy-side and sell-side, plus he has served in senior operational roles for venture-backed enterprises. He has been involved in growing over twenty venture capital backed enterprises. His career has focused on entrepreneurship, investment, corporate strategy and sales/marketing in the areas of Clean Technology and socially responsible business. In the past, he has been a member of many for-profit boards, including Chairing five entrepreneurial Boards of Directors.
Mr. Donohue was a Founding Investor, and has served for seven years on the Advisory Board, of the Cleantech Group, LLC, which is the leading conference and knowledge organization in the sector. He currently advises several leading companies in the sustainability and Cleantech sectors, including the Cleantech Group and Conscious Living Ventures. He has also served in a broad variety of non-profit roles, including the “Micro-Credit Lending” Grant Committee of the Threshold Foundation. He was previously Chair of the Membership Committee for the Social Venture Network (the leading U.S. organization of executives furthering global sustainability).
Mr. Donohue earned his BS in Investment Management, with honors, from Babson College in 1988. In 2009, he graduated from the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators, at Babson College, which is a widely regarded as the preeminent training for teaching entrepreneurship. He has served on the college’s Board of Overseers since 2002. He has been a leader in many Babson initiatives, such Chairing and co-founding Babson’s annual Entrepreneurial Energy Expo, which attracted over 650 attendees in 2009.
On a personal note, he resides in Boston and San Francisco. He is quite active in the lives of his two godchildren, Martin and Ixchel.
Opening Keynote
Gary Hirshberg
Chairman, President, and CE-Yo, Stonyfield Farm
Gary Hirshberg is the husband of freelance writer Meg Hirshberg and the father of three yogurt eaters. He is Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer and the author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World (Hyperion Books, 2008). Gary is a frequent speaker on topics including sustainability, climate change, the profitability of green and socially responsible business, organic agriculture, and sustainable economic development.
Since 1983, Gary has overseen Stonyfield’s phenomenal growth, from its infancy as a seven-cow organic farming school to its current $330 million in annual sales. Stonyfield has enjoyed a compounded annual growth rate of over 24% for more than eighteen years, by consistently producing great-tasting products and using innovative marketing techniques that blend the company’s social, environmental, and financial missions. In 2001, Stonyfield Farm entered into a partnership with Groupe Danone, and in 2005, Gary was named managing director of Stonyfield Europe, a joint venture between the two firms with brands in Canada, Ireland, and France.
Previously, he directed the Rural Education Center, the small organic farming school from which Stonyfield was spawned. Before that, Gary had served as executive director of The New Alchemy Institute – a research and education center dedicated to organic farming, aquaculture, and renewable energy. Prior positions include serving as a water-pumping windmill specialist and an environmental education director with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He also authored books on wind-power and organic gardening.
A New Hampshire native, Gary was one of the first graduates of Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and has received eight honorary doctorates and was named a Gordon Grand Fellow at Yale University.
Gary has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership, including Global Green USA's “1999 Green Cross Millennium Award for Corporate Environmental Leadership.” He was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and "New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration. More recently, 2009 was a year of big wins as Gary was named one of “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs” by Business Week magazine, Stonyfield was chosen “Business of the Year – Manufacturing” by Business NH magazine and Stonyfield won an EPA Clean Air Excellence award. Gary also is featured in 2009's most successful documentary, "Food, Inc."
Gary serves on several corporate and non-profit boards including Applegate Farms, the Dannon Company, Honest Tea, Peak Organic Brewing Company, The Full Yield, Climate Counts, Stonyfield Europe, Ltd, Glenisk, Ltd and the Danone Communities Fund. He is the chairman and co-founder of O’Naturals, a natural fast food restaurant company. He served on the advisory panel for Newsweek magazine's Global Environmental Leadership Conference and as an Advisor to Renewal Partners LLC, Solera Capital, the Heinz Center Leadership Summit and the Corporate Ecoforum.
He is the head coach of a Girls U17 travel soccer team and the Assistant Coach of the Concord (NH) High School girls varsity tennis team, both of which keep him humble and certain that he still has much to learn.
Closing Keynote
Tom Ashbrook
Award-winning journalist, On Point Radio, NPR & WBUR
On Point’s host, Tom Ashbrook, is an award-winning journalist brought to public radio by the attacks of September 11, 2001, when he was enlisted by NPR and WBUR-Boston for special coverage, after a distinguished career in newspaper reporting and editing.
Tom’s career in journalism spans twenty years as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, and author. He spent ten years in Asia — based in India, Hong Kong, and Japan — starting at the South China Morning Post, then as a correspondent for The Boston Globe. He began his reporting career covering the refugee exodus from Vietnam and the post-Mao opening of China, and has covered turmoil and shifting cultural and economic trends in the United States and around the world, from Somalia and Rwanda to Russia and the Balkans. At the Globe, where he served as deputy managing editor until 1996, he directed coverage of the first Gulf War and the end of the Cold War.
Tom received the Livingston Prize for National Reporting, and was a 1996 fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation before taking a four-year plunge into Internet entrepreneurship, chronicled in his book The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush.
Raised on an Illinois farm, Tom studied American history at Yale and Gandhi’s independence movement at Andhra University, India. Before taking up journalism he worked as a surveyor and dynamiter in Alaska’s oil fields, a teaching fellow with the Yale-China Association, a Hong Kong television personality, and a producer of international editions of Chinese kung fu films.
Martin D. Madaus, Ph.D.
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Millipore
Martin D. Madaus is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Millipore Corporation. Millipore (NYSE: MIL), headquartered in Billerica, MA, is a global Life Science Tools company with revenues of approximately $1.65 billion. The company focuses on two business segments: biopharmaceutical manufacturing and life science research and analytical laboratories. The Bioprocess Division offers solutions that enable development and manufacturing of biologics. The Bioscience Division provides high performance products and application insights that improve laboratory productivity.
Dr. Madaus joined Millipore in January 2005 as President and Chief Executive Officer and became Chairman of the Board in March 2005.
Dr. Madaus came to Millipore from Roche Diagnostics Corporation where, as President and Chief Executive Officer (2000-2004), he was responsible for the North American Operations. Prior to that (1999), he was Vice President of Business Development for Roche Molecular Diagnostics. Dr. Madaus joined Roche in 1998 when he was general manager of Boehringer Mannheim Canada in Montreal, Quebec, through the acquisition of Boehringer Mannheim by Roche. From 1989 to 1998, Dr. Madaus worked at Boehringer Mannheim in senior management, sales and marketing, and product management roles both in Germany and in the United States.
Dr. Madaus is a director of Mettler-Toledo International Inc. and the Massachusetts High Technology Council. He is co-chair of the Massachusetts Climate Protection and Green Economy Advisory Committee, and he serves on the Life Sciences Collaborative Leadership Council of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Dr. Madaus is a native of Hamburg, Germany (naturalized American citizen), and holds a D.V.M. and Ph.D. in veterinary medicine. He is married and has three children.
 Paul Sellew is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Harvest Power, Inc. Paul has been a leader in the organics industry for more than 25 years. In 1982, he founded Earthgro, Inc., which grew to be the second largest producer of compost-based lawn and garden products in North America. Paul has also been a senior executive with Synagro Technologies, Inc. He has also founded and led International Process Systems, Inc. a composting technology provider (principal patent holder). Paul graduated from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Energy Efficiency Rotation
William R. Huss, Ph.D.
Dr. William R. Huss has over 25 years of experience in the energy consulting industry having most recently served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of XENERGY Inc. , one of the world's leading energy efficiency and market analysis firms. At XENERGY, Dr. Huss was responsible for the growth, profitability, and client satisfaction of a 200+ person organization with annual revenues in excess of $30 million -- an organization that served the needs of nearly all of the major electric utility companies in North America.. His responsibilities included oversight of the energy efficiency, management consulting, gas and energy services business areas.
Dr. Huss specialized in the assessment of energy efficiency and demand management programs, integrated resource planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and retail electric choice in the United States including pricing, regulatory rules, and competitive tactics. He has testified on utility load forecasting issues in Washington and New York states and his views on retail choice have appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Huss has also published in Public Utilities Fortnightly, the International Journal of Forecasting, Long Range Planning, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, the Journal of Forecasting, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
Dr. Huss is currently an Executive Advisor to Concentric Energy and holds a full-time lecturer position at Babson College where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate business students in statistics and operations research and advises students planning careers in clean energy. In addition, Dr. Huss played a key role in organizing the Global Warming Teach-In, the Energy Entrepreneurs Expo, designing a Clean Technology course and concentration, and supporting the formation of an Institute for Clean Technology.
Dr. Huss is also a lead consultant for the Executive Service Corps of New England where he manages strategic planning, marketing, and M&A projects for non-profits in the Boston area.
Prior to joining XENERGY, Dr. Huss was a principal research scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute where led studies on the feasibility of alternative generation technologies such as photovoltaic, wind, biomass, solar thermal, wave energy, and cogeneration. He is also a graduate of General Electric's Manufacturing Management Program with assignments at the Medium Transformer Plant in Rome GA and at Aircraft Engines in Evendale OH. Dr. Huss has also held positions with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Dr. Huss holds a Ph.D., in business and engineering, an M.A. in public administration and an M.S. in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University as well as a B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics and physics from Gettysburg College.
Michael T. Bakas
Vice President of Renewable Energy, Ameresco
As Vice President of Renewable Energy for Ameresco, Mr. Bakas has overall responsibility for the strategic development of Ameresco’s renewable energy assets. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the energy industry on the supply and demand side. He is not only intimately involved in every aspect of the project development effort for Ameresco’s renewable energy assets, but has personally developed a number of Ameresco’s flag ship assets as well. In addition to managing the Renewable Energy Group of Ameresco, Mr. Bakas is involved in strategic planning, contract development and negotiations, and is instrumental in Ameresco’s nationwide, corporate business growth. Prior to joining Ameresco, Mr. Bakas held several strategic management positions at Noresco including Director of Energy Services. He was responsible for the development of a service group dedicated to the retail wheeling of power and natural gas, and the successful development of energy service projects in select regional markets. Prior to joining Noresco, Mr. Bakas was a Team Leader for Boston Edison Company supporting the utility's effort to enter into the competitive marketplace created through deregulation. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Bakas worked for Johnson Controls, Inc., starting as a Project Engineer and ultimately being promoted to Building Services Engineer. In 1991, Mr. Bakas received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and in 1995 he received his MBA from Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
Gary Epstein
President, ERS
Gary Epstein has over 20 years of experience in the energy efficiency field and is the President and Founder of Energy & Resource Solutions, Inc. (ERS), which he has led for the past 15 years. His interdisciplinary skills are in the energy engineering and environmental consulting fields, and his areas of expertise include energy efficiency and renewable energy program development and delivery, energy technology characterization, program impact evaluation, and assessment of environmental impacts of energy use and conservation. His recent efforts are associated with the design of new all-fuel energy program approaches that effectively address the need for greenhouse gas mitigation. Other efforts have focused on the development of innovative projects that demonstrate the potential for dramatic impacts on facility energy use. ERS is based in the Northeastern US but has regular engagements throughout the US and internationally.
Susan Haselhorst
Director, ERS
 Susan Haselhorst is a Director at ERS with over 25 years of experience in the energy efficiency field. She has been project manager for various analytical and technical assessments and multiple evaluations. She has also provided design and construction services for campus energy management systems. Ms. Haselhorst served for eight years as an electric utility program planner and evaluator. She was responsible for the design and implementation of a portfolio of commercial and industrial programs, including the development of strategic account plans for very large customers. She also managed a highly successful community-based pilot program called the Marshfield Energy Challenge. Her areas of expertise include project management, analytics, program impact evaluation, and program design. Sue holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
Frank Gundal
Ancillary Energy Services department, NSTAR Electric
Frank Gundal has had several different roles while at NSTAR Electric and currently manages the Ancillary Energy Services department which is responsible for developing and delivering programs in Energy Efficiency, Load Response, Distributed Generation, Renewable Energy and Supplier Services. Frank has been with NSTAR since 1998 and prior to that was an engineer with Stone & Webster's Petrochemical division. Frank holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
 Mr. Graziano has been the chief executive officer of RISE Engineering, a division of Thielsch Engineering, Inc. since 1980. In this capacity, he has worked in conjunction with program administrators, energy companies, and government officials on the design and implementation of efficiency programs throughout the United States and Canada. He currently directs a staff of 175 professionals who deliver turnkey services to residential, commercial, and industrial energy users throughout New England and New York. RISE is a pioneer in the delivery of "one-stop" program delivery, and has arranged for over $400 million in improvements over his direction.
Prior to joining RISE, he was the Principal Planner for Conservation and Renewable Energy Programs for the Rhode Island Governor's Energy Office. Mr. Graziano holds a B.A. from Clark University in government and resource economics and an M.B.A. in accounting from Bryant College.
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Nick is a veteran entrepreneur, having founded and managed a number of technology companies over the past 20 years.
Nick currently serves as President of the New England Clean Energy Council, a trade group formed in early 2007. The Council's mission is to accelerate New England's clean energy economy to global leadership by building an active community of stakeholders and a world-class cluster of clean energy companies.
Before joining the Council, he was the CEO and founder of Conjoin, a developer of sales productivity software for corporate sales teams. The company was acquired by Intranets.com (subsequently acquired by WebEx).
Previously, Nick co-founded and served as VP Marketing for Wildfire Communications, which brought to market a voice recognition-based electronic assistant for managing all of an individual's telephone activities. Wildfire was acquired by Orange PLC, now a subsidiary of France Telecom.
Nick also served as Vice President of Marketing for C-bridge Internet Solutions, Director of Marketing for PRI Automation, and Product Manager for Apollo Computer.
Nick is a representative of The Climate Project, trained by former Vice President Al Gore to educate audiences about the science underlying global climate change. He serves on the Board of the Carlisle Conservation Foundation and the Mass Audubon Society. He is also the author of Excessive Entanglement, a novel, published in 2008.
Nick holds a BA from Georgetown University.
 Rick Daniels is CEO of Advent Technologies North America, a breakthrough advanced materials energy technology company. Rick recently participated as a Fellow in the New England Clean Energy Council Fellowship Program, where members are selected based on previous success in founding technology ventures, raising capital, and CEO experience. Prior to this, Rick created a company by purchasing technology and coating assets from Polaroid Corporation. Funded with private equity, the company successfully exited to Konarka Technologies. Rick has held positions as Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Polaroid Corporation; Vice President of Corporate Development at Commonwealth Energy; COO and co-founder of Neuco, a neural network (AI) process control optimization software company for power plants; and President and CEO for a start-up company established to commercialize an innovative waste recycling technology for power plants. Rick began his career with a series of domestic and international general management, finance, marketing, intrapreneurial, and corporate development positions at Rohm and Haas Company, where he helped in the creation of the advanced electronic materials division.
Rick earned a Bachelor of Engineering Science (Electrical) from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth. He serves on the Boards of the Association for Corporate Growth and Neuco.
 After graduating from Boston University, Kropper began his career as ‘Energy Czar’ at Boston City Hospital. After super-insulating his triple-decker home, worldwide oil prices tumbled to $11/barrel, and he decamped to Cornell University to earn his MBA. Next was Cable & Wireless, Bell Canada, Clear Comm. (NZ) and Martin-Marietta. Steve’s research at International Data Corp. spurred untenably high investment flows into telecom, and singlehandedly drove prices to commodity levels. Pursued by an angry mob, Steve hid in exile in the dotcom real estate and mortgage sector. He founded Domania.com (acquired by Lending Tree) the largest US property dataset which gave consumers access to home prices via AOL, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Yahoo, Chase, Citi, etc. He briefly helped export America’s most promising jobs to India while SVP at Equinox (acquired by iFlex). He next advised Virgin Money, New Homes Realty and many other firms that there would be no bubble in real estate.
Founding Fellow, NE Clean Energy Council; Pickens Plan rep., 7th Congressional District. CEO/founder of WindPole Ventures, a wind power and information firm repurposing ATT’s network of 1,150 microwave tower sites.
Steve grew up in Scotland, Ireland and on airplanes. Elected Lexington Town Meeting member and Chair of the Energy Conservation Committee.
Peter Vandermeulen
President and CEO, 7Solar Technologies, and Founder and Board member, BlueShift Technologies, Inc.
Peter Vanderm eulen is in the middle of forming 7Solar Technologies, Inc. a company that provides hybrid photovoltaic/thermal systems that provide integrated heating and solar cooling to residential and commercial/industrial markets.
Before founding 7Solar, Peter founded BlueShift Technologies to introduce the use of continuous flow semiconductor processing to the semiconductor industry. He has raised over $20M for BlueShift and closed a Venture Capital "A" round during his last MBA class at Babson College. Prior to founding BlueShift, Peter was VP, GM of Brooks Automations' Factory Interface Systems, and ran marketing and sales for their Vacuum Systems Businesses Unit which he helped grow from $2.5 to $60M in 4 years. He helped design the E500 Ion Implanter at Varian Ion Implant Systems, which resulted in sales of over $2.4B and more than 800 units installed worldwide.
Peter has a background in physics (MS Eindhoven University) and business administration (MBA Babson College) and holds 6 patents with many more applications pending.
Michael Bayer
CFO, Nexamp
Micha el is the chief financial officer of Nexamp. Before joining Nexamp, Michael was a 2009 Clean Energy Fellow with the New England Clean Energy Council, where his research focused on the application of information technology to energy efficiency and clean technology adoption. Prior to that, Michael was founder and CEO of VC-backed mobile/communications software company RPM Communications (parent of Utterli). Michael was previously CFO of Revivio (storage software/appliance; sold to Symantec), LightChip Optical Networking (optical subsystems; sold to Digital Lightwave and Confluent Photonics), and MotherNature.com (internet retailer; IPO), where he led the company's IPO and managed its operations.
During his career, Michael has managed costs in companies from start-up to Fortune 100, raised over $150 million in venture, public, and debt capital, closed multiple company sales and business development partnerships, and managed all aspects of finance, administration, business development, customer service, and operations. Michael frequently advises early stage companies on financing and growth strategies. He holds a BS (Finance and Investments) from Babson College and an MBA (Strategy and Operations) from Cornell University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Built to Last or Designed to Die
Marty Anderson
Senior Lecturer in Management, Babson
 Mr. Anderson has been on the Babson faculty since 1996, teaching in the MBA Program and at the School for Executive Education. His courses have included Global Supply Chain Management, Retailing in the Networked Economy, and Extended Enterprise Management. Mr. Anderson is responsible for "extended enterprise management" programs at Babson - a rapidly growing area that views demand and supply chains as unified emerging industry systems that link markets and supply chains. He has piloted innovative research and teaching methods in these areas.
Mr. Anderson conducts executive education programs world-wide in Strategy, Leadership, Technology, and Operational Implementation - for large companies and for start-ups.
Before joining Babson, Mr. Anderson had more than 20 years of business experience in market development, technology management, and supply chain management. He has worked with companies on linking markets to operations in more than 30 nations, and has researched the information technology that links organizations across industries. He has helped launch several start-ups and has helped turn around several global companies.
Mr. Anderson's clients have included: Home Depot, Compaq, EMC, Lucent, J. Walter Thompson, Mullen Advertising, Sodexho, PDVSA, Infinion, Siemens, Inchcape, BMW, SONY, ABB, Sun, FreeRide.com, Schwans Sales Enterprises, Gemplus, Novell, Cadbury-Schweppes, Whirlpool, General Motors, Andersen Consulting, JP Morgan, Ford, the National Auto Dealers Association, and a number of other retail companies. Mr. Anderson has advised governments around the world on technology and competitive policy, has testified many times before the U.S. Congress, has advised two White Houses and the European Parliament, and has managed two research programs at MIT.
Mr. Anderson also has industry expertise in automotive, consulting, electronics, high tech, manufacturing, and retail.
He has appeared in a variety of global news media, including Jim Lehrer News Hour, NPR, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe.
Ben Anderson
COO, Preserve
 Ben is social entrepreneur who has founded and expanded a number of ventures.
Ben is Chief Operating Officer of Preserve. Preserve is the leading maker of performance-driven and stylish 100% recycled household products, including the Preserve toothbrush, razor, tableware, and kitchen lines. Preserve empowers consumers to make everyday choices that are better for the earth while offering real solutions without compromise.
In his prior role as Preserve's Director of Product Management + Development, he led all aspects of product strategy, design, and manufacturing. Ben spearheaded development of award-winning new products in the tableware and kitchen categories. He has also been part of the team advancing Preserve's sustainable design capabilities.
Previously, Ben spent a decade developing, directing and expanding a range of urban education programs, including co-founding a Boston charter school, building a new program at The Steppingstone Foundation and directing a campus for Citizen Schools. Early in his career he was a Consultant at Mercer Management Consulting. Ben received his BA from Williams College and MBA from Babson.
Ben is married and has two children who enjoy recycling yogurt cups into toothbrushes.
 Thomas P. Gloria, Ph.D.is Managing Director of Industrial Ecology Consultants. He has more than 19 years of professional experience in sustainability management consulting and information technology engineering design. His work encompasses product innovation; environmental life cycle assessment and management; and solutions to minimize global climate disruption.
Dr. Gloria is a Faculty Member of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and teaches the Foundations in Sustainability course with co-lecturers Marsha Willard and Darcy Hitchcock of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (www.sustainabilityprofessionals.org ). He is a Life Cycle Assessment Certified Professional and member of the Executive Committee of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (www.lcacenter.org). He hosts the LCA website LCA Links! (www.life-cycle.org ), a global source for LCA information.
Tom has worked with several private & public sector clients conducting sustainability related work including: Armstrong World Industries, Avery Dennison, Cargill, Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer brand), Codelco, Comalco, Duratel, EILEEN FISHER, Grow-Design, Herman Miller, Interface, International Zinc Association, International Copper Association, International Council on Mining & Metals, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Kimball International, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss & Co., Nestle Waters North America, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Nike, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Rio Tinto, Sears Holdings Corporation, SC Johnson, Samsung, Silgan Containers, Timberland, and the U.S. EPA.
He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Tufts University and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering from the University of Connecticut.
Tom Kinneman
 Tom Kinneman is responsible for Commercial Development at TerraVerdae BioWorks, a technology-based start-up focused on converting methane and methanol from waste sources into valued-added products. In addition, he is the GM / Operations Director of North Shore InnoVentures, the parent organization for the Cleantech InnoVenture Center in Lynn, MA and the Biomedical InnoVenture Center in Beverly, MA.
Tom is an experienced senior executive with a consistent record of new business growth and profit improvement in diverse, technology-based businesses. Over twenty years ago, he was involved in a solar energy start-up. Since then, he has successfully led global businesses in electronic chemicals, coating resins and specialty pigments. He also spent almost ten years living overseas running specialty chemical and materials businesses in Europe and Asia. More recently, Tom was President of Image Polymers, a leading supplier of resins used to make toners for laser printers and copiers.
Tom's passion is to help drive early-stage, technology-driven businesses with a focus on clean energy and green technology. He is also interested in supporting established businesses that are trying to reconcile their strategic and operational priorities with the increasing demands for corporate environmental and social responsibility. In particular, he is encouraging expanded use of full value-chain and life-cycle analyses.
Tom received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and his MBA in International Business from the University of Connecticut. In his free time, he is a marathon runner and Ironman triathlete.
Lunch Speaker
Richard Goode
Senior Director of Sustainability, Alcatel-Lucent
 Richard Goode is the Senior Director of Sustainability at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role Rich leads the company's efforts in setting CO2 emissions targets, and creating and implementing sustainability programs across all Alcatel-Lucent operations. In addition, Rich integrates sustainability issues into the planning, business processes and decision making functions of the company, challenging established ways of doing things to build lasting business value.
Rich has lectured on climate change and sustainability issues at MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston University, and the University of Bridgeport. Rich is also the founder of the Boston-area Sustainability Group and is a graduate of Presidio School of Management's Executive Program in Sustainable Management.
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 Jon Gorham is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience the fields of clean technology and sustainable business development. Jon is currently the president of Green Media Ventures, a marketing and business development firm specializing in web-based, viral marketing for green tech companies and organizations. Prior to founding Green Media Ventures, Jon was a co-founder and director of business development for Qteros, a venture backed cellulosic ethanol company that makes clean fuel from waste. Qteros is ranked among the top 15 hottest biofuels companies in the world and was recently named as one of the “Top 10 Private Companies to Watch” by the MIT Technology Review.
In addition to private sector expertise, Jon is very active in community energy conservation programs in New England. He serves as chairman of the Woodbridge Clean Energy Initiative Task Force, a grass roots energy education and awareness initiative promoting energy conservation and renewable technologies. Jon is also a founding board member of the Massaro Community Farm, a 501 c (3) Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) 57 acre organic farm. Jon received his A.B., Harvard College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Rachel Beckhardt Hinchliffe
Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund
 Rachel B. Hinchliffe is a Project Manager in the Corporate Partnerships Program of Environmental Defense Fund, a leading environmental organization that links science, economics, law, and innovative partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to pressing environmental problems.
Rachel collaborates with the private and public sectors to leverage new technologies and industry best practices to provide distinct business benefits and produce positive environmental results. Rachel currently manages recruitment efforts for Climate Corps, an innovative summer fellowship program that places talented MBA students into leading companies to develop practical, actionable energy efficiency plans aimed cutting costs. She also works green dining partnerships, paper and agroforestry issues, and expanding low-carbon transportation solutions.
Before EDF, Rachel worked as an analyst for a management consulting firm covering the renewable energy and agribusiness industries. Rachel has an M.S. from Tufts University and a B.A. from Bates College.
Robert J. Araujo
Manager of Sustainable Development and EHS Programs, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
 Bob is the Manager of Sustainable Development and EHS Programs for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and responsible for developing a sustainable approach to manufacturing systems and programs, prior to which served as Manager of Environmental Engineering for Sikorsky. Prior to coming to Sikorsky , Bob Managed Chemical Engineering and EHS programs for Risdon Corporation, Emhart Corporation, and Uniroyal He has more than 30 years experience in Environmental, Chemical Engineering, Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response. Bob has a B.S. degree in Chemistry, an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the University of New Haven; he has also performed graduate studies in both chemistry and engineering at the University of Bridgeport and Boston University. He has a Masters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Environmental Policy and Management and also an adjunct professor at Rensselear in Environmental sustainability, industrial ecology and design for the environment. Bob is a 2002 Yale Corporate Environmental Leadership Program Graduate. Although active on many state and local boards and committees, Bob has been on an industry advisory committee for Yale University school of Forestry and Environment, has served on the Environmental Advisory committee for a US congressman, and was recently been re-appointed by Connecticut Governor to the State Emergency Response Commission. Bob is a founder of the US Army EHS Aviation and Missile Command G 4 Leadership committee. A known international author having published journal, magazine and web-based articles and a frequent international lecturer and speaker.
Bob served on the Executive editorial Advisory Board for the New England Environmental Journal. He is on the Board of directors of Soundwaters a Long Island Sound environmental NGO located in Stamford CT. Among the many activities of Soundwaters the most notable is the education of over 14K students each year on the environment and the impact on the Sound. Bob was also one of the authors of the first Hazardous Materials Response Training program for the State of CT. Bob has been in the fire service in Shelton for over 25 years and is also a Connecticut certified State Fire Marshal and Deputy Fire Marshal for the Shelton Fire Department. Bob recently served as head the Shelton Fire Service as the Chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners for the City of Shelton.
 Tim's roles include: Achieve Public Works improvements and projects by initiating and/or assisting in the acquisition of grants, easements, etc.; determine the resources needed for approved projects; and review work activities to ensure efficient and safe operations and conformance. He provides assistance in coordinating plan and project reviews between various city departments, community groups, local state and city politicians, and among various sections of City of Boston Departments. He initiates contact with a variety of individuals representing public and private agencies. He is also the lead spokesperson and serves as a consultant to the Commissioner on matters pertaining to the City's Public Works programs. Tim is on a number of community boards for youth sports programs, and his wife Maureen, and two children, Dolan and Garrett, keep him very busy!
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