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Speaker |
Company |
| Keynote Speakers |
Nicholas Parker |
Cleantech Group; Chairman & CEO
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| Peter Fusaro |
Global Change Associates; Chairman. Best Selling Author
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| Welcome Address |
Len Schlesinger |
Babson College; President |
| Green Entrepreneurship - From Ideas to Exits |
Trish Costello |
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship; Director |
| Radha Jalan |
ElectroChem Inc.; President & CEO |
| Cary Bullock |
GreenFuel Technologies; Board Member & Former CEO |
| Gary Epstein |
ERS; President & CEO |
| Marketing & Selling in the Environmental Industry |
Mike Andrews |
General Cable Corporation; Executive Vice President (former)
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| Jon Milenthal |
The Milenthal Group; Partner |
| Jon Abe |
Nexamp Inc.; Vice President |
| Ted Rose |
Rose Carbon; Principal |
| Materials Matter - Sustainable Resource Management |
Jim Poss |
BigBelly Solar; Founder, President & CEO |
| Jon Nash |
NewStream, LLC; Director of Business Development |
| Richard Gaudette |
RecycleBank;Vice President
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| Asheen Phansey |
Quaking Aspen, LLC; President |
| Green IT & Energy Efficiency - How Innovation Shapes Energy Consumption |
Rob Pratt |
EnergyClimate Solutions; Chairman & CEO |
| Harvey Michaels |
MIT Energy Initiative; Energy Efficiency Research Director |
| James Rosenfield |
Cambridge Energy Research Associates; CoFounder & Sr. Advisor |
| Erik Birkerts |
Orion Energy Systems; COO |
| A New Era of Environmental Policy - What Obama Means to Green Business |
Nick d'Arbeloff
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New England Clean Energy Council; President |
| Steve Cowell |
Conservation Services Group; CEO |
| Bill Davis |
Ze-Gen; President & CEO |
| Phil Giudice |
Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources; Commissioner |
| Cleantech Venture Capital - A Phoenix Rising |
Mark Donohue |
Babson; Cleantech Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Conference Chairman
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| Mark Robinson |
Wave Capital Partners; Founder & Managing Partner |
| Peter Rothstein |
Flagship Ventures; Executive-in-Residence |
| Russ Landon |
Canaccord Adams; Managing Director |
| Sissi Liu |
Mass. Renewable Energy Trust; Seed Fund Investment Manager |
Complete Conference Schedule
Keynote Speakers
Nicholas Parker
Cleantech Group: Chairman & CEO
 "The Future of the Global Cleantech Market"
Nicholas Parker co-founded the Cleantech Group, introducing the cleantech concept to the investment and business community in 2002. The Cleantech Group is the leading conference, research and knowledge organization in the global Cleantech marketplace. Previously, Nicholas accumulated over 15 years experience starting and investing venture funds worldwide through limited partnerships, family offices, corporate funds and endowments. During this time, he pioneered the first "sustainability" driven private equity funds and participated in one of the first solar IPOs. In the 1990s, he also founded, built and sold an environmental finance firm. He has served as an advisor to multilateral agencies and major corporations.
Nicholas earned a BA Hons. in Technology Studies (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA (City University, London), and has authored or edited more than ten publications related to cleantech, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993. He serves as Chairman of E+Co, a public purpose investment company for clean energy enterprises in developing countries, and is on several boards, including: Government of Singapore Cleantech Advisory Board, Canadian Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the X PRIZE Energy & Environment Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Nicholas has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America and currently resides with his two children in Toronto.
Peter Fusaro
Best Selling Author of "What Went Wrong at Enron"
Global Change Associates: Chairman
"Implementing the New Green Business Strategy in the Emerging Carbon Economy"
Peter C. Fusaro is Chairman of Global Change Associates a financial services advisory in New York and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron and 15 other books on energy and the environmental financial markets. Peter’s latest book will be published in 2009 by Oxford University Press on Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques. Peter is an energy and environmental industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 34 years focusing on oil, gas, power, coal, emissions, cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy markets. Peter is currently advising on carbon trading and finance as well as clean energy technology and renewable energy to financial services companies worldwide. Peter was selected for Who’s Who in America for 2007-2010 and Who’s Who in the World for 2009-2010. He coined the term “Green Trading” and holds the annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit VIII with Reuters in New York each spring (www.wsgts.com). He is also a well known expert on Asia Pacific energy and environmental financial markets. Peter co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC in 2004 which tracks energy and environmental hedge funds, and published the first “Green Hedge Fund Directory” in January 2009.
Peter will be launching the Global Change Foundation Inc. as an educational non profit foundation oriented toward accelerating knowledge transfer on cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy. In the fall of 2008, he launched the Green Salon in New York which pairs musicians with environmental experts in an informal artistic setting for knowledge transfer and fun. Peter graduated with an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is on the Advisory Board of the ERB Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Peter is advisor to several cleantech software and hardware companies in the US and Canada. Peter is on a member of the board of CleanAir Technology (mobile sources of pollution), and member of the Advisory Boards of Belgrave Carbon Exchange (carbon offsets), Carbon Flow (carbon documentation web-based system), Ecoverdance (plant accelerant to produce carbon credits from agriculture), EcoSysCapital Management (carbon trading platform), CRD Analytics (sustainability scoring software for financial products), and Clean Air Group (air purification systems for indoor air quality).
Welcome Address
Len Schlesinger
Babson College; President
Leonard A. Schlesinger became the 12th president of Babson College on July 1, 2008--bringing to the College an extraordinary blend of leadership experience in academia and industry, particularly in the retail and service sectors. He came to Babson from Limited Brands, based in Columbus, Ohio, where he served in executive positions since 1999, most recently as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer.
His academic career includes twenty years at Harvard Business School where, most recently, he served as the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, leading MBA and executive education programs. President Schlesinger is well-known for his pioneering research and publications on the “service profit chain.” He is the author or co-author of nine books and has written over 40 articles for academic audiences as well as for The New York Times, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review.
He also was an architect and chair of Harvard Business School’s MBA Essential Skills and Foundations programs. After his time at Harvard Business School, he served as a faculty member and senior administrator at Brown University. In addition, President Schlesinger has lectured and consulted on service quality and customer satisfaction for over 100 major corporations, non-profit organizations, as well as governments and international leadership organizations around the world.
President Schlesinger holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization from Brown University.
Moderator
Trish Costello is the director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College which has been rated #1 for entrepreneurship 15 straight years by “U.S. News and World”. Her professional background includes entrepreneurial, corporate, nonprofit and academic experience. She is recognized internationally for her pioneering work in educating and preparing venture capital investment partners through the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program.
As the founding CEO, and now CEO Emeritus of the Center for Venture Education, she expanded the Kauffman Fellows education program to venture capitalists in 10 countries on four continents. Costello was on the startup team of the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship center, where for eight years she directed its efforts in venture capital, angel investing, entrepreneur support programs, and programming to accelerate high potential women entrepreneurs. She played a leading role nationally in obtaining greater financial equity investments in women’s businesses and in funding initiatives supporting high-growth women entrepreneurs, including Springboard and the Diana Project.
Costello continues to serve as president of CVE Capital Corp, a holding company affiliated with a $250 million VC fund of funds created to endow the Kauffman Fellows Program. Her prior experience includes developing small business products and marketing strategies at the initial divestiture of the Bell System and launching medical ventures for an investor group of 20 prominent children’s hospitals as Executive Vice President of the startup Child Health Corporation of America.
She serves on the U.S. National Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation for its Small Business Innovation Research Grants. She was an adviser to the U.S. Small Business Administration on its work with entrepreneurs for President Bill Clinton, and served on the Small Business Administration Transition Committee for President George W. Bush. Costello has served on numerous boards and advisory committees to entrepreneurial organizations and institutes, including the National Venture Capital Association, the International Business Forum, and the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program.
Dr. Radha Jalan is the President and CEO of ElectroChem Inc., in Woburn, MA. ElectroChem is a world renowned, leading fuel cell company for the development and commercialization of fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. ElectroChem is also the home of www.fuelcell.com, which has over 300 product offerings being sold to researchers worldwide. Many of the products are manufactured with the company’s proprietary technologies.
Current research at ElectroChem includes the development its ECcell™ fuel cell energy storage system; and its HHR™ Home Hydrogen Refueler system.
Dr. Jalan is an appointee to the Robert H. Goddard Council on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education, founder of US Fuel Cell Council, founder and executive member of the Mass Hydrogen Coalition, founding member of TiE Boston (The Indus Entrepreneur, an international organization to promote entrepreneurship in the south Asian community), and a member of HTC (High Technology Committee) of SBANE (Smaller Business Association of New England).
She has been featured and interviewed by many international and local papers, radio, and TV stations regarding fuel cells, small business, and women in business. She was a recipient of the Mass High Tech All-Star Award, and recognized as a “woman to watch” by Women’s Business.
Dr. Jalan holds a Ph. D. and M.A. from University of Florida, Gainesville
She also has a M.A. from University of Calcutta, India
Cary Bullock, is a cleantech entrepreneur and has been a senior executive, founder, principal or investor in several energy related companies dealing with a broad cross section of technologies. These include 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, currently on the Board), 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.
Gary Epstein
ERS: President & CEO
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.
Moderator
Michael Andrews is the Managing Partner of a clean technology venture capital firm focused on expansion phase companies serving the energy, energy efficiency markets. He is a former Executive Vice President and Group President at General Cable Corporation where he managed their Energy Infrastructure portfolio of businesses totaling $1.3 billion in annual sales. Andrews has broad experience in business management with skills ranging from finance and operations to sales and marketing to portfolio business management of businesses from pure start-ups to a $900 million stand alone business.
At General Cable he gained extensive marketing, sales and management experience in the wire and cable industry, the global energy markets and a variety of small niche markets and was part of the Leadership Team that took General Cable from an $800 million domestic company to a $6.4 billion global enterprise. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Group President of General Cable’s Energy Infrastructure businesses as well as Executive Vice President of General Cable’s Global Asset Investment Planning. In this role, he served all segments of the energy infrastructure market including electric transmission & distribution, electricity generation, oil & gas, petrochemical, mining and alternative energy.
Andrews also had responsibility for the North American Technology Organization which leads the global new product development effort for General Cable. As head of General Cable’s Technology Organization, he re-organized the Company’s 12 R&D and Engineering Teams into one organization to streamline the Company’s new product development program, significantly increasing new product innovation and introduction.
He is a member of several clean technology venture capital organizations and has also been an active speaker at various energy conferences sponsored by organizations such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, The Royal Bank of Canada and Sterne Agee.
Jon Abe
NexAmp Inc.; Vice President
 Jon is a vice president of Nexamp in charge of business development.
Prior to joining Nexamp, he worked at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Renewable Energy Trust where he managed the $68 million Commonwealth Solar program. He also was responsible for the Small Renewables and Large Onsite Renewables Initiatives which support development of distributed wind, hydro, and biomass combined heat and power projects.
Jon has worked as a project manager and senior consultant at KEMA and XENERGY, where he was responsible for business development and management of renewable energy project development and distributed energy resource consulting projects. He serves on the Cambridge Climate Protection Action Committee and Board of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association. Jon received his bachelor of arts from Cornell University.
 Jon Milenthal is a Vice President/Partner at The Milenthal Group, and provides strategic consulting and account management services to our clients.
Jon has 15-years of marketing experience that includes delivering sound strategic consultation to some of the country's largest organizations - including General Motors, Abbott Nutrition, Luxottica Group and Wellpoint (Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield). He has successfully delivered marketing programs that run the gamut of media vehicles from mass advertising to website development to online advertising. He is particularly strong at managing multi-layer and long term campaign development, consistently delivering programs on time and on budget.
Jon's work has garnered industry recognition having won a Webby Award for work on Wellpoint and Telly Awards for retail marketing campaigns. Jon has intense category experience in healthcare, consumer packaged goods, financial services, energy and retail marketing.
Ted Rose
Rose Carbon; Principal
Ted Rose advises companies, investors, and project developers on opportunities in the carbon and renewable energy markets. He is currently engaged with NexGen Energy Partners, a national renewable energy company implementing third-party PPAs for distributed wind systems. Other clients include the Western Governors' Association and the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute.
Previously, Ted served as the vice president of Business Development for Renewable Choice Energy, the award-winning carbon offset and renewable energy provider. He has consulted with the most active voluntary purchasers in the U.S. carbon market including Whole Foods Market, Google, and Citi.
Last year, Ted led the conception, development and execution of the first corporate sponsorship of a wind farm. Ted directed the multi-year transaction that included Steelcase, John Deere, and Renewable Choice. Before that, Ted worked closely with Whole Foods Market to develop the Wind Power Card, the first renewable energy product designed for purchase at the checkout counter. The New York Times called it "Phase II" in corporate environmental action.
Jim Poss
BigBelly Solar: Founder, President & CEO
Moderator
James Poss is an inventor, entrepreneur and professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson, where he graduated with his MBA in 2003.
James’ background is in renewable energy; specifically, in electric vehicles and solar energy.
In 2003, he founded BigBelly Solar around his invention – the world’s first solar-powered trash compactor – the BigBelly - which reduces collection frequency by a factor of 5 via compaction at the point of disposal. The product saves money through reduced collection costs and reduces fuel consumption. Currently, U.S. consumers spend $45 billion annually on waste collection, and garbage trucks burn over 1 billion gallons of diesel annually (or 20 million gallons a week). James serves as the company's President and CEO.
Jon Nash
NewStream LLC: Director of Business Development; Babson MBA '03
Jon Nash joined NewStream in June of 2008 and serves as the Company's Director of Business Development. He oversees broad development efforts, and manages all strategic partnerships with environmental service companies, consultants, engineers and industrial generators to identify cost-effective and environmentally sound solutions for liquid recycling and disposal.
Previously, Jon co-authored the turnaround, growth and sale of a 60 year-old manufacturing company. He then founded his own consulting business and transitioned into cleantech in 2007.
He is a member of the Environmental Business Council of New England, and an associate member of the Licensed Site Professional Association (LSPA) of Massachusetts. He was also a founding member of the Duxbury Bay Management Commission which focuses specifically on use-management and water quality issues.
Jon holds an MBA from Babson College and a BA from Colby College.
Richard A. Gaudette
RecycleBank: Vice President of Sales Channels and Programs
Rick Gaudette joins us from RecycleBank, a NYC firm that provides incentive programs to municipalities to improve their recycling performance, where he is VP of Sales Channels and Programs. He has extensive experience promoting new products and services from both Sales and Marketing roles. He operated as a consultant who focused on revitalizing technology companies through repositioning, re-branding and re-targeting their sales efforts into new segments. Rick has held numerous leadership positions and grown businesses in both direct sales and channel development. Rick has the ability to blend his sales and marketing experience into cohesive programs that delivers results. Rick is also known for building high performance teams. He ran a training group and trained sales teams and managers in over 20 countries. He sees selling as both an art and science and has implemented solutions selling, CRM and channel programs in several companies. Rick has a strong personal commitment into applying marketing principles to environmental issues. He was on the Board of the BMA (Business Marketing Association) and promotes local education on renewable energy.
Asheen Phansey
Quaking Aspen LLC: President; Babson MBA
Asheen has dedicated his career to the innovative materials, processes and business models required to achieve sustainable industrial growth. In this pursuit Asheen draws on his background of technology and management roles in the biotechnology, software, and aerospace industries, including a lead role at a contract pharmaceutical manufacturing startup.
Through academic and professional pursuits, Asheen has developed a deep expertise in sustainable business. He founded the green-business consultancy Quaking Aspen to help companies grow their "triple top line" with entrepreneurial innovation that simultaneously creates revenue growth, positive socioeconomic impact and restorative ecological effects. Quaking Aspen's client work includes a new marketing strategy for a green B2B practice area for CLF Ventures, the nonprofit consulting arm of the Conservation Law Foundation, and a qualitative life cycle assessment for Avery Dennison to help develop sustainability metrics and incorporate sustainability into their product development cycles.
Asheen is also a dedicated member of Net Impact, the international organization for socially- and environmentally-responsible business. He has served on the leadership team of the Net Impact Boston professional chapter since 2007 and continues to host and speak at Net Impact events across the nation.
Asheen has traveled the country giving talks on Nature-inspired business models, including guest lecturing for Hunter Lovins in her Principles of Sustainability class at the Presidio School of Management, and at various other universities, companies and business conferences. He recently joined the faculty of Babson College as an Adjunct Professor and is teaching a unique MBA elective called Sustainable Entrepreneurship Inspired by Nature, which was recently highlighted in the BusinessWeek article "MBA Programs Go Green".
Asheen holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA, Technology Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
Rob Pratt
EnergyClimate Solutions, Chairman &CEO
 Moderator
Rob Pratt is Chairman & CEO of EnergyClimate Solutions (ECS), a company dedicated to helping colleges and universities reduce energy and water costs while helping these schools become climate leaders. ECS has a highly experienced team of energy and finance experts who have collectively developed, financed and implemented approximately $1.3 billion in energy and water efficiency measures, cogeneration and renewable energy projects. Rob formerly served as Senior Vice President of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, heading up the Foundation’s climate change program where he helped to catalyze large-scale energy efficiency implementation in New England through programs such as the Cambridge Energy Alliance, a 5-7 year $100 million efficiency initiative. Mr. Pratt was also the Director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s Renewable Energy Trust, the $250 million fund through which he developed a series of innovative programs designed to promote the use of clean energy technologies and build investment in the state’s renewable energy industry.
Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Pratt was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Energia Global International, Ltd. (EGI), one of the leading renewable energy companies in Latin America. Founded as a startup, EGI (now Enel Latin America) became a major development company in the region, with hydroelectric, wind and distribution assets in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Chile. The company’s Tierras Morenas wind project was at the time the largest windfarm in Latin America when it was developed and constructed by EGI in Costa Rica in 1998.
Rob is Chairman of the board of the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC), Treasurer and a board member of the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE), Chairman Emeritus of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), and serves on the boards of the Cambridge Energy Alliance (CEA) and the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC). He received an MPA degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.
Harvey Michaels
MIT Energy Initiative : Energy Efficiency Research Director and Lecturer
Harvey Michaels' 30+ year career has focused on developing new approaches to enabling energy efficiency. In 2008, he joined MIT as a scientist and lecturer on energy efficiency.
From 1997 to 2007, Harvey led Nexus Energy Software (now Aclara Software) which builds utility efficiency and customer service Web sites, as well as smart grid Meter Data Management systems.
Before founding Nexus, Harvey was president of XENERGY (now part of Kema Consulting and Con Edison Solutions), which specialized in efficiency resource studies and analysis systems.
James Rosenfield is co-Founder and Senior Advisor to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), an IHS company. CERA is a leading international research and advisory firm respected for its independent insight into the energy future -- including technology, markets, geopolitics and strategy. For over 25 years Mr. Rosenfield was responsibile for strategy, new products, sales and marketing and operations. He created and produced CERAWeek, the annual energy conference ranked as one of the top five conferences for CEOs in the world. In 2004, CERA was acquired by IHS Inc, a premier global source of critical information and insight on Energy, Product Lifecycle, Security and Environment.
Mr. Rosenfield also is a founding partner in SourceSquared, LLC, a firm investing in technology-enabled information services businesses in energy and efficiency. He co-founded AzimaDLI, Inc, a SourceSquared firm that is a pioneer in web-enabled industrial equipment condition monitoring, diagnostics and reliability. He is Chairman of Acumentrics, an innovative power electronics and solid oxide fuel cell firm. He is also on the board of Aircuity, a SourceSquared firm specializing in energy efficiency for buildings. Previously, Mr. Rosenfield co-founded Xcellerex, LLC, a bio-technology manufacturing company.
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 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.
Erik Birkerts has more than 18 years of sales, marketing and finance experience centered on implementing growth strategies and helping companies reposition sales and marketing initiatives. Prior to joining Orion, Erik was president of The Prairie Partners Group LLC, a boutique management-consulting firm based in Lake Forest, Ill. His work focused on helping Fortune 500 and middle-market companies build direct and indirect sales strategies to capitalize on growth opportunities.
As a consultant, Erik has led successful engagements with clients as diverse as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Ingersoll Rand, DeVry University and numerous private equity and venture capital funded companies.
Erik began his career as a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Erik earned his BA with honors in Economics and International Relations at Tufts University in Medford, MA, and his MBA at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
 Moderator
Nick is a veteran entrepreneur, having held senior positions in a number of technology companies and start-ups over the past 20 years.
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 Council. He is also the author of Excessive Entanglement, a novel, published in 2008.
Nick holds a BA from Georgetown University.
Stephen L. Cowell founded Conservation Services Group (CSG) in 1984 and is the organization's chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Cowell has been the founder and director of numerous energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations during his career.
For the past 30 years, Mr. Cowell has been involved in conservation programs around the country and has successfully advocated for energy efficiency as an electric power supply option. He has helped create and build the industry through sound public policy, legislation, development of utility company programs, and establishment of trade ally networks and delivery of cost-effective residential and commercial and industrial energy efficiency programs. Under Mr. Cowell's leadership, CSG has designed and implemented conservation and renewable energy programs for utilities, state agencies, and other groups throughout the U.S. and has provided water and power conservation services to over one million businesses and households.
Steve is a graduate of Brown University and completed graduate coursework at Boston University.
Bill Davis
Ze-Gen; President & CEO
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 a renewable syngas suitable for displacing fossil fuels in combined heat and power applications.
Prior to founding Ze-gen, Mr. Davis’ career in business has included launching numerous companies: Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark 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 was recently appointed by Governor Patrick to the Board of The Commonwealth Corporation. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1979.
Commissioner Giudice brings diverse and expansive experience to DOER. He is a geologist (B.S. from University of New Hampshire and M.S. in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona) and management professional (M.B.A. from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) with over 30 years experience in the energy industry.
Commissioner Giudice serves as board member, board executive committee member and
treasurer of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Governing Board chair for the
Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, board member for the National Association of
State Energy Officials, leadership group member for the National Action Plan for Energy
Efficiency, vice chair for the National Council on Electricity Policy and a board member of
the Commonwealth’s Energy Facilities Siting Board.
Prior to joining DOER, Commissioner Giudice served as Senior Vice President at EnerNOC, a start-up company providing electricity demand-management services to businesses, institutions, utilities, and grid operators. The Commissioner was also a Senior Partner, and leader of Mercer Management Consulting’s global energy utilities practice.
Commissioner Giudice is also active in the nonprofit realm. He is board chair of the Center for Effective Philanthropy and serves on the President’s Council of ACCION. Previously, he served full terms on the board of City Year Boston, First Parish Church of Wayland (Unitarian Universalist), Haitian Health Foundation, and was the founding chair of Boston Cares.
Mark Donohue
E3 Conference Chairman
Babson Cleantech Entrepreneur-in-Residence; Babson Alum '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 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. 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. 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 400 attendees in 2008.
On a personal note, he resides in Boston and San Francisco. He has been life-partnered with attorney and psychologist, Pam Olsen, since 2003. He is also quite active in the lives of his two God Children, Martin and Ixchel McNeish.
Peter Rothstein
Flagship Ventures: Executive-in-Residence
 Peter is Executive-In-Residence at Flagship Ventures, a leading seed and early stage venture capital firm in Cambridge Massachusetts. Peter joined Flagship in 2007, expanding Flagship’s investment and venture creation focus on emerging Sustainability opportunities, and bringing many years of deal experience, startup venture development and industry relationships in the cleantech venture market. Peter has been involved in several of Flagship’s cleantech deals and portfolio companies, including Ze-gen (an advanced gasification company focused on gasifying various municipal waste streams and producing electricity), Novomer (a catalytic process company using CO and CO2 for energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly plastics, polymers and specialty chemicals), and Oasys (a developer of water desalination technology that vastly reduces energy requirements and liquid discharges). Peter was also startup executive with Mascoma, a Flagship portfolio company in the cellulosic ethanol market.
Peter is actively involved in with a range of leading cleantech and entrepreneurial organizations, including the National Renewable Energy Lab’s VC Advisory Board, catalyst to MIT Deshpande Center solar and energy storage MIT projects, Co-Chair of the New England Clean Energy Council’s Innovation Task Force and Clean Energy Fellowship Program, and a Board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.
Prior to joining Flagship, Peter was President of Allegro Strategy, a consultant, advisor and interim executive with early-stage, high-tech, and cleantech startups, including cleantech startups Mascoma, Boston-Power, and Mechanology, and digital media/software ventures WorkshopLive, MetaCarta and Pyxis Mobile. Peter has founded several companies including The Human Interface Group, Inc., which was acquired by Lotus Development in 1994. Peter spent a number of years at Lotus and IBM in various executives roles focused on incubating, starting, and leading new knowledge management businesses, including strategy and acquisitions experience. After Lotus/IBM, Peter was a Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners, focusing on seed and early stage Internet ventures before founding Allegro Strategy to work directly with early-stage ventures and to return to energy technology opportunities.
Peter has a Masters degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management with a concentration in energy economics and finance, and a BA in Environmental Design from Clark University.
Russ Landon
Canaccord Adams: Managing Director
Russ Landon is a Managing Director at Canaccord Adams, a global investment banking firm focused on growth companies, and heads the firm’s Sustainability practice. Having been actively involved in this space for ten years, the firm currently provides equity research on over 40 of the leading companies and has completed over 80 investment banking transactions in the Sustainability universe.
Russ has been with Canaccord Adams for 14 years, having joined Adams Harkness in 1993 (which was acquired by Canaccord Capital in 2005). Having had several roles at the firm, Russ was head of the Investment Banking Division for five years and also established the firm's consumer practice, Healthy Living. He has more than 20 years of experience in the investment banking business.
Before joining Adams Harkness, Russ was a Vice President at PaineWebber, specializing in environmental service and consumer companies. Prior to that, he worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co. He received his B.A. from Yale University, and his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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