Barton Alexander

Global Vice President, Alcohol Policy and Corporate Responsibility Molson Coors Brewing Co.

Bart Alexander champions Molson Coors' global commitment to brewing and building great brands. Under his leadership, the company embraced world-class corporate responsibility as a core platform for achieving its global business ambition. Before joining Coors, Mr. Alexander held senior positions in economic development and human services at the local, state, and federal levels, and became convinced that long-term solutions to social problems require alignment of government, business, and NGO resources. He began building public-private partnerships, an agenda that continues with his current responsibilities at Molson Coors, where he leads the alcohol industry's work with the World Health Organization toward an effective and feasible global alcohol strategy, and has engaged with the UN Global Compact and the UN CEO Water Mandate. Mr. Alexander holds a master's degree from the London School of Economics. Among many board affiliations, he is chairman of the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning and vice chair of the Global Alcohol Producers Group.

Kent Anson

Vice President, Global Energy Accelerators, Honeywell Building Solutions (HBS)

Kent Anson is responsible for leading and developing global energy and high growth initiatives. His current initiatives include renewable energy and higher education. He previously served as Honeywell Building Solutions' vice president of global energy, vice president and general manager of energy for the Americas, and general manager of Honeywell Utility Solutions. Under his leadership, Honeywell's energy services business experienced dramatic growth and has become one of the industry's leading providers of energy efficiency and SmartGrid solutions to help customers reduce energy costs, increase energy and operational efficiency, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Matt Arnold

Partner and U.S. Climate Change Advisory Leader PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC)

Matt Arnold is leader of PwC's U.S. Sustainability and Climate Change Practice. Over the past 20 years, he has helped numerous global companies, including BP, Caterpillar, CB Richard Ellis, Citigroup, Duke Energy, Sun Power, and Tesla Motors, devise and implement sustainability strategies, mitigate investment risk, and capitalize on opportunities around climate change, energy usage, carbon markets, and supply chain management. Before assuming his current position, Mr. Arnold was founder and head of Sustainable Finance, a leading international environmental and social risk management advisory firm. There he helped devise, write, and implement the Carbon Principles, the industry standard by which banks and their U.S. utility and power clients evaluate and address carbon risks when financing electric power projects. Before founding Sustainable Finance, Mr. Arnold was CEO of World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank that uses research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve peoples' lives. While at WRI, he developed the GHG protocol with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Joel Babbit

CEO and Co-founder, Mother Nature Network

Joel Babbit, before launching Mother Nature Network, served more than 20 years in the advertising and public relations industry. During that time, he created two of the largest and most successful advertising agencies in the Southeast: Babbit and Reiman (acquired by London-based GGT) and 360 (acquired by Grey Global Group). He also was president of GCI, which was one of the world's ten largest public relations firms, with 40 offices in 22 countries. Mr. Babbit is noted for his marketing work related to corporate transitions, which have included the acquisition of RJR Nabisco by KKR, BellSouth by AT&T, Georgia-Pacific by Koch Industries, and Riverwood International's spinoff from Johns Manville. When Atlanta hosted the 1996 Olympics, Mr. Babbit took a leave of absence from the private sector to serve as the city's chief marketing and communications officer. Among many honors, he was chosen Georgia Citizen of the Year in 1997 and awarded the John Drewry award for outstanding achievement from the University of Georgia.

Roger S. Ballentine

President, Green Strategies, Inc.

Roger Ballentine, as president of Green Strategies, assists clients in the energy and environmental arena with domestic and international public policy matters, investment guidance in the cleantech marketplace, marketing and business development strategies, sustainability, and capital formation. He is also a venture partner with Arborview Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on the clean technology marketplace, as well as a lecturer in the area of energy and climate policy at Harvard Law School (from which he earned his JD degree), and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ballentine previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. Before assuming this latter role, he was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environmental issues.

Thomas C. Baloga

Vice President, Engineering U.S., BMW NA, LLC

Tom Baloga is responsible for U.S. engineering for the BMW Group, which includes BMW, Mini, and Rolls Royce. He is responsible for the group's environmental, safety, intelligent transportation systems, and product development and analysis activities. Before joining BMW, Mr. Baloga was the owner and principal of INIT LLC, an innovation consulting firm; president of Britax Child Safety, Inc.; manager of safety engineering for Mercedes-Benz USA; and a senior test engineer for Mack Trucks, Inc. He is the primary inventor on multiple U.S. and foreign patents. Mr. Baloga served on boards for Public Safety Equipment, Code 3, and Kustom Signals. He holds degrees in automotive technology from Pennsylvania College of Technology and mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Frances Beinecke

President, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Frances Beinecke is the president of NRDC. One of the nation's most influential environmental groups, NRDC uses law, science, and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Ms Beinecke is the co-author of Clean Energy Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change. Ms. Beinecke has served the NRDC for more than 30 years. Before assuming her current role in 2006, Ms. Beinecke was the executive director for eight years, during which time NRDC's membership doubled and the staff grew to 350. She is on the steering committee of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, is a member of the Yale School of Management's advisory board, and is a former member of the Yale Corp.

Abhijit "Jit" Bhattacharya

Chief Executive Officer, Mission Motors

Jit Bhattacharya is the CEO of Mission Motors, a high-performance electric motorcycle and electric powertrain company, based in San Francisco. Mr. Bhattacharya assumed his current role after serving a year and a half as COO and managing the development and marketing of the company's initial technology platform. Mr. Bhattacharya has an engineering background, with a master's degree from Stanford University and experience from the product design firm IDEO. He also holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where he served as co-president of the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative, and helped lead the launch of the campus's new Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation. Mission Motors has developed the world's fastest pre-production electric motorcycle, with a top speed of 150 mph. The company actively partners with vehicle manufacturers as a provider of advanced electric powertrain solutions. The company recently announced a memorandum of understanding with Zongshen Power, one of the largest manufacturers of gasoline motorcycles and engines in China.

Denise Bode

Chief Executive Officer, American Wind Energy Association

Denise Bode leads the American Wind Energy Association, the national trade association of the U.S. wind energy industry. Ms. Bode is a nationally recognized energy policy expert and served nine years on the Oklahoma Corp. Commission. Her experience in the energy field is both extensive and diverse, including one-and-a-half years as the CEO of the American Clean Skies Foundation, seven years as president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, seven years as the tax partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm Gold and Liebengood, Inc., and nine years on the staff of then-U.S. Sen. David Boren (D-OK) as his legal counsel, focusing on the areas of energy and taxation. In 2009, Ms. Bode was bestowed the honor of "Woman of the Year" for the Women's Council for Energy and the Environment and she was named one of the Washingtonian's 100 Most Powerful Women of Washington.

Scott C. Bolick

Vice President, Sustainability, SAP Labs

Scott Bolick works in SAP's sustainability organization, where he leads a core team of experts defining SAP's sustainability strategy for internal performance and for customers. He also ensures the execution of the sustainability strategy across all functions. Previously, Mr. Bolick was a vice president for SAP's Portfolio Strategy Group, which oversees the portfolio governance process and drives key cross-topics portfolio priorities. Mr. Bolick is focused on software-as-a-service, M&A, and sustainability solutions. Earlier he was a consultant for McKinsey & Company and Accenture. While at McKinsey's Silicon Valley office, he provided guidance on corporate strategy and go-to-market plans to the world's leading technology vendors. As a consultant at Accenture, he recommended and implemented technology that improved the business processes of media and entertainment clients.

Stewart Brand

President, Long Now Foundation; Co-founder, Global Business Network

Stewart Brand is president of the Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog, which won a National Book Award, and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL. His books include The Clock of the Long Now, How Buildings Learn, and The Media Lab. His new book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, is published by Viking in the U.S. and Atlantic in the U.K. He graduated in biology from Stanford University and served as an infantry officer.

Katherine Brass

Ecomagination Program Manager, GE Energy and GE Oil & Gas, General Electric Co.

Kate Brass leads two GE businesses' efforts to define the ecomagination product portfolio and developing strategic customer relationships and large energy and conservation demonstration projects. She represents the environmental interests of the businesses with respect to national and international government affairs, global research efforts, new technology commercialization, internal greenhouse gas reduction programs, and the impact and implication of carbon regulation on the growth of the business. Ms. Brass holds a bachelor's degree in finance and economics and a master's degree in environmental management and policy. She has more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, communications, and strategic planning.

Jeff Broin

Chief Executive Officer, POET

Jeff Broin got his first taste of ethanol production as a teenager on the Broin family farm in Minnesota. Since then, he has led the growth of a single, small ethanol production facility into the world's largest producer of renewable fuels. The 26 POET plants have a combined annual production capacity of 1.54 billion gallons of ethanol and 4 million tons of distillers grains. With the U.S. Department of Energy and the state of Iowa, POET is co-funding the conversion of an existing ethanol production facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa, into a biorefinery that produces grain-based ethanol and ethanol from the cellulose found in corn cobs. Mr. Broin actively promotes renewable fuels by serving on several boards of directors, including that of Growth Energy. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a degree in agricultural business.

Michael Brune

Executive Director, Sierra Club

Michael Brune holds degrees in economics and finance from West Chester University in Pennsylvania and comes to the Sierra Club from the Rainforest Action Network, where he served seven years as executive director. Under Mr. Brune's leadership, Rainforest Action Network won more than a dozen key environmental commitments from America's largest corporations, including Home Depot, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kinko's, Boise, and Lowe's. Mr. Brune's critically acclaimed book, Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal (Sierra Club Books, 2008), details a plan for a new green economy that will create well-paying jobs, promote environmental justice, and bolster national security. He and his wife, Mary, attribute their ongoing passion for environmental activism in part to concern that their children inherit a healthy world. Mr. Brune is particularly interested in promoting programs that link the Sierra Club's traditional protection of wild places, including National Parks, to urgently needed climate change solutions.

William M. Bumpers

Member, Environmental Department; Head, Global Climate Group, Baker Botts

William Bumpers focuses his practice at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C., on climate change transactions, strategy and policy, and Clean Air Act compliance. Actively involved with climate change law and policy since 1992, when the U.S. ratified the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, he worked with electric utilities in the early 1990s to negotiate Climate Accords with the Department of Energy pursuant to the country's National Action Plan on Climate Change. In 1994 he helped structure the first inter-pollutant trade in the U.S., involving CO2 emissions reductions in exchange for SO2 allowances. He has assisted both the World Bank Group and the International Finance Corp. with their early-stage development of climate change instruments and transactions. He has been involved with emission reduction projects worldwide. Mr. Bumpers currently advises a wide range of companies on climate change policy and transactional issues, including carbon offset developers, investment banking firms, carbon exchanges, electric generating companies, renewable energy project developers, private equity funds, and several international energy companies.

Cliff Burrows

President, Starbucks Coffee U.S.

Cliff Burrows, responsible for Starbucks U.S. operations, is committed to ensuring that the Starbucks experience is delivered to customers and employees by serving the best quality coffee in a superb in-store environment. Mr. Burrows is known for his track record of strong leadership and a commitment to Starbucks guiding principles. He joined Starbucks Coffee Co. in 2001 as U.K. managing director. In 2006, he was named president for Starbucks Coffee EMEA BV, and led the region as it grew to more than 1,350 stores across 24 countries. Before joining Starbucks, Mr. Burrows was managing director for Habitat, the home furnishings company, where he was responsible for the company's U.K. business and European retail and franchises. During his 19-year career with Habitat, he was with Heals, a wholly owned Habitat subsidiary, for seven years. He began his career with Littlewoods PLC, where he was a management trainee.

Tim Carey

Director for Sustainability and Technology, Americas Beverages, PepsiCo Inc.

Tim Carey, based in Chicago, is responsible for ensuring that PepsiCo Chicago's sustainability vision and strategy lead to significant reductions in the company's environmental impact. Mr. Carey's teams are responsible for ensuring sustainable product design, constructing manufacturing facilities that meet leading environmental standards, and solving the challenge of branded litter. Mr. Carey is a registered engineer and, before joining PepsiCo, developed and implemented successful sustainability programs for more than 20 years at companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Warren Buffett-owned Johns Manville.

Erin Carlson

Director, Yahoo! for Good, Yahoo! Inc.

Erin Carlson is director of Yahoo! for Good, the company's social responsibility department, where she is responsible for leading Yahoo!'s environmental strategy. Her primary focus is inspiring Yahoo!'s audience of more than 600 million people to be more "green" in their daily lives through use of Yahoo! products. She oversees Yahoo! Green, the No. 1 environmental destination on the Internet, and leads the efforts to integrate green content into all of Yahoo!'s core products. She has also driven the creation of Yahoo! Earth Day sites since 2005. Ms. Carlson rallied grassroots efforts by launching a Green Team of hundreds of employees across the globe. Ms. Carlson is an Aspen Institute Catto fellow focused on global environmental leadership. Before joining Yahoo!, Ms. Carlson served Nike, Inc., in apparel sustainability and was with Business for Social Responsibility. She holds a BA degree in biology from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Yvon Chouinard

Co-founder, Patagonia, Inc.

Yvon Chouinard began in business by designing, manufacturing, and distributing rock climbing equipment in the late 1950s. His tinkering led to an improved ice axe that facilitated French ice climbing technique and is the basis for modern ice axe design. In 1964 he produced his first mail order catalog, a one-page mimeographed sheet. The company grew slowly until 1972 when he added rugby shirts to his catalog and his clothing business took off. Mr. Chouinard continues to use Patagonia to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. As part of this goal, Patagonia instituted an Earth Tax, pledging 1% of sales to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. In 2001, Mr. Chouinard (with Craig Mathews) started One Percent For The Planet, an alliance of businesses that contribute at least 1% of their net annual sales to groups on a list of researched and approved environmental organizations. Mr. Chouinard spends much of his time outdoors and serves on the boards of numerous environmental groups.

Aimee Christensen

Chief Executive Officer, Christensen Global Strategies

Aimée Christensen is a climate and energy expert with more than two decades of experience in policy, communications, philanthropy, investment, and law. She leads Christensen Global Strategies, where her clients include the Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, Swiss Re, the UNDP, Virgin Unite, and Wolfensohn & Co. In the run-up and during COP15, Ms. Christensen served as executive director of the Global Observatory, overseeing a communications team that made the climate issue accessible and relevant to the public. She was a national co-chair of Cleantech & Green Business for Obama, and in early 2009 she co-founded the Clean Economy Network, whose collaboration with other groups brought more than 250 business leaders to Capitol Hill to advocate for passage of comprehensive climate change and energy legislation. Ms. Christensen serves on several boards and advisory boards. As a member of the Clinton Administration, she developed and executed Latin American energy policy. She later served Google.org, where she guided early climate and energy initiatives.

Susan M. Cischke

Group Vice President, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, Ford Motor Co.

Susan Cischke is responsible for establishing Ford's long-range sustainability strategy and environmental policy. She helps develop the products and processes necessary to satisfy both customers and society, and is the company's chief liaison with global organizations seeking solutions to the challenges of sustainability, environmental stewardship, and energy independence. Ms. Cischke is also responsible for influencing future environmental and safety regulations and assuring that Ford Motor Co. meets or exceeds all safety and environmental regulations worldwide. Ms. Cischke has served as Ford's top environmental and safety officer since 2001. She was named senior vice president in 2007 and to her current role in 2008. Ms. Cischke serves on the board of the Chicago Climate Exchange and as Ford Motor Co. liaison to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Among many professional honors, she received a Distinguished Service Citation from the Automotive Hall Fame in 2008, and was twice named one of Automotive News 100 Leading Women.

Beth Colleton

Vice President, Green is Universal (GIU), NBC Universal, Inc. (NBCU)

Beth Colleton was named vice president of GIU, NBCU's "green" initiative, in 2008. She is responsible for managing GIU's day-to-day business, including the coordination of "green" programming and activities throughout all NBCU divisions for the company's "Green Weeks" as well as all ongoing content and community initiatives. Ms. Colleton is also responsible for GIU's strategic interface with the sales, marketing, research, and communications departments. In addition, she oversees NBCU's ongoing effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, by implementing more energy-efficient practices within the company, across its operations and facilities. Most recently, Ms. Colleton was the head of corporate social responsibility for the National Football League, which she served for 15 years. She was responsible for building the league's cause platform into one of the most comprehensive philanthropic agendas in the industry. Ms. Colleton graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA degree in American studies and Spanish.

James L. Connaughton

Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Public and Environmental Policy, Constellation Energy

James Connaughton directs Constellation Energy's environmental and energy policy matters, as well as public and government affairs. He leads a comprehensive public and environmental policy agenda as the company leverages its position as a leader in advancing emission-free nuclear energy. Before joining Constellation Energy last year, Mr. Connaughton served as chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality, from 2001 to 2009. In this capacity, he served on President Bush's senior staff and as director of the White House Office of Environmental Policy. His work included bipartisan energy legislation in 2005 and 2007, some $90 billion for clean energy technology research, and incentives to accelerate commercial deployment of lowcarbon technologies. Internationally, Mr. Connaughton helped establish a broad series of technology initiatives. He also played a leading role in new air quality standards, major reductions in air pollution from power plants and diesel vehicles, and improved management of public forests. Previously Mr. Connaughton was a partner in the Environmental Practice Group at the law firm Sidley Austin.

Aron Cramer

President and CEO, BSR

Aron Cramer is recognized globally as an authority on corporate responsibility by leaders in business and NGOs and by his peers in the field. He advises senior leaders at BSR's 250 member companies and other global businesses, and is regularly featured as a speaker at major events and in a range of media outlets. Under his leadership, BSR has doubled its staff and significantly expanded its global presence. He is also co-author of the forthcoming book Sustainable Excellence, which explores current and future evolutions in corporate responsibility, charting its development into a core element of business strategy and activities. Mr. Cramer joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights Program, and in 2002, he opened BSR's Paris office, where he worked until assuming his current roles in 2004. Before joining BSR, he practiced law in San Francisco and worked as a journalist at ABC News in New York.

David Crane

President and CEO, NRG Energy, Inc.

David Crane has served as the president and CEO of NRG Energy, a leading wholesale power generation company, since 2003. Under his leadership, NRG became a Fortune 500 company that doubled its size to nearly 24,000 megawatts—enough to power some 20 million homes. Mr. Crane is a leading voice on climate change and the power sector's role in reducing greenhouse gases from the next wave of new power generation while meeting growing energy needs. He is outspoken on the need to advance climate legislation and support clean energy resources and technologies critical to our transition to a low carbon society. Before joining NRG, Mr. Crane was CEO of International Power PLC. He also served Lehman Brothers and ABB Energy Ventures. Mr. Crane holds a BA degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a JD degree from Harvard Law School.

Kevin Czinger

President and CEO, Coda Automotive

Kevin Czinger developed a love of automobiles at an early age. Working with his brothers under the hoods of hot rods, Mr. Czinger became a seasoned mechanic and dreamed about a future in the automotive industry. After he graduated from Yale University with a degree in pre-med and history, he attended Yale Law School before beginning his professional career. Mr. Czinger has been a car mechanic, a football player, a lawyer, a teacher, and an executive, and has maintained a balance of pragmatism and ingenuity when faced with challenges. With extensive operating experience in companies such as Goldman Sachs and Bertelsmann AG, and a track record of performance in startup and emerging growth companies like Webvan Group and Global Signal, Mr. Czinger has acquired the knowledge base to bring an all-electric car to market. He brings to his role at Coda Automotive an amalgamation of his passions—cars, technology, global connectivity, learning, and nature.

Thomas F. Darden, II

Chief Executive Officer, Cherokee Investment Partners, LLC

Tom Darden is the CEO of Cherokee Investment Partners, a private equity firm specializing in the acquisition and remediation of contaminated real estate. Cherokee has invested more than $750 million of equity in 54 transactions, purchasing a total of 525 sites across the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe. Cherokee is currently investing its fourth institutional capital fund, and has more than $2 billion in assets under management. Beginning in 1984, Mr. Darden served for 16 years as the chairman of Cherokee Sanford Group (CSG), a brick manufacturing and soil remediation company. By 1990, CSG was the largest soil remediator in the mid-Atlantic region, eventually cleaning up some 15 million tons of contaminated material. Mr. Darden currently serves on the boards of Shaw University, the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina, and Research Triangle Institute. He is also a member of the Real Estate Roundtable.

Chris Davis

Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, Schneider Electric

Chris Davis develops and manages Schneider Electric's global alliances with technology companies that have a focus on building energy efficiency. Mr. Davis has more than 25 years of experience in business development and strategic partnering in the high tech, manufacturing, and software industries, both in the U.S. and abroad. Within Schneider Electric, he has also served as director for the South Asia/Pacific region of the company's Automation Division based in Singapore. Mr. Davis received his BS degree in chemistry from Jacksonville University and was awarded an MBA from Florida State University. He served in the U.S. Navy and graduated first in his class from the U.S. Naval School Underwater Swimmers in Key West, Fla.

John R. "Grizz" Deal

Chief Executive Officer, Hyperion Power Generation

Grizz Deal has more than 20 years of experience in technology commercialization and fast-growing ventures, in both product development and chief executive roles. He was previously the managing director at Purple Mountain Ventures (PMV), which serves a dozen international firms on product development, capital expansion, and marketing. Mr. Deal is also a director of the U.S. National Lab Seed Fund, a venture capital fund focused on innovations developed by the U.S. Department of Energy laboratory complex. Mr. Deal is the former TVC entrepreneur in residence with the U.S. Department of Energy/NNSA, visiting entrepreneur at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), chief marketing officer for Space Imaging, the founder and former CEO of LizardTech, and a consulting scientist at LANL. A frequent speaker and writer on energy technology and policy, the development of advanced technology-based ventures, and issues in raising capital for such ventures, he is a director for the International Clean Energy Alliance and serves on the boards of several PMV portfolio firms.

Brian Dumaine

Senior Editor at Large, Fortune

Brian Dumaine is a senior editor at large at Fortune, where he covers green technology and environmental policy. He is the author of The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions To Global Warming. Mr. Dumaine has worked at Fortune for 29 years in various writing and editing positions, including global editor and assistant managing editor. He has written more than 100 feature stories for the magazine, including covers such as "America's Toughest Bosses," "The Innovation Gap," and "America's Smartest Young Entrepreneurs." Throughout his career, he has produced investigative pieces as well as articles on marketing, investing, technology, and corporate crime.

David R. Dunning

Group President, Power, Fluor Corp.

Dave Dunning is responsible for Fluor's activities in the global nuclear generation, renewables, plant betterment, and fossil fueled industries. He most recently served as senior vice president of sales, marketing, and strategic planning for Fluor's global power business. He has more than 35 years of direct power industry experience, including 32 years of service with Fluor. Mr. Dunning previously served in executive sales and marketing capacities, including as senior vice president for sales, marketing, and strategic planning for the Duke/Fluor Daniel partnership and sales director for Fluor's Operations and Maintenance Division. Mr. Dunning served his first ten years in the nuclear power industry, including positions in engineering, field supervision, quality inspection, and quality assurance. Early in his career, he served a contractor at the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania as a steel designer and coatings superintendent. He then began with Fluor (then Daniel Construction Co.) in a seven-year stint at the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant in Fulton, Mo.

Sylvia A. Earle

Explorer in Residence, National Geographic Society

Sylvia Earle is explorer in residence at the National Geographic Society, founder of the Deep Search Foundation, advisory council chair for the Harte Research Institute and the Marine Science and Technology Foundation, and former chief scientist of NOAA. Author of more than 175 publications, leader of more than 100 expeditions with more than 7,000 hours underwater, she is the recipient of more than 125 national and international awards. A graduate of Florida State University, with an MS degree and Ph.D. from Duke University and 18 honorary degrees, Dr. Earle focuses her research on the ecology and conservation of marine ecosystems and development of technology for access to the deep sea. She was named TIME magazine's first Hero for the Planet and a Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and was a 2009 winner of the TED Prize.

Nicholas Moore Eisenberger

Senior Strategist, GreenOrder

Nicholas Eisenberger is an environmental entrepreneur and business strategist who has spent more than two decades working on the development of the clean economy. He has expertise in a broad spectrum of cleantech and sustainability issues that affect large corporations, investors, entrepreneurial ventures, government, and other key sectors. Through his work as a clean economy innovator and business leader, Mr. Eisenberger has pioneered the concept of sustainability strategy as a catalyst for competitive advantage. As senior strategist at GreenOrder, he is a trusted advisor to senior executives at such enterprises as GE, GM, BP, DuPont, JPMorgan Chase, Polo Ralph Lauren, and several of the largest U.S. utilities. Since 2005, he and the GreenOrder team have guided the creation and development of GE's award-winning, multibillion-dollar ecomagination initiative. Previously, Mr. Eisenberger founded or co-founded several enterprises that pioneered change in their respective fields. He also practiced as an environmental attorney and worked as a cleantech venture capitalist.

Scott Elrod

Vice President, Director of Hardware Systems Laboratory (HSL), Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Scott Elrod, Ph.D., directs PARC's HSL research organization, which focuses on clean technologies, inkjet printing, and biomedical systems for drug discovery and clinical diagnosis. He also directs PARC's Cleantech Innovation Program, which develops solutions for delivering affordable solar energy, increasing solar cell efficiency, purifying water, managing energy utilization, and harnessing renewable fuels. One of the first results is a novel, low-cost solar concentrator technology that will significantly cut consumers' solar electricity costs. A PARC principal scientist who holds more than 60 patents, Dr. Elrod was responsible for much of an acoustic ink-printing patent portfolio (a novel inkjet technology based on focused ultrasonics), and several inventions for PARC spinout LiveWorks, Inc. (later acquired by SMART Technologies). His other contributions include novel input devices for large-area displays and a ubiquitous smart office environment. Before joining PARC, Dr. Elrod directed the Environment, Safety, and Health Division at SEMATECH, a consortium of semiconductor manufacturers.

John E. Fleming

Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer, Walmart Stores U.S., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

John Fleming is responsible for six of Walmart U.S.'s merchandising divisions: apparel, entertainment, grocery, home, hardlines, and health and wellness. He is also responsible for the customer experience and merchandising operations organizations. Before being named to his current position in 2007, Mr. Fleming was executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Walmart Stores and led all marketing and consumer communications programs, including advertising, consumer research, visual merchandising, signage, point-of-sale programs, and in-store promotional materials. Mr. Fleming joined the company in 2000 as chief merchant of Walmart.com. He was promoted to COO in 2001, and then became president and CEO of Walmart.com in 2002. Under his leadership, Walmart.com grew into one of the country's top three destinations for online shopping. Mr. Fleming has been a pacesetter for Walmart's online and offline integration efforts and his key achievements include one-hour photo, ship to store, gift registry, and online pharmacy. Mr. Fleming served 19 years at Target Corp. before joining Walmart.

Jennifer Fonstad

Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)

Jennifer Fonstad, considered one of the most senior women in venture today, invests broadly in early-stage companies, taking an early leadership role in clean energy with her first investment in the category in 2001. Joining DFJ in 1997 as a Kauffman Fellow, she became a partner in 1998. She began her career with Bain and Co. after spending a year teaching math to high school students in sub-Sahara Africa. In addition to her investing responsibilities, Ms. Fonstad sits on the investment committees for DFJ Frontier, DFJ's California fund, DFJ Tamir Fishman, and DFJ's partner fund in Israel, and serves as advisor to the DFJ China team. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University and holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Co.

Bill Ford is leading Ford, the company that put the world on wheels, into the 21st century. He joined Ford Motor Co. in 1979 as a product planning analyst and went on to hold a variety of assignments in manufacturing, marketing, product development, and finance, and was CEO from 2001 to 2006. A board member board since 1988, he became chairman in 1999. He also chairs the board's environmental and public policy committee. A lifelong environmentalist, Mr. Ford is committed to increasing shareholder value by developing products that please customers and benefit society. The company's current lineup features innovative fuel-saving technologies such as six-speed transmissions and EcoBoost direct-injection turbocharged engines. Over the next four years the company also will bring a series of advanced electric- and hybrid-powered vehicles to market.

Holly Fowler

Senior Director, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sodexo, Inc.

Holly Fowler currently leads Sodexo's sustainability initiatives and innovation by leveraging the company's expertise and experience in serving more than 10,000 individual sites across North America. These efforts extend Sodexo's ability to deliver sustainability solutions to clients and help them achieve their sustainability goals. Through effective employee engagement, this work assists Sodexo and its clients in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, conserving water resources, minimizing waste generation, and promoting sustainable agriculture and community development. Ms. Fowler was most recently director of Sodexo's worldwide education market and a frequent presenter on the topic of sustainability at academic conferences globally. She holds an AB degree in French and European history from Bowdoin College and an MBA from Babson College.

Curtis R. Frasier

Executive Vice President, Upstream Americas, Shell Oil Company

Curtis Frasier is executive vice president and general counsel of Shell's Upstream business in the Americas, a role he assumed last year. Since joining Shell Oil Co. in 1982, Mr. Frasier has held a number of positions within Shell's legal organization in Houston, London, and The Hague, including serving as secretary to the Royal Dutch Shell committee of managing directors and the joint conference of the boards of Royal Dutch Petroleum and the Shell Transport and Trading Co., and later as general counsel of Shell's global exploration and production business. He also led several business units within Shell, serving as a vice president of Tejas Gas Corp., senior vice president of Coral Energy, president of Shell Midstream Enterprises, and president of Shell US Gas & Power. He has also served as a director of Shell Oil Co., Shell Petroleum Inc., and Enterprise Products Partners LP. Mr. Frasier is currently a trustee of the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability and the Keystone Center.

Jeff Goodell

Author, How to Cool the Planet and Big Coal

Jeff Goodell is a bestselling author and journalist. His latest book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, is being published this month by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Mr. Goodell is the author of four previous books, including Sunnyvale, a memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley that was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Our Story, an account of the nine miners trapped in a Pennsylvania coal mine, was a national bestseller. Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (2006), was described by the New York Times as "a compelling indictment of one of the country's biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries . . . well-written, timely, and powerful." Mr. Goodell is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and his work has appeared in many publications, including the New Republic, Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, and Wired.

Hugh Grant

Chairman, President, and CEO, Monsanto Co.

Hugh Grant leads Monsanto, an agricultural company focused on applying innovation and technology to help its farmer-customers increase yields while conserving the world's natural resources, including water, soil, and energy. Under his leadership, Monsanto has increasingly relied on building partnerships to achieve commercial, environmental, and social humanitarian goals. Monsanto and Mr. Grant have been recognized by numerous groups for innovation, contributions to green practices and sustainable agriculture, corporate responsibility, and business leadership and performance. Most notably, Monsanto was named one of Fortune's Best Companies to Work For in 2010; One of the World's Ten Most Influential Companies by BusinessWeek in December 2008; received the 2009 Keystone Center's Leadership in Industry award; was No. 2 on Science magazine's 2008 Top Biotech list; and included in Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine's Top 20 list of the Best Corporate Citizens in 2009. Mr. Grant is a repeat winner on Barron's 30 Most Respected CEOs list and Institutional Investor magazine's America's Best CEOs list.

Josh Green

Chief Executive Officer, Verdeo Group

Josh Green is CEO of Verdeo Group, a leading developer of emission reduction and renewable energy projects in North America. In addition to leading fundraising and project investment activity, he oversees the firm's corporate development efforts, including developing strategic partnerships, assessing new growth areas, and pursuing M&A opportunities. Before launching Verdeo, Mr. Green was a vice president and the director for Latin America at Climate Change Capital, where he was responsible for developing and managing a portfolio of low-carbon investments for the firm's $1 billion carbon fund. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning private equity and strategy consulting in the U.S. and Latin America, including more than 12 years focused on the energy sector. Mr. Green holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA degree in geography, economics, and environmental studies, cum laude, from Dartmouth College. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Washington, D.C., regional board of Teach For America, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Scott Griffith

Chairman and CEO, Zipcar

Scott Griffith, who assumed his current role at Zipcar in 2003, has guided the company's emergence as the world's largest car-sharing service. In 2007, he led Zipcar's merger with Flexcar, managing the integration of the companies' fleet, technology, and membership base under the Zipcar brand and service. Mr. Griffith has solidified Zipcar's position as the leader in its industry, establishing a brand and customer experience that has attracted hundreds of thousands of urban residents and businesses. By forging partnerships with some of the world's top brands and largest automakers, and developing relationships with transit agencies, universities, and city and state governments, he has fostered the emergence of car sharing as a new transportation category, changing urban life by providing instant, affordable mobility in London, and 28 North American states and provinces. For his accomplishments at Zipcar, he won Babson College's ELiTE award for entrepreneurship. Before joining Zipcar, Mr. Griffith held senior level positions at the Boeing Co., Information America, and the Parthenon Group.

Bill Gross

Founder, eSolar and Idealab

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996. In the last 14 years Idealab has created and built more than 75 technology companies, including Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), Internet Brands, and Picasa (acquired by Google). In 2007, Idealab created eSolar with the mission to develop utility-scale concentrating solar power projects, and Mr. Gross served as eSolar's CEO until recently. Mr. Gross began creating successful companies in high school and continued to do so while pursuing an engineering degree at Caltech. He sold his company, GNP Development, to Lotus Development Corp. in 1985. He started educational software publisher Knowledge Adventure in 1991, and subsequently sold it to Vivendi. Mr. Gross currently serves on the boards of ten companies in the areas of robotics, automation, software, and renewable energy. He also serves as a trustee on the board of directors at the Art Center College of Design and Caltech.

Marc Gunther

Contributing Editor, Fortune

Marc Gunther writes, speaks, and consults about sustainability, corporate citizenship, and workplace issues. He has written cover stories for Fortune about Walmart and the environment, Warren Buffett's electric car company, spirituality at work, and Hank Paulson. His book about companies that do well by doing good, Faith and Fortune: The Quiet Revolution To Reform American Business, was published in 2004 by Crown Business. Before joining Fortune in 1996, Mr. Gunther worked at newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit News, and the Hartford Courant. He has a BA degree from Yale University and blogs at www.marcgunther.com.

Poppy Harlow

Anchor, CNNMoney.com

Poppy Harlow, based in New York, joined CNNMoney.com from Forbes.com, where she worked as an anchor, reporter, and producer for the Forbes.com Video Network. At Forbes.com, Ms. Harlow covered the financial markets as well as luxury, travel, technology, and energy. She interviewed a number of Fortune 500 CEOs and business leaders while at Forbes.com. Before joining Forbes.com, Ms. Harlow was an anchor and reporter for NY1 News' Local Edition. She began her journalism career as an intern for CBS MarketWatch and an assistant producer for CBS Newspath. Ms. Harlow graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA degree in political science and Middle Eastern studies from Columbia University.

Lewis Hay, III

Chairman and CEO, FPL Group, Inc.

Lew Hay is chairman and CEO of FPL Group, one of the nation's leading electricity-related services companies and the largest renewable energy generator in North America. He was elected CEO in 2001 and chairman the following year. Mr. Hay is also chairman of FPL Group's two primary subsidiaries, NextEra Energy Resources (formerly FPL Energy) and Florida Power & Light Co. He joined FPL Group as CFO in 1999 and was appointed president of FPL Energy in 2000. Mr. Hay received a BS degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1977 and an MS degree in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. He serves on the board of directors of Capital One and Harris Corp., as vice chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, and as a director of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

Peter Hebert

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital

Peter Hebert, a co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital, focuses on investments in energy technology, advanced materials, and semiconductors. Mr. Hebert, who co-founded the firm in 2000, manages investments in Accelergy, Angstrom Publishing, Everspin Technologies, Lux Research, Luxtera, SiBEAM, and several stealth energy ventures. In 2003, he led the spinoff of Lux Research. As founding CEO, he helped build that entity into the leading emerging technology research firm. Mr. Hebert also launched the publicly listed Lux Nanotech Index and the $150 million PowerShares Lux Nanotech Portfolio. He began his career at Lehman Brothers, where he served that firm's top-ranked Equity Research Group. Mr. Hebert also co-founded Young Wall Street, a charitable organization supporting youth-related causes in New York City. He was a Chancellor's Scholar and graduated cum laude from Syracuse University's Newhouse School. He was also the founding president of Syracuse's first venture organization, Future Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs.

Jeffrey S. Horowitz

Founder, Avoided Deforestation Partners (AD Partners)

Jeff Horowitz is the founder of AD Partners, which works to protect tropical forests as part of the solution to climate change. Drawing on his extensive network of world leaders in politics, the environment, and business, Mr. Horowitz has played a major role in building U.S. support for tropical forest conservation. He facilitated the creation of the Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, a groundbreaking alliance of environmental groups, Fortune 500 companies, and scientific institutions, that has helped make the U.S. an emerging leader in this area. Before establishing AD Partners, Mr. Horowitz was vice chair of Equator Environmental. Previously, he was an internationally recognized architect and, as the founder of Urbanists International, a leading advocate for progressive urban and economic development policies. Mr. Horowitz and his wife, Lynn, also produce high-end cabernet sauvignon wine grapes at their ranch in California's Alexander Valley. Mr. Horowitz holds a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University.

John W. Huey

Editor-in-Chief, Time Inc.

John Huey became Time Inc.'s sixth editor-in-chief on January 1, 2006. In this role, he oversees the editorial content of the majority of Time Inc.'s U.S. magazines, including Time, Fortune, People, In Style, Sports Illustrated, and Entertainment Weekly. He is also responsible for the editorial content of the company's websites and brand extensions. Before becoming editor-in-chief, Mr. Huey served as editorial director of Time Inc. since 2001. Earlier he was editor of the Fortune Group and managing editor of Fortune. Mr. Huey was named Advertising Age's Editor of the Year in 1997 and Adweek's Editor of the Year in 1998. He co-authored Sam Walton: Made in America, the autobiography of the late founder of Walmart. Mr. Huey is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Overseas Press Club.

Scott E. Jacobs

Expert, McKinsey & Company

Scott Jacobs, a consultant in McKinsey & Company's San Francisco office, co-founded and co-leads the firm's global CleanTech Practice. Mr. Jacobs works with technology, energy, automotive, private equity, and public sector clients across a wide range of functions relating to clean energy technology. His recent engagements include advising a sovereign wealth fund on cleantech investment strategies; helping a renewable energy company expand its global footprint; working with national government leaders on global, national, and regional clean energy initiatives; and advising a major automotive OEM on its regulatory strategy. In 2008, Mr. Jacobs took a three-month leave of absence to serve on President Obama's transition team, advising on clean energy and transportation policy. Before joining McKinsey, Mr. Jacobs served 14 years in the technology, clean energy and private equity industries as an executive and a venture capital investor. He received his MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a George F. Baker Scholar, and his BA degree cum laude from Dartmouth College.

William "Wilber" James

Managing General Partner, RockPort Capital Partners

Wilber James, an energy entrepreneur for more than three decades, pioneered the unregulated marketing and trading of crude oil and petroleum products, natural gas, and electricity as chairman and CEO of Citizens Corp., an unaffiliated, independent energy company. Building on that success, he expanded into oil exploration and energy conservation. He created Citizens Lehman Power, a joint venture between Lehman Brothers and Citizens that was the nation's first electricity trading and asset acquisition and restructuring company, and then sold it to The Energy Group PLC. Before co-founding RockPort, Mr. James was nonexecutive chairman of Citizens Power and an executive committee member of Peabody Energy, and was instrumental in the LBO of Peabody and Citizens from The Energy Group in 1998. Mr. James currently serves on the boards of MicroSeismic and Th!nk Global. He is a director of Peabody Energy Corp., co-founder and director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine Innovation Fund at Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-founder and a member of the Defense Venture Catalyst Initiative.

Sally Jewell

President and CEO, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)

Sally Jewell is president and CEO of REI, a national retail cooperative, with 3.9 million active members, that provides quality outdoor gear and clothing through 110 retail locations and its award-winning website, rei.com. REI is known today as a leader in the outdoor retail industry, an active voice for environmental stewardship in local communities, and one of Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Before joining REI, Ms. Jewell served 19 years in the banking industry, holding executive leadership roles. Early in her career, she was an engineer for Mobil Oil Corp. An active community leader, Ms. Jewell is a University of Washington regent; a director of the National Parks Conservation Association, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, and the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust; and board chair of the nonprofit Initiative for Global Development.

Leisha John

Americas Director of Environmental Sustainability, Ernst & Young LLP

Leisha John works with Ernst & Young's leaders to develop and implement strategies to minimize the firm's environmental impact. These strategies include measuring and reducing the firm's carbon footprint, applying sustainability best practices to business processes and infrastructure, and engaging employees to work in eco-friendly ways. Ms. John's background in strategy, innovation, and large-scale strategic implementations, and her passion for sustainability, make her well suited to this role. Previously, she was the CEO of Ernst & Young's's global shared services center in Bangalore, India, and also served as director of strategy and innovation for the U.S. National Tax Compliance Practice. A CPA for more than 25 years, Ms. John is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-accredited professional, and treasurer and co-chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's green schools committee.

Robin Johnson

Vice President and CIO, Dell Services, Dell Inc.

Robin Johnson serves as vice president and CIO for Dell as a part of Dell Services. As CIO, Mr. Johnson is responsible for Dell's global information systems, applications, and technology infrastructure. He joined Dell in 2005 as IT vice president and regional CIO for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and subsequently served as IT vice president for Dell's sales and marketing systems globally. Before joining Dell, Mr. Johnson served four years as group vice president for Safeway Inc., one of North America's largest food retailers, where he was responsible for all applications development and support for the corporation. Earlier Mr. Johnson was with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young for seven years as a consultant to a variety of top-tier clients in the U.S. and Europe. He began his 20-year IT career with Marks & Spencer in London. Educated in the U.K., Mr. Johnson holds a degree in computer science as well as several management and industry qualifications.

Mike Kaplan

President and CEO, Aspen Skiing Co.

Mike Kaplan, as president and CEO of Aspen Skiing Co., oversees skiing services on four mountains—Snowmass, Aspen Mountain, Aspen Highlands, and Buttermilk—and is responsible for the Hotel Division, which includes The Little Nell and the Snowmass Club. Mr. Kaplan began his career at Aspen Skiing in 1993 after spending six years in Taos, N.M., learning the ski business. After earning an MBA at the University of Denver, he served four years as managing director of the Ski and Snowboard Schools of Aspen and Snowmass, was promoted to vice president of ski operations in 1999, COO in 2005, and to his current role in 2006. Mr. Kaplan grew up outside of Chicago and spent his youth as a ski racer on the Wilmot Junior Race Team, and two years of high school at Stratton Mountain School. He is very active in the community as chair of Aspen Valley Community Foundation.

David Keith

Director, ISEEE Energy and Environmental Systems Group; Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment; Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Department of Economics, University of Calgary; Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

David Keith has worked near the interface of climate science, energy technology, and public policy for 20 years. His work in technology and policy assessment has centered on the capture and storage of CO2, the technology and implications of global climate engineering, the economics and climatic impacts of large-scale wind power, and the prospects for hydrogen fuel. As a technologist, Professor Keith has built a high-accuracy infrared spectrometer for NASA's ER-2 and developed new methods for reservoir engineering to increase the safety of stored CO2. He now leads a team of engineers developing technology to capture CO2 from ambient air on an industrial scale. Professor Keith took first prize in Canada's national physics prize exam, won MIT's prize for excellence in experimental physics, was listed as one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009, and was named Environmental Scientist of the Year by Canadian Geographic in 2006. He was at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon universities before joining the University of Calgary in 2004.

Vinod Khosla

Founder, Khosla Ventures

Vinod Khosla is a pioneer of the venture capital industry and founder of Khosla Ventures. Mr. Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. During his tenure at Sun Microsystems, Mr. Khosla worked closely with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and later joined the firm as a general partner. While at KPCB, he helped develop the microprocessor Nexgen/AMD and incubate the idea and business plan for Juniper. He was also involved in the formulation of the advertising-based search strategy for Excite, among other ventures. Driven by a desire to be more experimental and take on both "for profit" and "for social impact" ventures, he formed Khosla Ventures in 2004. Mr. Khosla is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, and a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business.

Matt Kistler

Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Matt Kistler is responsible for Walmart's global sustainability strategy and the integration of sustainability into the company's business strategies. These strategies include encouraging Walmart's 100,000 suppliers to innovate, collaborate, and support key sustainability goals, and integrating sustainability into the company's brand and culture by engaging the more than 2.1 million Walmart associates globally. Mr. Kistler joined Walmart in 2003 as the director of private brands for Sam's Club. He became a corporate officer when he was promoted to vice president of product development, private brands, packaging, and quality testing in 2004. He was appointed vice president of product and packaging innovation for Sam's Club in 2006 and promoted to senior vice president of marketing, research, and insights in 2007. Later that year he was named to his current role for Walmart. Before joining Walmart, Mr. Kistler held marketing, strategy, and sales management positions with Kraft Foods, Oscar Mayer, and General Foods. Mr. Kistler serves on the board of the Haas School of Business's Center for Responsible Business.

Lee T. Kranefuss

Chairman, iShares Funds, BlackRock

Lee Kranefuss is chairman of the $300 billion iShares Funds at BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager. Before assuming his current role, he was global CEO of iShares/Intermediary Groups of BGI from 2008 to 2009. Earlier, from 2005 to 2008, as CEO of BGI's iShares/Index and Market Group, Mr. Kranefuss oversaw the management of more than $1 trillion in client assets worldwide, covering retail, institutional, and government and sovereign wealth funds. Before joining BGI in 1997, Mr. Kranefuss served six years with the Boston Consulting Group, where he advised corporate clients on a wide range of issues, including strategy formulation around disruptive market and regulatory changes in technology, telecommunications, utilities, energy production and deregulation, power and resource trading, and financial service market developments. Mr. Kranefuss holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier he earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and worked in the technology industry for five years.

Fred Krupp

President, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Fred Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit into a worldwide leader in the environmental movement. Mr. Krupp is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends. He has broken new ground with strategic corporate partnerships, and helped launch the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, whose Fortune 500 members have called for strict limits on global warming pollution. The New York Times says, "Krupp has made a career of successfully pushing companies to make tough environmental changes." (EDF accepts no payments or contributions from its partners.) Mr. Krupp is co-author (with Miriam Horn) of the New York Times bestseller Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. Educated at Yale and the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Krupp was among 16 people named as America's Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report in 2007.

Katrina Landis

Chief Executive Officer, Alternative Energy Division, BP Group

Katrina Landis is the CEO of BP's Alternative Energy Division, which employs more than 2,000 people worldwide and serves as the company's low carbon technology frontier. The philosophy of the Alternative Energy Division is to create material profitable new businesses in energy value chains that facilitate BP's transition to a low carbon future. The Alternative Energy Division is made up of four core businesses: Biofuels, U.S. Wind, Hydrogen Power (including carbon capture and storage), and Solar. In each business BP serves customers in today's marketplace while working on innovations for the future. Ms. Landis owned and operated a consulting company before joining the BP Group in 1992. Within BP she has served in a variety of senior roles in the areas of exploration and production, oil supply, trading, and mergers and acquisitions. Her career has included postings in the U.K., Singapore, and the U.S. Ms. Landis holds degrees from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., and the University of Alaska.

Adam Lashinsky

Senior Editor at Large, Fortune

Adam Lashinsky, who covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for Fortune, was a contributing columnist for two years before joining the magazine's staff in 2001. He is also a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel's Cavuto on Business program on Saturday mornings, and appears frequently on other Fox News and Fox Business Network programs. Mr. Lashinsky co-chairs Fortune's annual technology conference, Fortune Brainstorm TECH, and is a seasoned speaker and panel moderator. Mr. Lashinsky's articles focus on finance and technology. Recent cover-story subjects include Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Google. He also has written in-depth articles on Wells Fargo, Intel, Oracle, eBay, Twitter, the venture-capital industry, and the post- Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans. Before joining Fortune, Mr. Lashinsky was a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and TheStreet.com. Earlier he was a reporter and editor for Crain's Chicago Business and a Henry Luce Scholar in Tokyo reporting for the Nikkei Weekly.

Chuck Leavell

Director of Environmental Affairs and Co-founder, Mother Nature Network

Chuck Leavell has been the keyboardist for the Rolling Stones since 1972. He was previously a member of the Allman Brothers Band and has played with Eric Clapton, the Black Crowes, George Harrison, Aretha Franklin, the Indigo Girls, Blues Traveler, Train, Mary J. Blige, Montgomery Gentry, Lee Ann Womack, and many other musical artists. Mr. Leavell is also an avid environmentalist and the author of Forever Green and The Tree Farmer. He and his wife, Rose Lane, were named National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year in 1999 for their management of Charlane Plantation in Macon, Ga. Mr. Leavell is a director of the U.S. Endowment for Forest Communities and was the keynote speaker at The Presidential Seminar.

Rich Lechner

Vice President, Energy and Environment, IBM Corp.

Rich Lechner, named to his current role in 2008, leads IBM's efforts in helping clients address the issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability. He is responsible for defining strategy and managing the broad portfolio of capabilities and offerings that leverage IBM's technology innovation, deep industry insight, and business process strategy. He also leads IBM's efforts in Green & Beyond as part of the Smarter Planet initiative. Mr. Lechner has a strong track record for driving key cross-IBM initiatives, including virtualization, Project Big Green, and IT optimization, which deliver value to clients of all sizes. Previously, as vice president, enterprise systems, he addressed IBM's large enterprise customer base by bringing to market a unified set of systems, software, and services designed to optimize large-scale IT infrastructures. He has held a number of other senior leadership positions at IBM in both the U.S. and Europe across the hardware, software, and services organizations, including storage systems, mainframes, software strategy, and systems management.

Li Lu

Founder and Chairman, Himalaya Capital Management

Li Lu was born in China in 1966. He attended Nanjing University in China and later came to the U.S., and earned three degrees (BA, JD, MBA) simultaneously from Columbia University. After graduation, he worked in an investment bank until 1997, when he founded Himalaya Capital Management, which today manages both LL Investment Partners and Himalaya Capital Ventures, funds focused on publicly traded securities and venture capital. Li Lu was named a global leader for tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2001, and a Henry Crown fellow by the Aspen Institute in 1998. He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations and Young Presidents' Organization.

Kim Lopdrup

President, Red Lobster; Senior Vice President, Darden Restaurants

Kim Lopdrup, a member of Darden's operating team, leads a company with more than 690 restaurants, 62,000 employees, and $2.5 billion in annual sales. Mr. Lopdrup joined Red Lobster in 2003 as executive vice president of marketing and was named president in 2004. A 20-plus year veteran of the restaurant industry, he previously was executive vice president and COO, North America, for Burger King Corp. He led that company's 8,500 North American restaurants to record guest satisfaction scores in both company-owned and franchised restaurants while turning around declining same-store sales. Before Burger King, Mr. Lopdrup served 16 years with Allied Domecq Quick Service Restaurants; there he turned around Dunkin' Donuts' previouslydeclining coffee business and, as CEO of Allied Domecq's 3,500-unit International Division, took that business from record loses to record profits and dramatically accelerated its growth. He began his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble.

Paul G. Lorenzini

Chief Executive Officer, NuScale Power

Paul Lorenzini, Ph.D., has both executive management and nuclear operations experience. Before co-founding NuScale, Dr. Lorenzini held several executive positions with PacifiCorp and its domestic and international subsidiaries. He previously served Rockwell International, where he was named vice president and general manager of Rockwell's Hanford operations. Rockwell employed more than 5,000 people and was responsible for nuclear waste management, fuel reprocessing, the Basalt Waste Isolation Project, and major site services. In earlier service with Rockwell, Mr. Lorenzini was involved in developing safety analysis codes for design of the liquid metal-cooled fast breeder reactor (LMFBR). An attorney as well as a nuclear engineer, Dr. Lorenzini was with a Portland, Ore., law firm, where he represented community leaders in eastern Oregon who intervened in state regulatory proceedings in support of a proposed nuclear plant in their community. Dr. Lorenzini holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Oregon State University and a JD from Loyola University in Los Angeles. He is the current chair of the OSU Foundation.

Adam Lowry

Co-founder, Chief Greenskeeper, Method Products, Inc.

Adam Lowry heads Method Products, Inc., the leading innovator in hip, healthy home care products. Mr. Lowry focuses his work at the intersection of design and business, which he sees as the greatest vehicle for positive social and environmental change. As Method's chief greenskeeper, Mr. Lowry brings sustainable innovations to the company's business. He also directs the sustainability aspects of product design, sourcing, production, and marketing. Before founding Method, Mr. Lowry was a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution, where he developed software products for the modeling of climate change. That public sector experience and his earlier experience designing environmentally preferred automotive products formed the nucleus of his unique approach to commercial environmentalism. Mr. Lowry was honored as one of Vanity Fair's Global Citizens and as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)'s Man of the Year for his work on sustainable business and product design.

Dave Lubowe

Vice President and Partner, Global Operations Strategy, Global Business Services, IBM Corp.

Dave Lubowe is the global leader of operations strategy for IBM's Global Business Services. He is also the leader of IBM's Green Sigma™ offering. Mr. Lubowe has more than 25 years of industry and consulting experience, primarily in operations management and improvement. He began his career at Procter & Gamble (P&G) and had roles of increasing responsibility in manufacturing management, finance, and project management. Following P&G, he managed operations for an electronics startup, and then joined Price Waterhouse Consulting. Mr. Lubowe has focused on improving operational performance and business processes for clients that include Applied Materials, Franklin Covey, Union Pacific Railroad, Advanced Micro Devices, and Panasonic Corp. A graduate of Princeton University with a BS degree in mechanical engineering, Mr. Lubowe holds five U.S. patents.

Jessica Lundberg

Chairman and Nursery Manager, Lundberg Family Farms

Jessica Lundberg heads Lundberg Family Farms, the nation's leading producer of organic rice and rice products. A third-generation family member involved in the farm, she also manages the seed nursery, overseeing the maintenance, purity, and development of proprietary rice varieties such as Wehani®, Black Japonica, and California Arborio. The Lundbergs have practiced sustainable farming techniques since 1937 and today the company leads the eco-positive agricultural movement with a commitment to organic production and renewable energy. Under Ms. Lundberg's leadership, the company installed solar collectors to provide 20% of its electrical needs, and purchases the remaining 80% as certified green energy supplied by wind power to the California grid. Though she holds the title of board chair, Ms. Lundberg manages Lundberg Family Farms as a true family business, collaborating with her relatives to reach consensus on key business decisions. In addition to organic and eco-farmed rice, she cultivates the bedrock values of respecting the land, honoring tradition, and producing the highest-quality products.

Joel Makower

Co-founder and Chairman, Greener World Media, Inc.; Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com

Joel Makower is a leading author and voice on the greening of mainstream business. He is executive editor of GreenBiz.com and other popular websites, research, and conferences on the greening of mainstream business produced by Greener World Media, of which he is co-founder and chairman. He hosts GreenBiz.com's annual State of Green Business Forum as well as Greener By Design, an annual conference focusing on green product design. Mr. Makower also serves as senior strategist at GreenOrder, a sustainability strategy firm; co-founder of Clean Edge, a cleantech research firm; and senior advisor to VantagePoint Venture Partner's cleantech fund. Mr. Makower, who writes the popular blog Two Steps Forward, is author of more than a dozen books, including his latest, Strategies for the Green Economy. The Associated Press has called him "the guru of green business practices."

Charles J. "Chuck" McDermott

General Partner, RockPort Capital Partners

Chuck McDermott began his cleantech career more than 20 years ago when he helped to launch the nation's first independent bulk electric power trading company, the predecessor to Citizens Power, in 1984. In 1986, having directed the successful campaign of Congressman Joseph Kennedy II, Mr. McDermott served two terms as his chief of staff. He then joined Waste Management, the world's largest environmental services company, as vice president for government affairs. During his 12 years of senior level energy and environmental policy work in Washington, Mr. McDermott established strong administrative and strategic relationships that have put him at the forefront of cleantech policy deliberations today. He currently serves on the boards of Advanced Electron Beams, Project FROG, Recurve, Renaissance Lighting, Soliant Energy, and Tioga Energy. He is president of the Smart Grid Policy Center, director and executive committee member of the GridWise Alliance, a member of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory venture capital advisory committee, and a member of the Energy Future Coalition advisory council.

William McDonough

Principal, William McDonough + Partners, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC); Author, Cradle to Cradle

William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the National Design Award, the Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and another for Sustainable Development. TIME magazine named him a Hero for the Planet, stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world." Mr. McDonough is founder and principal of two design firms, William McDonough + Partners and MBDC. He is co-author (with German chemist Michael Braungart) of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (2002). Mr. McDonough is also a venture partner in VantagePoint Venture Partners, one of the world's leading clean technology investment firms.

Kevin McGovern

Chairman and CEO, McGovern Capital, LLC

Kevin McGovern leads McGovern Capital, which provides investments and business strategy to emerging companies, particularly those engaged in consumer technologies and holders of intellectual property rights. He has founded more than a dozen companies, seven of which have become world or category leaders. Mr. McGovern founded and serves as chairman and CEO of The Water Initiative (TWI), which develops and markets home-based water purification systems, particularly in developing countries. Working with the Mexican government and the people of Mexico, TWI formulated, in less than 2½ years, technology solutions to the country's most severe unclean water conditions and launched product distribution through the government and through those people most impacted. Mr. McGovern has served on various public and private boards, and is the co-chairmen of the Silver Shield Foundation, which provides assistance to families of police and firefighters killed in action in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. He recently founded the McGovern Family Venture Development Center, the first on-campus science/business incubator at Cornell University, his alma mater.

Tom Miller

Chief Executive Officer, Blu Skye Sustainability

Tom Miller helps leaders drive major transformation efforts by working with them to develop inspired visions, clarify and align behind overall strategy, and build high-performing teams and cultures. With more than 20 years of consulting and management experience, Mr. Miller has expertise in vision and strategy development, organization design, leadership development, governance, and change management. He draws on a broad range of tools and practices to help organizations create solutions that work and teams that deliver results. He brings a deep personal commitment to creating and implementing profitable sustainability strategies inside the world's largest companies. Before Blu Skye, Mr. Miller co-founded the Trium Group, a leadership and strategy consulting firm. Earlier he was president of a consulting firm focused on leadership and culture change, and, still earlier, he was a principal with A.T. Kearney, where he helped establish the firm's West Coast Financial Institutions Practice. He also led several intellectual capital initiatives and won an award for his contribution to the firm's thought leadership.

Michael J. Molnar

Partner, Greentech Capital Advisors (GCA)

Michael Molnar is a partner at GCA, a boutique merchant bank focused exclusively on alternative energy and cleantech. GCA provides financial advisory services, including buy-side and sell-side M&A, restructurings, private placements, and project finance advisory. With some 20 professionals, all based in New York, GCA is the largest financial advisory firm focused exclusively on these sectors. Before joining GCA, Mr. Molnar was vice president in global investment research at Goldman Sachs, where he was also the lead analyst for the U.S. alternative energy and coal sectors. His research included coal mining, coal technology, solar module manufacturing, demand response, waste-to-energy, battery storage, wind, and fuel cells. Earlier he also covered the homebuilder sector. For 2008, Mr. Molnar's stock-picking performance was in the top 5% of all of Goldman Sachs U.S. equity analysts. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Molnar was a visiting research fellow at Accenture's Institute for High Performance Business; he was also a manager in Accenture's Strategy Practice. He began his career with Arthur Andersen.

David Morgan

President, Syngenta Seeds, Inc.

David Morgan has served his entire career in agriculture, first joining DuPont in agricultural product development in the U.K. Beginning in 1985, he served a number of companies that evolved through a series of acquisitions and mergers (Schering Agriculture UK, AgrEvo UK, AgrEvo Canada) primarily as managing director in the respective countries. When Aventis CropScience formed in 2000, Mr. Morgan was appointed head of strategy. He led the seed and biotechnology business for agricultural crops in Aventis CropScience in 2002, then Bayer CropScience, where he was appointed to the executive committee in 2006. Mr. Morgan joined Syngenta in 2007 as regional head for Syngenta Seeds in Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, he was a member of the global seeds leadership team. He assumed his current position in 2008 and made his priority the fostering of an innovative business environment. His goal is ensure that the Syngenta team brings more value-added technologies to market in the service of some of life's most basic needs.

Clay G. Nesler

Vice President, Global Energy and Sustainability, Johnson Controls, Inc.

Clay Nesler is responsible for Johnson Controls' energy and sustainability strategy, policy, marketing, education, innovation, operations, and NGO relationships on a global basis. He also serves on the company's global environmental sustainability council. Since joining Johnson Controls in 1983, Mr. Nesler has held a variety of senior leadership positions in research, product development, marketing, consulting, and strategy in the U.S. and Europe. He has also served on the Wisconsin governor's task force on global warming, the leadership group of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, the task force on national energy policy and midwestern regional competitiveness, and the Climate Registry advisory committee. Co-investor on ten U.S. patents, he currently serves on the board of the World Environment Center and the Wisconsin Climate Change Action Initiative.

Brian O'Keefe

Assistant Managing Editor, Fortune

Brian O'Keefe writes and edits feature stories on a range of topics—from science to sports to finance—and coordinates the magazine's coverage of the commodities markets. Mr. O'Keefe joined Fortune in 2000 as a reporter assigned to cover Wall Street and investing. From 2002 to 2005, he edited the Investing section of the magazine and shared responsibility for two annual special issues, the summer and year-end investor's guides. From 2005 to 2007, he ran the front-of-the-book First section. Before joining Fortune, Mr. O'Keefe was a staff reporter at SmartMoney magazine and contributed articles to publications including the New York Observer and the New York Daily News. A native of Birmingham, Ala., Mr. O'Keefe has a BA degree in English from the University of Alabama and an MA degree in journalism from New York University.

Dara O'Rourke

Co-founder and CEO, GoodGuide, Inc.

Dara O'Rourke is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-founder and CEO of GoodGuide, Inc. Mr. O'Rourke has spent the last 20 years researching the environmental, labor, and health impacts of global production systems. He has recently applied this research to a startup—GoodGuide—which has built a suite of tools that provide information about the environmental, social, and health performance of products and companies to consumers at the point of purchase (through web and mobile applications), and that empower people to screen and compare products based on their personal values and concerns. Mr. O'Rourke's work has been featured in the major media and he has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and a wide range of nongovernmental organizations. He was previously a professor at MIT.

Ben Packard

Vice President, Global Responsibility, Starbucks Coffee Co.

Ben Packard drives the strategy and oversees the programs behind the Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to doing business responsibly, which encompass the company's approach to ethical sourcing, environmental stewardship, and community involvement. Before assuming his current role in 2008, Mr. Packard led Starbucks' environmental affairs team. He directed key initiatives including an environmental footprint analysis and establishment of related performance metrics, a greenhouse gas emissions inventory, and the first FDA-approved use of post-consumer recycled materials for paper cups. As chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's retail development committee, he has led development of LEED standards to help improve the retail sector's environmental performance. Mr. Packard holds a MBA and certificate in environmental management from the University of Washington. He serves on the national Net Impact board.

Fredrick D. Palmer

Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Peabody Energy

Fred Palmer joined Peabody Energy in 2001 and is responsible for advancing government policies worldwide to unlock the potential for coal as the world's future fuel. He is a member of the National Coal Council, serves on the executive committee, and is chairman of its coal policy committee. He also represents Peabody on the board of directors of the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Palmer is a 2004 recipient of the Erskine Ramsay Medal from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration. Before joining Peabody Energy, he was general counsel of the Western Fuels Association from 1980 to 1985 and general manager and CEO from 1985 to 2000. Earlier he was a partner in a law firm from 1972 to 1980 and began his career as a staff assistant to Congressman Morris K. Udall.

Tamin Pechet

Chairman and Executive Director, Imagine H2O

Tamin Pechet leads Imagine H2O, which promotes water entrepreneurship through business plan prizes and a unique water business incubator that accelerates growth of such entities. Mr. Pechet is also a director of Lux Research, a leading provider of research and intelligence on water and energy markets to Fortune 1000 companies, and advises several startups and nonprofits. Previously, Mr. Pechet was a principal at Catamount Ventures, where he invested in venture-stage companies, with a particular focus on the water, energy, and environment sectors. Before joining Catamount, Mr. Pechet was a principal investor at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he co-founded and managed Goldman Sachs E&P Capital to invest in private energy companies, and served on the founding team of the Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Pechet held a business development position with Launch Media through its acquisition by Yahoo! Mr. Pechet holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB degree with honors from Harvard University.

Warner Philips

Co-founder, Lemnis Lighting

Warner Philips is the co-founder of Lemnis Lighting, a leading energy and cost-efficient LED solutions company based in the Netherlands and San Francisco. Lemnis Lighting pioneered a LED light bulb as the first direct replacement for a 40-watt incandescent lamp in 2006, followed by 60-watt replacement in 2009. Lemnis has expanded its scope to include outdoor and greenhouse lighting. In 2009, Lemnis Lighting received the Technology Pioneer award from the World Economic Forum and has worked in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative, World Bank, and the Dutch National Postcard Lottery, the largest charitable funder in the Netherlands. Mr. Philips began his career at NeSBIC Groep, the independent VC subsidiary of Fortis Bank, and then led the strategic reorganization of Secon Group, a Netherlands-based apparel group, in 2001, before co-founding Tendris in 2002. Tendris is a joint venture partner in Lemnis Lighting.

Naomi Porat

Chief Executive Officer, ZETA Communities

Naomi Porat is a nationally recognized social entrepreneur and expert in sustainable development and urban revitalization. As a founder and CEO of ZETA, she contributes extensive expertise in the management of urban land planning and development ventures that achieve economic, social, and environmental sustainability. With more than 20 years of experience and a portfolio of projects across the U.S., Ms. Porat has earned national awards for landmark public-private partnerships on large, mixed-use developments, military base conversions, affordable housing, and economic development ventures. Before co-founding ZETA, Ms. Porat was COO of an affordable housing product development company, where she led a team of building science professionals in the design, research, and development of sustainable, ultra-low cost building materials and methods for developing countries. Previously, she was a principal of Porat Consulting and Sedway Group, national urban land use and real estate consulting firms. Ms. Porat also is a co-founder of the Institute at the Golden Gate, a nonprofit global sustainability organization.

Anthony L. Posawatz

Vehicle Line Director, Chevrolet VOLT, General Motors Co.

Tony Posawatz is recognized as one of the auto industry's champions in product and market innovation, especially in the area of the electrification of the automobile and the nation. A 25-plus-year GM veteran, he currently serves as vehicle line director for the Chevrolet VOLT and global electric vehicle development. Appointed to this position in 2006, he led the development of the VOLT concept car in 2007, and continues to lead the development of the 2011 model year production VOLT, which earned Green Car Journal's 2009 Vision award. Mr. Posawatz has served as a GM vehicle line director for the past 12 years. In this capacity, he and his teams have overseen the development of cars and trucks from concept initiation to production and market launch from manufacturing sites in four different countries. As planning director for GM's full-size truck business, Mr. Posawatz helped grow the capacity to 1.7 million, from 1.1 million units. He is co-chairman of the Electric Drive Transportation Association.

Glenn T. Prickett

Chief External Affairs Officer, The Nature Conservancy

Glenn Prickett oversees The Nature Conservancy's international and U.S. government relations, corporate practices, and sustainability efforts, as well as relationships with leading international institutions and NGOs. Mr. Prickett, also an executive team member, joined The Nature Conservancy early this year after serving 13 years at Conservation International (CI), where he led efforts to engage the private and public sectors in conservation and sustainability. He founded and led CI's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, a division created to engage the private sector in developing solutions to environmental challenges. He also led CI's policy and climate change teams. In 2009, Mr. Prickett served as a senior fellow at the UN Foundation to help shape core elements of an effective global response to climate change. He also served in the Clinton administration as chief environmental advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mr. Prickett began his career in 1989 as a senior associate with the international program of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

William Roe

President and CEO, Coskata, Inc.

Bill Roe joined Coskata in 2007, bringing extensive leadership experience to the company. Before joining Coskata, Mr. Roe enjoyed a 29-year career with Nalco, the world's largest provider of industrial water-treatment chemicals and process additives. As COO, Mr. Roe handled full P&L responsibilities for global operations within the Industrial and Institutional Services Division, the Energy Services Division (serving the petroleum and gas industry), and the Paper Services Division. Earlier he was president of Nalco's APAC Division, responsible for operations in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, India, and Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Roe, who holds a BS degree in chemistry from Creighton University and an MS degree in organic chemistry from the University of Notre Dame, has served as a member of the American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Chemical Council, and the Sigma Xi Research Society.

Rick Rommel

Senior Vice President, Emerging Business, Best Buy Co., Inc.

Rick Rommel builds internal and external partnerships to help Best Buy accelerate time-to-market of new growth opportunities and challenge current business model conventions. Mr. Rommel is known for his ability to incubate and grow business initiatives. Most recently, he led Best Buy's private label business, playing a key role in defining and building out the business in the U.S., Canada, and China. Earlier he was vice president and general manager for Best Buy's digital imaging business. In this position, he was responsible for the rapid growth of Best Buy's digital camera business and introduced advanced photo services to the consumer. Before joining Best Buy, Mr. Rommel was director of retail digital systems for Eastman Kodak. In this position, he oversaw Kodak's retail kiosk and photofinishing solution businesses. He previously was with North Communications as vice president of operations and senior vice president of sales and marketing. He also served the Hughes Space and Communication Co. as a rocket scientist.

Stuart Rudick

Founding and Managing Partner, Mindful Investors, LLC

Stuart Rudick has been a practitioner, leader, and investor in the health and sustainability-focused community for more than 30 years. He currently heads Mindful Investors, LLC, a leading U.S. private equity fund focused on investments in healthy and sustainable consumer products companies. Included in Mindful's fund are two sustainable food-focused companies: CleanFish, a global leader in promoting, marketing, and distributing healthy, sustainable seafood; and Organicgirl, an organic produce company with business and farming practices that conserve natural resources and energy, protect the environment, and provide a socially responsible work environment. Mr. Rudick's earlier investment experience includes founding in 2005 a private family office focused on investments in health and wellness. In 1993, he founded Mindful Partners, a public and private market hedge fund. In the 1980s, he was an associate director at Bear Stearns Inc. Mr. Rudick is the founding board member and chairman of Waterkeepers (Baykeeper) of Northern California and a director for BluePlanetRun Foundation.

Gwen Ruta

Vice President, Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Gwen Ruta directs Environmental Defense's corporate partnerships program. She spearheads EDF's work with large corporations to develop innovative, business-based solutions to environmental challenges and leverages market forces to create environmentally preferable products and services. Partner companies include UPS, Starbucks, Bristol-Myers Squibb, FedEx, DuPont, McDonalds, Citigroup, and the Compass Group. Before joining Environmental Defense, Ms. Ruta was the vice president at Metcalf & Eddy, an international environmental engineering firm. She also held senior management positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, from which she earned an MPA degree. Author of numerous articles on environmental issues, she also holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia. Ms. Ruta is a director of the Environmental League of Massachusetts and the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan.

Alan E. Salzman

CEO and Co-founder, VantagePoint Venture Partners

Alan Salzman co-founded VantagePoint Venture Partners in 1996 and serves as CEO and chair of the investment committee. As a leading venture investor for 20-plus years, Mr. Salzman has been involved with more than 300 companies and held management responsibilities for a dozen venture funds with more than $5 billion of committed capital. As CEO of VantagePoint, he oversees the country's largest cleantech investment team, a portfolio of innovative cleantech companies, and strategic partnerships with a dozen leading companies focused on cleantech commercialization. A frequent contributor and speaker on cleantech, innovation, and global competitiveness, Mr. Salzman also held a faculty appointment as adjunct professor for venture capital and entrepreneurial companies at Stanford University. He currently serves on the leadership council of The Climate Group and the World Economic Forum technology pioneer selection and green investment committees, and is a director of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.

William Sarni

Chief Executive Officer, DOMANI

Founder and currently the CEO of DOMANI, Mr. Sarni has worked with many notable clients, including Alcoa, BASF, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Dean Foods, Del Monte, Invensys, PEPCO, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Sodexo, and Wrigley. He is focused on developing and implementing corporatewide sustainability strategies and comprehensive climate and water programs. His unique approach fuses the practical with the creative in actualizing high-value sustainability programs and integrating diverse business and technical issues related to resource management. A frequent speaker and a columnist on sustainability, climate, and water issues, he is the author of Greening Brownfields: Remediation Through Sustainable Development and the forthcoming Corporate Water Strategies, to be published this year. Mr. Sarni is a member of the environmental compliance committee of the Chicago Climate Exchange and the International Association of Hydrogeologists. He is also a director of CORE and an advisor to FreeEV.com, Sourcepoint Energy, and Speck Design.

Julie Scardina

Animal Ambassador, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens, SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment

Julie Scardina's first career was training and swimming with Shamu the killer whale, as well as dolphins, sea lions, walruses, and many other species. Now as SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, and Discovery Cove animal ambassador and a corporate director, Ms. Scardina shares her love of animals and the parks' commitment to wildlife education and conservation with audiences ranging from children in classrooms to millions of viewers on national television. She often hosts the SeaWorld and Busch Gardens productions of Saving a Species. Ms. Scardina serves on the board of the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, which supports conservation education, habitat protection, species research, and animal rescue and rehabilitation. In this role she travels to conservation and environmental projects worldwide experiencing conservation work firsthand while meeting the scientists and other dedicated people making a difference. Ms. Scardina is actively involved with several conservation organizations, including the World Wildlife Fund, where she serves on the national council.

H. Lee Scott , Jr.

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Lee Scott previously served Walmart as president and CEO from 2000 to 2009. During his tenure, the company emerged as the world's largest retailer, with more than 2.1 million associates and 7,390 retail operations in 16 markets worldwide. Mr. Scott joined Walmart in 1979 in the Logistics Division and rose through that division's ranks to become executive vice president in 1993 and executive vice president of the Merchandise Division in 1995. He became president and CEO of the U.S. Division in 1998 and corporate COO and vice chairman in 1999. Building on Sam Walton's values, Mr. Scott made people a priority, creating an environment where diversity, innovation, and excellence could flourish. Also, under his direction, Walmart has emerged as a leader in sustainable practices, leveraging its global reach in three key areas: renewable energy, zero waste, and sustainable products. The company has also set aggressive goals to work with suppliers in building a more responsible global supply chain.

Jason Scott

Managing Partner and Co-founder, EKO Asset Management Partners

Jason Scott has more than a decade of experience developing firms seeking to sustainably manage and invest capital. He was most recently an investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, where he was also a founding director and helped build the firm and its first and second products. Generation's global equity and climate solutions funds seek to maximize financial returns by integrating sustainability analysis into traditional investment management processes. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Scott served as an executive and advisor with Acumen Fund, the Blue Ridge Foundation, and the Flatiron Future Fund and the Flatiron Foundation in New York City. From 1996 to 1999, he was president and COO of Togglethis, a software company based in New York City. He helped found and build Public Allies from 1991 to 1996, and earlier worked on several political campaigns. In 1998, the Rockefeller Foundation selected Mr. Scott as a fellow in its Next Generation Leadership Program. He was an entrepreneur in residence at Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 2000.

Andy Serwer

Managing Editor, Fortune

Andy Serwer, named managing editor of Fortune in 2006, directs the multimedia biweekly magazine, with a readership of more than five million, as well as its brand representations on the Internet, on television, and on radio. Mr. Serwer joined Fortune in 1985 as an intern from the Columbia Journalism School, and was later promoted to associate editor. In addition to covering Wall Street, investing, information technology, and entertainment for the magazine, Mr. Serwer has edited and written the front-of-the-book section, which includes breaking news and features focusing on business personalities, media, and technology. Mr. Serwer was named 2000 Business Journalist of the Year by TJFR Business News Reporter. Marketing Computers also ranked him sixth on its Top Ten Web list of Internet journalists. Former business anchor of CNN's American Morning, Mr. Serwer continues as a regular contributor on programs produced by CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and other broadcast outlets.

Andrew L. Shapiro

Founder and President, GreenOrder

Andrew Shapiro, an influential voice on environmental innovation in business for nearly a decade, has built a career, and a pioneering consulting firm, GreenOrder, around the idea that sustainability can be a critical driver of profitable growth. Mr. Shapiro and the GreenOrder team have guided the creation and development of GE's award-winning, multibillion dollar ecomagination initiative, and have worked with senior leadership at the world's largest enterprises, including BP, DuPont, GM, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer, Polo Ralph Lauren, and several U.S. utilities, on their environmental strategy. Profiled in a New York Times business section feature, he was named an Enviro All-Star by Outside magazine, and one of 50 entrepreneurs who are changing the way we live today by Inc. magazine. He is also co-founder and chairman of GO Ventures, which creates and invests in cleantech and green businesses. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of companies, including LivingHomes, Meetup.com, and Serious Materials.

Iqbal Meer Sharma

Deputy Director General/CEO, Trade and Investment, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), South Africa

Iqbal Sharma, an economist, leads the DTI in managing the increase of South Africa's capability and capacity to promote exports into targeted markets and to increase and retain the level of direct investment flow. He was responsible for South Africa's global economic strategies, and led the DTI in managing bilateral trade relations with all countries, while providing oversight to multilateral engagements, specifically the WTO. Before joining the DTI, he worked for large multinationals such as PepsiCo and the Bank of America. An entrepreneur at heart, he left to set up and run his own companies, including South Africa's first computer education franchise and a software firm. He was hailed as "one of South Africa's most remarkable entrepreneurs," by SA Success magazine in 1998. The Financial Mail also recognized him as one of South Africa's top 400 black professionals. An activist committed to the improvement of rural and poor communities, Mr. Sharma has worked with NGOs and published many articles on social, political, and economic issues.

Michael E. Shepherd

Vice President, Business Development, B&W Modular Nuclear Energy, LLC, The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W)

Michael Shepherd, who joined B&W in 2009 in his current role, served the first 23 years of his career with GE's nuclear business unit, where he started as a field engineer at various sites, then was promoted to startup engineer at the Shoreham Station and Limerick 2 Station. In 1990, Mr. Shepherd was assigned as the GE site services manager at Pilgrim Station. He assumed a sales role as nuclear services manager responsible for the New England BWR customers in 1993, and in 1998 moved to Chicago to be the nuclear account manager for ComEd. After successfully establishing and growing GE Energy's business with ComEd's and PECO's nuclear business units, the predecessors to Exelon, Mr. Shepherd was promoted to account executive for Exelon in 2000. In this role he established and led the successful enterprise selling model between GE and Exelon, which yielded more than $2 billion in orders over seven years.

Neil Anthony Sims

President and CEO, Kona Blue Water Farms, Inc.

Neil Anthony Sims earned a BS degree in marine biology and zoology from James Cook University in 1980 and an MS degree in zoology from the University of New South Wales in 1990. In the 1980s, he led the establishment of the Cook Islands' Fisheries Research Division. Based in Kona, Hawaii, since 1993, Mr. Sims has led numerous research projects in aquaculture development, culminating in breakthrough hatchery technology for "difficult-to-rear" marine fish. This research led to the expansion of open ocean mariculture in American waters and the founding of Kona Blue, the first integrated marine fish hatchery and open ocean mariculture operation, located off Hawaii's Kona Coast. The company is a leader in the environmentally sound production of the ocean's finest fish, producing up to 25,000 lbs per week of sashimi-grade Kona Kampachi® from their offshore deepwater site.

David L. Sokol

Chairman, MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.; Chairman, President, and CEO, NetJets, Inc.

David Sokol has been part of the Berkshire Hathaway organization and predecessor companies since 1991. In addition to his role at MidAmerican Energy Holdings, he is chairman, president, and CEO of NetJets, Inc., and chairman of Johns Manville, as well as a nonexecutive director of BYD Co. Ltd. Mr. Sokol holds a BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Nebraska and has been actively engaged in the energy, environmental, and related industries for some 30 years. He became involved with Berkshire Hathaway when the company he chaired was acquired in the beginning of 2000.

Keshav Sondhi

Chief Engineer, FedEx Corp.

Keshav Sondhi is chief engineer at FedEx. Before joining FedEx, he served in the electrical mechanical automation industry in India, where, as a service engineer for an automotive company there, he focused on electrical systems that have the same principle as the electric car. Mr. Sondhi has a bachelor's degree in mechanic engineering that he earned in India and a master's degree from the Asian Institute of Technology, and he is working on his Ph.D. at the University of Rhode Island.

Jerry Steiner

Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs, Monsanto Co.

Jerry Steiner leads Monsanto's global government and public and industry affairs teams across the 70 countries where the company conducts business. Among his responsibilities are shaping the company's public policy and building partnerships aimed at helping farmers worldwide produce more food, while conserving valuable resources like water and energy. He also works to develop consumer-oriented business with improved vegetable oils. Mr. Steiner represents Monsanto at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, where he chairs the New Vision for Agriculture project board. He is also a director of the Keystone Center, which convenes public, private, and civic leaders to address societal issues; and the St. Louis-based Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise. He is a co-founder and director of the Global Harvest Initiative, a public-private entity whose mission is to sustainably double agricultural production by 2050. Mr. Steiner is a member of the CropLife International Plant Biotechnology strategy council and an executive committee member of the Council for Biotechnology Information.

Kevin Surace

Chief Executive Officer, Serious Materials

Kevin Surace, a noted speaker and writer on climate change and the built environment, is on a mission to significantly reduce the use of fossil fuels and their effect on the environment. As CEO of Serious Materials, Mr. Surace leads the company in its mission to reduce energy usage and CO2 generation of the world's largest contributor—our buildings. By developing new materials and processes that require little energy to manufacture, and advanced products that improve the insulation and comfort of homes and offices, a climate catastrophe can be avoided. Before joining Serious Materials in 2002, Mr. Surace held executive and technical positions with Perfect Commerce, General Magic, Air Communications, National Semiconductor, and Seiko-Epson. He received his degree in electrical engineering technology from Rochester Institute of Technology, which he currently serves as a trustee, and has been awarded multiple patents. Mr. Surace also serves on the boards of FreeLight, Array Converter, Zeta Communities, and Integrity Block.

Jeffrey Taft

Distinguished Engineer and Chief Smart Grid Architect, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Jeffrey Taft, Ph.D., in his dual role as distinguished engineer and chief smart grid architect at Cisco, guides the design, development, and implementation of smart grid architectures across the company's utilities customers, focusing on the integration and convergence of communications networking into the grid. Dr. Taft is a veteran of the energy and technology sectors and has more than 25 years of experience in his field, including roles at Accenture and IBM. Dr. Taft received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and his MS and BE degrees, with honors, in electrical engineering from Youngstown State University. He holds 11 patents, is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is a widely published author and speaker in the energy and utilities fields.

Rebecca Tarbotton

Acting Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)

Rebecca Tarbotton leads RAN, a savvy, hard-hitting environmental action organization with 25 years of experience pushing corporations to balance profit with principles. Under Ms. Tarbotton's leadership, RAN protects endangered forests and the communities that depend on them, transforms North America's dirty energy expansion into a clean energy future, and combats global warming. 
Before joining RAN, Ms. Tarbotton had more than ten years of experience in nonprofit grassroots campaigning and advocacy throughout California, India, and the U.K. and won important victories for local communities and food sovereignty. A regular panelist on international and human rights conferences, she has been featured in major international media outlets, and has published numerous articles in her areas of expertise.

Mark R. Tercek

President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy

Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. Previously, he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he headed the firm's Center for Environmental Markets and its Environmental Strategy Group. In earlier roles at the firm, he headed equity capital markets, corporate finance, real estate, and other departments in the Investment Banking Division. Mr. Tercek is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of directors of Resources for the Future. He is also president of the board of trustees of Western Reserve Academy. Mr. Tercek earned an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1984 and a BA degree with honors from Williams College in 1979.

Michael Terrell

Energy Policy Counsel, Google Inc.

Michael Terrell, energy policy counsel for Google Inc., is responsible for advancing public policy in support of the company's corporate and philanthropic energy initiatives Before joining Google in 2007, Mr. Terrell was an associate attorney at Van Ness Feldman, a leading U.S. energy law and policy firm. Before joining Van Ness Feldman, he served in a variety of positions in the U.S. government and was a member of the White House environmental team during the Clinton administration. In 2006 and 2007, Mr. Terrell was the deputy chair of the Clinton Global Initiative's Energy and Climate Change Working Group. Mr. Terrell holds a BS degree in natural resources from the University of the South, a master's degree in environmental management from Yale's Environment School, and a JD from the University of Michigan.

Beth Trask

Deputy Director, Innovation Exchange, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Beth Trask is deputy director of the Innovation Exchange, EDF's new initiative to accelerate green innovation in business. Ms. Trask has extensive experience in stakeholder engagement, behavior change, and public-private-nonprofit partnerships. She has worked on a range of social, environmental, and economic opportunities, including energy efficiency, transportation, environmental health, rural development, and biodiversity conservation. Her background includes national and international projects on behalf of Oxfam America, RARE, SeaWeb, the UN Environment Programme, and UNESCO, among others. Ms. Trask served as a WorldTeach volunteer in Mexico and is currently a board member for Grid Alternatives. Based in San Francisco, she holds an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School.

Timothy E. Vail

President, CEO, and Director, Accelergy Corp.

Timothy Vail, president, CEO, and a director of Accelergy Corp., has participated in many successful cleantech energy endeavors—from fuel cells to clean coal—during a career that spans some two decades. These efforts included serving as the president and CEO of Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (SES), a global developer of coal gasification facilities. During his tenure at SES, Mr. Vail raised more than $200 million dollars for the business and successfully listed the company on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Before joining SES, Mr. Vail was director of commercialization of General Motors' fuel cell program. His duties included the development of GM's Shanghai fuel cell office as well as coordination of engineering facilities in the U.S., Germany, Japan, and China. Commercial activity included the closing of the world's largest fuel cell commercialization deal with Dow Chemical and the development of a fleet of fuel cell vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service. Before joining GM, Mr. Vail was head of alternative energy technologies at Enron Corp.

William Valentine

Chairman and Design Principal, Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK)

Bill Valentine is chairman and design principal of HOK, a global architectural design and services firm. A 48-year veteran of HOK, Mr. Valentine is an advocate for sustainability with employees and clients, leads the design of several projects each year, and develops strategies for pursuing new projects. His diverse, award-winning design portfolio includes projects representing the corporate, education, justice, aviation, and science + technology sectors. Throughout his career, Mr. Valentine has been widely recognized for his ability to understand, formulate, and respond to client needs and program requirements in a creative, individualistic, and people-focused manner. Within the design and construction industry, he actively promotes his definition of "good design" as a simple idea, elegantly executed and inspiring, with social significance and in harmony with the environment. A fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is a frequent speaker and author on sustainable design topics.

David G. Victor

Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies; Director, Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

David Victor, before assuming his current roles at UCSD, most recently ran Stanford's program on energy and sustainable development and was professor at Stanford Law School. Earlier he directed the science and technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, where he directed CFR's task force on energy, and was senior advisor to the task force on climate change. His current research examines when and how international law actually works. His books include Natural Gas and Geopolitics (2006), The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol (2001, 2004), and Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options. He received his AB degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

David Walker

Director, Environmental Sustainability, PepsiCo Inc.

David Walker is responsible for supporting strategies to reduce energy usage, optimize water efficiency, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions across PepsiCo's international food and beverage businesses. Mr. Walker has extensive field and headquarters experience within PepsiCo, including roles in manufacturing, productivity improvement, and plant management. He currently manages several environmental sustainability programs for PepsiCo, including "ReCon," a site-level resource conservation capability building tool; the PepsiCo partnership with the Earth Institute at Columbia University; the global metrics program for International PepsiCo; and the sustainable engineering guidelines initiative promoting green design within the company. In addition to work at PepsiCo, Mr. Walker is a member of the steering committee of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), and is the team leader for the development of sector guidance for the standard reporting of GHG emissions in the industry. Mr. Walker holds BS and MS degrees from Texas Tech University.

Bill Weihl

Green Energy Czar, Google Inc.

Bill Weihl is the green energy czar at Google, where he leads efforts in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and also manages the company's greenhouse-gas footprint. He spearheaded Google's drive to become carbon neutral, helped found the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and helped create the REC initiative to develop renewable energy cheaper than coal. He has extensive business and technical experience in the high tech industry, including ten years as a professor of computer science at MIT, five years as a research scientist at Digital's Systems Research Center, and five years as chief architect and then chief technology officer of Akamai Technologies. He was recently named one of TIME magazine's 2009 Heroes of the Environment.

Adam Werbach

Global CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi S

Adam Werbach, widely known as one of the foremost experts in sustainability strategy, is the author of Strategy for Sustainability (Harvard Business Press). In 1996, Mr. Werbach, then 23, was elected the youngest-ever president of the Sierra Club, the country's oldest and largest environmental organization. Since then, he has declared environmentalism dead, built and sold three companies, and merged with global ideas company Saatchi & Saatchi to create the world's largest sustainability agency, Saatchi & Saatchi S. As global CEO, he guides sustainability work from China to South Africa to Brazil, advising companies with some $1 trillion in combined annual sales, including Walmart, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, and WellPoint. At Walmart, he engaged the company's 1.9 million associates in its sustainability effort, creating the Personal Sustainability Project. Twice elected to Greenpeace's international board, Mr. Werbach is a frequent commentator on sustainable business and appears on all the major network shows.

David Whitford

Editor at Large, Fortune

David Whitford joined Fortune magazine as a senior writer in 1996 and Fortune Small Business as an editor at large in 2001. In 2007 he returned to Fortune as an editor at large, based in Boston. Before joining Fortune, Mr. Whitford was a senior writer at Inc. magazine, a writer and editor at Sport magazine, and a noted freelance writer for magazines such as Esquire, GQ, and UU World. He has published three sports-related books, one on corruption in college football and two on baseball. Mr. Whitford went to college at Brown University and earned his masters in journalism at Columbia University. He was a named plaintiff in the landmark case Tasini v. The New York Times, which went all the way to the Supreme Court in 2001 and guaranteed important rights for freelance writers. He was a finalist in the magazine category for the 2003 Gerald Loeb award for excellence in financial journalism.

Brigitta Witt

Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Global Hyatt Corp.

Brigitta Witt, appointed to her current role at Hyatt in 2007, is responsible for developing and implementing a corporate sustainability policy that expresses the company's commitment to minimizing its impact on the global environment. Her employee-oriented approach to environmental policy emphasizes awareness and education to promote and reinforce a culture of environmental consciousness through all facets of Hyatt's global operations. Previously Ms. Witt was senior director of business development and general manager for GreenDimes, an organization dedicated to reducing the production and environmental impact associated with junk mail. At Wayport, Inc., she managed the deployment of company technology and WiFi connectivity to more than 8,000 restaurants for their largest client, McDonald's Corp. For Epylon Corp., she implemented a strategic sourcing program for the New York City Board of Education. Earlier she developed global marketing programs for Hyatt's international properties.

Jason Wolf

Vice President, North America, Better Place

Jason Wolf is vice president of North America for Better Place, a global provider of electric vehicle (EV) networks and services that accelerate the transition to sustainable transportation. Mr. Wolf oversees the company's efforts in California, Hawaii, and Ontario, and develops other North American markets. Within the energy and transportation ecosystems, Mr. Wolf works with federal, state, and local governments as well as utility, business, and nongovernmental stakeholders to make the vision of zero-emission EVs powered by renewable energy a reality. Mr. Wolf built a strong management track record in the IT industry before joining Better Place. His experience includes various positions in senior management, strategic planning, product launch, sales, and professional services. He most recently served as president of Sterna Technologies USA, the pioneer of business positioning systems software. Before joining Sterna, Mr. Wolf held a number of positions during a ten-year career at SAP AG, including senior vice president of strategic initiatives and senior vice president of new product introductions.

Jonathan S. Wolfson

Chief Executive Officer, Solazyme, Inc.

Jonathan Wolfson is CEO and co-founder of Solazyme, a renewable oil and bioproducts production company, where he oversees the company's management and strategic direction. Before co-founding Solazyme, Mr. Wolfson was most recently vice president of finance and business development for 7thOnline, a venture-backed supply chain software company. Earlier he was co-founder, president, and COO of InvestorTree, a financial software and services firm. He also served Morgan Stanley and Triarc Companies. Beyond his responsibilities for Solazyme, Mr. Wolfson is dedicated to enabling the adoption of a low carbon energy future. He is a director of the Clean Economy Network, a green business advocacy association, and an advisory board member to the Next Generation Bio-based Chemicals Summit. He is also a director of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and a governing board member of BIO's industrial and environmental section. In 2009, Mr. Wolfson accepted the Green Leap award from the Clinton Global Initiative for commercializing Solazyme's breakthrough technology.

Tracy R. Wolstencroft

Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Tracy Wolstencroft, a partner at Goldman Sachs since 1994, serves as global head of environmental markets and a member of the firm's executive office. In the past, he has led various businesses of the firm, including global investment banking services, public sector and infrastructure banking, and Latin America. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the condition of the nation's infrastructure and proposals for needed improvements. Earlier, Mr. Wolstencroft served as co-head of investment banking in Japan, president of GS Singapore, and a leader of the firm's emerging China strategy. Mr. Wolstencroft serves on the boards of the National Geographic Society, the International Rescue Committee, and the Brookings Institution, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his AB degree from Bowdoin College.

Martha B. Wyrsch

President, Vestas Americas, Vestas Wind Systems

Martha Wyrsch is president of Vestas Americas, the North American arm of Vestas Wind Systems, the world's largest manufacturer of wind turbines. Ms. Wyrsch serves on the executive committee for the parent company, which is basedin Denmark. She is also a director of SPX Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C. Before joining Vestas, Ms. Wyrsch was CEO for Spectra Energy Transmission and a member of the Spectra Energy Corp. board. Earlier she was CEO of Duke Energy Gas Transmission and in both roles was responsible for the natural gas transmission, storage, and distribution businesses in the U.S. and Canada as well as natural-gas gathering, processing, and liquid sales businesses in Canada. Ms. Wyrsch also served as group vice president, general counsel, and secretary for the Duke Energy Corp. Ms. Wyrsch received a law degree from George Washington University and bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming. She also completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

Justin Yuen

President, FMYI, Inc.

Justin Yuen founded FMYI in 2004 after a successful career at Nike, where he most recently helped pioneer the company's sustainability business integration. Before assuming that role, he was head of footwear quality for EMEA and based in the Netherlands. While at Nike, he created innovative organizational change programs, designed collaboration tools, built the business case for sustainability, and managed global employee training. He formed FMYI from his passion for sustainability and his belief that advances in technology can help lessen our impact on the planet and positively affect society. Mr. Yuen is currently co-chair of the City of Portland/Multnomah County Sustainable Development Commission and chair of the Natural Step Network. He is also a director of the Portland Parks Foundation and the Northwest Earth Institute. Mr. Yuen holds a degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins University.

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