Ken Abreu is a Principal Regulatory Analyst with PG&E. He is responsible for Demand Response policy and planning work. He has over 30 years of wide ranging experience in the energy business.   Read more…

Laurie Actman serves as the Deputy Director for the Energy Efficient Building Hub (EEB Hub) in Philadelphia.   Read more…

Dan Adler is president of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), an evergreen, nonprofit fund of funds created to accelerate investment in California’s clean energy economy.   Read more…

Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala is Special Advisor to the Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and Environmental Program Lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies. He was the Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for New York City from 2006 to 2010.   Read more…

As a respected leader in energy and economics, Amram founded WattzOn to help the massive and greatly underserved residential energy efficiency market.   Read more…

Ricardo Angel is Senior Vice President at GE Energy Financial Services where he leads venture capital investing in the western United States for the business unit and for Energy Technology Ventures, a joint venture formed by GE, NRG Energy, Inc.   Read more…

John Argo is a serial entrepreneur with 24 years of industry experience and expertise in early-stage clean technology commercialization.   Read more…

Domenic Armano is the Director of Energy Solutions at First Fuel Software, a cutting edge building energy analytics company based in Lexington, MA. In this role, he is responsible for delivery of the companies’ analytics platform and the development of innovative customer solutions.   Read more…

Peter Asmus is a senior research analyst contributing to Pike Research’s Smart Grid and Smart Energy practices, with a focus on wind energy as well as emerging energy distribution models such as microgrids and virtual power plants.   Read more…

Baier leads Groom Energy's Sustainability Consulting practice, which assists Groom Energy's customers with their sustainability strategies and GHG inventories.   Read more…

Bartlett leads IBM’s Smarter Building initiative and Tivoli’s Smarter Planet Industry Solutions. Prior to this role, he spent close to ten years in Europe in roles that included: Vice President of Europe, Middle East, and Africa and Director of Europe's Tivoli development laboratory.   Read more…

Bernard is the Chief Environmental Strategist for Microsoft and is responsible for defining and implementing the global strategy for the company’s environmental efforts.   Read more…

To John Bradford, Interface’s commitment to sustainability is just one more opportunity to innovate. A 1990 Mechanical Engineering graduate from Auburn, John currently holds several patents and has trademarked multiple processes within the textile industry.   Read more…

Lee Burrows joined VantagePoint Capital Partners in 2002, bringing with him 15 years of broad semiconductor technology expertise, specifically in the areas of semiconductor processing, advanced materials, power storage and management, and battery, lighting, and smart-grid technologies.   Read more…

Jeff Byron has more than 35 years of experience in emerging energy technologies, customer requirements, and energy policy. His focus has been on the technical, regulatory, and financial implications of clean-energy and smart-grid technologies.   Read more…

Shelby Campbell is a project director with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, recently completing the development of the SFPUC’s new headquarters, an award winning state-of-the-art office high rise, designed to achieve LEED Platinum.   Read more…

Brad Copithorne has 20 years experience in investment banking at Salomon Brothers/Citi and Morgan Stanley. Most recently, he worked in the Menlo Park office of Morgan Stanley covering the enterprise hardware and technology supply chain industries.   Read more…

Tom Darden is the Chief Executive Officer of Cherokee and founder of its predecessors.   Read more…

John Davies heads up research efforts for GreenBiz Group and leads the GreenBiz Executive Network, a member-based, peer-to-peer learning forum for sustainability professionals.   Read more…

Will Dennis is cofounder and CEO of Liquid, a rental marketplace that lets individual bike owners rent their bike to locals, travelers, and cyclists. The service is currently in live across the U.S.   Read more…

Michael Ellis brings expertise in strategy, marketing, and change management to GreenOrder. He leads GreenOrder’s work with General Electric. GreenOrder has served as principal strategic advisor to GE on the creation, implementation, and development of the company’s ecomagination initiative.   Read more…

Kevin Evans joined EnergyConnect in January 2009, leading the company as President and CEO until its acquisition by Johnson Controls in July 2011. Evans has three decades of proven financial and operational leadership in energy and other industries.   Read more…

Laura Farnham is responsible for driving the strategy and technology roadmap to position Johnson Controls for global growth.   Read more…

Rick Fedrizzi, the founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council, was appointed president and CEO of the nonprofit organization in April 2004.   Read more…

Katie Fehrenbacher has been a reporter covering technology for close to a decade, and has covered green technology for the past five years. She is a Senior Writer and Features Editor for GigaOM.   Read more…

Michael Finegan is a member of Sprint’s Emerging Solutions Group (ESG) and leads the West Area M2M (machine-to-machine) Solution Engineering team.   Read more…

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Krys is a writer, viral media strategist and activist.   Read more…

Elizabeth Fretheim is the Director, Business Strategy & Sustainability for Logistics" where she develops and manages the sustainability strategy for the Logistics Division. She also coordinates and communicates sustainability initiatives underway in transportation and the distribution centers.   Read more…

Luke Fretwell is the founder of GovFresh, dedicated to inspiring government-citizen collaboration and building a more engaged democracy.   Read more…

Rich Green is an operational exec that has been at the helm of some of the computer industry's most innovative technologies and business models in enterprise software and networking and has extraordinary insight into how those models can be extended to serve high-performance buildings and the Intern   Read more…

Cleantech is a cross-discipline practice that includes a wide range of startups including those focused on Lithium production, biochemicals, and LED lighting.   Read more…

Alfred Griffin is a director in Citi's Alternative Energy Banking Group.   Read more…

Peter Gross brings more than 25 years' experience in engineering and design of power systems as applied to data centers, trading floors, command and control centers, and telecommunication and broadcasting facilities.   Read more…

Irv Grossman is responsible for the delivery of services related to service supply chains, encompassing reverse logistics, after-sales service, and service-centric networks.   Read more…

Scott Harmon has 20 years of senior leadership experience with enterprise software companies. As CEO of venture-backed AlterPoint, he helped orchestrate a strategic sale of the business.   Read more…

As Manager of Transportation and Clean Vehicle Programs at San Francisco’s Department of the Environment, or SF Environment, Robert Hayden directs a broad program area working to achieve San Francisco’s climate protection and air quality goals, and to support the City’s Transit First policies.   Read more…

David Head has been involved in vehicle and equipment management and repair for over 40 years. His work history includes training and work as an automotive mechanic, heavy equipment mechanic, parts sales person, owner/operator of an automotive repair facility, fleet supervisor and fleet manager.   Read more…

Miguel Helft is a San Francisco-based Senior Writer at FORTUNE, where he covers Silicon Valley. He joined FORTUNE in August 2011 following a 5-year stint as a reporter at The New York Times covering companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.   Read more…

Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and professional explainer focused on Smart Grid technologies and solutions.  She provides strategic advisory services to startups and established companies that include corporate, market, and funding development.She is the author of the "Smart Grid Di   Read more…

With more than 17 years of experience in the energy industry, Hinkle is the founder of Metrus and pioneer of the company’s ESA.   Read more…

Harry Hobbs brings more than thirty years of experience to the hotels, leading building operations, environmental efficiency, capital improvements, waste diversion, water and energy conservation, and renewable power.   Read more…

Ben Holland is Director of Deployment Policy and Strategy at Securing America's Future Energy, an action-oriented, non-partisan organization dedicated to reducing America's dependence on oil by educating policymakers and advocating for comprehensive energy reform.   Read more…

In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million.   Read more…

Caroline Judy is the Assistant Director for the County of Alameda General Services Agency. She has administrative and strategic leadership responsibilities for GSA’s 436 employees and department budgets totaling $135 million.   Read more…

Ian Kalin has been called one of the “most badass innovators on the planet” by US Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park. Kalin started his professional career as a Counter-Terrorism Officer in the US Navy, later serving as a Nuclear Engineer onboard the USS Ronald Reagan.   Read more…

Michael Keating is Founder and CEO of Scoot Networks, the startup that is disrupting urban transportation with speedy, fun electric scooters activated by your smartphone (often referred to as "zipcar for electric scooters").   Read more…

Sonal Kemkar is a Senior Program Manager with the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Before joining CEQ, Kemkar was with the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.   Read more…

Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy is the CEO and majority owner of OSIsoft LLC – a software company located in San Leandro, CA that builds systems for monitoring real-time information principally of heavy industrial facilities. Under Dr.   Read more…

Kim is the founder and chief executive officers of Lit Motors, a startup electric motorcycle company based in San Francisco. His eight years of research in vehicle architecture and ecology has resulted in eight utility patents.   Read more…

Thilo Koslowski founder of the Automotive practice at Gartner Inc., the largest business and technology strategy advisory company in the world.   Read more…

Kubiak is co-founder and CEO of New York City & Seattle based Honest Buildings, Inc. – an innovative web platform and mobile application utilizing transparency to make buildings better.   Read more…

Based in San Francisco, Mark Lee has 15+ years experience in key leadership positions in the sustainability field.   Read more…

Craig Lewis is Founder and Executive Director of the Clean Coalition, a non-profit dedicated to making clean local energy accessible now.   Read more…

Educated as a geologist, structural engineer, and architect, Chris Luebkeman currently leads the Global Foresight & Innovation team at Arup, a global firm of engineering and design consultants.   Read more…

Jack Madans cut his teeth as a community organizer early on when he founded the pilot project "FoodCycle" while studying at the London School of Economics.   Read more…

Joel Makower is a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line.   Read more…

Steve Malnight is Vice President, Customer Energy Solutions, for Pacific Gas and Electric Company.   Read more…

At Viridity Energy, Laura Manz has a focus on the application of Viridity’s VPower software platform to optimize energy asset utilization, including distribution-level Virtual Power Plants with customer assets to bulk electric grid applications such as the Tres Amigas Superstation in Clovis, New Mex   Read more…

Dr. Cheryl Martin is currently the Deputy Director for Commercialization for the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), responsible for leading the organization’s commercialization program to help breakthrough energy technologies succeed in the marketplace.   Read more…

Brewster McCracken is President & CEO of Pecan Street Inc., a smart grid research and commercialization consortium headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin.   Read more…

William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003).   Read more…

Kyle McNamara is a Managing Principal with Verizon Enterprise Solutions, responsible for the development and deployment of smart grid and smart building solutions.   Read more…

David is one of the world’s leading UX and Brand designers. As a partner and Chief Design Officer at Greenstart, David is a central architect of the Startup Design™ methodology and the leader of the UX and Brand practices.   Read more…

Joan Bryna Michelson, MBA, is Creator, Executive Producer and Host of Green Connections Radio and an award-winning, creative business and communications leader, public speaker and journalist. She specializes in energy and the green economy, innovation, and the advancement of women.   Read more…

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For the past ten years, Ignazio Moresco has been active as designer and product manager in New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Italy. In his work, Ignazio combines a strong conceptual approach with a deep knowledge of the process and methodology for building digital products.   Read more…

Michael Murray is Lucid’s CEO and co-founder. Lucid’s mission is to bring real-time environmental performance data to building occupants to engage, educate, motivate and empower resource conservation.   Read more…

Bob Nalbandian is fleet manager with Frito Lay, overseeing reliability and sustainability of more than 800 rolling assets across Northern California and Western Nevada. He leads cross-functional team to deploy Plug-in Electric Truck fleet across the region.   Read more…

As creative director at frog, Nazarian focuses primarily on Interaction Design and User Experience Strategy. He has an abiding interest in speculative fiction and its influence over popular expectations around human-computer interaction.   Read more…

As EVP of Cleantech Group & GreenOrder, Neichin regularly provides guidance to some of the world’s largest energy companies, technology and services vendors, and government agencies. He has personally authored a variety of publications including the U.S.   Read more…

Nelson is Vice President, Global Foundation Services for eBay Inc, the world’s largest online marketplace. He is responsible for Strategy, Architecture and Operational functions of eBay's Mission Critical Data Centers, Networking and Security Infrastructure Services and Global Supply Chain.   Read more…

In his role as vice president of Global Energy and Sustainability for Johnson Controls, Clay Nesler leads a worldwide team responsible for coordinating marketing, legislative affairs, resource management, product/service innovation and energy program mana   Read more…

Bruce Nordman is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has degrees in Architecture and Energy & Resources from U.C. Berkeley. He helps develop energy efficiency policy, domestically and internationally.   Read more…

Nutter serves as the director for the San Francisco Government's Department of the Environment. She joined SFE after working as the deputy district director for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.   Read more…

Melissa O'Mara has 26 years of professional experience at Schneider Electric, IBM and Andersen Consulting.   Read more…

Sam Ori is the director of policy for the Electrification Coalition, a Washington-based policy research and advocacy group dedicated to advancing electrification of transportation. He was a principal author of the Coalition’s Electrification Roadmap and Fleet Electrification Roadmap.   Read more…

Sunil Paul is Founding Partner of Spring Ventures, a multi-stage venture fund that invests in novel IT and cleantech compa   Read more…

Darlene Pope has more than 20 years experience in commercial real estate and technology, including intelligent building solutions, energy management, sustainable building operations, automated business solutions, and advanced telecommunications services.   Read more…

Rodrigo Prudencio is a Partner at Nth Power, a venture capital firm focused on funding startup companies in energy technologies, materials and other related businesses. Rodrigo is responsible for leading the firm’s investments in companies such as FirstFuel Software, Hara Software and Terrapass.   Read more…

Nick Pudar, Vice President of OnStar Planning and Business Development, is responsible for managing OnStar’s planning, business development, and service evolution. He drives future service development and management of the overall service portfolio.   Read more…

Dan Reicher is executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University, a joint center of the Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he also holds faculty positions.   Read more…

One of three invited speakers for the Nissan Leaf worldwide launch press conference, Rafael Reyes leads the Bay Area Climate Collaborative, a public-private partnership initiative focused on market acceleration of clean energy solutions.   Read more…

Dave Roberts' area of research and development focuses on high-penetration renewable energy, examining market-based solutions to absorb intermittent energy on the distribution grid. He is the executive sponsor for OSIsoft's projects in micrograms, industrial demand response and load shifting.   Read more…

Susan Rochford is the Vice President, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability and Public Policy for Legrand North America. Rochford is responsible for advancing Legrand's progress in setting and achieving sustainability goals and commitments, as an organization, and in the marketplace.   Read more…

Kerrie Romanow is Director of Environmental Services for City of San Jose.   Read more…

Michael Rossetto has been involved with the design of a variety of building types, including commercial offices, residential high rises, academic facilities and laboratories.   Read more…

Michael J. Sangiacomo has served as a director of Recology Inc. (formerly Norcal Waste Systems, Inc.) since November 1990 and as President & Chief Executive Officer since January 1991. From November 1990 to January 1991, Sangiacomo served as Acting President & Chief Executive Officer of Recology.   Read more…

Carlos Santamaria is Vice President of Engineering Services for Glenborough since 2004, He has developed and implemented a national energy management and sustainability strategy resulting in improved building efficiency, tenant comfort, increased asset values, and cost savings.   Read more…

Peter Scarpelli joined the CBRE’s Global Corporate Services (GCS) organization based in Chicago.  In this position, he will lead the firm's Ggobal energy and sustainability services, assisting CBRE account teams and clients with identifying and implementing portfolio-wide energy reduction, alternati   Read more…

For over 25 years, Sinopoli has worked extensively on projects involving the design, construction and operation of buildings and building systems. This has involved the configuration and optimization of building technology systems, facility management and operations.   Read more…

Michael Smith is the General Manager and CTO of NextBus. He is also a long-time transportation advocate. His interest is in making public transit a far more desirable form of transportation.   Read more…

Steve Spiker (Spike) is the Director of Research & Technology with Urban Strategies Council, a social impact nonprofit based in Oakland, California, and is the captain of the new OpenOakland CfA Brigade.   Read more…

Richard Steinberg currently is the CEO of DriveNow (USA). DriveNow is the flexible, premium car sharing program from BMW introduced to the U.S. market in San Francisco, exclusively featuring BMW ActiveE electric vehicles.   Read more…

Paul Stith launched PROJECT Green OnRamp in 2010 to address the complexities and barriers to choosing electric drive. Replacing 20,000 miles with zero emission electric miles in 12 months re-affirmed his commitment and dedication to moving beyond oil.   Read more…

Casey Talon is a Senior Research Analyst for IDC Energy Insights’ Smart Building Strategies and Smart Demand Management Strategies research advisory services.   Read more…

As Director of Sustainability for Liberty Property Trust, Thalheimer is responsible for implementation of Liberty’s Corporate Strategic Plan as it relates to integrating sustainable practices throughout the organization.   Read more…

Dr. Tom Turrentine is Director of the California Energy Commission’s Plug-in Hybrid Electric & Vehicle Research Center at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis.   Read more…

Masoud Vafaei has over 20 years of technical and business management in energy service and hi-tech companies with hands-on project management and construction experience with private and public projects including high-performance green buildings, building automation systems and IT, renewable power g   Read more…

Arvin Vohra leads Enlighted’s project finance and capital markets organization. He joined the Enlighted team in September 2011 from Barclays Capital’s power and utilities team.   Read more…

Anna Walters is a communications specialist on Google's Transportation Team working to keep Google employees informed and excited about Google's suite of transportation options and commute programs. She is based at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.   Read more…

Dr. Ryan Wartena is CEO of GELI which provides the Energy Operating System (EOS) for networking energy storage for building, auto, grid and market services. Dr. Wartena has a Ph.D.   Read more…

Rob Watson is CEO and Chief Scientist of the newly formed ECON Group, which focuses on optimizing building performance over their life cycle.   Read more…

Bill Weihl joined Facebook in early 2012 to lead the company's sustainability and energy efficiency efforts. He was previously the Green Energy Czar at Google, where he led engineering efforts in renewable energy and energy efficiency.   Read more…

David West is one of the early pioneers of extended range vehicle technology founding the Plug-in Hybrid Development Consortium, with Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and other leading utilities.   Read more…

Robert Wilkins is vice president of public affairs of Danfoss, and previously served as president of Danfoss North America.   Read more…

As Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Kathrin Winkler is charged with providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of EMC’s strategy for environmental and social sustainability.   Read more…

Mike Zimmerman has served as the CEO of BuildingIQ since its founding in 2009, and guides the Company’s overall direction and strategic partnerships.   Read more…