World Energy Innovation Forum

Matt Rogers

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Matt Rogers is a Director in McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco location. He focuses on the role technology and innovation play in restructuring markets, especially in oil, gas, power, and other energy and industrial companies.

Matt has spent 25 years serving energy and clients globally. He leads the Firm’s Oil and Gas practice in the Americas and the Sustainability Practice Globally. He has written and spoken extensively on oil, gas, power, and resource markets around the world. Currently his work focuses on North American unconventional resources, restructuring US power markets, and how technology is reshaping capital productivity and operational efficiency in oil, gas, and power projects.

During 2009-10, Matt served as the Senior Advisor to the US Secretary of Energy, leading the Recovery Act Implementation. In this role, he had responsibility for managing the Department of Energy’s $35.2B in Recovery Act appropriations. The Department of Energy reviewed more than 30,000 applications and funded more than 5,000 projects through the Recovery Act, accelerating US innovation in energy efficiency, advanced transportation, renewable energy, transmission and distribution infrastructure, carbon capture, environmental clean-up, and basic science. He held a US Department of Defense Q clearance to address national security issues.

Matt’s book Resource Revolution: Capturing the Biggest Business Opportunity in 100 years was published in April 2014. In Resource Revolution Matt and his co-author Stefan Heck argue that the combination of information technology with industrial technology is changing the way we produce and use natural resources, restructuring energy, agriculture, transportation, construction markets globally.

Matt graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. After graduation he joined Credit Suisse First Boston as an energy investment banking analyst. He earned an M.B.A. from Yale University’s School of Management.

Matt serves on the Board Directors for the United Way of the Bay Area, the Marine Mammal Center, and St Mary’s College Business School. He is married to the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who serves as Federal District Court Judge in the Northern District of California. They have three children—ages 20, 16, and 14.

Colin le Duc

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Colin is a Founding Partner of Generation Investment Management and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He is a Co-Portfolio Manager of the Growth Equity strategy. Prior to joining Generation, Colin was a Director at Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, worked for the Energy Practice at Arthur D. Little, and was a natural gas analyst at Total.

Colin graduated from University of Bath, UK with a BSc in International Management and Modern Languages. Colin speaks fluent French.

Colin serves as a Board Director for M-KOPA. He also serves as a Board Director for the San Francisco-based non-profit Business for Social Responsibility.

Akon

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Akon is an American-Senegalese RnB singer and producer. Brought up in a family of musicians, he spent his early childhood in Senegal before leaving at the age of seven to live in the USA in Union City, New Jersey. A Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling artist, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Akon is one of the world most influential voices in music today. In addition to having two multi-platinum albums, 27 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and over 150 guest appearances with artists such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Eminem and Gwen Stefani, Akon is the first artist to accomplish the feat of holding both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice.

Drawing upon his recognizable celebrity combined with pride of his heritage and passion for philanthropy, Akon formed in 2007 the Konfidence Foundation to improve the quality of life for people in Africa and the United States.

In 2014, Akon co-founded with two partners, Malian entrepreneur Samba bathily and Senegalese-US youth leader and consultant Thione Niang, Solektra International. Incorporated in New York and with offices in numerous African countries, Solektra International aims at providing clean, renewable and affordable solar solutions in rural and off-grid areas. The company has developed an innovative prefinancing model which has led to impactful results. In just over a year, Solektra International was operational in 15 African countries with a wide offer of solar equipment including solar street lamps, micro-grids and domestic kits.

The son of two Senegalese natives, Akon was born Aliaune Badara Thiam, in St. Louis and raised in Senegal, West Africa until age 7. His father, Mor Thiam, a well-respected Senegalese percussionist and jazz musician, and mother, Kiné, a renowned African singer, dancer and humanitarian, helped to foster a general love of the arts in Akon as well as a deep appreciation of his heritage and homeland. Their influences were truly ingrained within Akon and fuelled his desire to create a better future for Africa, beginning with empowering its youth.

Dan Shugar

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With 28 years of advancing renewable energy in the U.S. and around the globe, Dan is frequently invited to speak on a wide variety of business, policy and technical topics. As Founder and CEO of NEXTracker, Dan brings together solar expertise and technology innovation in a way few clean technology leaders can. Prior to NEXTracker, he grew Solaria Corporation’s annual revenue five times over a three year period. Well-known for his leadership as president of SunPower Corporation and president of Powerlight, he surrounds himself with passionate, tech-savvy, solar-driven executive teams who share his mission to make solar a mainstream energy source. From Visalia, California to the Atacama Desert of Chile, there isn’t a solar power plant Dan doesn’t know about or has worked to develop. Part of his genius has resulted in multiple U.S. patents and over 50 published technical papers.

Dan Shugar has delighted and inspired audiences at over 100s of events, keynotes and technical panels. Some notable venues include: FORTUNE Brainstorm E 2015, the MIT Energy Conference, Solar Power International, Intersolar, Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FAPCCI) Solar Week Conference, Greentech Media Solar Market Insight, Solar Power Finance and Investment Summit, Photovoltaics Summit, PV USA, Cleantech Open West, and Commonwealth Club’s Climate One, among many others.

Mr. Shugar holds a BS in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Golden Gate University. If asked of his most coveted achievement, he would most likely mention the six years he served as a Board Member of the Sierra Club where we worked on the Beyond Coal Campaign.

Janet Napolitano

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She leads a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program.

Napolitano is a distinguished public servant with a record of leading large, complex organizations at the federal and state levels.

She served as Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009-13, as Governor of Arizona from 2003-09, as Attorney General of Arizona from 1998-2003, and as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona from 1993-97. Before that, she practiced at the law firm of Lewis & Roca in Phoenix, where she became a partner in 1989. She began her career in 1983 as a clerk for Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

As Governor of Arizona, Napolitano focused on education, from pre-kindergarten through public higher education. She was the first woman to chair the National Governors Association, and was named one of the nation’s top five governors by Time magazine.

Napolitano earned a B.S. degree (summa cum laude in Political Science) in 1979 from Santa Clara University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, a Truman Scholar and the university’s first female valedictorian. She received her law degree in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Law. Napolitano holds honorary degrees from several universities and colleges, including Emory University, Pomona College and Northeastern University. In 2010, she was awarded the prestigious Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal (Law), the University of Virginia’s highest external honor.

Pedro Pizarro

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Pedro J. Pizarro is president of Southern California Edison (SCE). SCE is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utilities, delivering power to more than 14 million people in a 50,000-square-mile service area spanning Central, Coastal and Southern California.

Before returning to SCE in October 2014, Pedro served as president of Edison Mission Energy (EME), an independent power producer, from 2011 until the sale of substantially all of its assets to NRG Energy in April 2014. At the time, EME was a subsidiary of Edison International. Prior to leading EME, Pedro progressed through several roles of increasing responsibility at Edison International and SCE, including director of Strategic Planning, vice president of Technology Business Development, vice president of Strategy and Business Development, senior vice president of Power Procurement and executive vice president of Power Operations. Pedro was a senior engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles before joining Edison in 1999.

Pedro has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvard University. He currently serves on the boards of Argonne National Laboratory, the Southern California Leadership Council, and Western Energy Institute. He also has served on the boards of Caltech, the Electric Power Supply Association, the California Power Exchange, the Colburn School and House Research Institute.

Jagdeep Singh Bachher

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Jagdeep Singh Bachher is chief investment officer and vice president of investments at the University of California. He is responsible for managing the UC pension, endowment, short-term and total-return pools. Previously, Bachher was executive vice president of venture and innovation for Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo) in Canada. He also served as AIMCo’s deputy chief investment officer and chief operating officer. Prior to that, he was president of JH Investments (Delaware) LLC and worked for Manulife Financial in its U.S. wealth management, Canadian and investments divisions. Before joining Manulife, he was an entrepreneur. Bachher is a visiting scholar in the Global Projects Center at Stanford University and chairman emeritus of the Institutional Investors Roundtable. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Institute of Corporate Directors. Bachher received his B.A.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in management sciences from the University of Waterloo.

GE

GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the “GE Store,” through which each business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry. www.ge.com

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $1.8 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through 8,700 locations, 13,000 ATMs, the internet and mobile banking, and has offices in 36 countries. With approximately 265,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves 1 in 3 households in the United States. Since 2005, Wells Fargo has provided $52 billion in lending and investment to environmental finance activities, helping to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. Wells Fargo perspectives are available at Wells Fargo Stories.

Andy Karsner

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Andy Karsner is Managing Partner of The Emerson Collective, CoManager of the The Emerson Fund, Senior Strategist and Space Cowboy at Google X; and Founder and Executive Chairman of Manifest Energy.

His entrepreneurial leadership has been associated with both venture capital and private equity portfolios responsible for guidance and/or holdings in some of the most successful technology startups over the last ten years, including Nest (Internet of things), Tesla (mobility), Recurrent (solar), and Codexis (biotech). From 2005 to 2008, Karsner served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the United States, managing the approximately $2 billion annual federal applied science, research and development portfolio. In this role he helped assemble significant bipartisan coalitions to implement or enact the Energy Policy Act, the Energy Independence and Security Act and the America Competes Act, all of which remain the foundation of comprehensive energy policy today. In diplomacy, Karsner was a principal climate negotiator of the “Bali Roadmap” and an original architect of the Major Economies Process.

Prior to public service, Karsner held several global leadership positions, including founder and CEO of Enercorp, a windpower development firm and international agent of Vestas, involved in project development, management and financing of energy infrastructure; director and senior development manager for Wartsila Power Development and other multinational energy and development firms. Karsner sits on several prominent boards including Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT), Conservation International, The Gas Technology Institute, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and the advisory boards of MIT Medialab, Sandia National Lab and the Automotive X Prize.

He is a Precourt Energy Scholar, lecturer and Hoover Visiting Fellow at Stanford University. He has been an associate for energy geopolitics at the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, an advisor at the MIT Energy Institute and a board member of University of Chicago’s Argonne National Lab and board of advisors to The Booth School of Business. Karsner is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and distinguished fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and National Petroleum Council, and participant in the Bilderberg transatlantic dialogue. He is a recipient of the “President’s Award” from the United States Green Building Council and top honors from the United States Energy Association and the Alliance to Save Energy. H.M. King Carl Gustav of Sweden knighted Karsner as “Royal Commander of the Polar Star” for his role in advancing EuropeanUS technology collaboration.

Karsner received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Rice University, subsequently received the Hugh Scott Cameron award for distinguished alumni service, a Master of Arts degree from Hong Kong University and a fellowship from Rotary International. Karsner and his wife spent 12 years based in London and Hong Kong. They are multilingual, have visited every continent and more than 100 nations for work and pleasure and reside with their four daughters in Bethesda, Maryland.

John Morton

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John E. Morton is the White House Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the National Security Council. John was previously the Chief Operating Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation and brings more than twenty years of experience in emerging markets, investment finance, and economic and environmental policy. As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Morton managed OPIC’s day to day operations including its 240 employees and $18 billion investment portfolio in over 100 countries. Previously, Mr. Morton was OPIC’s Vice President for Investment Policy.

Prior to joining OPIC, Mr. Morton was Managing Director of Economic Policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts where he led a team focused on research and advocacy around key national economic issues.

Prior to joining Pew, Mr. Morton served as director of National Security Policy for the John Kerry presidential campaign, where he coordinated the development of policy concerning Afghanistan, Russia and the former Soviet states, Africa, and on issues relating to democracy, human rights and economic development.

Previously, Mr. Morton was an investment officer with Global Environment Fund, where he oversaw global investments in sustainable forestry and the natural gas sector and developed the firm’s clean-energy practice. Mr. Morton also worked as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He began his professional career at the World Bank, where he managed investments in the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Morton received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Russian History and Literature.

Mr. Morton has served on the boards of directors and executive committee of the National Security Network, and the Clean Energy Network. He is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Catto environmental leaders program and the U.S.–Japan Leadership Program.

He lives in Washington DC with his wife and two children.

Andres Gluski

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Andrés Gluski was named President and CEO of The AES Corporation in 2011. AES is one of the world’s largest Independent Power Producers with operations in seventeen countries, 36 GW of capacity from a mix of fuel sources, including renewables and thermal generation, and more than 10 million distribution customers. The company is the world leader in the use of lithium ion batteries for energy storage and grid stability with 106 MW in operation in four countries, 60 MW under construction in three more, and more than 200 MW in advanced stage development.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Gluski’s career spans the energy, telecom, consumer products and banking industries, as well as, the private and public sectors. His experiences included working on the launch of a mobile cellular company and ISP and leading a successful NYSE IPO. More recently, under his leadership, AES Eletropaulo created AES Atimus, a telecommunications company in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and which was sold in 2011 for $1billion.

Dr. Gluski has served as an expert witness at US Congressional hearings on the subject of energy policy and Latin America. In 2012, he was named International CEO of the year by Latin Trade Magazine and he currently serves on President Obama’s Export Council, the US-Brazil CEO Forum and the US-India CEO Forum. He is a member of the Board of The AES Corporation, Waste Management and Brasiliana in Brazil, and he is Chairman of AES Gener in Chile. He is also Chairman of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, and Director of the Edison Electric Institute and the US-Philippines Society. Dr. Gluski is a magna cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University and earned his MA and PhD in economics from the University of Virginia.

Lior Suchard

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“It is the most amazing thing I have seen in my life, and I have seen a lot” – Larry King

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Do you believe someone can read your mind? Lior Suchard can. He can delve into your innermost thoughts, and know what you are going to say even before you do. His outstanding performances of mind reading, thought influencing, predicting and telekinesis have earned him international acclaim as one of the best mentalists in the world. Lior takes his audiences on a exciting adventure built on drama, tension and astonishment doused with a huge sprinkling of humor, comedy and fun. Lior regularly appears on prime-time television all over the world and has been touted by political leaders, Hollywood stars, legendary business pioneers and fans as a brilliant and mind-blowing entertainer. WEIF2016 is excited to bring the “Suchard Experience” to center stage!

Kristina Skierka

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As founder and leader of the Power for All campaign, Kristina has helped create a movement dedicated to achieving universal energy access by 2025. Kristina coordinates a global team alongside country-led initiatives in East and West Africa (and soon, India) to advance decentralized renewable energy solutions—ranging from minigrids to solar rooftop systems and mobile solar farms. With expertise in both energy and public awareness campaigns, Kristina has led a number well-known environmental leadership initiatives in the energy sector for both private companies (Applied Materials’ “Bright Futures”, Sun Microsystems’ “Eco Responsibility,” d.light’s “Future of Energy”) and public organizations (the State of California’s Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan, as well as the award-winning Flex Your Power campaign). Kristina was named Energy Foundation’s Senior Fellow in 2009, a finalist for the 2015 Clean Energy Ministerial’s C3E award, a 2016 finalist for the Climate Solutions Accelerator.

Ellen Williams

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Ellen Williams is the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA-E, in the Department of Energy. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment.

Prior to Senate confirmation for her role in ARPA-E, Ellen served as a senior advisor to the Secretary on the DOE’s technology transfer policies, issues, and plans. She recommended and helped establish the Departments’s new Office of Technology Transitions to expand the impact of the Department’s extensive Research and Development activities.

Ellen joined DOE from BP, where she had been the Chief Scientist since January 2010. There she was responsible for assurance of technology programs, and strategic research and program development. Her priority actions included developing the Advisory Oversight structure for BP’s Gulf Research Initiative, running a multi-university research program on natural resource constrains in the context of energy (the Energy Sustainability Challenge), and establishing cores of scientific excellence and innovation in key disciplinary areas essential to BP’s long term technical competitiveness.

Prior to joining BP, Ellen worked for over thirty years in academia, obtaining her Ph.D at Caltech in 1981, and then moving to the University of Maryland, where she rose to become a Distinguished University Professor in the Institute of Physical Science and Technology and the Department of Physics. She founded the University of Maryland Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and served as its director for 15 years. In parallel, Ellen has worked extensively in providing technical advice to the U.S. government, primarily through the Departments of Energy and Defence.

Ellen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been recognized by awards from the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society. She has a distinguished history of professional service, including chairing the development of the NAS report on Technical Issues for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Susan Kennedy

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Founder and CEO, Advanced Microgrid Solutions

Before starting a groundbreaking energy storage company, Susan served for two decades at the highest levels of state and federal government, most recently as chief of staff to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, cabinet secretary and deputy chief of staff to Governor Gray Davis and communications director for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. She served from 2003-2006 on California’s Public Utilities Commission, regulating the state’s investor-owned electric utilities, telecommunications providers and private water companies.

In her numerous government roles, Susan was at the center of many of California’s groundbreaking environmental policies, including the carbon reduction mandate and cap-and- trade program under AB 32, the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, auto emission standards and Renewable Portfolio Standard. She coordinated the State’s emergency demand response efforts during the energy crisis of 2000-2001 and as a member of the PUC she authored what was then the largest energy efficiency program in utility history.

Susan’s company, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, is on the leading edge of a complete transformation of the electric grid. Using advanced energy storage systems, AMS is creating the first fleet of Hybrid Electric Buildings in the world, turning portfolios of commercial and industrial buildings into virtual power plants for Southern California Edison. In 2014 her company won the first major contract in the world to use these advanced energy storage technologies on a large scale to replace capacity from the retired facility at San Onofre nuclear facility. AMS is consistently listed as one of the top clean tech companies to watch in the US.

She holds a B.A. in Management from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Xavier Helgesen

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Xavier Helgesen is the co-founder and CEO of Off Grid Electric, the company leading the mass market solar+storage leapfrog in Africa. Off Grid Electric has been recognized with the Ashden Award and the Zayed Future Energy Prize for most innovative startup in energy. A veteran entrepreneur, Xavier also founded Better World Books, a profitable triple bottom line bookseller with $70M in revenue selling books online to fund literacy. In 2009 he was recognized as the Best Social Entrepreneur by Businessweek and given the Fast Company Social Capitalist award. Xavier holds an MBA from Oxford Saïd Business School, which he attended on a Skoll Scholarship, and a BA from the University of Notre Dame.

Orrick

Orrick is a leading full-service global law firm with a particular focus on serving companies in the energy, technology and financial sectors. We help clients achieve business success – as they define it. We are recognized worldwide for delivering the highest-quality, commercially-oriented legal advice and for our culture of innovation and collaboration. We have been named one of the “Global 20” leading firms by Law360. With approximately 1,000 lawyers across Europe, Asia, the United States and Africa—through our affiliated office in Abidjan—our platform offers clients a distinctive combination of local insight and global perspective.
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John Hennessy

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John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.

From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer Systems Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering. As dean, he launched a five-year plan that laid the groundwork for new activities in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. In 1999, he was named provost, the university’s chief academic and financial officer. As provost, he continued his efforts to foster interdisciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw improvements in faculty and staff compensation. In October 2000, he was inaugurated as Stanford University’s 10th president. In 2005, he became the inaugural holder of the Bing Presidential Professorship.

A pioneer in computer architecture, in 1981 Dr. Hennessy drew together researchers to focus on a computer architecture known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while reducing costs. In addition to his role in the basic research, Dr. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs microprocessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of high-performance computers.

Dr. Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the 2001 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering, a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2012 IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE’s highest award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

He has lectured and published widely and is the co-author of two internationally used undergraduate and graduate textbooks on computer architecture design. Dr. Hennessy earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Hobbs & Towne

For nearly 20 years, Hobbs & Towne, Inc. has been the recognized Executive Search leader in the Energy Technology and Sustainability industry. As the premier firm in the sector, the firm as completed nearly 300 CEO searches and conducts more than 150 executive searches per year, including Partner, Board Director, C-level and Executive-level searches across all functional disciplines.

Hobbs & Town represents the premier investors and growth companies in the market. Founded by Bobby Hobbs and Andy Towne, the firm now has 9 partners and 40 employees across 5 North American offices in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Houston and Toronto.

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Bank of America

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At Bank of America, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is critical to fulfilling our core purpose of making people’s financial lives better. A commitment to growing our business responsibly is embedded in every aspect of our company, from our policies and practices to our services, products, governance and employee benefits. An important part of that commitment is forming strong partnerships across sectors, including nonprofit organizations serving community needs, bringing our collective networks and expertise to achieve greater impact. We’re proud of our employees’ volunteer efforts, support of diversity and inclusion, and environmental and social responsibility. Across our company, we’re focused on simplifying banking and investing, advancing better money habits and making an impact in communities around the world.

Learn more at www.bankofamerica.com/environment and follow us on Twitter at @BankofAmerica.

Mintz Levin

Mintz Levin is a full service, multi-disciplinary law firm with more than 500 attorneys and professionals serving clients worldwide. Applying a cross-disciplinary team approach, we bring attorneys from many different yet complementary areas together to address the rapidly changing legal and regulatory requirements of the Energy Technology industry. Mintz Levin is the nation’s premier legal and consulting solutions provider for energy technology innovators and investors. We provide the strategic and legal guidance clients need to thrive, whether they are entrepreneurs, start-ups, or large-scale corporations. Our team has completed 400+ deals totaling over $7 billion in this sector since 2006.

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Silicon Valley Bank

Dedicated to serving technology companies for more than 30 years, Silicon Valley Bank has been a steadfast partner to companies dedicated to solving the world’s problems with cleantech, energy and resource innovations. Through their commercial, international and private banking services, SVB helps address the unique needs of innovators through its 28 domestic and 6 foreign offices. SVB is proud to be the leading provider of capital and insight to the global innovation economy, and boasts relationships with more than half of all U.S. venture-backed tech companies and VC funds.

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Beth Comstock

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Beth Comstock was named Vice Chair in August 2015. In this capacity, she leads GE’s efforts to accelerate new growth. She operates GE Business Innovations, which develops new businesses, markets and service models; drives brand value and partners to enhance GE’s inventive culture. This unit includes GE Lighting, GE Ventures & Licensing and GE sales, marketing and communications.

Since 2008, she served as GE’s chief marketing and commercial officer. From 2006, she was President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal overseeing ad revenue and the company’s digital efforts, including early development of hulu.com, Peacock Equity, and acquiring ivillage.com. In 2003 she was named the company’s first chief marketing officer in more than 20 years. Previously, she held a succession of roles at GE, NBC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting.

Beth is a member Nike’s Board of Directors and Trustee president of the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in biology.

Tony Fadell

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Tony Fadell is founder and CEO of Nest – maker of the Nest Learning Thermostat, Nest Protect smoke + CO alarm, and Nest Cam – and an SVP at Google, overseeing Project Aura (formerly Glass). Prior to Nest, Tony served as senior vice president of Apple’s iPod division, reporting to Steve Jobs. He was responsible for creating the first 18 generations of the iPod digital music player and the first three generations of the iPhone. In 2001, after eight weeks of researching and designing the iPod product solution as a contractor, he was hired to create and lead the implementation team.

Before joining Apple, Tony was a co-founder, CTO and director of engineering of the Mobile Computing group at Philips Electronics. He architected the award-winning Velo and Nino PDAs, based on the Windows CE Palm PC platform, and later became vice president of business development for Philips U.S. Strategy and Ventures, managing its digital music strategy and investments.

Earlier in his career, Tony was a hardware and software architect at General Magic working with Sony, Philips, Matsushita, Toshiba and other consumer electronics firms to develop a line of personal handheld communicators.

Tony is currently an advisor to and investor in several Silicon Valley startups in the mobile-Internet and green-tech industries, helping them craft and implement their business, technical and product strategies.

In his 20-plus years of experience in the consumer electronics industry, Tony has authored more than 300 patents.

He graduated with a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 1991 and won the College of Engineering’s alumnus of the year award in 2004. In 2013, he was named to CNN’s list of 10 Thinkers and in 2014, was included as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He’s appeared on Vanity Fair’s annual New Establishment List since 2013.

Dan Arvizu

Dan Arvizu has had a long distinguished career in advanced energy research and development, materials science, and technology commercialization. In 2015 he retired as U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado where he now serves as Director Emeritus. Prior to joining NREL, Dr. Arvizu was a chief technology officer with CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd., an executive with Sandia National Laboratories, and started his career at the AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories.

He was appointed by two successive U.S. presidents, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, to serve six-year terms on the National Science Board, which governs the National Science Foundation and advises the President and Congress on science policy. He is presently serving as Chairman. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Public Administration.

Dr. Arvizu serves on a number of boards, panels and advisory committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board, the Singapore International Advisory Panel on Energy, the State Farm Mutual Insurance Board of Directors, and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy Advisory Council.

Dr. Arvizu has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Ira Ehrenpreis

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Ira Ehrenpreis is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners, a leading impact investing venture capital firm, currently investing out of a $400M fund.

Ira is a recognized leader in both the venture capital industry and the energy innovation sector. In 2007, Ira was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Men Under 45″ and in 2014 was inducted into the International Green Industry Hall of Fame.

In the venture community, Ira has served on the Board, Executive Committee, and as Annual Meeting Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Ira currently serves as the President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). In addition, Ira is the Co-Chairman of the VCNetwork, the largest and most active California venture capital organization.

In the energy innovation sector, Ira is the founder and Chairman of one of the most prominent annual industry events, the World Energy Innovation Forum (WEIF), which convenes the who’s-who in the industry to discuss the important energy issues and opportunities of our time. In addition, Ira has served on several industry Boards, including the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Advisory Committee (ERAC), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Advisory Council, the Clean-Tech Investor Summit (Chairman in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013), the Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) West (Co-Chairman in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014), the Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) Wall Street (Co-Chairman in 2015), the Cleantech Venture Network (Past Chairman of Advisory Board), ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy), the Energy Investors Forum (Past Conference Chairman), and the Silicon Valley Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) (Chairman in 2014 and 2015).

Ira is an active leader at Stanford University, where he has served on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School and is currently an advisory board member of the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) Advisory Council. Ira has also been a guest lecturer, including helping to teach a course on Venture Capital. In addition to the foregoing, Ira served for many years on the Advisory Board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE).

Ira received his JD/MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of Stanford Law Review. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude.

Ira can be reached at ira@dblpartners.vc

George Shultz

George Pratt Shultz has had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in the world of business. He is one of two individuals who have held four different federal cabinet posts; he has taught at three of this country’s great universities; and for eight years he was president of a major engineering and construction company.

Shultz was born in New York City on December 13, 1920, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. He attended Princeton University, graduating in 1942 with a BA in economics. Shortly after graduation, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps and served through 1945. He then resumed his studies, this time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned a PhD in industrial economics in 1949. From 1948 to 1957 he taught at MIT, taking a leave of absence in 1955 to serve as a senior staff economist on President Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisers.

In 1957, Shultz joined the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business as a professor of industrial relations. He was named dean five years later. From 1968 to 1969 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He returned to government when he was appointed secretary of labor by President Nixon in 1969. In June 1970, he became the first director of the newly formed Office of Management and Budget. In May 1972, he was named secretary of the Treasury. During this period, Shultz also served as chairman of the Council on Economic Policy, negotiated a series of trade protocols with the Soviet Union, and represented the United States at the Tokyo meeting on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

In 1974 Shultz become president and director of the Bechtel Group, where he remained until 1982. While at Bechtel, he maintained close ties with the academic world by joining the faculty of Stanford University.

Shultz held two key positions in the Reagan administration: chairman of the President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–82) and secretary of state (1982–89). As secretary of state, he played a key role in implementing a foreign policy that led to the successful conclusion of the Cold War and the development of strong relationships between the United States and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region including China, Japan, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

After leaving office, Shultz rejoined the Bechtel Group as director and senior counselor. He also rejoined Stanford as professor of international economics at the Graduate School of Business and as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution. In 2001, Shultz was named the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

In January 1989, Shultz was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The George Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated in a ceremony on May 29, 2002.

Shultz’s publications include The War That Must Never be Fought (Hoover Institution Press, 2015) coedited with James Goodby; Issues on My Mind: Strategies for the Future (Hoover Institution Press, 2013); The Nuclear Enterprise: High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors(Hoover Institution Press, 2012), coedited with Sidney Drell; Ideas & Action: Featuring 10 Commandments for Negotiations (2010); Ending Government Bailouts as We Know Them (Hoover Institution Press 2010), coedited with Kenneth E. Scott andJohn Taylor; Putting Our House in Order: A Citizen’s Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform, with John B. Shoven (2008); Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993); and Economic Policy beyond the Headlines, with Kenneth Dam (1977).

Shultz is honorary chairman of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, chair of the Precourt Institute Energy Advisory Council at Stanford University, chair of the MIT Energy Initiative External Advisory Board, and chair of the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy.

Arun Majumdar

Dr. Arun Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University, a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-director of the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy.

In October 2009, President Obama nominated Arun and the Senate confirmed him as the founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E), where he served until June 2012. Between March 2011 and June 2012, Arun was also the acting under secretary of energy and a senior advisor to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

After leaving Washington, DC and before joining Stanford, Arun was the vice president for energy at Google, where he created several energy technology initiatives, especially on the electricity grid, and advised the company on its broader energy strategy.

Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Arun was the Almy & Agnes Maynard Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at University of California–Berkeley and the associate laboratory director for energy and environment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Arun serves as the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s advisory board, the councils of the National Academy of Engineering and the Electric Power Research Institute, the science policy committee of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a member of the international advisory panel for energy of the Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry and the U.S. delegation for the U.S.–India Track II dialogue on climate change and energy. The U.S. State Department recently appointed him as a U.S. science envoy with an emphasis on energy and innovation in Poland and the Baltic region.

Arun is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the Indian Institute of Technology–Bombay in 1985 and his Ph.D. from U.C.–Berkeley in 1989, both in mechanical engineering.

Vienna Teng

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Vienna Teng is an internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter who combines breathtaking talent as a singer with brilliant musicianship to create dazzling melodies and layered harmonies that add richness and intrigue to her songs. Vienna’s musical style incorporates folk, pop, classical piano, and a cappella. She is a superbly talented lyricist who writes with emotion, narrative, and personal history and even calls upon her background in sustainability (she earned an MBA and a Master’s Degree from the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan) to inform the subject matters of her writing. To date, Vienna has released five studio albums: Waking Hour (2002), Warm Strangers (2004), Dreaming Through the Noise (2006), Inland Territory (2009) and Aims (2013), and most recently penned the score for the highly praised musical, The Fourth Messenger, which had its world premiere in 2015. Vienna is the author of the extraordinary theme song for the World Energy Innovation Forum, Drive, which she debuted to a standing ovation on our stage in 2014.

Steven Chu

The William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, 2013 – present

Education:

A.B., Mathematics, University of Rochester, 1970
B.S., Physics, University of Rochester, 1970
Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1976

Previous Positions:

U.S. Secretary of Energy, 2009 – April 2013
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004 – 2009
Professor of Physics and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2004–2008
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1987 – 2008
Chair of Physics Department, Stanford University, 1990-1993, 1999-2001
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford 1990 – 2004
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, 1978 – 1983
Head, Quantum Electronics Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, 1983 – 1987
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1976 – 1978

Short Bio

Prof. Chu published ~260 papers in atomic physics, laser spectroscopy, polymer physics, biophysics, biology, and batteries, and holds 10 patents. He was U.S. Secretary of Energy from January 2009 – April 2013. As the first scientist to hold a Cabinet position, he recruited outstanding scientists into the DOE, initiated ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy), the Energy Innovation Hubs, and was tasked by President Obama to assist BP in stopping the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. As director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu encouraged research in the conversion of solar energy into electricity and transportation biofuels. At Stanford, he was twice Chair of Physics, and helped launch Bio-X at Stanford University, a multi-disciplinary institute combining the physical and biological sciences with medicine and engineering, and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. Previous to those positions, he was head of the Quantum Electronics Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Dr. Chu has numerous awards including the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to laser cooling and atom trapping. Other research highlights include the introduction of atomic fountain atomic clocks, atom interferometry based on optical pulses, the manipulation of biomolecules with optical tweezers, and the first single molecule FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) experiments with biomolecules tethered to surfaces. He has 27 honorary degrees, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Inventors Academy, the Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

After completing his government service, Chu has returned to Stanford, where he is developing new optical imaging technologies with nanoparticle probes for applications in biology and biomedicine. He is also exploring new approaches to acoustic imaging, lithium ion battery research, PM2.5 air filtration and other applications of nanotechnology.

Ray Mabus

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Office Term: 5/19/2009 – Present

Ray Mabus is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy, the longest to serve as leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I.

Throughout his tenure, Secretary Mabus has focused on four key priorities – People, Platforms, Power and Partnerships – that enable the Navy and Marine Corps’ unique ability to maintain the global presence that reassures our allies and deters our adversaries.

Responsible for an annual budget in excess of $170 billion and leadership of almost 900,000 people, Secretary Mabus has worked to improve the quality of life of Sailors, Marines and their families; decrease the Department’s dependence on fossil fuels; strengthen partnerships with industry and internationally; and increase the size of the Navy fleet.

During his tenure, the Navy went from building fewer than five ships per year to having more than 70 ships under contract, an average of 14 ships per year put under contract. Most of those contracts are fixed-price, multi-year deals assuring value for taxpayers and certainty for the Navy’s industry partners. Mabus’ shipbuilding efforts reversed the decline of the Navy’s fleet and will increase it to more than 300 ships by the end of the decade despite fiscal constraints.

Leading the world’s only global Navy, Mabus has traveled over 1.1 million miles and visited over 140 countries and territories and 48 states to visit with Sailors and Marines forward deployed or stationed around the world, to maintain and develop international relationships, and to reconnect the American public with the Navy and Marine Corps, which he calls “America’s Away Team.” He has traveled to Afghanistan on 12 separate occasions, in recognition of the sacrifice and service of Sailors and Marines deployed in combat zones.

To prepare service members and their families for the high-tempo operations of today’s Navy and Marine Corps, Mabus announced in 2012 the “21st Century Sailor and Marine” initiative, designed to build and maintain the most resilient and ready force possible. He recently announced the tripling of paid maternity leave, from six weeks to 18 weeks.

Mabus also directed the Navy and Marine Corps to change the way they use, produce and acquire energy, setting an aggressive goal of relying on alternative sources for at least 50% of their energy by 2020. In 2012, President Obama announced in his State of the Union address that the Navy and Marine Corps would purchase or facilitate the production of 1GW of renewable energy (50 percent of total shore energy) for use on Navy and Marine Corps installations by 2020. This goal will be reached four years early. The Navy also demonstrated the Great Green Fleet in 2012, a carrier strike group in which every participating U.S. Navy ship and type of aircraft operated on alternative energy sources including nuclear energy and biofuels.

In June 2010, as an additional duty, President Obama appointed Mabus to prepare the long-term recovery plan for the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Mabus’ report was released in September 2010 and met with broad bi-partisan support with most recommendations being passed into law by Congress as the Restore Act. Included in the legislation was a fund to aid in the Gulf Coast’s recovery by distributing 80 percent of any civil penalties awarded as a result of the damage caused by the disaster. To date, civil penalties total more than five billion dollars.

Before his appointment by President Obama, Mabus held a variety of leadership positions. From 1988 to 1992, Mabus served as Governor of Mississippi, the youngest elected to that office in more than 150 years. Mabus was Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 1994-1996 and later was Chairman and CEO of a manufacturing company which he led out of bankruptcy.

Mabus has been recognized for his leadership of the Navy and Marine Corps on multiple occasions. In 2013, he was named one of the top 50 highest rated CEOs by Glassdoor, an online jobs and career community. Mabus was the only person in government to receive this award.

Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. After Johns Hopkins, Mabus served in the Navy as an officer aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.

Nancy Pfund

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Nancy E. Pfund is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners (formerly Investors), a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, economic and environmental returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. As a leading player in the growing field of “impact investing”, DBL has helped to reveal the power of venture capital to promote social change and environmental improvement, and Ms. Pfund writes and speaks frequently on this topic.

Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of several companies, including; SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), where she is Chair of the governance committee and sits on both the audit and compensation committees, Primus Power, Powergenix, Farmers Business Network, The Muse, Advanced Microgrid Solutions and Off-Grid Electric, and, prior to their public offerings, Tesla Motors and Pandora Media. Prior to founding DBL Investors, Ms. Pfund was a Managing Director in Venture Capital at JPMorgan, having started her investment career at Hambrecht & Quist in 1984. Previously, Ms. Pfund worked at Intel Corporation, the State of California, Stanford University and the Sierra Club.

Ms. Pfund was featured #17 in the FORTUNE World’s Top 25 Eco-Innovators and is: a member of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees; Chair of the Advisory Council of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University; a member of the Advisory Board of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; a member of the Advisory Board of the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency; a past Lecturer in Management at the Stanford University Graduate School business; and a past Lecturer in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management; a C3E Ambassador to the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Program, led by the U.S. Department of Energy; and is a founding officer and director of ABC², a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. In 1988, President Bush appointed Ms. Pfund as a charter member of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. In 1999, Ms. Pfund was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Congressional Web-Based Education Commission.

Ms. Pfund is the author, along with Benjamin Healey of the widely cited report on the history of U.S. energy subsidies entitled, “What Would Jefferson Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America’s Energy Future”, co-authored with Michael Lazar, “Red, White & Green: The True Colors of America’s Clean Tech Jobs”, co-authored with Noah Walker, “Ask Saint Onofrio: Finding What Has Been Lost in A Tale of Two Energy Sources”, and co-authored with Anand Chhabra, “Renewables Are Driving Up Electricity Prices: Wait, What?” She also delivered a widely circulated commencement speech at UC Davis Graduate School of Management in June 2015 entitled “The Impact Generation”.

Ms. Pfund received her BA and MA in anthropology from Stanford University, and her MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Lyndon Rive

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Lyndon Rive is the co-founder and CEO of SolarCity. In nine years, he has helped SolarCity become one of the most recognizable brands in clean energy. In the process, the company has grown to more than 13,000 employees. Lyndon has led fundraising efforts for the finance of more than $8 billion in solar projects from investors including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Google, PG&E Corporation and U.S. Bancorp. He also helped the company enter new markets including 400 schools and universities, more than 100 regional and national homebuilders, and Fortune 500 companies such as eBay, Intel, and Walmart, as well as the U.S. military.

Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon co-founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale, distributed computer management. Lyndon negotiated the company’s partnership with Dell Computer, which acquired Everdream in 2007. A lifelong entrepreneur, Lyndon founded his first company at the age of 17.

In his spare time, he’s a member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey Team.

Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motors and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). At Tesla, Elon serves as product architect, overseeing product development, engineering, and design for the all-electric vehicle range, which is manufactured in Fremont, California. The Tesla Roadster sports car debuted in 2008, followed by the Model S sedan, which was introduced in 2012. The Model S was named Consumer Reports’ Best Overall Car in 2014 and 2015 and earned the highest-ever safety rating awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. From the beginning, Tesla’s mission has been rooted in accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy economy, in which compelling electric transport will play a crucial role. In that spirit, the company opened its patents to all in 2014.

As lead designer at SpaceX, Elon oversees the development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets. The SpaceX Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit, in 2008. Following that milestone, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011. In 2010, SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch and recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit with its Dragon spacecraft. In 2012, Dragon achieved the distinction of being the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station and return cargo to Earth. In 2014, SpaceX won a commercial crew contract from NASA to carry astronauts in 2017. By pioneering the development of reusable rockets, SpaceX is pursuing the long-term goal of making humans a multi-planetary species.

In addition, Elon is the non-executive chairman and principal shareholder of SolarCity, which he helped create. SolarCity is now the leading provider of solar power systems in the United States.

Previously, Elon co-founded PayPal, the world’s leading Internet payment system, and served as the company’s Chairman and CEO.

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May 4th - 5th, 2016 • Tesla Factory • Fremont, CA

About the World Energy Innovation Forum

Venue: The Tesla Factory, Fremont, CA

Agenda

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Registration & Networking Breakfast

7:30 AM

Chairman's Welcome and State of the Energy Innovation Industry

8:00 AM

Ira Ehrenpreis

8:45 AM

Elon Musk

Break

9:30 AM

10:00 AM

Dan Arvizu

Ellen Williams

10:45 AM

Moderator

Matt Rogers

Susan Kennedy

Pedro Pizarro

Dan Shugar

Entertainment and Musical Interlude

11:30 AM

Vienna Teng

Networking Luncheon

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Nancy Pfund

Lyndon Rive

Renewables in Developing World

2:15 PM

Moderator

Colin le Duc

Akon

Andrés Gluski

Xavier Helgesen

John Morton

Kristina Skierka

Break

3:15 PM

3:45 PM

Ray Mabus

4:20 PM

John Hennessy

George Shultz

Dinner & Reception

5:00 PM

Dessert & Entertainment

6:45 PM

Lior Suchard

Vienna Teng

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Networking Breakfast

7:30 AM

8:30 AM

Beth Comstock

9:15 AM

Steve Chu

Arun Majumdar

Break

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Janet Napolitano

Jagdeep Singh Bachher

11:15 AM

Tony Fadell

Andy Karsner

Chairman's Wrap-up

12:00 PM

Ira Ehrenpreis

Lunch, Tesla Test Drives & Factory Tours

12:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Chairman

Ira Ehrenpreis

Forum Chairman Managing Partner, DBL Partners

Speakers

Elon Musk

Tesla Motors & SpaceX

Forum Chairman
Managing Partner, DBL Partners