5th Annual Babson Energy & Environmental Conference – 2011
Entrepreneurship for a Sustainable Future

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Conference Introduction:

Len Schlesinger
President, Babson College

Leonard A. Schlesinger became the 12th president of Babson College on July 1, 2008–bringing to the College an extraordinary blend of leadership experience in academia and industry, particularly in the retail and service sectors. He came to Babson from Limited Brands, based in Columbus, Ohio, where he served in executive positions since 1999, most recently as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer.

His academic career includes twenty years at Harvard Business School where, most recently, he served as the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, leading MBA and executive education programs. President Schlesinger is well-known for his pioneering research and publications on the “service profit chain.” He is the author or co-author of nine books and has written over 40 articles for academic audiences as well as for The New York Times, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review.

He also was an architect and chair of Harvard Business School’s MBA Essential Skills and Foundations programs. After his time at Harvard Business School, he served as a faculty member and senior administrator at Brown University. In addition, President Schlesinger has lectured and consulted on service quality and customer satisfaction for over 100 major corporations, non-profit organizations, as well as governments and international leadership organizations around the world.

President Schlesinger holds a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in American Civilization from Brown University.

Morning Keynote 1:

Kathryn C. Brown
Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon

Kathryn C. Brown is senior vice president – Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility. She has been with the company since June 2002. She is responsible for public policy development and messaging, emerging issues management, and cultivating strategic alliances with key nationaand international organizations. She is also responsible for Verizon’s domestic and international corporate responsibility initiatives. Ms. Brown has responsibility for the Verizon Foundation and its focus on the issues of education and literwith programs such as the Verizon Thinkfinity.org education website, and safety and health, supporting initiatives that further Internet safety, anapply technology to increase access to healthcare information and services.

Before joining Verizon, Ms. Brown was a partner at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brown was the Chief of Staff to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman William E. Kennard, managing the agenda on all telecommunications, broadcast, and spectrum matters.

Additionally, Ms. Brown was the Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Analysis and Development, at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration. Ms. Brown worked for eight years at the New York State Public Service Commission as the Director of the Consumer Services Division and as Litigation Attorney and Managing Attorney for Telecommunications with the Office of General Counsel. Prior to joining the NYPSC, she was the Deputy Clerk of the New York State Court of Appeals.

Ms. Brown serves on numerous boards and advisory committees including, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History board of directors; US Center for Citizen Diplomacy board of directors; National Council of LaRaza corporate board of advisors, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) advisory board and the FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity.

Ms. Brown received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1980 and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Marist College in 1974. She is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. Kathy and her husband Steve reside in Oakton, Virginia. They have two adult daughters.

Opening Remarks:

Mark Donohue
Conference Chairman
Babson Cleantech Entrepreneur In-Residence, Babson College ’88

Moderator

In June 2008, Mr. Donohue was appointed Babson College’s first Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He is primarily teaching, and conducting research, within the Olin Graduate School and Arthur Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, yet he will also lecture in the executive education program. In 2001, he was the sole Founder, Managing Partner and Chairman of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, a pioneer in Clean Technology venture capital investing, which manages over $100,000,000. Mr. Donohue sold most of his interests in Expansion Capital Partners in June 2008.

During the last twenty years, Mr. Donohue has built three successful investment management, investment banking and financial service companies. He has a broad background in venture capital, both on the buy-side and sell-side, plus he has served in senior operational roles for venture-backed enterprises. He has been involved in growing over twenty venture capital backed enterprises. His career has focused on entrepreneurship, investment, corporate strategy and sales/marketing in the areas of Clean Technology and socially responsible business. In the past, he has been a member of many for-profit boards, including Chairing five entrepreneurial Boards of Directors.

Mr. Donohue was a Founding Investor, and has served for seven years on the Advisory Board, of the Cleantech Group, LLC, which is the leading conference and knowledge organization in the sector. He currently advises several leading companies in the sustainability and Cleantech sectors, including the Cleantech Group and Conscious Living Ventures. He has also served in a broad variety of non-profit roles, including the “Micro-Credit Lending” Grant Committee of the Threshold Foundation. He was previously Chair of the Membership Committee for the Social Venture Network (the leading U.S. organization of executives furthering global sustainability).

Mr. Donohue earned his BS in Investment Management, with honors, from Babson College in 1988. In 2009, he graduated from the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators, at Babson College, which is a widely regarded as the preeminent training for teaching entrepreneurship. He has served on the college’s Board of Overseers since 2002. He has been a leader in many Babson initiatives, such Chairing and co-founding Babson’s annual Entrepreneurial Energy Expo, which attracted over 650 attendees in 2009.

On a personal note, he resides in Boston and San Francisco. He is quite active in the lives of his two godchildren, Martin and Ixchel.

Morning Keynote 2:

Sheeraz Haji
CEO, Cleantech Group

As CEO of Cleantech Group, Sheeraz Haji is one of the world’s most influential cleantech thought-leaders and trusted advisors to global companies and executives. Prior to joining the company, Sheeraz served for eight years as co-founder and CEO of GetActive, a venture-backed software-as-a-service, customer relationship management company. He led GetActive’s merger with Convio, then as Convio’s president built a company with 1,200 clients and 300 employees.

Sheeraz has also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company; entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) for El Dorado Ventures; operations executive for GMO, a global management investment firm; and product manager for Digital Impact (acquired by Acxiom). Sheeraz launched his career as an environmental engineer with Environ International. He has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in environmental engineering from Brown University and Stanford University respectively. Sheeraz also holds dual U.S. and French citizenship.

Lunch Introductory Remarks:

Peter Rothstein,
President, New England Clean Energy Council

Peter is President of the New England Clean Energy Council and has many years of venture, entrepreneurial, executive and deal experience across the cleantech venture market. Previously, Peter was part of the Flagship Ventures team, a leading seed and early stage venture capital firm in Cambridge Massachusetts, and founder of Allegro Strategy, a consultant, advisor and interim executive with early-stage cleantech start-ups. Peter has been in early-stage deal or executive roles with a number of cleantech companies, including Mascoma, Planar Energy Devices, Ze-gen, Novomer, Boston-Power, and Mechanology. Peter is actively involved in a range of leading cleantech and entrepreneurial organizations, including the National Renewable Energy Lab’s VC Advisory Board, catalyst to MIT Deshpande Center solar and energy storage MIT projects, and a Board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.

Lunch Keynote

Dr. Bart Riley
Founder, CTO, and VP of R&D, A123 Systems, Inc.

Dr. Bart Riley has more than twenty years of experience in technology development and commercialization in advanced materials and energy industries.

Dr. Riley is currently responsible for R&D at A123Systems and sits on the board of directors.  Prior to co-founding A123 Systems in 2001, Dr. Riley held a number of key technical and management positions at American Superconductor.  Dr. Riley holds more than 45 patents and has published over 85 papers in the fields of advanced materials and energy generation, storage & distribution systems. Dr. Riley holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and a B.A. in Physics and Geology from Middlebury College.

Closing Keynote:

Chuck McDermott
Partner, Rockport Capital

Chuck began his cleantech career over 20 years ago helping to launch in 1984 the nation’s first independent bulk electric power trading company, the predecessor to Citizens Power. In 1986, having directed the successful campaign of Congressman Joseph Kennedy II, Chuck 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, DC Chuck established strong administrative and strategic relationships that have put him at the forefront of cleantech policy deliberations today. He brought this public/private sector experience to RockPort when he joined in 1998. Chuck studied at Yale University before beginning a 14 year career in the music business as a songwriter, performer and recording artist.

Nancy Floyd
Founder & Managing Director, Nth Power

Ms. Nancy C. Floyd is a Founder and a Managing Director at Nth Power LLC. Prior to founding the firm, she built, managed, and negotiated the sale of two high-growth energy and telecommunications companies. In 1985, Ms. Floyd helped found PacTel Spectrum Services. She was responsible for the nationwide launch of Spectrum Services. In 1982, Ms. Floyd founded NFC Energy Corporation. She developed over $30 million in projects and sold the company, generating a 25 fold return.

Other Speakers:

Corporate Sustainability

Cynthia Curtis
Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, CA Technologies

As vice president and chief sustainability officer, Cynthia oversees the CA Technologies Office of Sustainability and is responsible for global sustainability strategy and initiatives for the company. Cynthia also meets with customers looking to use IT management solutions to further their sustainability efforts.

Since joining CA Technologies in 2010, Cynthia has established a track record with measurable results for the company’s sustainability program. She has extended the scope of the company’s sustainability initiatives, and established a cross-functional advisory board and program management office. In addition, she has helped enhance the environmental performance of CA Technologies operations by working with internal teams to further leverage the use of the company’s energy, carbon and sustainability management solution, CA ecoSoftware.

Prior to joining CA Technologies, Cynthia was chief marketing officer at Utimaco Safeware. Previously, she was senior director of marketing for EMC Global Services. Cynthia also has held positions in the public and private sectors, including vice president of global marketing for Unisys Corporation’s network and desktop services division, and director for the United Services Organization (USO) in Germany.

Earlier in her career, Cynthia served as a government liaison for Rogers & Wells in Washington, D.C.; and a legislative correspondent for former Senator Lowell Weicker, Jr.

Cynthia earned a master of business administration degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a bachelor of arts degree from Boston College. She speaks German and lives in a LEED-certified home in Massachusetts.

Rob Pratt
Founder, Chairman & CEO, GreenerU

Rob Pratt is founder, Chairman and CEO of GreenerU, a company dedicated to helping colleges and universities become climate leaders while reducing energy, water and infrastructure costs.  (See www.GreenerU.com)  Mr. Pratt was formerly the founder and CEO of Energia Global International (now Enel Latin America), a company that became one of the leading renewable energy development companies in Central America.  He also served as Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, a $250 million state fund to promote the development of renewable energy as well as clean energy economic development in MA.   Rob is a national and regional leader in clean energy and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the American Council on Renewable Energy;  Chairman and founder (1984) of the International Institute for Energy Conservation;  Treasurer, Executive Committee and board member of the Alliance to Save Energy;  Executive Committee and board member of the New England Clean Energy Council;  and President and board member of the Cambridge Energy Alliance.  He received an MPA degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a JD degree from Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA degree from Wesleyan University.

David Newman
Head of EHS, Sustainability & Facilities, EMD Millipore

David Newman is Head of EHS, Sustainability & Facilities for EMD Millipore, a $3 Billion division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. EMD Millipore provides products, tools and services for life sciences research, development and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Customers include leading universities, laboratories, biotech and pharmaceutical firms worldwide.

Mr. Newman leads the division’s Sustainability, EHS and Facilities Engineering functions. His accomplishments include creating and leading the division’s global Sustainability program. Since 2007, EMD Millipore has initiated several savings projects resulting in an 18% reduction in energy usage, 22% reduction in water use, installation of an onsite 310KW solar system, changeover to a hybrid vehicle fleet, development of a leading edge flexible work program, and implementation of product design for sustainability and innovative product recycling programs. The division has also adopted proactive employee safety programs designed to avoid injuries before they happen resulting in improved productivity and reduced costs.

Prior to joining EMD Millipore in 2003, Mr. Newman worked in EHS management consulting, and before that for a multi-national Fortune 100 manufacturing firm.

He has master degrees in Public Health and Industrial Environmental Management from Yale University, and is a CHMM, certified EMT and firefighter.

Jeramy Lemieux
Head of Climate Savers, Diversey, Inc.

Cheryl Kiser
Managing Director, The Lewis Institute; Executive Director, Babson Social Innovation Lab

As the Executive Director of The  Lewis Initiative on Social Innovation, and The Babson Social Innovation Lab, Ms. Kiser is responsible for addressing  a critical aspect of the growth strategy for Babson by promoting broad support for Babson’s work in integrating people, planet, and profit issues into its curriculum and co-curricula activities.   Ms. Kiser is developing Babson as  the “go to place “for social entrepreneurship resources, activities, relationships, networks, knowledge, content, publications, cases and global convenings. These initiatives  will enable Babson to serve  as an  educator, amplifier, accelerator and communicator of the positive impacts of social entrepreneurship in all of its forms.

Before coming to Babson, Ms. Kiser was the  Managing Director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Cheryl is one of the  leading voices in the U.S. on the role of business in society. For more than 12 years she played a central role in creating the largest research center of its kind in the U.S. and spearheaded a national initiative to engage leading businesses to take a collaborative  approach to working on education issues.

For over a decade she managed the content and delivery of the largest annual conference in the world on corporate citizenship, the International Corporate Citizenship Conference which drew  representatives from over one third of the Fortune 500 every year and from 24 countries around the globe.

Prior to Boston College,Ms. Kiser was the Director of Marketing for Work Family Directions, the leading provider of work life programs and services.

Cheryl headed up communications and community relations/ public affairs for the Metropolitan District Commission, which was the largest state agency in Massachusetts.

Cheryl, who earned a graduate degree in community organization and social policy and planning from Boston College, has always been at the intersection of public policy, private enterprise and community. She is skilled at building new markets for social change organizations and developing communications and positioning strategies. She is a leader in corporate social responsibility and social innovation. She has won awards for her public affairs campaigns.

Cheryl brings her passion and leadership to many voluntary activities. In the area of health care she sits on the board of directors for The New England Conference for Health promotion Disease Prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Erna Yaffe Foundation for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She is also on the advisory board for the Positive Deviance Initiative (PDI) at Tufts University.

As the mother of a world-ranked rock climber, Cheryl is also involved in efforts to elevate the sport to the status of an Olympic sport. Cheryl is married to David Kiser and the mother of two children, Ross and Kenna.

Innovations in CleanTech

Greg Dixon
SVP of Marketing, EnerNOC

Gregg Dixon has led various sales, marketing, and business development efforts at EnerNOC and currently leads marketing efforts worldwide to utility and end-use customers. Gregg is primarily responsible for leading the development of EnerNOC’s go-to-market strategy, product and service development, and the execution of marketing mechanisms that accelerate profitable sales growth and brand recognition through creative and customer-driven insights.

Prior to joining EnerNOC, Gregg was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Hess Microgen, the leading provider of commercial on-site co-generation systems and services in the United States. As a highly recognized expert in distributed generation, Gregg pioneered efforts to bring more than 100 co-generation systems to leading grocery, hospitality, commercial property, and manufacturing customers and developed Hess Microgen’s Internet-based monitoring system, CONIFER. Gregg was also Partner at Mercer Management Consulting, where he advised global Fortune 1000 technology, consumer products, and energy clients on customer and product strategy, economic choice analysis, and new business model development.

Gregg graduated from Boston College with bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science and he is a Certified Energy Manager, Certified Demand Side Management Professional, and Certified Sustainable Development Professional with the Association of Energy Engineers. Gregg was also voted one of Boston’s “40 Under 40″ by Boston Business Journal as recognition for having established himself as a leader to be watched in the field of energy.

Eric Graham
Director, TechBridge – Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems

During his professional career, Eric has conducted business on a global scale. He has founded and managed businesses that have touched on every continent and engaged in cross-border trade in more than 30 countries.  He holds a Finance & Insurance degree from Northeastern University, and received his MBA from Babson’s FW Olin Graduate School of Business. Eric holds two global patents for ultra low temperature refrigeration and transportation methods. Eric is a frequent speaker on clean energy technologies and commercialization strategies, and regularly participates as a judge for cleantech business plan and grant competitions.

Michael T. Bakas
Senior Vice President, Renewable Energy, Ameresco

Mr. Bakas is Senior Vice President, Renewable Energy of Ameresco, a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company. He is a member of the founding management team of the 10-year old public company (NYSE:AMRC).

Mr. Bakas has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry and has been at the forefront of the strategic development of renewable energy assets in both technology and stature.

As a pioneer in the renewable energy industry, he drove and completed some of the earliest agreements that helped shape the protocols and the markets in those states that first implemented renewable portfolio standards. Ever since, he has driven the growth of Ameresco’s renewable energy portfolio to become one of the leading energy services providers in North America. Additionally, Mr. Bakas is instrumental in Ameresco’s corporate strategic planning and global business growth.

Mr. Bakas directs Ameresco’s Renewable Energy Group, which is primarily responsible for the development and operation of renewable energy generation assets both domestically and internationally. He has been key in fostering and supporting legislation that promotes the use of renewable resources. Due to Mr. Bakas’ expertise and forsight, Ameresco and its customers have won numerous awards from the U.S. EPA, the Department of Energy, the Climate Change Business Journal, state agencies, and other industry organizations.

Mr. Bakas has a solid track record of development, marketing and management of a wide array of energy services from the retail sale of power and natural gas to the successful development of energy service and energy saving efficiency projects throughout the nation.

Mr. Bakas is an active member of the U.S. EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program, the National Association of Energy Service Companies, National Assocaition Energy Engineers, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Energy Committee, and many other national and local organizations.

As an industry expert, Mr. Bakas is often invited to speak at industry and customer forums where he typically addresses topics such as Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. He is regularly sought out for expertise and opinion, and has been involved in both radio and televised interviews. Over his career he has been tapped to provide his expertise and guidance regarding energy issues in states from California to Massachusetts, as well as to participate in discussions setting direction for state and local energy policy. Mr. Bakas is frequently quoted in industry and business publications. Over the course of his career, he has written a number of articles and is most recently published in North American Clean Energy.

Mr. Bakas earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.B.A. from Boston College, The Carroll Graduate School of Management.

Robert Gough
Founder, Port Meadow Tech

Robert Gough has worked in over a dozen countries around the world for a variety of world-class organizations developing many exciting products.

After graduating as an Electronic Engineer, he completed his industrial apprenticeship with Lucas Aerospace working on jet engine control systems. He then developed gas detection systems at City Technology in London. Later he spent many years developing Formula One race cars at Benetton. When the opportunity arose, he moved to Germany to work at BMW’s design headquarters developing road cars. After some arm twisting he moved to Fairchild Dornier as a Chief Engineer on the new 728JET aircraft. His career then took him to America where he was responsible for Bose Corporation’s Automotive engineering and technical sales activities in Europe. Most recently Robert has been focusing his energy on clean tech & web development.

Robert has a hands-on attitude to getting things done. Whether it involves delving into the depths of a business development spreadsheets or crawling around the belly of a prototype aircraft, he gets right in.

Robert is a chartered engineering professional with the UK’s Engineering Council. He has an MBA from City University in London and a Marketing Diploma from London’s Institute of Marketing . He is a founding member of the Environment and Energy Committee at the British American Business Council (BABCNE) and is a member of the IET and IEEE.

Clint Wilder
Senior Editor, Clean Edge & Author, The Clean Tech Revolution

Business and technology journalist Clint Wilder covers the clean energy industry as senior editor at Clean Edge, a leading research and online publishing firm. He is co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity (Collins, 2007), which details the business aspects and growth potential of solar energy, wind power, green buildings, biofuels, water filtration and other clean technologies. The book has been favorably reviewed by USA Today, Reuters, Business Week, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review and many other media outlets, and has been translated into seven languages. Wilder is a frequent speaker at clean-tech investment and sustainable business conferences across the U.S. and overseas.

Before joining Clean Edge in 2002, Wilder was an award-winning journalist covering the high-tech and Internet industries for 17 years for Information Week, Optimize, Corporate Computing, and Computerworld magazines. As senior writer at Information Week, he won the 2002 American Society of Business Publications Editors Gold Award for best feature series.

Follow Clint on Twitter at Clint_Wilder.

New Energy Policy & Implications

Patrick Cloney
Executive Director, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

Patrick Cloney brings to the CEC eighteen years of experience in engineering, business, finance and government. His background in power plant operations, management, business development, and strategic planning provides a unique blend of expertise to bring to leading the organization. As an entrepreneur, Cloney has launched businesses in real estate, environmental services, and high technology. Cloney worked previously as Vice President at Susquehanna Capital Management where he managed four portfolio companies.

He was also a partner at Clear Power Ventures, where he focused on early stage energy and environmental technology companies, helping them to raise funds and sharpen their business strategies. More recently, Cloney was Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, assisting companies seeking to locate, expand, or maintain their presence in Massachusetts.

David L. O’Connor
Senior Vice President for Energy and Clean Technology, ML Strategies

David helps energy and technology companies expand their markets and accelerate their growth. With deep knowledge of the energy industry and environmental issues, David helps these companies shape emerging public policies to their advantage. His clients include companies that deliver energy efficiency services, develop wind, biomass and other renewable power plants, install transmission and smart grid technologies, and bring new low-carbon fuels and offsets to the marketplace.

Kim Stevenson
Manager, New Technologies, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund

Kim evaluates proposals and develops and manages programs to support development and commercialization of new clean energy technologies.  She has spent over 15 years in innovation and technology management, working with the senior management of Fortune 500 corporations and smaller organizations to conceive, develop and commercialize new products and services focused on energy, industrial and automotive markets.  Kim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Master of Science degree in urban planning, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James W. Hunt III
Chief of Environmental and Energy Services, City of Boston

Jim Hunt serves on Mayor Thomas Menino’s Cabinet as Chief for Environmental and Energy Services for the City of Boston. In this capacity, Jim Hunt is the Mayor’s lead advisor on environmental and energy policy and oversees several City agencies including the Inspectional Services Department, the Environment Department, Parks Planning, and Boston’s Recycling Program. Jim also serves as a Mayoral Appointee to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and as a Trustee on the Boston Groundwater Trust

The Menino Administration has implemented a number of sustainability initiatives under Jim Hunt’s leadership, particularly in the areas of climate action, green building policy, renewable energy and efficiency, and groundwater protection. In 2007, Boston became the first major city in the nation to require private development to follow the US Green Building Council’s LEED standards as part of the City’s zoning review process. And on Earth Day of 2010, the city unveiled a bold vision for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 25% by the year 2020, while reducing energy costs for homeowners and stimulating Boston’s clean energy economy. This commitment to sound environmental and energy practices has led to the City of Boston being ranked the “3^rd Greenest City” in North America by Popular Science Magazine.

Prior to joining the City, Jim Hunt served as Assistant Secretary for the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) and was responsible for administering the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA). As administrator of the Commonwealth’s MEPA program, Jim was in charge of major project reviews for the state including downtown waterfront development, MBTA transit projects, and a wide range of energy projects such as Cape Wind. Jim Hunt was recently appointed to the Commonwealth’s Climate Protection and Green Economy Advisory Committee, which will advise the Executive Office of Energy and Environment on statewide measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

An attorney, Jim received his Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School and his Bachelors Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jim serves on several non-profit boards, including the Boston Latin School Association, the Boston Harbor Association, and the Dorchester Youth Academy, an alternative middle school serving the at-risk youth of Boston.

Financing Strategies

Chuck McDermott
Partner, Rockport Capital

Chuck began his cleantech career over 20 years ago helping to launch in 1984 the nation’s first independent bulk electric power trading company, the predecessor to Citizens Power. In 1986, having directed the successful campaign of Congressman Joseph Kennedy II, Chuck 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, DC Chuck established strong administrative and strategic relationships that have put him at the forefront of cleantech policy deliberations today. He brought this public/private sector experience to RockPort when he joined in 1998. Chuck studied at Yale University before beginning a 14 year career in the music business as a songwriter, performer and recording artist.

Cary Bullock
CEO, ThermoEnergy Corp.

Mr. Bullock was employed most recently by GreenFuel Technologies Corporation, serving as Chief Executive Officer from February 2005 through June 2007 and as Vice President for Business Development from June 2007 through January 2009; he was a member of the Board of Directors of GreenFuel Technologies Corporation from February 2005  through August 2009. Since February 2009, Mr. Bullock has served a variety of clients as an independent consultant and business advisor. Prior to joining GreenFuel Technologies, Mr. Bullock was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Excelergy Corporation, Vice President of KENETECH Management Services and President of its affiliate, KENETECH Energy Management, Inc., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Econoler/USA Inc., Vice President of Engineering and Operations and Principal Engineer of Xenergy Inc., Director of Special Engineering and a Senior Engineer at ECRM, Inc. and a Senior Engineer at Sylvania Electronics Systems. Mr. Bullock holds an AB degree from Amherst College and B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT.

Jon Abe
Senior Vice President, Nexamp

Jon is Senior Vice President in charge of Business Development, Corporate Development, and Marketing at Nexamp. Prior to joining Nexamp, he worked at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Renewable Energy Trust where he managed the $68 million Commonwealth Solar program. He also was responsible for the Small Renewables and Large Onsite Renewables Initiatives which support development of distributed wind, hydro, and biomass combined heat and power projects. He has worked as a project manager and senior consultant at KEMA and XENERGY, where he was responsible for business development and management of renewable energy project development and distributed energy resource consulting projects. He serves on the Board of the Green Roundtable, Policy Committee of the New England Clean Energy Council, and Cambridge Climate Protection Action Committee. Jon received his bachelor of arts from Cornell University where he was an IBM Watson Scholar.

Mark Donohue
Conference Chairman
Babson Cleantech Entrepreneur In-Residence, Babson College ’88

Moderator

In June 2008, Mr. Donohue was appointed Babson College’s first Clean Technology Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He is primarily teaching, and conducting research, within the Olin Graduate School and Arthur Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, yet he will also lecture in the executive education program. In 2001, he was the sole Founder, Managing Partner and Chairman of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, a pioneer in Clean Technology venture capital investing, which manages over $100,000,000. Mr. Donohue sold most of his interests in Expansion Capital Partners in June 2008.

During the last twenty years, Mr. Donohue has built three successful investment management, investment banking and financial service companies. He has a broad background in venture capital, both on the buy-side and sell-side, plus he has served in senior operational roles for venture-backed enterprises. He has been involved in growing over twenty venture capital backed enterprises. His career has focused on entrepreneurship, investment, corporate strategy and sales/marketing in the areas of Clean Technology and socially responsible business. In the past, he has been a member of many for-profit boards, including Chairing five entrepreneurial Boards of Directors.

Mr. Donohue was a Founding Investor, and has served for seven years on the Advisory Board, of the Cleantech Group, LLC, which is the leading conference and knowledge organization in the sector. He currently advises several leading companies in the sustainability and Cleantech sectors, including the Cleantech Group and Conscious Living Ventures. He has also served in a broad variety of non-profit roles, including the “Micro-Credit Lending” Grant Committee of the Threshold Foundation. He was previously Chair of the Membership Committee for the Social Venture Network (the leading U.S. organization of executives furthering global sustainability).

Mr. Donohue earned his BS in Investment Management, with honors, from Babson College in 1988. In 2009, he graduated from the Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators, at Babson College, which is a widely regarded as the preeminent training for teaching entrepreneurship. He has served on the college’s Board of Overseers since 2002. He has been a leader in many Babson initiatives, such Chairing and co-founding Babson’s annual Entrepreneurial Energy Expo, which attracted over 650 attendees in 2009.

On a personal note, he resides in Boston and San Francisco. He is quite active in the lives of his two godchildren, Martin and Ixchel.

Advances in Food, Water and Waste

Kathy Loftus
Global Leader for Sustainability Engineering, Maintenance & Energy Management, Whole Foods

Kathy Loftus is Global Leader for Sustainable Engineering, Maintenance and Energy Management for Whole Foods Market, the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods. She coordinates strategic energy procurement, efficiency upgrades, engineering and maintenance best practices, and green building efforts for the chain. Her work includes coordinating program partnerships and efforts with the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and U.S. Green Building Council. Loftus holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a Certified Energy Manager through the Association of Energy Engineers. Part of the National Affairs Series: Innovation and Ethics and the Women in STEM Series.

Prior to working with Whole Foods, Kathy Loftus was Director of Business Development for EnerNOC, Inc. working with commercial, industrial and institutional national accounts, building beyond demand response to implement improved energy management strategies across their diverse facility portfolios. She also developed and managed business services with utilities.

Prior to joining EnerNOC, Loftus spent eight years as Director of Energy & Environmental Management for Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc., where she was active in the EPA Energy Star and Green Power Partners Programs, as well as the United States Green Building Council’s LEED Retail Advisory committee and a Clean Air-Cool Planet partner. She sat on the board of the (Massachusetts) Energy Consortium and on the board of WasteCap of Massachusetts.

Previously, Loftus worked for Eastern Utilities (acquired by National Grid) for six years, where she worked in integrated resource management including demand side management program development, implementation, and management. She was a participant on the 2005 New England Roundtable on Federal Renewable Energy Policy and is participating currently on the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency. Loftus recently served eight years on the Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust and currently sits on her town’s Renewable Energy Commission. She is also an officer on the Board of Directors of Clean Air-Cool Planet.

Bob Reese
Founder, Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery

Bob Reese is a principal and founder of Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery. Prior to starting the company with Allison Hooper, he was Director of Marketing with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture in Montpelier, VT. Mr. Reese has broad experience in the international arena working with farmers, cheese makers and economic development agencies in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Israel, Palestine, Macedonia and the Republic of Uzbekistan. Bob’s interests in building community-based agribusinesses in Vermont earned him and his partner, Allison Hooper, the U.S. SBA Small Business of the Year in 1996 and the University of Vermont’s College of Agriculture and Life Science 2007 Alumni of the Year. Bob and his wife Sandy, a landscape artist, live in South Hero, Vermont.

Jonathan Nash
Director of Business Development, NewStream LLC

Jon Nash joined NewStream in June of 2008 and serves as the Company’s Director of Business Development. He oversees broad development efforts, and manages all strategic partnerships with environmental service companies, consultants, engineers and industrial generators to identify cost-effective and environmentally sound solutions for liquid recycling and disposal.

Previously, Jon co-authored the turnaround, growth and sale of a 60 year-old manufacturing company. He then founded his own consulting business and transitioned into cleantech in 2007.

He is a member of the Environmental Business Council of New England, and an associate member of the Licensed Site Professional Association (LSPA) of Massachusetts.  He was also a founding member of the Duxbury Bay Management Commission which focuses specifically on use-management and water quality issues.

Jon holds an MBA from Babson College and a BA from Colby College.

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Frank Zammataro
CEO, Rentricity

Mr. Zammataro has over 20 years of operating experience with large and small organizations primarily in the development and marketing of emerging technology. Prior to co-founding Rentricity, Mr. Zammataro served as the Chief Marketing Officer of w-Technologies, a wireless software company, where he drove the global market and product strategy, business development, and corporate communications activities.

At Merrill Lynch, he served as FVP/ Managing Director of Investments and Alliances in the Private Client Division, where he maintained overall responsibility for technology related strategic alliances, investments, marketing, and sales ($70MM budget).

Mr. Zammataro has been a contributing columnist, spoken frequently at leading industry events, and participates in various industry, municipal, and academic organizations. After graduating from St. John’s University with a B.A. in Political Science and Communications Arts, Mr. Zammataro attended New York University pursuing a Master’s in New Media. Mr. Zammataro also completed the Executive Leadership Development Program at The Wharton School.

Frank Van Mierlo
CEO, 1366 Technologies

Frank van Mierlo started 1366 Technologies Inc. together with MIT professor Ely Sachs. The goal of 1366 Technologies is to make silicon based solar cells competitive with coal generated electricity. 1366 Technologies is commercializing improved manufacturing processes and the related equipment.

Products include: a patterning machine to make structured texturing, a dispensing machine that improves metallization and a Direct Wafer® machine that lowers the cost of making silicon wafers by 60%. 1366 Technologies is the second venture that Frank has started out of MIT.

His previous venture was Bluefin Robotics Corp., a company that enjoyed double digit growth and was always profitable under Frank’s leadership. Bluefin became the leading robotics company in its field and is known for its technical competence and a customer centric approach. The company maintained a strong balance sheet, a healthy cash flow and a team of highly qualified engineers. Frank held the team together under intense schedule and recruiting pressure. In May 2005 the company was sold, all employees cashed a significant check and shareholders made 442% return on their investment.

Frank holds engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford and a business degree from Insead. At 1366 Technologies he fulfills the role of CEO. His equal co-founder Professor Sachs is working fulltime at 1366 as CTO.

John Pepper
CEO, Boloco

John is the co-founder and CEO of Boloco (www.boloco.com), a 17-unit fast-casual Boston-based restaurant chain which opened its first location in 1997. With locations open in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, Boloco expects to have 20 company-owned units operating by year end 2011. John also co-founded b.good, (www.bgood.com) a 7-unit fast-casual better-for-you burger restaurant concept also based in Boston.

Prior to founding Boloco in 1997, John spent four years in sales and marketing at Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Endo-Surgery division.

John is a member of the Alumni Council of Dartmouth College and serves as a Board Member of Community Servings (Boston non-profit meal delivery service) and the Farmer’s Diner (organic/local food-focused diner concept based in VT). He is a former Board Member of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association.

He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991, and received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1997 (where the first Boloco business plan was written as part of his Entrepreneurship class).

John is originally from Cincinnati. He now resides in Boston with his wife and two daughters.

William R. Huss, Ph. D.

Dr. William R. Huss has over 25 years of experience in the energy consulting industry having most recently served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of XENERGY Inc. , one of the world’s leading energy efficiency and market analysis firms. At XENERGY, Dr. Huss was responsible for the growth, profitability, and client satisfaction of a 200+ person organization with annual revenues in excess of $30 million — an organization that served the needs of nearly all of the major electric utility companies in North America.. His responsibilities included oversight of the energy efficiency, management consulting, gas and energy services business areas.

Dr. Huss specialized in the assessment of energy efficiency and demand management programs, integrated resource planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, and retail electric choice in the United States including pricing, regulatory rules, and competitive tactics. He has testified on utility load forecasting issues in Washington and New York states and his views on retail choice have appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Huss has also published in Public Utilities Fortnightly, the International Journal of Forecasting, Long Range Planning, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, the Journal of Forecasting, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

Dr. Huss is currently an Executive Advisor to Concentric Energy and holds a full-time lecturer position at Babson College where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate business students in statistics and operations research and advises students planning careers in clean energy. In addition, Dr. Huss played a key role in organizing the Global Warming Teach-In, the Energy Entrepreneurs Expo, designing a Clean Technology course and concentration, and supporting the formation of an Institute for Clean Technology.

Dr. Huss is also a lead consultant for the Executive Service Corps of New England where he manages strategic planning, marketing, and M&A projects for non-profits in the Boston area.

Prior to joining XENERGY, Dr. Huss was a principal research scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute where led studies on the feasibility of alternative generation technologies such as photovoltaic, wind, biomass, solar thermal, wave energy, and cogeneration. He is also a graduate of General Electric’s Manufacturing Management Program with assignments at the Medium Transformer Plant in Rome GA and at Aircraft Engines in Evendale OH. Dr. Huss has also held positions with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dr. Huss holds a Ph.D., in business and engineering, an M.A. in public administration and an M.S. in industrial and systems engineering from The Ohio State University as well as a B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics and physics from Gettysburg College.