Panelist Information

Keynote Address

Jeffrey Byron, of Los Altos, was appointed to the California Energy Commission by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in June 2006. The five members of the Energy Commission are appointed by the Governor to staggered five-year terms and require Senate confirmation. By law, four of the five members of the Energy Commission are required to have professional training in specific areas - engineering or physics, environmental protection, economics, and law. One commissioner is appointed to represent the public-at-large. Commissioner Byron fills the public-at-large position with over 30 years of experience in the electric power industry and over 10 years of service assisting customers in meeting their energy needs.

Commissioner Byron serves as Presiding Member of the Energy Commission's Electricity and Natural Gas Committee, the Siting Policy Committee, and the Integrated Energy Policy Committee. He also serves as Associate Member on the ad hoc committee for the joint greenhouse gas reduction proceeding with the CPUC.

Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Byron served as president of Byron Consulting Group, developing strategic energy solutions for mid to large-sized firms since 2002. Commissioner Byron served as Co-Chair of the Silicon Valley Leadership Council's Energy Committee and managed an energy efficiency program to reduce energy use and carbon emissions among businesses and other organizations on behalf of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Sustainable Silicon Valley. Previously, he developed combined heat and power projects for Calpine C*Power from 2000 to 2001, and was Energy Director for Oracle Corporation from 1996 to 2000. Commissioner Byron served at the Electric Power Research Institute from 1985 to 1995 in a variety of capacities, including commercialization director and executive technical advisor.

Commissioner Byron received a Bachelor and a Master of Science degree from Stanford University.

Keynote - DEC - Jeff Bryon.pdf

Guest Speaker

Michael Liebreich is Chairman and Chief Executive of New Energy Finance, the leading independent provider of information and research to investors in clean energy and the carbon markets. New Energy Finance has over 120 staff working out of 11 offices around the world, providing a range of newsletters, data, economic, policy and technology analysis and carbon price forecasting to senior decision makers.

Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies, Advisory Board Member for the Energy and Climate Change working group for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and Steering Group Member for a number of IEA RETD projects. He is on the Selection Committees for the 2009 Zayed Future Energy Prize and for the annual Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards. Michael is a member of the Energy Leadership Forum of E+Co, an NGO which finances clean energy in the developing world, and an Advisory Board Member of the Wilderhill New Energy Global Innovation Index (ticker symbol NEX).

Prior to founding New Energy Finance in 2004 Michael helped to build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive with such organizations as Associated Press Television, Sports News Television, Interactive Investor, Groupe Arnault, and McKinsey & Company.

Michael earned a Master of Arts in Engineering with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge, winning the Wyatt Prize for Engineering and the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics. He has an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. Michael speaks fluent German and French, and reasonable Spanish. From 1986 to 1993 he was a member of the British Ski Team, competing in the World Cup and in the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games. He is Chairman of St Marks Hospital Foundation, a medical charity.

Panel 1: California's Leadership in Policy

Nadeem is an Engagement Manager in McKinsey's San Francisco Office, where he is a core member of the Firm's Clean Tech Practice. Nadeem also helped launch McKinsey's Climate Change Special Initiative, a cross-industry and cross-functional initiative within the Firm focused on the business impact of climate change. In addition to his expertise on the impacts of clean technology on the transport and power sectors, Nadeem has assisted clients across a range of industries with operational and organizational improvement efforts. His recent work includes:

• Development of growth strategies for established and new companies in the advanced energy storage sector
• Evaluation of emerging technologies, economics, and adoption drivers for electric vehicles as well as winning business strategies within the electric vehicles ecosystem
• Strategic analyses of the business opportunities and risks of climate change for the electronics, consumer goods, and aviation sectors
• Evaluation of new business opportunities related to energy efficiency and Smart Grid
• Market research on the emerging "green consumer", related consumer trends and winning marketing strategies for bringing "green" products to the mass market

Prior to McKinsey, Nadeem was a consultant at Accenture focused on organizational strategy, and also held roles as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow and as a Political & Environmental Affairs Analyst at Lufthansa Airlines in Berlin, Germany. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Distinction in Industrial Engineering, and obtained his MBA from the University of California-Berkeley.

Sven Thesen, who joined Better Place in April 2008, is responsible for driving the company's sustainability vision and strategic relations with key utility companies.

In his role, Thesen leverages his deep technical expertise in electric transportation and environmental engineering to help Better Place achieve its greater goal of global oil independence. Prior to joining Better Place, Thesen managed the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emission reduction team and assisted the United Nations in revising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. As a result of his contributions to the IPCC, he and other contributing engineers and scientists were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

In his most recent post at PG&E, Thesen served as Electric Drive Supervisor within company's Clean Air Transportation Department. Under his direction, the Electric Drive Group secured its leadership position in utility-based EV initiatives by being the first utility to demonstrate Vehicle to Grid (V2G) technology.

Thesen received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and has been recognized by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration with the 2006 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award. As an avid cyclist and zero emission activist, sets a good example for his two children and wife by biking to and from work and their residence in Palo Alto, California.

Dr. Ed Cazalet has over forty years of electric power and related experience as an executive, board member, consultant, and entrepreneur. He combines this electric industry experience with energy experience in the gas, oil, coal and nuclear industries. He has worked in the telecommunications, banking, chemicals, and office machine industries, and has been a consultant and participant in the development of state and federal energy and environmental policy.

He was recently a member of the Board of Governors of the California Independent System Operator and is a founder of MegaWatt Storage Farms, The Cazalet Group, Automated Power Exchange (APX), Decision Focus, Inc. and Cazalet Systems.

MegaWatt Storage Farms plans, develops and operates grid scale electricity storage farms. MegaWatt is storage technology agnostic and deploys commercial electricity storage for renewables integration and grid stability. The Cazalet Group provides high-level strategic, investment and operational advice, consulting, training, design and research to industry and government executives facing changes in electric power market structures and regulation. The Cazalet Group brings experience, confidentiality and industry knowledge to the executives and organizations it serves.

Dr. Cazalet holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University focused on economics, decision analysis and power system planning and degrees in engineering from the University of Washington.

Policy - Gigawatt Storage Farms - Ed Cazalet.pdf

Annabelle Louie works in the Emerging Clean Technology Policy department at PG&E. In this role, Annabelle is responsible for identifying and supporting emerging technologies that expand the renewable energy potential available to PG&E. Annabelle manages efforts across a broad range of technologies, with a particular focus on energy storage, advanced geothermal energy, and hydroelectricity. Her current energy storage activities include developing opportunities to demonstrate promising, utility-scale storage technologies, as well as working with policy makers and industry leaders to address barriers to energy storage deployment in California. Annabelle also participates in clean technology conferences, workshops, and events to communicate PG&E's renewable and low carbon energy procurement goals.

Prior to her current role, Annabelle held positions in the consulting, education, and legal fields. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies to implement energy management plans and develop business strategies that incorporate principles of environmental sustainability. Annabelle has an MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a B.A. in Mass Communications and a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.

Policy - PG&E - Annabelle Louie.pdf

Eric Wesoff is a senior analyst at Greentech Media (www.greentechmedia.com) where he covers the financing and technology of renewable energy and cleantech markets. His clients and networks include the leading investors and public and private companies in renewable energy.

Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.

Eric's expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.

From 1988 to 1996, Eric served as product marketing manager for Siemens Optoelectronics, where he oversaw complex product lines and managed relationships with global customers. He then became the U.S. marketing and sales manager for Akzo Nobel Photonics, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase. Eric later served as the sales director for Dicon Fiber Optics, where he was responsible for selling millions of dollars of fiber-optic telecom-equipment. He has consulted for Merck, JDSU, Coherent, IBM and scores of other firms, governments and organizations.

Policy - Greentechmedia - Eric Wesoff.pdf

Marianne Wu is a Partner at MDV where she focuses on Cleantech investments. These typically involve significant technology or business model breakthroughs applied to large, evolving markets such as solar, biofuels and chemicals, clean coal, energy efficiency and water treatment and management. She leverages a decade of technology development and business experience to help entrepreneurs build meaningful, successful businesses. At MDV, she works closely with a number of the portfolio companies including ZeaChem and Catilin.

Prior to joining MDV, Marianne was VP Marketing at ONI Systems where she was responsible for product strategy and market development. Earlier in her career, Marianne was a consultant at McKinsey and Company where she advised major technology clients on strategic and operational issues. Marianne has conducted state-of-the-art research in materials, devices, and systems at Stanford University and started her career as a design engineer at Nortel Networks where she developed high-speed networking technologies.

She is a member of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association (HYSTA) VC Group, Environmental Entrepreneurs, and is on the Advisory Committee of the Western Governors' Association.

Marianne earned both her doctoral and master's degrees from the School of Engineering at Stanford University and her bachelor's in Applied Science at the University of British Columbia.

Policy - MDW - Marianne Wu.pdf

Panel 2: Innovations in Technology

Pramod Kulkarni has worked at the Energy Commission since 1990 and has been actively involved with renewable energy, energy storage, RD&D financing, technology assessment and commercialization programs. Prior to joining the Commission Mr. Kulkarni worked in the field of energy technology development, project finance and in the finance department of a Fortune 100 company. His educational background includes an MBA, a MS and a BS.

Technology - CEC - Pramod Kulkarni.pdf

Andrew Wang has 15 years of commercial and technical experience in the clean energy sector. Mr. Wang is Senior Development Manager at SolarReserve, the leading provider of utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) systems that integrate molten salt thermal energy storage. Prior to SolarReserve, Mr. Wang successfully negotiated over 800 MW and managed over 2,200 MW of wholesale power purchase agreements at Southern California Edison (NYSE: EIX), a major investor-owned utility and the leading buyer of renewable power in the United States. Previous responsibilities included both marketing and sales positions for Capstone Turbine (NASDAQ: CPST), the world's leading provider of microturbine distributed generation products, as well as program manager for refining landfill gas to compressed natural gas vehicle fuel at Puente Hills Landfill, one of the largest municipal solid waste landfills in the United States. Mr. Wang holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley, a Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, a Masters of Business Administration from the Anderson School at UCLA, and is a licensed Professional Engineering in California.

Technology - SolarReserve - Andrew Wang.pdf

Nick Hodson is a Principal with McKinsey and Company based in the San Francisco office. Nick has over twelve years of consulting experience concentrating on energy in general and downstream petroleum in particular.

Nick is a frequent speaker on the greenhouse gas abatement challenge at climate change events on the West Coast. He also co-leads the Firm's research and client work on energy storage sector globally.

Relevant engagement experience includes:

• Greenhouse gas abatement strategy development for the State of Hawaii
• Greenhouse gas mapping and abatement opportunity for a large US state for a utility
• Biofuels strategy for major oil company
• Refinery and logistics strategy for a major oil company's Australian affiliate
• Pricing strategy for the coal freight division of a major rail road
• Retail pricing and operations strategy for a major oil company
• Operations improvement for a major oil company's integrated refining and petrochemicals operation

Within McKinsey, Nick is also active in knowledge development efforts focused on biogas, automotive propulsion, and carbon capture and sequestration.

Before entering consulting, Nick worked for Shell in the Upstream, focused on competitor acreage evaluation in the North Sea and for Mobil Oil Co Ltd where he worked in supply and distribution and refinery scheduling and optimization.

Nick won a scholarship at Oxford University where he read Geology and subsequently earned an MBA from INSEAD.

Haresh Kamath is a Senior Project Manager in the Power Delivery and Utilization (PDU) Sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). His current research activities focus on the development, assessment, and application of energy storage technologies for transportation and stationary applications. He also serves as the Strategic Program Manager for Materials for End Use and Power Delivery in EPRI's Technology Innovation program.

Mr. Kamath joined EPRI PEAC (an EPRI subsidiary) in 2002 as a project engineer in energy storage and distributed generation. His responsibilities grew to management of projects in energy storage, distributed generation, energy efficiency, and electric transportation. He was an author for the DOE-EPRI Handbook of Energy Storage and served on the board of directors of the Electricity Storage Association.

Before joining EPRI, Mr. Kamath worked at Lockheed Martin Space Systems as a product engineer responsible for spacecraft batteries. He also served as an applications engineering and business development manager at a startup energy storage company.

Mr. Kamath received his BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Craig R. Horne is CEO and Co-Founder of EnerVault Corporation, a start-up company developing next generation energy storage solutions for the grid and renewable energy installations. Craig's long commitment to a better planet has guided his 20 year career in cleantech spanning solid oxide fuel cell, Li-ion battery, Pb-acid battery, and Redox Flow Battery technologies. During his career he has served leadership roles at NanoGram Corporation, NeoPhotonics, Kainos Energy, and World Energy Labs. Craig currently serves on the Technical Advisory Boards of NanoGram and Amprius and previously was an Advisor to NanoGram Devices. Craig has over 15 publications and has been awarded 14 US patents in equipment, processes, and nanomaterials-based components for lithium ion batteries, photonic devices, and fuel cells. Craig earned degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Florida (B.S. with High Honors), UCLA (M.S.), and UC Berkeley (Ph.D.). While at Berkeley, he minored in Energy and Resources and received several awards for his work in Li- ion battery active materials. Craig has twice served as Chair of the San Francisco Section of the Electrochemical Society, currently serves on the Sunnyvale Mayoral Green Ribbon Committee, and is an active volunteer in Sunnyvale community organizations and schools.

Technology - EnerVault - Craig Horne.pdf

Dr. Mohit Singh is the founder and the Director of Technology at Seeo, a Berkeley start-up developing a new class of high-energy rechargeable lithium batteries that offer unprecedented safety and lifetime. With support from Silicon Valley's top venture firms (Khosla Ventures, Google.org), the team at Seeo is moving full speed toward revolutionizing electricity storage and delivery. The technology was developed through collaboration between UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National lab's prestigious BATT (Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies) program. During his stint at LBNL as a post doctoral fellow, Dr. Singh discovered a novel nano-structured polymeric electrolyte that was extremely safe, and stable against the battery electrodes. Prior to founding Seeo, Dr. Singh worked in the area of bio-plastics at Arkema Inc, a world leader in polymeric materials and specialty chemicals. Dr. Singh received his Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in Chemical Engineering, and continued on to get his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, examining self assembly of soft nano-materials, and their applications in drug delivery. Dr. Singh has several international publications, and patents, and is a leading authority in the field of energy storage.

Technology - Seeo - Mohit Singh.pdf