athgo march 2009 program

Organized byAthgo International

GLOBAL CLEAN TECHNOLOGY FORUM

University of California, Los Angeles4-7 March, 2009

SummaryThe 6th annual Global Forum at UCLA provides a platform for 100 selected young people across the globe tolearn and advance their causes toward achieving environmental sustainability in the context of the UNMillennium Development Goal (MDG) 7. The event will bring together influential government representatives,scientists, diplomats, experts and corporate executives into an arena with promising young people toshowcase their successful sustainability practices and highlight innovations and new ground-breakingbusiness models and financing methods that effectively address the development of renewable energysources.

The forum is set to encourage young people to get engaged in, develop, and propose new sustainability andrenewable energy initiatives in creative and cordial environment. Each participant will have an opportunityto engage corporate and public decision-makers and his/her peers while drafting group and individualinnovative solutions to address global environmental and alternative energy challenges. The forum willconclude with young participants presenting their plans on group innovation panels. The proposals will beevaluated by leaders in government, the private sector, and civil society, and will be showcased at theconference closing ceremonies. The individuals with best results, with the support of Athgo, will continue thedevelopment of the business models.

INTRODUCTION4-7 March, 2009, Los Angeles, California

ProgramGlobal Clean Technology Forum

Panel 1: Rewards and Incentives for Going Clean

Panel 2: Renewable Power Generation

Panel 3: Clean Technology Funding

Panel 4: Sustainable Development – National and International Policies

Panel 5: Recycling and Waste Management

Panel 6: The Role of Media

Representatives of private sector, government agencies and NGOs will develop a discussion about cost-effectiveways to encourage ’going green’. The focus is Renewable Energy Certificates, Carbon cap, Carbon Tax, and otherrelevant discussions.

Bringing together private sector representatives from the energy industry, the panel explores sustainable energysolutions. The panelists will discuss technical, strategic and economic issues and will provide insights into challengesand opportunities in the industry.

Representatives from the financial sector will address funding aspects of clean energy. The panel will discusstraditional and innovative funding sources, focusing on the best strategies and opportunities to invest in clean-techmarket and finance renewable energy projects.

Diplomats and experts will analyze sustainable development through the lens of national and international policy.The speakers will look at new directions for policy supporting environmental sustainability and economicdevelopment and will explore the political implications involved in shifting mainstream policies.

Representatives from the private sector, government agencies, and NGOs will explore the complexities andopportunities involved with waste management and recycling solutions. The discussion focuses on the practicalimplementation of a variety of waste management programs.

Representatives from the media and entertainment industry will discuss the role of media in marketing andinfluencing information flows directed toward environmental sustainability. The panel focuses on the driving forceof media in delivering encouraging and timely information, energizing masses and raising awareness aboutenvironmental conditions in the world.

Panel Focus and Objectives

Discussion SessionsThese sessions are quite informal in their structure and presentation. These interactions are of extreme value toour participants. The 60 minute discussions are conducted by 5-8 specialists/officials. Each presenter isassigned an area where a portion of our participants assemble for a talk. The speakers are encouraged tomake a brief presentation (up to 15 minutes– no audio/visual) after which the floor should be open for a Q&Asession.

PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION

ORIENTATION SESSION

WELCOMING REMARKS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

BREAK - ICEBREAKER

PANEL 1: Rewards and Incentives for Going Clean

LUNCHEON

PANEL 2: Renewable Power Generation

INFORMAL DISCUSSION Session

DISCUSSION: Social Entrepreneurship

SOCIAL VENTURE DEVELOPMENT Session 1

WELCOMING Reception

Emcee: , VP. Education &Training, Athgo

, Chairman, Athgo

, United Nations Under Secretary General, Special

Adviser on Africa, and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries,Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

Panelists:, Vice President, Energy and Environment, IBM

, Consul General, Consulate General of Belgium in Los Angeles, Director, Sustainable Business, Dell

, New York Times Best Selling Author; Founder, Shift Your HabitModerator:

, President, Los Angeles City Public Works

Panelists:, Partner, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP

, Director, Energy Efficiency, Southern California Edison, CEO, AirGenerate

, Chairman and Founder, G24 InnovationsModerator:

, Partner, Dongell Lawrence Finney Lawyers, LLP

Presenters:, Chief of Staff, Diane Watson, Congresswoman

, Sustainability Coordinator, UCLA Sustainability, Vice President, Global Initiatives, Points of Light Institute

, Manager of Business Performance, Energy Efficiency Division,Southern California Edison Company

, Chairman, Athgo

Hosted by Los Angeles City Attorney (by invitation only)

Dr. Darel Engen

Dr. Armen Orujyan

His Excellency Cheick Sidi Diarra

Mr. Rich LechnerMr. Geert CrielMr. Tod ArbogastMs. Elizabeth Rogers

Ms. Cynthia Ruiz

Mr. Allan MarksMr. Gene RodriguezMr. Rick PalMr. Robert M. Hertzberg

Mr. Tal Finney

Mr. Richard ButcherMs. Nurit KatzMr. Navneet Singh NarulaMr. Tory Weber

Dr. Armen Orujyan

Rocky Delgadillo

International

International

International

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08:00-09:00

09:00-09:50

09:50-10:00

10:00-11:00

11:00-11:30

11:30-13:00

13:00-14:00

14:05-15:30

15:30-16:30

16:30-17:00

DAY 1Wednesday, 04 March 2009

4-7 March, 2009, Los Angeles, California


17:00-18:00

19:00-20:30


KEYNOTE Address

Networking LUNCHEON

PANEL 4: Sustainable Development – National and International Policies

GROUP TO GROUP DIALOGUE

PANEL 3: Clean Technology Funding


BREAK

, Chief Information Officer and Director for High PerformanceComputing and Communications, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic& Atmospheric Administration

Panelists:, Honorary Consul, Consulate of Estonia in Los Angeles

, Director, Aviation Infrastructure Policy and Strategy, Boeing, Consul General, Consulate General of Germany in Los Angeles

, Consul General, Consulate General of Turkey in Los AngelesModerator:

, Professor of Economics, Political Science, and Policy Studies,UCLA, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute

Mr. Joseph Klimavicz

Mr. Jaak TreimanMs. Tricia LovelandMr. Christian StocksMr. Hakan Tekin

Dr. Michael Intriligator

Panelists:, Managing Director, Environmental Capital Group

, Managing Partner, Angeleno Group, Vice President, Guggenheim Partners

Moderator:, City Attorney, City of Los Angeles

Mr. David HeppeMr. Daniel WeissMr. Raúl Pomares

Mr. Rocky Delgadillo

09:00-10:00

10:05-11:05

11:10-12:20

12:20-13:20

13:25-14:45

14:45-16:40

16:40-17:00

17:00-18:00

DAY 2Thursday, 05 March 2009

Program


Global Clean Technology Forum


PANEL 6: The Role of Media


PANEL 5: Recycling and Waste Management

Networking LUNCHEON

Panelists:, President, Electronic Recyclers International

, Executive Director, Keep California Beautiful

, Principal, Meo & Associates, Managing Partner, Rustic Canyon

Moderator:, Principal, Adi Liberman & Associates Environmental

Communications and Public Affairs

Mr. John ShegerianMs. Christine Flowers Ewing

Mr. Dominic Meo IIIMr. Nate Redmond

Mr. Adi Liberman

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Panelists:, President, GreenHouse Videos

, CEO, Greening Hollywood on HuffingtonPost.com, Correspondent, NBC News, KNBC in Los Angeles

, former CEO and Publisher, Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive, President, Green and Greener

Moderator:, President, Clark Strategic Partners –

Mr. Mark DeCarloMs. Page DonnerMs. Jinah KimMs. Caroline LittleMs. Alegre Ramos

Dr. Woodrow Clark II Nobel Peace Prize Laureatewith Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

9:00-11:05

11:10-12:20

12:30-14:00

14:00-15:30

DAY 3Friday, 06 March 2009

Program



15:30-17:00


BREAK

BREAK

INNOVATION PANEL 3

INNOVATION PANEL 1

INNOVATION PANEL 2

CLOSING Remarks

Networking LUNCHEON

Moderator:, Sustainability Coordinator, UCLA

Evaluators:


Evaluators:

, Chairman, Athgo

Ms. Nurit Katz

Ms. Nurit Katz

Dr. Armen Orujyan

, Global Project Finance Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &McCloy LLP

, President, Clark Strategic Partners –

, CEO, Greening Hollywood on HuffingtonPost.com, Principal, Meo & Associates, Director, Energy Efficiency, Southern California Edison

, Global Project Finance Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &McCloy LLP

, CEO, Greening Hollywood on HuffingtonPost.com, Principal, Meo & Associates, Director, Energy Efficiency, Southern California Edison


Evaluators:, Global Project Finance Group of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &

McCloy LLP, CEO, Greening Hollywood on HuffingtonPost.com

, Principal, Meo & Associates, Director, Energy Efficiency, Southern California Edison

Mr. Ari Bessendorf

Dr. Woodrow Clark II

Ms. Paige DonnerMr. Dominic Meo IIIMr. Gene Rodrigues

Mr. Ari Bessendorf


Ms. Nurit Katz

Mr. Ari Bessendorf


Nobel Peace Prize Laureatewith Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International

9:00-10:00

10:05-10:15

10:20-10:55

10:55-11:30

11:30-11:35

11:40-12:15

12:15-12:40

12:40 14:00-

DAY 4Saturday, 07 March 2009

Program



Arbogast, Tod

Diarra Cheick, Sidi

Clark, Woodrow

Criel, Geert

Director, Sustainable Business, Dell Inc.Tod Arbogast is responsible for managing Dell’s Sustainability team and programs. In this role, he isresponsible for managing the balance of Dell’s growth strategy with goals to minimize Dell’s impact onnatural and human resources. Elements of Mr. Arbogast’s role include managing company relationshipswith stakeholders that help Dell develop sustainable growth strategies, guiding Dell’s product recovery andrecycling programs, climate change impacts, and managing a model of identifying issues that could affectDell’s future growth so that the company can prepare to meet these challenges.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least DevelopedCountries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

Qualitative Economist, President, Clark Strategic Partners

Consul General, Consulate General of Belgium in Los Angeles

Mr. Diarra has over 25 years of professional experience in international relations, law and development. Hehas advanced and first-hand knowledge and experience of bilateral and multilateral relations and provenskills in international negotiations and international consensus-building. He was also involved in the nationalreconciliation efforts of Mali which paved the road to the country’s peaceful and democraticdevelopment.

He co-chaired the open-ended informal consultations on strengthening the role of ECOSOC which resultedin the adoption of the General Assembly resolution 61/16. He also co-chaired the informal consultationsresolution 60/265 on follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including MDGs.Ambassador Diarra also is also part of the informal group of Ambassadors known as the “Friends of thesystem-wide coherence”. He has been an active advocate for the cause of Africa, the Least DevelopedCountries and Landlocked Developing Countries as his country uniquely represents all these three groups ofcountries. Because of his well known efforts, he was recently elected as Chairman of the Group ofLandlocked Developing Countries.

Dr. Clark founded Clark Strategic Partners (CSP) in 2004, whose major clients include: Energy Director (whosegoal is to make the nine campuses energy independent and carbon neutral) for the LA Community CollegeDistrict; Energy Technology Advisor for Paramount Pictures; Senior Foreign Energy Advisor (AsianDevelopment Bank) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), Peoples Republic of China; and SeniorFellow, Milken Institute. He also sits on the boards for non-profit and for-profit organizations. Clark co-authored “Agile Energy Systems: global lessons from the California energy crisis” (2004). His most recentbook is “Qualitative Economics: toward a science of economics” (2008). Clark’s next book is “SustainableCommunities” (due in Spring 09 from Springer Press). Later in 2009, Clark plans to release: “SustainableDevelopment Tools and Mechanisms” (Elsevier Press). He has over 40 peer reviewed journal articles andnumerous mass media credits including articles, papers documentary video and film on topical issues.

He was Senior Advisor on Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies, and Finance to California GovernorGray Davis from 2000 to 2003. In 2007, Clark was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize due to his co-authorship and co-editorship for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)from 1995-2000 in which he is still active today.

Mr. Criel ‘s professional experience has started from 1983, when he started to work with Fortis Bank (largestBelgian bank) at Foreign Trade and Credit Departments. Starting from 1990 till present Mr. Criel is employedwith Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was successively posted in Rome, Brussels (Representation to theEuropean Union), Tel Aviv, Royal Palace, Washington DC, and lastly in Los Angeles.

SPEAKERS4-7 March, 2009, Los Angeles, California


Decarlo, Mark

Delgadillo, Rocky

Donner, Paige

Finney, Tal

President, GreenHouse VideosLong before Mark began visiting over 400 cities to sample the cuisine and idiosyncratic culture of realpeople on the Travel Channel’s “Taste of America with Mark DeCarlo,” he enjoyed portraying pretendpeople with The Second City, as a founding member of the legendary troupe’s West Coast Company.

Mark also hosted the popular FX late night talk/comedy, The X Show. Other TV includes; Seinfeld, Evening atthe Improv, Matlock, The Ben Stiller Show, HBO’s Tracey Takes On, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Let’s talkcartoons. Mark’s voiced characters on; Duckman, Real Monsters, Rugrats, in the #1 IMAX Box Office hitSanta vs. The Snowman, Ant Bully, and is a regular in Steve Oedekirk’s THUMB-series of SHOWTIME comedyspecials, including ThumbTanic, Thumb Wars and The Godthumb. Mark can be heard daily on Nickelodeonon “Back to the Barnyard,” and as perpetually flummoxed Hugh Neutron on “Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.”Among his favorite film roles, Mark played God in the romantic comedy Three Days, atthe ChicagoInternational Film Festival. He’s also appeared in Three to Tango, A Wake in Providence, and A Fare toRemember, Betty Thomas’ R3, Raising Helen from Garry Marshall, Raising Genius, a comedy with WendyMalick and Steven Root. He’s also starred in Sex Sells: the Making of Touche and Mobsters & Mormons. Markwrote and will star in the feature film Mr. MOJO, a romantic "comedy with the Blues." Current projects;GREENHOUSEVIDEOS.com – a series of How To Green your home videos and radio that promotes innovativeideas and appliances for home building, and the BOFFO the BEAR show – a game show hosted by a cartoonbear.

Attorney, Los Angeles City

Journalist, writer and filmmaker, Greening Hollywood on HuffingtonPost.com

Counsel to and Member of Board of Directors, Iceland America Energy, Founding Partner,Dongell Lawrence Finney LLP

Upon first taking office, Delgadillo began implementing innovative programs to achieve his vision of a betterand safer Los Angeles. His top priorities include fighting crime, improving quality of life in our neighborhoodsand reducing the city's civil liabilities. Before his election, Delgadillo was the Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles forEconomic Development, where he worked to attract new jobs for the neighborhoods that needed themthe most. He created an efficient, neighborhood-friendly approach to business development and helpedbring more than $20 billion in private investment to the city in four years. Prior to joining the mayor's office,Delgadillo was Director of Business Development for Rebuild LA, a nonprofit formed to bring investment intoLos Angeles neighborhoods ravaged during the 1992 civil unrest, and served as a senior attorney atO'Melveny & Myers.

Paige Donner is an L.A. based journalist, writer and filmmaker. Having worked as an entertainment journalistsince the early 90's when she first started writing for Variety, Paige is currently focused on GreeningHollywood, a regularly featured column on The Huffington Post. Greening Hollywood is now beingdeveloped into a comprehensive media platform that reports on the ways the entertainment industry, andother Los Angeles community stakeholders, are embracing a more sustainable and environmentallyrespectful way of doing business.

As Counsel to and a member of the Board of Directors of Iceland America Energy, and one of DongellLawrence Finney LLP’s founding named partners, Tal C. Finney has a rare blend of legal, government,environmental, and energy industry experience. Having served as a member of the Governing Board of theCalifornia Independent System Operator during the challenging days of California’s energy crisis, as theGovernor’s Director of Policy and Director of Planning and Research, as a member of the California PublicUtilities Commission, and as Director of the California Office of Administrative Law, Mr. Finney’s experienceat the highest levels of public, energy, and legal policy provide an experienced and steady opinion that hasbeen seasoned in crisis management. He also regularly sat on or presided over almost 30 California stateand local boards and commissions, and has managed three state departments.



Flowers-Ewing, Christine

Heppe, David

Hertzberg, Robert

Intriligator, Michael

Executive Director, Keep California BeautifulAppointed by the Keep California Beautiful (KCB) Board of Directors in April 2007, Ms. Christine Flowers-Ewingbrings a wealth of experience and skills to the organization. During her time with KCB she has overseen therelocation of the organization to Sacramento; developed several partnerships to increase recycling ofvarious materials; served on litter, illegal dumping and marine debris task forces; and lead the KCB Boardthrough rebranding and revitalization of KCB’s vision, mission, values and goals.

Her career experience spans over 23 years in community outreach and environmental education includingcurriculum development, grant writing and implementation; as well as working with various entities toimplement source reduction and recycling programs. She holds Masters Degrees in both BiologicalSciences and Secondary Education Curriculum Development from University of Central Florida. In 1985, MsFlowers-Ewing began her career in education, teaching high school in Orlando, Florida; eventuallybecoming the Environmental Technology Program Director at Valencia College. From 1990- 2004, as aprofessor of biology, she held positions at Valencia College, Washington College and Shasta College. Sheserved as the faculty advisor for the environmental leadership clubs and worked to establish campus wideEnvironmental Advisory Committees.

Managing Director, ECG

Chairman and Founder, G24 Innovations, Co-founder, Renewable Capital

Professor of Economics, Political Science, and Policy Studies, University of California at LosAngeles, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute

Mr. Heppe manages business operations at ECG and actively leads a number of projects and programs.David has more than 20 years of leadership experience in technology, business management andmarketing. His industry experience includes networking, communications, digital media and medicalimaging. He has hands-on operational experience building groups and companies from start-up tosustainable growth modes.

Before joining ECG, David was president at Telestream, a leading provider of video and networking solutionsfor broadcast and corporate markets. Prior to that, David was the managing director of TDK Systems Europe,a leader in development and manufacturing of communications cards for Pcs.

Robert M. Hertzberg is the former speaker of the California Legislature - twice unanimously elected on abipartisan vote in 2000 and 2002. Mr. Hertzberg was Speaker during the California Energy Crisis and,together with his leadership team, exhibited extraordinary insight in developing the most comprehensiveenergy conservation standards in the US, led the early fight for renewable portfolio standards, and mademany other significant contributions regarding environmental policy. After leaving the legislature in 2002,Mr. Hertzberg served on the transition team of Governor Schwarzenegger and, in 2005, was a candidate forMayor of Los Angeles narrowly missing the runoff by less than 1%. Mr. Hertzberg then served as Chairman ofthe transition team for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Together with Mr. Edward J. Stevenson andothers, he, co-founded, Solar Integrated Technologies in South Los Angeles, now a public company, whichwas the 2005 Wall Street Journal recipient of the Innovation Award, in the Energy and Power sector.

Now, as Chairman of G24 Innovations and co-founder of Renewable Capital, Mr. Hertzberg is an activeentrepreneur and leader in global policy concerning Renewable Energy. G24 Innovations is based inCardiff, Wales and manufactures a new type of lightweight and flexible solar cell that generates power inlow, ambient and even indoor conditions. Recently, CNBC European Business chose G24 Innovations asone its Top 100 Low-Carbon Pioneers (January, 2008), and The Guardian (UK) chose Robert as one of the 50People Who Could Save The Planet (January, 2008).

Professor Intriligator's research interests are in the areas of economic theory, econometrics, healtheconomics, and strategy and arms control. His work has involved the development of models and analyticframeworks using economics, decision theory, control theory and other tools to analyze and betterunderstand fundamental economic and societal problems. His most recent work has focused on healthcare reform, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, global security, and the transition to a market economyin Russia.



Katz, Nurit

Kim, Jinah

Klimavicz, Joseph

Lechner, Rich

Sustainability Coordinator, University of California at Los AngelesNurit Katz is UCLA's first Sustainability Coordinator. In this position she is working to foster partnerships amongacademic, research, and operational departments and further the goals and initiatives of the campussustainability program. Before starting in this position she founded the UCLA Sustainable Resource Center in2005 to provide resources for the community on sustainability. As Director of the program she hostednumerous events that brought together leaders in the public and private sectors. She then served asPresident of the Graduate Students Association and helped Dr. Charles Corbett to create a newinterdisciplinary graduate certificate program- Leaders in Sustainability.

Correspondent, NBC News, KNBC in Los Angeles

Chief Information Officer and Director for High Performance Computing and Communications, USDepartment of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Vice President, Energy and Environment, IBM

Jinah Kim is currently a correspondent for NBC news and for KNBC in Los Angeles. She is also the co-owner ofWorldWise Productions, a video production company specializing in corporate and non-profit videos,based in Los Angeles. She is the president of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Los Angeleschapter. She also sits on numerous boards, including the ALS Association’s national communicationscommittee.

Mr. Joseph F. Klimavicz was named National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ChiefInformation Officer (CIO) and Director, High Performance Computing and Communications in January2007. In this position, he is responsible for implementing the Clinger-Cohen Act, Federal Information SecurityManagement Act, and other statutory requirements regarding the acquisition, management, and use ofNOAA's information and information technology resources, to include NOAA's high performancecomputing and communications infrastructure.

Mr. Klimavicz has served over 20 years in the federal government. He began his career with the CentralIntelligence Agency (CIA) as an imagery scientist, developing photogrammetric math models in theNational Photographic Interpretation Center, and subsequently, served in line management positionswithin the CIA and the DOD; leading the development of information technology investment plans, andmanaging information technology acquisitions and operations.

Mr. Lechner was named vice president, Energy & Environment in September 2008. In this role, he leads IBM’sefforts in helping clients address the issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, andsustainability. He is responsible for defining strategy and managing the broad portfolio of capabilities andofferings that leverage IBM’s technology innovation, deep industry insight, and business process strategy.

Mr. Lechner has a strong track record for driving key cross IBM initiatives that deliver value to clients of all sizesincluding virtualization, Project Big Green, and IBM’s New Enterprise Data Center Strategy. Previously, hewas vice president for Enterprise Systems addressing IBM’s large enterprise customer base and marketopportunity by bringing to market a unified set of systems, software and services designed to optimize large-scale IT infrastructures. He has held a number of other senior leadership positions at IBM across the hardware,software, and services organizations including: IT Optimization, Storage Systems, Mainframes, SoftwareStrategy, and Systems Management. Mr. Lechner spent ten years as a programmer for IBM and began hiscareer as a micro-code programmer in the Financial Services Industry.



Liberman, Adi

Little, Caroline

Loveland, Tricia

Marks, Allan

Meo, Dominic III

Principle and Founder, Adi Liberman & Associates

CEO, North America for Guardian News and Media

Director of Aviation Infrastructure Policy & Strategy, The Boeing Company

Partner, Global Project Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Principal Associate, ManagerEnvironmental Compliance and Resource Management

Adi Liberman is the Principle and Founder of ALA. Prior to starting his own firm in 2006, Mr. Liberman wasExecutive Vice President and led the Public Affairs & Issues Management practice at the Edelman PublicRelations Worldwide Los Angeles office. Mr. Liberman has more than two decades of experience providinghigh-level strategic counsel on environmental issues to corporations, non-profit organizations andgovernment agencies. He has directed successful programs for corporate recycling in Los Angeles Countyand water conservation and recycling in the City of Los Angeles.

Mr. Liberman serves on the California Coastal Commission and is Vice-Chair of the City of Los Angeles’ Prop.O Oversight Advisory Council, which determines how $500 million will be spent to address water pollutionissues. He has served as a Board member of the Ballona Wetlands Foundation, co-founder of the Coalitionon the Environment and Jewish Life, and is a s member of the Board of the Los Angeles League ofConservation Voters.

Caroline Little is CEO, North America for Guardian News and Media. Prior to joining the Guardian, Carolinewas CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, where she led the company to profitability. She serveson the boards of Grinnell College and the Posse Foundation.

Tricia Loveland is the Director of Aviation Infrastructure Policy & Strategy for Boeing Advanced Air TrafficManagement, responsible for development and alignment of domestic and international policy positions,advocacy strategies, and key messages aimed at the mission of transforming the global air trafficmanagement system.

Prior to joining Boeing in August 2001, Tricia was a Congressional staff member with the AviationSubcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Tricia worked for TRW prior tojoining the Committee staff. During her time at TRW, Tricia developed business plans for potential defenseconversion technologies, worked in government relations, and led the cost analysis effort for the FederalAviation’s 20 year technology plan.

Allan Marks is a partner in the Global Project Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLPand is based in the Firm's Los Angeles office. As part of a broad corporate and finance practice, he hasrepresented companies involved in power, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, technology,real estate, and other industries.

Mr. Marks routinely represents developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters in the development andfinancing of complex infrastructure projects worldwide, with special expertise in the energy,telecommunications and transportation sectors. He has participated in numerous project financings,acquisitions, restructurings, securities offerings and private placements for a variety of sophisticatedinstitutional clients. Many of the innovative transactions he has handled have been recognized as "Deals ofthe Year" by leading industry publications. He speaks and publishes frequently on energy markets(especially as related to renewable and alternative energy), infrastructure investments, cross-borderfinancing issues, and emerging markets. Mr. Marks has worked on transactions throughout Asia, Europe andthe Americas over the past two decades with an aggregate value in excess of $50 billion.

Mr. Meo is the Manager of Environmental Compliance and Resource Management. He works closely withclients to ensure that their waste-management policies comply with applicable state and federalregulations, while providing long-term environmental sustainability. Mr. Meo is uniquely qualified to provideenvironmental services, based on over thirty years of experience in the chemical process industry,specializing in process design and environmental compliance. The basic areas of practice Mr. Meo hasobtained are: Waste Management, Reducing Carbon Footprint, Environmental Compliance.



Pal, Rick

Pomares, Raul

Ramos, Alegre

Redmond, Nate

Rodrigues, Gene

CEO, AirGenerate Inc.

Portfolio manager, Portfolio Management Group of Guggenheim Investment Advisors

Interior Designer, Green Living Expert, LEED AP, Allied Member, ASID

Director, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Inc., Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners

Director of Energy Efficiency, Southern California Edison Company

Mr. Pal is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and investor. Prior to AirGenerate, he was the president ofmarketingO, a promotional products company with offices in China and U.S.A. He also owned masterfranchisee rights for Liberty Tax Service in the Greater Houston Area which he grew to over 44 offices and22,000 customers. Both companies had successful exits. His other investments include Integrity Bank, DirectMarketing Experts, Wings Over England, and Uniperks. Before venturing on his own, Mr. Pal held severalproduct management positions at Commerce One, Webify Solutions, Navis, and Iconixx. He was also a co-founder of iBlitz.com that was incubated by Garage Ventures and IBM in 2000.

He is the founder of Ek-Disha Non-Profit, Inc. an organization devoted to helping the needy in India. He alsocreated the “Pal - Make a Difference” endowment at his alma mater - The University of Texas at Austin - toaward an annual scholarship to students making a difference in their community.

Mr. Pomares is a portfolio manager within the Portfolio Management Group of Guggenheim InvestmentAdvisors. He has expertise in global, Sustainability, Mission & Social Investment programs for foundations andclients seeking social impact from their portfolios.

Prior to joining Guggenheim, Mr. Pomares was a co-founder and director of client services for a boutiquewealth management firm. Prior to that, Mr. Pomares was an investment advisor with AXA Advisors. Mr.Pomares began his career as an international private banker with Bank of America.

LEED AP interior designer and green living expert Alegre Ramos has been practicing environmental designfor seven years and has lived the green movement personally her whole life giving up soda at 11, nail polishat 18 and hair chemicals at 20.

She has over 13-years project management experience in everything from new product development tomarketing and brand management. Before starting Green and Greener she launched numerous newproducts in the home/shelter industry and managed the marketing of numerous national public radioprograms with a special emphasis on environmental programming.

Nate brings to Fulcrum's Board of Directors deep experience as an investor, entrepreneur and strategicadvisor with specialized knowledge of the clean technology industry. He is also a Partner at Rustic Canyon,one of Southern California's largest venture capital firms.

Prior to joining Rustic Canyon, Nate partnered with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensenfor principal investment in companies facing disruptive changes and to advise technology industry leaderson creating new growth. As an entrepreneur, he founded Clariweb, an Internet software solution for datasharing between applications, and helped launch two other Internet companies. He began his career withthe Boston Consulting Group as a consultant to technology firms on new product development andbusiness strategy.

Gene Rodrigues is the Director of Energy Efficiency for Southern California Edison Company. SouthernCalifornia Edison is one of the largest investor-owner utilities in the United States, serving 13 million customersacross a 50,000 square mile service territory. For the last six years, Southern California Edison has partneredwith its customers to save more electricity through energy efficiency programs than any other utility in thenation.

In addition to overseeing SCE's Energy Efficiency, Low Income, California Solar Initiative and Self GenerationIncentive programs, Mr. Rodrigues serves on the board of directors for the Consortium for Energy Efficiency,the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and the China-US Energy Efficiency Alliance. Genealso serves on the Leadership Group for the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency, a voluntary initiativesponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.



Rogers, Elizabeth

Ruiz, Cynthia

Shegerian, John

Singh Narula, Navneet

Founder, Shift Your Habit, LLC

Commissioner, City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works

President and CEO, Electronic Recyclers International, Inc.

Vice President, Global Initiatives, Points of Light Institute

Elizabeth Rogers is a best-selling author; environmental consultant and entrepreneur who is committed tohelping people make an impact on their world. In 2007 Ms. Rogers co-wrote the New York Times best seller,“The Green Book,” an innovative, user-friendly guide that teaches how simple shifts in habit can make apowerful difference in building a stronger, more sustainable world.

Ms. Rogers also consults for major brands seeking to develop environmentally friendly commercial products.In addition, Ms. Rogers speaks to groups nationwide on new green initiatives she has created. Ms. Rogers’initial foray into “green content” resulted in “Trippin’,” MTV’s first eco-friendly show, which she conceivedand produced with actor Cameron Diaz. Every day Ms. Rogers tries to shift a habit to support the globalgreen effort. To learn more about her daily shifts, click on www.shiftyourhabit.com.

Commissioner Ruiz, who was one of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s first commission appointees after hiselection as mayor, previously served on the Board of Public Works in 2003-04. As a Board commissioner, Ruizbrings more than two decades of community involvement and experience to a team that ensures qualityand efficient delivery of key City services to the public.

The five-member Board of Public Works, the City’s only full-time policy-making Board, serves jointly asgeneral manager of the Department of Public Works, the City’s third largest municipal agency with morethan 5,800 personnel. The Department of Public Works is responsible for construction, renovation andoperation of public facilities and infrastructure ranging from curbside collection, recycling and graffitiremoval to maintenance of sidewalks, bridges, sewers and streetlights, maintenance of wastewatertreatment plants and design of public buildings.

Mr. Shegerian is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic RecyclersInternational®. Established in 2002, Electronic Recyclers International® is an Electronic Waste collector andrecycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of CRTs. ElectronicRecyclers International® is recognized as the Number One Electronic Waste Recycler in the state ofCalifornia and one of the largest in North America.

Mr. Shegerian serves on the Fundraising Committee and as an Ambassador of Education at California StateUniversity at Fresno. Mr. Shegerian also serves on the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Fresno.Mr. Shegerian is a cum laude graduate of New York University and also, at 17, was the youngest harnessracer to set a World Record for the fastest 5/8-mile dash on a 5/8-mile track.

Navneet Singh Narula helps drive global projects and implements social change, self-organizedvolunteering and innovative community service campaigns with the mission to equip, mobilize and inspirepeople to take action that changes the world. His current focus is to activate 1million citizen leaders who willtake action in projects that will help solve communities’ challenges.

Formerly the President & CEO at nBrilliance, and before that a Management Executive at Accenture, wherehe was also the Chief Diversity lead at Michigan practice, Navneet was honored by Consulting Magazine asTop 30 Consultants in America for 2008. He has also been honored by Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton as"Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business", awarded the "Best Management Executive" at InternationalBusiness Awards, selected as "Top 40 under 40" - Best and Brightest Leaders in America and named“Outstanding Atlanta” Community Service Leader of the year 2008, just to name a few.

He has been instrumental in re-building efforts of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and been invited to White Houseon numerous occasions discussing civil liberty, human rights, disaster relief and community service issues. Hemeets with US Senators and lawmakers frequently to bridge gaps between government and local citizens.Selected as the American Marshall Memorial Fellow 2008 by German Marshall Fund of US, Navneet waschosen to represent United States. He was also selected recently as a World Delegate at the Global YoungLeaders Summit by Asia Society.



Stocks, Christian

Tekin, Hakan

Treiman, Jaak

Weber, Tory

Weiss, Daniel

Consul General, Consulate General of Germany in Los Angeles

Consul General, Consulate of Turkey in Los Angeles

Consul General, Consulate General of Estonia in Los Angeles

Manager of Business Performance, Southern California Edison Company

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Angeleno Group LLC

In 1977, Christian Stocks joined the German Foreign Service. His first foreign posting was to Madrid followed bythree years in Bonn as speech writer for the Federal President. In 1985, he became Deputy Consul General inMumbay, India and then served as Counselor for Political Affairs at the German Embassy in London from 1987 to1990. Afterwards, he returned to the Foreign Office and headed the training department for career diplomatsat the German Foreign Office’s Diplomatic School. In 1991, he was asked to serve as Foreign Policy Advisor tothe CDU/CSU parliamentary group of the German Bundestag.

In 1995, he went on to become head of the Political Department at the German Embassy in Madrid. In 2000, hewas appointed as Director General of Foreign Affairs for the Governing Mayor’s office and Chief of Protocol for

the State and City of Berlin. He took up the posting as Consul General of Los Angeles in July, 2005

In December 1990 Hakan Tekin joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. Mr. Tekin hasworked at the Departments of Culture, Central Asia, Human Rights, Balkans and Personnel within the Ministry.

Mr. Tekin has served at the Turkish Embassies in Abu Dhabi/United Arab Emirates, Sofia/Bulgaria, attended theNATO Defense College Senior Course in Rome and worked at the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the UnitedNations in New York.His post in Los Angeles as Consul General he assumed on 15 April 2007. His area ofresponsibility includes 12 states of the western region of the United States.

Appointed Honorary Consul for Estonia in 1986, he has continued to serve in that capacity since then. He waselected as Treasurer of the Los Angeles Consular Corps, which is the world’s third largest, on two separateoccasions. Mr. Treinman is a lecturer on International Business at Loyola Marymount College and UCLA. He hasan experience of representing a number of foreign commercial enterprises in their American activities;including Italian export companies, an Australian investment syndicate, and a British mobile telephonecompany. Besides, Mr. Treinman has represented American firms in establishing business activities in Estonia.

Mr. Treinman presents Innovation Democracy, Inc. as a Co-founder and General Counsel. This organization is a501(c)(3) organization founded in 2006 and the aim is to support innovation and entrepreneurship in countriesimportant to world stability, including Afghanistan. In addition Mr. Treinman has membership in Board ofDirectors of U.S.-Baltic Foundation, a Washington, D.C. 501(c)(3) organization, founded in 1990. The goal of U.S.-Baltic Foundation is directed in support of democratic and free market reforms in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Starting from 1995 till 1998 he acted as Board Chair.

Tory Weber is the Manager of Business Performance in Southern California Edison’s Energy Efficiency Division. Inthis capacity, Tory guides SCE’s reporting, policy, and other aspects of SCE’s $200+ million portfolio of EnergyEfficiency, Low Income Energy Efficiency, and Rate Assistance programs. He has worked in support of SCE’senergy efficiency programs for 16 years. Tory holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Business Administration andEconomics and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Anderson School at UCLA.

In the energy efficiency division, he has worked on all matters related to energy efficiency policy, includingenergy efficiency shareholder incentives, measurement and evaluation, cost effectiveness, and energyefficiency potential, among others. He serves as a subject-matter expert on energy efficiency policy andprograms both within the company as well as in forums around the nation.

Daniel Weiss is co-founder and Managing Partner of Angeleno Group LLC (“AG”), a Los Angeles-based privateequity firm focused on high-growth investments in the energy sector. Prior to the formation of AG, Mr. Weiss wasan attorney at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, working in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions, internationaland high technology practice groups.

Mr. Weiss represented multiple Global 1000 clients, including utilities and energy related companies, in a widearray of private equity and corporate finance transactions. He also has a significant history of involvement ingovernment, regulatory and public policy entities that deal with the energy sector including work experience inthe White House and the United States Congress.

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