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Speaker Bios:
Dennis J. Aigner
Dennis Aigner is Dean of the Bren School, Acting Associate Dean of Business
Management in the Bren School, and Professor of Management and Economics
at the Graduate School of Management at UC Irvine. He has taught courses
in the areas of international trade and risk management, and is an expert
in corporate environmental management, international trade and U.S.
competitiveness, state and local economic issues, and workers' compensation.
He was a recipient of the Distinguished Research Award in 1999 from
the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University
for his ongoing work on the Orange County regional economy and has been
listed in Who's Who in Economics since 1982. In 2001, he was named International
Professor in Environmental Management and Strategy at the Graduate School
of Business Administration and Leadership, Monterrey Institute of Technology
(Mexico).
Jude Anders
At Johnson Controls, Jude is focused on customer successes, achieving
energy and environmental performance excellence, through creative application
of technology, services and Johnson Controls' knowledge base of facility
performance. He is currently a contributing member to a USGBC LEED Technical
Advisory Group.
Jude has 29 years experience in the facilities management industry.
His career at Johnson Controls includes management of field service,
operations and sales. His early work in controls research and engineering
produced industry leading digital controls for facilities of all types.
He led the development of Johnson Controls' Intranet, Advisor, that
became the company standard for internal knowledge sharing. Areas of
particular interest include indoor air quality, high performance buildings,
building automation for a quality building environment, and stationary
fuel cell application for facility power.
Bob Barton
Bob is the CEO of Catalyst Financial Group, Inc. He has 34 years experience
in finance and business innovation. Over the last 20 years, he has focused
his attention on financing renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, co-generation),
recycling, pollution prevention and energy and water efficiency projects.
His firm has arranged over $1 billion in financing and has been (or
is) an advisor to over 30 major utilities, the DOE, EPA, numerous trade
associations, and dozens of business ventures. As a management consultant
Bob helps major foundations and philanthropists maximize their environmental
grant making. Currently, Catalyst Financial Group, Inc. arranges over
$200 million a year in renewable energy and energy/water conservation
investments.
Bob's particular expertise is in helping clients obtain funding from
both traditional and non-traditional funders. He is a frequent guest
lecturer and trainer and has co-authored several finance reports including
E-Sources' Strategic Memo "Tracking Down the Money: A Database
of Funding Sources Can Help Make Energy Projects Happen".
Robert J. Berkebile
Bob Berkebile, is a founding Principal of the BNIM architects, has over
thirty years of experience in the architectural profession. He is certified
by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is
a registered architect in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, and Kentucky. Berkebile's
project management and design responsibilities include a diverse variety
of design and development programs, with special interests in environmental
design, housing and community projects. Berkebile is the founding chairman
of the AIA's national committee on the environment. He is also part
of an international effort to develop information and strategies that
will produce buildings and communities which contribute to human while
increasing economic and environmental vitality. William Riley, administrator
of U.S. EPA, stated at a White House briefing that this effort will
"change the way we design our cities."
Bob has conducted numerous sustainable design charettes and workshops
for the National Park Service, the US Department of Energy, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, and the Canadian Provincial Architects.
Bob was also the founding chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group
on the Environment (a group of nationally known scientists, environmentalists
and industry representatives) charged with overseeing the methodology
and research for the AIA's Environmental Resource Guide, and assisting
with the development of long range environmental goals for the design
and construction industry.
Hillary Brown
Ms. Brown became the Principal of New Civic Works a consulting organization
integrating high performance or green building practices into public
works programs, commercial and institutional development, and in the
community development sector in January, 2001. Services include guidelines
and program/project development, technical and administrative support,
advocacy, team facilitation. Clients include City of New York, Battery
Park City Authority, City of Salt Lake, U.S. Green Building Council
From 1997 to January 2001 she was the Assistant Commissioner to the
Department of Design & Construction, Office of Sustainable Design
and Construction (OSDC). Founded and directed NYC's green building program:
overseeing a dozen demonstration projects, education and outreach. Publication
of the nationally recognized City of New York High Performance Building
Guidelines.
Karl Brown
Karl Brown is the Deputy Director of the California Institute for Energy
Efficiency (CIEE), a part of the University of California Office of
the President (UCOP). He also assists with energy planning for University
of California facilities, most notably consulting on the design for
the new campus at Merced. This is part of his effort to help UC research
groups and UC facility design and management organizations combine efforts
toward energy efficiency. Karl is currently focusing his own work on
energy use benchmarking for facility planning and design. Karl's eighteen
years of experience in energy systems include several years as a consulting
engineer-performing field surveys and analysis of building end-use efficiency.
For over ten years Karl has planned and managed end-use energy research
and development in conjunction with CIEE's partners-including California
energy utilities and the California Energy Commission. His leadership
of CIEE's Building Systems Program has included management of R&D
focused on HVAC duct leakage, diagnostics for commissioning and operations,
and efficient design of facilities for high-technology industries (e.g.
laboratories).
Martha Davis
Ms. Martha Davis is the Manager of Strategic Policy Development and
oversees the Water Resources Department at the Inland Empire Utilities
Agency (IEUA), a municipal water district serving 700,000 people in
the western portion of San Bernardino County. IEUA provides regional
sewage treatment services, distributes imported water and recycled water
supplies, and provides other utility services for the Chino Basin. Previously,
Ms. Davis served as the Executive Director for Californians and the
Land (1998-2000) and for the Mono Lake Committee (1984-1996). Under
her leadership, the Mono Lake campaign culminated in a unanimous landmark
public trust decision by the State Water Resources Control Board to
protect Mono Lake. Ms. Davis graduated from Stanford University cum
laude with a degree in human biology and received her master's degree
from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Since 1998,
she has served as the Co-Chair of the CalFed Watershed Workgroup. Ms.
Davis is currently a board member for the Mono Lake Committee and the
WateReuse Foundation, and is a member of the Manzanar National Historic
Site Advisory Commission. In addition, Ms. Davis serves as a member
of the California Bulletin 160 Advisory Committee and of the CALFED
Bay Delta Public Advisory Committee.
Jon Dougal
Jon founded the Business Roundtable of the Environment for the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce, is an original member of the Presidents Council
on Sustainable Development, and of the ISO 14000 West Coast Working
Group. He has planned and executed numerous public relations activities
for organizations like the San Francisco Green Ribbon Panel and its
Environmental Achievement Awards (a founding member), the Professional
Environmental Marketing Association (Public Relations Manager). He contributed
to the writing of the Sustainable San Francisco Plan, consulted with
the German American Chamber of Commerce and the International Diplomacy
Council environmental trade groups, co-taught the country's only environmental
marketing class at UC Berkeley, and worked with the Presidio Restoration
Advisory Board. A member in the California Chapters of AIA CoTE, ASID
and IIDA, ADPSR, HealthCare Design Research Alliance, Construction Specifications
Institute, & US Green Building Council.
Jon has worked as both an air conditioning and building contractor
and was responsible for creating the Installed Sales, concept for Home
Improvement Centers, and possesses a hazardous materials management
background. At heart an environmentalist, he continues to work to green
business. Jon regularly lectures and presents to a wide range of audiences
from university architectural and interior design classes to the top
100 Architectural firms and Office of the State of California Architect,
in addition to a live monthly radio commentary and interviews on sustainable
development and green building design principles. Jon has experimented
with tire recycling, subsurface farming, basement fish farming, natural
pesticides and energy conservation for years, and co-founded the BIPER
Newsletter.
Jeff Dozier
Dr. Jeff Dozier is the former Dean of the Bren School, works in the
fields of snow science, hydrology, and hydrochemistry of alpine regions;
remote sensing; and environmental science and information systems. He
is a participant in the Earth Observing System - the principal component
of NASA's Mission to Plant Earth, whose aim is establishing a comprehensive
global observing system to better understand the natural processes that
govern our Earth, and the possible changes that may occur in the atmosphere,
on the land, and in the oceans as a result of human activities.
Dozier and his graduate students are involved in several operational
efforts to measure snow, forecast runoff, and evaluate atmospheric deposition
in the Sierra Nevada. He also applies his hydrological and information
systems skills to sustainable agriculture.
Christine A. Ervin
Christing Ervin joined the U.S. Green Building Council in April 1999
as President & CEO. Christine's career spans several leadership
positions in the federal, state, and nonprofit sectors. From 1993-1997,
she served as Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy's
$1 billion portfolio of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
Ervin's initiatives in the buildings arena include: the EPA-DOE Energy
Star partnership, collaborations with the insurance, venture capital,
and energy service industries, reinvention of the appliance standards
program, Buildings for the 21st Century roadmap effort, a national sustainable
development center, and various climate change programs.
S. David Freeman
Mr. Freeman became Chairman of the California Consumer Power and Conservation
Financing Authority (CPA) at its inception in August, 2001. From May
1 to August 15, 2001, S. David Freeman was the Senior Energy Advisor
to Governor Gray Davis of California to lead the drive to implement
the Governor's energy conservation programs.
From 1997 to April, 2001, Mr. Freeman was the General Manager of the
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the nation's largest
municipal utility. Under his leadership, LADWP has strengthened its
financial position and improved its environment record. Mr. Freeman's
significant achievement's included: avoiding power shortages or rate
increases; dramatically reducing a generation debt; launching a $54
million per year Public Benefit Program; and settling a 20-year dispute
over air quality in the Owen's Valley. Mr. Freeman began his long and
illustrious career serving the public in the electric utility industry
as a civil engineer.
Pamela J. Gordon
Pamela Gordon is a Certified Management Consultant, a leader, book author,
and speaker in the worlds of business, professional associations, political
parties, education, and the performance arts. She is President and Founder
of Technology Forecasters, Inc., a management consulting firm that for
four years in a row has been named by the San Francisco Business Times
as one of the 100 fastest growing private companies in the Bay Area.
With her staff of 30, her consulting firm helps high-tech companies
“turn insight into profitability,” serving some of the world's
best known electronics and software companies, as well as several governments.
Executives worldwide know Ms. Gordon for her expertise in manufacturing
efficiency and business strategy. She has managed benchmark studies
comparing companies' environmental compliance, quality, human resources,
marketing strategy, and other business issues. Major industry reports
written include the Quarterly Forum for Electronics Manufacturing Outsourcing
and Supply Chain and World Class Outsourcing for Electronics Manufacturing.
Dorothy Green
Dorothy Green was the Founding President of Heal the Bay, an ocean water
quality group working toward a fishable and swimmable Santa Monica Bay.
It is in that capacity that she was also the founding President of the
Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. As a board member
of POWER, Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform, she chairs
the most important water policy conference in the state, the California
Water Policy Conference, now in its 12th year. She also serves as the
Los Angeles Regional Vice President of the Planning and Conservation
League (PCL), which provides lobbying services in Sacramento to both
individuals and to organizations without sufficient resources to hire
their own lobbyist, on the board of the Earth Island Institute, an international
environmental organization, and is in the process of establishing another
non-profit that will be devoted to statewide water supply issues, called
the California Water Network.
Bill Hayward
William (Bill) E. Hayward took over Hayward Lumber Company in 1993.
He currently holds the positions of President, Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Sustainability Officer. Under Bill's direction, the company
has grown from $33,000,000 in annual sales to $120,000,000. This growth
has included replacing the majority of the management team and adding
an aggressive outside sales force. It required diversifying into roof
truss manufacturing, design centers featuring doors windows and cabinets,
sheetrock distribution, and commercial industrial supply.
Hayward has become the national leader in the supply of sustainable
(green) building products. It is the first power lumber yard in the
country to eliminate arsenic pressure treated wood from its offering,
sells the largest volume of FSC certified framing material, offers the
broadest selection of environmentally friendly building materials, and
is committed to building all of its own facilities using the latest
principles in green building and building science. Additionally, Hayward
is pioneering a business model that incorporates the principles of sustainability
into its business practices.
Calvin Hildebrand
Currently, Mr. Hildebrand is involved in the construction of Bio Mass
processing plants to extract Methane from Bovine and Swine manure in
Agricultural areas of Colorado and New Mexico to provide renewable energy
resources and remediate Air and Ground Water pollution. At the conference
Mr. Hildebrand will present information on "Solving our Energy
Problems while reducing Environmental Impact" discussing Scope
and Sources of the PROBLEMS, New/Integrated Technologies as SOLUTIONS.
Calvin B. Hildebrand is the Director of Operations and Quality Assurance
for ENERGY CONVERSION CORPORATION headquartered in Santa Fe, NM. Calvin
has been working in the areas of alternative fuels for heavy duty vehicles,
distributed generation, and renewable/sustainable energy sytems for
the past 10 years. ECC and Mr. Hildebrand also assisted in the design
of and Installed and Commissioned the FIRST automated, Vehicle Driver
operated LNG fueling station in the WORLD. Through Alternate Energy
Corp. of Rhode Island, Mr. Hilebrand has become familiar with Micro-Turbines
for distributed Generation. Working closely with the Los Alamos National
Lab (New Mexico) and the Gas Technology Institute "Alternative
Fuels Working Group" ECC & Mr. Hildebrand have worked on programs
to implement Fuel Cell technology employing Natural Gas (LNG) as the
fuel source.
Kevin R Hydes
Kevin has worked in the building services industry since 1973 His
career with Keen began in Edmonton during the early 1980s, he moved
to Keen’s Vancouver office in 1986 where he became a Vice President
of the firm and eventually President in 1999.
Kevin is considered by many to be a leader in sustainable design and
as such, he is in constant demand to share his ideas with the broader
design community. He has been a speaker at numerous presentations and
discussions regarding sustainable design and green engineering, and
he has been on several advisory committees including: City of Seattle
Sustainable Regain Initiative, the US Federal Dept. of Energy LEED Program
and the American Institute of Architectural Energy Conservation &
Environmental Initiative. He has also served as a Juror at the June
1996 and June 1998 Architecture + Energy Design Awards in Portland.
Kevin is currently the Chairman of the Cascadia Chapter of the US Green
Building.
John L. Knott, Jr.
John is CEO/Managing Director of Dewees Island, SC. Knott is a third-generation
builder/developer with extensive experience in the development of planned
communities, commercial offices, hotels and in renovation/restoration
of historic properties and city redevelopment. Knott's national and
international leadership experience includes service as Chairman of
the White House Exchange with Soviet Union for City Re-Development/Historic
preservation, as National Chairman for Remodeling/Rehabilitation Division,
National Life Director for the National Association of Home Builders
(NAHB), Member of NAHB President's Council, Faculty member for "Main
Street" program for National Trust, and Faculty member for "Urban
Ventures" and "Art of Rehab" schools for National Housing
Partnership. He is the Founding Director for the Charleston-based, Sustainability
Institute, is Vice Chairman of the Environmental Council for Urban Land
Institute, Sustainable Development Advisor to the University of Texas
Health Science Center in Houston, is Work Group Chair for the H. John.
Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment and is Co-Chair
of the Board for Mepkin Abbey.
Michael Mathes
Upon graduation from University of Manitoba in 1987, Mike began employment
with Johnson Controls in Vancouver, Canada. From 1990 to 2000 he held
various Branch Management positions in Canada. Since 2000, he has been
the Area Sales Manager for Johnson Controls in Southern California.
Michael has been a Director for the Lakehead Rotary Club and a past
member of the Winnipeg Rotary Club. Additionally he is a past Director
for the Mechanical Contractors Association of Manitoba and holds his
Professional Engineering status in Ontario, Canada.
John McInnes
John has more than 15 years of environmental and waste management policy
planning and program implementation experience including:
Six years as the Planning & Development Manager for the County
of Santa Barbara Solid Waste Division;Three years as the Director of
Technical Services for California Waste Recovery Systems; and Six years
as a Partner with the consulting firm of Integrated Recycling, Incorporated.
Currently, John works for the County of Santa Barbara as their Environmental
Innovator. In this role, he is managing a project that will determine
the feasibility of implementing a solid waste conversion technology
in Santa Barbara County.
Amir S. Mikhail, Ph.D.He is currently the president of Clipper
Windpower Technology Inc., a Santa Barbara based Corporation. Clipper
is developing innovative wind turbine designs. These designs will result
in a cost of energy, for wind generated electricity, that is lower than
any other conventional source of energy.
From 1989 to the end of 2000, he served as Vice President of Engineering
for Zond Energy Systems, which became Enron Wind Corp. At Zond, he was
responsible for the development of the Z Class wind turbines and other
Zond turbine upgrades. The turbine upgrades involve design and manufacturing
of 1500 blades, and 1500 hub extenders. This increased project productivity
by up to 50 percent. The Z-class turbines include the Z-550 series (a
fixed rpm variable pitch machine), the Z-750 series(a variable speed
variable pitch machine), and the later developed Enron Wind EW1.5(a
variable speed with individual blade pitch controls). A total of 100
Z-550 series, 800 Z-750 series, and 800 EW1.5 machines are installed
worldwide for a total capacity of 1855 MW.
Mary Nichols
Mary D. Nichols serves as California's Secretary for Resources, newly
appointed by Governor Gray Davis. She was previously the Executive Director
of Environment Now, a private foundation in Los Angeles, and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's Assistant Administrator for Air and
Radiation. Prior to her EPA appointment, she served as a senior staff
attorney and Director of the Los Angeles office of the Natural Resources
Defense Council. Governor Edmund G. Brown appointed her Chair of the
California Air Resources Board; and Mayor Tom Bradley, to the five-member
Board of Commissions of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Nichols has extensive experience in environmental law and in administration
of public sector agencies responsible for civil litigation and environmental
policy. She has written on and taught environmental and legal issues.
A founding trustee of the California Environmental Trust, she was awarded
a B.A. degree from Cornell University and a J.D. degree from Yale Law
School.
Barbara Riekse
Ms. Riekse's responsibility as the Central Regional Director for
Workstage is to oversee the sales effort for the 16 state central region.
Since joining Workstage in September of 2000, Riekse has completed seven
Workstage transactions totaling 300,000 square feet. With over 17 years
in the real estate industry, Riekse has carried out over 2,000,000 square
feet of real estate transactions and projects.
Ken Stroh
Ken is a Mechanical Engineer, who grew up and went to school in Colorado
(BS, MS, PhD Colorado State University). He has worked for nearly 25
years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on energy systems design,
analysis and testing, with a focus in the last few years on fuel cells.
Ken ventured outside the Laboratory in 1982-84, as the Supervisor for
Nuclear Fuel and Analysis at the Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Generating Station,
a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor owned and operated by Public Service
Company of Colorado. He currently works in the Energy and Sustainable
Systems Program Office at Los Alamos, and manages the Laboratory’s
research and development programs on fuel cells, hydrogen, and transportation
technologies. He serves on a Department of Energy laboratory technical
management team for the Office of Power Technologies, with responsibility
for Hydrogen Utilization Core R&D and for Renewable/Hydrogen Energy
Systems Technology Validation. He is also a member of the Fuel Cell
Technology Team for the government/industry Freedom Cooperative Automotive
Research
(FreedomCAR) initiative.
Linda Trocki
Dr. Linda Trocki has over twenty years of experience in research and
development, technology assessment, and general management. Her technical
areas of expertise are earth sciences and resources, energy and environmental
technology systems, and technology policy.
Dr. Trocki is a Principal Vice President in Bechtel Group, Inc. She
is currently Manager of R&D and Technology Coordination for Bechtel.
From January of 2000 until recently, she served Bechtel BWXT Idaho as
Executive Vice President for Strategic Planning and Technology Commercialization
at the Department of Energy's Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.
During 1999, she served as Deputy General Manager for Services at Bechtel
Nevada. Dr. Trocki led Bechtel Corporation's research and development
group, serving as Vice President in Bechtel National, Inc. from 1996
through early 1999. She spent much of her career between 1976 and 1996
at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1994-5 from she worked as Special
Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Energy in Washington, DC. The following
year, on loan from Los Alamos, Dr. Trocki assisted the President of
Chevron's upstream R&D company with strategy, and the creation of
a cooperative R&D program with other major oil companies.
Catherine Woodman
Catherine is a financial consultant for Salomon Smith Barney in San
Francisco. Growing up in Iowa, Catherine experienced the beauty of wide
open spaces and the pain of erosion and water pollution first hand.
Promising herself that she would do what she could to protect and support
the natural ecology of the world, she discovered the concept of Socially
Responsible Investing in her early twenties. At the core of her passion
for environmental investing is the idea that the exchange of money will
one day promote ecological balance and benefit the world. Socially Responsible
Investing has grown by leaps and bounds. Her hope is that pressure from
shareholders and stakeholders will one day lead to a revolution for
sustainable economics and forward thinking companies. She is seeing
hints of this as she works with and encourages investors inspired to
make money and make a difference.
David C.E. Williams
Mr. Williams is the President and CEO of ShoreBank Pacific, the first
environmental commercial bank in the United States. He came to this
position after two prior careers one in academia and manufacturing and
10 years in commercial banking.
A physicist with Masters degrees in both Physics and Economics, Williams
taught Physics at both the secondary and collegiate level with a focus
on energy issues. Moving to the commercial world, he has held progressive
positions from MIS director through CFO, manufacturing manager and chief
engineer, to CEO in companies in the Oil and Gas, robotics, boat building,
and steel fabrication industries. These companies have been both local
to the Pacific Northwest and international in scope including boat building
in Taiwan at the early stage of its transition to an industrial economy.
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