Aaron Zude is the Senior Director of the Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Division at SEMI. His role is to coordinate SEMI's global environmental health and safety activities by working in conjunction with regional offices to effectively deliver benefits to members related to EHS issue advocacy; committee management; program development; internal and external communication and integration of EHS activity with the member segments that SEMI serves.

Aaron has over 27 years of EHS experience, including 18 years in the semiconductor and high technology industries, assessing environmental, health and safety programs and practices and establishing corporate risk reduction strategies. He served 6 years on the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Environmental, Safety & Health Association (SESHA) where he served as Secretary, Treasurer and President. He was inducted as SESHA Fellow in 2001. Aaron also served 5 years on the SEMATECH EH&S Focus Technical Advisory Board (FTAB) and 12 years on Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) EH&S and Fabs Committees. Before joining SEMI in 2008, Aaron was the owner and principle consultant of Facilities & Safety Solutions, an EHS consulting services firm. Prior to that, he held various EHS, Safety and Facilities positions at Asyst Technologies, Cirrus Logic, National Semiconductor Company and Varian Associates.

Aaron holds a Masters of Science in Occupational Safety and Health from the University of Southern California (USC) and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology from California State University Los Angeles.

Abe's interest in startups began after spending a summer at a venture-backed diagnostics company as a business development intern. He subsequently joined Analysis Group, an economic and management consultancy. Abe then joined RockPort as an Associate, having previously interned at RockPort for a summer, and is active in all aspects of RockPort's activities. He has worked on deal teams for investments in solar, water, transportation, green buildings, the smart grid, efficiency, wind, lighting, and advanced materials, among other sectors. He helped spearhead the opening of RockPort's Menlo Park office, and is a frequent panelist and judge at industry conferences and business plan competitions. Abe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied Economics, Chemistry, and Biology.

Alyssa Farrell has responsibility for SAS' Sustainability Solutions and works with SAS customers around the world to understand best practices and solutions for managing their business with environmental responsibility in mind. She participates in environmental industry groups and supports the SAS Executive Sustainability Council, the leadership team that governs SAS' sustainable business practices. Farrell regularly speaks with trade associations, analysts and the press about the opportunities organizations have to effectively manage a sustainable strategy and drive healthy economic growth.

Prior to joining SAS, Farrell was a senior consultant in the Deloitte Public Sector practice. She is a graduate of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, where she earned her MBA degree with a concentration in Management Information Systems. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University.

Brad Sparks is a Director with KPMG International and a member of KPMG's Global Sustainability Services practice. He is responsible for the firm's internal climate change strategy, which established commitments for KPMG to measure, report, and reduce its global carbon footprint. Brad works with all KPMG member firms to establish greenhouse gas reporting protocols and to verify the data reported. Prior to Brad's current position, he served as a member of the Forensic practice of KPMG LLP, assisting clients with corporate responsibility initiatives such as sustainability reporting, supply chain integrity and codes of conduct.

Brad received a Masters of Business Administration, with a focus in Sustainable Enterprise from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2004. He also received a Masters of Accounting and a BSBA in Accounting from Appalachian State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (California, North Carolina) and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Brad serves as KPMG's Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and is active in several Los Angeles based environmental organizations.

Bruce Klafter is Sr. Director, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) for Applied Materials, Inc. in Santa Clara, California. Bruce also serves as Head, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for the company. Bruce heads up Applied's EHS department, which is responsible for assisting business units worldwide with compliance, industrial hygiene, product safety and various strategic initiatives. The Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability role encompasses a wide variety of reporting, employee engagement and other projects aimed at enhancing Applied's global citizenship programs. Before assuming his current role, Bruce was EHS counsel for the Company. Prior to joining Applied in August, 2000, Bruce was Chair of the Environmental Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (a top 100 U.S. law firm) in San Francisco. Bruce began his career in 1980 as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California.

Bruce is a past Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel America's (ACC-A) national Environmental Committee as well as a past chair of the State Bar of California's Environmental Law Section and the Bar Association of San Francisco's Environmental Committee. Bruce presently serves as an Advisory Council member for Sustainable Silicon Valley and for Next Ten's Green Innovation Index.

Bruce received his JD from the University of California-Davis School of Law in 1980 and served as an Editor of the UC-Davis Law Journal and as Editor of Environs (a publication of the Environmental Law Society). He earned a B.S. magna cum laude in Urban and Environmental Planning (interdisciplinary) from Tufts University in 1976.

Elise Zoli, chair of Goodwin Procter's Energy Practice, specializes in the areas of energy, environmental and development law.

Ms. Zoli has extensive experience with energy projects and facilities, particularly in the renewable and nuclear sectors. Recent examples of Ms. Zoli's energy work include strategic development and acquisition advice, compliance counseling and litigation services on behalf of nuclear-powered, solar and wind-turbine electric-generating stations, as well as strategic counseling for leading players in the carbon and renewable energy credit ("REC") trading initiatives.

In conjunction with her transactional work, Ms. Zoli also has pioneered the use of novel insurance coverage. Her insurance work includes development of the State-subsidized environmental-insurance program developed in conjunction with the Massachusetts Brownfields Redevelopment coverage with in excess of $1.0 billion in force limits.

Ms. Zoli has considerable experience in energy-related litigation, including in the defense of governmental and citizen-suit enforcement actions under the major federal environmental acts. Recent examples of her work include the strategic defense of power-production facilities facing scrutiny of their cooling water intake structures under Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act, the defense of the "Big Dig" project, and actions implicating radiological contaminants.

Ms. Zoli also has done extensive work on the assessment and permitting of redevelopment projects involving complex sites, including former nuclear assets. Her recent representations include the redevelopment of a former Army arsenal (and Superfund site) and a large-scale former municipal landfill, as well as the permitting associated with major metropolitan commercial-development projects. Ms Zoli earned. J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School and a B.A. from Duke University.

Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is currently the Senior Program Lead of Autodesk's Sustainable Business & Operations program. In this role, she leads the design software company's efforts to optimize its environmental footprint and model sustainability best practices to its 9 million architect, engineer, manufacturing, and construction customers.

Prior to that, she founded and directed the Environmental R&D Division at Business for Social Responsibility, where her team designed corporate initiatives to analyze and adapt to 'horizon' issues such as payments for ecosystem services, water footprinting, carbon offsets and trading, climate lobbying, and sustainable product design.

Emma is a regularly featured columnist for Harvard Business Leading Green, Environmental Leader, and ClimateBiz and her work has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Global Finance, The International Herald Tribune, and Fast Company, among others. In 2007, she was named a Next Generation Fellow by the American Assembly and in 2005, she received the Bernard Siegel Award for Outstanding Research and Publication. She sits on the Green Technology Steering Committee of the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Board of ODC/San Francisco.

Emma holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from Stanford University and a B.A. Honours degree in Human Sciences from Oxford University.

As World Energy's Vice President, Environmental Markets, Ken spearheads the company's North American environmental commodities business. Ken brings vast experience, domestic and global, in assisting companies with strategy to mitigate their risk in the commodities markets. Prior to joining World Energy, Ken held senior sales and operational roles working with large government entities as well as Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies in the United States and in Western Europe. Ken holds an MBA from the University of Central Lancashire (England) and a BS in Business from Charleston Southern University.

Mark Small is vice president of Sony Electronics, Corporate Environment, Safety and Health. He is responsible for Sony's environment, safety and health programs in the western hemisphere.

Small has been with Sony Electronics for approximately 15 years and has held several positions, including director of Corporate Environmental Affairs and manager of Corporate Environmental Affairs. He established the Corporate Environmental Affairs Department when he came to Sony in 1992, later expanding that effort to include Sony's safety and health efforts. Under his direction Sony implemented resource management and product stewardship programs including its Sony Take Back Recycling program and design for the environment activities. He is an officer in Sony's Global Environmental Management Program which includes ISO 14000 certification, increased risk management and a comprehensive audit program developed around global corporate standards and goals.

Small is among the foremost experts in the understanding of environmental affairs and safety. Before joining Sony, he served as manager of environmental affairs for National Semiconductor. He has held a variety of positions related to environmental field including manager of Environment Safety at Titanium Metals, program manager at Midwest Research Institute, research assistant and technology assistant at University of Maryland and staff member at the Nuclear Reactor Division, Bureau of Standards.

Small earned his bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1974 and Ph.D. from University of Maryland in 1979.

Neal has been one of the founding partners of Jane Capital Partners LLC, an energy and technology merchant bank whose clients have included the technology arms of multinational energy companies. CarbonFlow is his fourth startup, and the third he has helped launch cross-border. He previously cofounded SC Power Systems, Inc. and its successor Zenergy Power plc (AIM:ZEN) in superconductor technology, helped launch WaiterPad POS Systems, Inc. in wireless hospitality POS solutions, and led the spin-out of Fideris, Inc. in fuel cell test & measurement. He has served as a director of several technology companies, edits the Cleantech Blog, named one of the 50 Best Business Blogs by London Times, and chairs Cleantech.org. He previously served as Director of Business Development for Globalgate, the parent company of Yellowpages.com, and as an associate at private equity fund manager Doyle & Boissiere. Before entering private equity, he began his career in energy investment banking at Bankers Trust, and has a B.A. from Texas A&M University.

Nitin Narkhede is General Manager of Technology Strategy and Innovation at Wipro Technologies. He is responsible for services strategy, academia and industry collaboration and concept to market activities for services and solutions based on new technology and business themes. As a part of Green and sustainability theme, Nitin has been instrumental in defining "Green IT" and "IT for Green" solutions at Wipro. He has championed Wipro's software-as-a-service offering for Enterprise Carbon Accounting in the recent past.

Nitin has been with Wipro for the last 15 years and has led number of technology and business model transitions at Wipro. In the recent past he managed Wipro's eBusiness Solutions Practice in the Americas. He has 18 years of experience in technology industry spanning information systems and product development, Technology Strategy, IT Strategy and planning. Nitin has worked with customers from various industry segments including Energy, manufacturing and hi-tech, retail, automotive, Banking and Insurance, transportation and logistics.

Nitin holds Bachelors in Mechanical engineering from Pune University and Masters of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

Pankaj Bhatia is a Senior Associate and director of the GHG Protocol Initiative at the World Resources Institute. Pankaj is a leading expert on GHG Protocol Standards and tools particularly in the area of corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting. His other areas of work and expertise include: deploying partnerships and GHG programs in major economies; designing emissions registries and GHG programs; and establishing a global process to develop new product life cycle and supply chain standards. From 1998 to 2000, he was vice president of Tata Energy & Resources Institute, a not-for-profit research organization based in Arlington, Virginia and affiliated to The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India. From 1993 to 1998 he served at TERI, New Delhi on various projects related to implementation of the Montreal Protocol in India and development of environment policy for technology transfer and capacity building in Indian industry. He holds Masters in process engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Bachelors in chemical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banares Hindu University, India.

Paul Baier leads Groom Energy's Climate Consulting practice, which assists Groom Energy's customers with their sustainability strategies  and GHG inventories. Paul recently co-published Groom's research report titled "Enterprise Carbon Accounting" and authors a sustainability blog.

Paul has been active with the emerging national organizations focused on GHG emissions and climate impact, representing Groom Energy at associations such EPA Climate Leaders, The Climate Registry, Carbon Disclosure Project and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Prior to his current role with Groom Energy, Paul held multiple senior executive roles with enterprise software service and management consulting firms such as Authoria, Open Market, AOL and Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Baier earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Kenyon College.

Since 1992, Reg Shiverick has been President of Dakota Software Corporation. Under his vision and leadership, Dakota Software has become the industry standard for auditing, corrective action and incident management software. Mr. Shiverick was awarded the Extraordinary Service Award from The Auditing Roundtable, a professional organization dedicated to the development and professional practice of environmental, health and safety (EHS) auditing.

Known as an industry expert on the structure and role of environmental, health and safety (EH&S) audits, Mr. Shiverick has written and made numerous presentations on the subject. Specifically, he has presented on the role of computerized EH&S audit programs at The Auditing Roundtable, the American Society for Quality Control and for the American Society of Safety Engineers.

He received a master's degree in Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Dartmouth College and a bachelor's degree in Geology from Bucknell University. Prior to Dakota Software, he served in executive positions with technology-based companies focusing on sales, marketing and strategic planning.

Rupesh D. Shah is the Director of Corporate Sustainability at Intuit. Intuit is a leading software solutions provider and the makers of TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Quicken. Rupesh has held the position of Director of Corporate Sustainability at Intuit for just about a year. Prior to that, Rupesh was Director of Product Management for TurboTax Business products and previously he helped to create and launch new industry-specific versions of QuickBooks. Rupesh has also served as Manager of Learning and Development at Odwalla and Training Manager at Earth Train, an environmental nonprofit organization dedicated to providing youth leaders the skills, resources, and network to make a difference in their local communities. Rupesh has also consulted for AmeriCorps, the Presidio Leadership Center, the Corporation for National Service, Gorbachev Foundation, the United Nations and various other leading social organizations around the world. Rupesh has a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a BA from the University of California, San Diego.

Sami Muneer is the Sr. Director of Solution Marketing for Sustainability solutions at SAP, focused on carbon, environment and energy. In his prior responsibilities over the last 9 years at SAP, he was instrumental on bringing new products to market, including its portfolio of mobile, composite and procurement applications. Before joining SAP, he spent a few years with leading management consulting firms, Bain & Co. and Mitchell Madison Group, where he focused on strategic and operational issues in the oil & gas and telecom industries. He earned his Bachelor's in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Scott Clavenna has been leading high-tech market research firms for over 15 years. In his capacity as a trusted analyst and consultant, Scott has helped dozens of companies enter and succeed in complex and intensely competitive markets worldwide. He also has authored more than 30 reports that helped define important emerging market segments in optical and broadband communications.

Prior to founding Greentech Media, Scott was chief analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. CMP bought Light Reading in 2005. Before creating Heavy Reading, Scott founded PointEast Research, providing strategic consulting and market intelligence to a broad mix of startups, venture capitalists and major suppliers in the communications/IT industry, and worked as director of research for Light Reading. In 1997, Scott co-founded Pioneer Consulting, which quickly grew into the leading market research firm covering the optical and broadband communications industry.

Timothy Greiner, a Pure Strategies partner, specializes in building environmental and social integrity into products, brands, and businesses. Tim's experience includes developing sustainability strategies for Stonyfield Farm, Seventh Generation, Dell and other leading green businesses. With more than 300 audits at manufacturing plants to his credit, Tim has more than 15 years of experience developing and implementing sustainability strategies. Projects range from supply chain alignment and enterprise carbon accounting to product scorecards, life cycle analysis, and corporate level sustainability reports.

Tim holds a bachelor's degree in Materials Science Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and masters degrees in Environmental Policy and Business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Greiner is a founding member of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Planners Association and a former Board member and President. He is also founder of the Cape Ann Climate Change Network and is a Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. He also worked for the Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance as Project Director and Chief Engineer.

Tymon Lodder has a strong background in environmental cost benefit analysis, regulatory compliance and strategy development and implementation. He worked as an environmental consultant with R.W. Beck, assisting municipalities and large utilities to develop cost effective solutions to meet power supply and generation issues as well as regulatory requirements for air and water quality. Prior to that, Tymon worked for the Regional Air Quality Council, a Denver metro area non-profit, working closely with industry and government officials on inventories, forecasts and the implementation of mitigation programs to meet federal air quality compliance requirements for CO, PM-10 and ozone.

Immediately prior to working at The Registry, Tymon led the forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning departments for the Quiznos Corporation. Tymon earned his M.S. degree in Environmental Economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder and also holds a B.A. in Economics from CU.

Will Coleman brings a background in energy-related technology, development, and policy to the MDV team. He focuses on cleantech investments. In addition to investing, Will supports MDV portfolio companies.

Prior to MDV, Will worked in Washington, DC as an advisor to private equity and project finance clients focusing on the energy sector. Will also worked as a legislative director building state and federal level coalitions to support renewable energy legislation. In 2004, Will was invited to sit on the California Energy Commission's Biofuels Working Groups to formulate strategies for reducing California's dependence on petroleum. Will has also worked for GE Wind in the commercial operations group, Xseed Capital, and on a variety of renewable energy projects in China, West Africa, and India.

Will has an MBA and an MS in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley Will founded the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) and the new Center for Energy & Environmental Innovation (CEEI). Will also earned an AB magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard University.

Ellen Jackowski leads the HP Environmental Sustainability Corporate Governance process and the Environmental Sales Enablement initiatives. She is responsible to ensure pan-HP coordination of all environmental initiatives, including strategy alignment, goal setting, public policy position, and to drive a coherent strategy and implementation plan for training and enabling the enterprise sales force to effectively position and differentiate HP's solutions based on the company's sustainability leadership and their superior environmental features and benefits. Ellen serves on the board of Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Ellen received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University.

James (Jim) Sullivan brings over 16 years of experience to his role as Vice President of Advisory Services at Clear Standards, where he works directly with clients, partners, and analysts to drive the benefits of technology to better manage carbon across business operations. Mr. Sullivan is the former Director of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders, a program that partners with over 200 businesses whose revenues represent 10% of the U.S. GDP, to develop comprehensive carbon management strategies. Mr. Sullivan's previous work at EPA included developing and analyzing performance metrics for U.S. climate programs, and serving as an expert reviewer of the European Union's climate policy under the UNFCCC. Mr. Sullivan represents Clear Standards on the technical committee of the WRI GHG Protocol Product/Supply Chain initiative. A frequent speaker at environmental and climate change related events, Mr. Sullivan is a strong advocate of industry efforts to implement meaningful, verifiable energy efficiency and carbon reduction programs. Prior to his service at EPA, Mr. Sullivan worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom as an environmental client specialist focusing on environmental litigation, corporate due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and environmental permitting & regulatory issues for a variety of Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Sullivan is a graduate of Brown University and holds a Masters of Science in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.

Prior to co-founding Groom Energy Solutions, Jonathan was a general partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV), a leading venture capital firm with $1.5 billion under management. At CRV, Jonathan was an active lead investor, advisor or board member for high profile software and service companies such as BeFree (acquired by ValueClick), eDocs (acquired by Siebel Systems), Vignette (VIGN), Virtusa (VRTU) and Xign Corporation (acquired by JP Morgan/Chase).

Before CRV, Jonathan held senior management positions at Open Market, a start up ecommerce software company that went public in 1996. Prior to joining the early Open Market team, Jonathan had served in a variety of senior product marketing and sales management roles with Hewlett Packard and J.P. Morgan.

Jonathan has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University. He is currently a member of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering Board of Visitors and The Museum of Science, Boston's Board of Overseers.

As Founder of CSRware, Karen Alonardo brings over 17 years of executive level experience in Fortune 500 and private start-up companies. Karen currently works directly with industry leaders, partners and is active with clients to drive the benefits of carbon and energy management using holistic business intelligence analytics software to reduce OpEx, illuminate ROI and account for carbon activities. Prior to CSRware, Karen managed global hi-tech Information Technology organizations with a drive towards innovation, product development and strategic vision. Over the last several years, her focus has been the intersection of Carbon / Sustainability and Green IT with an emphasis on methodology and policy implications surrounding carbon and energy impacts. Since founding CSRware in 2006, Karen has advocated the need for financial visibility, measure what you manage, and actions necessary to improve energy efficiency and carbon reductions.

The CSRware vision utilizes innovation and brings credibility to the carbon and sustainability market with a qualitative and quantitative approach. Karen continues to engage industry leaders like the Carbon Disclosure Project, Global Reporting Initiative, the Uptime Institute, and the CA Climate Action Registry with an emphasis on GHG protocol. In addition, Karen is active in the formation of a carbon collaborative made up of individuals from the private and public sectors. Karen received her Master's in Science in Environmental Management (MSEM) with a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Kelly has responsibility for all Sustainability Programs within Global Facilities Management which includes LEED efforts, measuring and reporting systems, setting overall sustainably strategies and is the primary point of contact for external environmental organizations. She partners with all departments within Symantec to further develop the sustainability structure. Previously, Ms. Shea was a Project Manager at CB Richard Ellis and a Designer/Portfolio Strategist at Gensler Architects. She is currently working on her MBA in Sustainable Enterprise at Dominican University, California. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University.