Joe Aamidor

Joseph Aamidor is a senior product and market strategy consultant focused on smart buildings, IoT, energy and real estate. He has nearly 15 years of experience in building and energy technology. He provides strategic guidance and advice to established building management firms, technology providers, and early-stage innovators. Previously, he served as Director of Product at Lucid Design Group and was a product manager at Johnson Controls. He frequently speaks at industry events and regularly publishes articles on the energy and smart building industry.

Learn more at https://www.aamidorconsulting.com/

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Alexia Akbay

Alexia’s research focus is in green chemistry with ongoing research on the endocrinology implications of petroleum-sourced consumer products. In 2018, she was one of 20 candidates nominated for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award. She is a founding member of the Yale Blockchain Initiative and as a proponent for sustainable and transparent supply chains in enabling a net-zero economy. She will receive an MPH in environmental public health in May 2018 and holds a B.S. from New York University in chemistry and global public health where she conducted research on food security and nutrition at NYU Langone Medical Center.

Natalie Ambrosio

As Four Twenty Seven’s Editor Natalie manages publications and communications, writing on climate change’s economic impacts, strategies for financial actors to assess and manage risk, and the interconnected nature of climate resilience. She leverages her background in climate adaptation, communications and environmental sciences to translate technical information into actionable insights for building climate resilience. Natalie’s recent publications include, Community Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: A Meaningful Investment Across Assets, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and “Chapter 7: Addressing Climate Risk in Financial Decision Making,” in Optimizing Community Infrastructure.

Previously, Natalie helped develop an assessment of U.S. cities’ vulnerabilities to climate change and their readiness to adapt, at the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN). Natalie holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and a certificate in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy from the University of Notre Dame.

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Abhijeet Borole

Abhijeet is currently leading the technology development efforts at Electro-Active Technologies. He has 21 years of experience in energy R&D.  He developed the bioelectrochemical technology for biomass/waste conversion, while being at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and continues to hone it with the goal of developing integrated solutions to fit the 21st century bioeconomy needs. He has over 60 publications, four patents, and five books/chapters. He has published across multiple disciplines appearing in over 30 different journal titles including Energy & Environmental Science, Electrochimica Acta and Biochemical Engineering Journal.He is an engineer with knowledge of biological systems and an understanding of the sustainability needs of the 21st century.
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He continues his exploration of novel ideas, researching new directions and fundamental concepts at the interface of biocatalysis and electrochemistry via his position as a Research Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Cassie Bowe

Cassie is an Associate Vice President at Energy Impact Partners, a $650m fund investing in energy startups, where she is responsible for EIP’s west coast presence. Prior to joining EIP, she worked for 5 years at SunPower, one of the largest global solar companies, in policy and strategy. She has also gained operating experience at energy storage, micro-grid and energy asset management startups in business development and finance roles. Cassie holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a BA in Economics from Harvard University, and was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy (2018).

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Regina Clewlow

Regina is the CEO and Co-Founder of Populus, a data platform for private mobility operators and cities to deliver safe, equitable, efficient streets. She has over a decade of experience in transportation, where she is a leading expert on innovations in public transit, shared mobility, and autonomous vehicles. Regina formed Populus after serving as the Director of Business Development and Strategy at moovel, the joint mobility services division of Daimler and BMW.

Prior to her roles in industry, Regina received her Ph.D. in transportation and energy systems from MIT. As a research scientist at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis, she developed and led research on the travel behavior impacts of shared mobility services (e.g. Uber, Lyft, carsharing) and autonomous vehicles. Regina was the lead author of the recent groundbreaking UC Davis study Disruptive Transportation: The Adoption, Utilization, and Impacts of Ride-Hailing in the United States. She has received several awards and distinctions, having been honored as a National Engineers Week “New Face of Engineering”, EPA STARS Fellow, MIT Energy Fellow, and Department of Transportation Eisenhower Fellow, Mass Transit 40 Under 40, and San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40.

As a transportation researcher, Dr. Clewlow’s work focused on developing and harnessing new datasets to measure the adoption and impacts of shared-use mobility (ride-hailing) and automated/ autonomous vehicles on travel behavior, vehicle purchase, and energy use. She is passionate about developing innovative transportation technologies that provide net positive social and environmental benefits: reduced congestion, improved accessibility, and a lower carbon footprint.

Bennett Cohen

Bennett brings 15 years of experience at the intersection of energy, mobility and innovation spanning venture capital, startups, large corporations and consulting. Most recently Bennett established the venture capital arm of Royal Dutch Shell in San Francisco, where he led $50 million of investments focused on the future of energy and mobility, served on the boards of portfolio companies, and chaired the global mobility investment committee. Before moving into venture capital, Bennett was based at Shell headquarters in Europe developing the strategy that underpins the company’s New Energies division, which develops business globally in renewable power and storage, smart grid, electric mobility, and energy access. Bennett has also worked as a consultant at Rocky Mountain Institute, where he reported directly to Amory Lovins, and as a Director of Business Development at CPower, a demand response startup that was acquired by Constellation in 2010.

Bennett’s professional passions are sustainability, entrepreneurship, teamwork and the challenges facing the global energy industry.

Bennett is a Kauffman Fellow, and holds a BA in Economics (summa cum laude) from Columbia University and an MSc. in Industrial Ecology from TU Delft.

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Maureen Eisbrenner

As CEO & Chairman, Maureen is responsible for the implementation of arbnco’s strategic plan to advance the company’s vision, mission, strategies and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability for its shareholders and growth as an organization . Under her leadership, arbnco is building a strong team to deliver SAAS products to real estate investors, managers and consultants to make quicker and better informed decisions.

Maureen is a seasoned executive with more than twenty years of experience helping companies and their clients to achieve results. Prior to founding arbnco, she co-founded Cadmeleon LTD which provided technology-based solutions to the public and private sectors including commercial real estate, healthcare and financial services companies. Maureen led the successful acquisition of the scanning division of Cadmeleon LTD to a multinational firm in 2014. The engineering and technology divisions were spun-off into CO2 Estates and rebranded in 2017 as arbnco.

Maureen balances arbnco’s focus between managing today’s challenges and setting our strategic outlook for tomorrow, all while keeping our clients at the center of every decision we make.…

Craig Evans

Mr. Evans is the President, CEO, and a founder of ESS Inc. Having started ESS from his garage in 2011, he led the company to the commercialization of the iron flow battery system in 2016. Prior to ESS Inc., Mr. Evans was the Director of Design & Product Development at ClearEdge Power Inc. His team designed the ClearEdge5, a 5 kW combine-heat-and-power fuel cell system, which was successfully commercialized in 2010. This product received both CSA International certification in North America and KNREC certification in Asia. Mr. Evans began his career at United Technologies Corporation (UTC) where he held technical leadership positions in their Fuel Cell business and, prior to that, as a project engineer in the Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine business. In 2006, Mr. Evans was awarded the distinguished George Mead Award, the highest honor for individual engineering achievement at UTC. Mr. Evans has authored over 15 patents and patent applications. He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, an MS in Finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.B.A from Carnegie Mellon University.

Clifford Federspiel

Dr. Federspiel is a leader and visionary in the field of energy management, having authored more than 50 papers on topics ranging from HVAC and CRAC control, to indoor air quality and cooling optimization. He is the recipient of the Ralph G. Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award from ASHRAE, and holds numerous patents in the field.

Dr. Federspiel began his career in R&D at Johnson Controls after receiving his BSME from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, and his SMME and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1998 he joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Specialist at The Center for Environmental Design Research and the Electronics Research Laboratory.

Building on his pioneering research in dynamic cooling technology and wireless networking, Dr. Federspiel incorporated Federspiel Controls in 2008 (renamed Vigilent in 2011) to address the emerging need of treating cooling and energy consumption as a managed resource. Today, he is a leading voice in the field of sustainable energy solutions and green technology, and a frequent speaker at industry conferences, where he advocates for technology solutions for a better planet.

Nicholas Flanders

Nicholas Flanders is the co-founder and CEO of Opus 12. Nicholas holds an M.S. in engineering and MBA from Stanford University. Opus 12 is his second venture-backed startup. Previously, Nicholas was an analyst in McKinsey’s Cleantech practice, where he served multiple clients in the energy and materials sector and co-authored groundbreaking studies of the global energy system. Nicholas was featured among Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Energy in 2016.

Opus 12 has developed a device that converts CO2 emissions into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels.

Founded at Stanford in 2015, Opus 12 scaled up its technology in the Cyclotron Road program at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Opus 12 has received funding from Shell, SoCalGas, NASA, DOE, NSF, ARPA-e, and top-tier investors. Opus 12 is the 2015 winner of the DOE’s Transformational Idea Award, and the three co-founders have been featured among Rolling Stone’s 25 People Shaping the Next 50 Years and MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Innovators.

Yuri Freedman

Yuri has broad experience as a developer and investor in gas infrastructure and power generation assets. In his current role of Senior Director, Business Development, he manages the portfolio of growth initiatives and R&D activities of Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas). Prior to his current role he held the position of Director, Commercial Development for Sempra LNG and Midstream, and previously held the positions of Director, Infrastructure Investments for Sempra US Gas and Power, and Director, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions for Sempra Energy.

Prior to joining Sempra Energy, Yuri was a Managing Director on the energy team of Fortress Investment Group and a Vice President in General Electric’s energy investment arm, GE Energy Financial Services. He began his career as a geologist working in Arctic regions of Western Siberia on the development and construction of oil and gas pipelines.

Yuri holds a MS in Engineering Geology from Moscow University (Russia), a PhD in Environmental Science and Energy Research from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), and a MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Amy Gu

Amy oversees the firm’s emerging tech portfolios and helps corporate investors build innovations. Prior to founding Hemi, she was the first General Manager of Evernote China, where she grew the user base to 20 million in four years. She also served as a growth advisor to Udacity and Robinhood. Amy is named as “Most Creative People of 2015” by Fast Company, “40 under 40 of 2018” by Silicon Valley Business Journal, and “Rising Stars in VC” by National Venture Capital Association. She holds an MBA from Stanford.

Kylee Guenther

Kylee Guenther is the co-founder and CEO of Pivot Materials (Pivot) and an experienced entrepreneur. She’s passionate about finding environmentally friendlier solutions to everyday issues involving sustainability. Kylee was a University Fellow at Eastern Michigan University, where she studied Management.

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John Hamer

John is a Managing Partner at DCVC Bio. Prior to joining DCVC, John was a VP at Monsanto and Managing Director of Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV). Before joining MGV, John was a Managing Director at Burrill & Company. Prior to his career in venture capital, John was an entrepreneur, initially at Paradigm Genetics, where he joined as a visiting scientist before becoming Chief Science Officer and eventually President and CEO following the company’s IPO. After Paradigm, John founded and served as CEO of Arête Therapeutics, which earned backing from leading life science venture firms.

John started his career in academia, rising to the rank of Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University, where he earned the David and Lucille Packard Fellow award in 1989. John received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of Windsor and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis.

Thomas Healy

Thomas Healy is the founder and CEO at Hyliion, a technology start-up that is disrupting the trucking industry with electric propulsion.  After starting four years ago in Healy’s dorm room at Carnegie Mellon University, Hyliion now has over 50 employees and is based in Austin, TX.  Thomas’s passion for revolutionizing the trucking industry came from his upbringing in motorsports; he competed at a national level racing formula cars, sports cars, and go-karts.  He has founded two prior start-ups and has been featured as a technical author in the New York Times. Thomas was a Forbes 30 under 30 awardee in 2017.

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Pete Johnson

Pete is a Partner with Azimuth Capital.  His responsibilities include developing investment hypotheses in the changing energy landscape, origination of new investment opportunities, performing strategic, technical, and financial due diligence, and guiding existing portfolio companies.  Pete runs the Firm’s SF Bay Area office and focuses on investments in energy and materials technology and infrastructure.

Prior to joining Azimuth, Pete was Co-Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer of Monolith Materials, Inc., a company that secured, developed, and commercialized technology for producing industrial grade hydrogen and carbon materials from natural gas with significant environmental and economic advantages over incumbent methods.  Monolith is now constructing a commercial facility in Nebraska and is considered the gold standard for new technology in the carbon materials industry.  Prior to forming Monolith, Pete led engineering and product development for AREVA Solar and spearheaded the manufacturing and construction of a 125 MW solar plant in Rajasthan, India after successfully merging the company Ausra with AREVA.

Pete received a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.  Prior to that he graduated Summa cum Laude with a Bachelors degree in Physics from the University of Utah.  He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of California and is an inventor on 12 patents.  He serves as an advisor to multiple companies in the energy and material space as well as to the US Department of Energy.

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Philippe Lacamp

Philippe Lacamp was appointed Senior Vice President, Americas in 2015. He oversees all facets of operations and commercial activities in the Americas and has been instrumental in leading Cathay Pacific’s CSR and sustainability initiatives in North America. Previously, he spent five years as Head of Sustainable Development for Swire Pacific and John Swire & Sons, covering a range of industries including aviation, shipping, and marine services, property development, beverages, and agri-business. In that role, he established an investment unit investing in biotech companies and also ran Swire Waste Management Ltd, a joint venture operating company within the Swire group.

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Thomas McDonald

Thomas M. McDonald is the Chief Executive Officer and a co-founder of Mosaic Materials, a Berkeley, California based materials startup. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley under the guidance of Prof. Jeffry R. Long and his B.A. in chemistry from Northwestern University. Dr. McDonald is an expert in the design, synthesis, and use of amine-functionalized solid adsorbents and metal-organic frameworks for gas separations.

Andrée-Lise Méthot

Andrée-Lise Méthot is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cycle Capital Management, an impact investor and the most active cleantech venture capital platform in Canada. She has over 25 years of experience in venture capital, management and engineering. In the last few years, she has fundraised almost $400M from strategic and industrial players and she recently closed a fund with a strategic institutional investor in China.

Andrée-Lise serves on many boards of directors for public and private companies, including some of CCM’s portfolio companies. She is the co-founder and Chair of the Ecofuel Accelerator, for which she also championed the Ecofuel Fund. She sits on the Board of directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), Transition énergétique Québec (TEQ) and Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI). She also co-founded Écotech Québec, the Quebec cleantech cluster and SWITCH, the Alliance for a green economy.

Andrée-Lise sits on the North-American advisory Board of the Cleantech Group, the selection committee of Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance’s New Energy Pioneers, the Private Sector Advisory Board for the Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada and the External Advisory Committee to the Vice Principal Research and International Relations at McGill University. She co-chaired a Task Force under the auspices of the UNEP and the SETAC on the Life Cycle Initiative. She sat on various recognition committees, including the Grand prix du Génie Québécois, the Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year contest.

Andrée-Lise was recognized as one of Canada’s Clean16, named one of the Top 20 cleantech investors by CleanTechnica and amongst the most influential women in sustainable development and in the cleantech industry by Corporate Knight.

Trent Molter

Dr. Trent Molter has been active in the hydrogen and fuel cell community since 1984. Dr. Molter has developed proton exchange membrane based products for commercial hydrogen production, automotive power and fueling, space and military life support, aircraft environmental control, space propulsion. He lead the technology transfer of GE’s Direct Energy Conversion Operation to United Technologies Corporation. Dr. Molter co-founded Proton Energy Systems, Inc. in 1996 to commercialize PEM electrolyzers and regenerative fuel cells. He was instrumental in Proton’s growth to a publicly traded company with over 140 employees, $160 million in cash and a market capitalization of nearly $1 billion. He is listed as an inventor on over thirty patents for various electrochemical and other novel devices and materials. Dr. Molter holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, an M.S. in Metallurgy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Heath Morrison

Prior to joining BP in 2017, Heath held a number of roles in the venture lending industry, most notably at Silicon Valley Bank, focusing on alternative energy and renewables. Heath has also worked in the consulting industry focused on sales and business strategy, and as an entrepreneur in the Healthcare IT sector.

He holds a BSc in Industrial Technology and a MBA with a focus on International Business. Heath holds an observer position on the boards of Lightning Systems, Solidia, and Zippity.

Christine Moseley

Christine Moseley, Full Harvest Founder + CEO, is a passionate serial social entrepreneur. Currently, at Full Harvest, she is solving the massive food waste problem at the farm level. Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for surplus and imperfect produce, connecting food & beverage companies directly to farms with produce that would otherwise go to waste.

Christine has over 15 years of experience in the logistics and food industries at both Fortune 100 companies (Maersk, P&G) as well as high-growth food start-ups. In her last corporate role, she assisted Organic Avenue, an NYC healthy food + juice start-up, double in size as Head of Strategic Projects and Business Development.

Christine holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a BA from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. She was recently recognized as Inc.’s Top 100 Female Founders and Fortune’s #2 ‘Most Innovative Woman in Food & Drink.’ Full Harvest was named one of Forbes’ ‘Most Innovative Agtech Startups.’

Juan Muldoon

Juan brings nearly a decade of experience in finance and investing. He is integral to all aspects of the Fund’s operations, including leading sourcing efforts, developing investment theses, driving diligence of potential investments, and supporting and monitoring portfolio companies. Previously, Juan worked at J.P. Morgan, where his work ranged from business analysis and research to advising institutional investors on portfolio allocation and private investments.

Juan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from the University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude.

Juan currently sits on the Board of Directors for Nozomi Networks, Aquilon and Zededa.

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Sam Nagar

Pixeom’s founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sam Nagar has led the company and its solutions to become the market-leading Edge computing software platform, both by number of deployments and revenue. A visionary entrepreneur and technologist, throughout his career Sam has focused on key growth areas including Edge computing, cloud, IoT, operating systems, virtualization, and distributed computing and is now the youngest CEO in the Edge computing world.

As Pixeom’s CEO, Sam’s business philosophy boils down to a belief that by committing to a software platform that is hardware, operating system and cloud agnostic, today’s revolution in Edge computing can open the door for enterprises to benefit from significant cost reductions, more efficient transfer of data and a truly responsive user experience.

Prior to joining Pixeom, Sam was a software engineer at Microsoft where he worked on Hyper-V and PowerShell, developing the large scale virtualization and management capabilities of Windows Server.

Sam has a B.S. undergraduate studies in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Southern California (USC). Originally from Boston, Sam resides in Northern California with his wife.

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Bertrand Piccard

Born into a family of scientific explorers, Bertrand Piccard has made history by completing two round-the-world flights: non-stop in a balloon and more recently without any fuel in the Solar Impulse airplane.

With this last achievement, Bertrand’s goal was to demonstrate how clean technologies and renewable energy can achieve the impossible. As a second phase of his vision, and with the Solar Impulse Foundation, he launched the challenge of selecting 1’000 profitable solutions that protect the environment in order to encourage decision-makers to adopt more ambitious environmental targets and energy policies.

One of the first to envision ecology through the lens of profitability, he urges for the uptake of clean and efficient technologies because they are logical rather than just ecological. Even if climate change didn’t exist, they would make sense, as they represent the biggest industrial market of the century. According to him, innovation and pioneering spirit are key to solve the most pressing challenge of our times: ensuring the quality of life on Earth.

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Ryan Pletka

Ryan Pletka is a founding member of Black & Veatch’s Growth Accelerator team, whose mission is to drive rapid, sustainable growth for the company. Responsibilities include identification of new trends, evaluation of emerging technologies, development of new business models, and establishing partnerships with internal and external entrepreneurs. Focus areas include energy, artificial intelligence, distributed infrastructure, remote sensing, and climate change.

Prior to his current role, Ryan worked in renewable, distributed, and advanced energy technologies for nearly 20 years.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University. He is a registered Professional Engineer.

Keith Pronske

Keith is President and CEO of Clean Energy Systems, a Sacramento-based alternative energy company using high-pressure, oxygen-fuel combustion technology to produce power without pollution.  He has more than 30 years experience in the power industry in North America, South America and Europe. He previously served as Vice President of Business Development for Belgian-based Tractebel SA, now part of Engie, and prior to that worked for the AES Corporation, one of the largest independent power companies. Keith has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Davis, and a Masters in Business Administration from San Francisco State University.

Ramya Ravichandar

Ramya Ravichandar heads Product Management at FogHorn. She is a seasoned leader in emerging markets, with a track record of creating value. She brings a rare combination of technical expertise in real time analytics, machine learning, AI, and valuable experience in Industrial IOT.  Ramya has a PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

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Matt Schwartz

How can we tilt our food system to improve human and environmental health? This question is the motivating force for my career. From formulating healthier snack foods and studying grocery stores, to attending Stanford to study business, food, and agriculture, my appetite for impact in this field is insatiable. In my humble opinion, I think the grocery industry is totally underappreciated. Grocers are the cornerstone of most communities and the industry is titanic in size. I think it’s a true privilege to work with our partners and do my best to deliver solutions that improve their businesses, the communities they serve, and the health of our environment.

Rich Sorkin

Rich Sorkin is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of Jupiter Intelligence, based in Silicon Valley. Jupiter provides data analysis through predictive modeling to help corporations, governments,

and society manage risks from climate change, natural disasters, and sea level rise. Led by veterans of Fortune 100 companies, machine learning pioneers, a Nobel Prize winner, and scientists from NOAA and the National Science Foundation, the firm offers services to predict weather risks from one hour to 50+ years in the future.

Sorkin is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Zip2, an Internet 1.0 company best known for analytics and visualization of geospatial data. He served as president of Kaggle prior

to its acquisition by Google, leading the introduction of big data predictive analytics into the enterprise market and serving as the company’s premier industry strategist. Sorkin is an alumnus of Yale University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Aleks Strub

Aleks Strub is the Chief Marketing Officer at Imperfect. Having been in the food tech space for a number of years, she enjoys challenging the public perception of ugly food and bringing it to life with googly eyes. Imperfect is an online grocer creating a more sustainable and effective food system to better our communities and the environment. The company sources imperfect produce and surplus food directly from farmers, growers and food purveyors and delivers these goods directly to customers’ doors through a customizable subscription service.

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Kristin Taylor

Kristin Taylor, CEO and Co-founder of Radical Plastics, has a Masters Degree in Plastics Engineering and over 25 years’ experience in the plastics industry.  Ms. Taylor has served in technical, sales, business development and management roles in several multinational organizations including ExxonMobil Chemical (OPP Packaging Films Division), Metabolix Bioplastics, Sabic and Huntsman Corporation. She has extensive experience in market development for commodity, engineering and biobased / biodegradable plastics and has worked with major brand owners such as P&G, Colgate Palmolive, Unilever, Kimberly Clark, Aveda, Nike and Newell Rubbermaid to bring award-winning products to market.  In her spare time, Ms. Taylor enjoys long distance running and has completed marathons in six countries including all of the World Marathon Majors.

Geoffrey Tauvette

Geoff is Director, Fuel and Environment at WestJet and has over 20 years of experience in the aviation fuel and environment industry. He leads a team that procures and oversees the safe delivery of 1.5 billion litres of jet fuel annually into all WestJet aircraft and manages WestJet’s environmental sustainability approach through environmental compliance, implementing climate change strategies, advancing the use of alternative fuels and using resources responsibly.

Karsten Temme

For years, Karsten has been fascinated with the limitless potential of the unseen microbes that inhabit our world. While earning his Ph.D. at University of California, San Francisco, his graduate research focused on enhancing the nitrogen-fixing potential of soil-borne microbes. Seeking to produce “more than scientific journal articles” and driven by the desire to create meaningful change in the world, Karsten partnered with his friend and colleague, Alvin Tamsir, to create Pivot Bio.

Richard Youngman

Since January 2016, Richard Youngman has been CEO of San-Francisco based Cleantech Group (CTG). This followed 7 years of driving the growth of CTG’s activities outside North America, especially in Europe and Israel, and Asia, based in CTG’s office in London.

Richard has more than ten years’ experience researching cleantech innovation, venture capital markets, and start-ups across Europe and globally. He is a regular keynote speaker at major cleantech events and is the driving force behind the annual Global Cleantech 100, a list of the world’s most promising private cleantech companies.

Joe Zhou

Joe Zhou is the CEO of Quidnet Energy, which develops and deploys geomechanical pumped hydro solutions for low-cost long duration energy storage. Prior to Quidnet Energy, Joe worked at Green Charge Networks, a California-based energy storage project developer that was acquired by Engie in 2016. Joe started his career in advisory for heavy-industry capital projects at McKinsey, and in process engineering at ExxonMobil. Joe holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a MBA.

Paul Zorner

Paul leads Locus AG’s strategy, operations and development. Previously he’s been an executive and innovator with 40+ years of international experience in science, R&D, operations and administration, holding leadership positions at multiple organizations including Mycogen Corporation, Dow Chemical, BASF and Diversa Corporation.