Steve Fludder

Steve Fludder, a 25-year GE veteran, leads ecomagination, GE's company-wide business strategy driving innovation and growth of profitable environmental solutions in a world where the environment and the economy have become inextricably linked. At $17B, ecomagination represented nine percent of GE's total revenue in 2008 and grew that year by 21 percent.

Fludder brings years of international leadership experience in Asia, the Middle East and the U.S. to the assignment and his career spans GE's portfolio of leading technology and infrastructure businesses.

Fludder joined GE Aircraft Engines as a design engineer and rose to lead GE's CF34-3B regional jet engine program. In 1994, Fludder moved to Asia for a series of start-up and growth roles across multiple GE businesses, initially launching GE Aircraft Engine's

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Gregg Dixon, Vice President of Marketing, ENERNOC

Gregg Dixon has led various sales, marketing, and business development efforts at EnerNOC and currently leads marketing efforts worldwide to utility and end-use customers. Gregg is primarily responsible for leading the development of EnerNOC's go-to-market strategy, product and service development, and the execution of marketing mechanisms that accelerate profitable sales growth and brand recognition through creative and customer-driven insights.

Prior to joining EnerNOC, Gregg was Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Hess Microgen, the leading provider of commercial on-site co-generation systems and services in the United States. As a highly recognized expert in distributed generation, Gregg pioneered efforts to bring more than 100 co-generation systems to leading grocery, hospitality, commercial property, and manufacturing customers and developed Hess Microgen's Internet-based monitoring system, CONIFER. Gregg was also Partner at Mercer Management Consulting, where he advised global Fortune 1000 technology, consumer products, and energy clients on customer and product strategy, economic choice analysis, and new business model development.

Gregg graduated from Boston College with bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science and he is a Certified Energy Manager, Certified Demand Side Management Professional, and Certified Sustainable Development Professional with the Association of Energy Engineers. Gregg was also voted one of Boston's "40 Under 40" by Boston Business Journal as recognition for having established himself as a leader to be watched in the field of energy.

Jim Rogers,
CEO, Duke Energy

Jim Rogers is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy.

Rogers has more than 20 years of experience as a chief executive officer in the electric utility industry. He was named president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. Before the merger, Rogers served as Cinergy's chairman and chief executive officer for more than 11 years. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer.

In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 50 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. In 2009, Rogers was honored with EnergyBiz magazine's CEO of the Year EnergyBiz KITE Award (Knowledge, Innovation, Technology, Excellence). In 2007, he was named the energy industry's CEO of the Year by Platts and Business Person of the Year by the Charlotte Business Journal. The Jan. 5, 2009, edition of Newsweek named Rogers to The Global Elite list, "The 50 Most Powerful People in the World"

Michael Eckhart,
President, American Council on Renewable Energy

Michael Eckhart is founding President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE). He also is co-chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), a member of the Steering Committee of the REN 21 global policy network, and co-head of the North American Secretariat of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). He is a 2008 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 recipient of RSA's Good Deal for All Award, and a three-time participant in the Clinton Global Initiative.

In 1998 he was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India for his work in bringing financing to solar energy markets, and in 1999 formed a $50 million joint venture between Shell and ESKOM in South Africa which electrified 10,000 off-grid homes with solar home systems.

He has over 25 years of experience in renewable energy, power generation, high technology, and finance. Previously, he was Chairman/CEO of United Power Systems, Inc.; Co-founder and Vice President of the venture capital firm Arete Ventures, Inc.;

Manager of Strategic Planning for the Power Systems Sector of General Electric Company; and a Principal of Booz, Allen & Hamilton's energy practice where he conducted many of the original national studies in the 1970s on emerging energy technologies including solar PV, solar heating & cooling, solar thermal-electric, windpower, hydropower, geothermal energy, cogeneration, energy storage, advanced coal combustion, gasification, liquefaction, synthetic fuels, and advanced nuclear. He served in the US Navy Submarine Service. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School

John Lushetsky,
Deputy Assistant Secretary - Energy Efficiency, U.S. DOE

John Lushetsky is Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Mr. Lushetsky is responsible for EERE's efforts to develop clean and energy-efficient technologies for vehicles, buildings, and industries and manages activities to implement energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies within the Federal government. As part of EERE's senior leadership, Mr. Lushetsky helps to oversee $16.8 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding, including state, city, and community programs for energy efficiency, as well as other energy efficiency programs focused on buildings, industrial technologies, and advanced vehicles.

Prior to this position, Mr. Lushetsky served as Program Manager of DOE's Solar Energy Technology Program (SETP) with responsibility for all activities under the Solar America Initiative. He directed the program's $170 million budget through solar technology research and development agreements with universities, venture capital funded start-ups, and established companies and oversaw solar research and development through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and other national labs. In this role, Mr. Lushetsky led key solar market transformation programs in collaboration with legislators, industry groups, utilities, city governments, and other key stakeholders

Bob Gates,
Senior Vice President Commercial Operations, Clipper Wind

Robert "Bob" Gates joined Clipper in early 2006, to manage the Company's Commercial Operations, including North American sales. Prior to joining Clipper, he served in a senior position within GE Energy's wind energy segment, with responsibilities spanning wind power project development, wind turbine sales, and related activities in government and regulatory, construction and operations. Under his sales leadership, GE became one of the world's most prominent wind turbine suppliers.

Bob Gates' leadership in the global wind industry extends from the pioneering era in the early 1980's. Bob has served as a member of the board of the American Wind Energy Association since the outset of the U.S. wind energy industry in the early 1980's, and the organization's president in 1999-2000, and again in 2007-08

William Lee,
Vice President Project Finance & Corporate Development, SunEdison

William Lee, VP, Project Finance and Corporate Development, leads the global project financing and corporate development activities for SunEdison. In this role, he originates, negotiates, structures and executes various types of financial and strategic transactions. Prior to joining SunEdison, he worked at the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, a private venture capital firm that invests in clean and renewable energy technologies. Additionally, Lee worked as an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup Global Markets), where he was involved in M&A and capital markets transactions within the global energy sector.