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Speaker Bios
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Joel Bluestein, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc
Joel Bluestein is President of Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc (EEA) and is a nationally recognized expert on the impacts of environmental and energy regulation, with over 25 years of experience in the energy and environmental arenas. He has been directly involved in the development of most of the recent emission trading programs and participates in the national debate on new environmental policies and their energy implications. He has testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on natural gas supply issues and their implications for multipollutant regulation of the electric generating sector. He has proposed a variety of innovative mechanisms for crediting energy efficiency and renewables technologies in emission trading programs. Some of his ideas on design of technology-forcing cap and trade programs have been adopted by the National Council on Energy Policy and the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Mr. Bluestein has authored numerous reports including a study for DOE on innovative approaches to better align the nation’s goals for clean air and clean energy. His work has included technology and market assessment work, R&D planning, energy conservation project analysis and long term energy demand forecasting, among other topics. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is a registered Professional Engineer.
Mike Burnett, The Climate Trust
Michael Canterbury, ESP Inc.
Tim Carmichael, Coalition for Clean Air
Lynda Clemmons
Marty Coyne, Platts
Marty Coyne is the Americas Editor for the Platts Emissions Daily publication, which provides independent, leading and comprehensive pricing and news for the greenhouse gas, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide markets. Marty studied journalism at Buffalo State College and has covered environmental markets, policy and politics for nearly 12 years. When he took his first job as a high school sports reporter, he never thought his work would eventually give him a front seat at the unleashing of markets to create and use energy in the cleanest, most affordable manner.
J.P. Crametz, Oncept Consulting
Kerry Drake, US EPA
Kerry Drake is an Associate Director in the Air Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Pacific Southwest Region. He focuses on permitting, enforcement, and agriculture as well as general air quality issues in the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento metropolitan areas of California, and in the state of Hawaii. He came to the EPA after serving for more than a decade with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Mr. Drake graduated, with honors, from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas.
Heather Eades, Dominion Energy
Heather Eades is a Senior Financial Analyst at Dominion Energy. Headquartered in Richmond, Va., Dominion (NYSE: D) is one of the nation's largest producers of energy. The company’s asset portfolio consists of about 28,100 megawatts of power generation. Heather is actively involved in both the SO2 and NOx allowance markets. Since joining Dominion in December 1997 she has participated in the energy industry in operations, risk management and finance, with particular focus on power generation and environmental finance. Heather has been involved in the energy trading industry since 1997. She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University holding a B.S. in marketing, with a minor in chemistry and an M.S. in Finance.
Michael Enger, Austin Energy
Mike Ferguson, Spectron Group
Mr. Ferguson is Senior Vice President of Spectron Energy, Inc. and has over 13 years of environmental attribute trading and brokering experience. Mr. Ferguson joined Spectron last year to build Spectron’s environmental desk. Prior Spectron, Mr. Ferguson was a Director at Millennium Environmental Group, Senior Vice President at Euro Brokers, and Trader for Emissions Exchange. Mr. Ferguson holds Bachelors degrees from the University of Colorado in Geology and International Affairs and a Masters degree in International Management form Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management.
Andrew T. Fielding, GT Environmental Finance LLC
Andrew Fielding is the President of GT Environmental Finance LLC in Austin, Texas. He has been the President of GT since its inception in 1998. Mr. Fielding has been in active in the development of commodity derivatives in the US, Europe and Asia since 1988. GT was a first mover as an Institutional Broker in the European Carbon Market specifically focusing upon CDM project offtake and Carbon Finance. In the spring of 2004, Mr. Fielding negotiated a joint venture agreement with Tricorona AB of Stockholm, Sweden to expand GT’s European carbon coverage. In October 2005, he negotiated the first U.S. Offshore Wind lease between WEST LLC and the Texas GLO. Andrew is a former Kent State Varsity Hockey player. He received his BA from Rutgers College, Rutgers University in 1985.
Steven Fine, ICF International
Steven Fine is a Director with ICF International’s Energy Markets Practice. At ICF, Mr. Fine’s work has concentrated on evaluating the impacts of various air regulatory scenarios on the electric generating industry, as well as policies to promote renewable resources. He is currently performing a number of multi-pollutant compliance planning, asset valuation, and environmental positioning assignments for electric generating companies in the US, and is also involved in several state and regional studies examining the impacts of implementing CO2 emissions limits and the role that renewable resources and energy efficiency can play in meeting those targets. Prior to ICF, Mr. Fine worked for Luz Industries, the largest developer of solar thermal electric generators in the world, as well as at ESAI Inc., an energy consulting firm. He has a BA from the University of California and an MA in Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Jeffrey Fort, Sonnenschien, Nath and Rosenthal
Mr. Fort's practice includes all environmental media. His practice includes internal environmental investigations and audits, the design and implementation of environmental compliance programs and systems, and evaluation of self-reporting and voluntary compliance strategies. He also has extensive experience in complex air regulation and permitting matters and in creating and transferring emission credits. He has nearly 30 years' experience in remedial clean-ups, including developing risk and exposure assessments for potentially toxic chemicals and natural resource damages. These risk-based evaluations have also extended to worker safety and public exposure disputes and for the regulation of toxic substances. He has extensive experience in issues related to contaminated sediments and remedial options. He has successfully litigated before all levels of state and federal courts and negotiated with all varieties of local state and federal environmental agencies. Mr. Fort has been involved in environmental law since his graduation, including a clerkship for Justice John M. Karns, Jr. of the Illinois Appellate Court. He has been an adjunct professor of law, teaching the environmental law and advanced environmental law courses at the Northwestern University School of Law (1990 - 1993). A former chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association and of the Lake Michigan States Section of the Air & Waste Management Association, Mr. Fort is a frequent lecturer on environmental topics for various professional groups and is listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business - 2006; and Who’s Who Legal USA: Environmental 2006 as one of USA’s leading practitioners in this field.
Frank Friedman, Friedman & Associates
Frank B. Friedman, President, Frank B. Friedman & Associates, LLC, is a consultant in environment, health and safety policy and management. He has been an environmental, health and safety professional for over thirty years. Starting as an attorney in the Department of Justice in the 1960’s, working on some of the early cases in this area, he began his corporate career in 1970 as a corporate counsel and for twenty years was a senior (VP and Senior VP level) corporate environment, health and safety (EHS) officer with large multinational corporations. He is recognized as a worldwide leader in developing and rapidly implementing leading edge EHS programs, focusing particularly on risk management. He has broad experience in the chemical, oil and gas, petroleum refining and marketing, mining and pipeline industries and as a consultant has been advising utility and power companies on program management, strategies and energy issues and manufacturing, consumer products, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, and service companies on program management and compliance. He has served as an expert and/or an expert witness in matters involving process safety management, sale and lease of contaminated real estate and standard of conduct with respect to management of TCE. His book, Practical Guide to Environmental Management (Environmental Law Institute, 10th edition, 2006), is widely viewed as the standard reference and teaching text on its subject. He also is the author of the chapter on Environmental Auditing in the Treatise, Law of Environmental Protection (prepared by the Environmental Law Institute). He has served as a member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute, as well as having served as a Visiting Scholar, working with the Institute on various management issues. He also recently advised the U.S. Department of Justice on environmental management systems. Friedman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 from Columbia College and his law degree in 1965 from Columbia Law School. He has been admitted to the bars of California, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and various federal courts.
Anton Galenovich, AFK Sistema
Janet Gellici, American Coal Council
Janet Gellici is Executive Director of the American Coal Council, an alliance of coal, utility, trading and transportation companies advocating a partnering, non-adversarial approach to business relationships. The ACC’s primary goal is to advance the development and utilization of American coal as an economic, abundant and environmentally sound fuel source. The ACC is the successor organization to the Western Coal Council which was founded in 1982. Prior to her work with the ACC, Gellici served as Communications Director of the Colorado School of Mines’ Management Institute and as Public Information Director of the Western Governors’ Association. Gellici has also served as Executive Director of the Coal Trading Association. In 1998, Gellici was appointed by the Secretary of Energy to serve on the National Coal Council, an advisory group to the Secretary. She is a member of the American Society of Association Executives and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Society of Association Executives. Gellici earned her MBA from Regis University in 2001 and is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a degree in Journalism and Business Administration.
Caroline Gentry, Argus Media
Graduated from Manchester University in the UK with a Bachelors degree in Russian and Soviet Studies. Worked for a news agency in Belarus. Have been with Argus for more than six years, initially reporting on liquefied petroleum gas, then headed up the European Electricity desk during the transformation of the UK electricity market to competition. Senior Editor of Air Daily since February 2004. Married with a son, living in Maryland.
Gary Hart, United Power/ICAP
Gary Hart is currently a consultant for ICAP and United Power after 28 years with Southern Company. In August 2006 Mr. Hart retired and formed Clean Air Markets LLC to provide Environmental and Economic consulting to the utility, coal, transportation and emissions community. Mr. Hart has managed one of the largest allowances banks in the world ($4 billion) via purchases, swaps loans, etc. Mr. Hart also successfully sued Gov. Pataki and NY and stopped their ill conceived state attempt to stop congressionally authorized SO2 emissions trading and took on AG Elliott Spitzer’s office and won twice in Federal Court. As a member of US EPA’s delegation to Beijing China (1999). Mr. Hart trained their academia and government officials on how SO2 emissions trading works in the US. Mr. Hart helped form and was the President of and on the Board of the EMA.
Tim E. Hemig, NRG Energy
Presently and since November 1999, Mr. Hemig has been the Director of Environmental & New Business with NRG Energy, Inc., operating out the NRG western region office in Carlsbad, California. NRG owns and operates approximately 2000 megawatts of natural gas fired power generating capacity in California and Nevada, primarily in the San Diego and Los Angeles energy markets. Mr. Hemig has over thirteen years of extensive experience in multi-media environmental programs for the power generation industry; with previous employment at Dynegy, Inc., Destec Energy Inc., and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Over the past eleven years, Mr. Hemig has been closely involved in the permitting and development of power generating assets located within the South Coast Air Quality Management District and as a participant in the RECLAIM program, including both from a compliance perspective as well as management of RECLAIM Trading Credits. Mr. Hemig holds a Bachelors Degree in Physical Geography received from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1989 and a Certificate in Air Quality Management from the University of California Extension, obtained in 1996. Mr. Hemig is also affiliated with numerous environmental associations, including appointment as a Board of Director for the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance.
Joseph W. Hower, ENVIRON International Corporation
Mr. Hower is the Managing Principal and Air Quality Practice Leader of ENVIRON International Corporation’s Southern California operations and is based out of Los Angeles office. He has 28 years of experience in air quality management, including regulatory compliance, permitting, litigation support, expert witness work, risk management, and pollution control engineering. Specific projects have ranged from Title V permit evaluations to managing the installation and start-up of multi-million dollar air pollution control systems. Mr. Hower also leads ENVIRON's work in the area of emissions trading. His service on the South Coast Air Quality Management District Advisory Council for nearly five years provides an excellent understanding of regulatory processes. He uses this information to negotiate complex technical agreements and permits with agencies, assist facilities with compliance programs, and provide technical expertise to litigation teams. Mr. Hower teaches air quality permitting and air pollution control courses at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). He also serves on the University of Southern California (USC) Civil and Environmental Engineering program Industrial Advisory Council. Mr. Hower is a Director of the West Coast Section of the Air & Waste Management Association.
Thaddeus Huetteman, Power & Energy Analytic Resources, (PEAR) Inc .
Mr. Huetteman is President of Power & Energy Analytic Resources, (PEAR) Inc., a Georgia corporation providing expert advisory services and technical support to companies seeking to manage environmental risks in deregulated electricity markets. His company publishes Allowance Market Outlooks covering the trading of SO2, NOx, and mercury in the U.S., as well as CO2 across regional and global markets. Mr. Huetteman has extensive experience in the area of emissions credit trading, ranging from modeling allowance market conditions to strategies for improving operational cost competitiveness and was involved in efforts to formulate EPA's model NOx trading rule for implementation of the Agency's rules on transport of ozone to non-attainment areas. He has also completed a number of due diligence efforts for energy asset acquisitions both in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to founding PEAR, Inc., Mr. Huetteman was Vice President in EDS's Management Consulting Services group, responsible for its strategic fuel management program and power markets practice. From 1986-1989, Mr. Huetteman was Director of DRI/McGraw-Hill's Coal Service. Prior to that, he was a Regulatory Impact Analyst with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Energy Policy Division.
Tom Ishii, Southern California Gas Company
In 1977 Mr. Ishii joined the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), the nation’s largest natural gas distribution company which is based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently a Project Manager in the Gas Engineering Department, where he is responsible for administering and managing RECLAIM trades and various other emission inventories for compliance and operations purposes. Mr. Ishii also assists San Diego Gas & Electric in the administration and trading of RECLAIM and other emission credits.
Kedin Kilgore, RNK Capital
Kedin Kilgore joined RNK Capital in 2005, where he covers the global carbon and the North American markets. Markets covered include the Clean Development Mechanism, European ETS, the emerging Canadian Project Market, American RECs, and the CCX. Formerly the Director and Senior Broker for Natsource Global Markets, Mr. Kilgore is the portfolio advisor to the UNDP and Swiss Re environmental offset collaboration, FootPrint Neutral, and has advised and developed climate and market risk management programs for fortune 100 companies in Japan, Canada, Europe and the United States. Mr. Kilgore has brokered and structured some of the carbon markets earliest trades including structured products for CDM projects and broking trades in the UK ETS, EU ETS, RECs for Carbon Swaps, and the CCX. Mr. Kilgore speaks Japanese, German and Spanish and holds an MPA from Columbia University. RNK Capital LLC is a New York Based private investment company managing environmental market assets in the global and environmental markets. RNK’s family of funds invests in and trades the SO2, NOx, North American RPS driven renewable energy markets, Global Carbon markets including the Clean Development Mechanism, European ETS I and II, and the nascent North American Carbon markets.
Roman Kramarchuk, PIRA Energy Group
Roman Kramarchuk is a Director of Global Emissions at PIRA Energy, where he heads up the Greenhouse Emissions Retainer Service - providing assessments and forecasts of greenhouse gas / carbon markets, prices, policies and mitigation efforts. Prior to joining PIRA, he was extensively involved in the development of the CAIR and CAMR (Mercury) Rules and the BART Guidelines with the U.S. EPA’s Clean Air Markets Division. Working at PG&E NEG (supporting management, traders, marketers, developers) and with PA Consulting / PHB Hagler Bailly, he evaluated strategies regarding power sector fuel choice, allowance purchases and capital investments in pollution control equipment in addition to advising on power plant development and acquisition, transmission expansion and asset valuation within various North American markets. Mr. Kramarchuk spent several years working on USAID- and World Bank-funded projects to develop power markets, electricity market rules and regulatory capacity in Ukraine, Armenia and India. He has a MPP from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a BA in economics and BSE in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Andy Kruger, Evolution Markets
Mr. Kruger is an environmental engineer and attorney, who has over 18 years of emissions trading and brokering experience. He has facilitated trading of NOx and SO2 Allowances, emission reduction credits (offsets), and discrete emission reductions (DERs) on a daily basis. He has participated in the development of allowance emissions trading programs, open market trading regulations, and various states’ emissions trading regulation development. He co-chaired the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection’s committee for development of an emissions trading and banking regulation. Mr. Kruger has addressed international industry, attorneys and government representatives regarding how emissions trading can be used to address cross-border ozone concerns, and how the concept may be applied to greenhouse gas issues. Prior to his tenure with Evolution Markets, Mr. Kruger was responsible Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald where he directed east coast and Midwest emissions trading operations; was an environmental engineer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Mobile Sources; a project engineer at AER*X, the nation’s first emissions brokering firm; and an environmental attorney at a leading Connecticut law firm.
John Lague, URS Corporation
Alan Lloyd, International Council on Clean Transportation
Dr. Alan C. Lloyd is the President of the International Council on Clean Transportation. He served as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency from 2004 through February 2006 and as the Chairman of the California Air Resources Board from 1999 to 2004. Prior to joining CARB, Dr. Lloyd was the Executive Director of the Energy and Environmental Engineering Center for the Desert Research Institute at the University and Community College System of Nevada, Reno, and the chief scientist at the South Coast Air Quality Management District from 1988 to 1996. Dr. Lloyd's work focuses on the viable future of advanced technology and renewable fuels, with attention to urban air quality issues and global climate change. A proponent of alternate fuels, electric drive and fuel cell vehicles eventually leading to a hydrogen economy, Dr. Lloyd was the 2003 Chairman of the California Fuel Cell Partnership and is a co-founder of the California Stationary Fuel Cell collaborative. He earned both his B.S. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Gas Kinetics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.
Danny Luong, South Coast Air Quality Management District
Danny Luong is an Air Quality Analysis and Compliance Supervisor from the South Coast Air Quality Management District and leads the RECLAIM Administration Team. AQMD is the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Danny coordinates all aspects of the RECLAIM program including rule amendments, permitting, emission monitoring and reporting, compliance determination, and credit trading. For more than 20 years, Danny has held different engineering positions within the AQMD. He joined the AQMD in 1984 as a permitting engineer. He then helped implement new programs to improve work efficiency at the AQMD. When RECLAIM Program was first adopted in 1993, Danny was among the lead persons for the initial team of engineers assembled for its implementation. Danny holds a Master of Engineering degree in chemical engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from University of California at San Diego. He also earned his Professional Engineer certification in chemical engineering from the State of California.
Chris MacCracken, ICF International
Chris MacCracken is a Manager with the Environment and Fuels Group of the Energy Markets Practice of ICF Consulting. He has twelve years of experience in energy and economic modeling and using models to assess the potential impacts of environmental policies on regional economies and on the energy sector in particular. At ICF, Chris studies the potential impacts of regulatory uncertainty and electric market trends on emission allowance prices, power and fuel markets, compliance planning, and asset values. He also co-authors ICF’s annual Emissions Market study on SO2, NOX and mercury markets. Prior to joining ICF, Chris was a Senior Research Scientist with the Global Climate Change Group at Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working on international climate policy issues. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
Josh Margolis, Cantor Energy and Environment.
Mr. Margolis directs Cantor Fitzgerald's energy and environmental trading and consulting operations. He provides brokerage services to greenhouse and environmental credit buyers seeking to transact in markets around the country. Recently Mr. Margolis was appointed by the California Energy Commission to serve on the California Climate Change Advisory Committee. He has also provided market development and evaluation assistance to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, the Western Governor's Association, the State of Oregon, as well as government and industry representatives in Canadian, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Chile. Mr. Margolis oversees Cantor's brokerage of natural gas, power, refined fuel products, coal, emission allowances, emission reduction credits, wastewater credits, and related environmental markets. He is, one of the nation's leading emissions trading experts, has brokered hundreds of millions of air credits, ERCs, and emission allowances. Mr. Margolis has provided emissions brokerage and related consulting services since 1981.
J.P. Moscarella, Econergy
John Paul (JP) is the co-founder of Econergy International, a clean energy and carbon developer, currently with a total market capitalization of US$150 million, publicly traded on the AIM market of London. Econergy develops clean energy projects and is a recognized leader in the climate change arena focusing on emerging market CDM projects, where it has the largest share of CDM projects registered with the UN. Since the Rio Summit in 1992, JP has been involved with climate change projects, and he has also worked on several investment funds dedicated to clean energy and climate change, with over $225 million in total capital. Today, Econergy is investing US$100 million into new projects, and also manages the $25 million CleanTech Fund, dedicated to Latin America. John Paul is a native of Mexico and has an MBA from Yale University’s School of Management and a BS in Agricultural Engineering from Cornell University.
James C. Moore, II, Ameren
Mr. Moore is a Senior Emissions Trader at Ameren Energy Fuels and Services Company, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation. He joined Ameren in 1984 as an electrical design engineer at the Callaway Nuclear Plant. He has held positions in Nuclear, Corporate Planning, Transmission and Distribution and Interchange Marketing at Ameren. He has experience trading electricity, gas and emissions. In 1998 he left Ameren and served as Regional Marketing Director for Illinois Power, a subsidiary of Illinova Corporation. In 2000 he was appointed to his current position with AFS. Mr. Moore earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a master's in business administration from Washington University, John M. Olin School of Business. He was awarded the Advanced Certificate in International Affairs from the Washington University, School of Arts and Sciences. He served a four-year term as Secretary of the Executive Committee of Union Electric's political action committees. Moore is a certified Professional Engineer in Missouri and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Jeffry Muffat, 3M
Mr. Muffat manages the Environmental Regulatory Affairs for 3M Company. For the last 25+ years he has managed critical environmental issues for 3M and provided corporate-wide compliance assurance with all environmental requirements. He has been involved with the CAA since 1977, participated in the MACT standards development, the NSR reform, and Part 70 permitting. Through 3M's Emission Reduction Credit (ERC) program Mr. Muffat has sold ERC's and leveraged the proceeds from these sales to finance projects that maximize corporate participation in environmentally beneficial projects outside the company. Thereby, the original ERC's financed additional reductions through 3M's participation in Wildlife Habitat Council projects, school bus retrofit projects, and student environmental education programs. Mr. Muffat is a member of USEPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and the A&WMA. He was the chief architect for the 3M St. Paul Tape Flexible Air Permit finalized in 1992. That permit was the first of many 3M "beyond compliance" permits.
Jon Naimon, Light Green Advisors
Jonathan Naimon is the managing director of Light Green Advisors (LGA), a Seattle Washington-based environmental asset manager. LGA’s clients include leading public funds, private foundations, and trusts in North America and Europe, as well as individual investors through partnerships with firms such as Claymore. LGA pioneered best-of-class environmental investment products such as the Environmental Leadership Trust™ , and the Eco Performance Portfolio™ in the US. LGA is currently evaluating a number of opportunities for an opportunistic carbon fund. The Carbon Energy Partners Fund that is designed to harvest an environmental alpha that is uncorrelated with traditional hedge fund strategies. Unlike other carbon funds, the Carbon Energy Partners Fund will invest in North America as well as CDM markets. LGA supports market-based policy frameworks such as California’s and has worked with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman on a Clean Air Act policy framework. LGA has also advised bilateral carbon transaction participants such as the City of Seattle. Prior to founding LGA, Mr. Naimon was a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, Norway and a visiting professor at the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. He held economics and policy positions with the Investor Responsibility Research Center, Asea Brown Boveri, ICF Kaiser, and the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee. Mr. Naimon holds an MS in Environmental Management from the University of North Carolina, and a BS in Molecular Biology and Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is treasurer of the Mountain Lion Foundation and lives in Seattle, Washington.
Sam Napolitano, US EPA
Sam Napolitano is the Director of the Clean Air Markets Division of EPA’s Air Office which administers the Acid Rain Trading, NOx SIP call, and Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) programs. The Division has the lead role at EPA on the Clear Skies Initiative and evaluating other multi-pollutant approaches to air emissions reductions from the power industry. Mr. Napolitano has 27 years experience working on issues related to air, water, and waste-related pollution, including 20 years at EPA as a manager and analyst. For the last 11 years at EPA, he has worked in the Air Office addressing issues such as reducing ambient levels of ozone, fine particles, carbon dioxide, and mercury through air emissions cap and trade programs for the electric power industry, as well as analyzing climate change issues. Mr. Napolitano was a Division Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense developing environmental compliance policies for defense installations worldwide and served as a Vice President for the Risk Assessment and Economic Analysis Unit while at ICF Incorporated for five years. Mr. Napolitano holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from College of the Holy Cross and a Master of Business Administration degree from Cornell University.
John Palmisano, International Environmental Trading Group
For more than 25 years, Mr. Palmisano has advised industry and governments on emissions trading issues. After working for the US EPA, Mr. Palmisano created the first emissions trading brokerage company and managed offices in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco area. As founder and President of AER*X, he was involved in many emission trades and advised governments and industry. After Enron Corp. acquired AER*X, he became the executive director of a natural gas trade association and then directed the greenhouse gas commercial and policy activities for Enron Corp. Mr. Palmisano is the founder of Eco-Energo Trade, a company that is involved in policy and commercial emissions trading activities. He has written more than 500 papers on the emission trading, and given more than 200 speeches on the subject matter. He has been involved in many trades, and more than $5 million dollars of related research.
Jason Patrick, Evolution Markets
Jason Patrick is a Broker with Evolution Markets Inc.’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Markets Group. Mr. Patrick facilitates trades in global greenhouse gas credits and provides advisory services for Evolution Markets’ global network of clients from the company’s White Plains headquarters. Mr. Patrick has an extensive background in environmental policy and environmental trading market design and implementation. He provides professional brokerage services to clients in the U.S. and abroad, including the facilitation of trades of carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation flexible mechanisms. Mr. Patrick also structures trades in carbon offsets for voluntary market participants in the U.S. and around the world.
In addition, Mr. Patrick assists corporations in assessing and managing risk in a carbon constrained world, providing actionable counsel and expert analysis on approaching carbon trading markets. Mr. Patrick specializes in carbon market development in the United States, including nascent climate change programs in the Northeast under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), California, and other states. Before joining Evolution Markets, Mr. Patrick worked with Environmental Defense on environmental markets analysis and implementation. He also worked with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection on regulatory environmental programs and enforcement. Mr. Patrick holds degrees in Financial Economics from New York University, Environmental Management from Yale University, and Natural Science from University of California at Berkeley.
Gabe Petlin, 3Phases Energy
Gabe Petlin began a consulting relationship with 3 Phases Energy in March 2005 and then joined the organization in September 2005 to lead Government and Regulatory Affairs, working with allied renewable energy industry members to shape a positive policy environment. Petlin also develops and manages new utility partnerships and develops partnerships with new corporate customers. Petlin brings extensive experience advising utilities, marketers, and public agencies on the design of green power programs and is a leading expert on renewable energy certificates. Petlin helped shape the development of RECs through six years at the National Wind Coordinating Committee (RESOLVE, Inc.) and the Center for Resource Solutions, where he managed the national renewable energy certification and branding program, Green-e®. Petlin also previously consulted for a variety of green power and climate change organizations including TerraPass, Clean Power Markets, and Navigant Consulting. A native of New York, Petlin holds Master's of Art degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University and a Master's of Art in Law and Diplomacy degree from the Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Petlin also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies and Minor in Forest and Wildland Resource Management from the University of California, Berkeley.
Bill Quinn, California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance
Bill Quinn joined the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB) as its Vice president in June 1995. CCEEB is a coalition of California business, labor and public policy leaders who work together to advance collaborative strategies for a sound economy and a healthy environment. Mr. Quinn represents the interest of the Council in numerous public forums. His responsibilities include policy leadership, program oversight and membership development. Mr. Quinn also manages CCEEB’s South Coast Air Project. This Project focuses its efforts in finding creative solutions to Southern California’s air quality problems. The Project was highly instrumental in the development and implementation of the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s emissions trading program, know as RECLAIM and several subsequent credit generation rules. Prior to joining CCEEB, Mr. Quinn held environmental management positions with UNOCAL, Tosco, and Southern California Gas Company. In these positions, he worked closely with key stakeholders that included CCEEB to negotiate the language for many of California’s principal environmental statutes. Mr. Quinn obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Los Angeles and completed a certificate program in environmental science from the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Quinn maintains his primary office in San Francisco, although he is in Southern California frequently.
Seyed Sadredin, San Joaquin APCD
Patricia Stanton, Conservation Services Group
Pat Stanton directs CSG’s participation in emerging energy markets, green power products, and public policies related to renewable energy. She manages the introduction of new products and services, addressing a range of renewable generation resources such as small hydro, solar, landfill gas, wind, and biomass. Prior to joining CSG, she was Deputy Commissioner at Massachusetts DOER, where she contributed award-winning program design. Before that, she was Assistant Commissioner of Waste Prevention at Massachusetts DEP and was a director of DEP’s Division of Water Supply. She earned master’s degrees from Harvard University’s JFK School of Government (Public Administration) and MIT (Civil Engineering).
Marc Stuart, EcoSecurities
Marc Stuart is a co-founder of EcoSecurities, which has grown from a start-up company in 1997 to being named the world’s leading Greenhouse Gas advisory firm by the readers of Environmental Finance Magazine for the past five years. Mr. Stuart has 15 years’ experience of international business development in carbon markets. He has developed several of EcoSecurities’ successful advisory offerings related to work on CDM and has guided multiple projects through the CDM process. Earlier accomplishments include the development of the first verification for GHG project performance and the first transaction of green energy certificates between developing and industrial countries. He has advised multiple governments, international institutions and corporations on aspects of the emerging GHG market. Mr. Stewart is currently Head of New Business Development and recently spearheaded the firms move into project development and ownership of international biogas energy assets, principally in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Further work includes engagement with innovative technologies and service providers that can generate GHG emissions savings from a wide variety of interventions into the industrial economy. He is co-chair of the International Emissions Trading Associations Project Developers Working Group and sits on the Advisory Board of the Singapore Renewable Energy Exchange. He has written extensively on a variety of aspects around the emergent GHG emission regime and is a frequent speaker at international conferences on emissions trading and renewable energy. Mr. Stewart has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and completed course work for a Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University.
Matt Stewart, Advanced Clean up Technology
Laki Tisopulos, South Coast Air Quality Management District
Mark Trexler, Trexler Climate + Energy Services
Dr. Mark C. Trexler is President of Trexler Climate + Energy Services, Inc.(www.climateservices.com), the first firm to specialize in corporate strategy, market, and project services relating to climate change and GHG emissions reductions. Prior to founding TC+ES in 1991 Mark was with the Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program of the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C., a leading policy thinktank. He also has a decade of experience as an analyst and expert witness in a range of administrative and regulatory proceedings, including the siting of more than 2000 MWs of power plants,and winning the first administrative proceeding in which climate change mitigation was the deciding factor in siting a power plant. TC+ES's clients range from the very large (TransAlta, ChevronTexaco, AES, Tokyo Electric Power) to the smaller (Stonyfield Farms, The Nature Conservancy)to international agencies including the Global Environment Facility and the United Nations Development Programme. TC+ES is particularly active in North America, Canada, and Japan. Dr. Trexler holds Ph.D. and M.P.P. degrees in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Biology from Antioch College. He has spent eight years in Europe, and speaks five languages.
Samantha Unger, Evolution Markets
Samantha Unger is a Director of California Emissions Markets at Evolution Markets Inc. Working from Evolution Markets’ San Francisco office and the company’s New York headquarters, she assists California-based corporations, institutional buyers, and other interested organizations in implementing risk management strategies for West Coast regional environmental markets. Ms Unger, a specialist in California’s various emissions trading markets, manages Evolution Markets West Coast emissions brokerage practice. Evolution Markets provides brokerage services to companies participating in the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), California’s various emissions reduction credit (ERC) markets, and other emerging Western U.S. emissions markets. Ms Unger joins Evolution Markets with extensive experience brokering a variety of emissions transactions among California-based counterparties. Since the Fall of 1999, she has actively facilitated trades of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur oxides (SOx) under the RECLAIM program, as well as trades in ERCs for NOx, SOx, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM10) under multiple California air quality districts, such as the South Coast, San Joaquin, and Bay Area. Ms Unger has facilitated trades with a wide range of California-based companies from oil refineries and power producers to manufacturers and small businesses. Ms Unger also actively participates in the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s RECLAIM working groups established by California regulators, which advise on market structure and risk management. Prior to her work in emissions trading markets, Ms Unger managed grassroots marketing and promotional programs for major record labels, music festivals and concerts, bands, and New York-area clubs. Ms Unger graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Policy.
Malcolm Weiss, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP (Session 5A)
Since 1982, Malcolm Weiss has been practicing exclusively in the area of environmental law. Currently, Mr. Weiss assists clients with permitting new and expanding facilities, compliance efforts, defending agency enforcement actions, rulemaking, and citizen suit matters. Mr. Weiss performs these services for large and small companies including mining, oil, energy, aerospace, manufacturing businesses, real estate, automotive, financial institutions and trade associations. Mr. Weiss successfully represents clients in air quality, hazardous materials/wastes, CERCLA, contaminated properties, under- and above- ground tanks, water law, CEQA, Proposition 65, environmental auditing and due diligence.
Martin Whitaker, Mission Point Capital Partners LLC (Session 3A & Session 8)
Martin Whittaker leads MissionPoint’s environmental finance strategy, with a focus on origination and structuring in the carbon trading and specialty environmental commodity markets. Martin was most recently a senior vice president at Swiss Re where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team. At Swiss Re, Martin helped to establish and grow the company’s emissions trading and carbon insurance capabilities, and provided carbon advisory and clean energy market expertise to the company’s asset management organization. Prior to Swiss Re, Martin was a managing director of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., where he led the firm’s clean energy and carbon finance practice, and was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto where he taught environmental finance. Martin has also served in the downstream environmental group at Elf Aquitaine and in consulting with Golder Associates. Martin earned a PhD in environmental science from the University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from, respectively, McGill University, Montreal and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Allison Wood, Hunton & Williams (Session 2)
Bob Wyman, Latham and Watkins (Session 8)
Bob Wyman is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins, acting as the firm's lead counsel for Clean Air Act matters. He represents businesses and trade associations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g., aerospace, automotive, energy, land development, marine, petrochemical, printing and publishing) on regulatory and legislative matters involving national and regional efforts to improve air quality. He has designed several market-based programs, including the South Coast Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), the clean air investment fund (contained in President Clinton's Directive to EPA regarding the new ozone and fine particulate standards) and EPA's clean air communities program. He is currently working with a coalition of energy providers (Energy for a Clean Air Future) on a federal legislative proposal to reduce emissions from power plants while assuring national energy security. Mr. Wyman has an active litigation practice, which includes the civil and criminal defense of government actions and the defense of businesses in actions brought by citizen groups (e.g., Clean Air Act, Proposition 65). His practice also includes the direct review of administrative agency actions in federal and state courts. Mr. Wyman is among the longest-serving members of the U.S. EPA Clean Air Act Advisory Committee and has chaired three of that committee's subcommittees and work groups, including the Subcommittee on Market Incentives and the Subcommittee on Linking Energy, Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality. He also chaired the EPA Task Force on the employee trip reduction program. Mr. Wyman has testified on several occasions before Congress on air quality issues. In addition to his advisory role to the U.S. EPA, Mr. Wyman has worked with governments and stakeholders in France, Portugal, the Netherlands and Russia. Mr. Wyman writes and speaks extensively. Mr. Wyman headed a Latham & Watkins team that authored comprehensive treatises on the Clean Air Act for Mathew Bender's Environmental Law Practice Guide and for the American Bar Association. The former publication received the American Law Publishers Award as the Best Law Book in 1992. Mr. Wyman has also authored articles and chapters on a variety of topics, including hazardous waste remediation and transportation, corporate criminal liability and strategies for reducing air pollution and addressing global climate change. Mr. Wyman also appears periodically on radio and television talk shows and provides background briefings for environmental journalists. Mr. Wyman serves on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI); the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), Southern California Chapter; the Pasadena Conservatory of Music; and Tennis America. Mr. Wyman is regularly included in lists of prominent lawyers by such publications as Best Lawyers in America, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Business Journal (Top 50 Lawyers in LA), the California Lawyer (California's Environmental Law Dream Team) and Euromoney (Best International Environmental Lawyers).
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