Peevey
Michael R. Peevey — Chairman
 
President
California Public Utilities Commission

Mr. Peevey is President of the California Public Utilities Commission. Prior to joining the CPUC, Mr. Peevey was CEO of TruePricing Inc., a technology company enabling companies and government entities to better control their energy costs. Before that he was president of NewEnergy Inc., then the nation’s largest energy service provider, and before that had served as president of Edison International and Southern California Edison. Mr. Peevey holds a BA and MA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Cavanagh
Ralph Cavanagh — Vice Chairman
 
Senior Attorney & Co-Director
of the Energy Program
Natural Resources Defense Council

Mr. Cavanagh is a senior attorney and co-director of the energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC), which he joined in 1979. In addition, he has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford and University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and served from 1993 to 2003 as a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board. His current board memberships include the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, and the Northwest Energy Coalition. He is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, which the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation established in 2002. Mr. Cavanagh has received the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the Bonneville Power Administration’s Award for Exceptional Public Service, and the Lifetime Achievement in Energy Efficiency Award from California’s Flex Your Power Campaign. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School.

Bohn
John Bohn
 
Chairman
Global Net Partners, N.A., LLC,

Ambassador Bohn recently stepped down as Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission, appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger in May 2005 for a six-year term. While on the Commission, he focused heavily on water and renewable energy issues, climate change, and small business, as well as developments in technology and energy efficiency. Mr. Bohn is currently Chairman of GlobalNet Partners, N.A., LLC, a global advisory and consulting firm with special emphasis on government-private sector relations, corporate development opportunities, and on renewable energy and international marketing solutions. From 1989-1996, Mr. Bohn served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Investors Service. In 1981, Mr. Bohn joined the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to Treasury Secretary Don Regan, and was subsequently appointed by President Reagan as U.S. Ambassador and Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank. In 1984, President Reagan appointed Mr. Bohn to the post of Vice Chairman of the Export Import Bank of the United States, and later as chairman and CEO. A graduate with honors from Stanford University, Mr. Bohn attended the London School of Economics as a Fulbright scholar, and received his JD from the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the California State Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Foster
Jon Foster
 
Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Corporate Development
Atempo, Inc.

Mr. Foster is a member of the senior management team for Atempo, a data management software firm headquartered in the United States with significant operations across Europe and Asia. He has spent the last dozen years in leadership roles in public and private technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Prior to moving to the Silicon Valley, Mr. Foster served in the Clinton Administration as a deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and before that in the U.S. Department of Transportation. Mr. Foster was a founding board member of CalCEF and serves on its investment committee. He also serves on the investment committee of the CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund. He is chair of the Utilities Advisory Commission in Palo Alto, Calif., a leader in the use of renewable energy and a center for innovative energy start-up companies. He also serves on the national advisory council for Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Mr. Foster holds a mechanical engineering degree from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

Jacoby
Tom Jacoby
 
Board of Directors
Innovation Fuels Inc.

Mr. Jacoby is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Innovation Fuels Inc; a market-leading biodiesel company based in New York. Mr. Jacoby is a founding Director of the California Clean Energy Fund, CalCEF, and serves on its investment committee. Additionally, he serves on the investment committee of the California Clean Energy Angel Fund, the first angel stage capital fund formed to focus on the clean energy markets. Beyond his work in the cleantech field, Mr. Jacoby is CEO of Tymphany Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors for Klipsch Group Inc. Mr. Jacoby is also the founder of Columbia Consulting Company, a private equity investment and business strategy firm. Columbia Consulting has developed high-level strategies for Arthur Andersen, Ripplewood Holdings and Distributed Energy Systems Corp., a leader in renewable energy integration solutions. Prior to forming Columbia Consulting, Jacoby was president and CEO of the Harman Consumer Group, a Global 1000 consumer durables company. Mr. Jacoby is also an active member of E2, Environmental Entrepreneurs. He has been an advisor to New Energy Capital and is a director of Homeland Energy Resources Development Corp. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

Levine
Mark Levine
 
Group Lead
China Energy Group

Dr. Levine was director of the Environmental Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) , a division of 400 people working on energy efficiency policy analysis and R&D, from 1996–2006. In 1988, he created and has since led the China Energy Group at LBNL. His policy research on China focuses on collaboration with Chinese counterparts in advancing energy efficiency. Dr. Levine is a board member of four leading nonprofits in the United States and one in China. He is an advisory board member of three major organizations, including one in Japan. He was elected a fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology in 1999. Dr. Levine graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, earned a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and National Institute of Health doctoral awards.

Pfund
Nancy Pfund
 
Managing Partner
DBL Investors

Ms. Pfund is a Managing Partner of DBL Investors, an investment firm focused on delivering strong financial returns together with positive social, environmental, and economic impact. Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors for several private companies, including: Tesla Motors, Pandora, BrightSource Energy, SolarCity and eMeter. Originally a regional venture capital group within JPMorgan, DBL Investors spun out as an independent firm in January 2008. Ms. Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984 as a securities analyst and later, managing director in 1989. Ms. Pfund is a member of the advisory board of the the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California, Davis, and is a founding officer and director of ABC2, a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. Most recently, Ms. Pfund has been appointed as a member of CPUC Commissioner Timothy Simon’s New Directions Program for the Future of California Utilities. Ms. Pfund speaks frequently on subjects relating to environmental investing, environmental policy and mission-related investing. Ms. Pfund received her BA and MA in anthropology from Stanford University and her MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Rosenfeld
Art Rosenfeld, PhD.
 
Former Commissioner
California Energy Commission

Dr. Rosenfeld is a former Commissioner of the California Energy Commission and Emeritus Professor of Physics and the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Dr. Rosenfeld focused on particle physics from 1963–1973 and on energy thereafter, and served as founder and director of the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Dr. Rosenfeld served in the Clinton Administration as senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was the co-founder of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Dr. Rosenfeld has authored 375 publications and holds the distinction of being the last graduate student to work with Enrico Fermi.

Schori
Jan Schori
 
Of Counsel
Downey Brand

Ms. Schori is the former general manager and CEO of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the nation’s sixth-largest publicly owned electric utility. During her 14-year tenure as CEO, the utility earned a strong reputation for its renewable energy and energy efficiency programs as well as the national number one ranking in commercial customer satisfaction by JD Power & Associates in 2006–2007 and 2007–2008. Prior to serving as CEO she spent 15 years on the legal staff at SMUD, the last 5 as general counsel. She is past chair of the American Public Power Association, the Large Public Power Council and the California Municipal Utilities Association. She is also past chair of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and served on the board of the Alliance to Save Energy. She was elected in 2009 to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) board as an independent trustee. NERC is responsible for the reliability of the US and Canadian bulk power grid. She continues to serve on the board of the Climate Action Reserve which develops protocols and tracks greenhouse gas reduction projects, and the board of Valley Vision, a regional action tank seeking collaborative solutions to community issues in California’s central valley. She is of counsel to the law firm Downey Brand LLP in Sacramento, Calif.

Willrich
Mason Willrich
 
Former Chairman of the Board of Governors
California Independent System Operator

Mr. Willrich is an independent consultant advising clients on energy matters. He is the former chair of the Board of Governors of the California Independent System Operator, senior advisor to the MIT Energy Innovation Project, and a trustee and past chair of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Willrich has previously been a partner of Nth Power, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage energy technology companies, and a director of Evergreen Solar Inc., a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules. He was founder and served as chairman of EnergyWorks LLC, a joint venture of PacifiCorp and Bechtel providing combined heat and power to industrial firms located in less developed countries. Previously he served in several executive positions for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and as CEO of PG&E Enterprises, which managed PG&E’s unregulated business. Earlier in his career, Willrich was a law professor at the University of Virginia, assistant general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command. Willrich is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles on energy policy and security issues. He received a BA from Yale University in 1954 and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960.

Adler
Dan Adler
 
President
CalCEF

Mr. Adler is President of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), a $30 million nonprofit venture capital fund created to accelerate investment in California’s clean energy economy. Employing a fund-of-funds model, CalCEF is invested in more than 40 young companies covering the full range of clean energy technologies. In 2006, CalCEF founded the nation’s first university center on energy efficiency, the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California, Davis, and in 2008, it launched CalCEF Innovations, an affiliated public policy and market intelligence organization, and the CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund, the industry’s first seed stage–focused fund. Prior to joining CalCEF, Mr. Adler was a senior analyst in the Division of Strategic Planning at the California Public Utilities Commission, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of California's Renewables Portfolio Standard and was senior staff for climate change policy. He is a Director of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and an advisor to the state of California and city of San Francisco on clean energy technologies. He has a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Gillotti
Rachel Gillotti
 
Operations Manager
CalCEF

Before joining in 2009, Ms. Gillotti was a project manager at Babcock & Brown in the North America Infrastructure and Project Finance group. There she focused on both new developments (greenfield) and existing operating assets (brownfields) across road, rail, marine ports, airports and social infrastructure, and was a project manager for public-private partnerships, including for the I-595 Corridor P3 project in Florida. She also worked at a boutique merchant bank in San Francisco, where she was involved in initiating middle market private equity transactions with companies in a variety of industries. In addition, Ms. Gillotti owns and manages an event planning company. She received her BA in international business, marketing and business administration from Grand View University.