2011 Speakers
Ray Mabus
Secretary of the U.S. Navy
Ray Mabus is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy. As Secretary, he leads America’s Navy and Marine Corps and is responsible for an annual budget in excess of $150 billion and almost 900,000 people.
The Secretary of the Navy is responsible for conducting all the affairs of the Department of the Navy, including recruiting, organizing, supplying, equipping, training, and mobilizing. Additionally, he oversees the construction, outfitting, and repair of naval ships, equipment and facilities, and is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies and programs that are consistent with the national security policies and objectives established by the President and the Secretary of Defense.
Prior to joining the administration of President Barack Obama, Mabus served in a variety of top posts in government and the private sector. In 1988, Mabus was elected Governor of Mississippi. As the youngest governor of Mississippi in more than 100 years at the time of his election, he stressed education and job creation. He passed B.E.S.T. (Better Education for Success Tomorrow), one of the most comprehensive education reform programs in America, and was named one of Fortune Magazine’s top ten education governors. He was appointed Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the Clinton Administration in 1994. During his tenure as Ambassador, a crisis with Iraq was successfully averted and Saudi Arabia officially abandoned the boycott of United States businesses that trade with Israel. He also was Chairman and CEO of Foamex, a large manufacturing company, which he led out of bankruptcy in less than nine months paying all creditors in full and saving equity. Prior to becoming Governor, he was elected State Auditor of Mississippi and served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy aboard the cruiser USS Little Rock.
In June 2010, President Obama asked Secretary Mabus to prepare a long-term recovery plan for the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. After extensive travel and many meetings, his report “America’s Gulf Coast: A Long-Term Recovery Plan After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” was released in September 2010. The report was met with broad bi-partisan support.
Secretary Mabus is a native of Ackerman, Mississippi, and received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Mississippi, a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Law Degree from Harvard Law School. He has been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the U.S. Army’s distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Martin Luther King Social Responsibility Award from the King Center in Atlanta, the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Achievement Award, the King Abdul Aziz Award from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Mississippi Association of Educators’ Friend of Education Award.
More information:
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/03/131785448/Military-Goes-Green-For-An-Edge-On-The-Battlefield
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19friedman.html?scp=1&sq=u.s.s%20prius&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/opinion/13anderson.html?_r=1&hpw
James E. Rogers
Chairman, President and CEO, Duke Energy
Jim Rogers has been chairman of the board, president and CEO of Duke Energy since January 2007. He has more than 21 years of experience as a utility CEO.
He was named president and CEO of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. Before the merger, he served as Cinergy’s chairman and CEO for more than 11 years. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company’s chairman, president and CEO.
He served as executive vice president of interstate pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group before joining PSI. Before joining Enron Corp., Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Before that, he was deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 50 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of Cigna Corp. and Applied Materials Inc.
He is past chairman and ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the Edison Electric Institute; and current chairman of the Institute for Electric Efficiency. He serves as a member of the board of directors and the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and is a board member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO). Rogers also serves on the boards of the Business Roundtable, the National Coal Council, the National Petroleum Council and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Rogers is co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and a board member of the Alliance to Save Energy, having served as co-chair. He serves as a member of the board of directors and vice chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Honorary Committee of the Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) and the Club of Madrid President’s Circle. Rogers also serves on an advisory board for the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program and is past chairman of the Edison Foundation.
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. In 2009, he received EnergyBiz magazine’s CEO of the Year EnergyBiz KITE Award (Knowledge, Innovation, Technology, Excellence) and was also inducted into the inaugural Energy Efficiency Forum Hall of Fame by the U.S. Energy Association and Johnson Controls Inc.
The Jan. 5, 2009, edition of Newsweek named Rogers to The Global Elite list, "The 50 Most Powerful People in the World," saying, “The CEO of Duke Energy could make dreams of renewable power a reality."
FRIDAY
March 4th, 2011 at MIT Campus
Free and open to the public
Food, Water & Energy NexusMarch 4th, 2011 at E25-111, 2:00-5:00pm.
Michael Webber
Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Texas Austin
Jack Baron
CEO, Sweetwater Ethanol
Kathleen Baskin
Director of Water Policy, MA Executive Office of EEA
John Briscoe
Professor of the Practice, Harvard University
William Leavitt
President, Leavitt Capital Management
Robin Newmark
Center Director of the Strategic Energy Analysis Center, NREL
Azad Mohammadi
Energy, Power & Water Team Leader, USAID HRLS-II Program
Gerry Palano
Renewable Energy Coordinator, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
Gerard J. Ostheimer
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Grid 101March 4th, 2011 at 34-101(Vassar Street) 1:00-4:00pm
Clark Gellings
Vice President, Technology, EPRI
Ken Lomax
National Grid
Jeff Steiner
National Grid
Gordon van Welie
President and CEO, ISO New England
Energy Megaprojects: Scale and ComplexityMarch 4th, 2011 at 32-123(Stata Center) 2:30-5:00pm
Steve Isakowitz
Chief Financial Officer, DOE
Ian Copeland
President, Bechtel Renewable Power
Gary Fischer
General Manager, Chevron
Andrew Hoffman
Visiting Professor, MIT
Monica Regalbuto
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fuel Cycle Technologies, DOE
Building Energy Management SystemsMarch 4th, 2011 at 4-370, 2:30-5:00pm.
Harvey Michaels
Lecturer and Director of Energy Efficiency Strategy Research
Hunt Allcott
Assistant Professor, Energy and Society Fellow NYU, MIT
John Petersen
Chairman, Lucid Design Group
Olav Hegland
Director of Energy Services, EnerNOC
Charles Pfeiler
Program Manager of Envision: Charlotte, Duke Energy
Tilak Subrahmanian
Energy Efficiency Lead, NSTAR
Start-up Clinic (registration closed)March 4th, 2011 at Morss Hall(Walker Memorial) 12:00-3:00pm.
Arunas Chesonis
Chairman and CEO, PAETEC Holding Corp.
Dave Danielson
Program Director, ARPA-E
Bill Davis
CEO and President, Empirical Asset Management
Mark Barnett
VP Business Development & General Counsel, Sun Catalytix
Dan Goldman
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, GreatPoint Energy
Dennis Costello
Managing Partner, Braemer Energy Ventures
Karl Ruping
Managing Partner & Founder, IncTank
Dhiraj Malkani
Principal, Rockport
Hemant Taneja
Managing Director General, Catalyst Partners
Jeff McAulay
TechBridge Program Manager, Fraunhofer
Jerry O'Connor
M&A Attorney, MBBP
Rob Day
Partner, Black Coral Capital
Matthew Nordan
Vice President, Venrock
Jim Matheson
General Partner, Flagship Ventures
Mark Haddad
Partner and Co-Chair Energy Technology and Renewables, Foley Hoag LLP
KT Moortgat
Partner, Mohr Davidow
SATURDAY
March 5th, 2011 at the Westin Copley Place, Boston
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Energy in Emerging Markets: Will the Next Silicon Valley be in a Developing Country?
Michael Levi (moderator)
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations
Larry Alberts
Partner and Managing Director, Greater China Energy, Boston Consulting Group
Bento Koike
Founder, Tecsis
Hemant Taneja
Managing Director, General Catalyst and Founder, Sunborne Energy
Small and Medium Nuclear Reactors: Is Our Future Downsizing?
Michael Lineberry (moderator)
Director Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Idaho State University
David Wade
VP of Reactor Design and Analysis, Advanced Reactor Concepts
Jose Reyes
Chief Technology Officer, NuScale
Philip O. Moor
Vice President, High-Bridge Associates
Andrea L. Sterdis
Senior Manager, Strategic Nuclear Expansion at the Tennessee Valley Authority
Strategic Materials for Energy
Tonio Buonassisi (moderator)
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Robert L. Jaffe
Jane and Otto Morningstar Professor of Physics, MIT
Diana Bauer
Policy Analyst, US DOE
Terence P. Stewart
Managing Partner, Stewart and Stewart
Alastair Neill
Executive Vice-President, Dacha Strategic Metals, Inc.
Renewable Fuels: New Options for Fossil-Free Energy
Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos (moderator)
Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Prof. Daniel G. Nocera
Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, MIT
Dr. Troy J. Campione
Senior VP of Corporate Development, Joule Unlimited
Dr. Brian Conroy, PhD
BP Biofuels North America – Strategy Manager
Dr. Eric J. Toone
Deputy Director for Technology, ARPA-E, US DOE
At the Tip of the Spear: Military Leadership in Energy Innovation
Bill Aulet (moderator)
Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneruship Center
R James Woolsey
Venture Partner and Senior Advisor, VantagePoint
Doug Moorehead
President, Earl Energy LLC
Tom Hicks
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy), United States Navy
Jack Baron
CEO and President, Sweetwater Energy
William D. Lese
Managing Partner, Braemar Energy Ventures
Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
Mike Ramsey (moderator)
Automotive Reporter, Wall Street Journal
Robert Graham
Manager, Plug-in Vehicle Readiness, Advanced Technology, TDBU, Southern California Edison
Sandra Pinto de Bader
Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment
Daniel Ciarcia
North American Lead Product Manger, EV Infrastructure, GE Energy
Risky Business: Is the Age of Big Energy Passé?
John Parsons (moderator)
Senior Lecturer, Finance, MIT and Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT
Wael Almazeedi
Chairman & CEO, QGEN
Mitch Dmohowski
Director for Commercial Development, Sempra Generation
Gill Eapen
Vice President, Charles River Associates
Steve Isakowitz
Chief Financial Officer, DOE
2010 Keynote Speakers
Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.
A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.
Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research.
John W. Rowe
CEO, Exelon Corporation
John W. Rowe is the chairman and chief executive officer of Exelon Corporation, a utility holding company headquartered in Chicago. Exelon has the largest market capitalization in the electric utility industry. Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and its generation affiliate operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the nation.
Industry Leadership
Rowe is the senior chief executive in the utility industry, having served in such positions since 1984. Rowe has led Exelon since its formation in 2000 through the merger of PECO Energy and the parent of Commonwealth Edison. Rowe previously held chief executive officer positions at the New England Electric System and Central Maine Power Company, served as general counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation, and was a partner in the law firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. Rowe serves on the board and executive committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute and is the past chairman of NEI and the Edison Electric Institute. He is also co-chairman of the National Commission on Energy Policy, an industry and environmental organization dealing with climate change. He is a member of the boards of directors of Sunoco and the Northern Trust Company. In both 2008 and 2009, Institutional Investor named Rowe the best electric utilities CEO in America.
Civic and Charitable Commitment
Rowe is committed to a wide variety of civic and charitable activities, with a focus on education, science, history and diversity. He serves as chairman of the Illinois Institute of Technology and President of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. He is the former chairman of the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Chicago History Museum. He is a member of the boards of the Field Museum, the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, and the Morgridge Institute for Research. Along with his wife, Jeanne, and son, William, he established the Rowe Family Charitable Trust. The Rowes and the Family Trust have founded the Rowe Professorship of Architecture and the Rowe Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Energy at IIT, the Rowe Professorship of Byzantine History and the Rowe Family Professorship in Greek History at the University of Wisconsin, and the Curator of Evolutionary Biology at the Field Museum. The Trust also co-founded the Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood. The Rowes serve as patrons of the Pope John Paul II parochial school on Chicago’s southwest side and the Rowe Elementary School.
Awards and Recognition
Rowe has been widely recognized for his civic and professional leadership. Recent awards include the Edison Electric Institute Distinguished Leadership Award (2009), election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2009), the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Global Leadership Award (2009), the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce’s Daniel H. Burnham Award for Business and Civic Leadership (2008), induction into the Junior Achievement’s Chicago Business Hall of Fame (2008), Illinois Holocaust Museum’s Humanitarian award (2008), Civic Federation of Chicago’s Lyman Gage Award for Outstanding Civic Leadership (2008), the National Latino Education Institute Corporate Leadership Award (2008), University of Arizona’s Executive of the Year Award (2007), the Union League of Philadelphia’s Founder’s Award for Business Leadership (2005), the American Jewish Committee’s Civic Leadership Award (2004), El Valor’s Corporate Visionary Award (2003), the City Club of Chicago’s Citizen of the Year Award (2002), and the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference Award (2000).
Education & Family
Rowe holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He has also received that university’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Rowe holds honorary doctorates from the University of Wisconsin, DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Bryant College and Thomas College.
Rowe and his wife, Jeanne, reside in Chicago, as does their son, William, an associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.
Nobuo Tanaka
Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Nobuo Tanaka took over as Executive Director of the IEA on 1 September 2007. Prior to that, he had been Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Mr. Tanaka began his career in 1973 in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Tokyo. He has extensive national government and international experience within METI, the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. and the OECD. Mr. Tanaka first joined the OECD in 1989 as Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, and was promoted to Director in 1992. In 1995, he returned to METI and served in a number of high-ranking positions, the most recent being Director-General, Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau. In this role he led many trade negotiations for the World Trade Organization (WTO).
In the energy field, Mr. Tanaka has accumulated a variety of experiences. He was responsible for Japan’s involvement with the IEA and the G7 Energy Ministers’ Meeting during the second oil crisis. In the late 1980s, he participated in establishing the comprehensive energy policy of Japan and he also oversaw the implementation of Japan’s international nuclear energy policy and led negotiations of bilateral nuclear agreements. Mr. Tanaka worked on formulating international strategy as well as co-ordinating domestic environment policy and energy policy in the Kyoto COP 3 negotiation. He was Minister for Industry, Trade and Energy at the Embassy of Japan, Washington DC from 1998-2000.
Mr. Tanaka, a Japanese national, has a degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife, Gloria, have two children.
Jeff Bingaman
U.S. Senator, New Mexico
Jeff Bingaman grew up in Silver City in a family with deep New Mexico small town roots. His father was a science professor at Western New Mexico University, and his mother taught in the public schools. He graduated from high school in Silver City. After graduating from Harvard University, he earned a law degree at Stanford. There he met fellow law student Anne Kovacovich. After graduation, they married and returned to New Mexico, where they both practiced law, and their son, John, was born.
Jeff was elected New Mexico Attorney General in 1978. In 1982, he won election to the United States Senate, and in 2006, was re-elected to serve a fifth term.
COMMITTEES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Chairman
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has jurisdiction over national energy policy and the public lands of the nation.
Finance Committee
The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, tax policy, trade policy, and other key domestic issues.
Subcommittees
Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure
Member, Subcommittee on International Trade and Global Competitiveness
Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is responsible for the oversight of federal education programs, pension reform, and health care policy.
Subcommittees
Member, Subcommittee on Children and Families
Member, Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging
Joint Economic Committee
Senior Member
The Joint Economic Committee studies issues that affect the U.S. economy. This is a bicameral congressional committee.
Richard Lester
Professor | Nuclear Science and Engineering | MIT
Richard Lester is Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also the founding Director of the Industrial Performance Center. His research focuses on industrial innovation and technology strategy, with an emphasis on the energy and manufacturing sectors. He is also active in research and teaching on the management and control of nuclear technology. Professor Lester has led several major studies of national and regional productivity, competitiveness and innovation performance commissioned by governments and industrial groups around the world. His latest books include Innovation - The Missing Dimension (with Michael J. Piore), a study of the sources of creativity and innovation in advanced economies; Making Technology Work: Applications in Energy and the Environment (with John M. Deutch); and The Productive Edge: A New Strategy for Economic Growth. He is a co-author of the recent MIT reports on The Future of Nuclear Power (2003) and The Future of Coal (2007), and is currently leading the MIT Energy Innovation Project, an exploration of strategies for upgrading the U.S. energy innovation system.
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Ernest Moniz
Professor | Physics and Engineering Systems | MIT
Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at MIT, where he has been on the faculty since 1973. Moniz served as undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Energy from October 1997 until January 2001. From 1995 to 1997, he was associate director for science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the executive office of the president.
At MIT, Moniz is director of MITEI, the MIT Energy Initiative. He also has served as head of the Department of Physics and as director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His current research focus is on integrative studies of energy technology and policy. In 1998, Moniz received the Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation. He serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) and on the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
2009 Keynote Speakers
Susan Hockfield
Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.
A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.
Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research.
Lars Josefsson
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Lars G. Josefsson became President and CEO of Vattenfall in August 2000. Since his appointment, Vattenfall has established itself as a dynamic northern European energy group, with a strong presence in Germany and Poland as well as in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Before joining Vattenfall, Josefsson worked for Ericsson in a number of executive capacities, including a four-year period in charge of operations in Austria. From 1997 he was President and CEO of Celsius, which he led until 2000 when Celsius became part of the Saab Group. Josefsson was born on 29 October, 1950 in Ulricehamn, Sweden. He graduated in 1973 with a degree in technical physics from Chalmers Institute of Technology. After his National Service in the Signal Corps, he began a professional career in 1974 as a systems engineer at the Defence Electronics Division of what was then LM Ericsson. Here, after a number of executive posts, he was appointed President of Chemtronics in 1984. At Ericsson Radio Systems, he became head of the Radar Section in 1985. In 1987 he took over as Vice President and head of the Surface Sensor Division. He attended several courses at the Ericsson Management Institute, and his executive training also includes a Program for Executive Development at IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1986. His background, combined with his excellent knowledge of German, facilitated his appointment as President of Schrack Telecom AG in Vienna, Austria. The company was later renamed Ericsson Schrack AG (in 1994) and Ericsson Austria (in 1996). In 1997, Josefsson was recruited as President of Celsius AB, in which the Swedish State then held a 25 per cent stake. With the defence market shrinking, a certain amount of restructuring took place, including the merger of the submarine and surface ship operations with the German HDW, the merger of Bofors artillery operations with American United Defence, and the formation of a Nordic ammunition and explosives unit. Finally, the Celsius Group was acquired by the Saab Group, after which Josefsson became President of Vattenfall AB. In addition to his duties as CEO of Vattenfall, he is a member of the supervisory board of Eskom Holdings Ltd of Johannesburg, South Africa, and of the World Childhood Foundation. As of April 2004, Josefsson is elected President of the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce. As of June 2008, he is elected President of Eurelectric. In December 2006, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel named him as one of her government advisors on international climate protection issues during the German EU presidency. As of April 2007, Josefsson is a member of the commission for sustainable development in the Swedish government. He is the holder of several patents in the field of radar technology, and has been a member of the Royal Swedish Military Academy since 1988 and the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences since 1998. Lars G Josefsson is married and has four children. His leisure interests are tennis, skiing and hunting.
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Jay Inslee
Raised on the shores of Puget Sound, Jay Inslee comes from a long line of Washingtonians and wants to protect the state’s natural beauty for his three sons and generations to come.
He’s worked at the federal level – as representative for the 4th Congressional District from 1992-1994 and the 1st Congressional District since 1999 – to protect the environment of Washington state and address the problem of global warming.
He fought to restore protections for roadless areas in national forests and led a successful campaign in the House to keep limits on oil-tanker traffic in Puget Sound. Since 2005, Jay has used his seat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee to promote his vision for a clean energy future, the New Apollo Energy Act, and to advance other legislation that would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In March 2007, he was appointed to the 15-member Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Beyond advocating sound environmental policies, Jay has used a common-sense approach in Congress to help expand the region’s high-tech economy, promote privacy protections for American consumers and strengthen programs for seniors like Social Security and Medicare.
Jay also has supported increased spending for port security and veterans’ services. He backed the war in Afghanistan to root out terrorists; but he voted against the war in Iraq and has been an outspoken critic of administration policies there.
Even before his election to the U.S. Congress, Jay was a public servant. He was a state legislator and prosecutor in Selah, Wash.
Jay holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Washington and earned his law degree from Willamette University. He’s been married to his high-school sweetheart, Trudi, since 1972. The couple has three grown children – Jack, Connor and Joe – who all live in Washington state. |
2008 Keynote Speakers
Susan Hockfield
MIT President, Welcoming Remarks
Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.
A noted neuroscientist whose research has focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience in the Institute's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Dr. Hockfield encourages collaborative work among MIT's schools, departments, and interdisciplinary laboratories and centers to keep the Institute at the forefront of innovation. She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges.
Under her leadership, MIT has launched a major Institute-wide initiative in energy research.
John Doerr
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Together with KPCB's partners, John has backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders, including:
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt: Google [GOOG]
Jeff Bezos: Amazon [AMZN]
Scott Cook, Bill Campbell: Intuit [INTU]
Andy Bechtolsheim, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla: Sun [SUNW]
And the founders of Compaq, Cypress, Macromedia and Symantec
These ventures have created more than 150,000 new jobs.
In 1974 John joined a small chipmaker, Intel, just as they invented the legendary 8080 microprocessor. (He feels he was very lucky, in the right place at the right time). He worked in engineering, marketing and became a top-ranked sales executive.
John joined KPCB in 1980 and soon started Silicon Compilers, a VLSI CAD software company, and @Home, the first broadband cable Internet service.
Eric Schmidt calls John "one of Google's best board members." And Jeff Bezos says, "Doerr (and Kleiner) is the center of gravity in the Internet." John has also been part of several big failures, most famously GO Corporation, chronicled by Jerry Kaplan in the book "Startup".
John is passionate about:
- Green technology innovation and policy entrepreneurs to help fight global warming
- Internet/web ventures with strong network effects
- Building a new open nationwide wireless network
- Breakthroughs to prevent pandemic avian flu and global infectious disease
- Your vision for TNBT (The Next Big Thing)
He also cares a lot about public education, global poverty/health, medical research and women as leaders. John is backing exceptional social and policy entrepreneurs including:
Ted Mitchell and Kim Smith, as co-founder of NewSchools.org
Lezlee Westine, John Chambers and Jim Barksdale, as cofounder of TechNet.org
Al Gore, The Alliance for Climate Protection, Climateprotect.org
Reed Hastings, EdVoice.org
Muhammed Yunnus, Grameen Foundation USA, Grameenfoundation.org
Bono's DATA.org
Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute
Susie Mathieu and Dean Kamen FIRST Robotics, usfirst.org
Recent talks include:
TED 2007 - "Not Enough"
Rice University 2007 Commencement Address
KPCB Greentech Innovation Network 2007– “Conversation with Al Gore and John Doerr”
John is a techie and inventor, holding patents for computer memory devices. He earned a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard.
James Rogers
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy
Jim Rogers is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy. He was named chairman in January 2007, following the separation of Duke Energy’s natural gas businesses into a new publicly traded company, Spectra Energy.
Rogers has more than 18 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. He served as executive vice president of interstate pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group before joining PSI. Before joining the Enron Corp., Rogers was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Before joining that firm, Rogers was deputy general counsel for litigation and enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Previously, Rogers served as assistant to the chief trial counsel at FERC, as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and as assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of state consumers in gas, electric and telephone rate cases. He was a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader from 1967 to 1970.
In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of Fifth Third Bancorp and Cigna Corporation. He has served as a director of Duke Realty Corporation, Cinergy Corporation, PSI Energy, Bankers Life Holding Corporation, Irkutskenergo AO (a Russian utility) and Indiana National Bank.
He is immediate past chairman and ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the Edison Electric Institute. He serves as a member of the board of directors and the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and is a board member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Rogers also serves on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Business Roundtable, National Coal Council, American Gas Association, National Petroleum Council, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Rogers is chairman of the Edison Foundation and serves as co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Alliance to Save Energy. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Energy and Climate Change Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative. He has testified 16 times on energy and environmental policies before congressional committees.
Rogers also serves on numerous civic boards and has published numerous articles on energy and environmental issues. He currently co-chairs an Arts & Science Council (ASC) initiative to enrich cultural resources in the Charlotte area.
Rogers attended Emory University and earned a bachelor of business administration and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Kentucky, where he was a member of the Kentucky Law Journal and Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society. He was named to the Hall of Fame at the Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics and the Hall of Fame of the College of Law, both of the University of Kentucky.
Rogers has been honored with various awards and recognition: the 1996 Energy Daily Corporate Leadership Award; the 1998 Hebrew Union College Cincinnati Associates Tribute Honoree; the 2004 National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) Distinguished Service Citation; the 2005 Keystone Center Leadership in Industry Award; the 2005 Ronald McDonald House Lifetime Achievement Award; and the 2006 Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee, Cincinnati Chapter. He also received an honorary doctor of law degree from Indiana State University and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Queens University of Charlotte.
In 2007, Rogers was a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a prestigious honor given annually by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO). The medals recognize American citizens of diverse ethnic backgrounds for their outstanding contributions to their communities, their nation and the world. Each year, the names of the award recipients are listed in the Congressional Record.
The Birmingham, Ala., native was born in 1947. Rogers and his wife, Mary Anne, have two daughters, a son and seven grandchildren.
Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has nearly 37,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: http://www.duke-energy.com/
2007 Keynote Speakers
Jeffrey Immelt
CEO of General Electric
Jeffrey R. Immelt, 50, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE. Mr. Immelt, the 9th Chairman in GE's 128-year history, was appointed to this post on September 7, 2001. Previously, Mr. Immelt served as President and Chairman-elect of GE starting in November 2000.
He began his GE career in 1982. Over the last 24 years, Mr. Immelt has held a series of global leadership roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. He became an Officer of GE in 1989, and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.
In 2005 and 2006, Barron’s named Mr. Immelt one of the World’s Best CEO’s. Under his leadership, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” in a poll conducted by FORTUNE magazine and the world's most respected company in polls conducted by Barron's and the Financial Times.
He serves as Chairman of The Business Council and is on the board of three non-profit organizations: Catalyst, devoted to advancing women in business; and Robin Hood, focused on addressing poverty in New York City; and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Mr. Immelt holds a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College (1978) and an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1982). He and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter.
Daniel Yergin
Chairman & Co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA)
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on international politics and economics and on energy. Dr. Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.” He is both a world-recognized author and a business leader, as chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms in its field. He is also executive vice president of IHS, the parent company of CERA.
Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States. The book has been translated into 12 languages.
Dr. Yergin plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He chaired the US Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association, and a member of the National Petroleum Council and this year became the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas. He is also one of the “Wise Men” of the International Gas Union.
He is CNBC’s Global Energy Expert.
In November 2005 Dr. Yergin was awarded the Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining “an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community.”
Of Dr. Yergin’s most recent book, Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy , the Wall Street Journal said, “No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II.” It has been translated into 13 languages. Dr. Yergin led the team that turned it into a six-hour PBS/BBC documentary -- the major PBS television series on globalization. The series received three Emmy nominations, a CINE Golden Eagle award and the New York Festivals Gold WorldMedal for best documentary.
Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and on the Board of the New America Foundation, a Director of the US-Russia Business Council and on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Economics.
Dr. Yergin received his BA from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Dr. Yergin co-founded Cambridge Energy Research Associates, now an IHS company. Its offices are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Beijing, Calgary, Dubai, Mexico City, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C.
Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems. Starting in 1980 when he worked on changing the state of the art of Electrical Computer Aided Design at Daisy Systems, to 1982 when he founded Sun Microsystems, Vinod played a role in the commercialization of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors, the "open systems" philosophy, TCP/IP public networks. As a General Partner of Kleiner Perkins for many years he helped build the firm’s foray’s in many areas of technology innovation. In 2005 he formed Khosla Ventures in order to operate with more flexibility. He continues to maintain a close relationship with Kleiner Perkins (www.kpcb.com ) and remains a General Partner of the existing funds (KPCB IV-X).
He joined the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1986 to work with innovative technologies and entrepreneurs, helping them and guiding them in the process of building durable companies. As a self-termed "venture assistant", he has since helped develop many entrepreneurial ventures including the Intel compatible product line sold by AMD, the IP Routing product line of Juniper that forms the backbone of the internet, and many other ventures in communications, computing, consumer and internet technologies. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society. Vinod serves on the boards of a number of the companies which he has assisted, including EASIC (programmable ASIC platform www.easic.com ), Infinera (optical communications www.infinera.com ), Kovio (printed electronics www.kovio.com ), Skyblue (internet PC) Spatial Photonics (Micromirror displays), Xsigo (datacenter switch www.xsigo.com ), among others. Vinod’s greatest passion is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, helping them build technology based businesses.
Vinod is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is Social Entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on Microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, independence from petroleum, and the environment.
Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Correspondent, Economist
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist.
He joined the magazine’s staff as the London-based Latin America Correspondent in 1992. He opened its first office in that region in Mexico City, and served as bureau chief until 1997. As the newspaper’s Global Environment & Energy Correspondent, he covered the politics, economics, business and technology involved in those topics from 1998 to 2006. His portfolio now includes global health, pharmaceuticals and innovation.
Vijay is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the selection committee for CFR’s annual Arthur Ross Book Award. He teaches at NYU’s Stern Business School, and is a regular commentator on Marketplace radio, in the Wall Street Journal and at other media outlets.
He is also the author of a book on the future of energy, “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” (www.vijaytothepeople.com). Harvard’s John Holdren, reviewing the book in Scientific American, called it “by far the most helpful, entertaining, up-to-date and accessible treatment of the energy-economy-environment problematique available.” Vijay’s next book, “ZOOM: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future”, co-authored with Economist colleague Iain Carson, will be published in autumn 2007.
Vijay’s book and magazine articles have received various prizes in America and abroad. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Madras, India, and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He now lives in New York.
2006 Keynote Speakers
Ernest Moniz
Former US Under-Secretary of Energy
Ernest J. Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems and co-Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from October 1997 until January 2001. In that role, he had programmatic oversight responsibility for the offices of Science; Fossil Energy; Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology; Environmental Management; and Civilian Radioactive Waste Management. He served as DOE chair of the Laboratory Operations Board and of the Research and Development Council, through which he initiated a portfolio approach to managing and advancing the Department’s R&D programs. He also led a comprehensive review of the nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program and served as the Secretary’s special negotiator for Russia initiatives, with a particular focus on the disposition of Russian nuclear weapons materials. Dr. Moniz also served from 1995 to 1997 as Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, where his responsibilities spanned the physical, life, and social and behavioral sciences, science education, and university-government partnerships. At MIT, Dr. Moniz served as Head of the Department of Physics and as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator Center, a DOE user facility. His principal research contributions have been in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in advancing nuclear reaction theory at high energy. His current research centers on energy technology and policy studies. He is co-chair of the MIT Energy Research Council, an interdisciplinary faculty group that is advancing the MIT President’s energy initiative.
Dr. Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the University of Erlangen-Nurenburg, and Michigan State University. Dr. Moniz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Humboldt Foundation, and the American Physical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recognition Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation. He serves on the Boards of the Gas Technology Institute, Nexant, and American Science & Engineering, on the Keystone Energy Board, and on the advisory councils of EPRI, Cummins, BP, and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.
Joseph Romm
Former Acting Assistant Secretary of DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions
Author, "The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate"
Joseph Romm is a leading expert on clean energy technologies. He is author of the report The Car and Fuel of the Future: A Technology and Policy Overview, for the National Commission on Energy Policy (July 2004), and of The Hype About Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. Romm was principal investigator for the National Science Foundation project, "Future Directions for Hydrogen Energy Research and Education." From 1995 through 1998, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where he helped manage a $1 billion program for working with businesses to develop and use advanced transportation and clean energy technologies. Romm is executive director and founder of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, which helps businesses and states adopt high-leverage strategies for saving energy and cutting pollution. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.
W. Bob Lockwood
Chief Operating Officer, CERA
W. Bob Lockwood is CERA's Chief Operating Officer. He is also a member of the IHS Energy Executive Committee. Prior to his appointment at CERA, Dr. Lockwood was Managing Director of Worldwide Consulting for IHS Energy, where he led consultancy practices offering decision support across the full spectrum of upstream oil and gas issues. A specialist in business transformation with more than 25 years' experience, Dr.Lockwood joined IHS Energy in 2003. He was previously a partner with PA Consulting, where he led the UK Energy Business Transformation Practice, delivering consulting services in the upstream and downstream oil and gas markets for clients worldwide. In 1999 he cofounded 2020ME Holdings Limited, a software development company focused on the development of artificial intelligence software designed to enable Internet transactions. Previously, Dr. Lockwood was director of the Oil and Gas Practice, in the Management and Consultancy Division at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Before he entered the consulting arena, Dr.Lockwood was Manager of the 777 Program and Program Management group leader for the 737-700 aircrafts with Boeing Aerospace Company. He is a member of the Institute of Directors. Dr. Lockwood holds a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington.
Don Paul
Vice President and CTO, Chevron
Donald L. (Don) Paul is vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron Corp. He is the corporate officer responsible for Chevron's three technology companies: Chevron Energy Technology Co., Chevron Information Technology Co. and Chevron Technology Ventures LLC. In this role, he coordinates their work to accelerate the development and integrated application of technology throughout the company's worldwide business activities. Paul is a member of the Strategy and Planning Committee, Global Issues Committee, Human Resources Committee and Management Committee.
Previously, Paul served as vice president of technology and environmental affairs for Chevron Corp., a position he assumed in 1996. In this role, Paul also was the corporate officer for Chevron's worldwide health, safety and environmental compliance function. This included oversight of Chevron Environmental Management Co., which is responsible for managing Chevron's environmental remediation efforts at sites throughout the United States.
A native of Los Angeles, California, he is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, a master's degree in geology and geophysics, and a Ph.D. in geophysics.
Paul joined the company in 1975 as a research geophysicist with Chevron Oil Field Research Co. in La Habra, California. In his career, Paul has held a variety of management positions of increasing responsibility in both the upstream business and technology. These include president of Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. and president of Chevron Canada Resources, Chevron's Canadian oil and gas exploration and production subsidiary.
Paul is extensively involved in external research and technology management roles with business partners, universities, government agencies and professional technical societies. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He also is a member of the external advisory board for the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is past chairman of the advisory board for the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
Paul is a member of the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Science and served on the 1997 Presidential Panel on Federal Energy Research and Development. On June 6, 2002, Paul testified before the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee on the future of advanced energy technologies, such as fuel cell technology. Paul is an advisory board member of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership program of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Vinod Khosla
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Founder Khosla Ventures & Sun Microsystems
Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems. Starting in 1980 when he worked on changing the state of the art of Electrical Computer Aided Design at Daisy Systems, to 1982 when he founded Sun Microsystems, Vinod played a role in the commercialization of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors, the "open systems" philosophy, TCP/IP public networks. As a General Partner of Kleiner Perkins for many years he helped build the firm’s foray’s in many areas of technology innovation. In 2005 he formed Khosla Ventures in order to operate with more flexibility. He continues to maintain a close relationship with Kleiner Perkins (www.kpcb.com ) and remains a General Partner of the existing funds (KPCB IV-X).
He joined the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1986 to work with innovative technologies and entrepreneurs, helping them and guiding them in the process of building durable companies. As a self-termed "venture assistant", he has since helped develop many entrepreneurial ventures including the Intel compatible product line sold by AMD, the IP Routing product line of Juniper that forms the backbone of the internet, and many other ventures in communications, computing, consumer and internet technologies. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society. Vinod serves on the boards of a number of the companies which he has assisted, including EASIC (programmable ASIC platform www.easic.com ), Infinera (optical communications www.infinera.com ), Kovio (printed electronics www.kovio.com ), Skyblue (internet PC) Spatial Photonics (Micromirror displays), Xsigo (datacenter switch www.xsigo.com ), among others. Vinod’s greatest passion is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, helping them build technology based businesses.
Vinod is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is Social Entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on Microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, independence from petroleum, and the environment.
Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Stephan Dolezalek
Managing Director Co-Head, CleanTech Practice, Vantage Point Venture Partners
Mr. Dolezalek has spent 20 years in Silicon Valley working exclusively with technology driven companies. As a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and corporate and securities counsel, he has directed entrepreneurial companies in developing business plans, structuring private and public equity funding, undertaking corporate partnering arrangements, and completing significant acquisitions and mergers transactions. Prior to joining VantagePoint in 1999, Mr. Dolezalek was a senior partner with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison acting as Managing Partner of the Firm’s Palo Alto Office, Head of the Business and Technology Group and Chairman of the Life Sciences Group. In his work with life science companies, Mr. Dolezalek structured a number of significant collaborative partnering and investment agreements between major multinational pharmaceutical companies and venture-backed biotechnology and medical device companies. He is a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia (Bachelor of City Planning) and the University of Virginia School of Law (JD).
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