Gail Goldberg
Executive Director // ULI- Los Angeles

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Martha Welborne
Executive Director of Countywide Planning // Los Angeles Metro

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V. John White
Executive Director // CEERT

V. John White has been a writer, commentator, advocate, and leader of the green energy movement in California for 35 years. He is executive director of CEERT, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies in Sacramento, and principal of the environmental and energy lobbying practice, V. John White Associates, representing public interest environmental and local government organizations, and new energy technology companies.

White's career has been devoted to air quality improvement and clean energy development. As chief consultant to the California Assembly Subcommittee on Air Quality, he became the leading legislative expert on air quality technology and regulation, helping to draft the California Clean Air Act and subsequent clean air and energy statutes.

In 1990 he co-founded CEERT, which has become the premier energy advocacy voice for key environmental public interest groups and clean energy technology companies.  He played a central role in the passage of the Pavley Clean Car bill, AB 32, and many of California’s renewable energy incentive and regulatory programs.

He serves on a number of nonprofit boards and organizations.

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Liz Logan
Partner // PricewaterhouseCoopers

Liz Logan leads PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC) Risk Assurance practice for Southern California and Phoenix, which includes Sustainable Business Solutions, Internal Audit, and information technology services. For the past two years, Liz served as the partner leading PwC's work as advisor in the U.S. to the Carbon Disclosure Project, an investor backed organization which holds ㅁ database of primary corporate climate change information. She is a frequent speaker on matters associated sustainability challenges and author of PwC's 2010 publication: Typico Inc., a Framework for Greenhouse Gas Reporting. 

Previously, Liz spent two years in PwC's National Professional Services Group, advising other PwC professionals on audit related matters. In 2004, she represented PwC on an AICPA task force associated with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, formed to address Sarbanes-Oxley for insurers. 

She received her MBA from Baruch College in New York and serves on the Board of Minds Matter of Los Angeles.

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Michael Peevey
President // California Public Utilities Commission

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Michael Allman
President and CEO // Southern California Gas Company

Michael W. Allman is president and CEO of Southern California Gas Company. He has held this position since 2010. Prior to his current role, Mike was the president and CEO of Sempra Generation, where he led the company’s growth in renewable energy. Before joining Sempra Energy he spent eight years as an international management consultant. Mike has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Michigan State University. 

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Jack Baylis
Senior Vice President // The Shaw Group

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Fiona Ma
Speaker Pro Tempore // California State Assembly

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Jeff Kightlinger
General Manager // Metropolitan Water District

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Carla Peterman
Commissioner // California Energy Commission

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Bob Hertzberg
Founder and Director // G24 Innovations

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Mary Nichols
Chairman // California Air Resources Board

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Won-Sok Yun
Director General and Chief Trade Commissioner // KOTRA- Los Angeles

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Diane Wittenberg
Executive Director and Chairman // Plug-in Vehicle Collaborative

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Nancy Skinner
Chair // California State Assembly Committee on Rules

Elected to the State Assembly in 2008 and reelected in 2010, Assembly member Nancy Skinner has been involved throughout her career in efforts to promote energy conservation. During the oil crisis of the late 1970s, Ms. Skinner and others lobbied the City of Berkeley to establish an Energy Office and a citizen’s Energy Commission.

An early champion of integrating economic development with environmental protection, Ms. Skinner authored the legislation to establish Berkeley’s Community Energy Services Corporation, which continues to provide energy efficiency services to small businesses and homeowners throughout the East Bay. During her time in the Assembly, Ms. Skinner has carried major legislation governing energy storage, net energy metering, renewable energy, and energy upgrade financing. Ms. Skinner founded ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability. As Executive Director of ICLEI’s US office, Ms. Skinner launched the Cities for Climate Protection program — the US movement of mayors and cities working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ms. Skinner also served on the California Energy Commission's Climate Change Advisory Committee and San Francisco’s Clean Technology Task Force.  She also serves on the board of directors of a number of non-profit organizations involved in environmental and energy issues.

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David Fransen
Consul General // Consul General of Canada, Los Angeles

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Kaylynn Kim
Managing Partner // Tierra Global Advisors

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Zev Yaroslavsky
Supervisor, 3rd District // Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

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Tom Martinez
Executive Director Business Development // I.B.E.W. Local #11

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Bill Allen
President and CEO // LAEDC

Bill Allen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation and the CEO of its subsidiary the World Trade Center Association Los Angeles – Long Beach.  Mr. Allen is also the Chair of Film L.A. and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Economic Development Council, California Association of Local Economic Development, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and Unite L.A.  In 2007, Mr. Allen was appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to serve on the Los Angeles Economy and Jobs Committee and in 2008 he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Weingart Foundation.

Active in regional economic development for more than 15 years, Mr. Allen was the first CEO of the Economic Alliance of the San Fernando Valley from 1996-2000, and in 2000 was named California’s Civic Entrepreneur of the Year by the California Center for Regional Leadership.  Mr. Allen is currently a member of the Board of Councilors of the Rossier School of Education at USC and the Board of Directors of the Valley Presbyterian Hospital.  He has served as a trustee of the University of Southern California, chair of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and co-chair of the National Council for Families and Television. 

A cum laude graduate of the Cinema Television School at the University of Southern California in 1979, Mr. Allen began his career in a series of creative executive roles with the CBS television network (1979-1986) and as a Sr. VP, and later President of MTM Television (1986-1995), the producers of Hill St. Blues, St. Elsewhere, Remington Steele and Newhart. Mr. Allen also received his Masters Degree in Business Administration from Pepperdine University in 1983.  In 1999, he received a certificate in 21st Century Management from the Graziadio School of Business & Management at Pepperdine.  

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Hope Boonshaft
General Manager // Hill & Knowlton

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Allan Emkin
Founder and Managing Director // Pension Consulting Alliance

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Zhihang Chi
Vice President and General Manager // Air China, North America

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Celine Bak
Co-Founder // Canadian Clean Tech CoalitionFounding Partner // Analytica Advisors

Céline Bak is an author, speaker and consultant on clean technology, innovation, and commercialization. She published and authored the 2010 SDTC Cleantech Growth & Go-to-Market Report and the 2011 Canadian Clean Technology Industry Report which builds on the 2010 baseline data set for Canada’s multi-billion dollar clean technology industry. She is the co-founder of the Canadian Clean Technology Coalition that was struck to create the conditions required to make Canada’s clean technology industry.

Céline is on the Clean Tech Advisory Board for the Department of Foreign Affairs and is a technical advisor to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy for Climate Prosperity.  She was the co-chair of the 2011 Canadian Cleantech Summit, the Canada-Brazil Working Group for Clean Technology and Green Energy and sits on the nominations committee for the Canada Clean50.   

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Tom Soto
Co-Founder and Managing Partner // Craton Equity Partners

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James Goldstene
Executive Officer // California Air Resources Board

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Mike Rosenfeld
Vice Consul // British Consulate-General; UK Trade & Investment

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Lillian Kawasaki
Director // Water Replenishment District

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Jim Lane
Publisher // Biofuel Digest

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Torbjorn Millang
Owner // Avancee Marketing

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Peter Beattie
Premier (Former) // Queensland

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Frederuck O. Terrell
Vice Chairman // Credit Suisse

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Yufu Cheng
Senior Vice President // iCET Beijing, China

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David Nahai
President // David Nahai Consulting

David Nahai is the President of David Nahai Consulting Services, LLC, which advises public and private entities in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and water sectors.  He is also a partner at the law firm of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith and co-chair of its energy, water, and real estate practice areas.  He is also the former Commission President and General Manager  of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). Mr. Nahai’s administration expanded LADWP’s renewable portfolio to 15% and paved the way for its attainment of the 20% level.  Under David Nahai’s watch, the LADWP achieved multi-fold increases in energy efficiency levels, as well as record reductions in water consumption in the City of Los Angeles.  Mr. Nahai is also the former Chair of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, where he served in the administrations of 3 California Governors.  He sits on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Heal the Bay, and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and has served as Senior Advisor to the Clinton Climate Initiative. 

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Shiro Tomeoki
Western States Regional Officer // Mitsui & Co. Ontario, Canada

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Terry O'Day
Regional Director // eVgo/ NRG

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Cecilia Estolano
Co-Founder // ELP Advisors

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Michael Bissonette
Senior Vice President and General Manager // AeroVironment

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Gillian Wright
Director // Southern California Gas Company

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Adi Liberman
Founder and Principal // Liberman and Associates

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Jonathan Weisgall
Vice President // Mid-American Energy

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Jeremy Davies
Chair (Former) // BABC

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Mike Wallace
Director // Global Reporting Initiative

Mike Wallace is the Director of the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI). Focal Point USA GRI’s Focal Point USA is responsible for supporting the growth and quality of sustainability reporting in the US. Mike has experience advising corporations, non-profits and government agencies in their respective efforts to develop and implement sustainability initiatives. He gained his international expertise while working for ERM in both the US and Australia, where his work in sustainability began.

He has authored numerous articles on the topic and was a contributor to Climate Change – a Guide to Carbon Law & Practice. In addition to speaking globally on the topic of sustainability, Mike has given expert testimony to the European Commission, the US Securities & Exchange Commission, and a range of business associations like the US Business Roundtable and the National Investor Relations Institute. He speaks regularly around the US and Canada on the topic of sustainability reporting. 

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Michael George
Managing Director // Wedbush Securities

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Ron Nichols
General Manager // LADWP

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Richard Katz
Board Director // Los Angeles Metro

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Fran Pavley
Chair // California State Senate Natural Resources and Water

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Felicia Marcus
Western Director // NRDC

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K.Y. Cheng
Director // East West Bank

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Jacob Lipa
President // Psomas

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Julian Gresser
Director // Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips

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Gary Gero
President // Climate Action Reserve

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Martha Davis
Executive Manager // Inland Empire Utilities Agency

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Coby Skye
Engineer // Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

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Cindy Miscikowski
Board President // Port of Los Angeles

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Robyn Beavers
Project Manager // Vestas Wind Systems A/S

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Angelina Galiteva
Board Member // California ISO

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Jun Niimi
Consul General // Japanese Consulate, Los Angeles

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