Advisory Committee

The RETECH 2011 Business Conference will be programmed by a group of approximately 60 industry leaders representing every aspect of the renewable energy industry. The committee will determine conference topics, thus setting the tone for RETECH 2011. There are just two in-person meetings to develop the content for the 2011 program. The first meeting is devoted to topic selection, nominating track leader and session chairs and defining the conference outline. The final meeting involves abstract selection, nominating potential speakers & panelists and finalizing session descriptions and content.

Confirmed/Invited 2011 Advisory Committee Members:

Paul Adler Senior Director, US Market Development AUSTRALIAN TRADE COMMISSION	Richard Anderson Senior Director NextEra Energy Resources	Neil Auerbach Managing Partner Hudson Clean Energy Partners
Doug Berven Vice President of Corporate Affairs POET	Paul Burdick Vice President AES Wind, LLC	Thierry Buttin Embassy of France
Gu Yoon Chung Director of Government Affairs Enel Green Power North America	Todd Coles Practice Group Leader Troutman Sanders	Keith Curtis Senior Energy Advisor, Office of International Operations, CS/ITA U.S. Department of Commerce
Raymond DuBose Director for Energy Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Michael Eckhart President American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)	Matt Ferguson Principal Reznick Group
Scott Fisher Director, Policy Coordination NRG Energy, Inc.	Lisa Frantzis Managing Director Navigant Consulting	Laurence Greene Director, Public Policy, North America ACCIONA Energy North America Corp.
Chris Groobey Partner, Project Development & Finance Energy & Clean Technology Corp. Finance Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.	Bryan Hannegan Vice President. Environment and Renewables Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)	Bill Holmberg Chairman - Biomass Coordinating Council American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Jeff Holszchuh Vice Chairman Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division	Joanne Howard Vice Consul, Renewable Energy & Clean Technology UKTI	Lisa Hunter Communications Manager BP Alternative Energy International
Mary Paul Smith Jespersen Sr. Commercial Advisor ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY	Val Kogan President Mid-Atlantic - Russia Business Council	Diane Lear Membership Coordiantor National Hydropower Association
Sung Lee Global Marketing Manager DuPont	Elisabeth Lord Stuart Operations Director US-Algeria Business Council	Mark McCarthy Assistant Director Of Energy Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
Diane McMahon President - USA Independent Power Producers Association of India	Geoffrey Morgan Attorney at Law Michael Best & Friedrich LLP	Kevin Nassiep CEO South African National Energy Research Institute
Hilda Pinnix-Ragland VP Corporate Public Affairs Progress Energy Inc.	Larry Plumb Executive Director, Emerging Issues & Tech. Policy Verizon	Pablo Reyes Director CEELAT
Curtis Roberts Communications Director North America AREVA Renewables	Marcus Schmidt Director Germany Trade and Invest	Jeff Serfass President Technology Transition Corp.
Claire Servini Head of the Clean Technology Desk Italian Trade Commission	Owen Smith Managing Director, Renewable Strategy & Compliance Duke Energy Corporation	Cathy Snyder Vice President, Energy and Environment Lockheed Martin
Paul Thomsen Director, Policy & Business Development Ormat Technologies, Inc.	Ken Upchurch Vice President of Sales & Marketing BRUKS Rockwood, Inc.	Heidi Van Genderen Director, National & Regional Outreach American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Joel Velasco UNICA	Ray Wood Managing Director Credit Suisse