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Bob Epstein, Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs

Bob Epstein is an entrepreneur and engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of four information technology companies: Sybase, Inc., GetActive Software, Zight (Colorado Microdisplay) and Britton-Lee. Bob currently splits his professional time between his roles as private investor, Director of GetActive Software, Trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs. Bob's community activities are focused on the environment, public education and opera.

Joel Makower, Co-founder and Principal, CleanEdge

Mr. Makower, co-founder and principal of CleanEdge, is a well-respected business writer and analyst, and a leading voice on business, technology, and the environment. Prior to founding Clean Edge, he was editor of The Green Business Letter, a monthly newsletter on corporate environmental strategy, and the creative force behind GreenBiz.com, an acclaimed web portal on business and the environment. Previously, Joel founded Tilden Press Inc., an award-winning company that researches, writes, and produces books, newsletters, and other editorial products and services. He is a former nationally syndicated columnist, a bestselling author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business, and is a frequent lecturer to companies, associations, and business schools on clean technology and sustainable business strategy.

Makower is a regular commentator on environmental topics for "Marketplace," a nightly national business program on public radio, and appears regularly in both broadcast and print media. He lectures frequently to companies, industry groups, and business schools throughout North America, as well as in Europe, Asia, and South America. He is a graduate in journalism of the University of California at Berkeley.

Joel Serface, Venture Manager, Eastman Ventures

Before joining Eastman Ventures, Joel was a Director at Sierra Ventures where he sourced software and energy technology investments. Prior to Sierra Ventures, Joel helped build the software practice at Alliant Partners, a technology mergers and acquisitions boutique investment bank sold to Silicon Valley Bank (NASDAQ: SIVB). Outside of Eastman, Joel is on the Board of Venture Advisors for the California Nanosystems Institute. Joel is also a founding member of Environmental Entrepreneurs, a community of professionals who believe that protecting the environment builds economic prosperity. Joel also advises several energy and environmental venture groups and university entrepreneurship centers including the University of Texas College of Engineering Center for Technology Entrepreneurship as its first Entrepreneur in Residence.

Joel holds his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management where received the Patrick McGovern Award for Entrepreneurial Leadership for starting the first MIT Sloan Venture Capital Conference. Joel received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering with concentrations in Environmental and Biotech Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Sunil Paul, Founder & CEO, Brightmail Inc. Angel Investor

Sunil Paul was inspired to develop a better solution to the spam problem because his personal email accounts were overrun by spam. In October 1997, he founded Brightmail, Inc., a company dedicated to giving users control of their email. Prior to starting Brightmail, Sunil created FreeLoader, Inc., the first company to offer a web-based push service. In 1996, Individual, Inc. acquired Freeloader for $38 million, making it the best and second-best performing investments in the VC portfolios of Euclid and Softbank, respectively. Before launching FreeLoader, Sunil was with America Online (AOL) as that company's first Internet Product Manager, successfully creating most of AOL's Internet capabilities. Before AOL, Sunil was a policy analyst at the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment, where he specialized in information technology and telecommunications, including the then-emerging Internet. Prior to that, Sunil spent three years working on NASA's Space Station Information System. Sunil has a B.E. in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Martin Rocheisen, CEO NanoSolar

Martin Roscheisen is a technology entrepreneur with a passion for building market leaders in the most defining industries and a track record of creating three best-in-category companies (each ultimately acquired by their respective industry leader--for $30 million, $432 million, and $720 million) before identifying Nanosolar as the ultimate opportunity. Martin Roscheisen received advanced engineering degrees from Stanford University and Munich Technical University, and holds a doctorate from Stanford University's School of Engineering. An Austrian citizen born in Munich, Martin Roscheisen got his Silicon Valley apprenticeship as a teenager during a year at Xerox PARC. In 2003, Fortune named Martin Roscheisen one of the United States' top 10 entrepreneurs under 40.

Daniel Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab

Daniel M. Kammen is Professor of Energy and Society in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) , Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy and is Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley . He is also the founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).

Dr. Kammen's research interests include: the science, engineering, management, and dissemination of renewable energy systems; health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use; rural resource management, including issues of gender and ethnicity; international R&D policy, climate change; and energy forecasting and risk analysis. He is the author of over 90 journal publications, a book on environmental, technological, and health risks (Should We Risk It?, Princeton University Press) and numerous reports on renewable energy and development. He has been featured on radio, network and public broadcasting television and in print as an analyst of energy, environmental, and risk policy issues and current events. His recent work on energy R&D policy appeared in Science, and Environment, and has been featured on PBS, KQED, CNN, and in many newspapers via the Reuters news service.

Kammen advises the U. S. and Swedish Agencies for International Development, the World Bank, and the Presidents Committee on Science and Technology (PCAST), and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Working Group III and the Special Report on Technology Transfer). Dr. Kammen serves on the technical review board for the GEF (the STAP), is a lead author for the Special Report on Technology Transfer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and advises the World Bank and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the African Academy of Sciences