PITCHRATER CLIMATE TECH
BEN MARGOLIS
• Business Fellow, Breakthrough Energy
• Executive Chairman, genseed advisors
• Commercialization Manager, Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator
• COO, DemandEV
• Director, Business Development, Sol Systems
• Project Engineer, SunEdison
• University of Maryland (Engineering) UVA Darden (MBA)
DAVID WALTERS
• 24th Governor of Oklahoma (1991-1995)
• CEO, Walters Power International, Electric Power Generation
• 200 international trips, four million miles, successful deals in 19 countries
• Elected to DNC's Executive Committee in 2019
• University of Oklahoma (Engineering) Harvard Business School (MBA)
TERRI WALTERS
• President, Katevan Consulting
• Lecturer University of Boulder, Leeds School of Business
• Chief of Staff, Department of Energy, Office of Policy and International Affairs
• Senior Policy Advisor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• University of Texas at Austin (Mechanical Engineering)
BRYAN CONKLIN
• CEO, Simuwatt– Energy efficiency for commercial buildings
• CEO/Founder, Resurgent Energy – sustainable energy solutions
• VP, AES Distributed Energy (previously Main Street Power)
• Co-Chair, Climate Action Collaborative
PETER WALLIS
• President, Wallis Energy Corporation
• VP Strategic Development, Ameresco, reviewing over 1,000 acquisition opportunities
• Led the acquisition of over 20 energy businesses and projects
• Utility proposals resulted in over $1 billion of awards
• Brown (Applied Mathematics) Harvard Business School (MBA)
SCOTT MILLER
• Managing Director, Dragon Ventures
• Led manufacturing team that built first 4 Million Roombas
• Former Co-Founder of Dragon Innovation – advised Ring, Pill Pack, MakerBot, Pebble and DropCam
• Lived in China for four years, extensive Far East Manufacturing expertise
• Dartmouth College (Engineering) and MIT (Ocean Engineering)
JOHN LANGHUS
• VP Legal and Communications, Photon Vault
• VP Legal, New Energy Equity LLC
• Developed over $400 Million in Solar Projects
• Managing Director for International, Forest Oil
• Cross-border M&A and Corporate Finance, Sullivan and Cromwell
• Colorado College (BA) and NYU (JD)
ROB SARGENT
• Clean Energy Movement Builder
• Energy Program Director, Environment America/U.S. PIRG
• Campaign Director, Local Solar for All
• Strategic Consultant, Coltura – moving beyond gasoline
• Advisor, SolarApp + Campaign
• Advisor, 30 Million Solar Homes Campaign
• University of Vermont (BA)
JITENDRA KULKARNI
• VP Technology, Stellar Renewable Power
• Development of Advance Analytics for remote monitoring of renewable projects
• VP Innovations, Softbank Energy, Due Diligence for Energy projects and drove techno-commercial innovations
• Lead Innovation & Performance Engineering, SunEdison – Utility projects in Asia Pacific, GCC and South Africa
• GM Design & Engineering, Soltaire Direct, Solar Projects in India
• Pune (Electrical) Bharati Vidyapeeth (Electrical) ADBM (Electrical, Business Management)
ALBURY "BO" FLEITAS
• President/Partner, New Energy Blue -- biomass refineries
• Partner, Alternative Energy Development Group – Finance and Development of Solar, Natural Gas Distributed Generation projects
• Managing Director, Bluestone Capital Management
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ERIC KLEIN
• Partner, Lemnos early-stage hardware venture fund
• Managing Partner, Klein Venture Partners
• Former Nokia VP of Advanced Engineering
• Former Sun Microsystems VP of Java Marketing
• Advisor to dozens of venture-backed founders and teams
• University of Texas Austin (Management Information Systems)
ANDREW BENNETT
• Lecturer at MIT, Former Professor at Olin College of Engineering
• Former Director of R&D at iRobot
• Former Walt Disney R&D “Imagineer”
• Top Secret Security Clearance (currently inactive)
• Holds multiple patents, published dozens of journal articles
• MIT (Mechanical Engineering) Stanford (Masters Mechanical Engineering) MIT (Ph.D. Ocean Engineering)