Advisory Board & Speakers
Cleantech Institute
The Cleantech Institute Advisory Board will guide the content and format of the Cleantech Institute. Representing a crosssection of the private and public sectors, the Cleantech Institute Advisory Board Members are a collection of seasoned industry executives, policy makers and academic theorists. This unique combination helps to bridge the gap between theory and practice and provide a comprehensive and real world view of the future of cleantech.
Alex Kinnier
Partner, Khosla Ventures
Amy Zimpfer
Regional Deputy Director, EPA
Annette Finsterbusch
Director, Applied Ventures
Anthony Eggert
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Chair California Air Resources Board
Catherine Wolfram
Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Innovation; Associate Professor, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow
Chris Somerville, PhD
Director, EBI
Christopher R. Knittel
Associate Professor of Economics, UC Davis
Craig Lewis
Government Relations Advisor & Founding Principal: RightCycle and FIT Coalition
Dallas Kachan
Managing Director, Cleantech Group
Daniel A. Faber
Sho Sato Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law Program
Daniel M. Kammen
Berkeley Institute of the Environment
Duane Larson
Head of Energy Efficiency, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
Ethan Elkind
Environmental Law Fellow
Harold (Hal) O. LaFlash
Director, Emerging Clean Technology Policy, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
Ilan Gur, PhD
Researcher, UC Berkeley
Jeffrey Byron
Commissioner, CEC
John Balbach
Managing Partner, Global Alliances
John Gage
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Luis Arbulu
Finance & Investments Lead, Google Investments
Melinda Richter
Founder & CEO, Prescience Intl; Executive Director, Environmental Business Cluster (EBC)
Neal Dikeman
Co-Founder, Carbonflow; Founding Partner, Jane Capital
Norman Birchfield
Senior Environmental Technology Officer, Environmental Technology Opportunities Portal, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Pam Contag, PhD
Founder and CEO, Cygnet BioFuels; Founder, Cobalt Biofuels
Patricia Thompson
Consultant, Sageview Associates
Paul Douglas
Supervisor, Renewable Procurement and Resource Planning, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Ramamoorthy Ramesh,
PhD
Materials Science and Engineering and Physics, UC Berkeley
Severin Borenstein
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Energy Markets; Former Member, Governing Board of the California Power Exchange; California Attorney General's Gasoline Price Task Force
Stefan Heck
Leader Global Cleantech Practice, McKinsey & Co.
Steve McBee
President & CEO, McBee Strategic
Trina Martynowicz
Clean Air Emerging Technologies and West Coast Collaborative, Clean Energy and Climate Change Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Woodrow Clark II, MA3, PhD
Qualitative Economist
