Tom Steyer is founder and Senior Managing Member of Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C and a Managing Director and Member of the Investment Committee of Hellman & Friedman, L.L.C. He and his wife, Kat Taylor, recently joined Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and other high-wealth Americans in the "Giving Pledge," a promise to donate the majority of their wealth to charitable and nonprofit activities during their lifetimes.

Tom and Kat are also the founders of OneCalifornia Bank, an Oakland, California community development bank now called One PacificCoast Bank. Mr. Steyer recently teamed with former Secretary of State George Shultz to defeat Proposition 23, which would have rolled back new California advanced energy legislation. Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale and received his MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Hemant Taneja is a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, an investor in early-stage companies. Mr. Taneja leads the global energy practice for General Catalyst and serves on the boards of a diverse set of energy companies. He has broad experience in advanced energy, having co-founded and chaired the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC. org), a nonprofit focused on advancing New England's energy economy.

Mr. Taneja is a graduate of MIT, earning an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering.

Reed Hundt is the CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital, a non-profit corporation, as well as Principal of REH Advisors, an advisory firm serving private firms. He is on the board of directors of Intel Corporation and Kno, Inc., and also two non profit organizations, the United Negro College Fund and the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority of Connecticut. In addition, he is on the advisory board of the Yale School of Management, Peek Inc., Mytonomy and e-Access. He is a senior advisor to Skadden, Arps, a law firm, and GTCR, a private equity firm. He is Chairman of the Aspen Institute's International Digital Economy Accord (IDEA) Project.

Reed Hundt was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1993-1997. Previously he was a partner at Latham & Watkins, an international law firm. He is a member of the District of Columbia bar.

He has written many articles and two books: In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (Yale University Press, 2006) and You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (Yale University Press, 2000).

Reed graduated from Yale College (1969) with a B.A. in History magna cum laude and honors with exceptional distinction in history. He graduated from J.D. Yale Law School (1974) where he was member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal. He is married to Elizabeth Katz and has three children: Adam (b. 1982), Nathaniel (b. 1985), and Sara (b. 1989).

Bill Ritter Jr. is currently the Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE) at Colorado State University. The Center started February 1, 2011 with Ritter as the founding Director. In addition to the Director, the Center now employs an Assistant Director, two Senior Policy Advisors, and an Executive Assistant.

Ritter was elected as Colorado's 41st governor in 2006 -- the first Colorado-born governor in more than 35 years. Ritter led Colorado forward by bringing people together to tackle some of our state's biggest challenges. During his 4 year term, Ritter established Colorado as a national and international leader in renewable energy by building a New Energy Economy that is creating thousands of new jobs and establishing hundreds of new companies; enacted an aggressive business-development and job-creation agenda that is focused on knowledge-based industries of the future, such as energy, aerospace, biosciences, information technology and tourism; initiated sweeping K-12 education reforms to give Colorado children the skills and knowledge they need to compete and succeed in a 21st century global economy; and, improved access to quality and affordable health care for many of the 800,000 Coloradans who lack health coverage.

Ritter served as Denver's District Attorney from 1993 to January 2005. He earned a national reputation as one of the country's most effective and innovative prosecutors, and several of his programs continue to serve as state and national models.

The sixth of 12 children, Ritter was raised on a small farm in Arapahoe County. He was a member of the first graduating class of Gateway High School (1974), and he earned his bachelor's degree in political science from Colorado State University (1978) and his law degree from the University of Colorado (1981). Ritter is married to Jeannie, and before his serving as District Attorney, he and Jeannie operated a food distribution and nutrition center in Zambia. They have four children; August, Abe, Sam, and Tally.

George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was sworn in on July 16, 1982, as the sixtieth US secretary of state and served until January 20, 1989. In January 1989, he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Business and as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Acuitus, Inc., Fremont Group, and Theranos, Inc. He is advisory council chair of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, chair of the MIT Energy Initiative External Advisory Board, and chair of the Energy Task Force at Hoover Institution.

He was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on January 19, 1989. He also received the Seoul Peace Prize (1992), the Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service (2001), and the Reagan Distinguished American Award (2002). He is the recipient of the Elliot Richardson Prize for Excellence and Integrity in Public Service, the James H. Doolittle Award, and the John Witherspoon Medal for Distinguished Statesmanship. The George Shultz National Foreign Service Training Center in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated on May 29, 2002. Shultz was named a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association in 2005. He received the American Spirit Award from the National World War II Museum in 2006 and the Truman Medal for Economic Policy in 2007. He received the Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008 and the Commandant's Leadership Award from the Marine Corps' Law Enforcement Foundation in 2009.

Shultz graduated from Princeton University in 1942, receiving a BA degree in economics. That year he joined the US Marine Corps and served through 1945. In 1949, Shultz earned a PhD degree in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Paul Bledsoe is President of Bledsoe & Associates, LLC, a strategic public and corporate policy firm specializing in national and global communications whose current and former clients include Fortune 50 corporations, major US government agencies, States and universities, leading philanthropic foundations, and top international NGOs in energy, technology and environment.

Paul is also Senior Advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center, a leading centrist think tank, co-founded by former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole, Tom Daschle, Howard Baker and George Mitchell. He serves, in addition, as senior communications strategist and spokesperson for the American Energy Innovation Council, a group of seven top business leaders including Bill Gates and Jeffrey Immelt.

Paul was Senior Policy Advisor on the staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Off-Shore Drilling, from its inception in June 2010 to completion of its work in March 2011. From 2002 to 2010, he was Director of Strategy and Communications for the National Commission on Energy Policy.

From 1998-2000, Paul served as Director of Communications of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton. From 1995 to 1998, Paul was Special Assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. Paul served at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee as Communications Director under the chairmanship of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1993 to 1995, and earlier as press secretary and legislative assistant to several members of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Oxford University's Centre for the Environment from 2003-2005, and in 2007 was invited to participate in the first-ever thematic debate of the United Nations General Assembly regarding global climate change.

He has been featured on many television and radio programs, including the CNN, BBC World Service Television and Radio, PBS, FOX and National Public Radio, and in leading print outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, Science Magazine, Nature, US News and World Report, and BusinessWeek and the Financial Times.

Paul received a B.A. with honors and an M.A. in English from The Ohio State University. He lives with his wife, Celia Boddington, and their son, Jack, in Arlington, VA.

Jeremy Carl is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution whose work focuses on energy and environmental policy, with particular emphasis on energy security and global fossil fuel markets. In addition, he writes extensively on US-India relations and Indian politics.

Before coming to Hoover, Jeremy was a research fellow at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford and a visiting fellow in resource and development economics at the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India.

He is the editor of Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America's Energy Choices, and his work has appeared in numerous books and journals in the energy and environmental fields. His writing and expertise have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and many other publications.

Jeremy holds degrees in history and public policy from Yale and Harvard Universities.

Lisa Frantzis is Managing Director of Renewable and Distributed Energy at Navigant, and was previously with Arthur D. Little. She has spent her 32 year career in consulting managing extensive technical, market, and economic analyses of renewable energy systems, and is recognized globally for her depth of knowledge and technical and strategic expertise. Her clients have included local, state, and federal governments, equipment manufacturers, oil companies, developers, utility companies, and investors.

She was on the Board of Directors for the American Council on Renewable Energy for four years and is currently on the Leadership Council, was a Vice President of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England, is a current Board member of the Solar Electric Power Association and is a current Board member of the New England Clean Energy Council..

Jeff Genzer is Vice President at the firm of Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer and Pembroke, P.C., where he has practiced since 1985. Mr. Genzer practices energy, utility and environmental law. He also serves as counsel to a number of national associations, including the National Association of State Energy Officials ("NASEO"), the National Association of Energy Service Companies ("NAESCO"), the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association, the Energy Programs Consortium, the Solar Alliance and the Geothermal Energy Association. Mr. Genzer has been counsel to NASEO since it was formed in 1986, and has advised them on energy policy matters, drafts legislation and testimony and has been very involved in program implementation. Jeff has also represented NAESCO for approximately two decades. Prior to entering private law practice in 1985, Mr. Genzer was the staff counsel and energy lobbyist for the National Governors' Association.

His practice involves work before federal and state legislative bodies and administrative agencies, including state public service commissions and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as well as the Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He worked extensively on the Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("ARRA") as well as a variety of implementation issues since enactment in early 2009, including financing issues. He has worked on energy project development, energy efficiency projects, electric and natural gas ratemaking, bulk power supply, transmission system issues (including ISOs and RTOs), contract negotiation, franchise issues, renewable energy projects and energy efficiency programs. Recent energy projects have included advising clients on energy efficiency, biomass, solar, geothermal, "smart growth" initiatives, ethanol, Plug-in hybrid vehicles, wind and landfill gas, as well as power plant development and electric transmission and distribution infrastructure. In the environment area he has been involved especially in the Clean Air Act and Toxic Substances Control act issues, and all phases of environmental reviews for energy projects. He has spoken on numerous occasions, especially on federal legislative activities, energy, environment and utility issues.

He is a graduate of Haverford College and the Washington College of Law of the American University. He resides in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife. He has four children.

Phil Giudice is Chief Executive Officer and board member of the Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC). LMBC's grid electricity storage technology will be able to reliably and cost effectively separate power supply from power demand for the first time. Giudice has more than 35 years' experience in the energy industry as an exploration geologist, consultant, executive, and state official.

Previously, Giudice was the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Undersecretary of Energy and the Commissioner of the Department of Energy Resources, the state agency with primary responsibility for fulfilling Governor Deval Patrick's vision for a clean energy future. Giudice was appointed by US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu to US DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewables Advisory Committee as well as its State Energy Advisory Board. In addition, he holds leadership roles on several other prominent clean energy bodies.

Prior to his service in the Patrick-Murray Administration, Giudice was senior vice president and board member at EnerNOC, a start-up providing electricity demand-management services to businesses, institutions, utilities, and grid operators that became a public company in 2007. He was previously a senior partner and leader of Mercer Management Consulting's global energy utilities practice for 20 years. He started his career as a metals exploration geologist with Freeport-McMoRan and with Chevron.

Giudice is also active in the nonprofit realm, serving on the President's Council of ACCION, and previously completing full terms on the boards of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, City Year Boston, First Parish Church of Wayland, and Haitian Health Foundation. He was the founding chair of Boston Cares. Giudice is a geologist (B.S. from University of New Hampshire and M.S. in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona) and a management professional (M.B.A. from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth).

Dian Grueneich is a nationally and internationally recognized energy expert, with 35 years' experience. Dian served as a Commissioner on the California Public Utilities Commission from 2005-2010 and led its efforts on energy efficiency, developing the California Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan and overseeing a 40% expansion of California's energy efficiency funding. Dian's professional recognitions include the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) 30th Anniversary Award for outstanding contribution in the field of energy efficiency, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Clean Energy Award, eeGlobal Forum's first "Visionary Award" for energy leadership, and ACEEE's National Champion of Energy Efficiency Award. Dian currently serves on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Electricity Advisory Committee, the DOE-EPA State Energy Efficiency Action Plan Leadership Group, the Leadership Council of the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Advisory Council of Stanford University's Precourt Energy Institute, and the Global Cool Cities Alliance. Dian also serves as a Clean Energy Education & Empowerment U.S. Ambassador. Dian is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University.

Mr. Hibbard has both public and private sector experience in energy and environmental technologies, economics, market structures, and policy. He has provided technical and policy analysis as well as strategic advice to clients in such areas as energy infrastructure needs, energy facility siting, the allocation of emission allowances under market-based programs, utility structure and procurement practices; and the administration of renewable development programs.

Mr. Hibbard's work has addressed the implications of new renewable and emission portfolio standards for retail suppliers; the impacts of transmission congestion management on power purchase contract pricing; the evolution of electricity market structures; transmission planning and cost allocation; utility ratemaking practices; and the transfer of U.S. federal and state emission control programs to other countries. He served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities during a period of major change in utility ratemaking practices and state energy policy. He also has written on a wide variety of energy and environmental topics for such publications as Public Utilities Fortnightly and The Electricity Journal, and has authored reports for the numerous foundations, companies, and industry organizations.

Paul Hudson, focused on developing and advancing our US energy infrastructure, serves as a principal in and advisor to a variety of energy related interests. Mr. Hudson has been an active participant in, and observer of, the extraordinarily profound transition of the Texas and national power industry over the course of the last 15 years.

Prior to entering private practice, Hudson was a gubernatorial appointee to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, serving from August 2003 until September of 2008 as Commissioner and Chair.

Hudson also served sequentially in a variety of other policy roles including as Director of Policy, and Deputy Director of Policy to the Governor of Texas. He also served as Advisor to Commissioner Brett Perlman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas and as a member of the Policy development staff under former PUCT and FERC Chair Pat Wood.

Hudson has served on the boards of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the Clean Coal Technology Council, the FERC/NARUC Collaborative on Demand Response, and the Western Governor's Association Working Group on Cross-Border Energy Issues.

Hudson is a past winner (2009) of the American Wind Energy Association National State Leadership award for his work on the Texas Competitive Renewable Energy Zones.

Hudson currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Center for the Commercialization of Electricity Technology, a broad-based 25-member organization committed to advancing energy technology (www.electrictechnologycenter.com), as an independent member of the Board of Directors for privately held CLEAResult (an energy efficiency implementation company, www.clearesult.com), on the Industry Advisory Board for GridNet (www.grid-net.com), on the State Advisory Council for the Galvin Electricity Initiative.

Dan Reicher is Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University, a joint center of the Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he also holds faculty positions. Reicher has more than 25 years of experience in energy technology, policy, and finance, including serving in the Clinton administration at the Department of Energy as Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and recently as a member of President Obama's Transition Team. Reicher came to Stanford in 2011 from Google, where he served since 2007 as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives.

Reicher also serves as Senior Advisor to the Atlantic Wind Connection, a project backed by Google and other investors to build an underwater transmission line for offshore wind power along the US east coast. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and Chairman of the Board of the American Council on Renewable Energy. He is also a member of the boards of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, the Hewlett-Packard Environmental Advisory Council, and the Advanced Energy Economy Advisory Committee.

Before his position at Google, Reicher served as President and Co-founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity firm funded by the California State Teachers Retirement System and Vantage Point Venture Partners to invest in clean energy projects. He also served as Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems, one of the nation's oldest renewable energy companies and a recipient of significant venture capital investment. Reicher was also an adjunct professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Vermont Law School.

In the Clinton Administration, Reicher served for eight years at the Department of Energy as Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, and Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs. He also worked for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the World Resources Institute. Earlier in his career he served as an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts, a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Boston, and a legal assistant in the Hazardous Waste Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also was a staff member of President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Reicher holds a BA in biology from Dartmouth College and a JD from Stanford Law School. He also studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and MIT. An avid kayaker, Reicher was a member of the first expedition on record to navigate the entire 1888-mile Rio Grande (with support from the National Geographic Society) and to kayak the Yangtze River in China. He is married to Carole Parker and has three children. They live in Piedmont California.