Peter Barden joined CA-CP's board in 2005. He is a Managing Director at Mercury Public Affairs, a New York-based public and government affairs firm. Prior, Mr. Barden served as Managing Director in the corporate finance division of The Seaport Group, an investment banking firm where he focused on financing alternative energy projects. Before that, he was senior VP of Public Governmental Affairs for the New York Power Authority, where he gained experience in controversial issue advocacy and crisis management, including the siting of fossil-fueled power plants in New York and the federal licensing of major hydroelectric plants in Upstate New York. Before joining the Power Authority in 2001, Mr. Barden served as governor Pataki's Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, where he worked as a liaison between Governor and Legislature. From 1996-1999 Mr. Barden served in various capacities with State Senator Jim Wright, including Chief of Staff, Director of Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, and Communications Director. Mr. Barden has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University.
In 2009, Steve Bruno left a 23 year career on Wall Street to join American EcoThermal Inc., a Portsmouth NH based renewable energy company focused on providing affordable geothermal heating and cooling to commercial and residential customers as President and Chief Operating Officer. Previously, Mr. Bruno was President and Chief Investment Officer of ZCM LLC, an investment firm he founded in early 2007. From 1990 to 2006 he was associated with Dalton, Greiner, Hartman, Maher & Co. (DGHM), a then $3.2 billion investment firm specializing in small and micro cap investing for institutions as Co-President, Senior Portfolio Manager and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He received a B.A. in Economics and his M.B.A. in Finance from New York University.
Roger C. Dower became the 5th president of The Johnson Foundation in March 2007. Dower joined the Foundation following an extensive career in the for-profit and the not-for-profit sectors. Most recently, Dower was President of the U.S. Forest Stewardship Council, which sets voluntary standards for sustainable forest management. Prior to his work in the forest sector, Dower was President of the eNERGYSolve Corporation, where he managed the marketing of energy services to industrial, commercial, and institutional clients, and also designed and implemented the spin-off of two energy companies. He also was Director of the World Resources Institute’s Climate, Energy, and Pollution Program and spent six years at the Congressional Budget Office. Trained as an economist, he is an expert in public policy analysis, strategic planning, business development, and institutional development. Roger is the author of numerous books, articles, and publications related to energy and environmental policy, many of which concern using the marketplace to help solve critical social issues. He serves on a number of boards, including Clean Air - Cool Planet and the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation.
Ashok Gupta is the Air and Energy Program Director and Senior Energy Economist at the Natural Resources Defense Council where he works with his colleagues on global warming policies, electric utility regulation, energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable building design and reducing petroleum dependence. He has a bachelor's degree in physics and math from Georgetown University and a master's degree in economics from American University.
Ashok is NRDC’s representative on Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability Advisory Board and Energy Policy Task Force. He also serves on Governor David Paterson’s Renewable Energy Task Force, the MTA Commission on Sustainability and the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group. He received the US Green Building Council’s 2007 Leadership Award for Advocacy, the Environmental Steward Award from Solar One in 2006, the Environmental Professional of the Year Award from the Association of Energy Engineers in 2003, and the Environmental Advocates’ 2001 Advocate Award for leadership in support of clean air and energy. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, U.S. Green Building Council - New York, Clean Air-Cool Planet, Alliance for Clean Energy New York, Citizen’s Union Foundation, Riverside South Planning Corporation, Renewable Energy Long Island, and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute. He previously served on the Boards of the Hudson River Foundation, the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships and Earth Pledge.
Steve Hamburg is chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Steve served as the lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) special report on land-use and land-cover change. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and worked with the House and Senate staff on drafting legislation, as well as briefing the U.S. negotiating team prior to the Hague negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol. He was the founder of the Global Environment Program at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University as well as the Ittleson Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and prior to that the director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas, and the first environmental ombudsman at the University. Steve is the author and co-author of numerous articles having appeared in a variety of journals, including Science and Nature, in addition to research reports and books on environmental issues and forest ecology. He received his doctorate and master's in forest ecology from Yale University.
Kathy is Global Leader, Sustainable Engineering, Maintenance & Energy Management with Whole Foods Market. She coordinates green store and facility design and construction programs, onsite renewable and alternative energy projects, strategic energy procurement, energy management programs, and maintenance best practices. She was most recently Director of Business Development for EnerNOC, Inc. working with commercial and industrial national accounts, building beyond demand response to implement improved energy management strategies across their diverse facility portfolios. Prior to joining EnerNOC, Kathy spent eight years as Director of Energy & Environmental Management for Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc., where she was active in the EPA Energy Star and Green Power Partners Programs. She sat on the board of the (Massachusetts) Energy Consortium. Before Shaw's, Kathy worked for Eastern Utilities (acquired by National Grid) for six years. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a Certified Energy Manager through the Association of Energy Engineers. She was a participant on the 2005 New England Roundtable on Federal Renewable Energy Policy and currently serves on the Massachusetts Large Scale Retail Development Solar and Energy Efficiency Sub-committees as well as her town’s Renewable Energy Committee.
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Diana retired in 1998 from an 18-year career in finance. After completing her training with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, she joined the bank's international division in the Paris Branch as a lending officer in the chemical and pharmaceutical division. She returned to New York five years later and joined Chase Investment Bank as a Senior Marketing Officer for Derivatives. Later, as Vice President of Marketing at AIG-FP, she was responsible for origination, development, and execution of derivative and structured financial transactions for a wide variety of customer groups. In her final years there, she was responsible for new business development. Diana currently works in institutional development for AmeriCares, a non profit humanitarian relief organization that provides medical support for people in crisis around the world. In addition to her Board work, she is an active volunteer in her community and has assumed leadership roles with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and New Canaan Country School. She has a BA from Towson State University in Maryland and a Masters from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. A mother of five, she lives in Darien, CT.
Before being appointed as CA-CP’s founding Executive Director in February, 2000, Adam directed the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) international climate campaign, based in Washington DC. He spent 12 years with WWF, based in Switzerland and then the US, and in addition to his climate work helped design and manage campaigns on tropical forests and on toxic chemicals. Adam received his B.Sc. (hons.) from the University of Wales at Swansea, in the UK, where he studied zoology. He worked as a journalist and then on acid rain and ozone layer campaigns for Friends of the Earth in London. He has written and edited several books including A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martins) and Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems (Kluwer). He was a contributing author to the forest impacts chapter of the 1995 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, contributed material on biodiversity impacts of climate change to the US National Assessment and has published on climate change and biodiversity in journals including Bioscience, Climate Research, Climatic Change and Parks.
Dick Raines is President of CARFAX, a leading Internet consumer information business that tracks the history of cars. He has held that position since 1993. Prior to CARFAX, he managed various information services companies. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Harvard College.
Dick is active in a number of conservation groups. He is board chair of the Potomac Conservancy. And, he serves on the board of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters and the American Bird Conservancy. In addition, he serves on several small business boards including Demosphere International and MarinaLife. He has also been involved in international development and co-founded a rural drinking water nonprofit called Agua del Pueblo based in Guatemala, Central America.
Claudia retired in August 2001 after four years as the CFO and VP for Operations of the National Park Foundation, founded by the U. S. Congress to bring private philanthropic resources to our national parks. Prior to her leadership at the Foundation she served Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt for five years as Director of Operations for the Department. There she led operations policy development and program implementation, including construction, law enforcement, aviation, wildland fire, and employee and public safety and health. She co-chaired the 1995 inter-agency federal wildland fire review resulting in a single set of policies for five federal agencies, signed by the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture. Secretary Bruce Babbitt recognized the policy as an outstanding achievement in his administration. Claudia oversaw both the financial and the development and membership growth of the League of Conservation Voters and the Women’s Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership for Women and Families), helping both reach national prominence. She currently serves on three boards, and is completing six years’ of service to Bright Beginnings Inc., a pre-school for homeless children ages 6 weeks to 5 years in the District for which she has served as treasurer, vice chair and chair. She is also a founding member of the EXCEL Academy Public Charter School and a co-founder of Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, and served until 2006 on the steering committee for the Georgetown Waterfront Park (a National Park Service property). She earned an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in International Relations from Brown University.
In January 2009, Ted moved on from his 15-year role as Executive Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, a Boston-based environmental grant-making foundation. Before joining the Foundation Ted headed a U.S. State Department team that designed Indonesia's Biodiveristy Foundation, the first of its kind in the developing world. He was also the founding director of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, a consortium of more than 30 national foundations. Earlier he served as president of John D. Rockefeller III's Agricultural Development Council working in Asia and Africa and was the Ford Foundation's Country Representative in Indonesia. A Montana native, he is a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Eric is the Vice President — Environment, Health and Safety for PSEG Services Corporation. He has an extensive background in the electric power industry, including power plant operations, engineering and construction, start-up of a cogeneration business, strategic planning, public policy and environment, health and safety management. In the 1990s, Eric was in the forefront for his company on implementation issues associated with the Clean Air Act and electric energy industry restructuring in New Jersey, in the Northeast, and at the federal level. Eric was responsible for the completion of the country's first interstate trade of NOx credits and was co-project manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council on a series of reports that benchmark the air emissions of electric utility generators in the United States. More recently, Eric has been focused on efforts to educate employees, the public, customers, and policy makers about the seriousness of global warming and the substantive actions needed to decarbonize society by mid-century.
Sue is currently with Analysis Group, a national firm specializing in economic consulting services, where she focuses primarily on economic, environmental, regulatory and policy issues affecting clients in the electricity and natural gas industries. Previously, Sue was Assistant Secretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Energy, where she was involved in national energy policy and climate change issues; Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs, where she was involved in the Boston Harbor Clean Up, Clean Air Act implementation, emissions trading regulations, environmental impact reviews, and energy facility siting; and Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. Currently, Sue serves as Chairman of the Board of the Energy Foundation; she also serves on the board of Clean Air - Cool Planet, Evergreen Solar, Renegy Holdings, Inc., the Northeast States for a Clean Air Future; and works with other organizations involved in clean energy and climate change issues. She recently served as co-chair of the Department of Energy Agency Review Team for the Obama Presidential Transition Team. Raised in California, Sue lives in the Boston area with her husband (and two sons, when they visit at home!).
Dan is Executive Director of the nonprofit Veritè, which works through a network of NGOs to solve labor problems around the world, primarily in the supply chains of multinational companies. Dan is a winner of the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his work to build capacity among civil society organizations to support human rights. Prior to joining Veritè, Dan was CEO of the China Program for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he established the Beijing office for the first international environmental nonprofit in China. A graduate of Yale University, Dan also has a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. Dan lives in Amherst, MA with his wife Mary Jo and their two children.
Gibby Waitzkin is an artist, papermaker and photographer working with natural fibers and botanical objects. She lives in Floyd, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge. Working in a recently built “green gallery and studio” she creates pieces that express a deep connection and commitment to the land and community to which she belongs. Gibby is deeply involved in organizations, such as Round the Mountain and Sustain Floyd that seek to build and enhance a sustainable and resilient local community in Southwest Virginia. Gibby was founder and president of Gibson Creative, an award winning design and communications studio in Washington, D.C. The scope of work included strategic planning, research, branding, identity, issue and development campaigns for environmental, women, health care and arts organizations. Representative clients were World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Campaign, Saving Life on Earth Campaign, Forests and Seas Campaigns; Voters for Choice identity, concerts and fundraising materials; Gore for President 2000 identity; Pew Center on Climate Change; and AT&T Technology Center. Other experience includes her work as a consultant on self-help efforts in housing, energy, food and health care with the White House Office of Consumer Affairs. She also served as Deputy Director for Consumer Affairs with USDA. Gibby has and currently serves on numerous non-profit boards focusing on the arts, community and the environment.
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