Bic Stevens
Senior Vice President of Business Development, Premium Power Corporation

Bic Stevens is the Senior Vice President of Business Development of Premium Power Corporation, a leading manufacturer of grid-scale flow batteries. Before joining Premium Power, Stevens was a Managing Partner of Ardour Capital Investments, a research and investment-banking firm focused on passisting alternative energy and clean technology companies. Previously, Stevens was a Managing Director at Zero Stage Capital, where he was involved in its alternative energy and clean technology investments. He was previously the founder and President of Eastech; a Boston-based early stage venture fund, and was a Vice President at Paine Webber, where he worked in its venture capital and corporate finance operations. Stevens received a B.I.E. from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

David Campbell
CEO, Luminant

David Campbell is CEO of Luminant, a competitive power generation subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings Corp. Campbell and his team ensure the operational and environmental excellence, safe performance and financial success of Luminant’s 18,000 MW Texas power generation fleet. At the same time, Luminant is adding 2,200 MW of new generation to the Texas electric market. Before taking on his current role, Campbell served as Chief Financial Officer and chief risk officer of EFH Corp. Previously, he was a principal with McKinsey & Company, where he led the Texas and Southern Region hubs of McKinsey’s corporate finance and strategy practice. Campbell graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. He also holds a master’s degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Mark Denissen
Vice President Worldwide Strategic Marketing, Texas Instruments

Mark Denissen manages WW Strategic Marketing. In this role he is focused on improving TI’s capabilities to exceed customer expectations at a systems level across the breadth of Texas Instruments product offering. He has been an employee of Texas Instruments over 25 years and has experience in Product Line Management, Strategic Acquisitions, Sales and Marketing. He managed TI’s initial engagement with Sun Microsystems which resulted in over $2B in sales.
Denissen holds a B.S.E.E. degree from UCLA. He is married and has two grown children and resides in McKinney, Texas.

Thomas G. Mason
General Manager, Lower Colorado River Authority

Thomas G. Mason is general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority. As LCRA’s general manager, he oversees electric operations that include nearly 3,000 megawatts of generating capacity and provide electricity to more than 1.1 million end-users through 43 wholesale electric customers. Mason is also chief executive officer of an affiliate, LCRA Transmission Services Corporation, which owns or leases roughly 4,300 miles of transmission lines. Before becoming general manager in November 2007, Mason served as LCRA’s general counsel. As chief legal and policy adviser, he provided strategic guidance as well as ethics training and counseling to senior management and a 15-member Board of Directors. Before joining LCRA, Mason served as assistant general counsel for the Texas Department of Water
Resources and director of the Water Quality Division of the Texas Water Commission. He was also a partner in a law firm with a statewide practice in environmental and administrative law. He holds a bachelor of arts in Plan II and a doctorate in jurisprudence from The University of Texas at Austin.

Roger Duncan
Deputy General Manager, Austin Energy

Roger Duncan is the General Manager of Austin Energy, the Municipal Utility for Austin, Texas. Austin Energy is the 9th largest public power utility in the country with 388,000 customers and serving a population of 880,000. The utility provides low-cost, reliable power and is nationally recognized for some of the most advanced and comprehensive energy efficiency and Green Building programs in the nation.

J. Nixon Fox, III – Moderator
Partner, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P.

Nick Fox is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Practice, specializing in M&A and Private Equity transactions in the Energy, Technology and Life Sciences industries. Fox regularly advises Private Equity firms, Venture Capital firms and other investors in fund formation matters and acquisitions, financings and divestitures of portfolio companies. In addition to his role as investor counsel, Fox acts as outside general counsel to a number of growth companies, from start-ups to publicly-held companies. As company counsel, Fox advises these clients on a broad array of transactional matters, including debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances (both domestic and international), as well as corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters. Fox has practiced law
for over 23 years, including three years as General Counsel of two privately-held companies in Austin, Texas, and 20 years of private practice in Austin, Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong. He has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers, 2005-2008, and in The Best Lawyers in America in corporate law, 2008-2009.

Paul Campbell
Director, DFJ Mercury

Paul Campbell has significant experience in the cleantech and life sciences sectors. His investment scope focuses primarily on cleantech opportunities, with a particular focus on industrial biotechnology. Prior to joining DFJ Mercury, Campbell co-founded Aster Bio, a Houston-based biotechnology company that provides bacteria and bacterial blends for the bioremediation, wastewater, and agricultural industries. Also an active member of the life sciences entrepreneurial ecosystem, Campbell interned at the Houston Technology Center (HTC) where he helped start-up companies define business and operational strategies and develop and refine investor presentations and business plans. In addition, he currently sits on the HTC Life Sciences Screening Committee. Campbell received his B.S. from Duke University, and earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Rice University, and a Master of Business Administration from the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.

Charley Dean
Principal, Silverton Partners

Charley Dean is a Principal with Silverton Partners, an early stage-venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. Prior to joining Silverton, Dean worked with Thomas Weisel Venture Partners in Menlo Park. He has also worked in the investment banking group at Thomas Weisel Partners and with Cargill in their distressed commercial loan fund. He received both his BS and MBA from Stanford University.

Will Robertson
Managing Director, Midstream and Power, Quintana Capital Group, L.P.

Will Robertson is a Principal of the Quintana Capital Group, L.P. and Managing Director – Midstream and Power, where he is responsible for midstream and power investments. Quintana comprises several investment partnerships with private holdings that span most sectors within the energy and power industries. Previously, he served as an Associate with The CapStreet Group LLC, a private equity fund focused on middle-market companies in the Southwest US. Prior to CapStreet, Robertson was employed by the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he participated in transactions involving public and private companies within the energy and power industries. He is a member of EEI, GPA, IPAA and TIPRO. Robertson attended The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a B.A. in Plan II and a B.B.A. in Business Honors and Finance, and Rice University, where he earned an M.B.A.

Al Schuele
General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds

Schuele, a high-tech industry veteran of over 30 years, joined Sevin Rosen Funds in 2000 and now heads up the firm's ventures in Austin's dynamic entrepreneurial community. He has held executive and sales positions in several semiconductor companies including Benchmarq, Crystal, Cypress, and Mostek. He has played key roles in major mergers and acquisitions and has worked extensively in Asian markets. Before joining SRF, Schuele was CEO of Benchmarq Microelectronics, managing the company through the turbulent Asian financial crisis before negotiating a merger with Unitrode Corporation, where he then served as president and COO.
At SRF, he focuses on opportunities in the semiconductor, telecommunications, energy related
technologies, and nanotechnology arenas, working with companies such as Ceterus, InfoNow,
InnovaLight, Nanomix, Slacker, and Zilker Labs. Despite an impressive track record in high-tech sales and management, Schuele says the experience most valuable to his role as venture capitalist came while he was a U.S. Marine Corps attack pilot. "Being shot at and missed is one of the most character-building experiences you can imagine," he says. "Combat taught me a lot about how to succeed in tough environments. These military experiences, coupled with 32 years of corporate experiences, have served as an excellent foundation for advising entrepreneurs on how to turn their emerging technologies into winning companies."

Rex Holmes
Partner, Ernst & Young

Rex Holmes is a US Certified Public Accountant (Texas) and has over 21 years of public accounting experience serving domestic and multi-national clients in the energy industry and related industry sectors. His clients have included U.S. SEC registrants as well as registrants of other international exchanges such in London, Norway, Luxembourg, and Russia. In addition to his client service role, Holmes works with Ernst & Young’s Global O&G Center of Excellence to support industry-related activities. He also has extensive experience in financial statement audits of global integrated energy companies, as well as E&P, gas processing, chemical, refining and marketing, pipeline, energy field services, power production and retail gas companies. Holmes serves on E&Y’s Americas Cleantech Network and its market leader for the Southwest Sub-Area. He was previously seconded to Ernst & Young’s Moscow-based Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) practice from 2001-2004, where he held a key industry leadership role and served domestic and foreign energy companies operating in the CIS. He has extensive SEC and US GAAP experience. IFRS accredited within E&Y.

Lee Ann Woods – Moderator
Sierra Strategies, AgTech Ventures

Lee Ann Woods is the owner of Sierra Strategies, a business consulting firm based in Houston, Texas. Sierra Strategies works with clients in strategic planning and marketing, business plan writing, capital formation, mergers & acquisitions. Specializations: energy, clean technology and agbiotech. Just over one year ago, Woods launched: AgTech Ventures – the firm has advised several companies, is in the process of managing one acquisition, and two capitalizations.
Woods’ professional background includes over 24 years of work in the private business sector, 17 of those as an independent consultant, working primarily with middle-market companies for their business growth needs. She also has owned three companies based in Dallas, all middle-market manufacturing companies; Woods has also managed two turnarounds. Recently, Woods was tapped to lead the Texas Governor’s BioEnergy & BioProducts Initiative. She has
served on the Governor’s Renewable Energy Initiative and State Energy Strategy teams. Woods currently serves as the Acting Director of the Texas Energy Center.
BioProducts Texas – www.bioproductstexas.com
AgTech Ventures – www.agtechventures.com

Charles Nunu
Managing Director, Element Markets

Charles L. Nunu, managing director, co-founded Element Markets in 2005. He spent twenty three years as an international executive (Grain Merchant) in the Agribusiness industry. He lends his considerable commodity experience and superb operating qualifications in project development and infrastructure, to emissions compliance and market based opportunities.
He earned his Masters from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and an undergraduate degree from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Pearce W. Hammond, Jr., CFA
Director, Simmons & Company International

Pearce Hammond is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as a Field Artillery Officer in Germany. Later he served in the Texas National Guard. Hammond is a Chartered Financial Analyst and earned his MBA from the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Prior to Simmons, Hammond worked at Enron and Duke Energy.

Chuck Davis
Senior Vice President Commercial Development, Verenium Corporation

Chuck Davis is responsible for Verenium’s cellulosic ethanol commercialization program. He joined the company in 2006. From 1994 to 2006, Davis worked for InterGen, a world-wide power generation company owned by Bechtel and Shell, which developed, financed and built over 18,000 MW of generation capacity. At InterGen, he was responsible for a range of matters associated with the development and commercial restructuring of power generation assets. Additionally, as Managing Director for InterGen's United Kingdom Business, he was responsible for leading its Edinburgh, Scotland based asset management team, and had Profit & Loss responsibility for the company's $1.5 billion UK portfolio. Prior to joining InterGen in 1994, he was a developer of power projects in the United States, South America and Asia for J. Makowski Associates, a Boston Based energy development company. Prior to this, he worked on a number of strategic and financial initiatives on behalf of New England Electric System (now National Grid USA). Davis is also a former Marine who served with the First Marine Division.
Davis earned his a BA in Economics from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Judy Fort
Rural Economic Development, Texas Department of Agriculture

Judy Fort is responsible for Rural Economic Development in Central Texas and the Coastal Bend for the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA). Additional responsibilities include presentations to economic development organizations, tourism development groups and community planners. Fort assists constituents with business planning, permitting, financing, and technical information. Her duties for the department include assisting producer groups with special initiatives such as ethanol production and development of oilseed crops and algae for biodiesel, as well as permitting requirements for fuel producers. Prior to 2000 she spent 12 years at the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in Revenue Accounting and Local Government Assistance, where she specialized in the 4A/4B Economic Development Sales Tax. Fort graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a dual major in International Business and Finance. She is also a graduate of the Economic Development Institute and developed curricula for the Texas Basic Economic Development Course.

Gary Clos
Forestry Specialist, AgraGate Climate Credits Corp

Gary Clos, Forestry Specialist for AgraGate Climate Credits Corp., has spent most of his career in the forest products industry. After graduating from Texas A&M University in the mid 1970’s, Clos began his career in forest management. He has spent thirty-three years in various forest management and procurement positions with four corporations. He retired in 2006 and remained active in forestry as a subcontractor procuring timber for a private investment group.
In 2007 AgraGate Climate Credits Corporation hired Clos to manage and expand the forest carbon credit side of their business. He has assisted in the development of forestry related protocols and informational strategies for AgraGate. He currently travels nation-wide educating landowners and investors on the emerging carbon market. Clos interviews forestry consultants, agriculture agents and professional businessmen alike for opportunities to become a partner with AgraGate. Clos is a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Texas Forestry Association. He serves on various committees and boards for the Texas Forestry Association. Clos currently holds a real estate license in Texas.

Kathleen Magruder
Partner, Brown McCarroll

Kathleen Magruder is a nationally recognized energy attorney with a proven record of advising senior management; managing staff, outside counsel, and consultants; obtaining positive results from government. She has 27 years of experience advising senior management on energy industry issues, policy, history, and competition issues; in-house attorney; compliance officer; broad commodities experience in North America; state and federal; legislative and regulatory; broad public affairs experience; government affairs, public relations, community relations, investor relations. Ms. Magruder has significant experience with regulators and public officials including Texas Public Utility Commission, Railroad Commission, and General Land Office. She received her JD at The University of Texas in 1978 and her Bachelor's at University of Arkansas in 1975.

Iga Hallberg
Vice President Business Development, HelioVolt

Iga Hallberg leads HelioVolt’s global expansion efforts and partnership activities supporting HelioVolt’s vision for distributed energy. She has extensive experience working with emerging technologies and new market development activities. From 2002 to 2006, she was the General Manager of Electronics Materials and Technologies at NovaCentrix, a manufacturer of nanotechnology-enabled products, commercializing a line of nanoscale conductive inks and processing quipment to enable high-speed printing of electronic devices. Previously, she held a variety of marketing and new business development positions at 3M Company, in Austin and in Minnesota, including running 3M’s global electronics packaging product line. Hallberg has a Master’s Degree in Business Management from Boston University in Brussels.

Richard Gruber
Vice President, Project Development, First Solar, Inc.

For the past two years, Richard Gruber has led First Solar’s project development efforts, focused on developing utility scale solar PV power plants in the southwestern U.S. First Solar, headquartered in Tempe, AZ is the world’s largest and lowest cost manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic solar modules and trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker FSLR. Prior to joining First Solar, Gruber was with The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the independent system operator responsible for running the Texas electric grid. Richard led the development and operation of ERCOT’s wholesale and retail Market Services supporting Texas’ electric market deregulation evolution. Richard was also responsible for ERCOT’s commercial systems
application development and the ERCOT stakeholder and protocol development process. Prior to ERCOT, Gruber was Vice President, Marketing and Sales at NUI Corporation (NYSE) a natural gas utility with operations in NJ and FL, and President of NUI Energy Solutions, an energy services company.
Prior to NUI, Gruber was Co-Founder and C.O.O. of Exchange Development Corporation, an
incubator company created to establish more efficient and transparent energy markets.
Earlier in his career, Gruber was a consultant and engaged in business development for Energy
Management Associates and while at Tenneco, Inc. was engaged in IPP and natural gas pipeline project development, strategic planning and federal governmental affairs.

Based in Austin, Texas, Long Branch Capital, LLC, an investment firm making minority investments in private companies focused on renewable energy, clean technology and energy efficiency. Mr. Marshall has 10 years of energy and alternative energy experience, having worked as an investment banker, an officer of a hydrogen fuel cell start-up, and as a Management Consultant. Mr. Marshall currently serves as the interim Chief Operating Officer and Director of Meridian Energy Systems. Since 1999, Meridian Energy Systems has been the leading photovoltaic design and installation firm in Texas.

From 1997-2000, Mr. Marshall worked in Chase Manhattan Bank’s Global Power & Environmental Group, focusing on the utility industry. Mr. Marshall joined a London-based hydrogen fuel cell start-up in early 2000 where he raised millions in private capital, authored the business plan, recruited key employees and started the United States operations as the company grew from 10 employees to over 200. After graduating from business school in 2004, Mr. Marshall joined Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Operations Group where he was instrumental in building Deloitte’s Alternative Energy Consulting Practice.

Mr. Marshall holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University in Environmental Science & Policy and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Ron Heine
Program Manager, Wind Energy Division, TECO-Westinghouse

With over 14 years of experience with a variety of manufacturing and technology startups and new product developments and with a little over 4 years with TECO-Westinghouse as Program Manager, Heine is heading up the new Wind Energy Business Unit for TECO-Westinghouse. He is tasked with the design, startup and operation of a state of the art 2MW Wind Turbine manufacturing facility located in Round Rock Texas. It is the first turbine manufacturing facility in the State of Texas. Heine received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas.

Mark Walker
Director of Regulatory Affairs, NRG Energy LLC

Mark Walker is Director of Regulatory Affairs for NRG Texas LLC, managing governmental relations and regulatory matters for NRG Texas with an emphasis on NRG’s repowering initiatives (new nuclear, wind, gas and coal electric generation development), electric market matters, operations, and commercial activities. He also serves on the board of directors of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) as an alternate representative for the independent generator membership. Prior to joining NRG Texas, Walker served as Deputy General Counsel and General Counsel for ERCOT; previously he was Associate General Counsel for the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) where he focused on electric utility and environmental matters during his 10 years there. Walker received his B.A from Baylor University (1986) and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law (1989).