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Ed Crooks
Energy Editor
Financial Times
Ed Crooks is Energy Editor at the Financial Times, a role he took up in 2006. He joined the FT in 1999 as Economics Editor, and then went on to become UK News Editor.
Previously, Mr Crooks was an economics correspondent for the BBC, reporting on both television and radio. He started at the BBC as a researcher and producer and worked across several news programmes. He has also been a reporter and editor for Investors Chronicle as well as an economic analyst for the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Mr Crooks graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He regularly appears on national and international TV and radio.
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Harry Goldgut
Chairman, Brookfield Renewable Power
Senior Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management
Mr Goldgut has been involved in the electric power industry since 1985. He joined Brookfield in 1997 and has been actively involved in developing and expanding its power operations with primary responsibility for acquisitions and senior regulatory relationships. He has played an active role in the restructuring of the Ontario electricity industry as a member of the Market Design Committee appointed by the Ontario Government in 1998 and as a member of the Minister of Energy's Advisory Committee.
Harry Goldgut is a Senior Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Chairman of Brookfield Renewable Power Inc., which comprises Brookfield's power operations. Brookfield Renewable's portfolio includes 165 hydroelectric power plants and one of Canada's largest wind farms. Its facilities total approximately 4,200 megawatts of capacity and are located in Canada, the United States and Brazil.
Matthew J. Kiernan
Founder and Chief Executive
Inflection Point Capital Management
Alicia Milner
President
Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance
Harry Goldgut is a Senior Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Chairman of Brookfield Renewable Power Inc., which comprises Brookfield's power operations. Brookfield Renewable's portfolio includes 165 hydroelectric power plants and one of Canada's largest wind farms. Its facilities total approximately 4,200 megawatts of capacity and are located in Canada, the United States and Brazil.
Mr Goldgut attended the University of Toronto and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (1980). He was called to the Ontario bar in 1982.
Matthew J. Kiernan
Founder and Chief Executive
Inflection Point Capital Management
Dr Matthew J. Kiernan is founder and Chief Executive of Inflection Point Capital Management, a newly created, sustainability-driven multi-strategy investment management boutique. Previously, he had been founder and Chief Executive of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, a firm he established in 1992, which was rated the #1 research firm in the world in its field.
Immediately prior to founding Innovest, Dr Kiernan had served as Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in
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Alicia Milner
President
Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance
Alicia Milner has led Canada's national trade association for natural gas vehicles, the Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance, for the past five years. Under her leadership, the association has expanded its membership base and increased support for Canadian sector members active in export markets around the world. Ms Milner is currently involved with a broad group of stakeholders including federal and provincial government officials to develop a deployment roadmap for the use of natural gas in the heavy transportation sector in Canada.
A graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Ms Milner brings strategic and entrepreneurial perspectives to association activities. Her previous work experience includes management of the Toronto Public Utilities Coordinating Committee, working as a Purchasing Manager for Procter & Gamble, and operating her own communications business.
Ms Milner is a member of the Canadian Society of Association Executives and holds the Certified Association Executive designation. Ms Milner also serves as a Vice President for the global natural gas vehicle association, the International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles.
Simon Olivier
General Manager, Canada & North East USA
GE Energy Infrastructure - Power & Water
Ms Milner is a member of the Canadian Society of Association Executives and holds the Certified Association Executive designation. Ms Milner also serves as a Vice President for the global natural gas vehicle association, the International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles.
General Manager, Canada & North East USA
GE Energy Infrastructure - Power & Water
Simon Olivier has been the General Manager, North-East USA & Canada for GE Energy Infrastructure - Power & Water since 2005. He is responsible for growing the portfolio of technologies, which include renewable products (wind, solar, biogas) and conventional products like gas and steam turbines, as well as the gasification process & licensing. Under his tenure, annual revenues for the region have grown in excess of $2B.
In 2003, Mr Olivier served as the Country Manager for Wind Energy with the mandate to start-up the renewable business in Canada. He played a key role in successfully implemented the winning strategy for several wind projects across Canada (Alberta, Quebec & Ontario) as well as winning the largest wind order for GE globally in 2004.
He came to GE Energy from GE Capital where he held various positions from Black Belt to Account Manager and later as the Senior Manager for the Corporate Aircraft Financing Group in Canada.
Prior to joining GE Capital, he spent five years with Air Canada as an industrial engineer and later as a consultant in Business Innovation. Mr Olivier started his career with an internship at GE Hydro as a manufacturing engineer in 1992.
Mr Olivier is a Director of the General Electric Canada board. He also received the "2009 Young Business Leader of Quebec" award. Mr Olivier graduated with a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Polythechnique de Montreal and an MBA from McGill University. He received his six-sigma black belt certification in 2001.Alex Pourbaix
President
TransCanada Energy
President
TransCanada Energy
Alex Pourbaix is President, Energy. He is responsible for TransCanada Corporation's non-regulated businesses, including power, and gas storage. He is also responsible for the operation of Cancarb Limited, a carbon black manufacturing business owned and operated by TransCanada. Prior to his current appointment, Mr Pourbaix was Executive Vice-President, Power for TransCanada.
He currently serves as Chairman and director of TransCanada Turbines Ltd., an aeroderivative turbine overhaul and repair business.
Mr Pourbaix is a 2002/2003 recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award for leadership excellence for Canadians under the age of 40.
Mr Pourbaix is a Director of Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta. He also serves on the Board of Management for Alberta Economic Development Authority, and is a member of the Uranium Development Partnership, a group of industry experts asked by the government of Saskatchewan to assist it in developing its nuclear industry.
Mr Pourbaix holds a Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Alberta.
Jeremy Rifkin
Founder and President
Foundation on Economic Trends
Steve Uszkay
MD, Head of Canadian Equities
Credit Suisse
Mr Pourbaix is a Director of Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta. He also serves on the Board of Management for Alberta Economic Development Authority, and is a member of the Uranium Development Partnership, a group of industry experts asked by the government of Saskatchewan to assist it in developing its nuclear industry.
Mr Pourbaix holds a Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Alberta.
Jeremy Rifkin
Founder and President
Foundation on Economic Trends
Jeremy Rifkin is President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of 18 bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and are used in thousands of universities, corporations and government agencies around the world. His most recent books include The Empathic Civilization, The Hydrogen Economy, The European Dream, The End of Work, The Age of Access and The Biotech Century.
Mr Rifkin has been an advisor to the European Union for the past decade. He is currently advising the Spanish government during its presidency of the EU, and has also served as an advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Prime Ministers Jose Socrates of Portugal and Janez Janaa of Slovenia, on issues related to the economy, climate change and energy security.
Mr Rifkin is the principal architect of the EU's "Third Industrial Revolution" long-term economic sustainability plan to address the triple challenge of the global economic crisis, energy security and climate change. The plan was endorsed by the European Parliament in 2007, and is now being implemented by various agencies within the European Commission as well as in the 27 member-states. Mr Rifkin is also the founder and chairperson of the Third Industrial Revolution Global CEO Business Roundtable, and his team is working with cities, regions and national governments around the world to develop master plans to transition their economies into post-carbon infrastructures.
Mr Rifkin has testified before numerous congressional committees and has had consistent success in litigation to ensure responsible government policies on a variety of environmental, scientific and technology-related issues. The National Journal named him as one of 150 people in the US with the most influence in shaping federal government policy.
Mr. Rifkin is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania where he instructs CEOs and senior management on transitioning their business operations into sustainable Third Industrial Revolution economies
Mr Rifkin holds an economics degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Steve Uszkay
MD, Head of Canadian Equities
Credit Suisse
Steve Uszkay is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in Toronto. Mr Uszkay is Head of Canadian Equities.
Mr Uszkay joined Credit Suisse in April 2006 from Rathlin Capital International Inc. where he was Executive Vice President of Private Equity and Corporate Finance. Prior to that position, Mr Uszkay worked at UBS Securities Canada Inc. for eight years, where he was an Executive Director responsible for managing the Canadian Institutional Equity Sales function.
Mr Uszkay holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Ray Wood
Managing Director and Co-Head, US Power Group and Global Alternative Energy Group, Investment Banking
Credit Suisse
Raymond Wood is a Managing Director and Co-Head of both the US Power Group and The Global Alternative Energy Group in the Investment Banking division at Credit Suisse. Over his 20-year career, Wood has assisted clients on noteworthy strategic transactions and financings, a number of which have been named "Deal of the Year."
Managing Director and Co-Head, US Power Group and Global Alternative Energy Group, Investment Banking
Credit Suisse
Raymond Wood is a Managing Director and Co-Head of both the US Power Group and The Global Alternative Energy Group in the Investment Banking division at Credit Suisse. Over his 20-year career, Wood has assisted clients on noteworthy strategic transactions and financings, a number of which have been named "Deal of the Year."
He has transaction expertise across the spectrum of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, leveraged finance, structured finance, commodities and privatizations. Recent renewable energy transactions include the acquisition of a minority stake in Terra-Gen Power by Global Infrastructure Partners; the acquisition of SunEdison by MEMC Electronic Materials; equity investments by Credit Suisse in multiple U.S. wind farms; a private equity raise for Invenergy Wind LLC; and the sale of Energy Capital Partners' First Light Power Resources.
Mr Wood received an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
