TONY BERNHARDT spent most of his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, serving for a decade as Director of LLNL’s Center for Microelectronics and Optoelectronics. In that position he worked with numerous corporate partners on technology development and earned the Department of Energy Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. His own research centered on applications of lasers. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from UCLA and a PhD in Applied Science from the University of California at Davis where he was a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow.
During a four year interlude from the Lab, Tony joined a start-up that developed and manufactured advanced laser systems for research. He was on the management committee of the company and served in both marketing and engineering capacities. The company was acquired by a much larger company.
After retiring in 2005, Tony joined E2 to advocate passage of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and he remains involved in achieving its goals.
Tony also serves on the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future and is a member of the Global Leadership Council of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
DIANE DOUCETTE is a climate advocate with 20 years’ experience building support to address the climate crisis. She had leadership roles in several climate campaigns including California’s Global Warming Campaign (AB32), the Waxman-Markey Campaign for federal climate policy, California’s No on 23 Campaign (ballot measure to protect AB32), The Clean Power Campaign, and several climate and clean energy legislative campaigns throughout the US.
Diane was the Director of the Climate Campaign at Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2/NRDC). There she incubated and launched numerous networks and coalitions to support climate action in California and throughout the country. Her coalition building model was replicated in approximately 10 other states by climate-action focused foundations and grantees across the country.
In 2011, Diane founded Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy, a national network of chambers of commerce focused on addressing the climate crisis in states and communities throughout the US. She served as its first Executive Director for 9 years.
Diane spent the first 10 years of her policy career working internationally – first as an advisor to the new Russian government following the collapse of the Soviet Union and then as a liaison between the Russian government and the foreign business community. She ran AT&T’s Government Relations in the former Soviet Union for 6 years before moving to London as a strategic planner and advocate.
Diane then returned to the US and began advocating for policies to address the climate crises. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley in Political Science.
BOB EPSTEIN is an entrepreneur and engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of five companies: Sybase, New Resource Bank, GetActive Software, Colorado Microdisplay, and Britton-Lee.
Bob is an elected Director of the Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District, a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), serves on the advisory board of the Goldman School of Public Policy and UC Davis Institute for Transportation Studies, and on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Food Institute. Bob led the E2 team that helped to pass California’s major global warming bills – the “Clean Cars Bill” and the “Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006”.
Bob’s community activities are focused on the environment, public education, sustainable food systems and music. Bob is a classical pianist and performs four-hand and solo piano.
ANNA HALPERN-LANDE has been engaged in the renewable energy, infrastructure, and venture stage companies since 1998. She is co-founder of Project 2030.
Over the course of her career, she has built, invested, developed and sold numerous companies and infrastructure projects. She is currently Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Ortus Climate Mitigation, a renewable energy solution provider which specialises in setting new renewable energy platforms. A highly experienced energy professional, she has held senior positions at Shell International for over 10 years where she led numerous deals in renewables and energy technology. Prior to Shell, Anna was the co-founder of Tellurian biodiesel, a leading biodiesel company which was sold to REG in 2008. She also collaborated with Fran Pavley and E2 to create AB32 and negotiate the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Anna is a co-founder of the Clean Tech Open, the world’s largest cleantech competition. She previously worked at Booz Allen and Hamilton and at Wells Fargo & Company.
Anna is former a Board Member of Eelpower, an UK based energy storage company and of Akfen Renewables, a Turkish renewables company with over 700 MW solar, wind and storage in operation.
Anna graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
NOËLLE LECA is retired from the software industry. She has held executive positions in operations, marketing, sales, finance, engineering, and product development with Genesys Telecommunications/Alcatel, International Network Services, Commerce One, and Sybase.
Prior to her work in the software industry, Ms. Leca held a number of engineering and engineering management positions with Texaco; she is the author of patents for well casing hangers and micro-jet nozzles.
She holds a BS degree in Mathematics from New Mexico Tech and an ME degree in Chemical Engineering from UCLA.
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