Kenneth R. Baker, an accomplished auto industry executive, is widely recognized as the "father" of the EV-1, General Motors' ground-breaking all-electric vehicle. During his 30-year career at GM, he was recognized as one of the top 25 research leaders in the world. He held key roles at the company including Program Manager, GM Electric Vehicles; Vice President, GM Research and Development; and Vice President & General Manager, GM Distributed Energy Business Unit. Mr. Baker is Founding Chairman of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium.

Currently, Mr. Baker serves as President and CEO of TechBroker LLC, and previously as President and CEO of Altarum. He is a member of the Board of Directors of AeroVironment, Ener1, Millennium Cell, and the National Coalition for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM). He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Cranbrook Institute of Science.

Roger Ballentine is the President of Green Strategies Inc., a strategic business consulting firm in the energy and environmental arena. There he assists clients with domestic and international public policy matters, investment guidance in the clean tech marketplace, marketing and business development strategies, sustainability, and capital formation. Mr. Ballentine is also a Venture Partner with the private equity firm Arborview Capital LLC and a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School.

Mr. Ballentine previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. He is a co-founder of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Esther Dyson is editor at large of CNET Networks and editor of its IT-industry newsletter, Release 1.0. Dyson focuses on emerging technologies, companies and markets, both as a journalist and as an active private investor in communications/IT start-ups in the U.S. and Europe.

Known for her industry insight, Dyson wrote a book in 1998 on the impact of the Net on people's lives, "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age," which includes a number of chapters about today's hot topics such as security, privacy, anonymity and intellectual property. She also participates in policy discussions in the U.S. and elsewhere on topics ranging from intellectual property, freedom of speech and privacy to economic development, and was founding chairman of ICANN, the domain-name governance body. Dyson sits on the boards of CV-Online, Graphisoft, Meetup and WPP Group, among others.

Dyson began her career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, renaming it EDventure Holdings, which she recently sold to CNET. Dyson graduated from Harvard Business School with a degree in economics.

T.J. Glauthier is an advisor to organizations in the energy and clean tech sectors, including venture capital and private equity firms, start-up and alternative energy companies, electric utilities, and global energy and transportation companies, both through his firm, TJG Energy Associates, LLC, and through association with Booz Allen Hamilton’s global energy practice. Mr. Glauthier served as the second-highest official at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), where from 1999 to 2001 as Deputy Secretary and COO he directed management and policy development and represented DOE and the President in national and international forums and the media. Mr. Glauthier is also the former President and CEO of the Electricity Innovation Institute, an affiliate of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and under his leadership it initiated programs that included modernizing the electricity grid, clean energy resources, advanced coal technologies, and critical infrastructure security.

Mr. Glauthier served in the White House for five years before going to DOE, as the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy and Science in the Office of Management and Budget. Earlier, he was a Vice President of Temple, Barker & Sloane, a management consulting firm, where he concentrated in corporate financial planning and economic analysis of public policy issues, such as acid rain legislation. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, he spent three years as Director of Energy and Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund, focusing on technology transfer, the climate change treaty, and the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Mr. Glauthier also serves on the boards of directors of EnerNOC, Inc., a demand-response service provider, and Union Drilling, Inc., a contract natural gas driller. His pro bono activities include serving as an advisor to Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency and on the board of directors of the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District. He holds an A.B. from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Carl Pope is Executive Director of the Sierra Club. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for nearly 30 years. In that time he has served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director. During his tenure as Executive Director, the Sierra Club has grown to 700,000 and was named by the Aspen Institute the most influential environmental organization in Washington, D.C.

In addition to his work with the Sierra Club, Mr. Pope has had a distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership. He has served on the boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. Mr. Pope was also Executive Director of the California League of Conservation Voters and the Political Director of Zero Population Growth.

Mr. Pope is co-author of “Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress.” His other books include “Sahib, an American Misadventure in India” (1971) and “Hazardous Waste in America” (1981). Mr. Pope graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1967. He then spent two years as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in India.

Anthony Posawatz, P. E., General Motors (GM) Corporation, currently serves as Vehicle Line Director for the Chevrolet VOLT within GM’s Global Electric Vehicle Development team. He was appointed to this position in March 2006 and led the development of the highly-acclaimed VOLT concept car, January 2007, and continues to help lead the development of the revolutionary 2011 model year production VOLT. He has served as a GM Vehicle Line Director for the past 12 years. In this capacity, Mr. Posawatz and his product development teams have compiled an impressive record of successful award-winning products like the Cadillac Escalade and Chevrolet Avalanche, 2002 Motor Trend Truck of the Year. His teams have amassed seven General Motors Chairman’s Honors Program awards for excellence and have overseen the development of cars and trucks from concept initiation to production and market launch from manufacturing sites in four different countries. Some of the noteworthy technological innovations include the first full-size short box crew cab pick-ups, first four-wheel-steer trucks, first car cylinder de-activation and ethanol application and advanced work on the first generation hybrid systems. As such, Mr. Posawatz is recognized as one of the industry’s champions in product and market innovation, especially as related to the “electrification of the automobile and the nation.” He serves as Co-Chairman of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA); the trade association dedicated to accelerating battery, hybrid, plug-in, and fuel cell electric drive technologies and infrastructure, www.electricdrive.org.

Mr. Posawatz has accumulated numerous records of invention as well as been featured in many media programs. A former Olympic Development Program (ODP) soccer player, he still devotes much of his time to coaching youth sports and mentoring young people.

Mr. Posawatz has been with GM for over 25 years. He holds many professional distinctions and has had many diverse experiences within GM including assignments in engineering, manufacturing management and as a Finance Director with the Central Office Finance Staff. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from Wayne State University, completing his education in 1982 as a General Motors Scholar & Engineering Intern. He also received his MBA from Dartmouth College (The Amos Tuck School) supported by a General Motors Graduate Fellowship in 1986. He is licensed in the State of Michigan as a Professional Engineer (P.E.) and has held the accreditation of ASQC Certified Quality Engineer (CQE).

George J. Tenet is a Managing Director with Allen & Company, where he is responsible for the firm’s international merchant banking business. Mr. Tenet served as the 18th Director of Central Intelligence from 1997 to 2004. In this position he led the United States Intelligence Community, a team of 14 foreign intelligence organizations, and presided over the daily activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. Prior to his appointment, he served as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, Acting Director and in a number of positions regarding national security. Most recently, Mr. Tenet was a member of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University as Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Senior Research Associate in the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.

Mr. Tenet has received many awards for his public service and efforts to strengthen global security. In December 2004, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor. He holds the two highest decorations for leadership from the CIA and the intelligence community: the Distinguished Intelligence Medal and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. The Anti-Defamation League awarded him its highest honor, the America's Democratic Legacy Award. Among Mr. Tenet’s foreign decorations are the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Polish Commander’s Cross with Star; the Order of the Star of Romania in the rank of Grand Officer; and the Jordanian Independence Medal of Honor. He is the first American to receive the Egyptian Order of Merit (First Class) and the first non-Canadian to be awarded the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Gold Medal.

Mr. Tenet holds a BSFS from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and an MIA from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. He also holds honorary doctorates from Georgetown University, the University of Oklahoma, the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Joint Military Intelligence College.

R. James Woolsey has served the United States government on five different occasions, most recently as Director of Central Intelligence. Currently, as a venture partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California, he concentrates on clean tech investments, especially renewable energy and energy security. He also is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Group of Paladin Capital Group, a Senior Executive Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton, and Of Counsel to Goodwin Procter. In addition, he is Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council and serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. In 2003, Consulting magazine named Mr. Woolsey to its list of Top 25 Consultants in the U.S.

Mr. Woolsey has held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations during 12 years of government service. In addition to CIA Director, he was Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Under Secretary of the Navy, and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. He was also Delegate at Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST), and as an officer in the U.S. Army, advised the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I). Mr. Woolsey has previously served as a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S.(Rumsfeld Commission), The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission). He is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments.

Mr. Woolsey was a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. A frequent contributor of articles to major publications, he also gives speeches and media interviews on foreign affairs, defense, energy, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. Mr. Woolsey holds a B.A. from Stanford University, graduating With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and an LL.B from Yale Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

A highly respected authority on energy, economics and international politics, Daniel Yergin is a world-recognized author and plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He is the recipient of the United States Energy Award for “lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.” Dr. Yergin is currently Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms, and Executive Vice President of IHS.

 Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for the national bestseller The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Translated into a dozen languages, it was also the subject of a PBS documentary, as was his most recent book, The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which received wide attention for its analysis and narrative of how the “world is changing its mind about markets.” Dr. Yergin chaired the U.S. Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the U.S. National Petroleum Council and was vice chair of its new Facing the Hard Truths about Energy study. He is also a board member of the U.S. Energy Association and the U.S.-Russian Business Council. He is one of the “Wise Men” of the International Gas Union.

Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America. He is a Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and on the Board of the New America Foundation, a Director of the U.S.-Russia Business Council and on the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Economics. Dr. Yergin holds a B.A. from Yale University, a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and honorary degrees from the University of Houston and the University of Missouri.