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Mr. Adams has spent most of his career working at the intersection of business, IT and strategy. He currently serves as Executive Director of IBMÕs Center for Healthcare Management, focused on global thought leadership for healthcare. Prior to IBMÕs acquisition of Healthlink, he served as Executive Vice President for HealthlinkÕs Advisory Services group and contributed to strategic client engagements. Prior to Healthlink, he served in positions of increasing responsibility at Gartner Inc., a research and advisory firm based in Stamford, CT. Most recently, he led GartnerÕs industry-specific research groups (including healthcare) and the GartnerG2 global business unit, which provided strategic advice to business executives for nine different industries. Prior to that, he received numerous awards as a healthcare industry analyst; led the acquisition, integration, and operation of a healthcare market research company; and chaired GartnerÕs first healthcare conference. Additionally, Mr. Adams has served as CEO, CFO and CIO and worked in multiple industries.

Mr. Adams currently serves as co-chair of the Technology Leadership Committee of National Alliance for Health Information Technology (the Alliance), serves on national advisory boards for healthcare organizations, and is a frequent speaker on the future of healthcare and related topics.

Vinit is a business and marketing consultant, and has been an activist in the arenas of the environment, peace and human rights for about 25 years. He co-created and managed The New Paradigm Business Network in Marin County. He was a delegate at the UN World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002 where the Sustainable World Symposium and SourceBook were conceived.

Alex M. Azar II joined Eli Lilly and Company June 2007 as senior vice president of corporate affairs and communications. He is a member of the company’s executive committee, operations committee, and senior management council.

Azar received a bachelor degree summa cum laudewith highest honors in government and economics from Dartmouth College in 1988. He earned his law degree at the Yale Law School in 1991, where he served as a member of the executive committee of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Azar was also a partner at Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C.
From 2005 to 2007, Azar served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he was the number two official and chief operating officer for the largest civilian cabinet department in the U.S. government, with a budget of $698 billion and over 66,000 employees reporting up to him.  On behalf of the Secretary, he oversaw all HHS programs and operations, including Medicare, Medicaid, public health, medical research, the regulation of food and drugs, public health emergency preparedness and response, and many other activities. From 2001 to 2005, he served HHS as General Counsel.

Secretary Azar has extensive global health diplomacy and international experience, including leading U.S. government efforts to encourage worldwide pharmaceutical and medical device innovation. He also served as the U.S. Co-Chair of the U.S.-E.U. Summit on Prevention and was a member of the U.S.-Ireland Research and Development Steering Committee.

Secretary Azar is a recipient of the Surgeon General’s Medallion, the highest medal awarded to civilians by the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

He is a member of the Board of the Indianapolis Airport Authority; the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Indianapolis Symphony Society, the Health Coverage Foundation, and the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation; as well as the Board of Trustees of the Healthcare Leadership Council. Secretary Azar also serves on the Dean’s External Advisory Board for the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Board of Advisors for the George Mason University School of Law, and the Nominating Committee of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He is also a member of the National Practitioners Advisory Council of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

Raymond Baker is an internationally respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth and foreign policy issues in developing and transitional economies and the impact of these problems on western economic and foreign interests. He has written and spoken extensively, testified before Senate and House committees, been quoted worldwide, and has commented frequently on television and radio in the United States, Europe and Asia on legislative matters and policy questions, including appearances on Nightline, CNN, BBC, NPR, ABC, Four Corners in Australia and Fifth Estate in Canada, among others. He is the author of CapitalismÕs Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (John Wiley & Sons), recognized by the Financial Times as one of the best business books of 2005 Mr. Baker is a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, both in Washington, D.C., researching and writing on the linkages between corruption, money laundering, poverty and inequality. Beginning in 1996 as a Guest Scholar at Brookings, he undertook a project entitled, ÒFlight Capital, Poverty and Free-Market Economics,Ó with a grant for research and writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He traveled to 23 countries to interview 335 central bankers, commercial bankers, government officials, economists, lawyers, tax collectors, security officers and sociologists on the relationships between bribery, commercial tax evasion, money laundering and economic growth. From 1985 to 1996, Mr. Baker provided confidential economic advisory services at the presidential level for developing country governments. His principal focus was on issues surrounding anti-corruption strategies, international terms of trade and developing country debt. Among other activities, he conducted research on import and export mispricing and movement of tax-evading capital with 550 business owners and managers in 11 countries.

Seth P. Berman serves as head of the firmÕs Boston office. In that capacity, Mr. Berman supervises digital forensics, cybercrime investigations, and electronic discovery assignments involving the collection of electronic data in criminal, civil, regulatory, and internal corporate matters. Mr. Berman also oversees computer investigations involving securities fraud, identity theft, employee misconduct, and theft of trade secrets.

Prior to joining Stroz Friedberg, Mr. Berman was an Assistant U.S. Attorney (ÒAUSAÓ) in the Criminal Division of the U.S. AttorneyÕs Office for the District of Massachusetts, where he served in the Computer Crimes Unit as Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator (one of the lead computer crimes prosecutors). He also served as a member of the New England Electronic Crimes Task Force. As an AUSA, Mr. Berman conducted and supervised investigations and prosecutions of computer intrusions, denial of service attacks, computer and Internet fraud, identity theft, and other abuses involving the theft and use of information over computer networks. Among his notable cyber cases, Mr. Berman prosecuted one of the leaders of a Russian identity theft ring who obtained over $1,000,000 worth of fraudulent goods and reshipped the stolen goods to Russia. Mr. Berman also prosecuted a juvenile who hacked into the database of an online information services company, allowing the juvenile and his associates access to hundreds of thousands of peopleÕs social security numbers and other identifying information.

During his tenure at the U.S. AttorneyÕs Office, Mr. Berman also served in the Economic Crimes Unit, where he investigated and prosecuted complex frauds and crimes committed by corporations. He also served in the Major Crimes Unit, where he prosecuted bank robberies, gun crimes, drug possession and other violent crimes.

Before his work at the Department of Justice, Mr. Berman was a partner at the law firm McDermott, Will & Emery in Boston, where he focused on complex civil litigation and white collar defense work in federal and state criminal and regulatory matters.

Mr. Berman began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District AttorneyÕs Office. In that position he investigated and prosecuted frauds and computer crimes, as well as burglaries, robberies, car thefts, assaults, and drug crimes, among other violations. He also served as a member of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force.

Mr. Berman received his A.B. cum laude from Princeton University, and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Cornell Law School where he served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.

Rob Bernard is the Chief Environmental Strategist for Microsoft and is responsible for defining and implementing the global strategy for the company’s environmental efforts.  In this role he oversees the company’s environmental impact at all levels including: working with product groups to create technology innovations in software and hardware that can help enable customers to minimize their impact on the environment, helping accelerate scientific breakthrough on environmental issues, assuring responsible business practices that work to reduce the company’s direct and indirect environmental impact, and working with partners in industry, government and non-government to engage on global environmental issues. 

 Rob has held various positions during his 10 year career at Microsoft.  He’s served in leadership roles ranging from marketing to business and technical management.  In these positions, he has worked with a variety of teams including the Windows group, MSN, and the Information Worker/Office division. 

 As a Senior Director of Program Management in Office, Rob’s group worked on the project which became the foundation for Microsoft’s joint venture with SAP called “Duet”  which enables companies to view information from throughout their company through Microsoft Office.

 As a Product Unit Manager in MSN he was responsible for growing the online shopping platform to handle millions of offers from hundreds of retail partners, and as Product Planner for Windows Update, he was responsible for designing many of the features and user experience which were the foundation of the updating technologies in Windows.

 Most recently, Bernard was General Manager for Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team where he was responsible for Microsoft’s relationship with over 100 of the world’s largest and over 100,000 of smaller Independent Software Vendors

Bernard has a deep personal passion around the subject of Environmental Sustainability (ES) and proven leadership skills.  Prior to his career at Microsoft, he spent nearly 10 years in the construction and building management industry where he built and managed industrial and office properties.   He attended the Wharton School of Business where he earned his MBA.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Columbia University.  Bernard lives with his family in Seattle.

Dr. Blatt joined Intel in the summer of 2000 working in the New Business Group. He is currently Worldwide Medical Director, Enterprise Solution Sales, in the Sales and Marketing Group. In this role he is concentrating on how HIT infrastructure can enable Providers to deliver cost effective, quality care to a wide cohort of citizens. He has a particular interest in, Integrated Care Delivery, Mobile Point of Care, Secure Computing and the emergence of Cloud Computing services. Previously he was the Director for Healthcare Industry Solutions, in Intel’s Digital Health Group. During 2008-9, in the area of care delivery reform Dr. Blatt has worked with care delivery systems in many countries, including the UK, China, Mexico, Australia and the USA to enable cost effective, sustainable systems that will allow Clinicians to provide “virtual care” to patients in settings as diverse as rural remote clinics or the patient’s home.

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP serves as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Barack Obama.  In this role he is charged with building an interoperable, private and secure nationwide health information system and supporting the widespread, meaningful use of health IT. 
Dr. Blumenthal received his undergraduate, medical, and public policy degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Prior to his appointment to the administration, Dr. Blumenthal was a practicing primary care physician; director, Institute for Health Policy; and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and Harvard Medical School.

Scott works within SAP’s Sustainability Organization, where he leads a core team of sustainability experts that define and ensure the execution of our sustainability strategy as well as orchestrate our participation in the portfolio process.  Previously, Scott was a VP for SAP Portfolio Strategy Group (PSG), which is responsible for the company’s portfolio governance process and drives key cross-topics portfolio priorities.  Scott focused on three cross-topic priorities:  software-as-a-service, mergers & acquisitions, and sustainability solutions.

Previously, Scott was a consultant for both McKinsey & Company and Accenture. While working in McKinsey's Silicon Valley Office, Scott provided guidance on corporate strategy, go-to-market plans, and partnership opportunities to the world's leading independent software and hardware vendors. During his time with Accenture (then Andersen Consulting), he recommended and implemented technology designed to improve the business processes of media and entertainment clients.

Scott also served as the Vice President, Secure Networks Solutions and Applications, at Enterasys Networks. In this role, Scott provided leadership for the company's security software to include product management, solutions marketing, and partnership development.

Additionally, Scott served in various leadership roles in the US Army during his five years of service. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from the United States Military Academy (West Point).

Since joining PepsiCo in 2008 from his post as EVP of Weber Shandwick's social media practice Screengrab, B. Bonin Bough has been tasked with getting PepsiCo on the social media map and into the hearts and minds of online brand influencers.

For many years, the industry has looked to PepsiCo as a leader and trendsetter. However, the days of Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, and Tina Turner ads lighting up TV are over. To break through, a brand needs to move from just delivery impressions to building connections with online influencers -- and this is something few CPG companies have been able to do. But as PepsiCo’s global director of digital and social media, Bough has helped the PepsiCo brand parlay itself as a traditional advertising icon into the realm of digital social brand interaction.

Tapping into his proven track record of online community building, social media, social video, and digital marketing, Bough has been instrumental in integrating social media and the "online conversation" into PepsiCo's overall brand vision, engaging online consumers, and tracking behavior and trends that the brand can leverage successfully. Bough is credited with bringing PepsiCo to SXSW and recently helping launch the "Dear Mr. President" viral campaign, and the launch of female-targeted online community The Juice, to name a few of his accomplishments during his time with Pepsi. Many of Bough's achievements in the world of interactive marketing have won him numerous awards, including a Webby, Stevie, Golden Pencil, Sabre, Big Apple, Com Arts and SXSW -- Viewers Choice for MrPicassoHead.com.

In a past life, Bough was a professor at NYU's Center for Publishing Graduate Studies from 2000 to 2005.

"Since he joined PepsiCo last year, Bough has slowly helped the company break through in some innovative ways, particularly using Twitter and Friendfeed. This has enabled him in a short amount of time to help one of the biggest marketers in the world build connections with online influencers and set a course others will follow." Steve Rubel, SVP, Director of Insights, Edelman Digital

Karl D. Bream, Vice President, Head Of Strategic Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent
Karl Bream is Vice President and Head of Strategic Marketing, at Alcatel-Lucent. In this position, Mr. Bream is currently responsible for Alcatel-Lucent’s global Market Strategy, Market Research and Analysis, and Emerging Opportunity Development.  Mr. Bream is transforming Alcatel-Lucent's market strategy functions into a focused team that fully understands Alcatel-Lucent’s customers and markets, including the digital youth demographic, and is translating that understanding into new revenue and profit opportunities for services providers and Alcatel-Lucent.  Mr. Bream is a spokesperson for Alcatel-Lucent’s market strategy, analysis & positioning.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Bream held several positions in sales management, strategic business development, and mergers and acquisitions for AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Mr. Bream is currently the Chairman of the Platinum Torch National Service Honorary and sits on the Board Of Directors of HealthJam, Inc.  Each organization is focused on different aspects of the education of youth in the United States.

William leads the Cleantech Practice at Weber Shandwick, providing communications counsel to companies, foundations and NGOs engaged in clean energy, efficiency, water, building, advanced materials, IT, climate and next-gen transportation. He has more than 20 years of experience in media and marketing. As leader for the global Cleantech Practice, William coordinates activities across North America, Asia and Europe.

Before joining Weber Shandwick, William had a successful career as a foreign correspondent and editor, working for Agence France-Presse and the Asian Wall Street Journal.

William is an active member of the Cleantech community. Affiliations include:  National Steering Committee, Clean Economy Network; Advisor, Cleantech Law & Business Review; Regional Co-Chair of Renewable Energy Business Network; Adviser to Joint US-China Cooperation on Clean Energy; Advisor to US-China Clean Energy Forum; Member of Business Leaders for Climate Solutions; guest blogger on Greentech Media and Triple Pundit. His blog can be found at MrCleantech.com.

Williams has worked with a range of companies including Cabonetworks, ClimateWorks Foundation, Energy Free Home Foundation, EnviroTower, Hycrete Technologies, PetroAlgae, Perkins+Will, REC, SkyFuel, and Verdiem.

Ms. Brier has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Maimonides since 1995, responsible for management of the hospital and for ensuring that the highest standards of clinical excellence, patient care and graduate medical education are met. During her tenure at Maimonides, Ms. Brier has raised the level of patient care, implementing new technology to support medical services. Ms. Brier has directed the Center's efforts to improve patient care by implementing new state-of-the-art information technology systems, recruiting top quality physicians, nurses and support staff and expanding clinical services and facilities.

From 1992-1995, she served as Executive Director of Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City's oldest and largest public hospital. At the same time she also served as Senior Vice President of the Southern Manhattan/Northern Brooklyn Network of hospitals at the Health and Hospitals Corporation where she oversaw the management and had direct responsibilities for the fiscal and clinical operations of a $2 billion multi-hospital system, as well as the citywide Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and the operations of the HHC central office.

During Ms. Brier's earlier tenure (1989-1992) as Executive Director of Jacobi Hospital, an acute care facility in the Bronx, she oversaw the installation of the first large scale electronic patient care system in the United States, providing improved and coordinated quality medical care through information technology.

Ms. Brier's commitment to public health policy and community service are reflected in her many professional activities. They include appointments by: Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York City Board of Health and the New York City Workforce Investment Board; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to membership on the Community Service Board; and Governor Mario Cuomo to the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council and special Task Force on Health Care Reform. Ms. Brier holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Public Health in Health Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty member of the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Relina Bulchandani is a director in the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Connected Real Estate Practice. She focuses on real estate solutions, technologies, and systems for the real estate sector, helping companies transform the user experience, streamline and design/build processes, and create environmental sustainability.

Prior to IBSG, Bulchandani was senior vice president of strategic projects at Forest City Enterprises, a publicly traded real estate developer, responsible for enterprise resource planning, enterprise content management, and organizational change management. She created the outsourcing strategy for strategic relationships and reduced total cost of ownership for the CIO and CTO with third-party partners in India. Prior to Forest City, Bulchandani managed client services for Realm Business Solutions, a real estate software company. She was also a senior member of the real estate consulting practice at Ernst & Young for more than 5 years, and has worked extensively with commercial real estate clients in the United States and Australia with a focus on retail.

Bulchandani has led consulting and systems implementations for more than 15 years, focusing on identifying and implementing operational enhancements, selecting and implementing technology-based solutions, constructing and implementing revised organizational structures, assisting in the merging of one or more separate organizational entities, determining and deploying e-commerce strategies in the marketplace, and conducting organizational reviews on various operational departments.

Bulchandani holds an MSE in technology management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. with a double major in economics and political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jennifer A. Camacho is a partner in the Patent Law, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences Groups at Proskauer Rose LLP.

Ms. CamachoÕs practice is focused on providing strategic intellectual property counseling aligned with specific business objectives of the client. She has extensive experience working with clients in leveraging intellectual property for competitive advantage; building commercially-relevant patent portfolios; navigating through prior art and third party intellectual property rights; and identifying opportunities to capture value from intellectual property through strategic business relationships. Ms. Camacho's practice includes worldwide patent and trademark portfolio development; intellectual property due diligence; patent infringement and validity analyses; patentability and product clearance studies; licensing and related transactional matters such as joint development, sponsored research and acquisition; patent interference proceedings; litigation; arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Ms. Camacho was chief patent counsel and vice president of intellectual property at a leading New England biotech company in the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Ms. Camacho received her J.D. from Boston College Law School and B.S. in cell and structural biology from the University of Illinois. She is admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. She also is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Senator Hillary Clinton has been standing up for the values and causes that matter to America's families for 35 years.

An advocate for children and seniors; an attorney twice voted one of the most influential in America; one of only two women lawyers on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee investigation of Watergate; a First Lady of Arkansas who helped reform the public schools and expand rural health care; a bestselling author.

As our nation's First Lady, she helped transform that role, becoming a champion for health care and families at home and a champion for women's rights and human rights around the world. We will never forget Hillary Clinton standing up to the government of China and saying to the world, "Women's rights are human rights."

Hillary became the first First Lady to seek elected office and the first woman to be elected state-wide in New York at the top of the ticket. In 2006, she was re-elected with a landslide 67 percent of the vote.

Senator Clinton has been a steadfast advocate for middle-class families, working to help create jobs, expand children's health care, and protect Social Security from privatization. As the Senator representing New York after 9/11, Hillary has fought to strengthen our homeland security and to improve our communications and intelligence operations. As the first New Yorker ever named to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hillary has been a tough critic of the war in Iraq and a fierce advocate for giving our troops what they need and deserve, like body armor, health benefits, and better treatment for military families.

Senator Clinton has a 35-year record of fighting for change, and a track record of working across the aisle to get results.

avid S. Cohen is a partner in the firm's Securities and Litigation and Controversy Departments, and a member of the Investigations and Criminal Litigation, Securities Enforcement, Securities Litigation, and Government and Regulatory Litigation Practice Groups. He joined the firm in 2001. Mr. Cohen focuses on complex civil litigation, white collar criminal defense, internal investigations and anti-money laundering counseling. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Mr. Cohen served concurrently as Acting Deputy General Counsel and Associate Deputy General Counsel, US Department of the Treasury. Mr. Cohen is a seasoned litigator in both civil and criminal cases at the trial and appellate levels. He also has substantial experience representing public companies and auditors subject to parallel civil and criminal investigations by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state regulators involving alleged violations of the securities laws and financial reporting fraud. In Mr. CohenÕs anti-money laundering counseling practice, he has advised a broad range of financial institutions including broker-dealers, insurance companies, mutual funds, money service businesses, hedge funds and investment advisers on their legal obligations and industry best practices in complying with the Bank Secrecy Act and Title III of the USA Patriot Act.

David I. Cohen, M.D., M.Sc. is currently Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs and Affiliations and Senior Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center.   Dr. Cohen received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.Sc. in Epidemiology and Health from McGill University where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar from 1977 – 1979.  After completing his residency in Internal Medicine in New York and his clinical research fellowship in Montreal, he joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University and was appointed Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in 1981.   In that position he helped to develop the “firm system” as a model for patient care, clinical education, and health services research.  In 1986 he returned to New York to accept a position at Mt. Sinai Medical Center as Director of Ambulatory Care and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education.  From 1988 – 1990 he was Vice President for Medical Operations for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.  From 1990 –1991 he served as Deputy Dean for Clinical Affairs at the City University of New York Sophie Davis Medical School, and from 1991 – 1998 he served as the first full time Medical Director at Bellevue Hospital Center.

Jon Cohen, M.D., was named senior vice president and chief medical officer of Quest Diagnostics effective March 30, the company announced. Cohen, 54, had been a senior adviser to New York Gov. David Paterson, focusing on policy and strategic planning and has advised Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on healthcare policy. Prior to joining the governor’s administration, Cohen was managing director of health industry services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and he also has served as CMO and senior vice president at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, based in Great Neck, N.Y. Madison, N.J.-based Quest Diagnostics develops diagnostic testing, information and services to providers.

Bob Cote is a partner in Orrick's IP litigation group and Chair of the Software Group. He is a nationally recognized patent litigator and trial lawyer. His practice focuses on litigation and strategic counseling involving intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, and IP-related unfair competition and antitrust matters. His litigation practice includes all phases of discovery, prior art research, Markman hearings, jury and bench trials, post-trial motions, and appellate practice before the Federal Circuit. His clients span the spectrum from Fortune 500 companies to emerging companies and individuals, both domestic and foreign. Mr. Cote has practiced throughout the United States, including in such notable jurisdictions for patent litigation as the Eastern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, District of Delaware, Eastern District of Virginia, Southern District of Ohio, Northern District of Ohio, Central and Northern Districts of California, Eastern District of New York, and Southern District of New York.

Fiona Cousins has extensive project management and mechanical engineering experience.  She has worked for both corporate and institutional clients on a wide variety of building projects including offices, trading floors, laboratories, libraries, performing art centers, airports and educational buildings.  Her projects have ranged from small to extremely large and have included renovation and new build, fast-track cost-efficient space and complex buildings with tight control requirements for humidity and temperature.  Systems required have included conventional VAV systems, solar heating systems, chilled beams and ventilated façades.

She has undertaken project management responsibilities at all stages of projects from initial programming through project opening.  This work requires coordination and cooperation with owner, design team and contractor.

Fiona has maintained a strong interest in the thermal performance of buildings throughout her career.  Work in this area has included development work for thermal analysis software, energy analyses, thermal mass calculations and façade analysis. 

Fiona also has a strong interest in sustainability, and has made significant contributions to projects where the broader aspects of sustainable design have been important.  She has worked with SPeAR®, the in-house Arup sustainability analysis software, and is also a LEED® accredited professional with experience on a number of projects that are pursuing LEED® goals.

She has presented technical papers at EnvironDesign, Sustainable Steel, Earthday New York, Green Building Challenge, GreenBuild and the Architectural Record Innovation Conference.

Steve Cowman was appointed CEO of Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. (SES) in June 2008. Steve brings strong international experience having worked in Ireland, Europe, North America and Asia in the Electronics Industry for the past 21 years. Prior to SES, Steve held numerous senior management positions including CEO Greenstar Ireland, Technical Development Director with General Electric, General Manager of Harris Corporation, Power TVS Division, Senior Vice-President of Marketing & New Product Development with General Semiconductor, General Manager with Vishay Intertechnology, and President & European Managing Director with Volex Europe. Steve has a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Engineering from University College, Dublin and Sheffield University, and Masters Degree in Management Science from Trinity College Dublin.

Rupert has been an innovator in sustainability since 1985 when he petitioned Cambridge University to allow him to study the yet-to-be-invented subject of Ecological Economics. In 1987 he designed his first renewable energy system. And in 1992 he graduated first in class from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences, winning the University Bronowski prize. Recognition for his thought leadership in sustainable business resulted in a unique, seven-year (1998-2005) Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. and UK governments.

Rupert’s professional career began at J.P. Morgan, where he graduated from the Morgan Finance Program in 1993. Rupert then recruited CEOs with global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles before founding a triple bottom line business in 2000.

During more than two decades as a consultant and entrepreneur in business and sustainability, Rupert has worked at the investor, owner, board and chief executive levels. Engagements range from Fortune 500s, venture-backed start-ups, NGOs, UN intergovernmental programs, community developments to micro social/green enterprises.

Today, as global head of MontaRosa’s Sustainability Practice, Rupert combines his finance background with a unique understanding of long-term environmental business engagement issues, including climate change action, triple bottom line entrepreneurship and clean tech development.

His combination of deep business focus and long-term knowledge of and commitment to sustainability — both from the “business value” and from the “right thing to do” perspectives — helps MontaRosa identify, assess and land the globe’s top candidates for the specific business strategy focus of the client at hand.

With a long record of entrepreneurial success, Davis is thrilled to be leading a team of industry all-stars. As Founder and CEO of Massive Incorporated, he revolutionized the video game industry by working closely with publishers and developers to build the world’s finest and largest in-game advertising network which encompassed 40 publishers, including EA, Activision, THQ, Take 2, Sony Online Entertainment, Disney and Vivendi Universal Games. Massive was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Davis sits on the NY Regional Board of Directors of the March of Dimes & serves as a Board Member for The Receivables Exchange in New Orleans.

David de Graaf did his undergraduate work at the University of Utrecht,the Netherlands, where he obtained a Master's degree in EvolutionaryGenetics. His doctoral work, under supervision of Professor Igor Roninson at the University of Illinois at Chicago, focused on the multi-drug resistance pump p-glycoprotein and its transport mechanisms. At this time, David got involved in some of the earliest functional genomics approaches using gene fragment libraries in retroviral vectors. His postdoctoral work focused on the pharmacogenomics of olfaction. His work with Prof. Doron Lancet at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, used computational and wet biology approaches to try to deconvolute odorant binding to olfactory receptors. At Prof. Eric Lander's instigation, David then relocated to the Center for Genome Research at the Whitehead/MIT, where he set up a group working on target validation, and worked in close collaboration with colleagues at Millennium, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Affymetrix. David joined AstraZeneca, where he built the first systems biology team, focusing on modeling and simulation in both the UK and the US. He joined Pfizer in 2005 as its first director of systems biology. David has a global strategic role in determining how systems biology can transform drug research for Pfizer, and a local role, heading a team at the Pfizer Research and Technology Center, which works on applying systems biology approaches to issues across the Pfizer pipeline.

Dr Marc Donner has over thirty years of experience in engineering of hardware, software, and complex systems. He has worked in basic research and in commercial development, where his experience has ranged from advanced robotics research to engineering very large-scale infrastructure. His interests include high performance, real-time, security, privacy, and reliability.

Prior to Media6°, Joe spent 9 years at Microsoft in a variety of senior roles including Chief of Staff at MSN and, from 2003 to 2008, General Manager of Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. In this position Joe was responsible for product management for all advertising products and technologies at Microsoft (including Microsoft AdCenter, Microsoft PubCenter, the Display Ad Platform, Massive, and AdECN, among others) as well as serving as the lead spokesperson for advertising technology and solutions at Microsoft. As General Manager, Joe set the broad strategic direction for the advertising business and also led Microsoft’s acquisition and integration strategy for the many advertising based businesses purchased by Microsoft including Massive, ScreenTonic, DeepMetrix, AdECN and aQuantive.

Prior to Microsoft, Joe was at General Mills in brand management and before that a Captain in the United States Army, 7th Infantry Division.

Joe is a graduate of West Point, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry. He also holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Harvard Business School where he concentrated in Entrepreneurship and Finance.

Nicholas is an environmental entrepreneur and business strategist.  At GreenOrder, Nicholas is responsible for managing overall firm development and growth, overall team management, and key client relationships.

Previously, Mr. Eisenberger has founded or co-founded several enterprises that have pioneered change in their respective fields, including an environmental law and policy institute in Budapest, Hungary, MyPoints.com in San Francisco, California, and Ecos Technologies. Nicholas has also practiced as an environmental attorney at the San Francisco law firm, Heller Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, and worked as a cleantech venture capitalist at Churchill Capital.

Nicholas is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and a recipient of a Certificate in Environmental Law from the University of California Boalt Hall School Of Law. He serves on the X-Prize Foundation’s Energy & Environment Advisory Board, the Scottish Government’s Saltire Prize Advisory Board for Marine Renewable Energy, the Harvard Law School Environmental Law Society Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of New York SunWorks, and the Board of the New York Growing Up Green Charter School.  He was also a founding member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a member of the Harvard University Center for Environment Advisory Board, and the former Chair of the AHC Group's Governance & Innovation Workshop Series.

Colleen Fahey Rush, Executive Vice President, Strategic Insights & Research, MTV Networks
Colleen Fahey Rush is Executive Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research for MTV Networks (MTVN). In her role, she oversees MTVN’s research groups, leading the company in cultivating insights into its target demographics from kids and teens, to young adults, men, boomer and LGBT audiences. Her work informs MTV Networks’ creative and business operations, from programming and digital strategy to ad sales and content distribution and marketing. Rush has been instrumental in ushering in MTVN’s groundbreaking research on engagement and championing a greater understanding of consumer behavior and performance metrics across new and emerging platforms.
Rush began her career at CBS, holding a series of positions at the company’s O&Os and broadcast network.  She went on to serve as Director of Research at Telemundo, before becoming Associate Partner and Director of Research at J. Walter Thompson.  Rush joined MTV Networks in 1996, where she served most recently as Senior Vice President of Research for VH1/CMT before her current position. 
Rush is a member of the CTAM Research Committee and sits on the steering committee of Nielsen’s Council for Research Excellence. She also serves on the board of the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). Rush holds a B.S. in Communications from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Ray joined Cain Brothers in early 2006 as an investment banker to lead the firm’s franchise in Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT) and Pharmaceutical Services. As a former sell-side equity research analyst, Ray has followed HCIT since 1994. During his career as an analyst, Ray worked primarily at Bear Stearns, where he was named to Institutional Investor’s Top-rated list in 5 of his last 6 years, including two number 1 rankings. In addition to HCIT, Ray’s research coverage included pharmaceutical outsourcing, pharmaceutical distribution and publicly-traded hospital companies. Prior to working on Wall Street, Ray worked for 5 years at a start-up company focused on energy efficient lighting products, where he held various positions ranging from Engineering Manager to National Sales Manager.

Ray grew up in Queens, NY and currently resides with his family in Westchester County. He received a BE from the Cooper Union in New York, NY; an MS in Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Cain Brothers is a leading investment banking firm that focuses exclusively on the health care industry. The firm’s clients include investor-owned and tax-exempt providers, payors, health care information technology and medical technology companies and financial sponsors. The firm has one of the largest teams of experienced bankers and capital markets professionals on Wall Street dedicated to the health care industry. Operating out of nine offices across the country, Cain Brothers creates custom-tailored, market-based capital raising, M&A, real estate, and strategic and financial advisory solutions for its clients.

Cain Brothers is all about ideas and direct senior banker involvement with the firm's clients. Our philosophy is to roll up our sleeves and work side by side with our clients to produce innovative, market driven solutions for the many opportunities and challenges they face. 

The firm's client base is primarily composed of nonprofit and investor-owned health care service providers, third-party payors, medical technology companies, companies that provide services to the health care industry, such as information technology and real estate companies, and financial sponsors. The firm was formed in 1982 based on the belief that health care organizations have unique needs that can be best addressed by professionals with a focus on the health care delivery system as a whole. The firm has grown to become one of the nation's preeminent investment banking and advisory firms to the health care industry, with personnel in New York, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Long Beach, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Orlando, Washington D.C., and Syracuse.

Sam Farraj, is responsible for leading the strategy and business development activities for Digital Media Solutions at AT&T.
Before joining AT&T in April of 2008, Mr. Farraj was responsible for launching the digital media group at MCI. He has also been EVP of product development at Vaultus, Inc., which provides wireless mobility solutions for enterprise customers. He also served as SVP of Marketing and Product Development at CMGI Solutions, an enterprise-focused Internet solutions provider, as well as leadership positions at e.Spire Communications, an integrated communications provider. Prior to that Mr. Farraj started his career at MCI.
Mr. Farraj is a graduate of the University of Maryland where he also received a master's degree in management information systems.

Maureen Farrell joined CNNMoney to cover Wall Street and the markets in August 2011. Before joining CNNMoney, she spent five years at Forbes. At Forbes she covered startups and the markets for Forbes Magazine and its online properties. She was the anchor of two weekly programs on the Forbes Video Network, Breakout! and Boost Your Business. She was also a regular guest on MSNBC, CNBC and other television and radio shows. Farrell also spent two years covering mergers and the debt markets for Mergermarket and Debtwire, both divisions of the Financial Times.

Jason Finger is the Chief Executive Officer of CityGrid Media, an operating business of IAC.
In this role he is responsible for the strategic oversight of CityGrid Media which encompasses
CitySearch, Urbanspoon, InsiderPages and BuzzLabs. Prior to joining CityGrid Media in April
2012, Mr. Finger was an entrepreneur-in-residence of Bessemer, where he focused on enterprise
and consumer-facing e-commerce opportunities with a special interest in local businesses and
services.

Most recently, he was president and co-founder of SeamlessWeb, the industry-leading, online-
food ordering and billing-services company, which was acquired by Aramark in 2006. Under
Jason’s leadership, SeamlessWeb grew to serve over 10,000 enterprises and one million
individuals in 22 cities throughout the U.S. and in London.

Mr. Finger began his career as a corporate attorney at the law offices of O'Sullivan Graev &
Karabell (now O'Melveny & Myers), a private-equity and M&A-focused boutique.

Mr. Finger has served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU and is a director and/or advisor to several
private companies. He is on the board of advisors for NYU’s Mitchell Jacobson Leadership
Program in Law and Business and the Digital Advisory Board of American Express OPEN.
He has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Innovator of the Year by
the Corporate Executive Council of New York, and was named to Crain’s 40 Under 40 list
of leading young executives. He holds a B.S. in finance from the University of Maryland at
College Park and a J.D. and MBA in finance from New York University, where he was a Stern
Scholar.

Brian Fortune is the Marwood Group's Political Strategist and a Managing Director of its Healthcare Research Group. Before joining the Marwood Group in 2002, Brian served as the Staff Director of the House Republican Leadership's policy analysis division, where he worked closely with the senior staff of all House committees, focusing particularly on Ways & Means, Energy & Commerce, and Appropriations. During his tenure on Capitol Hill, Brian worked on many Medicare and other healthcare initiatives including BBA97, BBRA, HIPAA, BIPA 2000, and the early versions of prescription drug legislation. Brian is a graduate of Oregon State University. He holds the FINRA Series 7, 65, 86 and 87.

Adam Freed is the Deputy Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, where he also serves as the Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation. In addition to helping oversee the office and implementing the 127 initiatives contained in PlaNYC, the City’s comprehensive sustainability plan, Freed chairs the City's Climate Change Adaptation Task Force. The Task Force, which consists of city, state, and federal agencies and private sector companies, is working to quantify the impacts of and the City's vulnerabilities to climate change and develop adaptation strategies to mitigate these risks.

Previously, Freed served as the Assistant Comptroller for New York City in the Office of the New York State Comptroller, where he led the agency’s review of large-scale, city-based economic development projects and crafted corporate governance strategies for the $160 billion state pension fund. In addition to his work in city and state government, Freed has worked on several city, state, and national political campaigns. Freed received his master's in Urban Planning from NYU and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Vanessa Furhmans is a writer for the wall street journal

Jonathan E. Furr s a partner in the Chicago office of Holland & Knight and practices in the areas of state and local government contracting, education, and state advocacy. Mr. Furr is experienced in the representation of public bodies in multiple areas of legal services, including general corporate counseling, environmental matters, zoning, development, and contracts. Mr. Furr counsels private sector clients on zoning and land use matters (with an emphasis on green building and urban redevelopment), state agency approvals and advocacy, and other transactional issues. Mr. Furr also represents public and private sector clients on energy performance contracting projects that guarantee significant reductions in energy consumption in existing buildings.

Mr. Furr's recent projects include:

• Representing the owner of the Empire State Building on a high profile energy efficiency project for this landmark structure. The project resulted in a replicable contract template that can be used by other property owners for energy retrofits, building on the standard contract form Mr. Furr prepared for the Building Owners & Management Association (BOMA) International Energy Performance Contracting Model program.
• Representing the Public Building Commission of Chicago (PBCC) on its procurement of energy performance contracting services for the Richard J. Daley Center.
• Representing the Village of Northbrook, Illinois in the structuring of its green building initiative, which includes a variety of incentives and requirements relating to LEED Green Building Rating Systems and construction recycling.
• Obtaining the zoning approvals and entitlements for a new U.S. petroleum refinery that will incorporate innovative, best-in-class technologies and construction methods to minimize its environmental impact.
• Advising municipalities and urban planning consultants on the implementation of form-based regulations for projects ranging from specific redevelopment areas to entirely new municipal unified development codes.

In the education sector, Mr. Furr helps clients structure programs and transactions that best serve their educational goals and also meet state and federal legal requirements. He has provided technical assistance to the State of Illinois through the Illinois College and Work Readiness Partnership--an agreement between the State Board of Education, Governor's Office, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop policies and programs to ensure more Illinois students are prepared for college and the workforce. Mr. Furr also represents educational service providers with obtaining state education agency approvals, school district contracting, and general corporate matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Furr served as the General Counsel for two major State of Illinois agencies. As General Counsel for the Illinois State Board of Education, he was responsible for the development of legislation, regulations and policy impacting public schools, including the agency's approach to supplemental educational services and school and district improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. As General Counsel for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Mr. Furr provided legal and policy advice on the state's conservation and outdoor recreation programs. He negotiated a major economic development agreement to attract an international event to Illinois, and structured the project agreements for the 1,500-acre event site. He also worked on a variety of natural resources matters involving wetlands protection, natural resources damages, endangered species and natural areas consultation, and water use and conservation.

Jonathan E. Furr is a partner in the Chicago office of Holland & Knight and practices in the areas of state and local government contracting, education, and state advocacy. Mr. Furr is experienced in the representation of public bodies in multiple areas of legal services, including general corporate counseling, environmental matters, zoning, development, and contracts. Mr. Furr counsels private sector clients on zoning and land use matters (with an emphasis on green building and urban redevelopment), state agency approvals and advocacy, and other transactional issues. Mr. Furr also represents public and private sector clients on energy performance contracting projects that guarantee significant reductions in energy consumption in existing buildings. 

David F. Gallagher is a deputy technology editor at The New York Times, where he is part of a team of editors and reporters covering the business and culture of technology, in print and online. After working as a reporter for Bloomberg News, he first joined The Times as a Web producer in 1996 and held other editorial jobs there in the early years of its Web operations. He left       in 2000 to join a Web startup that never started up, then wrote about technology for publications including The Times, Slate and MIT's Technology Review. He rejoined The Times as an editor on its business desk in 2003. David is a graduate of Vassar College and lives in Brooklyn.

Since retiring from Congress, Newt Gingrich has worked extensively on the issues of health and healthcare, devoting the majority of his time to advocating a transformation of the entire system. In 2003, he founded the Center for Health Transformation (CHT), a collaboration of public and private sector leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and saves money. 

Honored most recently for the seventh year in a row by Modern Healthcare’s annual poll of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” Gingrich is widely recognized as a transformational leader, unparalleled in his ability to create and lead successful large-scale change.  As the architect of the Contract with America, he led the Republican Party to victory in 1994, capturing the majority in the U.S. House for the first time in forty years. Under his leadership, Congress passed transformational legislation including welfare reform, the first balanced budget in a generation, funding to strengthen our defense capabilities, and the first tax cuts in sixteen years. 

During his twenty years in Congress, Speaker Gingrich was committed to improving America’s healthcare system, co-chairing the Republican Task Force on Health for four years prior to becoming Speaker.  Under his leadership as Speaker, Medicare was improved, investment in medical research was dramatically increased, and FDA reform was enacted to allow for quicker approval and access to new medicines for those with terminal and degenerative illnesses. 

The Washington Times called him “The Indispensable Leader” and Time magazine, in naming him “Man of the Year” for 1995, said, “Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.”  He regularly participates as a healthcare expert in both the National Journal’s Healthcare Expert Blog, The Washington Post’s Health Reform Blog, “Health Care Rx” and as a commentator on Fox News.

Mr. Gingrich is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research and sits on the Board of Regents at the National Library of Medicine.  In addition, he co-chairs the National Commission for Quality Long Term Care. He has received numerous health and healthcare honors and awards, including:

•    1995    March of Dimes Georgian of the Year
•    1996    Georgia Breast Cancer Coalition Honoree
•    1996    Mental Health Association Advocacy Award
•    1997    Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Advocate of the Year
•    1998    American Association of Endocrinologists Patients Advocate of the Year
•    1998    American Diabetes Association Charles Best Medal (highest non-medical award)
•    1998    National Association of Community Health Centers Diabetes Healthcare Advocate of the Year
•    2001    Science Coalition’s Science Pioneer Award

•    2003    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare

•    2004    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare
•    2005    NCQA Health Quality Award (National Committee for Quality Assurance)
•    2005    National Minority Health Month Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to elimination of diabetes
•    2005    Louis Sullivan Award for his leadership and advocacy for the rapid adoption of health information technology (WEDI, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange)
•    2005    HIMSS Advocacy Award for his leadership advancing information and management systems for the betterment of human health

•    2005    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare
•    2006    National Hispanic Youth Initiative Award for Leadership

•    2006    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare

•    2007    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare
•    2008    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare
•    2008    “Indispensible Person of the Year Award” by Alliance on Aging
•    2009    Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare

Speaker Gingrich has authored numerous health publications, columns and books, including Saving Lives and Saving Money, which describes the vision and principles of the Center for Health Transformation. His book Winning the Future includes key chapters on health and healthcare, based on his work at CHT. Speaker Gingrich and Center for Health Transformation CEO and President Nancy Desmond published The Art of Transformation in 2007, and in 2008, Real Change, which devotes a chapter to the necessary changes in today’s healthcare system.

A prominent health care business executive, Gorevic became CEO of Teladoc in 2009. During his career, he has pioneered the development of innovative healthcare services which evolved into mainstream offerings that simultaneously delivered meaningful value to customers and bottom-line business results.

Before joining Teladoc, Gorevic worked in various capacities at WellPoint, Inc., including senior vice president and chief marketing and product officer where he was responsible for developing WellPoint’s Growth Strategy to identify and prioritize opportunities for long term growth. In addition, he assumed the role of president for newly acquired Lumenos, Inc., and is credited with driving enterprise-wide adoption of its consumer-directed health plan, which subsequently became the company’s fastest growing product. He also created and led the Innovation Incubator that conceptualized and implemented a partnership with Zagat Survey to enable consumers to rate their physicians, and acted as the company’s spokesperson with top-tier media.

While at WellPoint, Jason ran a $7 billion P&L, where he consistently exceeded enrollment and financial targets. He was also responsible for a provider contracting team that managed approximately 200 hospitals and 80,000 physicians representing $6.5 billion of medical spend. From 2002 to 2005, Gorevic was a key member of Empire BlueCross BlueShield’s leadership team that generated annual earnings per share growth of 15 to 20 percent resulting in a market cap growth of 300 percent from its 2002 IPO to the acquisition by WellPoint three years later.

Gorevic is a health care visionary with deep roots. While at Oxford Health Plans, he designed, built, and managed a first-of-its-kind telephone medical advice service staffed by Registered Nurses to ensure appropriate utilization of health care resources. This model has now become the industry standard.

Gorevic received a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a two-time winner of the WellPoint Pinnacle Award for outstanding leadership and, at age 31, was named one of the 2003 Crain’s New York Business “40 Under 40″ top executives.

Co-Chief Executive Officer, New York City Investment Fund and also serves as President of the Fund's Civic Capital Corporation, which manages the Fund's charitable investments. The Fund provides financial and strategic assistance to businesses and nonprofit projects that create jobs, revitalize communities and contribute to growth sectors of the city's economy.

Divya started her business career in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs and then moved on to private equity and venture capital at Investcorp International and FirstMark Capital. Currently she serves as the CEO of Send the Trend (www.sendthetrend.com) which offers curated fashion accessories for women online. She also serves as CEO of Behind the Burner (www.behindtheburner.com) a culinary media brand focused on tips, tricks and techniques for food, wine, mixology and nutrition. Divya currently advises several startups and established brands with board level roles. She appears regularly on MSNBC: Your Business, NBC Weekend Today and NBC Nonstop.

Rahul Gupta joined Fiserv in December 2006 as the Group President of Payments and Industry Products. He oversees FiservÕs retail and wholesale payment processing businesses. In this new role, he is focused on product development and go-to-market strategies with our core processing business to enhance client value. Before Fiserv, Gupta was President, U.S. Operations at eFunds Corp., a leading payments and risk management solutions provider, where he ran all the domestic operations, including electronic payments, risk management and global outsourcing. While at eFunds, he played a key role in transforming and positioning the risk and payments business to accomplish significant top and bottom line growth, by successfully integrating multiple strategic acquisitions, launching leading edge solutions, and deepening tier-one relationships. Before eFunds, Gupta was Vice President, ASP Services at i2 Technologies. Prior to i2, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Financial Settlement Matrix (FSMx), a joint venture between i2 Technologies, Citicorp, Wells Fargo and S1 Technologies. Before that he served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Summit Marketing Group, a large database, promotions and targeted marketing service company. While at Summit, Gupta led the Company's efforts to acquire five marketing services companies and successfully form a strong marketing and services business. Gupta's previous experience includes positions as Senior Vice President, Software Division and Vice President, Strategic Systems at Fidelity Investments and as Senior Manager at PriceWaterhouse Consulting. In all, he has more than 20 years experience serving the financial services and payment industries. Born in 1959, Gupta earned his bachelorÕs degree from Delhi University, India. He later received his MBA from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, focusing on information technology and finance. Gupta also earned his certified public accountant title in 1982.

Steve Hamm, a senior writer on BusinessWeek's tech staff, is the magazine's software editor and, as a reporter, covers, IBM, EMC, Computer Associates, and open-source software. He has worked for BusinessWeek since 1997, first covering Microsoft and Oracle from the Silicon Valley bureau, and later working at headquarters in New York City. Previously, he worked for PC Week, The San Jose Mercury News, the New Haven Register, and the Bristol Press. He grew up in a coal town outside Pittsburgh.

Steve Hamm, a senior writer on BusinessWeek's tech staff, is the magazine's software editor and, as a reporter, covers, IBM, EMC, Computer Associates, and open-source software. He has worked for BusinessWeek since 1997, first covering Microsoft and Oracle from the Silicon Valley bureau, and later working at headquarters in New York City. Previously, he worked for PC Week, The San Jose Mercury News, the New Haven Register, and the Bristol Press. He grew up in a coal town outside Pittsburgh.

Jeffrey Harrington is a vice president, financial analysis, in the Corporate Technology Management unit of Corporate Operations & Systems at Prudential Financial.  In this position he is responsible for planning in the Architecture and Technology Enabling group and for reducing the company’s technology-related environmental impact.

Harrington joined Prudential in 1999 in the Finance Department of the Insurance Division, where he created the business cases process and tools and was responsible for consultation and review of all significant business cases.  He joined Corporate Technology Management in 2004.

Prior to joining Prudential, Harrington served in a variety of positions, including managing the finance department for Engelhard's Commodities Trading business, new business development for an environmental consulting firm, marketing finance at Johnson & Johnson and mergers and acquisitions for JP Morgan.

Harrington has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Planning from Rutgers University and a graduate degree in International Finance from Pace University.

As chief marketing officer of American Express Company, John D. Hayes is responsible for the companyÕs customer focus and global marketing programs. In this role, he has contributed to the launch of over 200 new products in 10 years and continues to be a thought leader and market mover in a constantly changing marketplace. He has led the American Express organization in the constant focus on the customer. He is the ÒCustomer ChampionÓ for the company and continues to oversee all global market communications and market research functions. John also oversees our American Express Publishing Group and the recruitment of influencers for the company that are part of both the companyÕs marketing plans and the development of marketing strategies. Prior to joining American Express, John spent over 20 years in the brand and advertising industry. He was president of Lowe & Partners and also held senior positions at Ammirati & Puris and Saatchi & Saatchi Compton. John received a BA in Marketing and Communications from Seton Hall University and is based in New York.

As President of the National Venture Capital Association, Mark Heesen is responsible for setting the strategic direction for all Association activities, including public policy efforts, research initiatives, educational programs, and member services. In this capacity, Mark works closely with the NVCA professional staff and Board of Directors to demonstrate the positive impact of venture capital investment on the United States economy. Under his direction, the NVCA has created numerous value-added sub-groups including the CFO Task Force, Strategic Communications Group, Corporate Venture Capital Group, Medical Industry Group and Human Capital forum, all of which are dedicated to supporting NVCA membership in uniquely critical areas.As a spokesperson for the venture capital industry, Mark is often called upon by the financial media, NVCA members, limited partners, and regional associations to present the overarching venture capital perspective to a wider audience. He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, appears regularly on CNBC, and is consistently quoted in the press in stories concerning venture capital trends.Since 1991, Mark has worked on behalf of the NVCA to enact a wide range of policies that benefit the venture capital and entrepreneurial communities, including a significant capital gains differential, securities litigation reform, numerous SEC and FASB accounting issues, immigration reform, and a streamlining of the FDA and CMS approval processes, among other issues.

Prior to coming to the NVCA, Mark was an aide to a former Governor of Pennsylvania and was Deputy Director for Federal Funds reporting to the Texas Legislature. Mark received a law degree with an emphasis in taxation from the Dickinson School of Law in 1984.

Mr. Richard R. Heitzmann is a Managing Director and Member of Investment Committee of FirstMark Capital, L.L.C. He co-founded the firm and focuses on investments in emerging media and advertising, and data and analytics. Mr. Heitzmann’s current investments in the firm are WePlay, Inc., Live Gamer, Inc., Clickable, Inc., and Riot Games, Inc. His historical investments include StubHub, Inc. First Advantage Corporation and US SEARCH.com, Inc. He is also a Mentor at TechStars, LLC. Prior to this, Mr. Heitzmann was a Partner at Pequot Ventures where he focused on investments in emerging media and advertising and data and information services.

Scott Hensley edits and contributes to The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog. The blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health.

An editor in the paper's New York bureau, Mr. Hensley joined the Journal in 2000 and covered health care and the pharmaceutical industry for seven years. He also wrote "Follow the Money" an online column that looked at the health-care industry.

His story about Pfizer Inc.'s failed attempt to develop an anti-aging pill was part of a series on soaring drug prices that won a New York Press Club award for business coverage in 2003.

Previously, he wrote for Modern Healthcare, where he was New York bureau chief, and American Banker.

Born in Texas, Mr. Hensley earned a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Andrew Heyward is a nationally recognized media expert whose particular area of expertise is the rapidly shifting media landscape. Andrew is a senior advisor to Marketspace LLC, a subsidiary of Monitor Group that specializes in helping companies use digital technology to drive growth and revenue by enhancing customer interactions. He works with clients to create and strengthen original online content, make more effective use of broadband video, deepen engagement through online communities, and develop new business models for the digital era.

Heyward was President, CBS News, from January 1996-November 2005. During that time, CBS News programming grew significantly in audience, regularly scheduled hours and profitability. Under Heyward's leadership, CBS News's tradition of journalistic quality and integrity was recognized with an extraordinary number of broadcast journalism's most prestigious awards: 57 News and Documentary Emmys, 13 Peabody, 13 Alfred I. DuPont/Columbia University, six Overseas Press Club and 46 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Awards. The list of Murrows includes seven for Overall Excellence: four for television—including 2003, 2004 and 2005—and three on the radio side.

Heyward also spearheaded CBS News's move into new media. Its award-winning website, CBSNews.com, became increasingly competitive and was a leader in providing free, advertiser-supported broadband video.

Before his tenure as President, Heyward was executive producer, CBS Evening News, and Vice President, CBS News (October 1994-January 1996). Heyward was also responsible for developing and launching 48 Hours, the primetime CBS News hour that premiered in January 1988. He has won 12 national Emmy Awards.
Heyward was born in New York. He was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in history and literature. He and his wife, Jody Gaylin, live in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. They have three children.

Brian is a co-founder of Tribeca Venture Partners. Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP, Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and led the firm’s investments in technology-related companies. He is currently a board member of Flat World Knowledge, FTRANS, HomeSphere, Informous, Lendio, Pontiflex, RealDirect, Spanfeller Media Group, TRAFFIQ and Vook. Brian is also a board observer at Crowdtap.

Erin Rae Hoffer fosters the adoption of innovative approaches to design and practice as Industry Programs Manager with Autodesk, a leading provider of software for architecture and engineering. An architect with twenty-five years of experience in technology and computer-aided design, Erin contributed programming for solar energy analysis software in the early 80s, developed computer-aided design tools and techniques for architecture and engineering with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and created award-winning effects for the entertainment industry on “The Last Starfighter” and other features.

Prior to joining Autodesk, Erin served as Executive Vice-President with the Boston Architectural College and served on the board of directors of the Boston Society of Architects as Commissioner of Technology. She led technology and services organizations for Harvard, MIT, and Tufts University. Erin publishes articles in professional journals, teaches graduate level courses, and is a frequent presenter with industry conferences worldwide. Erin received a Master in Architecture from UCLA, and a Master in Business Administration from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She is registered to practice architecture in California and is a Ph.D. candidate in Northeastern University’s program of Law, Policy and Society. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and member of the AIA and CSI.

Stephanie is an Assurance partner with over 20 years of experience providing auditing services to publicly and privately held multinational companies.  Stephanie is also the Strategic Growth Markets Leader for Ernst & Young’s Northeast practice focusing on increasing market share and providing services to high growth companies including PE and VC backed companies; middle market, public companies and high growth, private companies.  Stephanie recently became the coordinating partner for all services provided to ATMI including auditing and tax services. 

Dunstan works with a diverse range of companies—including internet, software, telecommunications, and consumer electronics companies—on corporate responsibility issues such as human rights, climate change, reporting, sustainability strategy, and stakeholder engagement.

From 2006 onwards Dunstan facilitated the multi-stakeholder process to develop global principles on freedom of expression and privacy, which included a diverse mix of companies, civil society organizations, academics, and investors. This led to the launch of the Global Network Initiative in October 2008. Dunstan also facilitated the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, where more than 30 information and communications technology companies collaborate to raise conditions in their supply chains.

In addition, Dunstan was directly involved in the creation of the G3 Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines and worked closely with GE through the creation of their first three sustainability reports.

Drawing on his experiences working with large corporations, Dunstan will be co-authoring—with Matthew Gorman of BAA and Andy Wales of SABMiller—a book about the impact of corporate responsibility. Big Business, Big Responsibilities will be published in the summer of 2010.

Prior to joining BSR in 2004, Dunstan was part of British Telecommunications' corporate responsibility team.

Dunstan has a Master's degree in sustainable development from Forum for the Future.

Mr. Irwin joined Citigroup in 1985 and has broad experience with and senior responsibility for client relationships with health systems, hospitals and managed care organizations.  Among his clients are: Fletcher Allen Health Care (VT), CareGroup (MA), Jefferson Health System (PA), Lexington Medical Center (SC), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NY), North Shore – LIJ Health System (NY), Pinnacle Health (PA) and the Saint Barnabas Health Care System (NJ).  Mr. Irwin previously served as a health care finance official in New Jersey State government and, prior to that, was involved in the development and construction of health care facilities in New York and New Jersey. 

Mr. Irwin is a member of faculty of The Governance Institute.  He graduated from Providence College, and received his M.B.A. degree from Pace University.

Bryan Jacob is the Director of Energy Management and Climate Protection in the Environment and Water Resources Department at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. Bryan leads initiatives to reduce the Company’s carbon footprint through the implementation of a global energy management and climate protection strategy that focuses on four areas: cold drink equipment, facilities and bottling plants, transportation and global awareness and action.

Since joining the Company in 1993, Bryan has coordinated and managed a number of environmental initiatives for the Company, including ozone protection and environmental performance management. He developed the Company’s eKOfreshment sustainable refrigeration program, an initiative deploying energy efficient refrigeration systems without hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). He was instrumental in fostering a relationship with Greenpeace through the formation of Refrigerants, Naturally!, a multi-stakeholder initiative the Company launched in 2004 to encourage environmentally friendly cooling technologies. He also contributed to the formation of Project esKO, an effort to reduce the Company’s manufacturing emissions and drive productivity improvements in a system that includes some 900 bottling facilities.

Bryan has been active in the Company’s efforts to drive global awareness of environmental challenges. His work has supported the UN Global Compact’s Caring for Climate: The Business Platform and the Company’s global educational initiative for Earth Hour in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). He also is a climate change educator for Al Gore’s Climate Project, which promotes public awareness on global warming.

Bryan graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.  While there he specialized in environmental management through the cooperative program with Jordan, Jones and Goulding, Inc., an environmental consulting firm in Atlanta.  From 1987 through 1991, he worked on various water and wastewater projects, applying his skills in computer modeling.

Bryan has been recognized as one of the United States’ premier weightlifters.  He has represented the U.S. in a number of international events, including the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He won a total of five silver medals in the 1991 and 1995 Pan-Am Games and won six National Championships while breaking fifteen American records.

Bryan resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and three children.

As CEO of Verdiem, Jeremy Jaech brings 20 years of insight, leadership and market-creation strategy behind some of today's most recognizable software, including Microsoft Visio and Adobe PageMaker. As CEO, Jeremy leads Verdiem's corporate development and strategy in both defining and broadening the market for energy and carbon management in the enterprise and scaling the company's business operations to maximize the growing demand for energy management solutions. 

Most recently, Jeremy served as co-founder and CEO of Trumba, which makes calendaring web services for companies to manage events online. He also co-founded and served as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Visio, developing the breakthrough technology from 1990 until its acquisition by the Microsoft Corporation in 2000. Jeremy began his entrepreneurial path by founding Aldus Corporation in 1984, the first company to create graphical design software for consumers. On the heels of PageMaker's success, Jeremy was appointed Aldus' Vice President of Engineering and oversaw the development of all Aldus products before it was acquired by Adobe in 1994.

Jeremy currently serves on the Board of Directors of Doyenz, Trumba, Cozi, and has contributed as a scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Battelle Research Center. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington.

Robert Johnston is president and founder of the Executive Council.

Johnston currently sits on the advisory board for the Business Council for the United Nations (BCUN). He is a mentor for the NYU Stern School's Venture Mentor program and the Columbia Business School's Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs. Johnston is also a director of Cohere Communications, a VoIP telephony company based in New York City. He serves on the advisory board of Lollipop Theater, which brings the magic of movies to hospitalized children. Johnston is also a co-chair of the Friends of Belfast, a non-profit organization devoted to fostering business relations between Northern Ireland and the US. Johnston was  a finalist for the Harvard Business School's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He earned a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and holds a law degree from Suffolk Law School in Boston, with a focus on high-technology and intellectual property law.

As the Industry Technology Strategist, serving in the capacity of CTO for MicrosoftÕs life sciences team, Les Jordan provides architectural, technical, and industry specific guidance to internal product teams, partner companies and MicrosoftÕs largest pharmaceutical and health products enterprise customers. He brings over 15 years of industry experience setting technical direction and strategy.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, Les spent five years with Webridge as a Solution Architect and Technical Evangelist, where he was instrumental in launching their product and market development initiative into clinical trials and research compliance process automation. Based on those efforts, Click Commerce is now one of the largest providers of Research Compliance automation software in the United States.

In addition to research compliance expertise, Les spent five years providing technical guidance in the clinical trials industry as the IT Director of a small CRO. He directed the efforts of the company in building electronic data capture systems, installing client-server based clinical trials systems at many of the largest pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, and consulting with customers on CANDA systems Ð the pre-cursor to 21 CFR Part 11.

Outside of pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, Les also served five years as an officer at a large Fortune-500 financial services company, managing large IT projects and setting direction in the messaging and collaboration space.

Les has also provided services to companies and organizations including State Street Bank, Mellon Bank, Private Healthcare Systems, Pergo Floors, University of Miami School of Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His efforts have resulted in speaking engagements at conferences including the Oracle Pharmaceutical Users Group, Society of Research Administrators, Private Health Care Systems Market Leaders Conference, CDISC Interchange, Drug Information Association, EMR/EDC Convergence, interviews and articles published in Life Sciences Information Technology, Applied Clinical Trials, Bio-ITWorld, and various webinars.

In his spare time, Les volunteers as a music teacher, designs web sites for local non-profits, serves as the Tournament Director for his local youth soccer association, and enjoys time with his wife of 20 years and their two children, ages 18 and 13. Les and his family live in the Boston area.

Mark Kalpin is a partner in the firm's Regulatory and Government Affairs Department, and a member of the Environmental, Public Policy and Strategy, and Real Estate Practice Groups. Mr. Kalpin is the co-chair of the firm’s Energy and Clean Technology Group. He joined the firm in 1995.

Mr. Kalpin regularly advises clients on all aspects of energy law.  Mr. Kalpin has assisted renewable energy project proponents in obtaining government grants and loan guarantees, and represents entities on regulatory issues before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and state Public Utility Commissions. Mr. Kalpin also counsels real estate development, manufacturing and energy industry clients on project development activities, environmental permitting and compliance requirements and the defense of environmental enforcement actions.

Mr. Kalpin is the Vice President of the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA), the Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Energy Facilities and Siting Committee, and the Chairman of The New England Council's Energy and Environment Committee. He is a member of the Energy Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association. He was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Pipeline and Product Regulation from 1986 to 1993.

Mr. Kalpin was named as a "New England Super Lawyer" in environmental/land use laws in the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 issues of Boston Magazine. He served as a judge for the finalist portion of the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize competition in 2008.

Sumir Karayi founded 1E in 1997 with the goal to drive down the cost of IT for large organizations. Built upon a strong belief in technical excellence and team spirit, Sumir has steered 1E into becoming a successful, global organization with head offices both in New York and London.

Sumir is passionate about the environment, especially when it comes to wasted energy and resources in IT. His vision and leadership has enabled 1E to become the market leaders in PC power management with their flagship product, NightWatchman. Today, NightWatchman is deployed on 4 million PCs worldwide. Since its launch over 9 years ago, it has cumulatively saved organizations over USD $360 million in energy costs. The solution has prevented 3 million US tons of carbon dioxide from having entered the atmosphere - this is the equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 0.5 million passenger vehicles.

1E remains privately owned with no external investors. 1E solutions are currently being used by more than 12 million users in over 1,100 organizations across 42 countries world-wide. 1E has featured for 4 out of the last 5 years in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 listings which recognize 1E as one of the fastest-growing and successful private technology companies. 1E was recently awarded Best Green IT Supplier at the Green IT Expo in November 2008.

Sumir gained a BEng and MSc in Electronic Engineering from Warwick University. He is happily married with a 10 year old son.

Guy Kawasaki is a founder and Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures. Prior to this position, he was a Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. and sits on the board of BitPass, FilmLoop, and SimplyHired.

A noted speaker and the founder of various personal computer companies, Guy was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. He is also the author of eight books including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way.

Guy holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from UCLA.

Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (the Center), a part of Deloitte LLP (Deloitte). He provides strategic guidance on the development of Center research and thought leadership. Paul has had 30 years of experience in academic medicine and the private sector. He is well-regarded for his knowledge of health care economics, health policy and trend analysis.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Paul served in several key roles at Vanderbilt University. He was the executive director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (VCEBM), associate professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an associate professor of Health Management at the Owen Graduate School of Business. He oversaw many clinical outsourcing ventures involving care team training, clinical information technology, data management, and evidence-based pathway construction and integration. Paul also has engaged in several joint ventures, including specialty hospitals in the United Kingdom, development of primary care delivery systems in Botswana, partnerships with two Fortune 100 companies pursuing innovative approaches to chronic care management and others that are in early-stage development.

Paul supported efforts by the Vanderbilt Medical Group to develop, integrate and measure adherence to evidence-based pathways and order sets. He also was instrumental in spearheading VanderbiltÕs entry into integrative health, with the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health.

Before joining Vanderbilt, Paul served as chairman of the board of a large California dental practice management company; chief executive officer (CEO) of an enterprise business management solutions firm; a developer of evidence-based guideline software; CEO of a community medical management firm and principal of The Keckley Group, a strategic planning consulting practice that served 1,200 U.S. provider organizations and health plans.

Paul is an active member of several societies and editorial boards, and has authored numerous articles and three books. He has been profiled by ABCÕs "20/20," CBSÕs "60 Minutes," CNN, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal; he also has been a keynote speaker at several national industry meetings. Paul has testified for state Medicaid Review Committees in Utah and Tennessee about the potential impact of evidence-based standards on benefits for enrollees.

He received a bachelor of arts degree from Lipscomb University, a master's degree and a doctorate degree from Ohio State University, and he completed a fellowship in economic policy at Oxford University.

Mr. Kennedy is the president and co-founder of Marwood Group & Co., a healthcare-focused financial services firm with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and London specializing in proprietary healthcare research, capital introductions, asset management and private equity advisory services.

Previously, Mr. Kennedy served as Counsel to the law firm of Wiggin & Dana located in New Haven, CT. Mr. Kennedy’s health law practice focused primarily on state and federal regulatory and reimbursement issues affecting hospitals, home care agencies, long-term care providers, physicians, and mental health providers. In addition, Mr. Kennedy served as Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at the Connecticut Hospital Association, counseling acute care providers and policy-makers on a wide variety of emerging health care issues.

Mr. Kennedy has also been an active leader in the civil rights movement for persons with disabilities. In his disability law practice, he advised companies about how to best expand opportunities for persons with disabilities and how to avoid liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. He continues to serve on the corporate and advisory boards of numerous disability organizations and lectures nationwide on topics relating to health and disability law. Mr. Kennedy received an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, a master’s degree from Yale University, and a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy was named one of Time magazine's “Heroes for the Planet” for his success helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River. The group's achievement helped spawn more than 130 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe.

Mr. Kennedy serves as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper and President of Waterkeeper Alliance. He is also a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law’s Environmental Litigation Clinic and is co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City. He has worked on several political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.

He has worked on environmental issues across the Americas and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting traditional homelands. He is credited with leading the fight to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City watershed agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. He helped lead the fight to turn back the anti-environmental legislation during the 104th Congress.

Among Mr. Kennedy's published books are the New York Times’ bestseller Crimes Against Nature (2004), St. Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy (2005), The Riverkeepers (1997), and Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr: A Biography (1977). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Nation, Outside Magazine, The Village Voice, and many other publications. His award winning articles have been included in anthologies of America’s Best Crime Writing, Best Political Writing and Best Science Writing.

Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Following graduation he attended Pace University School of Law, where he was awarded a Masters Degree in Environmental Law.

He is a licensed master falconer, and as often as possible he pursues a life-long enthusiasm for white-water paddling. He has organized and led several expeditions in Canada and Latin America, including first descents on three little known rivers in Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Walter Kiechel is author of The Lords of Strategy. The book reflects much of what he has learned in three decades of reporting and writing on business.

Kiechel served as editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing and senior vice president in charge of its publishing division, with responsibility for the Harvard Business Review; HBS Press, the company's book-publishing arm; the newsletter unit as well as HBP's video, reprints, and conference businesses.

Kiechel spent most of his early career at Fortune magazine. After beginning at the magazine as a reporter in 1977, he rose to become its managing editor, crafting a strategy for the magazine as a journal of "ideas, strategies, and solutions for decision makers."

Kiechel received JD and MBA degrees from Harvard, and is a member of the New York bar. He got his undergraduate education at Harvard as well, where he was awarded an AB degree with honors and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, spending most of the time on sea duty aboard destroyers, an adventure he still relishes.

As a director of Atelier Ten and leader of its global energy analysis practice, Nico consults on a wide variety of large scale residential, commercial and institutional buildings, as well as on masterplan and renovation work in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

Nico has particular experience with the application of advanced building analysis including facade optimization, daylight and shading analysis, and optimization of building systems.Recent work includes the first LEED Platinum condominium high rise in New York City, the sustainability framework for Columbia’s new Manhattanville Campus, and the adaptive reuse of the Horno3 blast furnance for the Musem of Steel in Monterrey, Mexico. Nico teaches building systems integration at Pratt Institute’s Graduate Architecture Program and the core building systems class at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.

He is a LEED Accredited Design Professional, and serves as on the GSA National Registry of Peer Professionals. Nico holds a Dipl. Ing. in Architecture from the Technical University in Munich, an M.S. in Building Technology from MIT and a Doctor of Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Mr. King-Shaw is Founding Partner of PARMA. Mr. King-Shaw has extensive expertise in health policy, economics and finance. Ruben served in the George W. Bush Administration from 2001 to 2003 where he led many of President Bush's and HHS Secretary Tommy G. ThompsonÕs health care initiatives as Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In that capacity, he directed the day-to-day operations of the $500 billion agency. Mr. King-Shaw was also Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury where he led the AdministrationÕs Health Coverage Tax Credit initiatives. Mr. King-Shaw was a major spokesperson for the Administration on the topics of health care disparities, prescription drug benefits, Medicare and Medicaid reform, rural health and the uninsured in America.

Prior to joining the George W. Bush Administration, Mr. King-Shaw was the Secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). The $11 billion dollar Agency was responsible for FloridaÕs Medicaid, Health Quality Assurance, facility regulation, and managed care regulation activities. He was appointed to head the Agency by Governor Jeb Bush on December 30, 1998. In addition to PARMA Mr. King-ShawÕs serves on the Board of Directors of WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) of Tampa, FL; Athenahealth, Inc. of Watertown, MA where he is Lead Director; Exact Cost of Hallandale Beach, FL where he is Vice Chairman; MedDirect Latino, Inc. of Pompano Beach, Fl where he is Chairman; and Jentryx, Inc. of Santa Barbara, CA.

Mr. King-Shaw is a graduate of Cornell UniversityÕs School of Industrial and Labor Relations with a specialty in Labor Economics and currently serves on the Schools Advisory Council. He also holds a Master of Health Services Administration and a Master of International Business from the Chapman Graduate School of Business in Miami and the Instituto de Empresas/Center for International Studies in Madrid, Spain.

David Kirkpatrick, senior editor, internet and technology at FORTUNE, specializes in the computer and technology industries, as well as in the impact of the Internet on business and society.

Kirkpatrick has written cover stories on Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Sun, and numerous other topics including blogging. He is regularly ranked one of the most influential tech journalists in the U.S.

Kirkpatrick has appeared frequently as a technology industry expert on CNN and PBS. Working with other FORTUNE editors, he developed and hosts Brainstorm, a multi-disciplinary conference which brings together global leaders to interact and discuss the future.

Jay runs strategic PR programs for ad/marketing technologies and emerging digital media, executing communication strategies for clients in ad/marketing technologies (mobile), digital publishing/entertainment, video gaming, content delivery and licensing. Jay manages day-to-day account activities for his teams as well as developing media strategies for the group’s clients and new business pitches. Jay's current clients include PointRoll, Omniture, VeriSign, MRM WORLDWIDE, Corbis, Velti and GGL Global Gaming. Jay maintains close contact with many media and industry players and develops strategic media outreach efforts for every client.

Jonathan Korngold is a Managing Director at General Atlantic LLC, where he has worked since 2001. Mr. Korngold is based in the firm's Greenwich, CT headquarters and currently heads General Atlantic's global Healthcare sector.

More generally, Mr. Korngold has extensive experience with technology-enabled services companies and has specific expertise in working with business process outsourcing, transaction processing, government services, financial services, and healthcare-related businesses. In his capacity as a Managing Director, Mr. Korngold has worked closely with many of the firm's public and private portfolio companies and is currently a Board member of Emdeon Business Services.

Prior to joining General Atlantic, Mr. Korngold was a member of Goldman SachsÕs Principal Investment Area and Mergers & Acquisitions groups in London and New York, respectively. Mr. Korngold received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and graduated with a B.A. in Economics with Honors from Harvard College. In addition, Mr. Korngold has spent extensive time in China, where he studied Mandarin Chinese at Peking University.

Mr. Korngold is an active member in the community and is involved in a number of educational and non-profit organizations, including DonorsChoose.org, The Echoing Green Foundation, StreetWise Partners and the Central Park Conservancy.

As senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for UPS, Kurt Kuehn directs electronic commerce, customer relationship management, product development, customer service and sales. Under his direction, UPS is focused on deepening customer relationships, to create one-to-one linkages that bring the company into its customersÕ business processes. This is achieved through integration of technology tools, creating and enhancing a broad product portfolio and by leveraging UPSÕs supply chain capabilities. A native of South Bend, Ind., Kuehn attended Yale University and received a masterÕs degree in business administration from the University of Miami. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Wharton. Kuehn began his UPS career in 1977 as a delivery driver. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in operations, industrial engineering, finance and marketing. After several positions in Florida and Montana, Kuehn was named facilities planning manager in 1986. Subsequent positions included work in strategic marketing analysis and financial planning. In 1996, Kuehn was named manager of the strategic cost department, responsible for profit and loss measurement, customer pricing systems and cost analysis. He later held the position of vice president of business information analysis. In that role, Kuehn oversaw market research, strategic cost analysis, competitive analysis and data mining. Prior to his current position, Kuehn served as UPSÕs first vice president of investor relations after playing an instrumental role in the companyÕs initial public offering of stock in 1999.

David Kuttler joined Johnson & Johnson in August, 1999 as Director, Advanced Technology in the Corporate Advanced Communications Group. Dave brought 16+ years experience developing and delivering business solutions based on leading-edge technology. Before joining Johnson & Johnson he held the position of Director of Client Technologies for Bankers Trust. Prior to Bankers Trust, Dave was Director of Technology at Merck-Medco, where he was responsible for infrastructure and special projects. In May, 2000 Dave was promoted to Vice President e-Business Architecture & Technologies, responsible for leading a team of Internet technology consultants, application specialists and architects who will help expand J&JÕs internet competencies. Through the use of open standards and tools, his team is providing a focal point for the operating companies to work with as they seek to implement their e-business objectives. In December, 2000 Dave was promoted to Vice President Information Management Architecture. In his current position Dave is a member of the Corporate Office of Information Management. As Vice President Information Management Architecture, COIM Dave will be responsible for defining J&J enterprise wide information technology and architecture standards. In addition, he will chair the Enterprise Architecture Board and be J&JÕs liaison to Oracle and HP, while continuing his current responsibilities for e-business technology. Mr. Moses co-founded UGO Networks in 1998 and serves as its CEO. Prior to UGO Networks, Mr. Moses served as the President of MTV Russia, launching that service in Moscow in September of 1998. Mr. Moses has also served as the President of BMG Interactive, where he launched and oversaw the Games division and where he greenlighted "Grand Theft Auto," one of the biggest selling video games in history; and as Vice President at Times Mirror Magazines, where he founded the New Media division and initiated strategies for leveraging 11 publications into on-line and off-line ventures. As the COO of CRB Broadcasting Group, Mr. Moses engineered the successful turnaround and refinancing of a formerly bankrupt radio company. In addition to acting as assistant to Roone Arledge and a producer on four Olympics at ABC Sports, Mr. Moses has also served as Executive Producer for an ABC Television movie and created a dramatic series for Warner Brothers which aired on CBS. Mr. Moses received his BA from Princeton University and his MBA from Harvard University.

Jonathan has over twenty five years’ experience in operations and information technology management, and the development and implementation of strategies to improve business operations.  Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Jonathan was a Director at another professional services firm and also served as a Vice President at GE Capital Corporation. Jonathan has worked on over 300 transactions, advising his clients through pre-acquisition operations and technology due diligence, Day 1 planning, and post-deal integration and carve out support.

Rich Lechner was named vice president, Energy & Environment in September 2008. In this role, he leads IBM’s efforts in helping clients address the issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability. He is responsible for defining strategy and managing the broad portfolio of capabilities and offerings that leverage IBM’s technology innovation, deep industry insight, and business process strategy.

Mr. Lechner has a strong track record for driving key cross IBM initiatives that deliver value to clients of all sizes.. Previously, he was vice president for Enterprise Systems addressing IBM’s large enterprise customer base and market opportunity by bringing to market a unified set of systems, software and services designed to optimize large-scale IT infrastructures. He has held a number of other senior leadership positions at IBM across the hardware, software, and services organizations including: IT Optimization, Storage Systems, Mainframes, Software Strategy, and Systems Management. Mr. Lechner spent ten years as a programmer for IBM and began his career as a micro-code programmer in the Financial Services Industry.

Alexandra Levy is the director of Branded Entertainment at Google. In that role she is responsible for creating branded entertainment solutions for advertisers and content partners to syndicate to targeted audiences across YouTube and the Google content network.

Prior to joining Google in 2007, Alex was director of business development at MTV Networks where she managed a national multimedia new business team that sold on-air, online, digital, and multi-platform packages to a national client base. Before working at MTV, Alex was director of business development at NBC/Universal, where she developed integrated marketing campaigns to sell primetime, news, sports, and late night programming.

Alex is a competitive golfer and has completed eight marathons, winning the Dutchess County marathon and placing among the top two hundred finishers in the New York City Marathon.

Alex holds a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford.

Chairman, President and CEO, Becton Dickinson (BD), a global medical technology company headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. BD, which makes and sells medical devices, instrumented systems and reagents, is dedicated to improving people's health throughout the world. BD is focused on improving drug therapy, enhancing the quality and speed of diagnosing infectious diseases, and advancing research and discovery of new drugs and vaccines. The Company's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases. Mr. Ludwig joined BD in 1979. His previous roles have included President, Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Systems; Vice President, Planning and Development; Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Named President in May 1999 and Chief Executive Officer in January 2000, Mr. Ludwig was elected Chairman in February 2002.

Abbie Lundberg has led the award-winning CIO editorial team since 1995. Under her stewardship, CIO has become the publication of record for chief information officers. A leading expert on the major technology and business issues of the day, Lundberg has been quoted by The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Time magazine, Reuters, Fox News and Investor's Business Daily. She appears frequently as a speaker and moderator at key industry events. Technology Marketing magazine (formerly Marketing Computers) has named her a Top Journalist and a Media "Influencer" every year since 1996. In 2004, BtoB Media Business named her 'Top Editor' in its inaugural Innovator's Awards. Under Lundberg's leadership, CIO magazine has received over 150 editorial awards, including the Grand Neal, American Business Media's top honor, in 2003 and 2004, and Magazine of the Year, from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, in 1999 and 2001.

John was appointed General Manager of IBM's Global Financial Services organization in July, 2005. In this role, John is responsible for IBMÕs overall relationship with major financial services firms around the globe. John and his team help financial services clients transform their businesses to respond to the swiftly changing array of business conditions, regulatory requirements, and other challenges they face today. John has extensive experience in financial services across a range of assignments. Beginning in 2001, John served as IBM's Managing Director for JPMorganChase, responsible for IBMÕs overall business relationship with this client. In this capacity, John led a global team that included both customer relationship coverage resources and a wide range of hardware, software, and services specialists. John also led IBM's insurance business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (1999); served as Vice President of Americas Financial Services Solutions Sales (1998); and first worked in IBM's financial services business as Vice President of Marketing in 1997. Some of John's other assignments at IBM included: Vice President, Global Sales, On Demand Business (2003); Executive Assistant to IBM's Chairman and CEO, Louis V Gerstner, Jr. (1996); and Vice President for Net Generation industries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2000. John joined IBM in 1984 as a summer intern at the T.J. Watson Research Center where he worked on natural language translation algorithms. John is a native of southern Ohio and received his A.B. magna cum laude in Linguistics and Computer Science from Harvard College. He, his wife Alethea, their sons John and James, and their daughter Charleton reside in Connecticut.

Mark Madden is Alcatel-Lucent's Regional Vice President, Americas Energy Markets where he is responsible for market strategy, solutions portfolio, strategic relationships and business development in the Utility, Oil, and Gas markets.   Mr. Madden joined Alcatel-Lucent in 1996 and has over 25 years experience with leading companies in the IT and telecommunications industries. He has held management positions with International Network Services; C&S Associations, Computer Science Corporation; and Analytics, Inc.
Mr. Madden holds degrees from Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.

David leads National Grid’s US External Affairs Team, with responsibility for federal relations and issues.  He is also central to the company’s US and UK teams, handling all issues and functions external to the company from climate change to communications.

After several years in private law practice in Canada, from 1988 to 1993 David was resident in New York, as Senior International Trade Counsel for the government of Alberta focusing on International trade and energy issues. 

Mr. Manning returned to Canada to be Deputy Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta. Mr. Manning was then selected to lead the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. Mr. Manning was a delegate to the Kyoto conference on climate change in that capacity, in 1997.

More recently, Mr. Manning has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Environmental Officer of KeySpan. In that capacity, he was central to a "system repowering" of the Ravenswood power station with the addition of combined-cycle capacity. 

Mr. Manning remains active in the communities served by National Grid, including: Past Chair, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and sits on the Boards of the New York City Police Foundation, Audubon New York, Long Island Housing Partnership, Citizen Budget Commission, and the New York League of Conservation Voters.

Mark McClellan is senior fellow, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.  Established in 2007, the Engelberg Center provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

 A doctor and economist by training, McClellan has a highly distinguished record in public service and academic research.  He is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.  McClellan served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House under President George W. Bush.  He also served in the Clinton administration as deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy, where he supervised economic analysis and policy development on a range of domestic policy issues.

 Previously, McClellan was an associate professor of economics and associate professor of medicine with tenure at Stanford University, where he directed Stanford’s Program on Health Outcomes Research; served as associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics; and was co-principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal study of the health and economic status of older Americans.  He has twice received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics.

 In his capacity as a health policy expert, McClellan is the co-director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care; co-chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America; and chair of the FDA’s Reagan-Udall Foundation.  He is also co-chair of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, sits on the National Quality Forum’s Board of Directors, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 

 McClellan holds an MD from the Harvard University–Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a PhD in economics from MIT, an MPA from Harvard University, and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin.  He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and has been a practicing internist during his career.

Clean Skies News Managing Editor and News Anchor Susan McGinnis anchors The Energy Reports and Clean Skies Sunday. Susan has distinguished herself as one of Washington DC’s leading energy journalists, and is much in demand as a moderator of national energy forums and debates. Before joining Clean Skies, Susan served as anchor of the CBS Morning News and as a business-news contributor to The Early Show on CBS. Susan also reported for CBS’ MarketWatch.com and anchored MarketWatch Weekend.

Eric J. McNulty serves as Editorial Director for the Executive Council’s Sustainability Leadership Summits. He works extensively on thought leadership projects related to sustainability, social enterprise, executive leadership, and related issues.

McNulty also Senior Editorial Associate at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  His work with the program centers on research and writing about leadership lessons derived from observation and analysis of leaders in high stakes, high stress situations such as those encountered in emergency response. He is currently working on a book based on meta-leadership, the leadership framework that this the core of the NPLI curriculum.

He is the co-author of the forthcoming second edition of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration (Josey-Bass, 2010).

McNulty is a widely published business writer having written multiple articles for the Harvard Business Review (HBR), the most recent of which appeared in the March 2010 issue and centered on leadership during a crisis, as well as articles for Harvard Management Update, Strategy and Innovation, Marketwatch, the Boston Business Journal, Crisis Response, HPH Now, and Worthwhile magazine among others.

His HBR case study on change management, “Welcome Aboard. Now Don’t Change a Thing,” was among the highest rated in the magazine’s history. His HBR cases have been anthologized through the HBR paperback series and have been used in business education curricula in the United States and as far away as France and the Philippines. His interview with Michael Watkins, “Taking Charge Fast” ranked 6th among Harvard Management Update’s most frequently purchased articles in 2006.

McNulty co-founded Harvard Business Publishing’s conference business and served as its director for six years. He produced thought leadership events around the world working with some of the most celebrated executives and management experts. He also developed custom programs in collaboration with leading companies such as Accenture (Overcoming the Challenges to the Adoption of Electronic Health Records), Coca-Cola (The Science and Psychology of Happiness), SAS (Analytics and Decision Making), UPS (Global Trade and Supply Chain Issues), Visa (Data Security), and others.

In previous positions, McNulty was an award-winning creative director and copy writer as well as a marketing executive. He has worked for and with such leading brands as Bloomingdale’s, Infiniti Motor Corporation, and Legal Sea Foods.

McNulty holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (with honors) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1981). An early student of globalization, he completed extensive independent study projects comparing the global expansion strategies of Coca-Cola and Pepsi and examining global integration in the ready-to-wear apparel industry. 

He serves on the Board of Directors at The Family Center, a family services agency based in Somerville, Massachusetts and is a past member of the Corporate Executive Board at WGBH, the Boston-based public television and radio station, and Board of Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of New York. He is on the board of advisors of CraterCom, a Los Angeles, California-based public relations firm specializing in green brands.

Dan Mendelson is President of Avalere Health, an advisory services company whose core purpose is to create innovative solutions to complex healthcare problems.  Based in Washington DC, the firm delivers research, analysis, insight, and strategy for leaders in healthcare business and policy.  Avalere's experts span 125 staff drawn from the federal government (e.g., CMS, OMB, CBO, and the Congress), Fortune 500 healthcare companies, top consultancies, and nonprofits. The firm offers deep substance in areas ranging from healthcare coverage and financing to the changing role of evidence in healthcare decision-making.   Prior to founding Avalere in 2000 Mendelson served as Associate Director for Health at the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton.

Robert Morris Morgenthau has served as the District Attorney for New York County, New York since 1975. He is now in his ninth term. Mr. Morgenthau was born in 1919 in New York City into a prominent Jewish family that had emigrated from Germany in 1866. He is the son of long-time Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. His grandfather Henry Morgenthau, Sr. was United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Before going into diplomatic service, he built an empire in real estate and then became a strong financial backer of President Woodrow Wilson. From his earliest days, Robert Morgenthau was well connected politically. The family home was near Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Springwood Estate at Hyde Park, New York and he grew up knowing Roosevelt. Morgenthau graduated from Yale Law School in 1948 and joined the New York law firm of Patterson, Belknap & Webb, becoming a partner in 1954. In 1961, after twelve years of practicing corporate law, Morgenthau accepted an appointment from President John F. Kennedy as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of New York in 1962, but was defeated by the incumbent, Nelson Rockefeller. He then was reappointed U.S. Attorney and served for the remainder of the Kennedy and Johnson Administration. While U.S. attorney, he established a special unit to investigate securities fraud and prosecuted highly publicized bribery cases against city officials and IRS attorneys and accountants. Mr. Morgenthau has maintained a national profile while serving in what is technically a local office, in part because he has not been shy about prosecuting white-collar crime. He is best known for the prosecution of two headline-grabbing business crimes over the course of his 33-year tenure: the BCCI Affair and the case of former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski. Morgenthau's principal other civic activities are the Police Athletic League (PAL), which he has served since 1962, first as president and then chairman, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, of which he is chairman. In 2005, Morgenthau received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."

Mitchell Morris is a Principal in Deloitte Consulting’s Life Sciences and Health Care practice and is the national leader for Health IT.  Dr. Morris has more than 25 years of health care experience in consulting, health care administration, research, technology, education, and clinical care.  Prior to consulting,  Dr. Morris has also served as a Senior Vice President for Healthcare Systems and Chief Information Officer at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center where he was also Professor and a leading researcher and clinician.  Dr. Morris’s focus in consulting has been on:

•Developing and implementing information technology strategies to improve hospital, health system and medical school clinical, quality and patient safety, financial and research performance.

•Developing and implementing strategies for clinical quality and performance improvement

•Implementing clinical software packages for health care providers along with clinical and operational transformation/process improvement to fully leverage the automation.

•Designing and implementing business intelligence systems for financial, operational, and clinical applications.

•Developing disease management programs, treatment guidelines and protocols.

Dr. Morris is a frequent speaker on health IT and has published extensively.

Mr. Moses co-founded UGO Networks in 1998 and serves as its CEO. Prior to UGO Networks, Mr. Moses served as the President of MTV Russia, launching that service in Moscow in September of 1998. Mr. Moses has also served as the President of BMG Interactive, where he launched and oversaw the Games division and where he greenlighted "Grand Theft Auto," one of the biggest selling video games in history; and as Vice President at Times Mirror Magazines, where he founded the New Media division and initiated strategies for leveraging 11 publications into on-line and off-line ventures. As the COO of CRB Broadcasting Group, Mr. Moses engineered the successful turnaround and refinancing of a formerly bankrupt radio company. In addition to acting as assistant to Roone Arledge and a producer on four Olympics at ABC Sports, Mr. Moses has also served as Executive Producer for an ABC Television movie and created a dramatic series for Warner Brothers which aired on CBS. Mr. Moses received his BA from Princeton University and his MBA from Harvard University.

Michael Murphy is senior manager of Worldwide Environmental Affairs for Dell, Inc. In this role, he is responsible for leading standardization and governance of regulatory compliance processes, assuring environmental product compliance and increasing Dell's environmental leadership across its entire portfolio. Mr. Murphy is also one of the primary authors of Dell's annual sustainability report and regularly assists customers with their questions about the company's environmental programs.

He has been with the company for eight years and has held positions in program management, compliance engineering and environmental affairs.

Prior to joining Dell, Michael served in the United States Army as an officer in the Corps of Engineers and Army Acquisition Corps where he led a variety of combat engineering and contracting organizations, as well as, serving as the director of contracting for the Texas Army National Guard. He holds a BS in Environmental Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and is a certified Contracting Officer.

Scott Murphy was elected to represent the 20th District of New York in the US House of Representatives by a Special Election on March 31, 2009, following Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s appointment to the United States Senate.

Born January 27th, 1970 in Columbia, Missouri, Scott’s father, Alan, was a postal worker and his mother, Marcia, was a teacher.  They worked hard, providing Scott with the opportunity to succeed. His parents instilled in him the importance of a strong work ethic that has allowed him to live the American dream. After graduating from Harvard University, Scott moved to New York State and started his first high tech company while working out of his living room.  Scott spent the next decade dedicating his life to building small businesses and creating jobs, founding and running several more companies.  Scott also briefly worked as an aide to Governor Mel Carnahan and as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Roger Wilson of Missouri.

Recognizing that small businesses are the backbone of our economy, Scott decided to use his small business experience to help others realize their entrepreneurial dreams by joining venture capital firm Advantage Capital Partners in 2001.  This move allowed Scott to grow promising small businesses, and develop good-paying, high tech jobs across upstate New York.  Throughout his career, Scott has helped to create over 1,000 jobs.  

Scott is married to Jen Hogan, who grew up in Washington County next to her family's dairy farm.  Family is an enormous force in Scott and Jen’s life.  Nearly every Sunday evening, they join the 57 members of their immediate family for dinner.  The first time Jen brought Scott to visit her family in Hudson Falls, he was required to learn how to milk a cow before ever even setting foot in the house.  Scott and Jen currently live in Glens Falls with their three children, Simone, Lux, and Duke. 

Throughout his public career, Tim Murray has taken on the tough challenges of economic development, improving public education, protecting the environment and making government more responsive to every citizen.

Prior to his election as Lieutenant Governor, Tim was a three-term mayor of Worcester, the stateÕs second largest city. Under TimÕs leadership, Worcester experienced unprecedented progress, with $1 billion of new economic development projects that are helping to transform an older industrial city into one that is well-positioned to lead and grow in the new economy.

As mayor, Tim chaired the Worcester School Committee and helped make that cityÕs schools among the best urban school systems in the nation. Tim built community partnerships to lower drop-out rates, launch school-based health initiatives and expand after-school programs to support working families. Tim is a Worcester native and the oldest of five children. His father taught high school and his mother is a registered nurse. Tim attended Worcester public schools and went on to St. JohnÕs High School in Shrewsbury. Tim earned his bachelorÕs degree at Fordham University, and then put himself through law school attending classes at night while working days as a substitute school teacher and an advocate for homeless families. Tim earned his law degree from the Western New England College School of Law in Springfield and became a partner in the Worcester firm of Tattan, Leonard and Murray.

Tim was first elected to the Worcester City Council in 1997 and became mayor in 2001. Prior to his elective service, Tim was active for many years in a wide range of community initiatives. He served on the boards of the Worcester Public Library, Worcester Historical Museum, Worcester Community Action Council, the Worcester Working Coalition for Latino Students and Preservation Worcester.

Tim is married to Tammy (Sullivan), an occupational therapist who works with school-age children. Tim and Tammy live in Worcester with their daughters, Helen and Katerine.

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Garry Neil, M.D. is Corporate Vice President, Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT), Johnson & Johnson. In this role, Garry leads a team that catalyzes sustained growth for Johnson & Johnson by identifying and launching emerging technologies that underpin the creation of future businesses. Garry has broad experience in the science, medicine and pharmaceutical development. He has held a number of senior positions within J&J, most recently Group President, Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development where he was responsible for maximizing existing strengths and leveraging collective resources to bring innovative new molecular entities (NMEs) to market quickly and cost effectively. Through a number of new initiatives he helped transform J&JÕs pharmaceutical R&D to a much more capable and productive organization and helped recruit a number of top scientists. Under his leadership a number of important new medicines for the treatment of cancer, anemia, infections, central nervous system and psychiatric disorders, pain, and genitourinary and gastrointestinal diseases, gained initial or new and/or expanded indication approvals. Garry joined J&J in 2002 as Senior Vice President of Drug Development at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development (J&JPRD). In 2005, Garry became President of J&JPRD, and in 2006, was promoted to Group President. Before joining J&JPRD, he held senior-level positions with Astra Merck Inc., Astra Pharmaceuticals, Astra Zeneca and Merck KGaA. He has also held a number of academic posts at a number of academic institutes including the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the University of Toronto, the University of Iowa College of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania (adjunct). Garry has written more than 50 articles and book chapters. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a medical degree from the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine and completed his postdoctoral clinical training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, a member of the American Association of Immunologists, and the Society for Clinical Trials. He is a member of the Board of the Reagan Udall Foundation, the J&J Development Corporation and is J&JÕs representative to, and Vice Chairman of, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) Science and Regulatory Committee, Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the PhRMA Foundation Board, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (Rutgers), a member of the Executive Committee of the Biomarkers Consortium, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newark Boys Chorus School. He is also the 2007 discovery awardee of the American Geriatrics Society.

Jack Nelson, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Mount Sinai Medical Center Bob Cote is a partner in Orrick's IP litigation group and Chair of the Software Group. He is a nationally recognized patent litigator and trial lawyer. His practice focuses on litigation and strategic counseling involving intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, and IP-related unfair competition and antitrust matters. His litigation practice includes all phases of discovery, prior art research, Markman hearings, jury and bench trials, post-trial motions, and appellate practice before the Federal Circuit. His clients span the spectrum from Fortune 500 companies to emerging companies and individuals, both domestic and foreign. Mr. Cote has practiced throughout the United States, including in such notable jurisdictions for patent litigation as the Eastern District of Texas, Southern District of Texas, District of Delaware, Eastern District of Virginia, Southern District of Ohio, Northern District of Ohio, Central and Northern Districts of California, Eastern District of New York, and Southern District of New York. As Microsoft Corp.'s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual property, Marshall Phelps supervises Microsoft's intellectual property groups, including those responsible for trademarks, trade secrets, patents, licensing, standards and copyrights. He oversees the company's management of its intellectual property portfolio, which comprises some 3,000 U.S.-issued patents, their foreign counterparts and more than 11,000 trademark registrations worldwide. In addition, Phelps helps lead Microsoft's ongoing work with other companies in the technology industry to broaden awareness of intellectual property issues. Phelps joined Microsoft in June 2003 after a 28-year career at IBM Corp., where he served as vice president for intellectual property and licensing. Phelps was instrumental in IBM's standards, telecommunications policy, industry relations, patent licensing program and intellectual property portfolio development. Also, Phelps helped establish IBM's Asia Pacific headquarters in Tokyo and served as the company's director of government relations in Washington, D.C. Upon retiring from IBM in 2000, he spent two years as chairman and chief executive officer of Spencer Trask Intellectual Capital Company LLC, which specialized in spinoffs from major corporations such as Motorola Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and IBM. Phelps holds a bachelor of arts degree from Muskingum College, a master of science degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a doctorate from Cornell Law School. He and his wife, Eileen, divide their time between New Canaan, Conn., and Kirkland, Wash. They have two adult children. Outside of work, Phelps enjoys reading constantly one book per week on average and playing golf and running. Mr. Jack Nelson started at Mount Sinai in 2003 as the interim CIO. He was tasked with the creation of a governance team to provide leadership and oversight. In September of that year, Jack Nelson became part of the management team and was named Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. One of his key goals was to ensure that the institution retained its key personnel and the skill sets necessary to manage and support the hospitalÕs core applications and services. Over the last three years, Mr. Nelson has focused on improving the quality of services from IT as well as enhancing Mount SinaiÕs overall IT infrastructure. He has been instrumental in focusing senior leadershipÕs attention and action on critical risks (such as our 25 year old phone switch) and strategic opportunities (such as EMRs and smart cards). Under Mr. NelsonÕs leadership, the Information Technology department has been transformed and is more productive than it has ever been. The growing record of on-time and on-budget projects combined with an increasingly stable application portfolio has garnered this IT shop high praise in the highly demanding 24-by-7 environment of a hospital, where there is never a good time for a system outage

In his role as vice president of global energy and sustainability for Johnson Controls, Nesler leads a worldwide team responsible for coordinating marketing, legislative affairs, resource management, product/service innovation and energy program management.

Nesler's responsibilities also include leading a professional services organization that develops collaborative planning tools and provides consulting services to Johnson Controls customers and third-party clients on a global basis. Since joining Johnson Controls in 1983, Nesler has held a variety of leadership positions in technology, new product development and marketing in both the United States and Europe.

Nesler received his bachelor's of science and master's of science degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and is listed as a co–inventor on 10 patents.

Sharon Nunes is IBM Vice President of Big Green Innovations, developing carbon management and water management solutions as well as technology innovations for IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative. Sharon has held numerous executive positions in IBM, from Research to Systems & Technology and Life Sciences.

Sharon received her PhD in Materials Science in 1983 from the University of Connecticut. She has held numerous advisory board positions, was a National Academy of Engineering “Frontiers of Engineering” fellow in 2000 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering “Engineer of 2020” advisory board.

Sharon received two awards for her mentoring of technical women: IBM’s 2004 Fran Allen Mentoring Award and NAFE’s 2006 “Women of Excellence” national award. In 2009, Sharon was recognized as a Women’s History Month Honoree as one of the “Women Taking the Lead to Save our Planet” and in June 2009 will be inducted into the WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame.

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya. Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. His parents met at the University of Hawaii, where his mother was a student and his father had won a scholarship, allowing him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America.

Barack grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and later earned his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review.

Community & Public Service Deciding to honor the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer; the church-based group he joined sought to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.

Barack Obama's Career Obama became a civil rights lawyer and taught constitutional law in Chicago. His advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2003, Barack launched an improbable race for the Senate. Even with many primary contenders and a budget six times smaller than his opponentÕs, Barack won a landslide victory; he stood out alone among the major candidates, opposing the war in Iraq. Obama is the fifth African-American Senator in U.S. history and the only African-American currently serving in the Senate.

Barack Obama's Focus & Achievements Senator Obama has helped pass major measures designed to combat the international trafficking of nuclear weapons, promote the use of alternative fuels, and open up the budget process to greater public scrutiny. Throughout these efforts, heÕs brought Democrats and Republicans together.

Before entering politics, Obama wrote Dreams from My Father, a memoir. The audio edition earned a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

As Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Government Services for Emdeon, Miriam Paramore is responsible for long-term strategic planning, thought leadership, public policy and government affairs. Paramore brings over 25 years of industry experience and plays a critical role in helping Emdeon shape a course for the future based on emerging trends in health information technology. She is a national speaker and currently she serves on the national Board of Directors for the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), as well as on the Board for CareSource Management Group, a non-profit Medicaid managed care organization. She is a past chair the HIMSS Financial Systems Steering Committee, and serves on the eHealth Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  As a longtime advocate for HIT in the public sector, Paramore serves as an advisor to key Congressional committees and the Congressional Budget Office on health IT, healthcare administrative simplification, and other practical solutions that can take costs out of the system and make healthcare more efficient.

As Microsoft Corp.'s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual property, Marshall Phelps supervises Microsoft's intellectual property groups, including those responsible for trademarks, trade secrets, patents, licensing, standards and copyrights. He oversees the company's management of its intellectual property portfolio, which comprises some 3,000 U.S.-issued patents, their foreign counterparts and more than 11,000 trademark registrations worldwide. In addition, Phelps helps lead Microsoft's ongoing work with other companies in the technology industry to broaden awareness of intellectual property issues. Phelps joined Microsoft in June 2003 after a 28-year career at IBM Corp., where he served as vice president for intellectual property and licensing. Phelps was instrumental in IBM's standards, telecommunications policy, industry relations, patent licensing program and intellectual property portfolio development. Also, Phelps helped establish IBM's Asia Pacific headquarters in Tokyo and served as the company's director of government relations in Washington, D.C. Upon retiring from IBM in 2000, he spent two years as chairman and chief executive officer of Spencer Trask Intellectual Capital Company LLC, which specialized in spinoffs from major corporations such as Motorola Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and IBM. Phelps holds a bachelor of arts degree from Muskingum College, a master of science degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a doctorate from Cornell Law School. He and his wife, Eileen, divide their time between New Canaan, Conn., and Kirkland, Wash. They have two adult children. Outside of work, Phelps enjoys reading constantly one book per week on average and playing golf and running.

Alan Rambam is the President and Founder of a new global Omnicom mobile agency, MobileBehavior. Most recently, Alan managed Omnicom’s Youth and Mobile Marketing practice, as well as the practice’s research, trend, and insights arm Next Great Thing (NGT).

MobileBehavior is a major step toward enabling Omnicom to direct the adoption of mobile media, marketing, and advertising around the globe.  MobileBehavior is working with some of Omnicom’s largest agencies to help all of their 5,000 clients take the lead in mobile. Headquartered in New York, MobileBehavior operates  17 offices in 14 countries. 

MobileBehavior combines the insights and expertise of Omnicom’s award-winning Youth and Mobile Marketing practice with the worldwide breadth of the company’s most progressive advertising and marketing services agencies.  The result is the industry’s first agency that brings together a client-proven approach to integrated mobile solutions with the credentials, experience, and network to deliver those solutions on a global scale.

Before joining Fleishman-Hillard, Alan started the youth marketing and advertising firm Zoot Suit, and in just three years, he grew the agency from a single proprietorship into a multimillion-dollar agency with a client base that included Crayola, Tommy Hilfiger, and Toys ‘R Us. The agency was acquired in its fourth year by Gillespie/McCann Erickson (Interpublic).

Jay Rand is a partner of the Firm. He is widely recognized as one of the region’s leading counsel to early-stage, emerging growth and venture-backed companies. Jay represents venture capital funds, private equity funds, angel investors and a wide range of companies in industries ranging from information technology, new and traditional media, software, health services and life sciences to consumer goods and services. His expertise extends to equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, licensing transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and other corporate and securities matters, including entity formation and structure.

Jeffrey F. Rayport is founder and chairman of Marketspace LLC, a strategic advisory practice that works with leading companies to radically reinvent how they interact with and relate to customers. Marketspace is a unit of Monitor Group, a global strategy services and merchant banking firm. Rayport focuses his consulting, research, and speaking on the opportunities for businesses to drive transformational growth through innovative strategies to enhance customer engagement, particularly in information-intensive industries such as media and entertainment, retail, and financial services.

Previously a faculty member at Harvard Business School, Rayport developed and taught the first graduate-level e-commerce course in the United States. Rayport authored over a hundred HBS case studies. Business plans produced by his students resulted in dozens of high-tech start-ups, including Yahoo! Prior to joining the faculty, Rayport was a reporter for Fortune magazine, a telecommunications analyst for Nikko Securities, and a principal of the Winthrop Group, a consulting firm specializing in the history of business and technology.

Rayport earned an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.Phil. in International Relations at the University of Cambridge (U.K.), and an A.M. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; a director of the Nantucket Preservation Trust in Nantucket, MA; and a director of From the Top (a classical music program distributed in the United States by National Public Radio) in Boston, MA.

Libby Reder is the co-founder and leader of eBay's employee Green Team. As the Head of Environmental Initiatives at eBay Inc., Libby focuses on improving the environmental performance of eBay’s operations and teaming with eBay's employees and users to encourage more sustainable behavior in the office, on the road, in seller business operations and around buyer product choices. Prior to joining eBay in 2006, Libby spent five years as Professional Staff to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, where she sought and advanced policy solutions in a wide range of issue areas and drove productive, multi-sector dialogue. Libby holds an MBA with a focus on responsible business from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and BA in Government from Dartmouth College.

Edward has 15 years experience delivering cash generation programs to growth and public clients worldwide.  Prior to Ernst & Young Edward was a Vice President at a global consulting firm where he started their US business and designed and led capital optimization and operations transformation initiatives to clients throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.  He also managed diligence and integration activities for the firm’s own acquisition efforts.

Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world.  In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider.  The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, much of it in close collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities.  

The company’s mission is to repair the fabric of communities.  The firm draws on its human capital, financial depth and real estate expertise to create highly integrated solutions to real estate challenges. The firm’s work touches many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build not only housing, but also civic, cultural, educational and infrastructure open space.

A thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building, and affordable housing movements, Mr. Rose is a frequent speaker and writer. His work has received widespread media attention from CNN to The New York Times and was recently profiled in e², a PBS series on sustainable development. 

The firm’s innovative development, planning, investment, new construction, conversion and historic preservation work has won awards from a wide range of notable organizations including: the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Green USA, the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects. 

Mr. Rose is the chair of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation’s first green transit plan. He is a Trustee of several organizations including: the Urban Land Institute (where he co-chairs its Climate and Energy Committee); the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Enterprise Community Partners (with whose Green Communities program he is deeply engaged).  He also serves on the leadership councils of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land’s National Real Estate Council.   

Mr. Rose also serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the American Museum of Natural History, and is a co-founder of the Garrison Institute with his wife, Diana Rose, where he leads the Climate, Mind and Behavior program.

Mr. Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.

Lucy Rose is uniquely qualified to provide training and consulting to the pharmaceutical industry and its service support providers. Ms. RoseÕs combination of education and experience, coupled with her extensive experience as a trainer and educator, provides the depth of knowledge and expertise necessary to equip pharmaceutical companies to face a rapidly changing future.

From 1995-97, Ms. Rose served as the Director of the Office of Training and Communications for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) of the Food and Drug Administration. There she designed and implemented programs to improve external communications with the pharmaceutical industry, health care professionals, and consumers. Additionally, she designed and implemented programs to improve employee performance, including leadership and management development. Examples of programs introduced during Ms. Rose's leadership include: design and implementation of CDERÕs World Wide Web Site, Live Satellite Educational TV programs with the pharmaceutical industry, comprehensive introductory training programs for new reviewers, and design and implementation of CDERÕs crisis communication program.

Ms. Rose led CDERÕs Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications (DDMAC) from 1993 to 1995. In this capacity, she was responsible for the regulatory oversight of all prescription drug advertising and marketing to U.S. health care professionals and consumers. Among those challenges encountered during her leadership were the CME (Industry Supported Scientific and Educational Activities) Guidance and Direct to Consumer Broadcast Advertising considerations.

Prior to joining FDA, Ms. Rose was associated for seven years with Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals. She began her career as a sales representative, served as a regional sales trainer, and for four years was the District Sales Manager of the Washington, DC district.

Ms. Rose earned a B.S. degree in biology from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC and an MBA from Averett College. In addition, Lucy is a board-certified Physician Assistant, graduating from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Ms. Rose has been honored with a number of awards. The FDA twice selected her for their highest leadership accolade, the Award of Merit, for her leadership at DDMAC and at the Office of Training and Communication. In 2004, PHAME, one of the organizations that evaluates Direct To Consumer prescription drug promotion, elected her to its DTC Hall of Fame for her many years of leadership in the DTC arena.

Additionally, she speaks extensively at professional conferences on the regulatory and compliance issues surrounding the promotion of prescription drugs.

Barbara Ryan, Managing Director, joined Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in April 1992 as a senior analyst covering Pharmaceuticals, focusing primarily on the U.S. majors. In 2005, she extended her coverage to include the major U.S. drug distributors. Barbara has been recognized twice by the Wall.

Barbara Ryan, Managing Director, joined Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in April 1992 as a senior analyst covering Pharmaceuticals, focusing primarily on the U.S. majors. In 2005, she extended her coverage to include the major U.S. drug distributors. Barbara has been recognized twice by the Wall Street Journal All-Star Analyst survey, and is a four-time member of the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team (most recently in 2003). Barbara has been following the U.S. pharmaceutical industry since 1982. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, she was at Bear Stearns & Co. for eight years and followed that with two years at Prudential Securities. Barbara studied at the University of Massachusetts, and majored in Finance.

Marc Samuels is a partner with Washington, DC-based HillCo Partners, a strategic advisory firm focused on providing timely, strategic advice about the public and reimbursement policy risks and opportunities presented in the current public and private healthcare environment. 

Samuels’ provides support to product management and corporate reimbursement and policy resources beginning when a product is in Phase II clinical research through the product life-cycle to patent expiration.  Much of his time is spent educating and advising clients planning significant new initiatives in the regulatory arena, and providing independent expert opinion on policy and business issues in health care, helping to explore the ramifications of various public and reimbursement policy options.  Samuels also works with the investment community to identify potentially material changes in the regulatory and reimbursement environments faced by health care companies; and assess problems and opportunities in potential health care investments before the beginning of active due diligence.  He and his partners have each played pivotal roles in developing policy and affecting the regulatory agenda on some of the most critical coverage and payment policy issues affected by Medicare and Medicaid, including age-related macular degeneration, left ventricular assist devices, radiopharmaceuticals, obesity as an illness, anti-cancer therapies, IVIG, home infusion, ASP and AMP reform, and coverage of vaccines, oral-antiemetics, and vitamin-enhanced products under the Medicare Part D program.

Samuels’ attended the University of Texas School of Law, Yale School of Medicine and the University of Michigan.  He speaks on national health care issues to audiences throughout the country, and helps develop educational programs covering public and reimbursement policy developments and the concerns of client organizations and their members in the healthcare arena. 

He is a board member of the University Of Houston Health Law And Policy Institute.

John C. Santora is Cushman & Wakefield’s President and Chief Executive Officer for the Americas and one of the commercial real estate industry’s most experienced global executives.  A 31-year veteran of Cushman & Wakefield, he oversees the firm’s largest operating region, which includes 137 offices throughout North and South America.  In addition, he is a member of the firm’s senior governing body, the Cushman & Wakefield Board of Directors.

Cathy Schoen is senior vice president at The Commonwealth Fund. She is a member of the Fund's executive management team and research director of the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System. Her work includes strategic oversight and management of surveys, research and policy initiatives to track health system performance. From 1998 through 2005, she directed the Fund's Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance. Prior to joining the Fund in 1995, Ms. Schoen taught health economics at the University of Massachusetts' School of Public Health and directed special projects at the UMASS Labor Relations and Research Center. During the 1980s, she directed the Service Employees International Union's research and policy department. In the late 1970s, she was on the staff of President Carter's national health insurance task force, where she oversaw analysis and policy development. Prior to federal service, she was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She has authored numerous publications on health policy issues, insurance, and national/international health system performance and co-authored the book, Health and the War on Poverty. She holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Smith College and a graduate degree in economics from Boston College.

As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Alan Scott is responsible for overall go-to-market strategy for Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group solutions serving the financial, corporate and media, and government markets. In this role, he is responsible for marketing, brand, reputation, and customer programs.

Mr. Scott was previously chief marketing officer of Factiva, the former joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters. At Factiva, Mr. Scott was instrumental in implementing a more customer-centric go-to-market strategy and a new lead generation infrastructure, and he has been recognized for successfully aligning Factiva marketing with the sales process.

An information industry veteran, Mr. Scott brings more than 18 years of executive-level marketing and sales experience in the technology and venture capital industries. Previously, Mr. Scott was vice president of marketing at Giga Information Group. He also spent more than 13 years at Gartner Group in various sales and marketing roles, including group vice president of marketing. Mr. Scott also worked for Spencer Trask & Co., a New York-based venture capital concern and Prescients, a strategic marketing consultancy.

Mr. Scott earned a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and a language certificate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Mr. Scully joined WCAS in 2004 and focuses on investments in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining WCAS, he was the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for three years and the President and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals for six years. He also served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and as the Associate Director of OMB under President GHW Bush from 1989 to 2003, and has practiced law at Alston and Bird; Patton Boggs; and Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer and Feld. Mr. Scully received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1979 and a J.D. from Catholic University in 1986.

Vice Chairman, Pfizer Inc., serves as a member of the Pfizer Executive Committee, which is the companyÕs most senior decision-making team, responsible for vision, strategic direction and operations of the company. This team reviews and approves all major management, operating and financial decisions. This committee has direct control over, and accountability for, the performance of nearly all Pfizer operating and support groups. Mr. Shedlarz also focuses on three of PfizerÕs most critical levels for sustaining competitive advantage Ð PfizerÕs human resources, our financial resources, and enterprise-wide information technologies.

As Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Telx, Eric Shepcaro is responsible for leading and directing the growth and operations of the company. Focusing on service providers, enterprises and content providers, Shepcaro has expanded the company to 15 locations nationwide.  Under his leadership, Telx has become the company of choice for interconnection and network-rich co-location services.

Shepcaro joined Telx with over 25 years of experience working in the Network/IT industries in both public and startup companies. Most recently he worked for AT&T, where he served as Senior Vice President of Business Development.

Shepcaro also served as Vice President of Business Strategy/Development and Emerging Technologies and Chief Strategist, leading AT&T’s transformation into a premier integrator of enterprise and application networking solutions. He joined AT&T Business in June 2002 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Application Networking & Emerging Services. In March 2004, he assumed the responsibility as the overall Transformation Officer for AT&T, accountable for programs to build shareholder value and create a framework for the future.

Previously, Shepcaro spent numerous years in the content delivery and content management domains serving as Chief Executive Officer and President of Netelligence Technologies, and leading the international content delivery, managed hosting and applications businesses at Digital Island. His background also includes 17 years at Sprint, where he held a variety of positions in marketing, sales and operations.

Peter is a Senior Managing Director in Ernst & Young Capital Advisors and heads Capital & Debt Advisory, which focuses on capital advisory, capital raising and capital restructuring. Peter has twenty-three years of experience in capital raising, investment management and investment banking, including leveraged finance, special situations finance, principal investing and restructuring advisory. He spent almost twelve years at Bank of America and ten years at Prudential Investment Corp.  Peter has an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School and BBA in Business Administration from the University of New Orleans.

Beth Shiroishi is Assistant Vice President, Citizenship and Sustainability, with AT&T.  In this role, she has responsibility for the company’s focus on citizenship and sustainability, including communication of the company’s positions and initiatives, stakeholder relationships, and structural governance internal to the company. Beth was appointed to this position in March of 2008.
                                    
Prior to this position, Beth was Senior Director- Regulatory Policy & Planning, with responsibility for Network & Services Transformation.  Past regulatory responsibilities included policy, advocacy, and compliance for a wide range of issues dealing with network, wholesale, broadband and Voice over Internet Protocol services. 

Beth joined the company as part of BellSouth in 1998 and has held jobs in various areas including pricing, product management (local interconnection, switched access, and collocation), and interconnection agreement negotiations.  Just prior to joining the Regulatory department, Beth was a Director in the Interconnection Services group overseeing the negotiations of all interconnection and resale agreements with CLECs.

Beth is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and was in education prior to joining the company.

As Head of Healthcare at Google, Bill is responsible for developing and managing Google’s marketing relationships with healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.

With over twenty years media sales experience, Bill joined Google from Clear Channel Radio where he was Regional Vice President for National Sales.  Prior to Clear Channel, he worked for Katz Media, Interep and AT&T in sales and marketing roles.

He holds a BS from Fordham University, and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004, Mr. Silbert was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, where he focused on financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate financing transactions. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Silbert worked at Bear Stearns, Smith Barney and Rydex Funds.

Mr. Silbert graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on the topic of trading illiquid assets and has appeared in many leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune. Mr. Silbert has been featured on Bloomberg News, Fox Business News, Business News Network and TheStreet.com. Mr. Silbert is also the chair man of Pluris Valuation Advisors, LLC, a New York-based valuation firm specializing in illiquid assets.

P.J. brings 15 years of experience as a trusted sustainability analyst, strategist, and bridge-builder. After serving as a research assistant on environmental affairs at the National Security Council (1993-1994), P.J. founded the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change & Security Program (ECSP)—a globally preeminent research effort that assembles top government officials, business leaders, and scholars to explore the nexus of global environmental, population, and international security concerns.

P.J. directed the Carnegie Endowment’s Managing Global Issues program (1997-2002.  He was a senior advisor and grantmaker at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (2002-2006), where he founded a nonpartisan effort that assembled hundreds of leading experts and advocates to produce U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans.

Other major publications include The Washington DC Greener Business Guide and Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned. P.J. served twice as the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Deputy Chair for Energy & Climate Change (2007-2008). He currently is Program Chair for the Corporate Eco Forum, a network of senior Global 500 executives focused on best practices in corporate sustainability strategies and execution. P.J. received his B.A. (summa cum laude) in political science from Tufts University, and his M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He was also a Fulbright scholar and holds a Certificate in Conservation Biology from Columbia University.

Dr. Eve Slater, a distinguished leader in biomedical science and healthcare policy, joined Pfizer as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Policy on May 1.  Eve is a member of the Worldwide Public Affairs and Policy Leadership Team and reports to Rich Bagger.
 
Eve’s career in medicine, science and public policy has spanned academics, business and government. She was most recently Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining HHS, she spent 19 years with Merck in a number of critical scientific, strategy and public policy positions. In 1983, she came to Merck Research Laboratories as senior director of biochemical endocrinology, and in 1988, she was promoted to vice president, regulatory affairs. She advanced to VP of clinical and regulatory development for Merck Research Laboratories in 1990, and SVP in 1994. In 2001, she was named as SVP of External Policy for Merck Research Laboratories, and VP of Merck Corporate Public Affairs. An expert on HIV treatment research, she served as a member of the U.S. Keystone National Policy Dialogue on HIV, as well as the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.
 
Eve was appointed by the President in 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Health, the first woman to hold this position. In this role, she served HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson as chief health policy advisor, with special emphasis on e-health and innovation, biosecurity, clinical trial protocols, women’s health, eldercare and HIV/AIDS. Since leaving HHS, she has been a director and advisor to a number of biotechnology companies.
 
Eve received her B.A. from Vassar, her M.D. from Columbia, and is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology. She was the first woman named as Chief Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she later led the Hypertension Unit. She also served as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She continues to serve patients as an Associate Attending Physician at NY Presbyterian Hospital and the medical profession as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia.

Emma Stewart, Ph.D., is currently Senior Program Lead for Autodesk’s Sustainability Initiative. In this role, she leads the design software company’s efforts to model sustainability best practices to its 9 million architect, engineer, and construction customers. In addition to driving the company’s environmental strategy, her team seeks to use Autodesk’s own buildings as a “living laboratory” to simplify and democratize design techniques for energy efficiency retrofits and building performance optimization.

Prior to that, she founded and directed the Environmental R&D Division at Business for Social Responsibility, where her team designed corporate initiatives to analyze and adapt to ‘horizon’ issues such as payments for ecosystem services, water footprinting, carbon offsets and trading, climate lobbying, and sustainable product design.

Emma is a regularly featured columnist for Harvard Business Online, Environmental Leader, ClimateBiz and Fast Company and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Forbes, Global Finance, The International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, Inside Washington, Environmental Finance, Environmental Law Journal, and Sustainable Industries, among others. She is a contributing author to a number of recent books: Corporate Responses to Climate Change, The Encyclopedia of Sustainable Business, and Carbon Trading.

In 2007, she was named a Next Generation Fellow by Columbia University and in 2005, she received the Bernard Siegel Award for Outstanding Research and Publication from Stanford University. She has been an invited speaker at Fortune500 companies, the National Press Club in DC, the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, UC Berkeley, and Yale University and an invited Judge for the Clean Tech Open.

Emma is an appointed Cabinet Member of the Low Carbon Taskforce of the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Board of ODC/San Francisco. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from Stanford University and a B.A. Honours degree in Human Sciences from Oxford University, UK.

As senior vice president, Bob Stoffel directs UPS's distribution and logistics operations, and is responsible for the UPS Corporate Strategy and Engineering functions, and the company's environmental activities.

Stoffel also is a member of UPS's Management Committee, the 12-person group of senior executives responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.

Stoffel joined UPS in 1975 as a part-time loader. During his UPS career, Stoffel has served as both operations manager and industrial engineering manager in multiple UPS operating districts and regions. Stoffel also has worked in UPS’s corporate research and development and marketing functions.

Stoffel previously held the positions of vice president of UPS’s Quality function and UPS transportation process manager. He also served as senior vice president and COO of the UPS Logistics Group’s Service Parts Logistics, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of world-class service parts and reverse logistics solutions.

Prior to his current position, Stoffel was president of UPS Supply Chain Solutions.  In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Stoffel is a Trustee and Board member of The Nature Conservancy in Georgia.

Perry Stoneman is a Vice President and the Global service line leader for Capgemini’s Smart Energy Services solutions.

Stoneman began building the practice for Capgemini’s Smart Meter and Smart Grid solutions in 2004, and under his leadership, the Smart Energy Services have evolved into one of Capgemini’s most innovative solution offering sets. Stoneman has played the primary role of selling Smart Energy Services to Hydro One Inc., in Canada, and to San Diego Gas & Electric in the United States, and to Fortum in Sweden. During that time, Capgemini’s offerings have also garnered the attention of other international utility clients in Australia, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Prior to Stoneman’s current role, he was the leader of Capgemini’s Business Development practice for the company’s Canada Outsourcing business as well as the North America Energy Utility & Chemicals sector. In this role since 2006, Stoneman’s responsibilities includeed a comprehensive portfolio of Capgemini’s strategy, sales, marketing and alliances in the United States and Canada.

During his time with Capgemini, Stoneman has also been responsible for the delivery of outsourcing projects to large clients such as Ontario Power Generation, Hydro One, and Bruce Power. These clients deliver electricity to more than 13 million customers in Ontario, Canada.

Stoneman has a solid track record of delivering on commitments for large-scale system integration, project management, quality control, client relationship management and business development. 

With more than 20 years of experience in a corporate business environment, Stoneman has accumulated a wealth of experience in virtually every facet of the Information Technology Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing service industries. Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for founding and leading a successful information services company, as well as holding executive leadership roles in delivery and sales positions across a wide range of industry sectors.

Stoneman is a Canadian citizen who lives in Toronto. When he is not travelling he enjoys spending time with his family.

Brian Sullivan joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in April 2008 as an anchor.  He co-anchors the 10am-12pm ET hours of the FOX Business block.

Prior to joining FBN, Sullivan served as an anchor for Bloomberg Television where he hosted the programs Morning Call and In Focus.   He also frequently hosted the weekend interview program “For the Record”.  Sullivan’s July 2007 special “Subprime Shockwaves” won the New York CPA Society Excellence in Financial Journalism award.

Sullivan joined Bloomberg Television in 1997 and during his eleven years with the network, he served in various roles as a writer, editor, on-air reporter and stocks editor.   In his anchor position, Sullivan interviewed prominent political and business leaders including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.   He also frequently speaks and moderates panels at events such as the Milken Institute Global Conference.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Sullivan traded chemical commodities for Mitsubishi International.  Born in Los Angeles, CA, he earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Virginia Tech, certificate in journalism from New York University School of Continuing Education, and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Matthew Sutton, a partner in Ernst & Young LLP, has spent most of his career focused on capital market transactions.  Matthew works extensively with both foreign and domestic issuers.  During the last eleven years Matthew was based in Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York giving him significant international exposure.  The issuers Matthew has supported in accessing the capital markets come from a wide variety of industry sectors; having spent the last decade working with Chinese entities accessing the US capital markets many of the issuers are part of the technology or telecommunication industry.  Matthew has extensive experience working with the US SEC and has been involved with a number of record breaking transactions like ICBC's 144A transaction.

Neil Takemoto is the founder and CEO of CoolTown Beta Communities. His work over the last 17 years has been committed to the crowdsourced development of places with significant economic, environmental and social benefit, currently working in Washington DC, New England and New Orleans.

Neil is the founder of CoolTown Studios, a ‘crowdsourcing cool places for creatives’ blog/news site that attracts 40,000 unique visitors a month. It has been featured in Architect Magazine and the ULI’s annual developers conference.

He is also the cofounder of Bubbly, a crowdsourcing web application, and Mobfuse, a crowdsourcing consulting firm.

With Andres Duany, Neil co-founded the National Town Builders Association in 1997, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field.

Alison is responsible for representing Siemens' position on environmental issues with Congress and the Executive Branch. She develops and promotes legislation and works with various operating companies within Siemens to develop coordinated positions and projects in environmental areas, such as air quality, emissions, water quality, industrial pollution and climate change. She provides input into the development of worldwide environmental positions and policies, particularly Siemens' sustainability and climate protection policies.

Prior to joining Siemens, Alison was Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works for five years, and counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce for six years.. Ms. Taylor has been a member of the U.S. delegation to United Nations conferences on Climate Change, Biodiversity, Sustainability and Ozone Layer Depletion.

Prior to her service on Capitol Hill, Alison was an equity partner in the Denver-based law firm Davis, Graham and Stubbs, LLC where she specialized in water law, mining law and environmental law. She clerked for several Denver firms. She has contributed to numerous environmental publications and has been a frequent speaker for American Bar Association courses on environmental subjects. Ms. Taylor is admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia and Colorado.

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Micky Tripathi is the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit collaboration of 34 leading Massachusetts organizations. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of MA-SHARE, a community utility service for state-wide clinical data exchange in Massachusetts.

Prior to joining MAeHC, Mr. Tripathi was a manager in the Boston office of the Boston Consulting Group, a leading strategy and management consulting firm. While at BCG, he served as the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, an Indianapolis-based non-profit company partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to create a state-wide health information infrastructure in the state of Indiana. As a manager in BCG's health care practice, Mr. Tripathi also served a variety of US and international clients in the non-profit sector as well as in the bioinformatics, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industries.

He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he was a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

Michael Valletta is the Technical Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in New York City. He has been with Microsoft for over 12 years in various roles ranging from software architect to his current leadership role.

Michael has over 15 years experience in the industry and as part of his role, he was asked to develop, engineer, and manage the Sustainable IT initiative for the Microsoft Technology Centers across the 16 facilities worldwide.  He also is a member of the Environmental Sustainability team at Microsoft headquarters assisting with collateral creation, strategy and messaging. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and resides in Westchester County New York.

Lambert van der Walde is the Capital Markets Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS plays a key role in the overall direction of the U.S. health care system. With a budget of over $800 billion and serving over 100 million beneficiaries in the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP programs, CMS is the largest purchaser of health care in the world.

Lambert directs CMS capital markets efforts, which include advising the CMS Administrator and other Administration officials of expected and actual market consequences of new and proposed regulatory and legislative actions as well as health care industry market performance, access to capital, and financial outlook.

Lambert also serves as the CMS point-of-contact for the investor community as the Agency’s liaison between policy makers, the investor community, and the health care industry. He speaks on a regular basis to investor and industry groups, provides explanation and interpretation of government health care policy and processes to research analysts and investors, and develops strategic relationships with leaders in the health care industry and the financial markets.

Prior to serving the Bush & Obama Administrations, Lambert worked for Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking Division where he focused on equity and debt underwriting as well as mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Lambert has also worked in venture capital financing and other sectors of the financial services industry.

Lambert holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Washington and a Master’s of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Scott Vitters has worked to advance The Coca-Cola Company’s commitment to sustainable growth for the past thirteen years.  He is currently responsible for stewarding the company’s worldwide packaging sustainability program.  Some notable advances under Scott’s leadership include establishing a zero waste vision, opening the world’s largest plastic bottle-to-bottle recycling facility, creating a for-profit recycling collection enterprise, activating a multi-million dollar recycling marketing campaign and launching PlantBottle PET- a breakthrough plastic containing up to 30% plant-based material.

Scott recently was selected to serve as the overall business lead on the company’s global PlantBottle program.  He is accountable for governing a cross-functional team focused on transforming the PET plastic beverage bottle by creating a consumer preferred package that is 100% renewable, commercially recyclable and sustainably sourced.     

In 2002, Scott managed the development and execution of Coca-Cola’s environmental platform at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.  His success in implementing a cutting edge zero-waste program received high acclaim and was formally recognized by the US EPA.

Scott served as a consultant to EPA’s Office of Solid Waste with the Eastern Research Group prior to joining Coca-Cola.  He also was a research fellow with the Environmental and Energy Study Conference, a congressional legislative caucus in Washington, DC.

Scott is a respected leader in the field of sustainable packaging, regularly speaking at global conferences and events.  He is an advisor to Michigan State University’s Center for Packaging Innovation & Sustainability and served multiple terms on the Board of the National Recycling Coalition in the United States. 

Mark Wagar currently serves as President and CEO of Empire BlueCross BlueShield, the leader in providing health insurance coverage to over 5 million New Yorkers including individuals, families, and seniors across a diverse spectrum of community, culture, age, geography, employment, labor and economic status.

A 33 year veteran of healthcare services, Mark brings a strong combination of health plan and provider management experience in both for-profit and non-profit organizations . His leadership roles prior to Empire included positions at Caremark, CIGNA HealthCare, and other managed care organizations , as well as with hospitals, physician groups, and outpatient care providers .
Mr. Wagar and his wife of 34 years, Ellen, live in Manhattan and are both graduates of The Ohio State University.

An experienced officer as well as director in public, private, community, and charitable organizations. Mr. Wagar currently serves on a number of private and community organizations. He is a board member for the Partnership for New York City, the Citizens Budget Commission, OxySure, Inc. and the Battery Park Conservancy, as well as a member of the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY). He has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of The Ohio State University, a recipient of the Dr. Jonas Salk Memorial Mentor in Medicine Award, and a member of the 1971 Big Ten Champion Ohio State University Basketball Team.

As President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Dave is now free to do what he wasn't able to do while running the Government Accountability Office: advocate for specific solutions, work proactively with grantees and other partners to build strong coalitions, and encourage and engage in grassroots efforts to bring pressure on Washington to act.

As Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008, spanning both Democratic and Republican administrations, Dave served as the federal government's chief auditor. Appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, he was an outspoken, nonpartisan advocate for addressing the major fiscal and other sustainability challenges facing the country. He also enacted transformational reforms at the agency and within the accountability profession.

Prior to his appointment to run the GAO, Dave served as a partner and global managing director of Arthur Andersen LLP and in several government leadership positions, including as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 1990 to 1995 and as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs during the Reagan administration.

Although no longer the US government's chief auditor, Dave continues to serve as a global accountability expert as chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Partnership for Public Service. He has authored two books, is a regular commentator, and is the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A., which arrives in theatres around the country in August 2008.

Dave holds a B.S. in accounting from Jacksonville University, a Senior Management in Government Certificate in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and several honorary doctorate degrees. He has won numerous leadership and other awards during his career. He and his wife Mary live in Alexandria, VA and have two children and three grandchildren.

Thomas W. (Tom) Warsop joined Fiserv in January 2007 as the Group President of Financial Institutions. He is leading the effort to significantly grow presence in large, non- financial institutions by expanding Fiserv products and services offerings to meet the needs of the market. Prior to Fiserv, Warsop spent 17 years, with EDS, where he was most recently Vice President, Financial Services Industry Group. There he led a $2 billion business with more than 10,000 people. Before that, Warsop served in a variety of leadership roles at EDS, both domestically and abroad. He began his career at UMB Bancshares in Kansas City, Mo. Born in 1966, Warsop received his bachelorÕs degree in finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and a certificate of international finance from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Warsop is a Certified Management Accountant and a board member of the Business Council of New York. He is also on the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, where he has twice served as chaiman of the Manhattan Walk to Cure Diabetes,. Warsop lives in Wisconsin with his wife Christine, two young daughters, Elizabeth and Samantha, and a very small dog named Daisy. He is convinced that he has somehow served as an inspiration for the comic character, Dilbert.

Dr. Albert Waxman is the Senior Managing Member and CEO the Psilos Group. Dr. Waxman co-founded the firm with Steve Krupa and Lisa Suennen. Dr. Waxman holds chairman or director seats on several Psilos companies including: Click4Care, HealthEdge, Quality Metric, Extend Health and Mauna Kea Technologies.  He is also on the Board of Cenegenics, a non-Psilos investment.  

Prior to founding Psilos, Dr. Waxman spent nine years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Merit Behavioral Care and its predecessor companies, American Biodyne, Medco Behavioral Care and Merck & Co., Inc. He also founded and served as President, Chairman and CEO of Diasonics, Inc., one of the first medical companies to provide ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in the U.S.

Dr. Waxman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York and Master and Doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Princeton University. In addition, Dr. Waxman holds several U.S. and foreign patents for display, imaging and diagnostic technologies and products.

Adam Werbach is regarded as one of the world's premier experts in sustainability. At age 23, Werbach was elected as the youngest president ever of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States. In 1998, Adam Werbach founded sustainability agency, Act Now, to engage the corporate and media world in social, environmental, cultural and economic change. After ten successful years, Act Now merged with global ideas company Saatchi & Saatchi to form Saatchi & Saatchi S, the world's largest sustainability agency. 

Adam Werbach has always been an advocate for change, as exemplified by his 2004 speech, "Is Environmentalism Dead?" which sent shockwaves through the environmental movement. Werbach declared that he would no longer call himself an environmentalist, as the movement was unprepared to solve the underlying social and economic issues of climate change. Soon after, Wal-Mart engaged Act Now to lead the involvement of its 1.9 million Wal-Mart associates in the Personal Sustainability Project ("PSP"). 

Adam Werbach returned to the Commonwealth Club in April 2008 to receive its 21st Century Visionary Award and deliver his follow-up address to "Is Environmentalism Dead?" entitled "The Birth of Blue", which envisions a billion-person strong, consumer-based movement for sustainability. 

Adam Werbach is a highly sought-after speaker and writer who has appeared on television shows like The O'Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. He serves as a Communications Advisor on Climate Change for the National Academies of Sciences. Saatchi & Saatchi S has offices in San Francisco, Boulder, New York, Fayateville, Chicago and London.

Prior to serving as Executive Director of New York eHealth Collaborative, Dave Whitlinger served as the Director of Healthcare Device Standards and Interoperability for the Intel Corporation in its Digital Health Group. Mr. Whitlinger was responsible for Intel’s healthcare device interoperability strategies and the standards development to support those strategies. He has also led a large, cross-industry consortium, the Continua Health Alliance, focused on the establishment of an ecosystem of interoperable, personal telehealth systems. Mr. Whitlinger was with Intel from 1993 to 2009. Prior to establishing the Healthcare Device Standards Group, he worked on a wide variety of wireless standards. As a result, Mr. Whitlinger and his team have held leadership roles in many standards organizations throughout the world, including: Health Level Seven (HL7); Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE); IEEE 1073; Bluetooth SIG; WiMedia Alliance; Homeplug Alliance; UPnP Forum; Oasis; WSI; and, the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA). He also served on the Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors for several years. Mr. Whitlinger is the author of five research journal articles, four of which focused on breast cancer DNA analysis.

Philip Whitney, vice president, online media for American Express Publishing Corporation, oversees the company’s w  ebsites: TravelandLeisure.com, FoodandWine.com, TLGolf.com, Departures.com, and ExecutiveTravelMagazine.com.  Since assuming this position, online traffic has increased 86 percent and online advertising has climbed 338 percent.   

Previously, Whitney served as general manager, International, where he guided the expansion of American Express Publishing’s international editions into emerging luxury markets. Before joining the company in 2003, Whitney held various positions at Time Inc., including a seven year stint at Money magazine, where he began as consumer marketing director in 1992.  In 1997, he became a vice president of Time Inc. in recognition of his innovative subscriber retention efforts that led to record circulation profits. He would later become vice president of International Development in 2000 and then a year later, executive vice president, global marketing officer of Time and Fortune International, based in London, from 2000 to 2003. In between these positions from 1998 to 2000, Whitney worked at Jupiter Media Metrix as vice president, marketing and online media, where he directed online content and marketing initiatives that led to Jupiter’s IPO in 1999.

Whitney is a graduate of Tufts University and the Radcliffe Publishing Course and continues to teach at the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University.  He currently lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and two daughters.

Dr Peter Williams is the CTO for IBM's Big Green Innovations incubator, whose role is to create environmentally focused businesses for IBM - he is responsible for assembling, maintaining and developing the portfolio of businesses included, and technologies used. Dr Williams holds the title of IBM Distinguished Engineer. By background he is a management consultant with well over 20 years experience of bringing technology and business issues together to develop novel solutions and business models. A native of the UK, he has lived in the USA since 1999, and is married with three children. His PhD was awarded by the School of Management at the University of Bath, England, in 1986.

Named as Sr. Director, Corporate Sustainability for EMC in July 2008, Kathrin is charged with providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of EMC’s strategy for environmental and social sustainability. She founded and sponsors the company’s Engineering Green Team and its Design for Environment program, which are driving leadership designs in environmental stewardship and energy efficiency throughout EMC’s product portfolio.

Kathrin spends much of her time working with her peers in consortia and coalitions such as The Green Grid, the Storage Networking Industry Association, and the World Resources Institute. Kathrin has led EMC’s engagements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and European Union Code of Conduct, and is a frequent speaker and panelist in conferences on Sustainability and Green IT.

In her previous role as Senior Director of Product Operations for EMC's Storage Platforms Operations group, Kathrin managed the organization responsible for leading development of EMC’s hardware platform strategy, for material management throughout the engineering organization, and for technical publication services for the Enterprise Storage Division. In her prior position, she led the NAS Product Management team in transforming the organization’s requirements management and governance processes.

Kathrin joined EMC in 2003, and past positions include Vice President, Technical Marketing in a Web services security startup, Principal Consultant/Analyst specializing in enterprise management systems and service level architectures at Renaissance Worldwide, and Consultant Software Engineer in Network Systems Engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Ben Wolin is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Everyday Health, Inc., the leading online health company. Wolin and co-founder Mike Keriakos started Everyday Health in a kitchen in Brooklyn in 2002. Now, with more than 20 different digital health properties, the company reaches 38 million consumers a month and one-third of all health care professionals. Everyday Health’s multi-platform marketing solutions have provided thousands of clients the scale to target health-oriented audiences.

Everyday Health's portfolio of websites, mobile apps and television programs span the full health spectrum–from in-depth medical coverage to healthy lifestyle management.

Under Wolin's leadership, the company has grown to over 400 employees and revenues of more than $130 million annually. Additionally, it has been selected as a top emerging digital company by The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and AlwaysOn OnMedia Top 100, among others. Everyday Health has won awards for innovative digital products as well as for its programs for pharmaceutical and lifestyle marketers.

Before starting Everyday Health, Wolin served as the Vice President of Production and Technology for Beliefnet, Inc., which was acquired by News Corp. Prior to Beliefnet, Wolin built and managed websites for PBS, Tribune Interactive, Warner Bros., and A&E. Wolin is sought after by the media and by thought-leader industry events to speak as a digital expert and entrepreneur. Wolin has been featured in top business and trade publications and was named one of Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40 (2009). He sits on the board of The Travel Ad Network, and is a mentor for the health incubator, Blueprint Health.

Wolin is a graduate of Bowdoin College and is surrounded by doctors and mental health professionals in his personal life: He is the son of a doctor and a clinical psychologist, the son-in-law of another clinical psychologist, and the husband of a doctor. Wolin resides in New York City with his wife and their two daughters who are not doctors – yet.

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Mr. Zall is a partner in the Proskauer Rose LLP, New York Office in the Health Care Department.

Mr. Zall's practice is focused on corporate and regulatory representation of a wide array of health care clients, including academic medical centers, hospitals, physician organizations; information technology and medical device companies; managed care and health benefit management companies; and private equity firms.

Mr. Zall provides clients with counsel in the planning and execution of health care-related corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financings; the structuring of joint ventures and other contractual relationships among various health industry parties; and compliance with federal and state health care regulations. He also advises health care clients and health sector investors on business strategy, product and service development, financial transactions, and new venture implementation.

Prior to joining Proskauer in December 2005, Mr. Zall was a partner at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC. From 1988 to 1996, he was a Founding Partner of Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein LLP, a New York-based law firm that specialized in health care. From 1996 through 1999, Mr. Zall served as Co-Chairman and CEO of Telesis Medical Management, Inc., a venture-backed medical management company.

Over the past decade, Mr. Zall has been an active participant in the health care industry. He has directed two health industry studies for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, one on the condition of the US Health Care Safety Net, and the other on Federal and State Consumer Protection Regulation of the Managed Care Industry.

Since late 2003, Mr. Zall has served as Counsel to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and its HIV/AIDS Initiative. In this capacity, Mr. Zall has represented the Foundation in numerous matters including the negotiation of agreements with pharmaceutical and medical device companies to provide low-cost medicine and testing kits to developing countries.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Zall also served as Counsel to former New York City Council President Carol Bellamy. He also was a member of the Board of Trustees of the WNYC Foundation, the operator of New York City's public radio station affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR). Currently, Mr. Zall serves on the Board of Directors of NPowerNY, a technology support organization for the non-profit sector, and is a member of the Dean's Strategic Council at NYU Law School. Mr. Zall has been recognized as a leader in his field by Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, one of ÒNew York AreaÕs Best LawyersÓ in New York Magazine and as an ÒOutstanding Healthcare Transaction LawyerÓ by NightingaleÕs Healthcare News.

Mr. Zall is admitted to practice law in New York. He received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review and an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellow.