Dennis McGinn

Dennis McGinn was appointed and served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment from September 2013 until January 2017. Previously, Mr. McGinn served on active duty in the United States Navy for 35 years as a naval aviator, test pilot, aircraft carrier commanding officer, and national security strategist. His capstone assignments…

Howard A. Learner is an experienced public interest environmental and energy litigation attorney serving as President of the Environmental Law & Policy Center – the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. Mr. Learner is responsible for the overall strategic leadership and program direction for ELPC’s successful work to promote clean energy development…

Engauge Energy highlights a career focused on utilities solutions, with several decades in the utility marketplace. Mr. Jones is one of two seasoned utility executives who in 2000 founded Sterling Planet, the first company to provide renewable energy certificates (RECs) to the retail market on a nationwide basis and as its president and chief executive…

Bobby joined Breakthrough Energy Catalyst in June 2021 from Facebook where he led its global data center development efforts, as well as its energy program sourcing of over 6 gigawatts of new renewable energy projects globally. Prior to his tenure at Facebook, Bobby led renewable energy efforts at Apple, leading new innovative market structures in…

Denis Hayes Chief Executive OfficerBullitt Foundation Denis Hayes is CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, an environmental philanthropy located in Seattle. While there, he developed the Bullitt Center, the world’s greenest office building—the only true 6-story, net energy positive commercial building in the world. The Center was judged by World Architecture News to be “the Most…

Dr. Jan Hamrin has more than three decades of professional experience in electric industry and environmental policies and programs and is an expert on the integration of public interest goals into the restructured electricity sector.  Jan retired as the President of the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) that she founded and headed for eleven…

Hank joined Global Water 2020 in 2017 having served as a leader in many areas of environmental business and policy. His career in the environmental policy world has included leadership positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as COO (Deputy Administrator) from 1989-1993. During his time with the EPA he oversaw the development of innovative…

Mr. Grow joined Morgan Stanley in 2010 as a Managing Director in the Power & Utility Group covering the clean technology sector. He has a broad range of industry experience, having managed transactions for such leading companies as Clean Energy Fuels, EnerNOC, Enphase, First Solar, Lincoln Renewables, Opower, SunEdison, SunPower, Sunrun, Suntech, TerraForm, Trina Solar,…

John Geesman has been a soldier in California’s energy revolution since the 1970s and served in leadership positions at the California Energy Commission, the California Power Exchange, and The Utility Reform Network.  An attorney, he spent two decades in the bond markets as an investment banker and is winding up six years of regulatory litigation…

Karl Gawell has been active in advancing renewable energy since ‘75, when he was hired as a Legislative Assistant (LA) by his hometown Congressional Representative, Rep. Ron Mottl, D-Ohio. Subsequently, he was hired by Rep. Richard Ottinger (D-NY). During this time when many renewable and energy efficiency measures were enacted, he helped organize over 70…