Thomas Casten, founder and retired chair of Recycled Energy Development, LLC, spent 40 years developing decentralized energy recycling projects that profitably reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Tom founded several companies to advance more efficient production of useful energy including Cummins Cogeneration Company, Trigen Energy Corporation (NYSE, 1994-2001), Primary Energy Recycling Company (Toronto Stock Exchange 2005) and…
Doug Berven
Doug Berven joined POET in March 2003 and has served the organization in several roles since then. In his current role, Berven promotes the corporate objectives of POET, the importance of agriculture, and the benefits of ethanol domestically and internationally. Berven sits on several of POET’s ethanol plant Boards of Directors, BIO’s Industrial and Environmental…
Roger Ballentine
Roger Ballentine, President, provides management consulting services to corporate and financial sector clients on sustainability strategy; investment and transaction evaluation and project development execution in the in the clean energy sector; and the integration of energy and environmental policy considerations into business strategy. Previously, Roger was a senior member of the White House staff, serving…
Dan Arvizu, Ph.D.
Dr. Dan Arvizu serves as Senior Advisor to the Emerson Elemental practice of Emerson Collective. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer and STEM Evangelist. His roles include advising on organizational strategy, reviewing investments and conducting technical due diligence for Emerson portfolio technology companies. He also currently serves as a Precourt Institute Energy Scholar and…
Frank Armijo
Frank Armijo retired in early 2022 as the vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp. In this role, Mr. Armijo has overall management responsibility for the performance of Lockheed Martin’s energy portfolio and oversees the business’ strategy, operations and new business. Lockheed Martin Energy delivers full spectrum solutions across the energy industry to include utility and…
Mark Anderson
During the past four years, Mark Anderson served as SVP Public Affairs in Total’s Washington D.C. Representative office. Mark was first tasked to lead the successful start-up, structuring and growth of the D.C. office. In his role, Mark supported and informed the Group’s interests in U.S. federal and international government affairs. Mark helped track and…
Daniel Adler
Mr. Adler is Senior Advisor for Climate Finance at the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), where he is leading the development of the Climate Catalyst Fund. Prior to this role, he was Vice President for Policy at the Energy Foundation, a partnership of…
Raymond Wood
Ray serves as a Managing Director and Head of the Global Natural Resources Group at Bank of America with industry teams based in every major geographic region. He leads coverage teams across the industry landscape of regulated utilities, independent power, clean energy and global manufacturing as well as private equity and infrastructure sponsors. Over Mr.…
Meghan Schultz
Meghan Schultz is an Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer for Invenergy, where she leads the corporate finance and capital market functions for the organization. The team of 150+ individuals is responsible for capital formation, lender and investor management, tax, treasury, FP&A, accounting and M&A. Her team covers all parts of Invenergy’s business,…
Himanshu Saxena
Himanshu Saxena is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus Infrastructure Partners and is responsible for supervision of the Firm’s investment program and strategy, as well as overall management of the Firm. Over the course of his career, Mr. Saxena has led the acquisition and development of numerous power generation and transmission projects and midstream…