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Anne Mclvor | Cleantech Investor
Anne worked as an investment analyst for 15 years, at ABN Amro Hoare Govett, Williams de Broë and Libertas Capital. During that time she covered a variety of sectors including technology and retail, and focused on international equities (in particular the Benelux markets, Portugal and Brazil). She graduated in politics from Queen's University, Belfast, and received an MSc from the London School of Economics, where she studied development economics. She established Cleantech Investor in 2006 and launched Cleantech magazine, a finance and investment publication focusing on renewable energy and other environmental investments, in 2007.

Bruce Huber | Jefferies International
Bruce is a managing director and head of the Clean Technology Investment Banking Group at Jefferies International. He is also chairman of the firm's International Technology Investment Banking Group and co-head of European financial sponsors. With more than 25 years of growth investment banking expertise, including over 18 years working with European clients, Bruce has advised on over 100 M&A and capital markets transactions across Europe and North America. He has a breadth of experience across IPOs, convertible debt, private placements, alternative energy project financing and high-yield debt through M&A advisory. He was previously managing partner for Broadview International's European business until it was acquired by Jefferies in 2003. Before joining Broadview in 1995, he was a director focusing on international M&A at Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW) in London and Frankfurt. Previously, Bruce worked in the New York office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he helped build the firm's communications investment banking practice from 1985 to 1990, and worked in alternative energy project finance from 1983 to 1985. He received a BSE degree from Princeton University.

Charlie Thomas | Jupiter Asset Management, The Ecology Fund
Charlie joined the Jupiter socially responsible investment team in 2000 and, since September 2003, has been the lead fund manager of both Jupiter Global Green Investment Trust and the Jupiter Ecology Fund. Charlie is also responsible for the management of a number of segregated mandates for Jupiter's institutional clients. Prior to Jupiter, Charlie spent three years working for BP, firstly as an environmental policy adviser, in which role he was instrumental in developing climate change strategies and policies for the group, and later on new business development as a commercial analyst. Charlie has worked for the United Nations Environment Programme as well as other financial institutions. He has a BSc from Nottingham University and an MSc in environmental technology from Imperial College London.

Chris Taylor | Neptune Investment Management
Chris joined Neptune in June 2004 as a fund manager with research responsibilities for the IT, telecoms and media sectors. After graduating from Oxford University in 1980 with a BA in physiological sciences and from the City University Business School in 1981 with an MBA in finance, he joined County Bank International Investments, a part of NatWest, as European equity manager within the ERISA fund management unit. Subsequently, he moved to Enskilda Securities as head of Scandinavian equities and was responsible for founding the firm's research activities. He then worked in New York as the global equity fund manager for Swiss American Asset Management, part of the Credit Suisse group, before returning to the UK and joining Fuji Investment Management Company. During more than 15 years at that firm, he progressed from European equity fund manager to managing director. In addition to his responsibilities as head of research, Chris also runs the Neptune Japan Opportunities Fund and the Neptune Green Planet Fund.

David Nancarrow | Atkins
David is Sustainability Director for Atkins, Europe's largest multi-disciplinary consultancy.  He has worked for Atkins for nearly 20 years, is a Fellow of three professional bodies, and has a breath of experience in environmental and energy matters.  David has directed a major project looking at the global environmental management and carbon footprint of an international investment bank and many carbon and sustainability projects. Until recently, David was managing director of Atkins' main environmental consultancy division and is now director for Atkins' strategic consulting in environment and sustainability, with a focus on relationships with government.  Atkins is honoured to have been voted 'Best Environmental Consultancy' for the last five years in the Edie Awards.  David has led for Atkins a major corporate investment in carbon tools to equip our staff to undertake Carbon Critical DesignTM, reflecting Atkins' strong focus on a low carbon world.

Dr. Cameron Davies I NED, Alkane Energy plc.
Cameron the former CEO and Executive Chairman of Alkane Energy, retired and became a non-executive director of the company in November 2009. He is also an independent advisor in the renewable energy and clean technology sectors. He founded Alkane, a profitable AIM listed gas to power company, in 1994 to capture methane (CMM) from abandoned coal mines for electricity generation. As Executive Chairman, he oversaw Alkane’s IPO on the LSE in 2000 and brought the group back to profitability when he took over again as CEO in 2004. Alkane now has around 35MW of gas to power plants installed on disused coal mines in the UK and also has a large onshore coal bed methane (CBM) licence position. Cameron was a Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust environmental award winner and has twice been a finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year awards. He is currently a vice-Chairman of the UNECE’s Geneva based Bureau of Experts on coal mine methane emissions. He has presented many science and engineering based papers on renewables and alternative energy technology worldwide and recently chaired the Global Biogas Congress in Brussels. He previously had a successful career in the international upstream oil industry as operations manager with Premier Oil and general manager of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company in Tunisia.

Dr Steven Fawkes | Matrix Corporate Capital LLP
Steven is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ experience in energy management. His PhD was about the potential for energy efficiency in British industry, and he has spent much of his working life implementing that potential by developing energy management programmes for many large organisations and advising governments on energy efficiency policy and programmes. Steven co-founded two successful energy services companies, one in the UK and one in Romania. He has published extensively on energy matters with over 100 publications, including a book entitled Outsourcing Energy Management. In March 2007, Steven joined Matrix Corporate Capital, at which he analyses companies in the sustainable energy space.

Jeremy Mackenzie, The Department of Energy & Climate Change
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Prof John Loughhead, Executive Director, UK Energy Research Centre
Before joining UKERC, John was Corporate Vice-President of Technology and Intellectual Property at Alstom's head office in Paris. He is the UK member of the European Energy Research Alliance, a member of the European Advisory Group on Energy, and Advisor to the European Commission Directorate-General Research, Assessor for the Technology Strategy Board, Non-Executive Director of the Ministry of Defence Research & Development Board, and a member of the UK’s Energy Research Partnership. John is a Fellow and Past-President (2008) of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the City & Guilds of London Institute

John-Marc Bunce | Nomura
John-Marc joined Nomura Code, a subsidiary of the Nomura Group, in January 2008. Since then, the Nomura Code cleantech team has rapidly established itself as one of the top cleantech advisers and brokers, with a client list that includes Ceramic Fuel Cells, Plantic, PowerFilm, Puricore, Solar Integrated and Tyratech. John-Marc has been covering Cleantech companies for over four years, having originally trained as a technology analyst at Dresdner in 2003 and having also held positions at Durlacher/Panmure Gordon, Dawnay Day and Ambrian. He graduated from Nottingham with a BSc in chemistry and studied international business administration at Regent's Business School in London, receiving an MA with distinction. After working at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein he completed his studies with an MBA from Webster University, USA. 

Lynne Mc Gregor, Imperial College Innovations
Lynne McGregor is the Commercialisation Services Manager at Imperial Innovations, dealing with all of its non-Imperial College technology commercialisation and incubation contracts. This includes its Carbon Trust and WRAP sponsored incubation programmes, which provide technology sourcing, assessment, business incubation and preparation for investment for early stage businesses developing cleantech, waste reuse and recycling, and other sustainable technologies. Companies assisted through these programmes include renewable energy generation from marine energy, wind energy, fuel cells and CHP; energy efficiency products and processes for applications ranging from Oil & Gas production, automotive, buildings, and chemical processes; and enabling technologies such as high capacity batteries and new materials.

Lynne has over twenty years of experience in business development, sales and marketing and new business start-up, most recently with the ABB Group, a leader in power and automation technologies. Lynne holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from the London Business School. Lynne joined Imperial Innovations in 2004 to run the Carbon Trust Incubator, and has since assisted over 20 clean or sustainable technology businesses, lead six early stage investments, and has become actively involved in the new and renewable energy community.

Marc Barber | Business XL
Marc is deputy managing director (business) of Vitesse Media and editor of Business XL. Before joining Vitesse, he spent three years as editor of The Accountant and International Accounting Bulletin.

Nick Britton, GrowthBusiness.co.uk & Business XL Magazine
Nick Britton is deputy editor of Business XL and editor of GrowthBusiness.co.uk.  Nick graduated from Cambridge University and previously edited a magazine for the English-speaking community in Shanghai.

Nick Edwards | Mirabaud Securities
Nick is a sell-side analyst focusing on the renewables sector. Mirabaud has listed a number of companies in the space and works opportunistically in the secondary market to find the best ideas. It has a broad European client base but writes on companies and themes globally, which offers clients something different from the usual individual sector/company coverage point of view.

Paul Dulieu | Redleaf PR
Paul joined Redleaf in 2007 and, along with his team, advises on and executes the communications strategies surrounding IPOs, acquisitions, statutory reporting, secondary fundraisings and crisis communications for a broad range of clients, including Redleaf’s 'Clean and Green' portfolio. He has very strong relationships with the national and investment media and extensive experience in advising international AIM and fully listed companies.

Paul Ekins, University College
Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Energy and Environment Policy at the UCL Energy Institute, University College London. He is also a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre. He has extensive experience consulting for business, government and international organisations. In 1994 he received a Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievement’ from the United Nations Environment Programme. His academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, and he is an authority on a number of areas of energy-environment-economy interaction and environmental policy. He is the author of numerous papers, book-chapters and articles in a wide range of journals, and has written or edited ten books, with four more forthcoming.

Sara Williams | Vitesse Media
Sara is executive chairman of AIM-listed Vitesse Media, the publishing company she started in 1997. A former investment analyst with Kleinwort Benson, Sara is the author of The FT Guide to Business Start Up (over one million copies of this acclaimed guide have been sold). She has written for several national newspapers and appears regularly in television and radio broadcasts.

Tessa Laws | Rosenblatt
Tessa has been with Rosenblatt for 13 years, during which time she has been involved in multiple corporate transactions covering IPOs, M&A and private equity work. She spearheaded the setting-up of the firm’s Japan desk and has for the past 12 months been concentrating on renewable energy – with a particular focus on wind farms and waste-to-energy facilities. Prior to joining Rosenblatt, Tessa had a couple of her own businesses, so has always been able to view transactions from both sides of the fence. She has a graduate degree from the London School of Economics and a post-graduate diploma from the Cranfield School of Management. Tessa sits on the legal committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance, she was a founder member of the British Japanese Law Association and she is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association.