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EBC Industry Summit on the Business of the Environment, Energy & Climate
Change - Identifying the Business Opportunities
Friday, November 7, 2008
Location: Emerging Enterprise Center – Foley Hoag
Waltham, Massachusetts
7:30 a.m.
Registration and Networking Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.
Welcome – Daniel K. Moon, President, EBC
8:10 a.m.
Energy Markets
Keynote: Edward N. Krapels, Special Advisor
Energy Security Analysis, Inc.
8:50 a.m.
Climate Change Markets
Keynote: Grant Ferrier, Editor, Climate Change Business Journal
9:25 a.m.
Environmental Markets
Keynote: Paul Zofnass, President
Environmental Financial Consulting Group, Inc.
10:00 a.m.
Networking Break
10:30 a.m.
Reflections from the Marketplace
Moderator – Charles Natale, President, ESS Group
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Panel Members:
Jurgen Weiss - Managing Director, Point Carbon AS
Leonard Sarapas - Corporate Director EHS, Boston Scientific
Frank Sweet - North America Operations, AECOM - Environmental
Mary H. Smith - Manager, Energy Supply & Utility Administration
Harvard University
Carter Wall – Executive Director, Renewable Energy Trust, MTC
Bradford Swing - Director of Energy Policy, Office of the Mayor, Environmental and
Energy Services
12:00 p.m.
Adjourn
SPEAKERS
Grant Ferrier, Editor
Climate Change Business Journal
4452 Park Blvd. #306, San Diego, CA 92116
619-295-7685 [email protected]
Grant Ferrier is President of Environmental Business International and Editor of
Climate Change Business Journal. Grant founded EBI with the initial publication of
Environmental Business Journal in 1988. He sold the EBJ business to ZweigWhite in
2007 and maintains a role as an associate of the firm as well as the director of
research for EBJ. Grant also founded and ran Nutrition Business Journal from 19962007, a business he sold to Penton Media in 2001. Climate Change Business Journal
is a new business unit of EBI dedicated to the Climate Change Industry. CCBJ
provides detailed analysis of individual segments as part of its subscription service
including, carbon trading, solar energy, Carbon capture & storage, bioenergy, wind
energy, green buildings and climate change consulting. CCBJ also publishes a free
weekly email news and maintains a website at www.climatechangebusiness.com.
Edward N. Krapels, Special Advisor
Energy Security Analysis, Inc.
301 Edgewater Place, Suite 220, Wakefield, MA 01880
781- 245-2036
[email protected]
Edward N. Krapels is a leading authority on energy issues, markets and policy, and
one of the foremost developers of energy transmission projects in the United States.
As a consultant, he founded Energy Security Analysis, Inc. (www.ESAI.com) in 1985,
and continues to advise its Financial Energy Markets Service. ESAI is one of the
international energy industry's best known and most widely used research and analysis
firms, with clients in most major energy consuming and producing countries.
As a financial advisor, he has provided valuation and due diligence services to many
prominent investors in the energy arena. As a risk management advisor, Mr. Krapels
has assisted major utilities, end users, and government agencies. He received his Ph.D.
at the Johns Hopkins University, his M.A. at the University of Chicago, and his B.A., at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A native of the Netherlands, he is now a
U.S. citizen and makes his home with his wife, Sarah Emerson, and their two sons in
Andover, Massachusetts.
Charles J. Natale, Jr, President and CEO
ESS Group, Inc.
888 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA 02482/
781-489-1101 [email protected]
Charles J. Natale, Jr. has over 28 years of public and private sector experience in
coastal ocean research, coastal resource management, coastal energy facility siting
and port and harbor infrastructure development. Mr. Natale was former Program
Director of the MassDEP Chapter 91 Waterways Regulation Program and served as a
Coastal Engineer for the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. Mr. Natale currently
focuses his consulting expertise on energy facility, land development, and marine/port
infrastructure development in coastal environments. Mr. Natale received his BS in
Geosciences from Boston College and an MS in Marine Science from the College of
William & Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). He is also a graduate of the
Sea Education Association Program in Marine and Nautical Sciences.
Leonard Sarapas P.E. P.H.
Corporate Director EHS
Boston Scientific
1 Boston Scientific Place
Natick, MA 01760
508-650-8000
[email protected]
Leonard Sarapas leads a global group of professionals responsible for all EH&S
aspects for the corporation and businesses, as well as elements of property loss and
business interruption management, product stewardship, and security. He has 30 years
of experience in the field, and is a champion of an EH&S business integration model. In
prior roles he has lead Cabot Corp’s global environmental program and has worked with
many Fortune 500 companies on their environmental issues and programs.
Frank Sweet
Senior Vice President – North America Operations
AECOM Environment
2 Technology Park Drive, Westford, Ma 01886
978-589-3031 [email protected]
Frank Sweet is responsible for the North American Operations of AECOM
Environment, which includes 3600 consultants and engineers based in the United
States and Canada. AECOM Environment was created by the integration of the
environmental consultants and engineers formerly with ENSR, Earth Tech, RETEC,
Metcalf & Eddy, STS, UMA and Gartner Lee. The group provides a broad array of
environmental consulting and engineering services to industry and government
agencies. A native of New England, Mr. Sweet resides in Boxborough, Massachusetts
with his wife Robin and six children.
Mary Smith, Manager, Energy Supply and Utility Administration
Harvard University
[email protected]
Mary Smith is currently Manager, Energy Supply and Utility Administration at Harvard
University, responsible for the managing Harvard’s energy supply and utility
administration. This included guiding Harvard into the competitive electric market
through participation in the wholesale market and strategic planning to include
renewable resources as part of that supply. Prior to joining Harvard, Mary spent over 5
years in the deregulated gas and electric industry in the areas of regulation and
marketing. Her earlier years in the energy industry were spent at the New England
Electric System where she initiated marginal cost of service studies and PURPA
ratemaking, participated in the initial phases of nontraditional purchased power
acquisitions, and Demand Side Management. BA – Brown University
MBA – Roosevelt University
Bradford Swing, Director of Energy Policy
Office of the Mayor, Environmental and Energy Services
Boston City Hall, Room 603, Boston, MA 02201
617.635.3425
[email protected]
Brad is now working on the creation of the Boston Energy Alliance, a non-profit
corporation that will aggregate citywide installation of energy efficiency, the Mayor's
Climate Action Executive Order, green building zoning, and the City's Integrated Energy
Management Plan. In 2007, Brad’s worked to have Boston named an inaugural Solar
America City and is currently creating the City’s Solar Boston program with a $500,000
federal grant. In 2006, Brad created the City’s Green Affordable Housing Program with
$2.1 million external funding. From 1999 to 2003, Brad coordinated the design and
construction of the City’s first green building with the formation of the Mayor’s Green
Building Task Force. Brad has also worked on waterfront, parks and Boston Harbor
Islands planning projects. Brad serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Victory
Programs, Inc., a Boston-based agency that operates 18 human service programs.
Carter Wall, Director
Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
75 North Drive, Westborough, MA 01581
508- 870-0312
[email protected]
Carter Wall oversees the implementation of the Trust’s programs in renewable energy
development. Her background is in energy finance. Prior to joining the Trust, Carter
was the Executive Vice President of PowerOptions, an energy supply program of the
Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, and has also served on
planning teams for large-scale developments with significant energy infrastructure and
sustainable development components, such as Harvard University’s Allston campus
and the City of Chicago’s expansion of Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Carter has
an AB from Bryn Mawr College and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of
Government. She lives in Leverett, MA
Jurgen Weiss, Ph.D., MBA
Managing Director - Advisory Services
Point Carbon AS
8 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Third Floor, Boston, MA 02109 USA
617 792 9055 [email protected] www.pointcarbon.com
Jurgen Weiss is an energy and environmental economist heading global advisory
activities of Point Carbon, the world’s leading provider of energy and environmental
market related market intelligence. He work focuses on issues related to carbon,
renewable energy and electricity in Europe, the United States and, primarily through the
CDM/JI mechanisms established under the Kyoto protocol, other parts of the world as
well. Prior to joining Point Carbon, Dr. Weiss was a director with LECG, an independent
economic consultant, and an associate with the Brattle Group and Booz, Allen &
Hamilton. He has testified in regulatory proceedings and state and federal court on
issues related to electric power asset valuation, retail rate setting etc. and has consulted
on issues related to the design of competitive markets for electric power, Renewable
Portfolio Standards, electricity price forecasting and other issues related to the interface
between energy and environmental issues. Dr. Weiss holds an MBA from Columbia
University and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.
Paul P. Zofnass, President
The Environmental Financial Consulting Group, Inc.
18 E 48th Street 18th Floor, New York, 10017
212-752-2203 [email protected]
Paul Zofnass is President of EFCG (The Environmental Financial Consulting Group), a
New York based, investment banking firm he founded in 1990, to provide strategic,
business and financial advisory services, valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and
internal ownership transition advice to the environmental and infrastructure engineering
and consulting ("e/c") industry. EFCG serves on a retainer basis to roughly 40 of the
leading e/c firms in the US and abroad, provides valuation services to roughly 50 firms
each year, has completed over 70 M+A assignments in this field, has assisted over a
hundred e/c firms with redesigning their internal ownership and capitalization plans.
EFCG has just held its 19th annual CEO Conference for the heads of 250 leading
environmental and infrastructure e/c firms. He will be presenting insights from that
conference. He is an alumnus of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard
Business School, and grew up in Belmont, Mass.