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Investors: Going for the Green
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Michael Boland
Dome Advisors
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| Michael Boland founded Dome Advisors LLC, which provides institutional investors with analysis of the policy and political environment affecting public companies, industries and sectors, including finance, energy, the environment, health care and defense. Prior to founding Dome Advisors, Boland was a partner at Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart, a Washington lobbying firm. Before that, he was Senior Vice President at Verizon, where he headed the team responsible for all legislation affecting the company, including telecommunications, labor, health, pension, international trade, and patent and tax matters. Previously, Boland was CEO of Boland & Madigan, another Washington-based Lobbying firm. He began his career on Capitol Hill in 1978 as counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In 1984, Boland was appointed Chief Counsel to Trent Lott, then the Republican Whip in the U.S. House of Representatives. Boland is a graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law where he was one of the editors of the law review. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. |
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Anric Blatt
Global Fund Exchange Ltd
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| Anric Blatt is Chairman of the Global Fund Exchange in Oyster Bay, N.Y. , an asset management company focused on energy and clean/green investments, and also co-portfolio manager of the firm’s Earth Wind & Fire Fund Ltd. He has been with Global Fund Exchange since its founding in 2005. He is a specialist investor in energy, hedge funds and systematic trading and commodities, and during the past decade has overseen on-site due diligence of over 1,500 managers. Prior to joining Global Fund Exchange, Mr. Blatt was the founder, CEO and Chairman of Infiniti Capital Group, where he was responsible for over $2 billion in assets under management. He created and managed 12 public investment funds, a capital markets securitization business and a hedge fund research organization. Prior to this, he was regional director in Asia for the qualitative fund of funds group of Forsyth Partners. He previously was with Kenmar and Horwath International. Mr. Blatt has lived in Africa, Asia and Europe for most of his life and has travelled to 98 countries. He is a member of the International Association of Engineers and a board member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. |
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Peter Fusaro
Global Change Associates
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| Peter C. Fusaro is Chairman of Global Change Associates a financial services advisory in New York and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron as well as 15 other books on energy and the environmental financial markets. Peter’s latest book will be published in 2010 by Oxford University Press on Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques. Peter is an energy and environmental industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 35 years focusing on oil, gas, power, coal, emissions, cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy markets. Peter is currently advising on carbon trading and finance as well as clean energy technology and renewable energy to financial services companies worldwide. Peter was selected for Who’s Who in America for 2007-2010 and Who’s Who in the World for 2009-2010. He coined the term “Green Trading” and holds the annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit IX each spring (www.wsgts.com). Peter is advisor to 11 cleantech software and hardware companies in the US and UK. In 2009, Peter launched the Global Change Foundation focused on environmental education and projects. Peter graduated with an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is on the Advisory Board of the ERB Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. |
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Shawn Kravetz
Esplanade Capital
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| Shawn W. Kravetz is President of Esplanade Capital LLC, a Boston-based investment management company founded in 1999 to manage capital for a small number of like-minded families, private investors, and institutions. Esplanade Capital Electron Partners LP, launched in 2009, is a private investment fund dedicated to public securities in solar energy and those sectors impacted by its emergence.The firm manages two private investment partnerships. Esplanade Capital Partners I LLC, launched in 2000, is focused on a handful of sectors, including: retail, consumer products, casino gaming, business services, education, and solar power. Prior to founding Esplanade Capital, Mr. Kravetz was a Principal at The Parthenon Group, a leading strategy consulting boutique, where he advised chief executives on corporate strategy. Prior to Parthenon, Mr. Kravetz was Director of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at The CML Group, where he oversaw activities at subsidiaries including NordicTrack, The Nature Company, and Smith & Hawken. Mr. Kravetz received an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar. Mr. Kravetz received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University, magna cum laude. |
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Abigail Laufer
Virid Capital Management
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| Abigail E. Laufer is the CEO and founder of Virid Capital Management a firm devoted to investments in public cleantech companies. She oversees the investment philosophy and management of the firm. Ms. Laufer has over 27 years of investment experience.
Ms. Laufer’s career has spanned a broad cross-section of the institutional investment industry. Following her early days as a securities analyst with the National Bank of Detroit she was appointed Director of Mutual Fund Research for Merrill Lynch in New York. She was then recruited by the Frank Russell Company as a consultant serving Russell’s Fortune 500 clients, providing strategy and conducting manager research for their pension funds and high net worth clients. While at Russell she was the first consultant to work directly with George Russell in the formation of the high net worth effort at that firm. In 1997, she co-founded Hanover Square Associates to represent managers and provide marketing consulting services on a contractual basis. Her successful fundraising venture led to her involvement as a partner at the New Energy Fund, a hedge fund devoted to public and private investments in the renewable energy sector. She formed Virid Capital Management in 2009 to focus exclusively on public market investments in the cleantech sector.
She has an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. She holds a current Series 7 and 63 registration. |
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