Speakers

Mike Capuano
Director, Service Provider Routing and Switching Marketing Group
Cisco
Mike Capuano is Director, SP Routing and Switching Marketing Group at Cisco and leads a team focused on Cisco's service provider network layer routing, switching, and transport solutions portfolio. Mike currently serves spokesperson for all key Service Provider network infrastructure product and solution launches. With over 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry he brings a deep understanding of business and technical issues to Cisco's marketing strategy and execution. Prior to Cisco Mike has held positions in marketing and product management at Juniper Networks, Pacific Broadband Communications, Wink Communications, and General Instrument (now Motorola Connected Home).

Jorg Heinemann
Executive Director
Communications & High Tech Industry Sustainability
Accenture
Jorg Heinemann leads Accenture's Clean Tech and Sustainability practice globally for its Communications and High Tech operating group. This practice helps Global 2000 clients respond to the business imperatives driven by global climate change, consumer demand for green/sustainable products and environmental regulation. Accenture's sustainability services include strategy, performance management, green computing, sustainable supply chain transformation, product lifecycle management and SMART Buildings. With more than 19 years at Accenture, Heinemann has been instrumental in driving large scale change programs and transformational outsourcing for prominent high-tech industry companies such as Apple, Autodesk, Cadence, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba. He has led successful business change initiatives covering a wide range of solutions including Learning, CRM, eCommerce, ERP, IT Strategy & Operations, Supply Chain Management, HR transformation, R&D, Customer Service and Professional Services.

Carrie Cullen Hitt
Vice President, Sustainable Energy Solutions
Constellation NewEnergy
Carrie Cullen Hitt oversees Constellation NewEnergy's renewable power products. In this role, she develops programs and capabilities to help customers manage their business' impact on the environment through greenhouse gas reducing activities, including purchasing renewable power. Ms. Cullen Hitt has worked for NewEnergy a total of eight years, most recently as Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs. From 1999 - 2001, she worked at Green Mountain Energy Resources as Director of Regional Business Development. With fifteen years of industry experience, Ms. Cullen Hitt has held positions among a diverse set of energy-focused organizations, including assistant director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group. She also served as an analyst to the Joint Committee on Energy of the Massachusetts Legislature and served as consultant during discussions on the 1997 Energy Restructuring Act in that State. Currently, she serves on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York and the North American Association of Issuing Bodies.

Lori Duvall
Director of Eco Responsibility Programs
Sun Microsystems
As Eco Responsibility Program Manager for Sun, Lori drives initiatives both outside and inside the company focused on enhancing Sun's reputation as a leader in environmentally responsible business. Some of her current projects include assessing Sun's carbon footprint and implementing programs to reduce it; continually evolving Sun's internal operations to be more sustainable and eco-friendly; and promoting transparency around Sun's environmental impacts and improvement programs through external communications. Most recently, Lori led the development of OpenEco.org, a global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools that help participants assess, track, and compare energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation. Lori has a degree in Environmental, Populational, and Organismic Biology from the University of Colorado. Before joining the technology industry in 1998, she spent nine years as an environmental consultant, specializing in air quality. Her roles in high tech have included product and strategic program management, as well as marketing programs management.

Peter Hsiao
Partner
Morrison and Foerster
Peter Hsiao is a partner in the global technology and finance law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP. He is a member of the firm's Clean Tech practice and head of both the Land Use and Environmental Law Group in Los Angeles and the firm's Green Chemistry Group. Drawing upon his science background as a chemical engineer, Mr. Hsiao has more than 25 years of experience in environmental law and clean technology, both in the United States and internationally. He was Chair of the State Bar of California's Section on Environmental Law and is consistently identified as one of California's best environmental lawyers by the Legal 500, the PLC Global 3000, the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and the Los Angeles Magazine.

Thomas Jensen
Practice Leader
Sustainable Solutions
SAIC
Thomas Jensen has helped create several new enterprises that use technology to address important problems in energy, environment, manufacturing and supply chain. He currently is a practice director at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company that is one of the largest business consulting and technology firms in the U.S. He co-leads a global practice in sustainability. Tom leads initiatives and engagements in the utility, oil and gas and telecommunication sectors. For example, he presently leads a multi-year engagement for AT&T and is a senior business strategist developing a climate change focused business strategy for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, an innovative mid-market utility with the largest solar program in the U.S. Tom also is developing business plans and strategies for several industrial and information technology businesses. Over his 20-year career, Tom founded two software ventures to advance clean manufacturing and consulted for several other new enterprises including manufacturing and supply chain companies, online supply chain and environmental commerce marketplaces, personal computer manufacturers, green packaging manufacturers, water filtration companies, and utility energy efficiency services. He has also developed strategic alliances for leading technology companies, co-founded nationally and internationally recognized clean manufacturing and energy public-private partnerships, and has assisted more than 50 large companies in the U.S. and abroad develop business plans, marketing alliances, or to apply innovative strategies and technologies.

Elaine Lennox
Vice President of Marketing Management
IBM's Enterprise Systems Division
Elaine Lennox is Vice President of Marketing Management for IBM's Enterprise Systems Division. In this role, Elaine is responsible for leading the planning of marketing and sales activities towards IBM's largest clients. This includes a focus on helping our IBM clients embrace and move towards IBM's vision of the New Enterprise Data Center, with a focus on energy efficient and green technologies and services.

David Lubensky
Founder and President
Bagatto
In 1994, David was one of the first ethnographic design researchers at Paul Allen's Interval Research think tank, performing field research and using his findings to help design and lay groundwork for numerous patents. His topics of research and design included media manipulation, musical instruments, children's games, communications technologies, architectural environments, technology assisted spirituality, and broadband technologies. Upon leaving Interval in 1999, David cofounded Kundi Inc., a community focused search engine that alerts subscribers to audio and video changes of live media over the Internet. David acted as Director of Content, overseeing user interface, usability, customer acquisitions and content management before leaving to create the Bagatto consulting agency in 2001. David is especially adept at converting his findings into proprietary insights about participant needs and product or service designs. He has led over 7,500 observations in homes, cars, stores, bathrooms, restaurants, operating rooms, concerts, churches, and focus group facilities across the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and Asia. He recently completed original research combining field observations with a national survey on the purchasing behaviors and values of Conscious Consumers and has spoken at numerous conferences about his findings.

Mike Mielke
Director, Environment
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Mike Mielke moved to Silicon Valley in 2008, after living in Washington DC for over thirteen years. He and his wife Cary are happy to locate closer to family and friends and to take advantage of the inviting scenery and climate. They both enjoy spending time hiking the Bay Area's many scenic trails in search of the next awe-inspiring vista. Mike's life's work involves promoting stronger and more sustainable businesses and communities. He has held jobs in the non-profit, government, and private sectors, including posts with a number of consulting firms, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the National Estuary Program. His direct experience encompasses assignments in the developed and developing world, where his work requires close collaboration with business, non-profits, local and national governments, and bi- and multi-lateral donor organizations.

Rob Smoot
data center product marketing
VMware and a director of The Green Grid
Bio coming soon...

Phil Williams
Vice President
Webcore Builders
Phil Williams heads the "Sustainability" and "Systems Engineering" groups. Webcor's approach to sustainability is to, very early in the design process, offer owners and the entire design team the types of options that could enable the project to obtain at least LEED Certification. On every project, Webcor provides a LEED Accredited Professional as a full time member of the project team. This team member is assigned from within the company and as an integral part of the project, assures that the project team has the in-site and experience of a LEED AP, independent of any LEED rating (or non-rating). This approach successfully allows Phil and Webcor to design and build several high density multi-family residential projects in California that are LEED Registered or are being engineered and built with a concentrated focus on "Sustainable" design.