Aleid Diepeveen has a degree in Management & Technology from the University of Twente with a specific focus on water treatment technologies and a MIT Sloan School of Management degree after following the Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. She is currently active in the water sector as Director of the Innovation Program in Water Technology at the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP). Aleid has developed a deep understanding of the relation between research, market and entrepreneurship and the public water infrastructure during her current and past employment at knowledge institute Wetsus (Scientific Project Manager), water supply company Drenthe (Account Manager Industrial Water Supply) and technology provider Norit (Business Development Assistance).

The Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) is a comprehensive network that unites Dutch water expertise. The partnership, consisting of members from private companies, government, knowledge institutes and NGOs, acts as a centre of information on water expertise, policy developments and market opportunities. But NWP is more than an information source, the organisation also initiates, coordinates and executes projects for its members, such as trade missions, exhibitions and conferences.

By putting our heads together, we can achieve more in solving global water related challenges. A united voice is stronger than 200 voices. Moreover, by entering markets in clusters, offering expertise as a one-stop-shop, Dutch companies increase their world market share considerably. In the Netherlands as well as abroad, the NWP is the gateway to all you need to know about the Dutch Water Sector and its solutions to global water related challenges.

In his professional carrier, Alois Flatz has focused for more than 19 years exclusively on the interface of investing and sustainable development, including the establishment of private equity and financial advisory businesses.

Alois is a Managing Partner of zouk ventures (www.zouk.com), an independent, London-based private equity fund manager focused on cleantech markets. zouk manages over €350m in funds following two distinct tracks: expansion capital in clean technology companies (Cleantech Europe I & II) and development-stage project equity in clean infrastructure (zouk Solar Opportunities Ltd). Alois led zouk's investment in SiC Processing AG and served as a board member of the company, the global leader in slurry recycling for the solar and semiconductor wafer industry (www.sic-processing.com). A majority stake in the company was sold after a 3 year period of growth, generating one of the European Cleantech market's best returns of recent years.

He was a Managing Partner with BTS Investment Advisors, a specialised boutique focused on financial consultancy and private equity investments in India. The company currently advises assets in excess of $3bn (www.btsadvisors.com). He now serves as a board member to BTS IA.

Previously, Alois served as Partner of SAM Group Ltd, an asset management company focused on sustainability investments (www.sam-group.com; total asset amount Dec 31, 10: €11.8bn). Alois helped to build the company from scratch to a market leader in its focus sector. As Head of Research, he was responsible for the team which was independently rated No #1 in the World, as well as for product development and the establishment of the SAM Indexes.

Alois was the co-founder of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) (www.sustainability-indexes.com), the world's first and most recognized financial sustainability index ($8.0bn licensed assets Jan 31, 11). He also developed the SAM Sustainable Water Fund, which now has more than €1.0bn under management at end of December 10.

Additionally, Alois is Chairman of the Board of Forma Futura (www.formafutura.com), an independent, Zurich-based sustainable asset management company focused on private clients. He is a published author and speaker on sustainable investing and climate change. He has a PhD from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He also studied International Management at Haute École de Commerce (HEC), Paris and has an MBA from Vienna University of Economics.

Amol joined KPCB in April 2008 and focuses on greentech with special emphasis on technologies related water, waste, fuels/chemicals and sustainable agriculture.

At KPCB, Amol serves on the board of directors of Harvest, a company focused on next generation waste management technologies. Amol is also on the board of directors of the KPCB's first water investment, APTwater. Amol is also on the board of directors 3 other ventures all in the water or waste sectors and closely involved with KPCB investments in Siluria, Hara Software and Next Autoworks.

Prior to KPCB, Amol spent 3 years at at Black River and Cargill Ventures, both investment oriented business units of the private agribusiness, Cargill, Inc. While at Cargill, Amol focused on Greentech investment throughout the energy, water and agricultural supply chain. Amol was directly involved with investments and initiatives in multiple Greentech verticals including solar, next generation fuels, sustainable agriculture, industrial biotech, waste/environmental sciences and carbon markets. Amol was also responsible for maintaining relationships with key innovative business units within Cargill and tracking innovation in Greentech both inside and outside of the organization. Prior to Cargill, Amol was an entrepreneur having founded an agricultural biotechnology company focused on novel germplasm in high value vegetable crops as well as companies in the water sector and educational services sector. In this, Amol has extensive experience in writing business plans, fundraising and guiding strategy for new enterprises at all stages of development.

Amol has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Amol also has an MBA from Cornell University where he was a Park Fellow, receiving a full tuition merit based scholarship based on future leadership potential in business world.

Dr. Andrew Benedek received his engineering degree (chemical) from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1966. By 1970, Dr. Benedek obtained a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., with a focus on wastewater treatment. He then accepted a professorship at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where he taught and conducted research to find ways of improving water quality.

In 1980, Dr. Benedek founded ZENON Environmental Inc., with the purpose of developing cost effective membrane technologies for recycling wastewater. Under his leadership, ZENON has invented many of the key membrane technologies used for water and wastewater treatment and became the global leader in this field. Dr. Benedek continued to be the chairman and CEO of ZENON until its June 2006 sale to General Electric. At the time of the sale, the company had annual sales of approximately CDN $250 Million and employed 1,500 people.

After the sale of the company, Dr Benedek worked at the Scripps Institute of Technology in San Diego where he became interested in helping to find solutions to the Global Climate Change problem . In view of this new interest, he left Scripps to develop renewable energy waste. In 2008, he became the Managing Director of UTS BiogasTechnik GMBH, a German pioneer in biogas generation from waste. Once the Germany company had a renewed strong leadership, he started UTS Bioenergy LLC in Encinitas, CA as well as a number of other companies to produce energy from municipal wastewater as well as industrial and agricultural waste.

Dr Benedek's has received many awards. These include honorary doctorates from Universities, awards for entrepreneurship and for contributions toward solving global problems. For example, in 2008, he was chosen as the inaugural recipient of one of the most prestigious prizes in the world for contributions to solving water problems, the Lee Kwan Yew Prize.

Dr. Benedek served on many public boards such as the National Research Council of Canada. Currently, he is a member of the Board of IWA (the International Water Association) where he also serves as a member of the Council of Distinguished Water Professionals. In addition he is a member of the International Advisory panel of the Government of Singapore and a member of the Lee Kwan Yew prize nominating committee.. Noted as a leading authority on global water related issues, he has written over 100 scientific papers on different water and wastewater treatment technologies and lectured extensively as keynote speaker to learned societies around the world.

Andy Seidel is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Underground Solutions, Inc. (UGSI) which is headquartered in Poway, CA with offices nationwide. He is also a member of the UGSI Board of Directors. UGSI provides infrastructure technologies for water/wastewater applications, and conduit for applications ranging from electrical to fiber optics.

Seidel is the former CEO of United States Filter Corporation (USFilter), which was the nation's leading provider of water and wastewater products, systems and services. As a founding executive of USFilter, he was a key member of the team that built and managed USFilter, the largest water and wastewater company in North America, growing USFilter from $17 million to over $6 billion in sales in only eight years.

In addition to his past position as CEO of USFilter, Seidel is a former director of USFilter (formerly NYSE: USF), Aqua America (formerly known as Philadelphia Suburban - NYSE: WTR), and National Waterworks, a leading water infrastructure distribution company now owned by Home Depot. Seidel also served on the Management Board of Veolia, S.A., the French-based water and wastewater company (NYSE:VE). He is currently a director of Heckmann Corp. (NYSE: HEK) a company focused on water treatment and transportation and serves on the Advisory Board of Vantage Point Venture Partners – one of the largest Clean-Tech venture funds.

He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Between his employment with Hercules Chemical Company and Deloitte & Touche Management Consulting, he completed an MBA program at the Wharton School of the University of PA.

Mr. Assaf Barnea is the CEO of Kinrot Ventures, the leading seed investor in water technologies worldwide, which is privately held by AquAgro Cleantech fund, in cooperation with the Israeli OCS (Office of the Chief Scientist).

Mr. Barnea was managing the Business Development activity at Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, where he oversaw the establishment of WaTech - the Entrepreneurship & Partnership Center for Water Technologies, a program which supports new innovative water technologies solutions that are relevant to Mekorot's daily operations.

Prior to Mekorot, he served for four years as a director of business development at Comverse Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMVT), a global telecom provider. Mr. Barnea is also a founder and a BOD member of Cardiosense, a medical device startup company. He is a certified lawyer, holds both law and business degrees from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzelia and a political science and psychology degree from Tel-Aviv University.

In his previous career, Mr. Barnea played college basketball at Seton Hall University and professional basketball at Israel's top division and was a member of the Israeli national basketball team.

Bob Wolpert is President of ITT Flow Control and is responsible for the strategy and operations of this global business with premium brands in low-flow pumps, valves and membrane filters across multiple industries.

Wolpert began his career with ITT in 2003 as Global Vice President of Six Sigma and Lean for ITT Electronic Components, and then served as Vice President, General Manager for ITT Interconnect Solutions before assuming his current role at ITT Flow Control.

Prior to joining ITT, Wolpert had over 20 years experience in general management, leading performance turnarounds and growth oriented business expansion. He held leadership roles at several companies, including Lockheed Martin and DST Systems.

Wolpert currently serves a number of other roles for ITT including that of Innovation Champion for the ITT commercial businesses; a member of the Board of Directors of ITT's political action committee and several ITT international subsidiaries and JV's; and is an ITT panel member for project proposal reviews supporting the Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative sponsored by the Emergency Capacity Building Project.

Mr. Wolpert received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in business from the University of Denver and earned an MBA degree from Harvard University.

Bob has completed six international distance triathlons, and he has coached (to occasional victory) kid's baseball and basketball.

Oren has experience of over 25 years in a variety of global and local industries and markets. At the beginning of the millennium Oren turned from the high-tech industry to the water industry.

Oren served as Corporate Business Development VP at Netafim, the world's largest drip and micro-irrigation Company.

In 2003, he was appointed Executive Chairman of Mekorot, the Israel National Water Company. Oren initiated and implemented into Mekorot a new business approach that enabled among others to establish the WaTech - Partnership Center, using the company's facilities as beta sites for new external innovation thus creating for the company technological improvements while generating new revenue stream (www.mekorot.co.il/eng).

Oren is among the initiators of the government's decision to set water industry as an industry of national priority - Israel NEWTech (www.israelnewtech.gov.il).

At the end of 2006, Oren joined the Arison group and was the co-founder of Miya, which became a world leading company in the field of urban water loss, water systems optimization and efficiency (www.miya-water.com).

In parallel, as part of the national program, Oren began his role as Chairman of WATEC Israel, an international event (www.watec-israel.com). The events (2007 and 2009) were a huge success. In 2009 there were 150 international delegations and tens of thousands of participants.

Oren has set a goal for WATEC 2011 to focus on "i2i" - innovation to implementation to implement the new innovations on a large scale in the global Cleantech sector. Thus reinforcing Israel's position as a global "Silicon Valley" for Cleantech solutions. At the beginning of 2011 Oren initiated his own company - Booky Oren, Global Water Technologies - that will support implementation of proven innovation in the global water sector.

Oren holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and Management and a Masters degree in Business Administration, both from the Tel-Aviv University.

Bertrand Camus serves as CEO of United Water's nationwide water and wastewater operations. These encompass both regulated and non-regulated businesses. In addition, he is CEO of Suez Environnement North America.

Prior to joining United Water, Camus served as director of internal audit for Suez Environnement, United Water's parent company. In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing compliance within the Group's operations in 30 countries around the world. In addition to expertise in finance, long-term investment and sustainable development, Camus has a wealth of experience in international water operations. He served as chief operating officer of Aguas Argentinas, an affiliate of Suez Environnement. In that capacity he was responsible for overseeing water and wastewater operations which served eight million people living in Greater Buenos Aires.

Before joining Aguas Argentinas, Camus held various business development positions with Suez Environnement. As business development director of Southeast Asia he was based in Kuala Lumpur where he was involved with the development of new contracts and acquisition of companies in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Korea. Prior to that Camus was based in Paris where he served as director of international projects. His accomplishments included public-private partnerships in Budapest and Casablanca.

Camus began his career in project financing at Banque Nationale de Paris where he structured and implemented funding for large infrastructure projects throughout the world.

He is a graduate of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées where he received a degree in civil engineering. He is also a certified internal auditor.

David E. Flitman has been our Senior Executive Vice President and President, Water and Process Services since February 2010. Before that he was Executive Vice President and President, Water and Process Services beginning in January 2009. He was Executive Vice President and President, Industrial and Institutional Services since joining Nalco in August 2008 until January 2009. Prior to joining Nalco, Mr. Flitman was President of Allegheny Power, the energy delivery arm of Allegheny Energy Inc. He had joined Allegheny in 2005 as Vice President of Distribution. Before that he gained broad cross-functional and global experience in a variety of leadership positions during a nearly 20-year career at DuPont, where he had most recently served as Global Business Director for the Nonwovens Business Group.

David is the founder and Managing Director of XPV Capital Corporation, one of the largest firms in the world solely dedicated to investing in high growth water companies. At XPV, David focuses on identifying and investing in companies capitalizing on the significant opportunities created by the "new water economy" - a concept he developed. He is a respected speaker and expert contributor in the area of water technology and investing. Some of the organizations David has worked with include: Milken Institute, Global Water Intelligence, Canada Water, WaterCAMPWS, Government of Ontario, Empire Club of Canada, Globe, Singapore International Water Week, UCLA, MIT, Red Herring, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The China Business Review, The China Green Technology Initiative, Cleantech Group, Brookings Institute and LUX Research.

His experience includes negotiating partnerships with leading water multi-nationals, helping portfolio companies complete strategic acquisitions and advising governments and regulators on water technology adoption strategies. Having done business in the United States, China, South Korea, India and the European Union he understands the complexities of building a successful global water enterprise.

David is an Advisor to Government of Ontario, Watertech Week and Imagine H2O, a member of the Water Environment Federation's Global Water Strategies Council, and is one of the recipients of the 2009 Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award. He is past Chairman and a current Director of Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship where he received the Global Champion and Distinguished Service Award. David is also a founding member of the National Angel Capital Organization.

Prior to starting XPV Capital, David was one of the first employees of the private merchant bank Kinghaven Capital Corporation (now VRG Capital). At Kinghaven, he was responsible for leading portfolio company strategic partnerships, M&A transactions and direct investments in a broad range of industries.

David was educated at Ryerson University's School of Business where he specialized in the Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development program and received the Ryerson Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Research Award.

David G. Thomson is a bestselling author, advisor and speaker. He is the Founder and Chairman of The Blueprint Growth Institute, a specialized management-consulting firm focused on helping companies develop growth strategies and execute the 7 Essentials. His insights that identified the quantitative success pattern of America's highest growth companies - which he wrote about in his best seller Blueprint to a Billion - have been embraced globally. Thomson's Blueprint and 7 Essentials have been featured in media such as The NY Times, Investor's Business Daily, USATODAY, ABCNews.com, BusinessWeek.com, Korean Economic Daily, Sky TV (Australia). As a keynote speaker, he has presented to over 25,000 globally translated into multiple languages. Thomson is also known for the 7 Essentials Scorecard and Workshops.

Thomson's newest research is identifying how America's growth companies are applying the 7 Essentials through recessionary times to become the leaders for the next growth cycles. He has synthesized these lessons in his recent book, from John Wiley & Sons, Mastering The 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies. Of this book, Jim Estill who is one of the Seed Investors of Research in Motion shares, Mastering The 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies certainly applied to RIM in the early years. The principle of having a breakthrough proposition was the whole basis for the leading BlackBerry® business and because the smartphone market was in its infancy it was clearly a high-growth market. RIM's setup with co-CEOs having one who is inside and one who is outside focused in the early days helped RIM to stay focused on R&D, while at the same time selling products/services and creating alliances with brand name service providers. David has nailed the essentials required to become a high-growth company."

Thomson's recent research report is GROWTHonomics: The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth. He uniquely applies the quantitative "Blueprint" success pattern to identify the next companies, industries and states that will lead the next growth cycle through 2016. This research identifies that these companies will generate 3.4 million new jobs through 2016. He recently shared these insights with the Governors of Colorado and Texas.

With the launch of Blueprint Growth Investors LLC, Thomson is uniquely linking management actions to the unique factors that drive shareholder value for high-growth companies. Based on three years of research with Standard & Poor's, Thomson can identify the financial and industry factors that maximize shareholder value and uniquely benchmark company performance based on fundamentals. The impact for management teams is a quantitative measurement of the impact of the 7 Essentials on shareholder value. For investors, Thomson has formed the Blueprint Growth Investors, LLC for private investors to invest in Blueprint Companies based on this quantitative approach.

Thomson has been studying and leading business growth for twenty years in general management and executive sales/marketing at Nortel Networks and Hewlett-Packard and as an associate principal during his five years at McKinsey & Company. Thomson graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

Visit www.blueprintgrowth.com for more information and tools to help grow your business; The 7 Essentials Scorecard can help companies measure performance against each essential and The 7 Essentials Workshop will help teams define an actionable roadmap.

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Debra Coy provides consulting services for investors and companies in the water sector. She launched her independent consulting business in 2010 after 20 years as a research analyst covering the water industry for Wall Street firms. She was recently appointed to the advisory board of XPV Capital, the largest water-only venture capital fund in North America.

Based in Washington, D.C., Ms. Coy has worked in investment research since 1989, creating a unique franchise and expertise in covering the global water sector for investors.She has been responsible for running the leading water conference on Wall Street for more than a decade and was co-organizer of Global Water Intelligence's First American Water Summit in 2010. Ms. Coy was named a Financial Times/Starmine "Best Brokerage Analyst" in 2008 and 2009 and a Forbes "Best Brokerage Analyst" in 2010 for water utilities coverage. She is a frequent speaker at industry events, has appeared on CNBC, PBS's Wall Street Week and other investment broadcasts, and is regularly quoted in financial and industry publications on water sector stocks and issues. She has testified on Capitol Hill on water infrastructure financing, and currently serves as co-chair of the Water Environment Federation's Global Water Strategies Council and is a member of the Clean Water America Alliance's National Dialogue on an integrated water policy.

Ms. Coy most recently worked as Managing Director leading coverage of the water sector for Janney Montgomery Scott's Capital Markets group. She also worked as an equity research analyst with the Stanford Washington Research Group, Schwab Capital Markets, HSBC Securities, and NatWest Securities. Ms. Coy holds an undergraduate degree in English literature and received an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

Evan Lovell is a founding Partner of Virgin Green Fund and a member of its Investment Committee. VGF is a San Francisco and London based private equity fund focused on growth capital investments in the renewable energy, resource efficiency and water sectors. Prior to VGF, Evan was an investment professional with TPG and a partner in TPG's Aqua Fund, which focused on growth capital investments in the water and renewable energy sectors.

Evan currently serves on the board of DuraTherm, Inc. a leader in waste treatment for the refinery and oil and gas industry, Seven Seas Water the largest providers of desalinated water in the Carribbean and Bahamas and Quench USA the largest independent Point-of-Use water cooler company in North America.

Prior to joining TPG, Evan was the Director of International Development for Culligan Water Technologies which was at the time a portfolio company of Apollo Management, L.P.

Hank joined SAIL in January 2006 as a pioneering figure in the areas of environmental business and policy and a leading contributor to environmental innovation. He has been influential in spearheading many of SAIL's portfolio company investments. Hank and Managing Partner Walter Schindler are responsible for co-managing all aspects of SAIL's operations and investments.

His career as a leading member of the environmental policy world has included leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division, and at the U.S. EPA as COO (Deputy Administrator). During his time with the EPA he oversaw the development of new air and water programs to prevent pollution, including the development of the Energy Star program and implementation of market based trading programs under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments.

In business, Hank served as Senior VP in charge of acquisitions and other divisions of Safety-Kleen, a billion-dollar environmental service company. He has also held positions and started ventures in the for-profit environmental arena, including VP of William D. Ruckelshaus Associates, which co-managed the successful Environmental Venture Fund, one of the first successful green funds in the 1980s. As Co-Founder of Capital E, LLC, a strategic consultancy for emerging renewable energy products and technologies, he advised Fortune 100 and early stage ventures on sustainable growth strategies. He previously served as CEO and is now Vice Chairman of a prestigious non-for-profit corporation that fosters innovation in environmental management and promotes applications of clean technology in emerging markets, called Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF.)

Hank has held numerous Board seats over the years, currently he sits on the Boards of SAIL companies WaterHealth International, and Xtreme Power, and is a Co-Founder of the American Council of Renewable Energy. He is Commissioner of the National Commission on Energy Policy, has advised several Cabinet Secretaries. He is on the Advisory Board to the National Renewable Energy Lab and the Pacific Northwest National Lab. In 1991 the EPA awarded him with the esteemed Total Quality Leadership Award and in 2009 he received the national Richard Mellon Award for Environmental Stewardship. Hank holds a Bachelors degree with High Honors from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Vander Laan founded Trojan Technologies Inc. in 1976, acquiring the patent for a small ultraviolet device for private water supply applications. Building upon that concept he developed a company that is now a global leader in its field with revenues well in excess of $200 million per year.

After 25 years as President at Trojan, Mr. Vander Laan handed over the leadership of the company to the next generation and was appointed Chairman of the Board. In December 2004, Trojan Technologies was acquired by Danaher Corp., a large international company based in Washington, DC.

Prior to founding Trojan Technologies, Mr. Vander Laan was Vice President of Canadian Cable Systems Limited (currently Rogers Cable Systems) from 1969 to 1977, where he was responsible for technical operations and personnel for the largest cable television company in Canada.

Mr. Vander Laan received his education at The University of Western Ontario and was appointed to the University's Board of Governors in 2002, and served as Vice Chair. He served as chair of the board of The Stiller Centre of Technology Commercialization, served on the board of UWO Research Park and was the Founding Chair of London TechAlliance. Mr. Vander Laan served as a board member on the Ontario Government's Clean Water Legacy Trust and is currently on the Investment & Trade Advisory Council to the Provincial Ministry of Economic Development & Trade. In 2007, Mr Vander Laan was inducted to the London Business hall of Fame. He also is presently a board member of the Ivey School of Business at UWO and on a number of public and private companies.

Today, Mr. Vander Laan represents Trojan as its Founder and Senior Advisor exploring strategic alliances, directions and solutions for providing safe drinking water to large urban areas.

Hu Fleming is Global Director, Hatch Water, a unit of Hatch, a global engineering and program management organization. He received master and doctorate degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA at Harvard Business School. Hu is well known in international water and environmental circles, with more than hundred publications, sixteen patents, and four books including the Handbook of Membrane Technology. Among professional affiliations, Hu has been chairman of the International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes Chairman, the Task Group on Water for World Health Organization, U.S. EPA's Clean Water Act Advisory Group. as well as chairman of NATO's Advisory Group on Environmental Management. He was recently an invited speaker at the United Nations as part of World Water Day, as well as various U.S. Congressional committees on water and environmental issues.

Jane Pagel was appointed President and CEO of the Ontario Clean Water Agency on November 1, 2010. A highly experienced and effective leader with an extensive background in both Government and the private sector, Jane serves on the board of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, chairing the board's Project Review Committee, and was a longstanding member of the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology. She is also a member of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Prior to joining OCWA, Jane was a Principal with Stantec Consulting Limited, a global design and consulting company with more than 150 offices across North America. Jane was also the Senior Vice President of Government and Corporate Relations and a Principal with Jacques Whitford Ltd. from 2000 until its acquisition by Stantec in 2009. Previous industry positions included Vice President, Corporate and Government Affairs with Philip Services Corp., President of Zenon Environmental Laboratories, and Manager of the Environmental Sciences Department at Ontario Hydro. Jane's prior experience with the Ontario government included a number of scientist, management and executive positions in the Ministry of the Environment.

Currently, Managing Partner of Liberation Capital, a project finance fund targeting cleantech projects which utilize proven technologies, modular designs for smooth deployment and operations and long term offtake structures which require "customers" to use little to no capital ... leveraging Build Own Operate (BOO) contract structures. The projects pipeline includes gas recovery, water recovery, energy production and waste to value investment opportunities.

Jeff has been an active consultant, adviser and financier of several growth companies in the cleantech arena, - helping numerous firms map their strategic plans, develop targeted action plans and execute on delivering value to customers - as part of a global ecosystem. His experiences from GE, McKinsey, DuPont and startup companies have positioned him as a valued operator/advisor to many financial and operating firms.

Jeff is past president and CEO of GE Water & Process Technologies, a $2.5+ billion business unit of GE Infrastructure. In this position, he led the integration/operations of 5 broad companies GE acquired to build the best global water portfolio - Glegg, Betz Dearborn, Osmonics, Ionics and Zenon. This integration action improved the overall profitability, aligned the portfolio for growth and continued to deliver on the opportunity that the acquisitions afforded - providing the advanced products, services and solutions to meet customer's specific needs, globally.

He began his career as a process engineer with Dupont in a utilities role, with responsibilities for water treatment, powerhouse and boiler management, air compression and Nitric Acid production. After Dupont, he spent over four years with McKinsey & Co., a consulting firm, where he focused on business development, change management and strategic business modeling.

Jeff Garwood joined GE in 1992 in business development and sourcing at GE's global headquarters and later served in a variety of management roles at GE Plastics, including global M&A, leading the Engineered Styrenics Resins business and plant management responsibilities. He then worked outside GE from 1999 to 2001 where he assumed chief operating officer roles for Commerx and Youcentric, early stage IT firms. He rejoined GE in Aircraft Engines in 2001 as president of Garrett Aviation Services and was named president and CEO of GE Fanuc Automation in 2003. After three successful years leading GE Fanuc Automation, he assumed the role of President & CEO of GE Water & Process Technologies in February 2006.

Mr. Garwood has 3 daughters and a wife, residing in Charlotte North Carolina - a chosen location after 14 corporate moves. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of NC State University where he earned a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering. Jeff also graduated first in his M.B.A. class at the University of North Carolina.

Jeffry Sterba is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of American Water, the largest investor-owned U.S. water and wastewater utility company. Mr. Sterba brings more than 30 years of exceptional operational experience and a wealth of industry knowledge to American Water.

Mr. Sterba leads a team of more than 7,000 dedicated professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater and other related services to approximately 16 million people in 35 states and Ontario and Manitoba, Canada. He is responsible for developing the overall strategy and vision of American Water and directing its key business development initiatives.

Prior to joining American Water on August 16, 2010, Mr. Sterba served as Chairman and CEO of PNM Resources, Inc., the parent company of PNM, Texas-New Mexico Power Company (TNMP) and First Choice Power, from 2000 until March 2010. He currently serves as Non-Executive Chairman of PNM Resources. Since joining PNM in 1977, he held a succession of positions including Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President Bulk Power Services, Senior Vice President Asset Restructuring, Senior Vice President Retail Electric & Water Services and Vice President Revenue Management. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Sterba was Executive Vice President of United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), a global energy company headquartered in Maryland.

Mr. Sterba is a nationally recognized thought leader in the areas of energy policy, climate change legislation, renewable energy, and sustainability. He has served as chair of Edison Electric Institute, the national association of shareholder owned utilities, and chair of the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit center for energy and environment research. He serves on the board of directors of the Meridian Institute and is a member of the Business Environmental Leadership Council for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Mr. Sterba also previously served on the board of directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is a recipient of the Keystone Leadership in Industry Award and numerous other national and local honors.

Mr. Sterba has been actively involved in community and economic development efforts. He served as a community board member for Wells Fargo of New Mexico, on the board of directors of the Albuquerque Community Foundation, and as a member of the Kirtland Partnership Committee. He has also chaired the Albuquerque Economic Forum, United Way of Central New Mexico, Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and the Middle Rio Grande Business Education Compact.

Mr. Sterba attended Washington University in St. Louis, earning a bachelor's degree and completing post-graduate work in economics, and was accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. He resides in Philadelphia, and is married with two grown children.

More information can be found by visiting www.amwater.com.

John Burns is the Global Food and Beverage Industry Marketing Director at GE, Water and Process Technologies. John is responsible for listening to the needs of the Food and Beverage Industry and ensuring GE’s products and services provide the right solutions that meet the challenges and goals for water conservation, process efficiency and compliance for its Food and Beverage Customers. John has been in this role since August of 2010.

Prior to GE, he was the Director of Environmental Management at Pepsi Beverages Company. For this division of PepsiCo, he was responsible for environmental compliance and sustainability at US and Canadian bottling and warehousing operations. In total, John spent 15 years at PepsiCo with roles in Engineering, Operations and Research and Development. Over his tenure at Pepsi, he was well known for his leadership in water technology and conservation, and setting technical and quality standards for beverage ingredient water and bottled water.

Prior to joining Pepsi in 1995, John spent 6 years with Betz Laboratories in various field sales positions. He also spent 3 years with Pall Corporation as an Applications Engineer specializing in fine filtration. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Bucknell University in 1986 and currently lives in Brewster, NY with his wife and two children.

Prior to joining XPV in January 2006, Mr. Coburn was a private investor focused on the water industry. He was one of the earliest employees of ZENON Environmental, and as President and Chief Operating Officer, he helped grow the company from start up to over $146M in revenue with a market capitalization of $700M. Upon leaving ZENON in 2002, he was awarded the "Architect of ZENON Award" to recognize his efforts in building the company from start up to a world leader in water treatment. ZENON was subsequently acquired by GE in 2006. Mr. Coburn's water expertise began during the first 10 years of his career with Environment Canada, where he held various technical and senior management roles. He published over 20 scientific research papers and journal articles related to water treatment and its impact on the environment. To honour his service and commitment to excellence during his tenure at Environment Canada, he was awarded the prestigious "Government of Canada Merit Award".

John is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of evandtec, Inc. as well as a Director of APTwater Inc and FilterBoxx Water and Environmental Corp. He is a member of the Sustainable Development Technology Canada Investment Committee, a $1 billion program that finances and supports the development and demonstration of clean technologies. John is the Sector Practice Lead, Water and Waste Water, for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's (DFAIT) Cleantech Strategy, and is also a founding member of the National Angel Capital Organization.

Mr. Coburn holds a B.Sc. with Honours in Chemistry from the University of Waterloo and a C. Dir. (Chartered Director) from the McMaster University DeGroote School of Business Director's College program.

Mr. Hill joined NGP in 2010 and serves as a Managing Director of the NGP funds. He is an industry leader in the water and environmental services sectors. He has over 30 years of experience in both water and environmental service company operations as well as over a decade of private equity experience in the water industry. Mr. Hill leads NGP's efforts in the sourcing, execution and monitoring of opportunities in the water and environmental services sectors.

Mr. Hill received a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry in 1977 from Edinboro State University and a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering in 1979 from the University of Pittsburgh.

Laura Shenkar, Founder and Principal of The Artemis Project, is one of the foremost global experts on corporate water strategy and the application of advanced water technologies in commercial and industrial markets.

Ms. Shenkar works with leading global corporations - including Wal-Mart, IBM and Novozymes - on the development and execution of their water management strategies. She also assists advanced water technology companies in bringing new innovations to market, such as smart irrigation, advanced cooling towers, high-efficiency filtration, on-site recycling and water capture systems.

Ms. Shenkar advises the venture capital community on emerging investment opportunities through her work with Going Green clean-tech investment conference, the VC Taskforce and Astia. She is also actively involved with leading policy, advocacy and certification organizations, including the Alliance for Water Efficiency, the Water Reuse Association, the Water Environment Federation, the American Water Works Association, the National Sanitation Foundation, the Denmark Innovation Centre, the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Water Netherlands Partnership.

Ms. Shenkar is a regular speaker at conferences and industry events, including WEFTEC, WATEC, Going Green and numerous symposiums held at prominent universities including the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Berkeley and Ben Gurion University in Israel. She has also authored several landmark reports and policy papers, including the E2 policy paper, "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Improved Water Policy," that has driven California state policy on energy and water conservation.

Ms. Shenkar's research and opinions have appeared in numerous press outlets, including Inc. Magazine, USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor.

A graduate of Yale University, Ms. Shenkar holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has lived throughout the world and currently resides in San Francisco, California.

Laurent Auguste
President and CEO
Veolia Water Americas

Appointed president and CEO for Veolia Water Americas in 2008, Mr. Auguste leads Veolia Water's activities in North and South America. He is a member of the Executive Committee for Veolia Water, the world's No. 1 water company.

The company's North American operations serve 270 municipal and industrial customers and a population of 15 million. South American activities are largely performed through Proactiva Media Ambiente, a joint venture with FCC, a Spanish construction company.

A graduate of the prestigious engineering school École Centrale de Lyon, Mr. Auguste began his environmental services career in Tokyo in 1991. He joined Veolia Water as a branch director in France in 1995. In 1999, he established the company's foothold in South Korea, developing some of parent company Veolia Environnement's largest industrial contracts, and landing large wastewater build-operate-transfer projects.

In 2002, he became president of Veolia Water Japan, which represents the only substantial foreign water services company operating in Japan.

Lydia Whyatt
Managing Director
Aqua Resources Fund

• More than 16 years' investment experience, of which 10 years in private equity and venture capital. For the past 5 years Lydia focussed on waste and water investments
• Built from scratch a $90m dedicated Cleantech fund with a key focus on water and waste investments. Managed a portfolio of 10 Cleantech investments, with three successful exits in water and waste
• Formerly with Kennet Venture Partners ($280m with a number of successful exits), and with McKinsey & Co as a management consultant
• Career began in Russia structuring project finance for the City of Moscow's waste-processing plant among other project finance development opportunities
• Recognized and respected expert in water  technologies, and waste recovery of materials from industrial and municipal waste
• PhD in Physics from Moscow State University, MBA from Russian-American Independent University and Diploma in Banking and Finance from London School of Economics

Recent transaction experience includes:

• Waterleau Group, global waste water treatment solutions business with extensive track record and references in municipal and industrial biological  waste water treatment
• Monsal Ltd, a leader in advanced anaerobic digestion in the UK market with focus in waste water and bio-waste treatment
• Water dsinfection equipment supplier, targeting water re-use market. Profitable business was subsequently sold to Severn Trent Services, a division of Severn Trent Plc, a major UK water utility
• Established and fast growing recycler of silicon cutting fluid based in Germany with customers ranging from established multi-billion solar PV silicon suppliers to fast growing PV silicon manufacturers in China, sold in 2010 to a major financial group
• A leader in nutrient recovery from wastewater based in Canada, producing valuable slow release phosphorus based fertiliser

Maritza Liaw
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Maritza Liaw joined the Green Growth Fund at Kleiner Perkins in 2010. Prior to joining KPCB, Maritza served as COO at Energy Logics and Director of Finance at NaturEner USA and NaturEner Canada. At NaturEner, Maritza helped finance NaturEner's first utility-scale wind farms in Montana, negotiate tax-equity financing agreements, analyze price dynamics in merchant power markets, evaluate merchant transmission opportunities, develop wind farm budgets and projections, and negotiate contracts for the sale of renewable energy certificates.

Prior to building wind farms, Maritza helped commercialize global inventory tracking solutions at SaviNetworks, a joint venture of Savi Technology (purchased by Lockheed Martin) and Hutchinson Port Holdings. Maritza was also a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

Maritza received a BA in Economics and BS in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

As the Cleantech Group's water analyst, Mia leads CTG research coverage of water technology and investment trends. Additionally, she leads custom-research projects with clients including Veolia, GE Water and the United States EPA and fundamentally aims to assist the decision making of executives interested in the adoption of or investment in water technologies. Mia also develops programming for the firm's water-related events, manages the Cleantech Group's database of cleantech startups seeking capital and/or strategic partners, and leads the evaluation and selection of water companies to pitch at the Cleantech Group's Forums. She regularly consults on water issues to multinational corporations and governments, serves as a panelist for events covering water venture investment and innovation trends, and answers media inquiries on water topics. Mia brings over 3 years of cleantech industry experience and began her career as a data analyst working with cleantech venture investments, M&As and IPO transactions for the company's quarterly investment monitor. Mia holds a Bachelor of Science degree in statistics from the University of Michigan and is a first generation Filipino-American passionate about environmental justice issues especially as they relate to water.

Nicholas Parker co-founded the Cleantech Group, introducing the cleantech concept to the investment and business community in 2002. Previously Nicholas accumulated over 15 years experience starting and investing venture funds worldwide through limited partnerships, family offices, corporate funds and endowments. During this time, he pioneered the first "sustainability" driven private equity funds and participated in one of the first solar IPOs. In the 1990s, he also founded, built and sold an environmental finance firm. He has served as an advisor to multilateral agencies and major corporations.

Nicholas earned a BA Hons. in Technology Studies (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA (City University, London), and has authored or edited more than ten publications related to cleantech, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993. He served as Chairman of E+Co, a public purpose investment company for clean energy enterprises in developing countries, and is on several boards, including: Government of Singapore Cleantech Advisory Board, Canadian Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the X PRIZE Energy & Environment Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Nicholas has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America and currently resides with his two children in Toronto.

Mr. Gagliardo is well known throughout the United States, in Europe and Asia for his defining work on indirect potable reuse as a scheme to supplement the potable water supply in San Diego, California . He has pioneered the efficacy testing and use of new technologies in businesses that vary from energy conservation, hazardous waste remediation, solid waste resource recovery, water treatment, wastewater treatment, contaminant monitoring and strategic planning. He has authored over fifty technical papers on subjects ranging from low and high pressure membrane systems, monitoring systems, UV disinfection systems, strategic planning and watershed management. He has given presentations on five continents and in ten different countries and has been the invited keynote speaker on multiple occasions.

During his twenty plus years at the City of San Diego, Paul created and managed the Aqua2000 Research Center. This program focused on the testing of new technologies for use in the water and wastewater business. The Aqua2000 Research Center helped develop the membrane bioreactor system from a novelty to the de facto technology of choice for recycled water applications. Paul's team developed the performance test protocols that are being used by the California Department of Health Services to determine if systems can be used in specific potable water and recycled water applications. He prepared and submitted performance analyses to the California DHS for acceptance on over twenty new technologies.

Since leaving the City of San Diego he has continued to assist innovators in the development of their new products and help them become commercialized. Currently, Mr. Gagliardo is the Manager - Innovation Development for American Water. In this position he is responsible for identifying new technologies that can be incorporated into American Water's various business enterprises. The IDP's primary objective is to look for innovations that enhance American Water's water and wastewater services, increase operational efficiencies, lower operational costs and position American Water for growth in the areas of reuse, desalination and wastewater bioenergy. Paul is responsible for the identification and screening of ideas and navigating those selected ideas through a Stage-Gate process toward eventual commercialization inside and outside of American Water facilities.

Mr. Gagliardo is a registered engineer in the state of California and has a Master's Degree in Public Health. He was appointed to the State of California 2003 Water Plan Update Advisory Committee, and, was instrumental in fund raising for the successful proposition 50 Water Bond campaign.

Dr. Ramesh has consulted for Wasserstein & Co. on water investments since early 2009 and formally joined Wasserstein & Co. in 2010. He has over 25 years of global operating, acquisition and technology experience. From 2003 to 2009, he held several senior management roles at GE Water & Process Technologies, including four years as Chief Technology Officer. During his tenure as CTO, Dr. Ramesh played a key role in the development and implementation of the strategy that led to the creation of GE's $2.5 billion global water platform, managing engineering and technology organizations of over 700 engineers and scientists while leading the technical and operational due diligence and integration efforts of GE Water's major acquisitions. Prior to serving at GE, Dr. Ramesh served numerous management roles, including Chief Technology Officer, General Manager of Asia and General Manager of Mexico and South America, over a two-decade career with A. Schulman Inc., a global, multi-billion dollar specialty chemicals manufacturer.

Dr. Ramesh received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Akron. He served as a member of the International Advisory Board to the Ministry of Environment and Water for the Government of Singapore from 2006 to 2009. He also served on the Executive Board of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (a Homeland Security center at the University of Minnesota). He is also on the Board of Imagine H2O, a non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley that supports entrepreneurs.

Dr. Rishi Shukla is Global technology leader at Archer Daniels Midland Company Decatur, IL. Dr.Shukla has been involved for over 14 years in the pilot scale process development of novel processes for industrial chemicals and biofuels processing. At ADM since 2000, he has extensive technical management experience of water usage in production of crops and conversion of crops to ethanol and other related biofuel transportation fuels. He is a member of ADM's Water Sustainability Committee and oversees ADM's water and membrane applications research. He is responsible for new applications of water and related technologies at ADM and developing a corporate water foot print for the company. Dr. Shukla holds 7 patents and published over 30 scientific articles and abstracts. He is a graduate of University of Illinois and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Robert Peterman is responsible for global strategy for Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) in the Renewable Power and Clean Technology sector. TSX and TSXV are home to over 130 Clean Technology companies representing over $19.5B of market capitalization. These companies raised over $2.8B during 2009 and 2010, and the Renewable Energy sector on TSX is attracting increasing interest from the US, Europe and China.

Prior to this role Mr. Peterman worked in Corporate Strategy for a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, and in Corporate Finance at TSX-V.  He completed his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business (London, ON). And is a council member for the Pierre Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at Ivey.

Sally C. Gutierrez is the Director of the National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Key areas of NRMRL's research include: treatment and control of contaminants in drinking water, restoration of ecosystems, control of air pollutants, remediation of contaminated sites, environmental sustainability and environmental technology testing and development.

Prior to this appointment she was the Director of the Water Supply and Water Resources Division with the Laboratory. She also was responsible for administering several water programs for the State of Texas environmental agency in the areas of drinking water, water monitoring, wastewater treatment permitting, and utility rates.

She received a Master of Science degree from the University of Texas, School of Public Health in Houston. She is a member of the American Water Works Association and past President of the Texas Environmental Health Association.

Based in our Toronto office, Scott MacDonald is a Partner with Emerald Technology Ventures and is focused on information technology investments within the clean technology sector. Scott currently serves as the Chairman of SynapSense and a Director of Pure Technologies and Vaperma. Scott previously served as Chairman of RuggedCom (TSX:RCM), and was a Director of Solicore and Soft Switching Technologies. Prior to joining Emerald, Scott held the position of Managing Director in the venture capital subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation, a large North American electric utility. Previous to Ontario Power, Scott worked for a Toronto-based corporate finance and investment banking firm assisting a number of energy technology companies secure financing, negotiate strategic joint ventures, and has advised on initial public offerings and merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, Scott worked for an early stage venture capital fund focused on investing in information technology companies. Scott graduated with a Bachelors degree from McMaster University and an MBA from Dalhousie University.

As CEO of Cleantech Group, Sheeraz Haji is one of the world's most influential cleantech thought-leaders and trusted advisors to global companies and executives. Prior to joining the company, Sheeraz served for eight years as co-founder and CEO of GetActive, a venture-backed software-as-a-service, customer relationship management company. He led GetActive's merger with Convio, then as Convio's president built a company with 1,200 clients and 300 employees.

Sheeraz has also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company; entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR) for El Dorado Ventures; operations executive for GMO, a global management investment firm; and product manager for Digital Impact (acquired by Acxiom). Sheeraz launched his career as an environmental engineer with Environ International. He has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in environmental engineering from Brown University and Stanford University respectively. Sheeraz also holds dual U.S. and French citizenship.

Steve Watzeck is chief strategy & marketing officer, GE Water and Process Technologies an integrated part of GE Power and Water, a position he has held since April 2010. In this role, he is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the company and program direction for marketing activities across the chemical and equipment based water business globally. In addition, he is responsible to position the long-term growth of the business by ensuring GE's products and services are setting the standard in the industry and that the company continues to expand into new markets.

From 2009 to 2010, Watzeck was general manager, engineered systems for GE Water and Process Technologies. During his tenure he successfully built an organization with a strong leadership team, provided commercial focus, grew the backlog, improved operating profitability and aligned research and development with the company's reuse strategy. He led the global strategy and execution for equipment-based products and services, including reverse osmosis process systems, mobile units, ultrafiltration and membrane bioreactors, filters and membranes and thermal/ZLD systems.

Prior to that, he was the global engineering and projects leader for the equipment based water business from 2007 - 2008.

In 2006, GE acquired ZENON, and concurrently Watzeck was appointed general manager for the business. Watzeck joined ZENON in 1994, and held several positions of increasing responsibility for international and North American business development and commercial activities, including serving as senior vice president, Americas, and vice president, municipal.

Watzeck earned a Master of Business Administration from York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. He is based in Oakville, Canada.

Thomas S. Rooney, Jr. is an experienced leader who joined ERI in February 2011 as its new president and chief executive officer. He brings nearly 30 years of extensive experience in successfully leading companies through strategic transformations and helping them to capitalize on new market opportunities. Most recently, Mr. Rooney was the CEO of SPG Solar, one of the largest solar integrators in the United States. Under his leadership, SPG dramatically improved operational efficiencies, expanded to a national enterprise and doubled its profits.

Prior to his role at SPG Solar, Mr. Rooney was President and CEO at Insituform Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSU)a global, publically traded company providing proprietary technologies and services for rehabilitating sewer, water, energy and mining piping systems. While at Insituform, he significantly strengthened the company financially, technically and operationally.

Mr. Rooney has served on the board of Beijing-based Duoyuan Global Water, Inc. (NYSE: DGW) and was part of the team that helped guide the company through its IPO in 2009. He also served as a member of the technical advisory board for Advanced Energy Industries (NASDAQ: AEIS) a leader in energy conversion devices and control technologies.

Mr. Rooney is currently the Chairman of the Board of EnerTech Environmental, Inc. an innovator in the area of clean combustion technologies for biosolids for the waste water treatment industry.

Mr. Rooney is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor's degree in Civil engineering. He also holds a Masters of Business and Finance from the University of Chicago.

Raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mr. Hill graduated in 1987 from Royal Military College with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Hill attended the Royal Naval Engineering College in Plymouth, England where he completed his post-graduate studies in 1988. He served with the Canadian Navy as an Engineering Officer retiring in 1994 after serving as Deputy Engineering officer in HMCS Huron in the Gulf War 1991 where he was decorated with the Gulf Kuwait Medal.

In 1994 Mr. Hill co-founded Hill, Murray & Associates, a design-build-operate firm specializing in the construction and operation of water reclamation facilities in British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic. Mr. Hill oversaw the permitting, design, construction, commissioning and operation of many "first-in-the-field" systems, including the first fully recycling commercial and school buildings in Canada. He has been instrumental in developing water reclamation codes, rules and regulations for the Province of British Columbia, and advancing water stewardship through his Total Water Management philosophy. In 2000, Mr. Hill co-founded Algonquin Water Resources of America, a division of the Algonquin Power Income Fund. In his role of Director of Operations for AWRA, he led the acquisition team, acquiring 6 utilities in three years and amassing 37,000 utility customers in Arizona and Texas.

In 2003, Mr. Hill co-founded Global Water Resources, an Arizona-based company established to acquire regulated water and wastewater utilities in the arid Southwestern states and to advance the cause of water reclamation and reuse as a conservation methodology. Mr. Hill provides leadership and policy direction with respect to water reclamation and re-use, water use efficiency and the economics of water reclamation and served on the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Water Sustainability. Global Water has been recognized for its leadership in water conservation, environmental education and communications receiving the 2009 Environmental Achievement Award in Region 9 of the Environmental Protection Agency.

In 2009 Global Water launched FATHOMTM, a technology enabled software-as-a-service platform designed to provide state of the art back-office services to municipal water utilities and in 2010 received the Governor's Green Innovator of the Year Award at the Arizona Governor's Celebration of Innovation.

In 2010, Mr. Hill led a $65 million Initial Public Offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The British Columbia-based company, GWR Global Water Resources Corp, owns approximately 48.1% of the Global Water U.S. company.

Usha Rao-Monari is currently the Global Head of Water in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources Department of IFC, covering the global Utilities and Public Private Partnerships practice group.

Ms. Rao-Monari joined the IFC through the Young Professionals Program in 1990, and has since gained substantial experience in the Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Petrochemicals sectors in several countries and regions of the world. In 1998, she assumed the position of Regional Manager for Manufacturing and Services for South Asia and Country Head for India, based in IFC's New Delhi regional office. Ms. Rao-Monari assumed her current responsibility in 2001, when she returned to Washington DC.

Ms. Rao-Monari holds an MBA from the Bajaj School of Management in Bombay, and a Masters in International Economics and Finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to joining IFC, she was a Vice President at Prudential-Bache Capital Funding, working both in New York and London.

Vicky Sharpe is President and CEO of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a Government of Canada initiative whose mission is to help develop and commercialize clean technologies that will strengthen economic and environmental performance in Canada.

Clean technologies contribute to the economy by increasing the productivity and competitiveness of industry while simultaneously reducing environmental impact. Recognizing this, SDTC is committed to supporting technologies that contribute to clean air, climate change, clean water and clean land.  As founding CEO, Dr. Sharpe has increased the funding pool from $100M to over $1B and mobilized private sector capital resulting in more than $2.9B of investments for projects and commercialization activities.

With over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, Dr. Sharpe has successfully integrated sustainable development into business practices. As President of GRI Canada and Astral Group, she demonstrated leadership and vision in the use of innovative technologies across Canada's primary economic sectors. As Vice President of Ontario Hydro International Inc., Dr. Sharpe created new global revenue streams for environmental and energy utilization practices.  Prior to that, she held management positions in marketing, business development and technology innovation.

Dr. Sharpe has served on numerous technology and industry association committees, in particular as an international advisor on sustainability issues; has represented the Canadian energy sector at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Forum; and has chaired both the National Advisory Board on Energy, Science and Technology, and the Board of Directors of Clean Air Canada Inc. Her efforts were recognized with the National Energy Conservation Association's inaugural Energy Efficiency Award for outstanding contributions to the energy industry.

Dr. Sharpe is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Alberta Enterprise Corporation, whose mandate is to finance and build new knowledge-based industries in Alberta.  As part of her leadership in building a cleantech infrastructure, Dr. Sharpe is a founding member of the Steering Committee of the UNEP SEF Alliance, an international coalition of public and publicly-backed clean energy funding organizations, operating under the remit of the UN's Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative.  Dr. Sharpe is helping to shape the Canadian cleantech landscape through the provision of strategic advice including her role on the Ontario Premier's Climate Change Advisory Panel. She is also a Director for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Carbon Management Canada Inc. (CMC), a national research network focused on carbon management in Canada's fossil energy sector, and the Biowaste to Energy for Canada integrated initiative Corp. (BECii).

As a widely recognized expert and advocate for sustainable development and technology innovation, she has addressed both national and international audiences to promote an understanding of the culture shift in values society must make to secure a sustainable future.

Dr. Sharpe holds a B.Sc. Honours in Applied Biology from Bath University, UK, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Chemistry, as applied to water pollution control, from Trent University, UK.

Vikram Rao is Executive Director, Research Triangle Energy Consortium, a non-profit in energy founded by Duke University, North Carolina State University, RTI International and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He recently retired as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Halliburton Company where he was responsible for the Company's technology effort, as well as the setup and management of the intellectual asset management function.

Previously Dr. Rao also held executive management positions in Research and Development, Product Launch, Reservoir Studies, and Sales and Marketing. He joined the Company in 1974 as a Senior Research Engineer.

Dr. Rao serves in technical and business advisory capacities to energy companies, technology companies, NGO's and universities, in the US and elsewhere. He has served on the Boards of numerous start ups.

Dr. Rao holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India, along with a master's degree and a doctorate in engineering from Stanford University. He is the author of more than 40 publications and has been awarded 26 patents.

Wei Sheng is Regional Director for the Singapore EDB (based in New York), and oversees the EDB's operations in NY, Boston, DC, Chicago and Brazil. He was previously the Center Director in Chicago since 2008, and was responsible for working with Midwest based multinationals and fast-growing companies to explore opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Weisheng joined the Singapore EDB in 2005, and had covered the Logistics industry vertical while based in Singapore from 2005 – 2008. He has a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University, and a MSc in Management Science (Decision & Risk Analysis) from Stanford University.

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Bill is Vice President, Innovation - Americas for Veolia Environnement, the world's largest environmental services provider. He works closely with Veolia's worldwide research and innovation group and all four of Veolia's business divisions (water, waste, energy management, public transportation), to source clean technology innovation through strategic initiatives such as the Veolia Innovation Accelerator http://www.veolia.com/en/solutions/research-innovation/via/. Bill works closely with entrepreneurs and investors to identify promising technologies that meet the evolving needs of Veolia's clients and can benefit from Veolia's top position in key markets around the world.

Bill is an internationally recognized clean technology expert, speaking at conferences for over 20 years on how organizations can benefit from environmental technologies and practices. He has extensive experience in environmental control technologies for water, air and waste, information/communication technologies, climate change, new venture development, and organizational governance as well as in the energy, natural resources, chemical, electronics, and environmental services sectors. A lifelong intra- and entrepreneur, Bill has worked with startups, corporations and investors to create new cleantech ventures and assess cleantech opportunities. He has served as an advisor to organizations including the Romanian, Italian, Mexican, Brazilian, and U.S. governments, UNIDO, the Sustainable Performance Group Investment Fund, PROPEL Board of Directors, The Conference Board, The Pew Center on Global Climate Change, The Institute of the Americas, and the World Resources Institute. Bill was an environment, health and safety consulting director at Arthur D. Little, Inc. where he worked for 15 years with over 100 clients across all sectors on 5 continents in 4 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian).

Bill has a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon and BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton.