Keynote Speakers
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick was elected in November of 2006. He brings to the Governor's office a broad range of leadership experience at the top levels of business, government, and non-profits. From an early age, he has built his life on hope, and traced a trajectory from the South Side of Chicago to the U.S. Justice Department, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and now the Massachusetts State House.
Governor Patrick came to the Commonwealth at the age of 14. An excellent student despite the difficult circumstances of under-funded and often violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization.
After graduating from Milton, Patrick went on to Harvard, the first in his family to attend college. He received his degree, with honors, in 1978 and spent a post-graduate year working on a United Nations youth training project in the Darfur region of Sudan. He returned to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School in the fall of 1979.
Following law school, Patrick served as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge before joining the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 1986, he joined the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow and was named partner in 1990, at the age of 34.
In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation's top civil rights post. At the Justice Department, Patrick worked on a wide range of issues, including prosecution of hate crimes and abortion clinic violence, employment discrimination, and enforcement of fair lending laws and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
During his tenure, Patrick led the largest criminal investigation prior to September 11th, coordinating state, local and federal agencies to investigate church burnings throughout the South in the mid-1990s.
Patrick returned to private practice in 1997 with the Boston firm of Day, Berry & Howard. That same year, he was appointed by a federal district court to serve as the first chairperson of Texaco's Equality and Fairness Task Force. Working with employees at all levels, Patrick and his Task Force examined and reformed Texaco's complex corporate employment culture, and created a model for fostering an equitable workplace. Patrick was hired by Texaco in 1999 to serve as Vice President and General Counsel leading the company's global legal affairs.
In 2001, Patrick joined The Coca-Cola Company as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. He was elected to the additional role of Corporate Secretary in 2002, and served as part of the company's senior leadership team as a member of the Executive Committee.
Governor Patrick has served on numerous charitable and corporate boards, as well as the Federal Election Reform Commission under Presidents Carter and Ford, and as Vice Chair of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Council by appointment of Governor Weld.
The Commonwealth's first African-American Governor, Deval Patrick came into office with a grassroots message of hope, community and hard work. By focusing on transparency and inclusion, he hopes to increase accessibility to government and encourage the civic engagement so crucial to shared progress in education, health care, economic development and other issues.
Diane and Deval Patrick have been married for over two decades and have two college-age daughters, Sarah and Katherine. The Patrick family has lived in Milton, in a house on Deval's high school paper route, for the last 17 years.
Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts
Ian Bowles, Secretary, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs in the Deval Patrick administration, has nearly 20 years of experience in the energy and environmental sectors. He was a Director or Advisor to three clean energy technologies companies and has broad leadership experience with environmental policy. Bowles served in the Clinton Administration as Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Senior Director of the Global Environmental Affairs directorate at the National Security Council.
Following his service in the Clinton Administration, Bowles held appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and as Senior Advisor at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where he oversaw the foundation's strategic analysis of energy and climate change issues.
In 2003, Bowles served as President and CEO of MassINC, a Boston-based research institute, and as Publisher of CommonWealth magazine. Earlier in his career, Bowles served for eight years in key leadership positions at Conservation International, a national environmental organization focused on biodiversity conservation. Bowles serves on the Board of Overseers of the Museum of Science and on the Governing Board of the John Adams Innovation Institute. He is co-author of Footprints in the Jungle (Oxford University Press) on the energy and natural resource industries and environmental practices.
He holds an A.B. in economics cum laude from Harvard College and a Masters degree from Oxford University, where he remains an adjunct faculty member at the graduate school of the Environment and Geography.
Director of Strategic Marketing & Innovation, Philips Solid State Lighting Solutions
Solid-State Lighting Panelist
With over 20 years of experience in the lighting industry, both at Philips Lighting and LED start-up companies, Jim Anderson is currently the Director of Strategic Marketing & Innovation for Philips Solid Sate Lighting Solutions (former Color Kinetics) in Burlington, MA. Jim has had various responsibilities in technology management, operations management and Marketing, with the past 5 years focused on solid state lighting. An expert in the design and application of LED-based systems, Jim has been published and/or quoted in such outlets as USA Today and Electrical Business Magazine and has presented at a variety of recognized industry forums including LightFair International and Light Congress.
Business Development Officer, Toyota Tsusho America.
Electric Car Panelist
Mr. Bastien leads the technology business development and investment efforts for Toyota Tsusho America. Toyota Tsusho is the trading company for the Toyota Group, with close ties to Toyota Motor, Toyota Technical Center, and other Toyota Group companies. He is the founder of the Boston office, with mandates to identify technologies appropriate for Toyota's existing distribution channels in North America and Asia. In this role, he develops deals that include capital investments, distribution agreements, and research arrangements with universities. Sectors of particular interest include advanced materials, alternative fuels, batteries, and robotics. Prior to Toyota, Mr. Bastien was an associate at a start-up VC firm, held management and engineering roles at Parametric Technology (PTC), and was in sales for a niche electronics manufacturer. Mr. Bastien earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University.
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Joule.
Bio Energy Panelist
Dr. Campione leads business development strategy and execution for Joule, including prospective partnership and development agreements across multiple markets. His extensive background in the fields of biotech and cleantech spans more than 20 years. Prior to Joule, Dr. Campione served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Solazyme, which develops algal-derived biofuels and other products. He previously spent more than six years at Symyx Technologies as General Manager and Vice President of Collaborations, Alliances and Licensing, and 15 years at ExxonMobil in a variety of business, operations and technology leadership roles across a range of Exxon's energy and chemical technologies. Dr. Campione holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and ME and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University.
President and Chief Executive Officer, QD Vision
Solid-State Lighting Panelist
Mr. Carlson brings to QD Vision more than 20 years of leadership experience in building organizations, from startups to publicly held, multisite, multinational corporations. He is leading the company as it experiences significant growth driven by interest in QD Vision's Quantum Light? products which exploit the unique light-emitting properties of semiconductor nanocrystals. Previously, Jason was President and CEO of Emo Labs, a Waltham, MA-based developer of invisible loudspeaker systems, and was CEO at Semtech Corp. (SMTC), an analog and mixed-signal semiconductor company. In the 1990s, he was President and CEO of Audiologic Inc., a semiconductor technology company acquired by Cirrus Logic, Inc. (CRUS), where he became General Manager of the Crystal Products Division.
Vice President of Strategic Product Development and Innovation, Lightolier
Solid-State Lighting Panelist
Ken Czech has over 15 years of experience in lighting and is currently Vice President of Strategic Product Development and Innovation for Lightolier, a leading lighting and controls company headquartered in Fall River, MA and with manufacturing there and in Wilmington, MA. In this role, he is responsible for research, product development and implementation of new and emerging technologies across multiple product lines. Lightolier's system approach has led to the development of the RGBA (red, green, blue, amber) technology for color changing products. The amber component provides the ability to produce high quality warm white light. Lightolier ColorWash and ColorSpot products are the first to deliver the flexibility to match the color of other white light sources and provide vibrant, dynamic color changing effects.
Partner, Nixon Peabody
Solid-State Lighting Panelist
Mr. Keefe represents buyers and sellers in private and public company mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. Mr. Keefe also represents funds and companies in private equity, venture capital, and asset-based finance transactions. During his tenure with the firm, Mr. Keefe has been involved in mergers and acquisitions transactions having a total value in excess of several billion dollars, and has helped place hundreds of millions of dollars of private equity and venture capital investments. Mr. Keefe has extensive experience acting as outside general counsel to companies - partnering directly with senior management to drive the growth and success of a wide range of clients including many in the cleantech space.
President and CEO, Digital Lumens
Solid-State Lighting Panelist
With a track record of entrepreneurial and corporate success, Tom is responsible for overall strategy and management of Digital Lumens which produces Intelligent Lighting Systems that offer retrofit solutions for high-bay lighting in warehouses, cold storage facilities, and manufacturing plants. Prior to joining the company, Tom was President, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Brix Networks, a global provider of converged service assurance solutions that was acquired by EXFO to serve as the foundation for its service assurance market entry. Previously, Tom was the Founder of New Oak Communications, a pioneering leader in Virtual Private Network (VPN) switches, which was subsequently acquired by Bay Networks (now Nortel Networks) to create the Contivity Extranet Switch product family.
Director of Product Management, Boston-Power
Electric Car Panelist
John T. Warner, DM, PMP is an experienced market and product development leader with over 18 years in the automotive industry. As director of Product Management, Large Format Batteries for Boston-Power, Dr. Warner leads the large format battery product strategy for automotive and grid storage. Before joining Boston-Power, Dr Warner spent over 12 years at General Motors in various management roles where his latest responsibilities included defining and executing on the short and long-term product strategies for diesel and mild-hybrid systems. He received his doctor of management, organizational leadership degree from the University of Phoenix, and his MBA, International Business and Leadership Studies and BA in industrial management from Baker College.
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