Shaping the Future - Milken Institute
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panelists<br />
Kenneth Griffin is Founder and CEO of Citadel Investment Group LLC, which includes Citadel Securities, Omnium<br />
and a division that executes alternative investment strategies across asset classes. Citadel operates in <strong>the</strong> world’s<br />
major financial centers, including Chicago, London, New York, Hong Kong and San Francisco. Griffin actively supports<br />
educational causes that drive community improvement. He is vice chairman of <strong>the</strong> Chicago Public Education Fund and<br />
a member of <strong>the</strong> boards of trustees for <strong>the</strong> Art <strong>Institute</strong> of Chicago and <strong>the</strong> Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally,<br />
Griffin is a member of <strong>the</strong> World Economic Forum and <strong>the</strong> Economic Club of Chicago. He received a bachelor’s degree<br />
from Harvard College.<br />
James Guidera is a Managing Director at Crédit Agricole Americas. He is also Group Head for Natural Resources,<br />
Infrastructure and Power in North America and Regional Head of Project Finance Activities in North America. Crédit<br />
Agricole’s New York team is one of <strong>the</strong> foremost agent banks for syndicated project financings, ranked No. 1 in <strong>the</strong><br />
arranger-bank league tables for <strong>the</strong> region in 2009. Guidera came to Crédit Agricole in 2003, when it acquired Credit<br />
Lyonnais, which he joined in 1992 as a senior transaction officer. At Credit Lyonnais, he led numerous syndicated<br />
project finance transactions focused in <strong>the</strong> energy sector prior to his promotion to group head in 1999. With more<br />
than 30 years of banking experience, Guidera was previously a senior banker in <strong>the</strong> project finance and energy groups<br />
of KOP bank and Bank of Boston. Before his banking career, Guidera practiced law in Philadelphia, and has a J.D. from<br />
Villanova University.<br />
Kevin Guitterrez is Deputy Superintendent of <strong>the</strong> Louisiana Recovery School District, where he supports<br />
curriculum and innovation initiatives. He formerly served as <strong>the</strong> chief academic officer of <strong>the</strong> Algiers Charter Schools<br />
Association, where he supported implementation of <strong>the</strong> Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) as well as o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
major educational and development initiatives. He previously worked for <strong>the</strong> Louisiana Department of Education’s<br />
Distinguished Educator program and was an administrator and teacher in St. Charles Parish Public Schools. Guitterrez<br />
also serves on <strong>the</strong> Louisiana Department of Education’s Accountability Commission, <strong>the</strong> Louisiana Department of<br />
Education’s Blue Ribbon Committee for Teacher Quality and <strong>the</strong> New Orleans United Way School to Career Advisory<br />
Committee. Guitterrez holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from <strong>the</strong> University of New Orleans and is a<br />
doctoral student at Sou<strong>the</strong>astern Louisiana University.<br />
Peter Gunnerman is a Partner and Director of Advanced Refining Concepts LLC. He has spent <strong>the</strong> majority of<br />
his career in senior management positions at several private and public alternative fuel and fuel-related companies,<br />
including president of SulphCo Inc., which is in <strong>the</strong> business of upgrading crude oil. Currently, Gunnerman owns<br />
and operates Global 6 LLC, a privately held energy consulting company. He has served on <strong>the</strong> boards of Clean Fuels<br />
Technology Inc., based in Reno, Nev.; Advanced Fuels LLC, a joint venture company between Clean Fuels LLC and<br />
Caterpillar Inc., based in Peoria, Ill.; and Fujairah Oil Technology Ltd., based in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Gunnerman<br />
also sits on <strong>the</strong> board of <strong>the</strong> Reno Tahoe chapter of <strong>the</strong> Entrepreneurs’ Organization.<br />
Naren Gupta is Co-Founder of Nexus Venture Partners. Previously he co-founded Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI), an<br />
embedded software company, where he was president and CEO for 15 years. He took ISI public and subsequently<br />
merged it with Wind River Systems, where he served on <strong>the</strong> board until its recent acquisition by Intel. An active advisor<br />
to entrepreneurs worldwide, he also serves on <strong>the</strong> boards of Red Hat and Tibco. Gupta has over 20 years’ experience<br />
in early and early-growth stage investment in <strong>the</strong> U.S. and India. A fellow of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of Electrical and Electronic<br />
Engineers, he holds a B.Tech. degree from <strong>the</strong> Indian <strong>Institute</strong> of Technology in Delhi, an M.S. from <strong>the</strong> California<br />
<strong>Institute</strong> of Technology and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.<br />
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