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Brooke Coburn is <strong>the</strong> Managing Director and Head of Carlyle Growth Partners, <strong>the</strong> U.S. growth capital arm of <strong>the</strong><br />

Carlyle Group. Based in Washington, D.C., he leads Carlyle’s small-cap buyout practice focusing on investments in <strong>the</strong><br />

education, technology, telecommunications, media and business services sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle, he was with<br />

Salomon Bro<strong>the</strong>rs Inc., where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising assignments in <strong>the</strong> media<br />

and communications group. He serves on <strong>the</strong> boards of Apollo Global, Wall Street <strong>Institute</strong>, Catapult Learning, Rhythm<br />

NewMedia, RevShare and Gemcom Software. Coburn received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.<br />

Pinchas Cohen is a Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCLA Children’s Health Center. He is also<br />

associate director of <strong>the</strong> UCSD-UCLA Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center. Cohen has published more than 250<br />

papers focusing on cancer, aging and longevity, growth, diabetes and <strong>the</strong> emerging science of mitochondrial peptides.<br />

His work, which is funded by <strong>the</strong> National <strong>Institute</strong>s of Health and private foundations, has been recognized by <strong>the</strong><br />

American Diabetes Association, <strong>the</strong> Eli Lilly Foundation and <strong>the</strong> Prostate Cancer Foundation; he recently received <strong>the</strong><br />

American Pediatric Society Best Science Award. He is an associate editor of Pediatric Research and several o<strong>the</strong>r journals,<br />

and serves as an executive officer of <strong>the</strong> Growth Hormone Research Society and <strong>the</strong> Endocrine Society Steering<br />

Committee. Cohen graduated with highest honors from <strong>the</strong> Technion Medical School in Israel and trained at Stanford<br />

University before joining <strong>the</strong> faculty at <strong>the</strong> University of Pennsylvania.<br />

Yoram Cohen is <strong>the</strong> Director of <strong>the</strong> Water Technology Research Center and a Professor at <strong>the</strong> Henry Samueli School<br />

of Engineering and Applied Science at <strong>the</strong> University of California, Los Angeles. He is also director of <strong>the</strong> Center for<br />

Environmental Risk Reduction and a founding member of <strong>the</strong> UCLA/NSF Center for <strong>the</strong> Environmental Implications<br />

of Nanotechnology. He is an adjunct professor at Ben-Gurion University and a member of <strong>the</strong> International Advisory<br />

Committee to <strong>the</strong> Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research <strong>Institute</strong> at <strong>the</strong> Technion (Israel <strong>Institute</strong> of Technology).<br />

Cohen has published more than 150 papers and book chapters on water technology, separation processes, transport<br />

phenomena, polymer science and environmental engineering, in addition to three environmental volumes, and<br />

developed multiple patented technologies. Cohen received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering<br />

from <strong>the</strong> University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from <strong>the</strong> University of Delaware.<br />

Jeffrey Cohn is a consultant for Spencer Stuart Inc., specializing in leadership assessment and succession planning.<br />

He helps clients to understand <strong>the</strong> strengths and limitations of <strong>the</strong>ir overall bench and how to best leverage and deploy<br />

that talent. He has worked with Fortune 500 clients, private equity companies, universities and nonprofits. He has also<br />

customized executive development workshops for clients including <strong>the</strong> CEO Leadership <strong>Institute</strong>, now part of Yale<br />

University. Cohn has served as principal with <strong>the</strong> Law & Economics Consulting Group in San Francisco and as a fellow at<br />

Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy and finance. His work in leadership development, succession planning<br />

and strategic management has been widely published, including articles in Harvard Business Review and The Economist<br />

Intelligence Unit. Cohn received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. in applied<br />

corporate finance from Tulane University.<br />

Lynde Coit is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Plasco Energy Group Inc., a company with<br />

a proprietary technology that converts post-recycled municipal solid waste into clean engine-grade fuel gas that is<br />

currently being demonstrated at a commercial-scale facility in Ottawa. Over 99 percent of <strong>the</strong> residual waste is diverted<br />

from landfill, eliminating methane emissions and contamination from leachate. The fuel gas is used in high-efficiency<br />

engines to generate green power with exhaust emissions below <strong>the</strong> most stringent world standards. Prior to joining<br />

Plasco, Coit was senior vice president and general counsel of Covanta Energy Corp., a global developer and operator<br />

of large-scale waste-to-energy facilities. He was a former partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, representing investors in nonfossil-fuel<br />

power projects, and worked for <strong>the</strong> National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Coit holds a bachelor’s degree<br />

from <strong>the</strong> University of Rochester and a J.D. from Cornell Law School.<br />

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Stephen Compagni Portis is Chairman and CEO of Renewable Funding LLC, an investment firm pioneering<br />

<strong>the</strong> emerging field of clean energy municipal financing. A serial entrepreneur and a prolific financier, Compagni<br />

Portis has originated buyouts of operating companies and has launched ventures in investment banking, enterprise<br />

software and aircraft leasing. He has closed more than 50 equity and debt transactions and is an angel investor in<br />

numerous early-stage companies. Compagni Portis has served as chairman or CEO at Vx Capital Partners, Leveraged<br />

Equity Management, Kettle Restaurants and Yellow Giant Corp. He is a Renewable Energy Finance Scholar at <strong>the</strong><br />

University of California, Berkeley, and sits on <strong>the</strong> boards of Quantal International Inc., <strong>the</strong> Creative Growth Art Center<br />

and <strong>the</strong> Alameda County Community Food Bank. Compagni Portis has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell<br />

University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.<br />

Roger Conway is Director of <strong>the</strong> Office of Energy Policy and New Uses in <strong>the</strong> Office of <strong>the</strong> Chief Economist at <strong>the</strong><br />

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). He has served as USDA representative for such activities as <strong>the</strong> Department<br />

of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Strategy, <strong>the</strong> DOE Oil and Gas Initiative and <strong>the</strong> White House Bioenergy Initiative.<br />

Published in numerous journals including <strong>the</strong> American Journal of Agricultural Economics and <strong>the</strong> Journal of Business<br />

and Economic Statistics, Conway writes about global warming, international trade, commodity policy, agricultural<br />

investment and macroeconomic policy. He was previously a public policy leader for USDA’s Economic Research Service,<br />

for which <strong>the</strong> USDA gave him <strong>the</strong> Distinguished Service Award in biofuel activities. Conway has a bachelor’s degree<br />

from The George Washington University, a master’s degree from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in economics<br />

from The George Washington University.<br />

Delos Cosgrove is President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, where he presides over a $4.6 billion health-care<br />

system comprising <strong>the</strong> Cleveland Clinic, nine community hospitals, 14 family health and ambulatory surgery centers,<br />

Cleveland Clinic Florida, Cleveland Clinic Toronto and <strong>the</strong> developing Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. His leadership has<br />

emphasized patient care and patient experience, including <strong>the</strong> reorganization of clinical services into patient-centered,<br />

organ and disease-based institutes. In 2008, Cosgrove oversaw <strong>the</strong> completion of more than 4 million square feet of<br />

new construction and improvements at Cleveland Clinic, including new homes for <strong>the</strong> Heart & Vascular <strong>Institute</strong> and<br />

Glickman Urological & Kidney <strong>Institute</strong>. Cosgrove received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a medical<br />

degree from <strong>the</strong> University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed his clinical training at Massachusetts General<br />

Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and Brook General Hospital in London.<br />

Philip Coyle is Senior Advisor at <strong>the</strong> Center for Defense Information, a division of <strong>the</strong> World Security <strong>Institute</strong>, a<br />

Washington, D.C.-based national security study center. He is a recognized expert on military research, development and<br />

testing; on operational military matters; and on national security policies. Currently he serves on <strong>the</strong> National Academy<br />

of Sciences Standing Committee on Biodefense at <strong>the</strong> U.S. Department of Defense. He also has served on several o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

committees on nuclear, chemical or biological defense matters, including studies of biological agent detection and<br />

identification systems for <strong>the</strong> U.S. Army. Coyle served on <strong>the</strong> 2005 Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission;<br />

prior to that, he was assistant secretary of defense. For 33 years, Coyle worked at <strong>the</strong> Lawrence Livermore National<br />

Laboratory on nuclear weapons and o<strong>the</strong>r high-technology programs.<br />

David Crane is Special Advisor to <strong>the</strong> Governor of California for Jobs and Economic Growth. Before joining <strong>the</strong><br />

Schwarzenegger administration, Crane was a partner for 25 years with a financial advisory firm that grew from one<br />

office with five employees when he joined in 1979 to a multinational enterprise with hundreds of employees by <strong>the</strong><br />

time he retired in 2003. Crane also sits on <strong>the</strong> boards of <strong>the</strong> California Economic Development Commission and <strong>the</strong><br />

California High Speed Rail Authority.<br />

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