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Panama Bartholomy is a graduate of Humboldt State University (HSU) with a Bachelors of Science degree in Restorative Development and a candidate for a Masters of Science in Community Development at UC Davis. He is an advisor for Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, the Chair of the CA Energy Commission where he works on Green building, climate change, land use, renewable energy, transmission and biofuels policy. He is a boardmember on the Northern California Chapter of the United States Green Building Council and the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living. He serves on the County of Sacramento’s Environmental Commission and City of Sacramento’s General Plan Advisory Committee. He previously worked for the California Conservation Corps on vocational environmental education and the Division of the State Architect where he ran the Sustainable Schools program. He has served as a judge for the Governor's Environmental Economic Leadership Awards program for 2003-2007 and served on the Governor's California Performance Review. He tries to play Mandolin.
Laura Bloch has worked in the environmental field for more than 15 years. Dr. Bloch led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 9 Office in the design and implementation of its Environmental Management System (EMS), achieving ISO 14001 certification in June 2005. In addition to the continual improvement of the Region’s EMS, Dr. Bloch’s recent priorities have included assistance in EMS development and implementation through workshops and conferences. She developed and provided instruction for a series of three hands-on EMS workshops for federal facilities. Dr. Bloch has also completed ANSI-RAB accredited EMS Lead Auditor Training. Laura received her BS in Biology, her MS in Environmental Health Sciences, and her Doctorate degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Mark zu Hone is ISO 14001 Program Manager for the City of San Diego Environmental Services Department. Mark manages the overall program performance of the Miramar Landfill, Environmental Management System (EMS). The Miramar Landfill received its initial ISO 14001 certification in July 2002, becoming the first municipally operated landfill in the country to achieve this important environmental milestone. Mr. zu Hone has been with the City of San Diego since 1992, and has worked in the underground storage tank (UST) program, site assessment and remediation projects, landfill operations, and wildfire debris cleanup. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from the University of Southern Maine, and he possesses professional certificates in Site Assessment and Remediation (University of California, San Diego) and in Environmental Health and Sanitation (San Diego State University).
Scot Case is an internationally recognized expert on responsible sourcing, green supply chains, and environmental marketing with almost 15 years of professional experience. As Vice President of TerraChoice, Scot helps connect purchasers seeking more environmentally and socially responsible products with the manufacturers supplying them. TerraChoice manages the EcoLogo program, one of the most widely recognized and respected certification of environmental leadership. Scot helped launch the North American Green Purchasing Initiative, the Responsible Purchasing Network and is a founding board member of the International Green Purchasing Network. He earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Virginia Tech.
Connie Kuranko Connie Kuranko has been the lead for U.S. Communities’ Green Initiative since its inception. She has overseen the building of a green product search tool for public agencies on the U.S. Communities website and has gathered together a valuable set of resources for public agencies to access including expert panelists. Connie has presented on this subject to the League of California Cities, the California State Association of Counties, National League of Cities, National Association of Counties and National Institute for Governmental Purchasing. Connie has a financial background and has earned her MBA.
Dr. Mark Rentschler,
Dr. Mark Rentschler, Green Seal’s Director
of Institutional Greening Programs, works with public and private
institutions to help green their purchasing and facilities management
programs. Most recently Mark has been directing Green Seal teams
assisting the environmentally preferable purchasing efforts of the State
of Colorado and the County of Los Angeles. In the past he has led or
worked as part of teams developing green purchasing and green facilities
management programs for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development
Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Mark earned a B.S. from Lehigh
University and a Ph.D. in geology from Stanford University.
Yalmaz Siddiqui Yalmaz Siddiqui is Office Depot’s Environmental Strategy Advisor. He is responsible for advising on development and integration of environmental programs under the company’s vision to “increasingly buy green, be green and sell green”. Siddiqui also oversees Office Depot’s five-year, $2.2 million Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, which develops critical information, standards and tools for global forest and biodiversity conservation. Yalmaz holds a Master’s in Environment & Development from Cambridge University in England, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing & International Business from McGill University in Canada.
Alex Spilger Alex Spilger is a Sustainability Advisor for Brightworks and has worked on over twenty diverse, cutting edge green building projects. His experience includes facilitating LEED charrettes, researching green building technologies and policy, providing green building education to project team members, and managing both the people and the processes involved with taking projects through LEED Certification. Alex is an active member of the Northern California Chapter of the USGBC and serves on the USGBC Corresponding Committee for LEED-ND, providing support and feedback for the creation of the LEED-ND Reference Guide. In addition to green building, he has worked as a wilderness guide and has spent a year as a volunteer teacher in Central America. Alex is a LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Green Building Professional, HERS Rater and holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from UCLA.
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Rich Curtis Rich Curtis, Founder and Co-owner of Greenway Properties, the first and only Green Real Estate Brokerage and Consulting firm in the Sacramento Area. Rich is a member of EcoBroker International and the Association of Energy and Environmental Real Estate Professionals. As a member of the newly formed CAR Green Real Estate Task force Rich is working towards Green Real Estate education for all California Realtors. He is also a member of the Sacramento Branch of the US Green Building Council, a Certified EcoBroker and a Certified Green Building Professional.
Craig Duehring is an Air Resources Engineer for the California Air Resource Board and currently works in a team environment on the implementation of the Governor’s Hydrogen Highway Initiative. Mr. Duehring is licensed as a Professional Engineer by the California Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and has attained his certificate as a Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute.
Paul Fenn is chairman and CEO of Local Power Inc., and author California’s 2002 Community Choice law, Assembly Bill 117, that allows cities to develop local, utility-scale, clean energy infrastructure funded with tax-free municipal bonds. Mr. Fenn also coauthored the nation’s original such law in Massachusetts in 1994, while serving as Director of the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Energy and has helped Ohio and New Jersey in drafting their Community Choice laws. In addition, he has also advised state and federal policy on the opportunity to make major gains against the Climate Crisis through public-private partnership.
Mark Henwood founded and directs Camino Energy. Previously, Mark grew Henwood Energy Services, Inc. into one of the premier providers of software, information, and consulting services to the global power industry. In addition to his activities at Camino, Mark is the CEO of Henwood Associates (a Sustainable Energy Business), serves on the boards of PowerLytix, LLC and PLEXOS Solutions LLC., and manages a diversified portfolio of equities and fixed income. He is also active in promoting sustainable energy businesses in Sacramento, CA through his involvement with CleanStart where he is Vice Chairman and with start-ups as a venture partner at Velocity Ventures LLC.
Dr. Karen Herter is an Associate Director at Heschong Mahone Group, Inc., specializing in demand response and pricing strategies, policy analysis, standards development, field studies and evaluation. Before joining HMG, she was a principal research associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and worked as a consultant to the California Energy Commission. Dr. Herter earned her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Studies and B.A. degrees in both Mathematics and Psychology.
Cynthia Hughes-Doyle Cynthia Hughes-Doyle has over 19 years of experience as a project manager, owner’s representative, and sustainability consultant working on behalf of building contractors, universities and cost consulting firms. Specifically Cynthia worked for the University of California, Merced and was responsible for all new campus development and construction as well as establishing sustainability policies for all future buildings. This cumulative experience working for building contractors and universities has given Cynthia a full and detailed understanding of the entire design and construction process. Cynthia has presented on the topic of construction and sustainability at multiple conferences such as GreenBuild, AASHE and the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. Cynthia received her Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from California State University in Fresno and is a member of the US Green Building Council, California Preservation Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Sustainable Design Task Force and the City of Santa Monica Sustainable Environment Task Force.
Dr. Arun Jhaveri Dr. Arun Jhaveri has over 35 years of professional engineering, public service, advisory, consulting, and technology work experience in both the public and private sectors, here in the United States and abroad. He served as regional technology manager for the Federal Energy Management Program of the U. S. Department of Energy from 1991 to 2006. Prior to that, Dr. Jhaveri was the first mayor of the City of Burien, Washington. As such, he helped develop the first City Comprehensive Plan that included energy efficiency, economic development, recycling, sustainable development, pollution prevention, and climate change. Arun was one of the eleven mayors from the United States that participated in the United Conference on Global Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan in 1997
Dr. Jhaveri completed his Doctorate in Educational Leadership program at the Seattle University, with a dissertation titled "Effective Leadership for Sustainable Development in the Public Sector." Dr. Jhaveri received a BS degree, in Engineering Physics, from the University of Washington and a BS degree from India. He received his M.S degree in Physics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. He has also completed post-graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. Currently, Dr. Jhaveri is an Adjunct Professor at the Argosy University in Seattle, teaching Doctoral program courses in Program Evaluation and Leadership.
Bryan D. Johnson is the Sustainable Operations Program Coordinator for the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Previously he worked at the US Small Business Administration’s Disaster Assistance Program assisting disaster victims with their construction related recovery efforts, followed by similar positions with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and the State’s Office of Public School Construction. He holds an Undergraduate Degree from Southern Illinois University’s College of Engineering and a Graduate Degree from National University’s School of Business and Management.
Tim Kohut is Architectural Director of the Los Angeles Community Design Center (LACDC) and oversees all phases of coordination, design and construction of architectural projects. In addition to the 15 projects he has participated in during his nine-year tenure at LACDC, he has more than 19 years of experience in the architectural and development community. Highlights include three years with the U.S. Peace Corps in Western Honduras and work on the master plans for new towns in Civano, Arizona and Quemazon, New Mexico. Mr. Kohut focuses on sustainable (“Green”) design, passive cooling, and the implementation of energy efficient design techniques. His research into alternate cooling strategies and indoor air quality for affordable housing is ongoing. He has conducted workshops for the Los Angeles Chapter of the US Green Building Council, the Southern California Association for Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH) while contributing papers to the American Solar Energy Society and Home Energy Magazine. Mr. Kohut received a Master of Architecture from University of California Los Angeles, a Master of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of California Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mike Langley works for the State Department of General Services (DGS) Green Team. His current assignment is assisting State departments in complying with the benchmarking component of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Green Building Initiative.
Bruce Mast is a Director of Build It Green and its predecessor nonprofit Green Resource Center. In June of 2006, Mr. Mast transitioned from the Board to a staff role as Development Director. Since 2002, Mr. Mast has managed a CPUC-funded education and outreach initiative to help local governments and building professionals promote construction and remodeling practices that maximize energy efficiency, water conservation, indoor air quality, resource conservation, and overall sustainability. In that capacity, Mr. Mast helped found the Green Affordable Housing Coalition, made up of local governments and affordable housing developers seeking to incorporate green building practices into affordable housing projects. Prior to entering the green building arena, Mr. Mast consulted for 10 years to electric and gas utilities, providing market research, competitive assessment, marketing/business plan development, program design and implementation, and monitoring and evaluation services. Mr. Mast also served four years on the City Council in Albany, California, including one year as Mayor.
Kathleen Mead is the Manager of the Retrofit Implementation Section at the California Air Resources Board. Her section oversees the implementation of on-road in-use fleet regulations controlling diesel exhaust from vehicles used for transit, solid waste collection, public agencies and utilities. Ms. Mead has been at the Air Resources Board for 19 years including areas of stationary source compliance, training and assistance, along with her current responsibilities. Before that worked as an inspector at a local air pollution control district and was a research scientist for a biotechnology firm. She holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from University of California and a M.S. in Forest Ecology from Utah State University.
Peter Morris Peter Morris, Principal, has 28 years of experience in facilities evaluation and construction cost planning and management, with expertise in building surveying, construction cost planning and estimating, auditing, scheduling and life-cycle costing. As head of Davis Langdon’s research initiative, Peter is currently leading a project to compile a database of sustainable design costs from the thousands of projects that Davis Langdon has done nationally and abroad. Peter has also spoken at several major conferences on the topics of cost benchmarking, cost planning and the cost of sustainable design and has provided expert services in deposition, mediations, arbitrations and court. He has also prepared estimating studies on the cost of construction for the University of California and California State University system as materials to be submitted for legislative hearings. Peter received his Bachelor of Science in Building Surveying from Reading University in England and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Scott Samuelsen
Bill Slaton was elected to the SMUD Board of Directors in November 2002 and served as the Board's president in 2005. Slaton is the former chairman of the board of KVIE-Channel 6, Sacramento's public television station. He is the current Audit Chair for the station. Slaton is a former member of Point West Rotary and the WEAVE Business Advisory Council. He graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
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