The C3 Sustainability Council is an advisory group of independent domain experts. Council members have distinguished themselves in their careers through an established track record of advancing the goals of sustainability and energy efficiency.
Roger Ballentine
Roger Ballentine is President of Green Strategies Inc., where he assists clients in the energy and environmental arena with domestic and international public policy matters, investment guidance in the clean technology marketplace, marketing and business development strategies, sustainability, and capital formation. He is also a Venture Partner with Arborview Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on the clean technology marketplace, as well as Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School teaching in the area of energy and climate policy and a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington D.C.
Mr. Ballentine previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant to the President, Mr. Ballentine was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environmental issues. He has published a number of papers, articles and opinion pieces in nationally and internationally-recognized publications and has been a frequent television and radio commentator.
Mr. Ballentine serves on the Board of Directors of Environmental Power Corporation, Perillon Software Inc., Daylight Technology, Inc. and China Energy Recovery Inc. and on the Advisory Boards of Stratos Renewables Corporation and Pure Biofuels Corporation. He was a founding Board Member of the American Council on Renewable Energy, and serves on the Boards of the Biomass Energy Resource Center and the International Fund for China’s Environment. In 2009, Mr. Ballentine joined the International Advisory Council of the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Mr. Ballentine is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Connecticut and a Cum Laude graduate of the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Connecticut, District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court bars.
James L. Connaughton
The Honorable James L. Connaughton is Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Public and Environmental Policy at Constellation Energy. Prior to joining Constellation Energy, Mr. Connaughton served as Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality from 2001-2009. In this capacity, he served on President Bush’s senior staff as senior environment, energy and natural resources advisor, and as director of the White House Office of Environmental Policy.
During his service with the federal government, Mr. Connaughton worked closely with the president, his Cabinet and the Congress to develop and implement climate change, air pollution and energy security policies. This work led to a series of new mandatory programs, incentives, technology initiatives and public-private partnerships that included bipartisan energy legislation in 2005 and 2007, nearly $90 billion for clean energy technology research and incentives to accelerate commercial deployment of low-carbon technologies such as plug-in hybrid vehicles, renewable fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, and carbon capture and storage from coal power generation. Internationally, Mr. Connaughton helped establish a broad series of technology initiatives, the public-private Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate Change, and the Major Economies Leaders Meetings on Energy and Climate, in which Mr. Connaughton served as the president’s personal representative.
Prior to his public service, Mr. Connaughton was a partner in the environmental practice group at the law firm Sidley Austin, where he played a leading role in the development and implementation of the ISO 14000 series of international environmental management and performance standards.
Mr. Connaughton is a trustee of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. He is a graduate of Yale University and graduated second in his class, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the Northwestern University School of Law. In 2008, Northwestern University honored him with its Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dr. Martin Fischer
A world renowned expert in building performance, energy efficiency, and building information modeling systems, Dr. Martin Fischer is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. At Stanford, Dr. Fischer also serves as Director of the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) and Coordinator of Building Energy Efficiency Research at the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC). He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Woods Institute for the Environment and of the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). Prior to Stanford, Dr. Fischer has worked as a research, project, and structural engineer for a variety of engineering firms in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Dr. Fischer’s current research focuses on developing intelligent 4D models for building design and construction management.
Dr. Fischer has authored numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and is the recipient of several awards, including two Best Paper awards, the NSF CAREER Award, the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Fischer earned a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as well as an M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management), both from Stanford University.
Kristina M. Johnson
Kristina M. Johnson was formerly the Under Secretary for Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy from 2009 through 2010. Prior to her appointment as Under Secretary, Dr. Johnson was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. Previously, from 1999 to 2007, Dr. Johnson served as Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. From 1985 to 1999, she was on the faculty at the University of Colorado, and from 1994 to 1999 she directed the NSF/ERC for Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University.
Dr. Johnson was named an NSF Presidential Young Investigator in 1985 and a Fulbright Faculty Scholar fellowship in 1991. Her awards include the Dennis Gabor Prize for creativity and innovation in modern optics (1993); State of Colorado and North Carolina Technology Transfer Awards (1997, 2001); induction into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame (2003); the Society of Women Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award (2004); and in May of 2008, the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award in the engineering profession. Previous recipients of the Fritz Medal include Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Orville Wright. In December of 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. In 2010, Dr. Johnson was named the Women of Vision Award Winner by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and received the ARCS Foundation Eagle Award for her dedication to science and education.
Dr. Johnson has 142 refereed papers and proceedings and holds 45 U.S. patents (129 U.S. and international patents) and patents pending. A fellow of the Optical Society of America, International Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering (former Board Member), Dr. Johnson has served on the Board of Directors of Mineral Technologies Inc., Boston Scientific Corporation, AES Corporation and Nortel Networks. She helped found several companies, including ColorLink, Inc, SouthEast Techinventures, and Unyos.
Dr. Johnson received her B.S. (with distinction), M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University and received a NATO post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Alexander A. “Andy” Karsner
Andy Karsner is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Manifest Energy. From 2006 to 2008, he was U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Efficiency and Renewable Energy, managing the approximately $2 billion annual federal U.S. applied science, research, development, and deployment portfolio and serving as America’s top efficiency regulator. Prior to pubic service, Mr. Karsner held several global leadership positions, including CEO of Enercorp LLC, a power development firm involved in international project development, management and financing of renewable energy infrastructure; Director and Senior Development Manager for Wartsila Power Development; and other multinational energy and development firms. In these roles, Mr. Karsner led a variety of multinational consortia in the successful financing and construction of infrastructure involving a wide range of technologies including natural gas, utility grade wind energy, distributed solar power, wood waste/biomass, distillates, heavy fuel oil, and coal.
Mr. Karsner serves on the boards of Applied Materials, Conservation International, the Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago, and the Automotive X Prize Foundation, and is an advisor to the Hudson Clean Energy Fund and Duke Energy. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Competitiveness, a leader of the Energy Future Coalition, and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Energy Policy Task Force. He has received top honors from the U.S. Energy Association and the Alliance to Save Energy, the President’s Award from the U.S. Green Building Council, and was recently knighted by King Carl Gustav of Sweden.
Mr. Karsner earned a B.A. with Honors from Rice University, a M.A. with Honors from Hong Kong University, and a Rotary International fellowship.
Steven L. Kline
Steven L. Kline is Vice President of Corporate Environmental and Federal Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer for PG&E Corporation. He is responsible for environmental policy activities for PG&E Corporation, as well as for oversight of the corporation’s Washington, D.C., office. Mr. Kline also serves as the senior liaison with federal elected and regulatory officials. He joined Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1980. After holding a series of positions of increasing responsibility in the utility’s Regulatory and Corporate Planning organizations, he was elected to his current position with PG&E Corporation in 1998. Prior to his current position, he was Vice President of Regulation at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, responsible for overseeing federal and state regulatory activities, revenue requirements and cost of services. Mr. Kline was a participant in the California Collaborative that, in January 1990, produced the Energy Efficiency Blueprint for California, a guide for California to reassert its leadership in energy efficiency.
In addition to his duties at PG&E Corporation, Mr. Kline serves on the Boards of the China-US Energy Efficiency Alliance, Advisory Council for Resources for the Future and Executive Leadership Council for The Nature Conservancy. Mr. Kline is also on the Board of Trustees at Coe College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in international politics and economics. He holds a master’s degree in diplomacy from The Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at The University of Kentucky and is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business.
Randall H. Knox III
Randy Knox is Senior Director of Global Workplace Solutions at Adobe Systems, Inc., responsible for all aspects of real estate, facilities and physical security for Adobe’s 75 sites worldwide. He spearheads Adobe’s efforts in conserving resources and increasing building efficiencies, including the achievement of U.S. Energy Star qualification in 2005 (and every year since) for Adobe’s corporate HQ in San Jose, California. Adobe became the first company in the world to receive four platinum certifications under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) program.
Mr. Knox is an active member of CoreNet, an association for corporate real estate and related professionals, and in 2008 he was awarded the CoreNet Global, Executive of the Year for Northern California. He is a member of the Sustainability Roundtable and has spoken at Greenbuild and other venues around the world on the subject of green buildings and sustainability
Mr. Knox has a master’s degree in business from the University of Redlands and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Delaware.
Greg Manuel
Greg Manuel is Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Strategy at Amyris Biotechnologies. Prior to Amyris, he was Managing Partner of Future Energy Capital, where he advised and invested in clean technology companies. Mr. Manuel previously served as Special Advisor for Alternative Energy to the U.S. Secretary of State, providing strategic oversight, developing new initiatives, and integrating alternative energy issues at senior levels of the U.S. Government. During his tenure, Mr. Manuel developed key alternative energy partnerships with Brazil, China, India, and Europe to accelerate investment in and deployment of new energy technology. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Manuel served on the National Security Council, working on energy and international economic issues. Mr. Manuel has worked as a venture capitalist for Atlas Venture; founded E-DOX, a technology startup in New York City; was a member of the board of Jadoo Power, a startup fuel cell company; and an investment banker working in the technology and energy sectors at J.P. Morgan.
Mr. Manuel received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in International Relations with Honors in the Humanities from Stanford University.
Doug May
Doug May is Vice President, Energy, Climate and Alternative Feedstocks for The Dow Chemical Company, responsible for Dow’s overall Energy portfolio. He leads activities related to power, natural gas, alternative feedstocks, steam, and industrial gases. In addition, Mr. May has a leading role in the management of Dow’s position and global advocacy activities in the areas of Climate Change and Energy policy. He works closely with industry, government, communities, and Dow’s customers to identify and develop new solutions to address energy and climate change challenges.
Mr. May first joined Dow in 1989 at the Commercial Development Program and later he became a sales representative for Liquid Separations before serving as the North American sales manager. In 2001, he was named strategy development manager for Specialty Polymers, and then global business director for Specialty Polymers in 2003. In 2004, Mr. May served as the business director for Acrylates. In 2007 he was named business director for Chlorinated Organics.
Mr. May holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from Purdue University.
Michael Mondshine
As Vice President and Senior Policy Analyst at SAIC, Mr. Mondshine is responsible for integrating delivery of strategic risk management services associated with water, waste, energy, and climate change. From 1993 through 2009, he led all climate change policy and management consulting activities at SAIC. Mr. Mondshine has been named to the UNFCCC Roster of Experts on greenhouse gas emissions inventory preparation and baseline methods for JI and CDM projects. He was recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for his contributions to their receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. He serves on the board of the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO) and is a member of the Council of Graduate School’s advisory panel on the Professional Science Master’s degree. Mr. Mondshine holds a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University.
Andreas Schierenbeck
Andreas Schierenbeck is President of the Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industry, Inc., the U.S. affiliate of Siemens’ global Industry Sector business—the world’s leading supplier of production, transportation and building technology solutions. Mr. Schierenbeck is responsible for the financial, operational and competitive success of Siemens Industry Sector’s U.S.-based building systems and energy efficiency solutions provider. Having held executive and leadership positions at major global BT business units and other Siemens companies, Mr. Schierenbeck brings to his post nearly 20 years of progressive experience guiding companies to profitability and market success. Most recently he served as global CEO for the Building Automation business unit in Zug, Switzerland. Prior to joining BT in 2005 as senior vice president for Fire Services, Mr. Schierenbeck was vice president of the Siemens Power & Distribution Substation Automation business. A graduate of Harvard Business School’s Executive MBA Program in 2009, Mr. Schierenbeck also served as vice president of eu.bac — the European association of building automation and controls suppliers. He is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and has lived and worked in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Colombia.
Jeff Seabright
Jeff Seabright has served since 2003 as Vice President for Environment and Water at The Coca-Cola Company, responsible for governance and leadership across global operations of the Coca-Cola franchise system, including integrated planning and execution with business groups, bottlers, and corporate functions. Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Mr. Seabright was Managing Director at Green Strategies, Inc., a consultancy advising government and Fortune 500 clients on environmental public policy issues and strategy, and was previously Vice President of Policy Planning at Texaco. Prior to Texaco, Mr. Seabright served in a variety of U.S. government positions, most recently as Executive Director of the White House Task Force on Climate Change, from 1999 to 2000. From 1993 to 1999 he served in the U.S. Agency for International Development, most recently as Director of the Office of Energy, Environment & Technology. Previously, he was a senior legislative assistant to Senators John D. Rockefeller (1985-88) and Timothy Wirth (1988-1992). From 1981 to 1985 he was a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. State Department, on special assignment to NATO. Mr. Seabright started his career at Booz Allen & Hamilton as Special Assistant to the Director of the Strategic Studies Group.
Mr. Seabright serves on the boards of the Nature Conservancy and Sustainable Atlanta, and serves as Vice Chairman of the board of the World Environment Center.
Mr. Seabright earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Oberlin College and a M.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.