How Fast Can Small Grow? The Case for Solar Power
Speakers
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Managing Director, British Gas Business
In October 2014 Stuart was appointment Managing Director of British Gas Business, his role encompasses the overall operational responsibilities of providing business customers with end to end solutions tailored to the individual business needs.
Prior to this appointment Stuart was Chief Operations Officer (COO) of British Gas, responsible for metering, insulation, renewable heating, Health, Safety & Environment and property.
Stuart joined British Gas in 2011 as Managing Director for Central Heating Installations and became Managing Director of Smart Metering in 2012. Previously Stuart worked with strategy consulting firm the LEK Partnership and completed an MBA at Harvard Business School, before developing a career in general management with Caradon Plc and Intelligent Engineering.
Stuart is a proud Glaswegian and lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and 3 teenage children
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Co-Founder, SfunCube & Sungevity
Danny is a globally recognized businessperson, sustainability activist, and opinion leader. In 2011, PBS named him "Innovator of the Year" for moving the planet forward, and in 2013 he was described as a "Solar Maverick" by Rolling Stone. He is the author of the book Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy-and Our Planet-from Dirty Energy (2012); the co-founder of The SfunCube-the only Incubator and Accelerator with a mission of supporting the success of solar entrepreneurs; and the founder of Sungevity, the largest privately held solar service company in the USA. Before founding Sungevity, Danny was Campaigns Manager for Greenpeace Australia Pacific, and in 2001, he ran Greenpeace's California Clean Energy Campaign, which led to many of the current Californian solar initiatives. He sits on the boards of Powerhive and Sunergise, companies serving the Global South, and also the Board of the Solar Foundation, VoteSolar, and ecoAmerica, as well as the Clean Tech Council of the Sierra Club and the World Resources Institute's New Innovators Council. His life purpose is to make Sfun (that is Solar For Universal Need)!
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Founder, Enduring Ventures, Inc
Founder, Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company. Founder/Chairman Better World Books, $70 Million revenue profitable e-commerce business, 10 million customers.
Founding CEO, Zola Electric. Leading Solar Company in Africa. 1 million users, $100MM+ equity raised.
Oxford Skoll Scholar 2011.
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Harish Hande, Founder SELCO
Harish Hande is a renewable energy entrepreneur with over 25 years of grassroots experience in understanding, developing and deploying sustainable energy solutions for underserved communities. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2011.
Today SELCO is an umbrella of organizations, each tasked to address gaps in the energy access ecosystem namely SELCO India (1994), energy access enterprise; SELCO Foundation (2010), non profit R&D, SELCO Incubation Centre (2012), nurturing grass roots energy enterprises and finally SELCO Fund (2016), deploy patient capital.
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Managing Director, Capricorn Investment Group
Dipender Saluja is Managing Partner of the Technology Impact Fund, Capricorn Investment Grp, an investment firm founded to demonstrate that it is possible to invest profitably while driving sustainable positive change. TIF is an early investor in iconic companies like Tesla, Redwood Materials, Planet, SpaceX, FORM & Helion. Prior to CIG, Dipender was Chief of Staff at Cadence, a global leader in electronic design, where he built & managed businesses that worked closely with electronics companies around the world. Prior to that he was at Data General (EMC), Honeywell, ROLM (IBM), & GFERC. He’s an electrical engineer by training & attended UND, Univ of Minnesota & Stanford. Dipender serves on the boards of AST, Electric Hydrogen, Halio, Joby (NYSE:JOBY), Navitas (NDAQ:NVTS), QuantumScape (NYSE:QS), Saildrone, SPAN & Summit Nanotech, International Solar Alliance, IonE, the Cyclotron Road Leadership Council, PRIME IAC, & commissioner of the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP).
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Founder and CEO, Christensen Global Strategies
Aimée Christensen is CEO of Christensen Global Strategies with clients including the Clinton Global Initiative, Duke Energy, Microsoft, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Swiss Re, Virgin Unite, and United Nations. Trained as an environmental and energy lawyer, she has two decades’ experience in policy, law, investment, and philanthropy including with the U.S. Department of Energy, World Bank, Baker & McKenzie and Google where she guided its earliest climate and energy strategy including a commitment to carbon neutrality. She was Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General's High-level Group on Sustainable Energy For All and co-chair of the World Climate Summit where 800 business leaders mobilized climate solutions. She negotiated the first bilateral climate change agreements (U.S. – Costa Rica 1994, et al.) and wrote the first university endowment investment policy on climate change (Stanford University, 1999). She was the 2011 Hillary Laureate and a 2010 Aspen Catto Fellow. In 2009 she relocated to Sun Valley, Idaho to be with family and manage her family’s investments including in solar energy companies, projects and funds. She graduated from Smith College and Stanford Law School.
