Timothy E. Vail, President & CEO, Accelergy Corporation
Mr. Vail's entrepreneurial career has focused on alternative energy. From fuel cells to clean coal, Mr. Vail has participated in many successful alternative energy endeavors during a career that spans almost two decades. Before joining Accelergy, Mr. Vail was the President and CEO of Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. a global developer of coal gasification facilities that cleanly produce high quality transportation fuels from low rank coal resources. During his tenure at SES, Mr. Vail raised over $200 million for the business, built their first commercial facility and successfully listed the company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. Prior to joining SES in 2005, Mr. Vail served as the Director of Commercialization for Fuel Cell Development for General Motors Corporation (GM). At GM, Mr. Vail's duties included the development of GM's Shanghai fuel cell office as well as coordination of engineering facilities in the United States, Germany, Japan and China. While at GM, he completed the world's largest fuel cell commercialization deal with Dow Chemical and developed a fleet of fuel cell vehicles for the US Postal Service. Prior to his position at GM, Mr. Vail was the Vice President of Product Development for The New Power Company, a start-up subsidiary of Enron Corporation, where he was responsible for the development of new products and services. From 1995 until starting work for The New Power Company, Mr. Vail was a Vice President at Enron Energy Services focusing on alternative energy opportunities. Prior to Enron, Mr. Vail was a securities lawyer with Andrews & Kurth, LLP.

Mr. Vail holds a J.D. from the University Of Houston Law Center and a B.A. in Economics from The University of Texas at Austin.

William Chen, Co-Founder, Accelergy Corporation
Prior to founding Accelergy, Mr. Chen was the Founder and CEO of OnePage, Inc. an enterprise software company that was acquired by Sybase. Before OnePage, Mr. Chen was one of the Founders of Billpoint, Inc. an Internet payments company that was acquired by eBay. Mr. Chen has also held executive positions for Excite and Accenture, and was in sales and marketing for IBM.

Mr. William Chen serves on the Board of Directors and was President of the AAMA (Asia America Multi-Technology Association in Silicon Valley ) in 2005. He is a Board Director of the Harvard Business School 4A Club, and is also on the Advisory Board of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Florida. In 2003 the University of Florida honored him as the Clark Butler Entrepreneur of the Year.

Mr. Chen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from the University of Florida.

Dr. Bernie Bulkin, Former Chief Scientist, BP
Bernie spent 19 years at BP and its predecessor, The Standard Oil Company, holding various positions in technology and business, including Chief Technology Officer and Director of Manufacturing, Supply, and Distribution. As BP's Vice President for Environmental Affairs, Bernie developed BP's clean fuels strategy and led BP's strategy and action plan on climate change. He helped to develop BP's thinking about sustainability, what it means in an extractive company, and the organizational demands of sustainability in a large company. He is the author of many papers on sustainability, climate change, transport, and the future of technology in the energy industry. Prior to BP, Bernie was an academic scientist and Professor at City University of New York and Polytechnic Institute for 18 years.

Bernie has published more than 100 papers and two books on such subjects as Raman spectroscopy, polymers, and liquid crystals. Bernie was Honorary Professor at the University of York from 1992-2003, and has been elected as a Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge. Bernie currently serves as Chairman of the Energy Advisory Board of SAIC, and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of World ORT, the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory, Board of Directors of UK CEED, the UK Government Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, Vice Chair for Energy and Transport of the Sustainable Development Commission, and is a Trustee of the Charles Darwin Trust. Bernie is Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry; Fellow, Institute of Petroleum; Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts; and Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. He has received the Coblentz Award, the Oscar Foster Award in Science Education, Sigma Xi Distinguished Research Citation, and Gold Medal of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners
Ira Ehrenpreis is a General Partner with Technology Partners. He has been with the firm since 1996. Ira leads Technology Partners' Cleantech investment practice, investing in Energy Technology, Water Technology, and Materials Science opportunities. Ira is a recognized leader in both the venture capital industry and the Cleantech sector, and in 2007, was named one of the "Top 50 Most Influential Men Under 45" by Details Magazine.

In the venture community, Ira serves on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and on the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). He is also the Co-Chairman of both the VCNetwork and the YVCA, two non-profit organizations comprising more than 1,000 venture capitalists. In the Cleantech sector, Ira has served on several industry Boards, including the Clean-Tech Investor Summit (2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Conference Chairman), Cleantech Venture Network (Past Chairman), Energy Investors Forum (2004 Conference Chairman), Energy Venture Fair, and California Climate Change Advisory Board.

Recently, Ira was featured as the Keynote speaker at both the Cleantech Venture Forum VI and the Cleantech Venture Forum V. He has also served on the Advisory Boards of the Southern California Tech Coast Alliance, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE), and the Comerica Venture Capital Advisory Board. Ira is also an active leader at Stanford University, where his contributions have included teaching the course on Venture Capital and serving on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School. Ira is also a Contributor to Nimmer on Copyright, the leading copyright treatise.

Ira received his JD/MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of Stanford Law Review. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude.

John Rockwell, Managing Director, Element Partners
John has more than 15 years of experience investing in venture capital and developing companies commercializing applications of advanced materials and over 20 years of financial investment experience. Prior to joining DFJ Element, John was a Partner at Advent International and managed the firm's California office. John joined Advent in 1996 and his investments have ranged by stage of company and area of focus. He has invested broadly across the CleanTech sectors with an emphasis on advanced materials, information technology and electronics.

Before Advent, John spent 7 years at Materia Ventures Associates, investing in and managing early-stage companies that were commercializing advanced materials technologies. He also served as CEO of Luxar Corporation, a manufacturer of CO2 lasers for the medical market and as President of SSC, Inc., a manufacturer of high performance ceramic oxide materials used in superconductors, fuel cells, catalysts and other applications. John also held various positions at 3M Corporation in its Acquisitions and Business Development Department.

John received a BS in Business Administration from Michigan Technological University; and an MBA from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Bryant Tong, General Partner, Nth Power
Bryant Tong joined Nth Power in 2001 as a Managing Director. Previously, Mr. Tong was founder, President and CEO of Pacific Venture Capital, LLC (PVC), the venture capital arm of PG&E. At PVC, Mr. Tong led investments in the energy and telecommunications sectors.

Prior to joining PVC, Mr. Tong co-founded ReSourcePhoenix, Inc., a public company that pioneered the use of the Internet to help businesses outsource their IT and accounting operations. As President and COO, he planned business strategy, sales and marketing and was responsible for all day to day operations. Previous to ReSourcePhoenix, Mr. Tong also served as part of the senior management group at Phoenix American, Inc. While at Phoenix American, Mr. Tong worked with Phoenix Growth Capital (PGC), which invested in over 200 venture capital-backed companies by providing venture lease financing.

Mr. Tong also served for four years as a senior member of the audit staff of Ernst and Young. He was responsible for the preparation of interim and year-end audits, SEC reporting requirements and internal control reviews. Clients included venture capital firms and large financial institutions.

Mr. Tong earned a BS in accounting from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Tong is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and also serves as a member of several industry advisory boards including the Energy Venture Fair, the Chinese/U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance and the Golden Capital Network.

Raheel Zia, Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Raz is a Vice President in the San Francisco office of Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area. He focuses on opportunities in the software and services sectors. Current investments include Wall Street On Demand and Accelergy. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Raz was with Bessemer Venture Partners, based in the MA office, where he was an early investor in HyperRoll, GoTV Networks and Streambase. From 2000-2002, he was Founder & CEO of Knumi, a wireless applications company which he led until its sale to Houghton-Mifflin. Raz has held product management & engineering roles at AltaVista and DEC, and he was also a member of the Technology Investment Banking team at Citigroup.

Raz holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and engineering degrees from London University ( M.Sc.) and Manchester University (B.Eng ). He is also a qualified CPA.