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Maria Aiolova
Maria is an architect and urban designer. She is a Co-Founder of Terreform ONE and Planetary ONE, and directs the Urban Laboratory for Design/Grow and the One Prize Design and Science Award. Maria is currently faculty at Pratt Institute, and Parsons the New School for Design. She won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award. Maria has a number of winning competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Boston and the Izmir Central District International Competition, Turkey. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ETEX Corporation, a bio-tech company in Cambridge, MA. Maria is an inventor of 18 technology patents. She has taught at University of Toronto, and Boston Architectural Center and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at Harvard University, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, the Cooper Union,CUNY, Syracuse University, Washington University and Rhode Island School of Design.

MAUD, Harvard; Arch Dipl.-Ing.
Technische Universität Wien
Dipl.–Ing, University Sofia

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Ismael Betancourt, Jr.
Ismael is the President and CEO of IF-MC-CA-DI, a 501(c) 3 affiliated with The UN. Ismael has worked with NYC's government, taught at York College (CUNY) and Boricua College, worked with the New York Urban Coalition and founded a small food-oriented enterprise. Memberships have included the NYS Advisory Council on Employment and Unemployment Insurance, NYS Job Training Partnership Council, the US Department of Commerce Advisory Committee on Minority Enterprise Development, and NYS Delegate-White House Conference on Small Business. Non-profit work includes the Bronx River Alliance, Just Food and Sustainable South Bronx. He has organized conferences on cleantech at the Harvard Club of NYC, has participated in two Harvard think tanks on cities of the 21st century, as well as several UN forums on sustainable development.

BS, Columbia
MBA, Harvard
MA, CUNY

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Tom Glendening (Founder)
Tom specializes in cities, buildings, transit and energy. He has successfully created hundreds of millions in investment value from complicated assignments worldwide. He reclaimed property once confiscated by the Third Reich (Leipzig, Germany) and turned a disused retail center into a highly successful niche trade mart (London, UK), developed an urban alternative energy powerplant prototype (Shanghai, China) and a sustainable economic model for less developed areas. Tom has worked in the public sector with the NYC Department of City Planning, developed facilities strategies for two Fortune 25 companies to enable the global roll-out of alternatively powered vehicles (fuel cell, electric), and is on a team recently shortlisted for the NYC Bikeshare. He recently participated on a government-sponsored Chinese Energy Technology Trade Mission.

MBA, Harvard
MArch, Yale
BS Arch, Virginia

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Willem Houck
Willem is a corporate executive with more than 20 years of international leadership roles at blue chip companies where he focused on consumer driven growth and new technologies. Having been an early leader of Philips Electronics’ activities in energy management, he currently focuses on renewable energy investments and leads energy management and Electric Vehicle infrastructure start-ups. One of his projects involves a cooperation with the Earth Institute to develop pre-paid energy distribution to communities in Africa and India that are off the grid.
MBA, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC)
Exec Ed, IMD
Exec Ed, INSEAD
LL.M Rijks Universiteit Leiden.

Wendy Brawer
Founding Director of Green Map System, Wendy is an eco-designer and social innovator focused on sustainable community development through local leadership. From her original New York Green Map, the movement has spread to 55 countries. Green Map's iconography, methods, technology and mobile tools resources have won numerous awards, including 2011's Treehugger Best of Green and the National Sustainability Award. A past Designer in Residence at Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and a 2009 Utne Visionary, Wendy has 20 years of experience teaching and consulting on mobility, human power, energy communications and waste reduction.

Cleantech Exec Ed, NYU.

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Julie Chow
Julie is the former Executive Director of Engineers for a Sustainable World. She has extensive experience in corporate development, business strategy and manufacturing operations. Julie was an executive at automotive supplier, Yanfeng Visteon, headquartered in Shanghai, China, and held senior management positions at Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation where her responsibilities included the restructuring of the North American manufacturing footprint and the development and acquisition of over three million sq.ft. of R&D, office and manufacturing real estate in China. Her work in energy includes mergers and acquisitions at Southern Company and Amoco Orient Oil Company (now part of BP). She has also worked for the US Embassy in Beijing promoting US exports to China in the energy, infrastructure and heavy manufacturing sectors.

BS Engineering, Columbia
MS Real Estate, Columbia
MBA, Harvard.

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Elena Christopoulos
Elena implemented the first urban turbine in North America, located in Toronto; the first urban turbine in Los Angeles, and advised on the Cape Cod offshore wind farm. She has worked with numerous political campaigns facilitating all aspects of the social networking arena. She has more than fifteen years of program and project management experience and is fluent in English, French, German and Greek.

BA Chemistry, Queen's University.

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Jim Cohen (IEvents Media)

Jim has been running, building and selling some of the biggest events in the world for over 20 years including Moscow Oil & Gas Expo (MIOGE), Kazakhstan Oil & Gas (KIOGE), Uzbekhistan (UGU), Azerbaijan/Caspian Pipeline Summit, Moscow International Boat Show, Moscow International Sports and Leisure Show, ProcureCon, Field Service USA, Adventures in Travel Expo, Luxury Shows, Luxury Interactive, CSP Today USA, Solar Legislation, Regulation and Policy and many many others. He won Show Manager of the Year Award in 2006 for his work on the inaugural AdventureExpo where he founded and ran the team that got over 20,000 consumers to attend in New York City. Jim has a long history of successful from scratch launches including most notibly founding and running as the Executive Director the Conference Group at International Trade and Exhibitions (ITEGroup on FTSE in London).

BS, Syracuse University

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Eric Gartner (LEED AP)
Over the course of his professional career, he has served as a visiting critic at numerous schools of architecture. His on-going interest in the benefits of environmental and social sustainability has led to a series of projects that explore the benefits of sustainable design, including significant projects in Costa Rica, Rwanda, Brazil, and North Carolina, USA. Eric is a member of the Urban Green Council, New York City's chapter of the US Green Building Council, and continues working as a design consultant for Kageno Worldwide community development project in Banda, Rwanda.

BS Arch Virginia; MArch, Virginia.

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Philip Kiracofe
Philip has been deeply immersed in technology, real estate, and entrepreneurial ventures for nearly 20 years. He has co-founded or led a diverse range of companies including a pioneer online grocery service company, an India-based venture capital fund, and the first large scale social networking site.  in 2009, he founded Horizen Partners to incubate ideas and projects. GreenCyclists.org was created to teach safe, responsible bike handling skills to recreational and commuter cyclists as part of an effort to make bikes a significant part of the NYC culture. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. 

US Air Force Academy.

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Robert Weitzner (n.gine group) -- Rob has been defining and driving innovative business development endeavors at transformative entrepreneurial ventures for 15 years.  He is the Managing Parter of n.gine group with a mission to propel forward innovators pursuing disruptive approaches to mature markets and emerging industries. n.gine participated as the lead strategic business and financial advisor in bikeshare RFP responses in NYC and Vancouver teaming with Trek Bicycle’s B‐cycle and Serco. Rob has broad international business experience having structured joint ventures across Asia, Europe and Latin America, while creating $25mm+ in value from partnership agreements with many world‐class brands including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Robert is an avid cycling enthusiast and amateur racer. For the past two years he has served on the Board of Directors of the CRCA, the largest bicycle racing club in the United States. In 2009, his passion for cycling led him to join a team of like‐minded HBS alumni on an 18‐month series of studies that included an economic study and revenue plan for a private‐enterprise approach to Bikeshare.
MBA, Harvard
BA (Econ), Stanford.

Tom Brown, Nelson Nygaard (transportation planning partner)
Janet Liff, Janet Liff Company (real estate)
Ron Smith, CEO Verdant Power (underwater turbines)
Carl Podwoski (retired energy pro)
Robert Politzer, Greenstreet, Inc. (sustainable construction)
Mark Rylander, Rylander Consulting (sustainable architecture)
Andrew Kranis (urban planner)
David Krieger, NYU MBA Candidate
Tim White (clean technology expert)
Gerard Murrell, St Johns
Laura Bucko, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
Yale Klat, IdleAir
Charles Komanoff, Komanoff Energy Advisors

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