Rick Adcock is Senior Vice President for Origination & Investment for the Climate Leaders Fund, a new initiative of the Camco Group. CLF invests directly in businesses, projects, and assets that will generate greenhouse gas emission credits under either the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol, or under voluntary emissions reduction mechanisms such as those under development in the U.S. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President for Environmental Markets at World Energy, where he led the firm’s business in the domestic and international markets for green power, renewable energy credits, and greenhouse gas emissions credits. From 2000 until early 2007, he was Vice President, Energy & Carbon Asset Management, at CH2M HILL, where he led international teams developing renewable energy and other greenhouse gas emissions credit-producing projects allowed under the Kyoto Protocol, in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. His professional experience over two decades includes co-founding and serving seven years (1993-99) as President of Econergy, a company that provided carbon asset management and project development services worldwide. In 1992, he served briefly as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State responsible for international climate change negotiations. From 1988 through 1990, he managed energy and climate change policy issues as a Legislative Assistant to (then) U.S. Senator Al Gore. Prior to that, he was an energy & climate change technical and policy analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the World Resources Institute. Mr. Adcock holds a M.A.L.D from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, a M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado, a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and a B.A. in English from the University of Denver.

David B. Burritt is vice president and chief financial officer of Caterpillar Inc. He has responsibility for the Global Finance & Strategic Support Division, which includes accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, global finance transformation, product source planning services and Caterpillar Luxembourg S.àR.L, corporate audit & compliance and strategic support functions including: strategic investments, competitive intelligence, marketing and customer analytics and revenue management. Burritt served as Caterpillar’s corporate controller from December 2002 to December 2004 when he was named vice president. As corporate controller, he introduced the company’s transparent financial reporting initiative — a key component of Caterpillar’s Sarbanes-Oxley compliance that aligns Caterpillar’s internal and external reporting processes. Burritt began his career at Caterpillar in 1978 as an accountant. He served as an inventory and budget accountant in Caterpillar’s foundry operations and then moved to its General Offices in financial reporting and tax roles. In 1990, as manager of Business Measurements, Burritt helped facilitate Caterpillar’s reorganization into accountable business units by designing a new corporate metrics process and business unit reporting structure. Beginning in 1994, he gained international experience by assuming the role of business resources manager for Cat Belgium S.A. He went on to become general manager of Strategic and Business Services for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and CIS based in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to his corporate controller position, Burritt helped lead the company’s implementation of 6 Sigma as the corporate champion, driving Caterpillar to become the first company to launch this business improvement methodology worldwide and achieve net benefits in the first year. Burritt graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Bradley University in 1977. He earned an MBA from the University of Illinois in 1990. He also completed the Stanford University Executive Program in 1998 and the Aspen Institute’s Executive Program in 2005. He is a lifetime member of Phi Kappa Phi. Burritt is a certified public accountant and member of the American Institute of CPAs. He is also a certified management accountant and member of the Institute of Management Accountants. He serves as a member of the Corporate Executive Board’s Working Council for CFOs and the Conference Board Council of CFOs.

Paula DiPerna is Executive Vice President for Corporate Recruitment and Public Policy of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Ms. DiPerna served formerly as President of the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, a major public policy philanthropy based in Chicago, Illinois, known for its innovative grantmaking; and Vice-President for International Affairs of the Cousteau Society, whose President was pioneer and ocean explorer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As Vice-President for International Affairs, Ms. DiPerna was responsible for all aspects of national and international environmental policy, and interacted extensively with the U.S. Congress, Heads of State, and the United Nations. While at the Cousteau, from 1979 to 1997, Ms. DiPerna was also a writer and coproducer of many documentary films and has traveled extensively globally, including one year in the Amazon regions of Brazil, Columbia and Peru. Ms. DiPerna also has served as a consultant on environmental matters to the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and LEAD-International, among other organizations. Ms. DiPerna also founded the Jobs and Environment Initiative, which quantifies jobs creation benefits of environmental activities national and in various U.S. states. DiPerna is also a noted public policy analyst and widely published author. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles on a variety of subjects, a novel and several non-fictions books. “Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass.”, published in 1985, has become a touchstone of environmental epidemiology. Ms. DiPerna was named an Eisenhower Fellow in 1998, an international program for emerging leaders founded by the US Congress and spent time in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic studying emerging environmental policy in Central Europe. DiPerna is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is based in the New York City office of CCX.

Mary Driscoll runs CFO Conferences and CFO Research Services, the executive education and research services arm of CFO Publishing Corp. The latter, a division of the Economist Group, produces CFO magazine, the information source for senior financial executives. CFO is a monthly magazine with separate editions in the US, Europe, and Asia. Ms. Driscoll has served in various positions within the Economist Group for seventeen years. From 1990 to 1996, she was a senior editor of CFO magazine. In that capacity, she developed numerous cover stories on strategy, corporate finance, performance management, and organizational change. During 1997, Ms. Driscoll was Editor of the non-affiliated CFO magazine in Australia during its inaugural year. Ms. Driscoll has written several business books, including Cash Management: Corporate Strategies for Profit (John Wiley & Sons). She has won several awards for investigative journalism in the area of finance. Ms. Driscoll received a BA (honors) in English from the University of Massachusetts and studied accounting and management at Harvard University.

Karen is responsible for leading and embedding the global sustainability strategy into The Coca-Cola Company's brands and business -- contributing to sustainable growth and sustainable communities. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company seven years ago, Karen managed international advocacy campaigns at the WWF-the conservation organization. Following a post-graduate degree in Advanced European Studies, she began her career in Brussels where she tracked European environmental and social policy matters for multi-national corporations such as Mars, McDonald’s and L'Oreal.

As the executive vice president of Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific for SAS, Mikael Hagström is passionate about providing a culture where innovation can flourish, resulting in market leadership both for the organization and its customers. He is responsible for optimizing business performance, delivering revenue and managing operations in more than 50 countries with individual P&L (Profit and Loss) centers and nearly 4,000 employees. An 18-year SAS veteran, Hagström has been responsible for most of the sales and operations for EMEA since he was named vice president of EMEA Sales in January 2005. His experience in growing business in emerging markets and identifying strong leadership to run the local operations has contributed to the consistent strong growth of the region. From 1998 to 2000, as country manager of SAS Norway, Hagström restructured the office and led SAS Norway to record growth, doubling new sales each year for three years. Over the next few years, additional geographies and P&Ls were consistently added to his growing level of responsibilities. Hagström, who joined SAS Sweden in 1989, moved to the company’s European headquarters in Heidelberg in 1993 where he was the head of sales support. He currently works from SAS Worldwide Headquarters in Cary, North Carolina. Hagström is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) Executive Council and is a frequent speaker on the multinational business climate. He is a board member or head officer of 17 SAS subsidiaries, including SAS Software Limited, UK; SAS Institute Computer Software S.A., Greece; SAS Institute Sp. z.o.o., Poland; SAS Institute GmbH, Germany; and SAS Institute A/S, Denmark. He holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Automation Engineering and Administration.

Josh Harris has worked solely on climate change and carbon markets since 2000 across the private, Government and NGO sectors. He heads up the Climate Group's voluntary carbon markets program and is also the Acting Program Manager for the Voluntary Carbon Standard Association. He has 5 years experience directly advising business on carbon management and emissions trading. Prior to joining The Climate Group, Josh worked for the Australian Federal Government’s Greenhouse Office. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons).

Paul A. Hilton is Director, Advanced Equities Research in Calvert’s Equities Department, a role he was named to in September 2007. In this position, Mr. Hilton examines the relationship of social, environmental, and governance factors to financial performance in order to provide insight to Calvert investment portfolios. Prior to assuming this role, he served as Director of Institutional and SRI Marketing and was responsible for promoting Calvert's institutional investment products and socially responsible funds. With over $16 billion in assets under management, Calvert has provided shareholders with solid financial performance and leadership in socially responsible investing (SRI) since 1982. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Hilton was Portfolio Manager, Socially Responsible Investing at The Dreyfus Corporation. At Dreyfus he was responsible for social research and marketing of the Dreyfus Premier Third Century Fund and its variable annuity counterpart, the Dreyfus Socially Responsible Growth Fund. Mr. Hilton has also served as a research analyst in the Social Awareness Investment (SAI) program at Smith Barney Asset Management, a division of Citigroup. Mr. Hilton also worked as project director for corporate social responsibility research at the Council for Economic Priorities (CEP), a New York-based not-for-profit organization best known for its consumer guide “Shopping for a Better World.” While at CEP, Paul spent four months with the Centre for Science and Environment, an environmental research organization in New Delhi, India, developing a program to evaluate the environmental performance of India-based companies. Mr. Hilton holds Master’s degrees in Anthropology from New York University and Education from Roberts Wesleyan College. He is also co-founder of SIRAN, the Social Investment Research Analyst Network, a national group of analysts working to promote dialogue with companies about corporate responsibility. Hilton currently heads SIRAN’s Research and Outreach Committee, serves on the Indigenous Peoples Task Force of the Social Investment Forum, and is Calvert’s representative to the Asset Management Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI). He serves on the board of Communities in Schools of the Nation’s Capital.

Since 1985, Julia Homer has directed CFO magazine’s efforts to chronicle the evolving role of the CFO and to identify companies and individuals that exemplify excellence in finance. Before joining CFO, Ms. Homer worked for Inc. magazine, where she covered finance and business law. She has also written extensively on management and organizational behavior.

Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense Fund, a national nonprofit organization that links science, economics and law to solve the most serious environmental problems. The group concentrates on four goals: climate, oceans, human health and the common issues affecting land, water and wildlife. Krupp and Environmental Defense Fund helped develop market-based solutions such as the acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act. Krupp was a founding member of the United States Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of leading corporations and environment organizations supporting mandatory limits in the United States on global warming pollution. The largest private equity deal ever, the purchase of TXU, was made contingent on Environmental Defense Fund’s approval of their greenhouse gas management plan. Krupp has led the organization in a series of corporate partnerships with McDonald’s, BP, FedEx and others. Since Krupp joined Environmental Defense Fund in 1984, its annual budget has increased from $3 million to more than $75 million, full-time staff has quintupled from 50 to more than 300, membership has expanded from 40,000 to over 500,000, and new offices opened in North Carolina, Texas and Beijing.

Marie Leone is a senior editor at CFO. She is an award-winning business journalist that covers a wide variety of topics, including accounting, tax, capital markets and banking, and treasury operations, as well as regulatory and legal issues related to corporate finance. Her coverage of environmental and sustainability issues include some of CFO's most popular articles, such as, "The Greening of GAAP," " Will the SEC Go Green?" "FIN 47: The Future is Now," "The Quest for an Environmental Metric," "Airing Out 'Mothballed' Facilities," and "Up on Cripple Creek, a New Kind of Gold." Previously, Marie spent 13 years with The McGraw-Hill Companies working within the Platt's magazine group where she was editor-in-chief ofElectrical World, and launched and was editor-in-chief of Global Energy Business and Energy IT. Before becoming a business journalist, Marie spent five years at New York City's public broadcasting affiliate WNYC, where she was a publications editor, as well as a senior publicist. She holds a BS in journalism from Utica College of Syracuse University.

Avital Louria Hahn is a senior editor at CFO magazine where she writes about Wall Street-related subjects. She joined CFO in July 2007 after spending eight years covering Wall Street investment banking at a weekly magazine called Investment Dealers’ Digest where she was an assistant managing editor. Before that she wrote for a daily paper in Connecticut and wrote extensively for the New York Times and other publications on various subjects including the environment. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1996.

Ms. Martin joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer in January 2002 and was given expanded responsibilities in 2005 to become Chief Financial and Operating Officer. She is responsible for all global finance functions including accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit and investor relations together with information technology and all aspects of the firm’s operational platform. Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Ms. Martin was CFO of Heller Financial Inc., where she was involved in both the company’s initial public offering in 1998 and its successful sale of the company to General Electric Capital in 2001. Ms. Martin also served as Heller’s Group President – Real Estate Finance for three years before she became a Senior Group President, overseeing Real Estate Finance as well as three other business units. She previously worked at GE Capital for 10 years heading its mortgage banking and construction lending divisions. Ms. Martin earned a B.A. from Oregon State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut. She serves on the board of KeyCorp, the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and the Oregon State Board of Visitors and is a member of the Executive Club, the Economic Club and the Chicago Network.

Andrea Moffat has practical experience working with organizations to help them improve their sustainability performance. She leads Ceres Corporate Accountability team, and works with a number of Fortune 500 companies on stakeholder engagement, corporate responsibility reporting and specific initiatives to improve social and environmental performance. Before joining Ceres, Andrea led and managed a corporate responsibility program for Environment Canada. She has a Master of Environmental Studies degree from Dalhousie University, Canada.

Michael Monahan was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Pitney Bowes in February 2008. As Chief Financial Officer, he is responsible for the company's worldwide financial operations, including accounting, treasury, tax, internal audit, risk management, investor relations, and finance shared services. In addition, he is responsible for the company's corporate development activities, including acquisitions, equity investments, and other corporate transactions, as well as corporate marketing, corporate communications, and real estate and facilities administration. Prior to becoming CFO, Mike served as Executive Vice President and President, Mailing Solutions and Services -- Americas. Mike worked closely with the company’s global channel and operations organizations to drive a worldwide growth strategy for its core mailing business through management of the Pitney Bowes global product portfolio. Mike’s responsibilities included maximizing growth and profitability for the mail finishing, mail creation, distribution solutions, and digital imaging lines of business. Mike is also responsible for U.S. Postal Service and global carrier relations. Mike oversaw Pitney Bowes’ entry and expansion in the U.S. domestic and international mail services markets from 2003-2007. In this short time, the company achieved a market leader position, processing over 10 billion domestic letters and over 30 million pounds of international outbound mail annually through more than 30 locations across the US. In addition, Mike led the formation of company’s Marketing Services division through a series of acquisitions and partnerships. The Marketing Services portfolio includes marketing strategy planning, public/private marketing partnerships, co-op and incentive marketing and other Mailstream related services. Most recently, Mike assumed responsibility for the Growth Group and Advanced Concepts & Technologies. These two organizations are focused on driving integrated growth opportunities across the corporation and exploring new areas for growth through concept development and new technology research. Mike is a board member of the Pitney Bowes joint venture in Brazil. Mike joined Pitney Bowes in 1988 as Manager of Corporate Accounting and was promoted several times within the finance and accounting organization. In 1995 he was named Director, Investor Relations serving as the company's primary contact with the investment community. In 1998 he was promoted to Vice President, Finance and Information Technology for the Production Mail and Document Factory Solutions division (now DMT) where he was responsible for the finance and information systems functions. In 1999, Mike was appointed Vice President, Investor Relations and Financial Research. During this time, Mike led the successful spin-off of the Office Systems Division (now Océ Imagistics). In 2001, he became Vice President, Corporate Development with responsibilities for mergers and acquisitions, major equity investments, and other transactional processes that involved significant company investment. He also led the development of the company’s Growth Plan Strategy. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, he was a Senior Auditor with Price Waterhouse. Mike is a Board Member and former Board Chairman of the Urban League of Southwestern Connecticut. He is also a member of the Board of the Sherman Higher Education Fund. Mike is a Certified Public Accountant who holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the State University of New York at Albany.

Mark Newton is Dell's Environmental Policy Manager. In this role, he is responsible for global policy development, stakeholder engagements and corporate accountability on environmental issues, including material use, energy efficiency, product recycling and climate strategy. Mr. Newton joined Dell in 2003 as Manager of Dell Worldwide Environmental Affairs. Under his leadership, Dell integrated global environmental design requirements into the business as part of its ongoing commitment to environmental responsibility. His team established robust compliance assurance processes, introduced stakeholder concerns into the business and led policy and process development activities. Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Newton also led product-focused environmental technology programs at Motorola and Apple. He received a Doctorate in Chemistry in 1993 from the University of Texas at Dallas.

C. Gregory Rogers, J.D., CPA, is President and founder of Advanced Environmental Dimensions, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in environmental financial reporting and related business strategies. He is also counsel with Guida Slavich & Flores, P.C., a Dallas environmental law firm, where he advises clients on the purchase, sale, financing, and redevelopment of environmentally impaired properties. Mr. Rogers is a nationally-recognized expert on environmental accounting and disclosure. He is Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Environmental Disclosure and one of 30 national experts who participated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation and report to Congress on Environmental Disclosures (July 2004). Mr. Rogers is author of Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley (Wiley, 2005) and numerous articles, including Building Value by Paring Environmental Risk (Financial Executive Magazine, September 2007), Environmental Disclosure Due Diligence: The Next Step in Environmental Due Diligence (Business Law Today, May/June 2007), If Your Head Is in the Sand, Your Assets Are Exposed (Brownfield News, June 2006), Preparing Yourself for New Rules for Environmentally Impaired Property (Valuation Insights & Perspectives, 2006), Fair-Value Measurement Efforts Will Change Corporate Environmental Practices (Natural Gas & Electricity Journal, February 2006), A looming environmental Enron? (Environmental Finance, January 2006). Ready for Sarbanes-Oxley Certification? (Corporate Real Estate Leader, November 2005), New Accounting Rules for Brownfields (Brownfield News, June 2005). Environmental Transparency (Financial Executive Magazine, June 2004), Pollution Risk Oversight (Directors Monthly, February 2004), and Uninsured and Undisclosed Environmental Liabilities Pose Risks for Directors (Directors Monthly, May 2003). Mr. Rogers earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar and law review editor. He received his B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma.

Yalmaz Siddiqui is Office Depot’s Environmental Strategy Director. He is responsible for advising the company on the development and integration of a wide range of environmental programs into the global organization. Office Depot’s industry-leading environmental programs span all parts of the company - from the supply chain (buying green) to internal operations (being green), to business and consumer markets (selling green). Siddiqui’s role includes improving the understanding of environmental issues and opportunities among suppliers, associates and customers. His goal is to help improve the environmental performance of Office Depot and its range of stakeholders. Siddiqui also oversees Office Depot’s five-year, $2.2 million Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (www.forestryalliance.org), which develops critical information, standards and tools for global forest and biodiversity conservation. The Alliance is Office Depot’s collaboration with Conservation International, NatureServe and The Nature Conservancy, three of the world’s most respected science-based conservation organizations. Siddiqui came to Office Depot in April of 2006 from IBM Business Consulting Services in Canada where he was a Senior Consultant in Customer Relationship Management, and author of the first global study on environmental procurement of wood and paper products. Before joining IBM, Siddiqui was a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focused on the forest, paper and packaging industries. Siddiqui holds a Master’s Degree in Environment & Development from Cambridge University in England, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Marketing & International Business from McGill University in Canada.

Chris Walker, previously Head of Swiss Re’s Sustainability Business Development, has been seconded to The Climate Group for an 18-month period as US Director based on the East Coast. At Swiss Re Chris ran the unit responsible for developing commercial applications to Swiss Re Sustainability commitments and, in particular, business opportunities in sustainability, ecosystem markets, emissions reductions and renewables. Chris also served as a North American Sustainability Officer and government affairs liaison on climate change/ GHG emissions issues. While based at Swiss Re’s Zurich headquarters, he created and advanced from concept to initiation the company’s Greenhouse Gas Risk Solutions unit, specialising in Greenhouse Gas risk mitigation and opportunity innovation. In 2000, he created and led Swiss Re Group’s worldwide GHG emissions market feasibility study determining the market facilitation role for Swiss Re. An attorney, Chris was appointed to the California Climate Change Advisory Commission, and is a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), on the board of advisors for New Energy Finance publication, the Panama Canal Watershed Business Plan project at Yale University and the Climate Change Futures Study with Harvard University/ UNDP. Mr. Walker received his BA in Government from St. John’s University, attended the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown and is also a graduate of the St. John’s School of Law. Prior to joining Swiss Re in 1996, he practiced law in New York and New Jersey.

Erhardt Werth is the Executive Vice President of Guaranteed Business Solutions for ARCADIS. He is located in the firm’s U.S. headquarters in Denver, Colorado. As the corporate officer responsible for directing the firm’s Guaranteed Business Solutions program, he works with federal and state governments, the Department of Defense and Fortune 500 clients to develop business approaches that provide financially-attractive approaches to resolving environmental liabilities. In effect these approaches improve the value of under-performing property assets, restore natural resources and provide economic revitalization. Erhardt has lectured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe on topics relating to environmental risk elimination through performance-based contract models, accelerating the current process for driving impaired properties to productive reuse and providing the assurances necessary to utilize the redevelopment value of properties to finance or offset their clean-up costs. He has been instrumental in the dramatic change undergone by the U.S. Army with respect to how the Army can more confidently and cost-effectively achieve environmental clean up for its bases. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology, a master’s degree in engineering, multiple state licenses as a professional geologist and hydrologist and has served as an expert witness in jury trials.