The Clean Technology SIG Presents...
Communication Technologies
Cleantech’s significant growth trends in solar, wind, electric vehicles and the infrastructure associated with them has directly, and indirectly, benefited the communication technologies used in these industries. But we have only seen the beginning. Capital that flows into the cleantech sector has already impacted many communication companies in the smart grid area, who are predicting it as their next big thing. Consequently, these cleantech industries are increasing the use of communication technology to relay bidirectional data to the control and transmission centers for optimal operations, building their infrastructure needs, and generating new revenue streams.
The panel of experts will explain the current and future use of communications technologies in the Cleantech sector, while the executives will focus on their company’s view. Companies, entrepreneurs and investors in the communications industry will gain insight on how to leverage this information to guide their business development, R&D, strategic investments, product and services offerings.
PANELISTS:
Partho Sanyal
Director, Global Energy & Power Group
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Investment Banking
Daniel Rosen
Head of Renewable & Alternative Energy Finance, Building Technologies Division
Siemens Industry Inc.
Jeff Nichols
Director, Network & Communication Services
DATE:
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
TIME:
6:00PM Registration/ Networking/ Refreshments
6:30PM Program Begins
8:00PM Program Ends
LOCATION:
The Grand Del Mar
5300 Grand Del Mar Court
San Diego CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 3/15/10)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
SPONSORED BY:
SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Maria Sendra, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Joel Garcia, Co-Founder, CM Tech Partners
Adib Nasle, Co-Founder, EDSA
Peter Fisher, Owner, Specific Ventures
Paul Linden, Director, UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative
Josh Lampl, Owner, EcoElectron Ventures
Mike Elconin, VP, Tech Coast Angeles
Rick Vingerelli, VP Supply Chain Operations, Qualcomm
Rick Kornfeld, President, Kornfeld Consulting, Former VP Engineering, Qualcomm, Founder, DOT Wireless, and Vice Chairman, CommNexus
Communication Technologies
in the Cleantech Space
Current and Future Opportunities
The panel of experts will explain the current and future use of communications technologies in the Cleantech sector, while the executives will focus on their company’s view. Companies, entrepreneurs and investors in the communications industry will gain insight on how to leverage this information to guide their business development, R&D, strategic investments, product and services offerings.
PANELISTS:
Partho Sanyal
Director, Global Energy & Power Group
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Investment Banking
Partho Sanyal has over 9 years of investment banking experience at Merrill Lynch & Co. He joined the firm in 2001 and covers a number of large and mid cap power utility clients, the leading U.S. water utility clients and focuses his time primarily on the renewable energy sector with a focus on Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Biomass sub-sectors. Since 2001, he has been involved in over 60 capital markets transactions that have raised over $16 billion in Equity/Equity Linked proceeds and approximately $22.0 billion in Debt. In addition, he has advised on 8 M&A transactions worth over $5.0 billion. Recent renewables sector experience includes the €4.5 bn IPO of Iberdrola Renovables, €1.6 bn IPO of EDP Renovaveis, advising Acciona on its sale of a minority stake in world's largest solar PV plant to Mitsubishi and Clean Energy Fuels on its re-IPO . His current assignments include the pending IPOs of two of Latin America's largest wind generation companies, raising equity capital for a leading geothermal company and raising debt and tax equity for the construction of the world's largest solar thermal plant. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch & Co., he spent over 4 years at the World Bank Group, where he focused on advising governments around the world on privatizations. He has advised the Governments of Panama, Romania, Philippines, India, Croatia, and Kazakhstan on divestitures worth over $10.0 billion, including the $7.0 billion Manila Water Company privatization, the sale of Panama's Electric Generation and Distribution Companies to AES and Enron and the sale of Bucharest's water system to Veolia. Mr. Sanyal is a member of the U.S. National Commission on Energy Policy, a member of the U.S. Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance and has peer reviewed technical reports by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Daniel Rosen
Head of Renewable & Alternative Energy Finance, Building Technologies Division
Siemens Industry Inc.
For the past 15 years, Dan has worked in a wide variety of energy finance and project development roles. In 2008 Dan joined the Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industries in Chicago, where he works as their Senior Finance Manager and Head of Renewable and Alternative Energy Finance. In this role he is responsible for arranging financing for Siemens' solar PV, landfill gas, small wind, and other renewable energy projects in North America. Prior to joining Siemens, Dan worked at a large southern California utility where he negotiated a variety of PPAs for both new and existing generation, and was also responsible for closing the largest natural gas hedge in the company's history. Over the course of his career, Dan has also worked as a project finance banker, a project developer and a consultant. In 2003 he served as team lead on an EBRD sponsored consulting project in Moscow, which advised the Russian government on the restructuring of the All-Russian Federal Grid Company. Prior to that, he worked at a large Midwestern project developer, where he was responsible for financing a large international gas pipeline, and was responsible for both the financing and the divestiture of several of the company’s merchant power generation assets. Dan got his start in project finance in 1996, when he went to work for the EBRD at the Russian Project Finance Bank, and then to the investment banking division of ABN AMRO Bank, both in Moscow. During his 2.5 years in Russia, Dan helped execute several billion dollars worth of financing for that country's largest natural gas, oil, and steel companies.
Jeff Nichols
Director, Network & Communication Services
SDG&E
Jeff Nichols is Director of Network and Communication Services (NCS) for the Sempra Energy Utilities. The Utilities serve over 20 million customers in a 24,000 square mile southern California service area. Mr. Nichols’ organization provides data networks, telephone service, email, instant messaging, radio communications, voice communications, collaboration systems, grid/SCADA communications and remote access for the utilities’ 12,000 employees. Mr. Nichols was previously the Executive Director of IT Infrastructure at Kaiser Permanente, where he was responsible for IT security, enterprise systems management, disaster recovery, networks, and telephony. Previously, he was a divisional VP and CTO at Science Applications International Corporation and VP/General Manager at International Research Institute, a private software development firm. Mr. Nichols is a member of the IEEE and is Vice Chairman of the UTC’s Smart Networks Council. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in business administration from Kent State University.
MODERATOR:
Maria P. Sendra
Partner and Chair, Southern California Corporate & Securities
Ms. Sendra is a partner and Chair of Baker & McKenzie’s Southern California Corporate and Securities Practice. She serves on the Private Equity Steering Committee and heads up the Private Equity Cleantech and Climate Change initiatives. She has built an emerging technologies and markets practice which leverages global capital market and technology relationships in key jurisdictions around the world, helping companies to scale innovation globally. Some of the technologies she has advised on include emissions reduction innovations and renewable energies, such as wind, solar, and biofuels. Ms. Sendra has also represented some of the top brands and technologies in transactions tapping into emerging markets all over the world, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. Her most recent deals involved a California private equity investment in the Brazilian ethanol markets, a U.K. private equity investment in a California wind technology company with European and Chinese components, the representation of a joint venture with Indian outsourcing components, and the establishment of a manufacturing joint venture in China and related intellectual property strategy on behalf of a premium brand US consumer retailer. In addition, she was one of the first to take a California clean technology company on the AIM exchange in London when domestic markets were not as focused on the sector. She is also working with a start-up company developing its social media strategy with respect to clean energy and the automobile industry. In the US, Ms. Sendra has worked on numerous venture capital and private equity transactions and has managed over 50 initial and secondary public offerings on the NASDAQ and NYSE. She also has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and collaborations in research and development, manufacturing and international commercialization and distribution. Ms. Sendra was invited to participate in the 2008 French-American Conference of Entrepreneurs (“FACE”), where she spoke on global business and Cleantech panels. In addition, she chaired the 2008 and 2009 Solar Company Finance and Investment Summits, and addressed the Solar Market, Company Finance and Capital Markets. She was also Chair of the 2009 Cleantech Capital Summit, where she spoke on venture financing.
Jeff Nichols is Director of Network and Communication Services (NCS) for the Sempra Energy Utilities. The Utilities serve over 20 million customers in a 24,000 square mile southern California service area. Mr. Nichols’ organization provides data networks, telephone service, email, instant messaging, radio communications, voice communications, collaboration systems, grid/SCADA communications and remote access for the utilities’ 12,000 employees. Mr. Nichols was previously the Executive Director of IT Infrastructure at Kaiser Permanente, where he was responsible for IT security, enterprise systems management, disaster recovery, networks, and telephony. Previously, he was a divisional VP and CTO at Science Applications International Corporation and VP/General Manager at International Research Institute, a private software development firm. Mr. Nichols is a member of the IEEE and is Vice Chairman of the UTC’s Smart Networks Council. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in business administration from Kent State University.
MODERATOR:
Maria P. Sendra
Partner and Chair, Southern California Corporate & Securities
Ms. Sendra is a partner and Chair of Baker & McKenzie’s Southern California Corporate and Securities Practice. She serves on the Private Equity Steering Committee and heads up the Private Equity Cleantech and Climate Change initiatives. She has built an emerging technologies and markets practice which leverages global capital market and technology relationships in key jurisdictions around the world, helping companies to scale innovation globally. Some of the technologies she has advised on include emissions reduction innovations and renewable energies, such as wind, solar, and biofuels. Ms. Sendra has also represented some of the top brands and technologies in transactions tapping into emerging markets all over the world, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. Her most recent deals involved a California private equity investment in the Brazilian ethanol markets, a U.K. private equity investment in a California wind technology company with European and Chinese components, the representation of a joint venture with Indian outsourcing components, and the establishment of a manufacturing joint venture in China and related intellectual property strategy on behalf of a premium brand US consumer retailer. In addition, she was one of the first to take a California clean technology company on the AIM exchange in London when domestic markets were not as focused on the sector. She is also working with a start-up company developing its social media strategy with respect to clean energy and the automobile industry. In the US, Ms. Sendra has worked on numerous venture capital and private equity transactions and has managed over 50 initial and secondary public offerings on the NASDAQ and NYSE. She also has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and collaborations in research and development, manufacturing and international commercialization and distribution. Ms. Sendra was invited to participate in the 2008 French-American Conference of Entrepreneurs (“FACE”), where she spoke on global business and Cleantech panels. In addition, she chaired the 2008 and 2009 Solar Company Finance and Investment Summits, and addressed the Solar Market, Company Finance and Capital Markets. She was also Chair of the 2009 Cleantech Capital Summit, where she spoke on venture financing.
DATE:
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
TIME:
6:00PM Registration/ Networking/ Refreshments
6:30PM Program Begins
8:00PM Program Ends
LOCATION:
The Grand Del Mar
5300 Grand Del Mar Court
San Diego CA 92130
COST:
Pre-Registration: (Please pre-register by noon on 3/15/10)
$10.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 - CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 - Non-Sponsor
FREE - Mentor Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE
SPONSORED BY:
SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Maria Sendra, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Joel Garcia, Co-Founder, CM Tech Partners
Adib Nasle, Co-Founder, EDSA
Peter Fisher, Owner, Specific Ventures
Paul Linden, Director, UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative
Josh Lampl, Owner, EcoElectron Ventures
Mike Elconin, VP, Tech Coast Angeles
Rick Vingerelli, VP Supply Chain Operations, Qualcomm
Rick Kornfeld, President, Kornfeld Consulting, Former VP Engineering, Qualcomm, Founder, DOT Wireless, and Vice Chairman, CommNexus
Questions? Contact Bailey Cunning at bcunning@commnexus.org
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