Peter L. Corsell, Chairman
Peter L. Corsell is Chairman and founder of GridPoint, an established leader in the clean tech industry. M.I.T.’s Technology Review has recognized Mr. Corsell as one of the world’s top innovators under age 35 and the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader in 2010.
Mr. Corsell founded GridPoint in 2003 to fuel the widespread adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. He served as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer from 2003 until 2010. Today, GridPoint delivers a broad range of smart grid, energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions to enterprises, governments and electric utilities, enabling reduced energy costs, increased operating efficiencies and improved environmental performance. The World Economic Forum selected GridPoint as a Technology Pioneer in 2008, and the company has been featured in several books including “Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas L. Friedman.
Mr. Corsell was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Energy (2008-2009) and is a founding member of the Electrification Coalition, a nonpartisan organization committed to the mass deployment of electric vehicles as imperative to U.S. national security. Mr. Corsell is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Clinton Global Initiative. He serves on the boards of ClearPath, a leading immigration software company, and the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida. Early in his career Mr. Corsell served with the U.S. State Department in Havana, Cuba and as a political analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a B.S.F.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Jeffrey Berman
Jeffrey Berman is a private investor primarily focused on early stage opportunities in a variety of sectors including energy management, medical devices and software. Mr. Berman is the former founding partner and CIO of hedge fund company Atlantic Capital Management Partners, where he managed the firm's long/short equity strategy until his retirement in 2001. Previously, he served as a director of Compass Capital Advisors, a fund management business. He divides his time between private investing and community service.
Mr. Berman is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Greenhouse Schools project, a London-based charity delivering structured sport and performing arts programs in schools and community clubs in areas of high deprivation. He is serving his second term as a member of the TATE Modern Council at the TATE art museum, and is involved in other philanthropic endeavors.
Mr. Berman began his career in London at Waddington Galleries, a leading contemporary art gallery, serving as a director from 1987 to 1993. He holds a B.A. in art history and economics from Boston University and recently completed postgraduate study in Asian art as part of a collaborative program with the Royal Holloway College, University College London, and the British Museum.
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Joseph M. Boyle
Joseph Boyle is the managing partner of Boyle Law in Reston, Virginia where he focuses on representing entrepreneurs, start-ups, emerging growth and technology companies. Mr. Boyle has a diverse background, holding both legal and business roles in the public and private sectors.
Prior to founding Boyle Law, Mr. Boyle was the general counsel to Sourcefire, Inc., a Columbia, Maryland network software security company where he guided it through its acquisition by CheckPoint Technologies, a Series D round, and its IPO in March of 2007. Prior to Sourcefire, Mr. Boyle was the general counsel to Riptech, Inc., an Alexandria, Virginia based managed security service provider where he was instrumental in negotiating its $145 million sale to Symantec Corp. With Symantec, Mr. Boyle built and managed an operations team within its 24x7x365 security operations center. Prior to Riptech, Mr. Boyle served as general counsel to Cysive, Inc., a Reston, Virginia based IT professional services firm where he help guide the company through two public offerings.
In additional to his private practice of law, Mr. Boyle has acted as the Chief of Staff to the Director of the National Cyber Security Division within the Department of Homeland Security’s Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.
Mr. Boyle received his J.D. from the University of Michigan and holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Detroit.
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Trevor Foster
Trevor Foster is Chief Operating Officer of FM Facility Maintenance, a facilities management company focusing on improving performance for distributed facilities portfolios.
Mr. Foster is also CEO of FPC Associates, a consulting firm providing services to enhance the business performance of facilities, service providers to the market, and investment firms building a portfolio of companies in the industry.
Prior to FM, Mr. Foster was Executive Managing Director responsible for CBRE’s Global Facilities Management Services. He has more than 30 years of experience in property, facility management and building automation, for all types of facilities including commercial property, high tech manufacturing and industrial plants. Mr. Foster joined Trammell Crow Company (which was acquired by CBRE in 2006), as Global Director, Building Management, in 2004.
Prior to CBRE, Mr. Foster served as Vice President of Corporate Development & Executive Vice President of Facilities Services for EMCOR Group Inc. He established EMCOR’s facilities service operations and led profitable growth in excess of $1 billion in North American Facilities Services activities. He developed EMCOR’s strategic plans, marketing and operating programs to leverage the mechanical and electrical core competencies of EMCOR into comprehensive facilities services in order to take advantage of the outsourcing opportunities associated with the de-regulation of the Utilities and Telecommunication industries.
Mr. Foster previously worked at Johnson Controls for 20 years in senior management and various operational and engineering positions in Australia, Far East, Middle East, United Kingdom and the United States. His operational assignments included Managing Director of the Middle East, assigned to restructure the operations as a result of the Gulf War in 1990, as well as Managing Director for the United Kingdom, assigned to expanding the operation into facilities management from 1993 to 1997.
Mr. Foster holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) with First Class Honors in electrical engineering and computer science.
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Stephen Lehner
Mr. Stephen Lehner is a Managing Director on the U.S. Investments Team at Mount Kellett. Mr. Lehner is based in New York. Prior to joining Mount Kellett, Mr. Lehner was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, focusing on opportunistic investment opportunities. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2001, Mr. Lehner was a Vice President at Heller Financial, focused on financing healthcare companies. Mr. Lehner has an MBA from the University of Maryland, a B.B.A. from Loyola College in Maryland and holds a CFA designation.
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Robert S. Mancini
Robert S. Mancini is Chief Executive Officer of Cogentrix Energy Inc., a wholly-owned Goldman Sachs subsidiary, and is a senior leader of the Global Commodities Principal Investments unit within Goldman’s commodities business. Mr. Mancini previously served a three-year term as co-president of Cogentrix and has been a member of the board of that company since Goldman’s acquisition in 2003.
Mr. Mancini joined Goldman Sach’s Legal Department in New York in 1993, became global legal coordinator for the firm’s derivatives business in 1998, and was named Deputy General Counsel for the Securities Division in 1999. He was named Managing Director that same year. Mr. Mancini represents Goldman Sachs as a member of the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies globally, and individually serves on the Board of Directors of several not-for-profit organizations.
Prior to joining Goldman, Mr. Mancini was an attorney with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP from 1984-1987 and an investment banker in the municipal finance department of Smith Barney from 1987-1988. He then returned to Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he established that firm’s derivatives practice. Mr. Mancini holds a B.A. from Binghamton University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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Tom Soto
Tom Soto is Managing Partner and member of the Board of Directors and a senior investment professional of Craton Equity Partners, which invests in growing clean technology companies. Mr. Soto is founder of PS Enterprises, one of the country’s leading environmental regulatory and compliance firms, where he helped to introduce innovative technologies to market including fuel cell technology.
For 20 years, Mr. Soto has used his collective experience as a businessman, environmental activist and political advisor to assist in identifying collaborative solutions to challenging environmental and policy concerns. He is an advisor to elected officials and corporate leaders on environmental matters, clean technology-related issues and green jobs, most recently serving as Team Co-lead of the Executive Office of the President's Transition team focused on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for President Obama. Throughout the 1990s, he was President Clinton's appointee to the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission, which oversaw and insured adherence to the environmental component of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Mr. Soto was selected by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of 2010's One Hundred Most Influential Hispanics in the United States. He is board secretary of the Mono Lake Committee, and has been on the boards of the California League of Conservation Voters; the Planning and Conservation league; and was the longtime president and board member of the Coalition for Clean Air. He is an active member of the Clean Tech Ventures Network, the Apollo Alliance, NRDC’s E2, and is a member of the board of directors of the New America Alliance. He is also a director for several Craton Equity companies. Mr. Soto is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jacob J. Worenklein
Jacob J. Worenklein is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of US Power Generating Company, which owns and operates a major portion of the power capacity in New York City and Boston. Before forming USPowerGen in April 2003, Mr. Worenklein was head of the global power and energy sectors and the project finance business at Societe Generale (SG), named in 2001 as the "World's Best Project Finance Bank" by Euromoney.
Before joining SG, Mr. Worenklein was Managing Director and Global Head of Project Finance at Lehman Brothers, where his group led several of the major M&A transactions and IPOs in the independent power industry. Previously, he was a partner at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, where he founded the firm's power, utility and project finance practices. Among his major clients at the firm were all the electric utility companies of New York State in a joint venture to construct and operate all future power plants in New York. Mr. Worenklein is also a member of the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Ormat Technologies, Inc., which develops and owns geothermal and other renewable energy projects, and Globeleq, Inc., a power company focused on power investments in the emerging markets.
Mr. Worenklein has served as Adjunct Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business, as a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and while a student, as Director of Research for the New York City Council President’s Office. He is a member of the New York City Partnership. In 2002 he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Infrastructure Journal in London. Mr. Worenklein holds a B.A. degree from Columbia College and J.D. and MBA degrees from NYU Law School and NYU Graduate School of Business Administration, now the Stern School of Business.
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