Jesse Kharbanda
Event Moderator: Jesse Kharbanda
Title: Hoosier Environmental Council Executive Director
E-mail: jkharbanda@hecweb.org
Web Site: www.hecweb.org
Phone: (317) 685-8800
Address: 3951 N Meridian,Suite 100, Indianapolis, IN 46208
Jesse oversees HEC’s strategic and program development, legislative initiatives, and outreach to key stakeholders, elected officials, and members of the media. Jesse focuses on making the case that environmental protection is critical to Indiana’s efforts to improve its health, economy and heritage.
Jesse previously worked at the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), where he helped build support among agricultural, clean energy and economic development organizations throughout the Midwest to support provisions in the Federal Energy and Federal Farm Bills. At ELPC, he helped craft rural-focused clean energy legislation and wrote briefs on a variety of environmental policy issues.
Kharbanda has a graduate degree in development economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and undergraduate degrees in economics and environmental studies from the University of Chicago.
The Hoosier Environmental Council is a statewide, nonprofit membership organization that is dedicated to protecting Indiana’s environment.
Tony Sullivan
Speaker: Anthony Sullivan
Title: Partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP
E-mail: tony.sullivan@BTLaw.com
Web Site: www.BTLaw.com
Phone: (317) 231-7472
Address: 11 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-3535
Anthony (Tony) C. Sullivan, a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Indianapolis, Indiana office, concentrates on environmental law. His practice focuses primarily on air and water issues, but it also covers virtually all areas of environmental law, including solid waste issues, Superfund matters, underground storage tanks, and asbestos concerns.
Mr. Sullivan’s practice generally involves litigation, counseling, and negotiation. In addition to appearing before federal courts, state courts, and administrative courts on behalf of his clients, he has participated in numerous negotiating sessions with governmental agencies, taking the lead role in finding creative solutions to satisfy all the parties concerned.
Matthew Morgan
Speaker: Matthew E. Morgan
Title: Associate, Barnes & Thornburg LLP
E-mail: matthew.morgan@BTLaw.com
Web Site: www.BTLaw.com
Phone: (317) 231-6421
Address: 1 11 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-3535
Matthew Morgan is an associate in the Indianapolis, Indiana office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Governmental Services & Finance Department. He concentrates his practice in the areas of public finance and governmental regulation. Mr. Morgan is also a member of the firm’s Entrepreneurial Services Practice Group.
Speaker: Mike Radcliffe
Mike Radcliffe
Title: RMT Strategic Advisory Services Leader
E-mail: mike.radcliffe@rmtinc.com
Web Site: www.rmtinc.com
Phone: (414) 807-4318
Address: 150 North Patrick Boulevard, Suite 180, Brookfield, WI 53045
Michael Radcliffe has nearly thirty years of combined experience in environmental science, management, and strategic consulting. His special skill in using advanced business management techniques to resolve important sustainability issues makes him a prominent advisory to business.
Michael’s current and former clients include: Tiffany and Company, Home Depot, JetBlue Airways, General Dynamics, Bridgestone Tires, and The Body Shop International. Engagements for these and other leading businesses include developing sustainability strategies that create business value, performance management systems and metrics, carbon risk and greenhouse gas management systems, environmental management systems, and supply chain monitoring.
Sustainability consultant that links non-financial performance with financial results. Provide strategic advice regarding Global Climate Change and carbon credit formation and trading. Focus is on maximizing Triple Bottom Line performance.
Provide specialty consulting regarding Sarbanes Oxley, Fas No. 5 and Fas No. 143 relating to contingent environmental losses and financial reserves. Establish high level assurance and internal controls over the reserve and financial reporting of environmental liabilities.
Environmental due diligence for mergers and acquisitions; specialize in finding hidden value and integrating EH&S management systems into existing operations management.
Specialties: Advanced due diligence, carbon credit trading, GHG emission invnetories; sustainability strategies using Value Chain Analysis; Life Cycle Analysis for GHG and Sustainability triple bottom line.
Speaker: Ann McCabe
Title: Midwest Director of Climate Registry
E-mail: ann@theclimateregistry.org
Web Site: www.theclimateregistry.org
Phone: (773)661-1230
Address: 523 W. 6th Street, Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA 90014
The Climate Registry is a nonprofit organization that provides meaningful information to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Registry establishes consistent, transparent standards throughout North America for businesses and governments to calculate, verify and publicly report their carbon footprints in a single, unified registry.
Ann McCabe has over 20 years of environmental regulatory and policy experience in the private sector, state government and non-profit sector. As an environmental policy consultant for the last six years, much of Ann’s work has focused on climate change and regulations affecting air quality. Previously, she was a regulatory issue manager with BP and Amoco for 10 years and spent eight years in Illinois government, including four years in the State’s Washington, DC office and a stint at the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Anthony Paul
Speaker: Anthony Paul
Title: Resources for the Future
E-mail: Paul@rff.org
Web Site: www.rff.org
Phone: (202)328-5148
Address: 1616 P Street NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036
Anthony Paul is the Electricity and Environment Program Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington, DC. RFF is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research – rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences – on environmental, energy, and natural resource issues. Paul’s research interests include allowance allocation under cap-and-trade programs for air pollution reductions, energy efficiency on the demand side of electricity markets, and electricity market regulatory structures. His recent work has been related the development of U.S. policy to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and has been focused on the electricity sector. This includes research into cost-effective means for protecting consumers under climate policy, the potential for energy efficiency improvements in electricity consumption to contribute to climate policy compliance, and the relationship between renewable electricity generation and electricity transmission infrastructure. Paul received his M.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.
Speaker: Kristen Trovillion
Kristen Trovillion
Title: Program Manager with Indiana Office of Energy Development
E-mail: ktrovillion@oed.in.gov
Web Site: http://www.in.gov/oed/2390.htm
Phone: (317) 232-8939
Address: 101 W. Ohio Street, Suite 1250,Indianapolis, IN 46208
Kristen Trovillion is the Program Manager for Energy Efficiency at the Indiana Office of Energy Development (OED). Kristen is responsible for program development for a portfolio of policies, including energy efficiency, green building, alternative transportation, and energy security. Kristen Trovillion will discuss Alternative Power and Energy (APE) grant for Indiana businesses
Trovillion has an undergraduate degree in political science and environmental studies from Alma College, and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental policy and economic development from Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
