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Robert "Hutch" Hutchinson is a managing director for the research and consulting activities at RMI. He works across all RMI programmatic areas, with a special emphasis on the built environment and transportation.

Prior to RMI, Robert started up Pronghorn Ventures, a "cleantech" venture fund centered on the Rocky Mountain Area. Previously, he spent almost 20 years with the Boston Consulting Group, holding leadership roles in the energy, industrial, and high-tech practices over the years.  He spent about half of his BCG career overseas, especially in Latin America and Australasia, and helped start up several of BCG's offices and practices.

Before working at BCG Robert was a research engineer and program manager at the DOE's Pacific Northwest Laboratory, focusing on energy conservation and renewable technology development.

Dave Canny is Manager of Residential Energy Efficiency Programs at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E).  His team is responsible for design, implementation and administration of award winning energy efficiency and integrated demand side solutions for customers in PG&E’s service territory in Northern and Central California.  PG&E’s Residential Energy Efficiency Portfolio includes whole house retrofits, a highly successful cooperative clothes washer offering with water agencies, strategic retail engagements, residential new construction incentives and design assistance, multifamily rebates, and behavior programs.  His team works closely with the market to understand barriers to energy efficiency and how utility programs can best serve customers and enable them to make smart energy choices and manage their energy use.  He serves on the board of Home Energy and TopTen USA.

Prior to joining PG&E, Dave worked with the National Ocean Service to develop a national network of Marine Protected Areas and is an avid SCUBA diver and photographer.

Dave received his Masters of Environmental Policy and Management from Duke University and his BA from Dartmouth College.

Andy Baynes joined Nest Labs in 2012 as Director of Business Development and Energy Efficiency.  Prior to Nest Andy was Director of Environmental Technologies at Apple.  During his eleven years at Apple, Andy was responsible for product design programs that helped Apple achieve a number of industry firsts including, the elimination of toxic chemicals, the set up of free take-back and recycling programs world wide, achieving Energy Star certification across all products as well as setting a new industry reporting standard by reporting full life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions for all products.  Andy received the 2010 GEELA Award for Environmental Design excellence as well as Clean Production Action's Green Chemistry Award.  He resides in California with his family and holds a Master of Science in Environmental Technology from Imperial College in London.

Joe manages all electrical and power systems for C&S Wholesale Grocers, with responsibility for leading energy efficiency upgrades at their 30+ facilities located across the United States.

Prior to C&S Joe served in a variety of design, product and consulting roles for companies including CHI Engineering Services, Premium Power Corporation,  Nuvera Fuel Cells, Ford Motor Company and Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.  Joe earned his Master of Science in Electronic and Computer Control Systems from Wayne State University and his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Brian leads product strategy, intellectual property, and software development efforts for Digital Lumens, leveraging his extensive technical and entrepreneurial background in the field of solid-state lighting. Prior to starting Digital Lumens, he was a technical lead and development team manager as Director of Control Product Development at Color Kinetics, the pioneer of intelligent LED illumination systems, which was acquired by Philips Lighting in 2007.

Brad Copithorne is Director of Clean Energy Financing Solutions at EDF.  His work is primarily focused on removing market barriers and developing new strategies for investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.  This effort involves close coordination between individual and institutional investors, lenders, fund managers, environmental service companies, solar installers, tax equity providers, real estate owners, utilities, regulators, government officials and other private and public sector stakeholders.  Brad is leading the effort to develop On-Bill Repayment programs in California, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina and other states.

Brad has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry.  He started his career at Salomon Brothers/Citi where he worked on fixed income origination and new product development.  More recently, Brad worked for Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking team in Silicon Valley where he covered the enterprise hardware, contract manufacturing and IT distribution industries.  In 2008, Brad was a partner at a fixed income hedge fund.

In 2009 Brad re-enrolled at Stanford University to study energy policy and graduated in June, 2010.

David Friedman, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer An entrepreneur at heart, David has spent the last 12 years providing strategic marketing, business development and sales support to start-ups, taking them from product definition to acquisition.  Prior to founding Ayla, David served as Vice President, business development and senior director, strategic marketing for ZeroG Wireless, a company providing low-power Wi-Fi products to the embedded space.  In that role, David forged partnerships with leading micro-controller companies, and built relationships with OEMs serving a variety of markets including health, fitness, home controls and smart energy.

Prior to ZeroG, David was an early employee at Matrix Semiconductor, serving in various sales and marketing roles before Matrix was acquired by SanDisk.  In earlier roles, David helped drive pricing strategy at Intel, and was an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group at Chase Bank.  David has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA from Colgate University; he holds five US Patents.

Mr. Gentry leads Enlighted’s product development and marketing organization. He has been a successful marketing and business development leader for over 20 years. Prior to Enlighted, Mr. Gentry was the founding CEO and Chief Strategy Officer for Adura Technologies, one of the first wireless lighting controls companies. He has also been responsible for financial product and business development initiatives at SunPower, Robertson Stephens, Bear Stearns, Presidio Financial and John Hancock Financial. Mr. Gentry obtained his MBA and B.S. degree from UC Berkeley.

As CEO of Groom Energy Solutions, Jon is responsible for strategy and overall operations. Prior to co-founding Groom Energy, Jon was a general partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV), a leading venture capital firm with $2 billion under management. At CRV, Jon was an active lead investor, board member or advisor for high profile software and service companies such as BeFree (acquired by ValueClick), eDocs (acquired by Siebel Systems), Vignette (VIGN), Virtusa (VRTU) and Xign Corporation (acquired by JP Morgan Chase).

Before CRV, Jon held senior management positions at Open Market, a start-up ecommerce software company that went public in 1996. Prior to joining the early Open Market team, Jon served in a variety of senior product marketing and sales management roles with both Hewlett Packard and J.P. Morgan.

Jon earned his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University, where he graduated with distinction. He is a co-founder and Board Member of Digital Lumens, an LED lighting company he co-founded in 2007. Jon is also a past member and committee chair of Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering Board of Visitors as well as the Board of Visitors at The Museum of Sciences Boston.

Gregg Patterson is CEO and President of Demand Energy Networks.  Prior to joining Demand Energy Gregg was President of Advanced Energy’s Solar Business Unit, where he successfully grew that business to be the market-share leader in Commercial and Utility inverters for North America.  Advanced Energy acquired PV Powered, the company that Gregg led as CEO from January 2007, through May of 2010.  Gregg turned around and built PV Powered from $5M to $80M in revenues and the market share leader of the commercial solar inverter market.  Prior to joining PV Powered, Gregg was a Vice President of Hewlett Packard in the successful Printing and Imaging Group, where his responsibilities included general management of $1B+ businesses spanning both enterprise and consumer segments, and HP’s acquisition and integration of several companies.  In addition to his GM roles, Gregg led strategic technology platform development (HW, FW, SW and online services teams) supporting multiple business sectors.  Gregg has managed worldwide R&D teams of 300+ engineers and led global procurement and operational efforts at HP growing the Deskjet Product line from several thousand units per month to more than 3 million units per month over a period of 5 years. Gregg graduated from the University of Washington with a BSME, and was awarded an HP Fellowship to attend Stanford University, where he received his Masters in Engineering.

Swap is seasoned entrepreneurial leader with 20 years of experience leading software companies into new and innovative markets. Through his tenure as FirstFuel Software CEO, Swap has built significant subject matter expertise in the development and deployment of big-data software platforms to drive commercial building sector engagement and savings

Before FirstFuel, he was a key founder of three companies that went on to an IPO or acquisition, including Open Environment (IPO), WebSpective Software (acquired by Inktomi ) and mValent (acquired by Oracle). Swap holds a BS from Cornell University.

Prior to founding EcoFactor, John was Director of Corporate Business Development for Electronics for Imaging, where he had a leadership role in $500M in transaction. He was also founder and President of Bebop Incorporated, and co-founded Involved Professionals Against Cancer, a 501(c)(3) stressing hands-on involvement with pediatric cancer patients at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.

John is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree (with honors) from Oberlin College, where he majored in Economics and Government, and was Phi Beta Kappa.

John has been issued 18 US patents for inventions in such diverse fields as digital photography, networked printing, and various mechanical devices. He has served on the Board of Directors of Long Beach Youth Centers and the Board of Advisors of the Tech Coast Venture Network. John has been a featured speaker at multiple cleantech industry events, including the Behavior Energy and Climate Change Conference.

Scott Clavenna has been leading high-tech market research firms for over 15 years. In his capacity as a trusted analyst and consultant, Scott has helped dozens of companies enter and succeed in complex and intensely competitive markets worldwide. He also has authored more than 30 reports that helped define important emerging market segments in optical and broadband communications.

Prior to founding Greentech Media, Scott was chief analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. CMP bought Light Reading in 2005. Before creating Heavy Reading, Scott founded PointEast Research, providing strategic consulting and market intelligence to a broad mix of startups, venture capitalists and major suppliers in the communications/IT industry, and worked as director of research for Light Reading. In 1997, Scott co-founded Pioneer Consulting, which quickly grew into the leading market research firm covering the optical and broadband communications industry.

Eric Wesoff is Editor-at-Large at Greentech Media. Prior to joining GTM, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields.

His expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.