John Balbach

Managing Partner

Cleantech Group LLC

John Balbach is a Managing Partner for the Cleantech Group™, LLC, which provides the following services in support of the cleantech industry: Network, Accelerator, Executive Search, Capital & Media. John heads the Cleantech Group's Silicon Valley office.

Prior to joining the Cleantech Group, John served as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, advisor to world leaders, founder of international non-profits and senior policy maker in Washington, D.C. John's responsibilities have included managing US national security allocations exceeding $12 billion, launching 18 early-stage companies and raising or advising on the placement of $350 million in capital for private and public companies. 

In Silicon Valley, John served on the founding team of Blueprint Ventures, a venture capital firm with $200 million under management, and was a pioneer of the global build-out of broadband wireless networks which now serve millions of customers globally. 

In the public arena, John served as a Senior Aide to US Senator Gordon Humphrey, with responsibilities spanning international environment, trade, military policy and conflicts including Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua and Sudan. He was co-founder of the State of the World Forum, a multi-year summit providing common ground during the post-Cold War era. The State of the World Forums brought together leaders from 80 countries, including Presidents George Bush, Vicente Fox, Oscar Arias, Thabo Mbeki and Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto and Hau Pei-tsun. 

John has lived in North America, Europe and Asia and his work has taken him to over 65 countries. He currently serves on the board of the Global Footprint Network and is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He holds a BA in International Affairs from George Washington University. He has been widely published on issues including technology, venture finance, nuclear proliferation and international human and ecological rights in publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Far East Economic Review, IEEE Review and the China Post.

John E. Buehler, Jr.
Managing Partner
Energy Investors Funds

Lynn Good

Group Executive and President Commercial Business

Duke Energy Corporation

Lynn Good is group executive and president of commercial businesses for Duke Energy. She is responsible for the Midwest nonregulated generation, Duke Energy International, Duke Energy Generation Services, the telecommunications businesses, and all corporate development and merger and acquisition activities. She was named to her current position in November 2007.

Most recently, Good served as senior vice president and treasurer for Duke Energy. She led the treasury functions for the company, as well as insurance, market and credit risk management and corporate financial planning and analysis.

Before the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006, Good served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Cinergy. Named to that role in September 2005, she wasresponsible for Cinergy’s treasury, finance and accounting functions.

Good joined Cinergy in May 2003 as vice president of financial project strategy. She was named vice president and controller later the same year; and vice president of finance and controller in January 2005.

Prior to joining Cinergy, Good was a partner with the international accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1981 to 2002, she served in various senior management roles with Arthur Andersen, rising to partner in 1992.

Good earned bachelor of science degrees in systems analysis and accounting from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers. The company has approximately 36,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Midwest and the Carolinas, and natural gas distribution services in Ohio and Kentucky. In addition, Duke Energy has more than 4,000 megawatts of electric generation in Latin America, and is a joint-venture partner in a U.S. real estate company.

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available on the Internet at: www.duke-energy.com.

Richard L. Kauffman                 
CEO & President
Good Energies, Inc.

Richard Kauffman is the Chief Executive Officer of Good Energies.  Good Energies is one of the largest independent investors in renewable energy, with over $7 billion in value invested in solar and wind assets (www.goodenergies.com)

Richard Kauffman was previously a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs where he was chairman of the Global Financing Group, a member of the firm’s Partnership Committee, Commitments Committee, and Investment Banking Division Operating Committee. During his long career, Mr. Kauffman has had broad experience in capital markets and corporate finance. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was vice chairman of Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Business and co-head of its Banking Department. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Kauffman was vice chairman and a member of the European Executive Committee of Morgan Stanley International.

Mr. Kauffman has been a lecturer in finance and financial accounting at the Yale School of Management and a Teaching Fellow in foreign policy at Yale College. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University, a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University, as well as a master’s in public and private management from the Yale School of Management.

He is on the board of Q-Cells, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Brookings Institution, the New York Philharmonic, the Foreign Policy Association, the Yale School of Management Board of Advisors, The New School, and the French-American Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Michael G. Morris
Chairman, President & CEO
American Electric Power

Michael G. Morris is chairman, president and chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., Inc. Since joining AEP in January 2004, Morris has provided the vision to AEP’s efforts in taking a leading role in generation and transmission in the U.S., by:

He was chairman, president and CEO of Northeast Utilities System from 1997 to 2003. Before joining Northeast Utilities, Morris was president and CEO of Consumers Energy, principal subsidiary of CMS Energy, and president of CMS Marketing, Services and Trading; president of Colorado Interstate Gas Co. and executive vice president of marketing, transportation and gas supply for ANR Pipeline Co., both subsidiaries of El Paso Energy; and was the founder and president of ANR Gathering Co., one of the first U.S. gas marketing companies.

Morris is past chairman of the Edison Electric Institute. He also serves on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Board, the National Governors Association’s Task Force on Electricity Infrastructure, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, and Business Roundtable (chairing the Business Roundtable's Energy Task Force). He is a director of the Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, Alcoa, Battelle Memorial Institute and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

A Fremont, Ohio, native, Morris holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in science from Eastern Michigan University. He received a law degree, cum laude, from the Detroit College of Law and is a member of the Michigan Bar Association.