The Flow of Clean Technology Investment Dollars: Following the Money is the first in a 10 part webinar series on sustainability and climate change hosted by BNA and AEA Technology/PPC Corporation, in collaboration with Marianne Horinko, President of The Horinko Group and a former EPA Acting Administrator.
Featured speaker Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman of Jefferies & Co., will provide an insider's perspective on the current financial crisis, how the market is rebounding, and opportunities for clean technology companies to grow and prosper. Introductory remarks will be made by Robert Bell, Chief Technical Officer of AEA Technology, the United Kingdom's leading climate change consultancy, providing separate viewpoints from two experts in the field.
This informative 90-minute presentation is designed to help you:
Paul Deninger and Robert Bell
Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman Jefferies & Company
Paul Deninger is a Vice Chairman at Jefferies. Mr. Deninger was previously Chairman & CEO of Broadview, the specialist technology investment banking firm. He joined Broadview in 1987, where he became CEO in 1996 and was elected Chairman in 1998. He remained Chairman and CEO until the Firm's acquisition by Jefferies in 2003. With more than 20 years of experience working with companies in the technology and, more recently, the clean technology markets, Mr. Deninger has advised on over 125 M&A transactions and numerous IPOs. He has served on the boards of several public and private technology companies and he has been a member of the World Economic Forum since 1996. Mr. Deninger also serves on the boards of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Big Brother Big Sister of Massachusetts Bay, and The MATCH School. He is on the executive committee of TechNet and is Co-Chairman of TechNet New England. He also sits on the investment committee of London-based Kennet Partners. Mr. Deninger is a frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at such leading events as the World Economic Forum, the Milken Institute, and the U.S. National Venture Capital Association. His commentary on business, technology, and industry issues regularly appears in publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Barrons. Mr. Deninger received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Boston College.
Robert Bell, Chief Technical Officer of AEA Technology
Robert Bell has held several senior posts in AEA. After 5 years as AEA Operations Director in Europe he is now Chief Technical Officer of the AEA Group; this spans both its European operations and its subsidiary PPC in Washington DC. He has worked in the sustainable energy field for over 10 years, and before that worked in both nuclear and oil and gas sectors.
Robert has directed many projects in the fields of energy supply and demand, climate change, energy security, air quality, and transport. These have included multi-$m Government funded R&D and best practice programs, which operated between Government and the private sector, examples being the UKs Energy Efficiency Best Practice Program, Renewable Energy R&D Program, Clean Coal Program, and Resource Efficiency Program. He has also directed high profile policy support assignments, for instance directing AEAs work in negotiating (and personally signing off recommendations on) the UK Climate Change Agreement energy saving targets with all energy intensive industrial sectors.
Other major projects have included directing the ECs largest energy security risk assessment on Critical Energy Infrastructure, and AEAs major 5 year assignment as Independent Environmental Due Diligence Consultant for $20b Sakhalin II oil and gas project, dealing with Sakhalin Energy (Shell consortium), international and national investment banks, and commercial banks.
Robert has a 1st Class Hons degree in Engineering Science from Cambridge University.