Ralph Cavanagh - Ralph Cavanagh joined the Natural Resources Defense Council in 1979. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School; he has also been a faculty member for the University of Idaho’s Public Utility Executives Course for more than a decade.
He received the Heinz Award for Public Policy, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Mary Kilmarx Award, Yale Law School’s Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, Lifetime Achievement in Energy Efficiency Award from California’s Flex Your Power Campaign, Northwest Energy Coalition’s Headwaters Award, and Bonneville Power Administration’s Award for Exceptional Public Service.
Cavanagh is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
Jim Davis - As president, Jim Davis has established Chevron Energy Solutions as one of the nation's leading energy services firms and the first comprehensive energy services company in the oil and gas industry.
Before joining Chevron Energy Solutions, Davis served as senior vice president of Integrated Solutions for PG&E Energy Services, one of the foremost energy services companies in the nation. As sales executive and business strategist, he conceptualized and established PG&E Energy Services' integrated energy solution model for major commercial, industrial, and institutional accounts, then developed and managed the supporting marketing, sales, deal structuring, finance, and operations functions. The success of this business led to its purchase by Chevron in 2000.
Tim Draper - Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses.
On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper serves on the boards of Glam, Tagworld, SocialText, Kyte.tv, Chroma Graphics, Meebo, Increo, and Wigix. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others.
Alan Murray - Alan Murray is a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor for the Journal Online. He also has editorial responsibility for Wall Street Journal television, books, conferences, and the MarketWatch web site.
Mr. Murray spent a decade as the Journal’s Washington bureau chief. He became Deputy Managing Editor in June 2008, and Executive Editor, Online, in July 2007. Prior to this he was the author of the paper's award-winning "Business" column. He is also a regular contributor to CNBC, and author of several books, including, most recently, Revolt in the Board Room: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America.
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Tim Draper is a joke. 0 facts 0 information and the biggest indictment of Venture Capitalism. Nothing if not proof that money generates money how ever ineffectual its owners are.
