2007 Spring CONFERENCE

Keynote Speaker:

Dennis R. Shelden
Chief Technology Officer
Gehry Technologies

Dennis R. Shelden is a founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gehry Technologies, a building industry technology company formed in 2001 by the research and development team of Frank Gehry Partners.

He joined Gehry Partners in 1997 and became director of the firm's computation efforts in 2000, where he was responsible for the management and strategic direction of the firm's technology efforts. Prior to joining Gehry Partners, he performed structural engineering, energy systems and technology development work at firms including Ove Arup & Partners, Consultants' Computation Bureau and Cyra Systems.

Dr. Shelden lectures and conducts research in building industry process advancement and in design computation and cognition, and has been a visiting faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and MIT. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Design, a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Ph. D. in Computation and Architectural Design from MIT.

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George Strickland
Commercial Specifications Manager
Somfy Canada

George has been with the Somfy Group for 17 years. Headquartered in France, with 60 business units worldwide, Somfy is the world leader in electric drives and control systems for dynamic window treatments and building openings. During his term, George has been the Sales Manager in Canada, Marketing Director for North America and Commercial Business Development Manager for NA. He currently manages the new Commercial Specifications business unit based in Toronto.

George's activities have taken him throughout the world with Somfy. He has been involved in numerous projects with International window treatment specialists, lighting and building automation firms.George has been a member of CABA (Continental Automated Building Association) since 1995 and participates in the IIBC (Intelligent & Integrated Bldg Committee) of CABA.

George has a Commerce degree from Concordia University in Montreal and continues to work with their Building Sciences faculty in the research of leading edge lighting/window treatment control systems. He also is active in the Canadian Solar Research network and the Net-Zero Energy initiative for new homes.

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Harry Kohal
Director of Sales and Marketing
Eagle Technology

Harry joined Eagle Technology in June of 2006 as Director of Sales and Marketing. He has worked in retail, service and manufacturing and has a strong information technology and security background. Harry brings a fresh look to the emerging industry of intelligent building management.

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Frank DeLattre
Senior Vice President, Sales
Pentadyne Power Corporation

Frank DeLattre joined Pentadyne in March of 2005 with over 17 years of domestic and international sales management experience in the Power Quality industry.

Prior to joining Pentadyne, Frank was Vice President of Sales for Cherokee International, a leading manufacturer of custom AC-DC power supplies in the datacom, telecom, and medical markets. Frank was instrumental in expanding and managing a network of -manufacturer's representative and closing major design wins at various tier one OEM accounts.

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Benjamin Coe, PE, LEED AP
Managing Principal
EYP Mission Critical Facilities


Ben has over 25 years of experience in the industry, responsible for all phases of managed projects including contract negotiations, primary client contact, coordination of design efforts of all disciplines, post bid coordination with client quality assurance, required field reviews and construction administration phase services.

Ben attended Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of IFMA, 7x24, ASHRAE, BCA, SERBCA, USGBC, GAPPA, ASHE, Georgia Society of Healthcare Engineers.

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Jay Hendrix
Manager
Wireless Solutions Siemens Building Technologies

Jay Hendrix is Manager of Wireless Solutions for Siemens Building Technologies, Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He has over 20 years experience in controls installation, technical integration and product management.

Prior to joining the wireless team Jay was responsible for leading the product management of integrated solutions and applications to help customers manage their buildings more efficiently as well as reduce operating expenses. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University and a Master's of Business Administration from DePaul University.

Jay also serves on ASHRAE SGPC 13 technical committee for Specifying DDC systems and has authored and contributed on articles related to wireless and integrated building systems.

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James Carlini
President
Carlini & Associates, Inc.

James Carlini is President of Carlini & Associates, Inc., a strategic international management consulting firm in East Dundee, IL that provides executive advising and expert witness services in both civil and federal court for major organizations on competitive strategies, technology procurement, and mission critical networks.

He has appeared on television to discuss topics including municipal broadband initiatives (cable, wireless and fiber optics) for global economic competitiveness, Network Security, Intelligent Buildings, stock exchange reliability issues, E911 and the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
He pioneered the concept of Measuring Building Intelligence in 1985 and published various papers on the topic in Real Estate Review, Commercial Renovation and even a chapter in Johnson Controls' INTELLIGENT BUILDING SOURCEBOOK (Prentice-Hall 1988) after developing the Carlini Building Intelligence Test (CBI Test). This test was used in 1986 to compare intelligent amenities in downtown office buildings in Seattle.

He was Chairman of the Definitions Committee of the Intelligent Buildings Institute in Washington, D.C. from 1986-1988. His consulting experience includes being Consultant to the Mayor's Office for the preliminary and conceptual design of the City of Chicago's 911 Center (which has been ranked #1 in the country by the Homeland Security Agency) as well as advising the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sanwa Bank, AT&T, SPRINT, JVC, GLOBEX, and the Du Page National Technology Park (an 800-acre development).

He has taught at Northwestern University since 1986 in both the Executive Masters Program for Communication Systems and Strategy Management as well as the undergraduate curriculum as an adjunct professor. Mr. Carlini is an elected official in Illinois and also serves on the Fox Valley Regional Cable Commission.He is also an editorial columnist for the Midwest Technology Online News, Wisconsin Technology News, and for COMPLINET, an online Compliance and Regulatory Newsletter.

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Guy Warner
Founder, CEO
Pareto Energy

Guy Warner is the founder and CEO of Pareto Energy. Trained as a financial economist, Mr. Warner worked for
7 years with the Washington National Tax Service of Price Waterhouse, before founding his own company in 1990.

Mr. Warner has worked on more than 100 energy and financial planning engagements and provided financial and strategic planning advice to a number of electric and gas utilities in the United States, Europe and South America. He has served as an economic and energy expert before federal courts and state public utility commissions.

Since 1995, Mr. Warner has concentrated his work on developing new energy efficiency, renewable energy and on-site power projects. He has worked on more than twenty five such projects in North, Central and South America.

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Jim Lewis
President/CEO
Obvius LLC

Jim Lewis is the president and CEO of Obvius, based in Portland, OR. He was formerly the president and co-founder of Veris Industries and a branch manager for Honeywell Homes and Buildings.

Jim has extensive experience in metering, data acquisition and wireless communications. He has a BS from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Oregon.

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David Rubin
Vice President of Sales
Lighting Science Group

David Rubin is the vice president of sales and marketing for Dallas-based Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSGC), a developer of LED lighting solutions. Before joining LSGC, Mr. Rubin served as vice president of national accounts at Walls Industries where he led the domestic and international account teams servicing Wal-Mart and Home Depot.

Mr. Rubin also served as a sales executive for several early stage technology firms including serving as vice president of sales of Trinity Industry's e-Venture division. He began his career as a legislative aid at the State Capital in Austin, Texas.

Mr. Rubin has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and is currently pursing a MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas where he will graduate in May 2007. He is an active member of his community and currently serves as a board member on the Grand South Park TIF District.

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Thomas Russo
Chief Technology Officer
Magnus Friburg


Mr. Russo's broad professional experience in residential and commercial development and construction, coupled with his education in information technology, has provided Akridge with innovative services to its internal and external Client base.

Most notable is his design of a wireless webbased camera, which when linked to project websites for construction monitoring, allows investors and project managers to observe their asset while under construction. This innovation has proven integral in preventing unnecessary construction-related expenses (legal and otherwise), as it provides visual evidence of a construction project's progress.

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Peter M. Schwartz
President
Peter Schwartz & Associates, LLC

Originally born in Chicago, Ill., Peter Schwartz, with more than 28 years' experience in the energy and utility industries, is an internationally recognized expert in energy efficiency and building technologies. His energy consulting firm, Peter Schwartz & Associates, LLC, specializes in energy infrastructure, strategic planning, research and project development.

He is the former Founding Board President and Senior Program Director with the New Buildings Institute, promoting advanced building energy technologies, energy codes, standards and design guidelines. Prior to NBI, Mr. Schwartz was Director of Business Analysis for LAS & Associates, an energy-consulting corporation focusing on integrated infrastructure investments. He managed demand-side and supply-side energy projects for large, multi-facility institutional clients including: universities, San Francisco International Airport and the Navy Public Works Center-San Diego.

Total project value exceeded $500 million. Prior to LAS, he was Director of Business Energy Management and a Senior Program Manager with PG&E's $76 million Commercial Energy Efficiency Programs. Mr. Schwartz also worked as a Senior Marketing Engineer for the Pacific Energy Center, where he educated more than 3,000 design professionals, building developers, facility managers and contractors on energy-efficient technologies and building design.

He received his bachelor's degree in environmental physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, specializing in technology assessment, energy policy and environmental politics, and his master's degree in environmental planning from Arizona State University, specializing in building energy technology and analysis.

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Alexandra Sullivan
Program Engineer
US Environmental Protection Agency

Alexandra Sullivan is a program engineer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the ENERGY STAR Program for commercial buildings. She oversees the development and maintenance of the national energy performance rating system, which expresses the performance of commercial buildings on a scale of 1-to-100.

The rating system is housed within EPA's Portfolio Manager, an online tool that allows users to enter and track energy and water consumption in commercial buildings. Portfolio Manager and the national energy performance rating system are widely used to evaluate the performance of a diverse group of commercial buildings including offices, schools, supermarkets, hospitals, and hotels.

Alexandra has a BS in chemical engineering from Brown University and professional experience in soil and groundwater remediation systems. She began work at the EPA in 2005, after completing an MPA in environmental policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. At ENERGY STAR, she coordinates statistical analyses and evaluates measures of energy performance in order to update and expand the technical capabilities of Portfolio Manager.

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Tim Enwall
Research & Development Manager
Tendril

Tim Enwall is the founder and COO of Tendril (www.tendrilinc.com), which provides the first network operations software for building, deploying and operating ZigBee wireless sensor networks.

Enwall received his BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and has 19 years of high-tech business management experience. Prior to founding Tendril, Enwall served as Vice President, Research Area Director at Gartner, Inc. and he founded Solista, a technology advisory firm that was acquired by Gartner. He was also the founder and board member of Intellocity, an interactive television system software firm which is now part of OpenTV.

He has also held management roles at technology companies such as Apple Computer, Lockheed Martin, InfoNow and Requisite Technology. Enwall is also currently on the Board of Directors of SkyeTek, an embedded RFID reader company.

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Bennet Levine
Research & Development Manager
Contemporary Controls

Bennet Levine is the Research and Development Manager at Contemporary Controls and for over 20 years has been involved in developing a wide variety of controls and communication products. At Contemporary Controls he is currently assisting in the development of many leading-edge networking and control products.

He is currently a member of the ODVA EtherNet/IP Infrastructure Task Force and has written many articles on the use of Ethernet in control systems for various trade magazines. Bennet received a BSSE degree from Southern Illinois University.

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Tony Delgado
Director, Product Marketing
Ember Corporation

Tony Delgado is responsible for Ember's product marketing. Prior to this role, he was responsible for all corporate partnership and sales activities in Asia. These activities included working directly with customers and regional distributors, as well as promoting the company and the Zigbee Alliance in Asia.

Previously, Delgado was a Boston-based associate at Techfarm Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and incubator. While at Techfarm, he reviewed corporate business plans and worked with start-up companies pursuing venture capital.

Delgado also managed some of the firm's newest investments. Before joining Techfarm, he was the business development manager for N*Able Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company that developed security co-processor chips for internet-based financial transactions. Delgado earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

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Kevin Fuller
Executive Vice President
Interval Data Systems Inc

Kevin is responsible for marketing and product development for IDS. He brings over 25 years of technical and marketing experience in database, data warehouse, analytics, and enterprise applications. Always a customer advocate, he works closely with clients to ensure their success and make certain that the product is solving real business and operational problems.

Before joining the IDS team, Kevin spent 15 years working for vendors of relational database and related technologies in both marketing and customer support roles where he developed a strong understanding of how businesses used data to their advantage. He started his career in programming and systems management roles after graduating with a degree in mathematics from the University of New Hampshire.

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Terry W. Hoffmann
Director
Building Automation Systems Marketing
Johnson Controls Inc.

Mr. Hoffmann graduated from Marquette University with
a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering and subsequently from the Milwaukee School of Engineering with a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management. He is a Senior Member of the Association
of Energy Engineers (AEE) and serves on the LonMark International Association Board of Directors.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Graduate Studies. Terry has written numerous articles for trade and technical publications. Contributions include an Article in the January 2003 issue of the ASHRAE Journal entitled “Interoperability: Present Trends, Future Directions”, another in the September 2001 issue of Today's Facility Manager entitled "Interoperability: Key Issues and Guidelines for FMs to Follow" and another, "Optimizing the Benefits of Building Systems Integration" in a recent issue of The RSES Journal (Refrigeration Systems Engineering & Service).

He is also the author of the Controls chapter in both the HVAC Systems Handbook and the HVAC Systems Maintenance and Operations Handbook both published by McGraw/Hill.

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Jim Kohl
Senior Product Manager
Trane Commercial Systems

Jim Kohl is Senior Product Manager at Trane Commercial Systems, where he is responsible for sensors and wireless products.

He has over twenty years engineering and marketing experience in industrial ventilation and commercial HVAC.
Jim is also a member of community faculty at Metropolitan State University, where he teaches business-to-business
and marketing management.

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Bill Gnerre
CEO and Cofounder
IDS

Bill has twenty-plus years of information technology entrepreneurial experience, with an exemplary record of bringing enterprise software applications to market and
dealing with user adoption of new technology.

In addition to enterprise software, his experience includes CAD/CAM and engineering document management systems. Bill provides leadership and strategy for IDS and works closely with clients to ensure their success.

His previous roles include being a vice president at Circadian Software,
an energy information software company; cofounder of ChannelWave
Software, a partner relationship management systems provider; director of sales & marketing at Wright Strategies, an early PDA data collection application vendor; and product marketing roles at Formtech and Computervision, where he managed CADFAX and CADDS respectively. Earlier in his career Bill worked in various engineering positions and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University.

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Rebecca Ellis
President, Leed AP, CCP.
CxA

Ms. Ellis has eighteen years of experience engineering and managing a variety of HVAC system projects. Ms. Ellis is a specialist in the design, analysis, and commissioning of intricate temperature and humidity control systems with a particular strength in direct digital controls. 

Ms. Ellis is a nationally recognized leader in the commissioning industry. She has helped define mainstream commissioning services and is a much sought after speaker, author, and trainer. Prior to founding Q&S Engineering, she developed and led the largest commissioning service group in the country.

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Wahid Nawabi
Vice President
Enterprise Segment APC

Since joining APC in 1992, Wahid Nawabi has held various positions in Channel, Distribution, Telecommunication, and Enterprise business segments of the company. Wahid has 15 years of hands-on experience assisting large and small businesses improve their overall enterprise IT infrastructure availability.

Wahid is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences worldwide, including Gartner Conferences and numerous CIO conferences. He has also written articles on the subject of business continuity and enterprise availability. Wahid is a member of the Institute of Electronics & Electrical Engineers (IEEE), 7X24 Exchange AFCOM, and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. He has also previously served as Vice President and Treasurer of the IEEE’s telecommunications chapter.

Wahid holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. He has also successfully completed various Executive Management Programs at the Center for Quality Management (CQM) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) admitted him to the “International Energy Managers Hall of Fame” in 2003 and named him 1997 “International Energy Professional of the Year”. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Millennium edition, Marquis Press.

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Doug Sandberg
Director- Us Field Sales & Services Operator
ASCO Services Inc.


Mr. Doug Sandberg has served in various segments of the electrical industry for 40 years. Until 1980, he held duties of journeyman electrician primarily in heavy industry, including Master A at E.I. DuPont and Lead Journeyman at Reynolds Metals.

In 1980, Doug began his career in manufacturer's field service. He worked for KW Control Systems, the North American sales and service representative for Piller GMBH of Germany, in a variety of positions with increasing responsibility. These included Field Service Engineer,
National Field Service Manager and AVP Service.

In 1993, he embarked on the challenge of developing a true field service
operation for ASCO Power Technologies (ASCO). He currently serves as
Director of U.S. Field Sales & Service Operations for ASCO Services
Inc., the field service arm of ASCO.

Doug has written many articles and white papers during his career and has contributed content to several industry books. He has served as a company representative to 7x24 (the leading information exchange for data centers) for many years and currently serves as a Director of 7x24 New York Metro Chapter and the National 7x24 organization. He also serves on various industry councils.

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Jack Mc Gowan
President
Energy Control Inc.

Jack Mc Gowan, CEM is President of Energy Control Inc. (ECI), a System Integrator and Energy Service Company. ECI has been recognized for three years running as one of the Top 100 System Integrators in North America by SDM Magazine. ECI has completed numerous multi-million dollar DDC and integration projects in every capacity from design through financing. Several of these projects have received wide recognition in the industry, including a 2004 Buildy Award as the Best Integration Project in North America, and a 2005 Design / Build Award for Best Retrofit Project over $1,000,000.

Mc Gowan is an author and has published 5 books including “Direct Digital Control” on Fairmont Press and Prentice Hall. He is under contract for a new book called “Building Automation Online” in 2006.

Mc Gowan has published over 125 articles. He is Editor of the Energy Online series of Energy User News (EUN). He sits on the Technical Advisory Boards of: Engineered Systems, Energy User News, and CABA’s I Homes & Buildings. He is a Contributing Editor with WWW.Automatedbuildings.com, he sits on Builconn’s Advisory Council and the Gridwise Architecture Council of the US Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity and Energy Assurance.

Mc Gowan is a regular conference speaker and has taught seminars on DDC throughout the US, Europe and in Southeast Asia sponsored by the Association of Energy Engineers and Automatedbuildings.com. He also teaches Online seminars including “Real-time System Integration” and “Next Generation DDC Open Systems”.

The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) admitted him to the “International Energy Managers Hall of Fame” in 2003 and named him 1997 “International Energy Professional of the Year”. He is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Millennium edition, Marquis Press.

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Paul Ehrlich
PE President
Building Intelligence Group

Ehrlich is a well-known industry stakeholder and advocate of integrated and intelligent buildings. In 2004 he formed the Building Intelligence Group LLC, an independent consultancy, whose primary purpose is to help system suppliers as well as building owners and managers, maneuver their operations through the vast changes prompted by open systems, convergence and enterprise building management. Clients include developers, property management firms and major manufacturers of Building Systems and associated technologies.

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Terry Mocherniak
CEO & Co-founder
Encelium Technologies

Mr. Mocherniak is CEO and co-founder of Encelium Technologies.  He has over 13 years’ experience in the advanced lighting technology sector and has been involved in 4 technology start-up companies.  Prior to founding Encelium, Mr. Mocherniak was Managing Partner of Value Added Ventures Corporation, a Toronto based venture capital fund and was also CEO and co-founder of Lumion Corporation, an electronic ballast and lighting control system manufacturer.  Mr. Mocherniak holds an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

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Ken Walma
Product Manager
Lutron Electronics Inc.

Ken Walma is a Product Manager with Lutron Electronics Inc. within the Commercial Systems and Ballast Division. Ken has been with Lutron since 2001 and currently manages the EcoSystemT product line. Ken is responsible for EcoSystem sales and marketing strategy and oversees product development.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina, College of Mechanical Engineering. Ken has been a member of IESNA since 2001, serves on the LEED Advisory Committee at Lutron, and is a member of the IES Daylighting Committee. Ken also serves as a point of contact for editors throughout the lighting industry, and has been a part of the National Association of Lighting Maintenance Contractors, National Association of Energy Service Companies, and other local and national organizations.

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Scott Muench
Manager, Technical Sales
Tridium

Scott Muench has been in the controls industry for over 15 years. Scott brings to Tridium years of field experience and expertise from fulfilling the various SI roles of applications engineer, technical support specialist and product trainer.

After joining Tridium in 2001 he was involved in delivering the Technical Certification Course and eventually stepped up as manager of Technical Services. Scott is now heading up a new Technical Sales Support group, to better serve our OEM and channel partners. Scott is a past president of ASHRAE and attended Clarkson University for a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

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Ed Merwin
Director, Field Sales
Tridium

Ed Merwin has over 28 years of experience in the controls industry. He was with Honeywell for 25 years and held positions in field operations, sales, marketing, and management. Ed joined Tridium, Inc. in 2001 as the Marketing Manager for Building Automation Systems and is currently the Director of Field Sales in charge of Tridium's Systems Integration Channel.

He works with key end users, consulting engineers, and system integrators on a daily basis, focusing on open systems issues utilizing multiple protocols and vendors. Ed has developed several open systems training seminars and makes industry presentations on a regular basis. Ed is a member of ASHRAE and has a B.S. in Engineering Technology from Old Dominion University.

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Chris Hollinger
Project Manager
Siemens Corporation

Chris Hollinger joined Siemens Corporation in 1995 as a project manager after obtaining an MBA from the University of Illinois. Over the last nine years he has worked with the systems integration group on standard protocols, OPC, BACnet and lighting control.

Hollinger works with the BACnet testing laboratory, is a member of BACnet International, works with the marketing group and is heavily involved in ASHRAE and ISA.

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Ron Poskevich
General Manager
Lumisys

Ron Poskevich, General Manager of Lumisys, has more than 15 years of experience in the lighting control and building automation industry. Prior to joining Lumisys Ron worked for Siemens Energy and Automation as Market Manager, Power Management Technologies and was involved with ABSIC (Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium) projects; The Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace at Carnegie Mellon University and The Adaptable Workplace Laboratory at General Services Administration Headquarters.

Ron also worked for Lithonia Lighting for seven years. At Lumisys, Ron lead the development of best practices for integrated lighting control systems design that are changing the way lighting control is delivered and maintained. Ron also works with the BACnet International marketing committee.

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Tim Duggan
Senior Consultant
RSMeans

Tim has twenty years experience with database management and statistics. Current clients include PCA, SIA, CABA, Armstrong and Firestone Building Products. Recent projects include developing a forecasting model for the EPA relative to diesel emissions as well as designing an interactive dashboard for building product manufacturers to monitor specification influence in the product marketplace.

Formerly an Account Executive with RCD, Mr. Duggan was responsible for integrating project data into building product manufacturers' business and strategic planning. He is a former executive and owner of Brown's Letters Inc., a construction data service firm. Mr. Duggan earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Jeff Kunst
Vice President - Marketing
MobileAccess


Mr. Kunst brings over 15 years of telecommunications experience to MobileAccess Networks. Mr. Kunst was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Lucent's metroMSX product family. The metroMSX platform was developed by Chromatis Networks where Mr. Kunst, as Director of Product Management, was instrumental in the acquisition of Chromatis for $4.75B.

He has also held senior technical and marketing positions at Newbridge Networks, Hughes Networks Systems and the U.S. Coast Guard. Jeff has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Tom Hicks
Vice President, LEED
U.S. Green Building Council

Tom Hicks joined the U.S. Green Building Council in November 2004 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Tom oversees the development and implementation of all LEED rating systems. Prior to joining USGBC, Tom spent nine years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Senior Program Manager within the Energy Star for Buildings program.

Tom was the principal architect and program manager of the Energy Star commercial building rating system, the nation's largest and best-known energy efficiency initiative. Energy Star has been utilized to assess the energy performance of over 30,000 buildings totaling over 5 billion square feet of floor space nationally.

Prior to the EPA, Tom worked with the U.S. Navy, where he formed the energy efficiency program for the U.S. Navy Public Works Center in Washington. This program performed energy audits for over 15 million square feet of floor space and completed lighting retrofits and energy efficiency upgrades totaling more than $50 million in value.

Tom has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Currently, he is working toward his Master's degree in Engineering Management from the George Washington University.

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Tom Lohner
Branch Manager
TENG


Mr. Lohner has 25 years of experience in building systems engineering and building technology. Tom specializes in the design and build of building mechanical systems, building automation and enterprise facility management systems. Mr. Lohner is registered professional engineer in 10 states and holds a Masters Degree in Building Energy Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Tom is the current Chairman for the CABA Integrated and Intelligent Building Council (IIBC) and has been a guest speaker at numerous energy and facility management conferences such as Realcomm, National Facility Management & Technology, The TFM show and others. Currently, Mr. Lohner is Branch Manager for Teng's office located in Glen Allen, Virginia and is a managing principal for all Teng Solutions projects nationally.

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