Keynote: Impact of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
 Jeffrey Harris
Vice President for Programs, Alliance to Save Energy
Jeffrey Harris joined the Alliance to Save Energy in September 2006 as Vice President for Programs, following 25 years as a staff scientist, group leader, and head of the Washington DC Office of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His areas of interest include U.S. and international energy efficiency policy in the utility and government sectors, energy use in buildings, market transformation, and policy-oriented behavioral studies. At the Alliance, Harris oversees the buildings and utilities, industrial, and international programs; participates in policy development and advocacy for energy efficiency legislation, appliance standards, and building codes; and provides technical support to the US government's Federal Energy Management Program. Harris began his career in energy efficiency with the California Energy Commission in 1975, as a program manager and then Deputy Division Chief for Conservation. He served on detail at the US Department of Energy from 1990 to 1993, as senior assistant to the deputy assistant secretary for Building Technologies. Harris has an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford (1969) and a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley (1973).
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Ron Bernstein
Executive Director
LONMARK International
ron@lonmark.org
858-756-9923
Mr. Bernstein is the Executive Director of LONMARK International. In this role, he is responsible for the direction and activity of LONMARK worldwide and works directly with the regional affiliates, LMI staff, and the membership to continue developing LON open standards, provide educational programs, and grow the presence in the market. He is responsible for the LonMark Magazine publication, LonMark Integrator Certification Testing Program, and LonMark Sessions worldwide educational seminar tour.
He has spent the last 14 years with Echelon Corporation in a variety of roles focusing on control systems in building automation, transportation, industrial process control, and home automation. Most recently Ron was the Channel Manager for Echelon's integration business, focusing on network integration in the buildings market with LonWorks. Ron is a founding board member and prior Vice Chairman of LonMark Americas, Ron has been the LonMark Education Committee Chair, where he worked with a team to help people understand how to successfully implement open building control systems.
Ron has extensive experience in the architecture, specification, and integration of open, interoperable, multi-vendor control systems. He has helped organizations such as the Army Corps, NYC Schools, Rice University, Stanford University, Bank of America, The Limited, and hundreds of others define the foundation for energy cost savings through system integration using LonWorks as the core of an open, interoperable system architecture. Ron has given lectures around the world on the topic of building controls, open systems, master planning, energy savings, and intelligent buildings initiatives.
Ron has been a staff instructor for the APPA Institute of Higher Educational Facility Managers teaching classes on building integration and efficiency. He is an adviser to Carnegie Mellon University’s Architecture Department’s projects on building energy efficiency. His guest lecturing history includes ASME, ASHRAE, BOMA, CSI, SAE, LonWorld, BuilConn, RealComm, Georgetown Univ., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Boston Univ., Duke University, Army Corps of Engineers, and many others. He is a published author with articles appearing in a variety of industry trade publications. He is the Editor in Chief of LonMark Magazine.
Prior to Echelon, Ron was an engineer and manager for Sharp Microelectronics' Digital Image Processing Group focusing on automation and control systems for process and industrial controls. Prior to that, he spent 7 years as an engineer in the robotics, image processing, and the automation industry.
Ron holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineer from Carnegie Mellon University and two Masters Degrees in varying fields of psychology. He currently resides in San Diego, CA.
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Robert Bittner
Director of Energy and Physical Plant
Wake County Public School System- Raleigh, NC
Robert (Bob) Bittner is the Director of Energy and Physical Plant for
Wake County Public School System in Raleigh NC. He has been in
Maintenance and Operations for the past 35 years. He has worked both in
the private and public sectors as Plant Engineer with Cummins Engine
Company, Hospital Engineering, and Director of Engineering in the
Pharmaceutical industry. Bob also worked for Johnson Controls World
Services where he spent much of his time working in the education
sector. He has served as local chapter president for the American
Facility Engineers and also on the national board.
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John Christmas
Senior Vice President
Hannon Armstrong Capital
Mr. Christmas combines eighteen (18) years of investment and commercial banking experience and serves as SVP of Hannon Armstrong. Included in his energy development and financing background is over $2.0 billion of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects for a variety of government agencies, national energy service companies (ESCOs) and over fifteen (15) major investor-owned utilities. His renewable energy project background and current development focus includes wind, solar, geothermal, and ocean-thermal. Mr. Christmas holds a B.S. in economics, an MBA, and an M.S. in finance.
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 Sharon Dinges
System Applications Engineer
Trane Global Control Systems
Sharon Dinges is a System Applications Engineer for Trane Global Control Systems. She has been with Trane since 1993, and has had the opportunity to work in various business locations within the company. Her experience includes: project acquisition, LAN administration, equipment selection, building load calculations, product development, project management, systems integration, and controls and HVAC applications.
Sharon uses her experience to assist Trane customers and sales offices in the development of controls-related solutions for integrated facility projects, energy management solutions, Energy Savings Performance Contracts, and HVAC system applications.
Sharon holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indiana Institute of Technology. She is a member of ASHRAE, AEE, and SWE, and is a voting member of the ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135 (BACnet) committee.
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 Rebecca Ellis, PE
Questions & Solutions Engineering
Ms. Ellis has twenty 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 co-mmissioning 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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 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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 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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 Barry Haaser
Senior Director, LonWorks Infrastructure Business
Echelon Corporation
Mr. Haaser is responsible for business development, strategic marketing, and management of partner programs that support the design, development, sale and integration of solutions using the LonWorks platform. Mr. Haaser was previously the Executive Director of LonWorks International a global trade organization supporting the development of technical standards and marketing programs to facilitate the adoption of open, interoperable solutions. Prior to joining the LonMark Association, Haaser was the Vice President of Marketing at Alacritech, a provider of network and storage acceleration solutions, and Director of Marketing at Saratoga Systems, a leading customer relationship management solutions provider. Previously, Haaser spent 11 years with Echelon Corporation, where he held a variety of marketing and management positions in the U.S. and Europe. Haaser holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University. Mr. Haaser is the Chairman of the Digital Home Alliance and is a board member of LonMark International, LonMark Americas, and the Home Lighting Control Alliance.
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 Jeff Hamilton
Integrated Solutions Program Manager for Global Control Systems
Trane
Jeff Hamilton joined Trane in 2003 and is the Integrated Solutions
Program Manager for the Global Control Systems (GCS) business unit
headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. His primary responsibilities
include the strategic direction, development, marketing and management
of programs related to Trane's integrated solutions control products.
Prior to his current position, Jeff spent ten years with McQuay
International, most recently as Director of Control Systems Technology
and Product Management, two years with Johnson Controls, Inc., and
sixteen years with Honeywell, Inc., and has been involved with system
solutions for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
industry at a professional level for over twenty years.
Jeff holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering from
the University of Minnesota and a Masters Degree in Business
Administration from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of
Management. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers (ASHRAE).
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 Patrick Hogan
Automated Control Solutions Group
Honeywell
Patrick Hogan received a First Class Honors degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, England and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Cambridge, England specializing in analytical methods for magnetic resonance imaging.
As a researcher for the world’s largest independent immunoassay company Dr Hogan developed the world’s first commercial scale nicotine assay and other drugs of abuse biofluid analysis kits. Instrument design, application chemistry and field sales were the main roles for Patrick while at Mettler Toledo’s analytical instrumentation division in Europe; main achievements were in developing new chemical methods for process quality control and being an integral design team member for a line of new automated robotic titration systems and ergonomic portable pH meters.
Hogan serves in a liaison role with Honeywell’s Automated Control Solutions group to integrate gas detection instrumentation equipment with security, surveillance and other critical automated building systems. He is a strong proponent of intelligent building design and has been at the forefront at the company’s push to bring Honeywell’s CO wireless gas detection and CO2/temperature/humidity sensing equipment to the building industry. At the helm of developing Honeywell’s on-demand ventilation product synergies and integration with building communication protocols, Hogan is busy defining the values of a more energy efficient, safer and comfortable building environments for occupants and workers.
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Mark. T Jewell
Founder & President
RealWinWin Inc.
Mark Jewell has spent 22 years in commercial real estate and almost 15 years in energy efficiency. For the last 6 years, his focus has been on creating value for large energy users and for the utilities and vendors that serve them.RealWinWin’s national accounts alone represents more than 700 million sq ft of building floor space.
Prior to RealWInWin’s inception, Mark was founder and president of EEFG, an energy-efficiency consulting firm that designed energy-saving improvements for more than 350 buildings. In the mid-1990’s, EEFG provided auditing, specification and project management services for the city of Philadelphia’s retrofit of more than 4 million sq ft of city-owned and operated buildings, a project that became the country’s 2 nd largest municipal lighting program, earning the city an EPA Green Lights Partner of the Year Award in 1998.
Mark also worked closely with the US Environmental Protection Agency to help create and promote the Energy Star Buildings Program of Commercial Real Estate, a voluntary pollution-prevention initiative that has since been embraced by more than 4 billion sq ft of income-producing office buildings. Mark’s team helped design and promote QuikScope, EPA’s flagship software tool for allocating the coast and benefits of energy-saving projects in tenant/landlord settings. His team also tested and promoted the EPA’s energy performance benchmarking tools. Working in support of EPA, Mark personally recruited building owners and managers representing more than 2 billion sq ft of commercial properties into Energy Star.
Earlier in his career, Mark served as Senior VP for a major commercial real estate investment firm that owned and operated 2 million sq ft of commercial property on the West Coast.
Mark received his BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he studied real estate, finance & related disciplines.
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Peter Kelly-Detwiler
Senior Vice President, Energy Technology Services
Constellation Energy
Peter Kelly-Detwiler is Senior Vice President of Energy Technology Services for Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG). He and his company-wide team oversee the integration of efficiency technologies and applications which help customers better manage their total energy bills and create optimal energy solutions. His current focus is Constellation’s advanced load response initiative which will support the development of thousands of megawatts of load response among the company’s North American customer base.
He joined New Energy Ventures – the precursor to Constellation NewEnergy - in 1997, and has been active in the competitive energy markets since their inception. He has served in a number of positions, including Director of Customer Care and Director of Operations.
Before joining Constellation, he worked for the International Institute for Energy Conservation in Chile as Program Manager, developing energy efficiency programs for the EPA’s Green Lights Initiative. Earlier in his career, he held senior positions as a consultant and researcher for several Boston area energy consulting companies, where he was involved in analysis concerning the macro-level potential of energy efficiency and the employment and economic impacts of energy efficiency investments.
His experience has led him to contribute to energy related articles in Boston Business Journal Mass High Tech and online industry publications.
Mr. Kelly-Detwiler earned a bachelor’s of arts degree from Williams College and a master’s degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School. He is fluent in English, Spanish and German. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member on the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business MBA Fellows Program.
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Tim Kensok
Director of Business Development
AirAdvice, Inc.
Tim Kensok is the Director of Business Development for AirAdvice, Inc, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of building performance diagnostic equipment and services. His expertise in this field focuses on HVAC markets, applications, and systems, building science, and indoor environmental controls. At AirAdvice, Kensok has conducted extensive research into the performance of commercial buildings, and on the entire value chain including manufacturers, distributors, contractors, and end users. With over 20 years experience in product development from both marketing and engineering perspectives, Kensok, a registered professional engineer, has been granted thirteen U.S. patents in mechanical design and comfort control techniques.
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David Klee
Manager of Business Development
Johnson Controls
Dave Klee, Director of Channel Marketing and Strategy for HVAC Systems, for Johnson Controls Building Efficiency business, began his career as a Sales Engineer with York International and has since held business development and marketing positions focused in different areas, including consulting engineers and most recently under floor air distribution systems.
With the acquisition of York International in 2005, Dave worked on the team that helped integrate York International into Johnson Controls. Dave holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan and a MBA from Babson College. Dave is also a LEED Accredited Professional. He lives in the Milwaukee, WI area with his wife and son.
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Ed Koch
Founder and CTO
Akuacom
Ed Koch is founder and CTO of Akuacom. Akuacom specializes in enterprise systems for automated energy control and monitoring in commercial and residential buildings, especially as it applies to Demand Response Programs. Prior to that Ed was the founder and CTO of Coactive Networks which specialized in creating solutions for linking distributed control networks used in energy management systems to IP networks and enterprise applications. In addition Ed has been involved in numerous standardization efforts in this field and is currently heading up an effort sponsored by the Demand Response Research Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to created standards for automating Demand Response.
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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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 J. Christopher Larry P.E., C.E.M., C.E.P., C.I.P.E, LEED AP
Director of Energy Engineering
Teng Solutions in Richmond, VA
Chris has spent over 20 years working to minimize the building industries Energy and Environmental footprint through refining Building Design, Building Modeling, Performance Optimization and Intelligent Controls. Chris is currently Director of Energy Engineering for Teng & Associates, a top 150 ranked full service A&E firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with multiple offices throughout the country to service their clients. The Energy Services work supports the Teng Solutions Group renowned work on Building System Integration. Chris has previous experience as Senior Energy Engineer for Siemens Building Technologies, Mid-Central District Performance Contracting Group, Consulting Engineer for Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Architects and Flack + Kurtz Consulting Engineers.
Chris has held many positions within the ASHRAE Society (Chairman for Chapter Technology Transfer Committee, Chairman for Technical, Energy and Governmental Activities (TEGA), President of the ASHRAE Pittsburgh Chapter, Chairman of the Region III 2006 CRC. Chris is also the past President of the Association of Energy Engineer (AEE) in Pittsburgh. Chris received the “Energy Engineer of the Year” from AEE in 2000. Chris instructs the Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certified training course for AEE.
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 James M. Lee
Chief Executive Officer/President
Cimetrics
Mr. Lee is the founder of Cimetrics and has acted as its CEO since its formation. Mr. Lee has been a leader in the embedded control networking and building automation community for over 15 years. As founder and former President of the BACnet Manufacturers Association, the leading open systems networking consortium in the building automation industry, Mr. Lee's aggressive promotion of the BACnet open protocol standard has helped make Cimetrics a high-profile player in the arena. Mr. Lee has a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University.
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 Tom Lohner
Branch Manager
Teng & Associates
Mr. Lohner has 27 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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 Tracy Markie
Co-founder
Engenuity Systems
With more than 25 years of experience in the electronics and control systems fields, Mr. Markie is considered an industry expert, as both an author and nationally recognized presenter. His résumé includes both technical and managerial positions held at Intel Corporation, National Semiconductor, United Technologies Norden Systems, and Tronix Corporation.
Mr. Markie co-founded Engenuity Systems in 1994, and currently serves as President. His leadership and vision allowed Engenuity to become one of the leading global distributors of networked-control devices by providing products, support and services to the building and industrial automation market in more than 70 countries. Engenuity currently represents more than 20,000 products from more than 100 manufacturers around the world.
A devoted industry advocate, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of LonMark® International, a worldwide trade organization, as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors for LonMark Americas, an affiliated U.S. based non-profit organization he helped found.
Recently, the Small Business Association named the Engenuity president “2008 Arizona Small Businessperson of the Year” and the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce awarded Engenuity the “2007 Small Business of the Year.” Other recognition includes listing by the Edward Lowe Foundation as one of the prestigious “50 Arizona Companies to Watch” and an Arizona Small Business Development Center “Success” award.
Mr. Markie is very active within the business community and currently serves as a board member and/or advisor to several start-up businesses and actively gives back to the community through service, mentoring and volunteer work.
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 Graham Martin
Founder
EnOcean Alliance
Graham is the founder of the EnOcean Alliance promoting the battery-less wireless standard for sustainable buildings. He is a veteran in the electronics industry with 25 years experience in analogue and RF solutions at various Engineering, Sales and Marketing positions in USA, GB, Germany, Austria and Norway. Before joining EnOcean he was a worldwide pioneer in low power wireless sensor networks at leading start-up Chipcon (purchased 2006 by Texas Instruments) where he conducted the worldwide business development activities, served as President of Figure8Wireless and was Vice Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance. Graham studied in USA and GB and is a Physics Graduate from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
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 Jack McGowan
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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 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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Ronald D. Padilla
Vice President – Integration Services
Control Technologies, Inc.
Ron has been in the controls and building automation business since 1981 where he started in sales in the New York Metro area. Ron was the National Manager of Distribution for Invensys Building Systems (now TAC), before joining Control Technologies in April of 2002 where he started and developed the NY metropolitan field office.
Ron has been involved with large System Planning & development with companies such as Exxon Mobil, Duke University Medical Center, Yale University, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Bank of America, Verizon Wireless, NYC Schools, and more.
Ron is a LonMark Certified Professional and now heads up the Integration Services Group on a corporate level for CTI, who has offices in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and California.
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Matthew Plante
Director of Business Development – PJM
EnerNOC, Inc.
As Director of Business Development, Matt oversees EnerNOC’s business development activities and continued growth in the PJM region, working with various stakeholder groups and enrolling customers in demand response programs. Previously, Matt led corporate development initiatives that included implementing demand response programs for electric utilities and municipalities.
Prior to joining EnerNOC, Matt was Assistant Vice President of Corporate Development for Sithe Asia, a subsidiary of Sithe Energies, Inc., where he worked on the development and acquisition of power plants.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government from Connecticut College and an M.B.A from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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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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 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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 Meg Smith
IESNA Regional Specification Manager
Lightolier
From 2004 through 2007 Meg was Lightolier's intelligent lighting specialist (iGEN). In this position with Lightolier, Meg had the opportunity to participate in the emerging sustainable and intelligent lighting design marketplace, traveling extensively within the United States and Canada.
Meg is specification sales manager in the New York metropolitan area for Lightolier/Philips.She serves as a member of IESNA Sustainable Design Committee, Board of Managers for IESNY and Chair of IESNY Program and Education Committee 2005-2009.
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 Grey Staples
President
The Mendota Group, LLC
651-204-0458
gstaples@mendotagroup.net
Mr. Staples has more than 15 years of experience in the utility industry, as a utility employee, as Congressional committee staff and as a consultant. He is currently President of The Mendota Group, LLC, a management consulting firm that provides strategic advice primarily to utilities in the areas of demand-side management, demand response and renewable energy. Prior to starting the Mendota Group, he served as Director of Financial Forecasting for Xcel Energy and Manager of DSM Strategy & Financial Operations.
Grey holds a B.A. in Economics from Occidental College and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
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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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 Daniel Trevino
Wattstopper/Legrand
Daniel is a lighting control professional with experience in lighting design, product development and lighting sales. Most recently he is working to develop new energy saving controls.
Mr. Trevino holds a BS in Architecture from Instituto Tecnologico Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico, a Master of Science in Lighting Design from Parsons School of Design in New York City and is working toward an MBA. He is currently the Daylighting Product Manager for Watt Stopper/Legrand, based in Santa Clara, CA. Here, he is responsible for developing and bringing to market new technologies in daylighting controls. He is currently working with the California Lighting Technology Center to design and test new daylighting harvesting technologies, including a low cost self commission daylighting photosensor.
Recently, he has given a number of presentations on daylighting topics for audiences at Lightfair, BACnet Building Automation and Sustainability Conference, the Sustainable Building Industry Council as well as Watt Stopper/Legrand-sponsored events, including the Lighting Control Solution for Daylit Spaces online Webinar.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Trevino worked as a district sales manager where he helped to build specifications in projects located all across Northern Mexico and as a lighting designer in the East Coast where he was involved in the design of projects which included bridges, monuments, museum exhibitions and a variety of commercial buildings.
He is a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).
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 Ronald Wilkinson, PE, LEEDTM
AKF Engineers, LLC
Ron Wilkinson authored the first USGBC LEED Cx training program and is a regular speaker at the National Conference on Building Commissioning.
On the HPAC editorial board, he has published in HPAC, ASHRAE journal and others. He earned his BSMAE at the Illinois Institute of Technology
in 1971 and his MPA from The Evergreen State College in 1985. He is currently with AKF Engineers, LLC, commissioning buildings in New York City.
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 Patrick Winkelman
Vice President Sales Americas
Distech Controls, Inc.
Patrick Winkelman has over 20 years of extensive experience in the
Building Automation Controls Industry, with fundamental training and
experience working with the major control manufactures in the business
development arena, providing HVAC controls and Mechanical Systems
consulting, retrofit design, performance contracting, and new
construction sales. For the past 10 years he has worked extensively
pioneering the introduction of Open Systems Solutions based upon
LonWorks, LNS and the Niagara Framework through the establishment of
distribution channels and influencing the acceptance of owners,
engineers and control contractors in the benefits and value of embracing
an Open System path. For the past 5 years, Patrick has worked with
Distech Controls, a manufacture of Open Building Automation Systems
based out of Montreal where he currently serves as the Vice present of
Sales for the Americas.
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 C-h Zah
Interface
C-h Zah is from Taiwan and has his MS from GA Tech Textile Engineering.
He has worked with Interface for 20 yrs on carpet and textile related
R&D. He is a member of SPE, AATCC, ACS, ASTM, BEPS, and IEEE
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 Ronald J. Zimmer, CAE
President & CEO
CABA
1173 Cyrville Road, Suite 210
Ottawa, ON K1J 7S6
Tel: 613.686.1814 (X230) or 888.798.CABA (2222)
Fax: 613.744.7833
E-mail: zimmer@caba.org
Web: www.caba.org
Ron Zimmer, President & CEO of the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), is committed to achieving the organization’s vision:
“The knowledge-based forum for industry leaders who advance the use of technology and integrated systems in the global home and building industry.”
Mr. Zimmer joined CABA in 1997 working with industry leaders who promote integrated systems and home/building automation throughout the world. CABA’s members include manufacturers, dealers, installers, service providers, energy utilities, builders, consultants, research organizations, publishers, educational institutions, governments, associations and content providers.
In addition to working closely with the CABA Board of Directors, Ron is actively involved with a number of industry Committees/Councils including the CABA Intelligent & Integrated Buildings Council, CABA Connected Home Council, Intelligent Buildings Leadership Forum Advisory Board, Building Intelligence Quotient Advisory Board and Life-Cycle Costs Analysis Advisory Board.
He was instrumental in establishing the CABA XML and Web Services Committee (oBIX), which now resides with OASIS. He was also on the transition team that integrated the Internet Home Alliance into CABA, creating the Internet Home Alliance Research Council, effective July 1, 2006.
Ron is a Certified Association Executive with over 25 years of Association Management experience. He has authored a number of articles and documents including, “Smart Communities: A Concept Paper,” and he regularly makes presentations on integrated buildings and home/building automation at industry events.
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