Stephen Land is one of the top international tax lawyers in the United States. Mr. Land is known for his creative problem-solving approach and his responsiveness to client needs. He has brought those skills to bear on some of the largest international M&A transactions and restructurings of distressed assets and companies. He regularly advises on tax and ERISA for real estate, private equity, and hedge funds and their investors, regarding both the structure of the funds and their investments. He also has extensive experience in the structuring of complex financial instruments and derivatives.

Recognized as a thought leader in the field, Mr. Land speaks regularly on tax topics at conferences in the United States and elsewhere. He is a recent Chair of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association, and has been published in The Tax Lawyer and Tax Law Review, among others. Mr. Land has been recognized as a leading tax practitioner by Chambers, Legal 500 and other legal directories.

As one of the top voiceover artists and narrators in the United States, Cynthia Adler has been the voice of Revlon, American Airlines, Swanson, Mercedes Benz, Pampers and many other companies. She was personally trained by Jim Henson and Frank Oz to create voices and characters for The Muppet Show, and is one of the top documentary narrators for HBO, Lifetime, Court TV, and PBS. She is also a socio-political satirist, and has had a very successful run of her multi-character one-woman show, “Downloaded…and in Denial.”

In addition to her work in film, television, and theater, Cynthia is a strong environmental advocate. She served for seven years as Environment Committee Co-chair for The Creative Coalition, an arts and entertainment organization dedicated to public education, environment, arts advocacy, and First Amendment rights. She also served for six years on the Board of Directors of the national environmental organization, INFORM.

Tristan R. Brown is Director of the Bioeconomy Development Institute and Associate Professor of Energy Resource Economics at SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry. He is also a member of the CLCPA’s Energy-Intensive and Trade Exposed Industries advisory panel and Bioeconomy subgroup. His research career has focused on climate and energy policy, and in that capacity he has worked on climate policy topics with entities including the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the International Energy Agency, and multiple state agencies across the U.S. He has a J.D. from the University of Missouri, a Ph.D. in Biorenewable Resources & Technology from Iowa State University, and is a member of the Missouri Bar.

Scott Chabina is the Founder and CEO of Chabina Energy Partners.

He formerly served as Director at Marathon Capital, a leading investment bank focused on the renewable energy and related global infrastructure sectors, where he led the company’s Renewable Fuels team. Scott has over 15 years of investment banking and financial advisory experience across various renewable energy segments including renewable natural gas (RNG), renewable diesel, renewable jet fuel, ethanol, carbon capture and sequestration, etc.

Prior to joining Marathon Capital, Scott was a Director at Carl Marks Advisors, a nationally recognized corporate restructuring and investment banking firm, where he established and co-led the renewable energy practice and successfully executed multiple engagements representing in excess of 4.0 billion gallons of aggregate production capacity in the ethanol industry alone.

Scott has successfully advised on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity capital raises, and complex financial restructuring assignments for companies, secured lenders, and creditors across a wide variety of industries in addition to renewable energy, including specialty chemicals, agriculture, infrastructure, consumer products, retail, healthcare, specialty finance, community banking, building materials, aerospace and defense, specialty foods, media, manufacturing, and automotive.

Scott was named as a "Top Ten New York Energy Financier" by Breaking Energy (2015), as well to the M&A Advisor's "40 Under 40" (2014). He served on the Board of Directors of the Turnaround Management Association (NYC Chapter) from 2013-18 and remains active in various relevant industry trade groups focused on renewable energy.

Scott earned a BA in Economics from Colgate University and holds his Series 7 and 63 licenses. He lives in New York City with his beautiful wife (Logan), amazing son (Benson), and overly anxious, but still adorable, dog (Tyson).

Harrison Clay serves as the Head of Biogas in the Energy Transition Group at Mercuria Energy. Prior to Mercuria, Harrison served as President of Clean Energy Renewable Fuels, a biogas production, marketing and distribution company, from its inception through its sale to BP in 2016. Harrison spent four years working in the Environmental Products group at BP in Strategic Development. Harrison lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife Chrissie and three children.

Johannes is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition For Renewable Natural Gas, Inc. (RNG Coalition), an international 501(c)(6) organization providing public policy advocacy and education on behalf of the renewable natural gas industry. The RNG Coalition was formed in July, 2011 to advocate for the advanced application of renewable natural gas from cellulosic waste streams, giving present and future generations access to a clean, domestic, renewable fuel and energy supply.

Mr. Escudero has more than fifteen years of organizational leadership experience, with a diverse background in nonprofit management, business development, higher education, politics, governmental, legislative and regulatory affairs. Prior to founding the RNG Coalition, he served as Legislative Director in the California State Assembly, serving ranking members of the Transportation, Utilities and Commerce, Natural Resources and Environmental Safety & Toxic Materials committees. Since 2008 he has also served as President of Escudero & Associates Inc. - a private firm that provides energy related services to clients, including members of the RNG Coalition.

Mr. Escudero completed his Master's Degree with honors in Leadership from Hope International University, where he is also an Adjunct Professor. He was ordained as a Pastor in 2006. Mr. Escudero has been married to his wife Tawni for nearly thirteen years. They have two children, Rori Lane (8 years) and Lincoln Brave (4 years).

Michael Gruen, a lawyer specialized in land conservation in New York City was named President of the City Club of New York in 2014. Founded in 1892, the City Club was once in the forefront of civic advocacy, fighting Tammany Hall in one era, Robert Moses in the next. This powerful good-government group went dormant for many decades but has now re-surfaced as an important voice for change.

Michael has been involved in environmental issues throughout his professional life. His activities have included legal representation, founding the Columbia (County) Land Conservancy, serving on the Streetscape and Law Committees of the Municipal Art Society, and organizing many continuing legal education programs focused on urban land use and environmental issues. He graduated from Harvard College in 1963 and from UCLA Law School in 1966.

Suzanne Hunt is Director, Policy for Generate Capital, a firm that builds, owns, operates, and finances sustainable infrastructure – meaning decentralized, democratized, digitized, and decarbonized projects. Generate works across a wide range of sectors in power, mobility, waste, and water across North America and in Europe.

Suzanne is also a Co-Owner of her family’s farm and winery Hunt Country Vineyards. She serves on the external Sustainability Council that advises the CEO and senior leadership of Bayer Corporation in Germany. She is an Associate at the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS) in Germany, a Northeast Chapter Director of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), and a member of the Agriculture and Forestry Advisory Panel to the NY Climate Action Council, and the NY Clean Transportation Roadmap Expert Advisory Board. She is also a Board Trustee of the Seneca Park Zoo Society, a Member of the Board of the Finger Lakes Wine Alliance, and she serves on the Advisory Council for the Center for Earth Ethics at the Union Divinity School. She is the Chair of the External Advisory Board to Cornell AgriTech and Chair of the Sustainability Advisory Committee to the NY Wine & Grape Foundation.

Suzanne has served as an advisor to entities such as the Club of Madrid, Air New Zealand, and the Carbon War Room. Suzanne was a founding advisor to the annual Art Center Sustainable Mobility Summit. From 2005–2007, Suzanne directed the Worldwatch Institute’s bioenergy program where she orchestrated the landmark research initiative and resulting book, “Biofuels for Transportation: Global Potential and Implications for Energy and Agriculture.” In 2007 she founded Hunt Green LLC whose clients have included a wide variety of private equity firms, U.N. bodies, government agencies, clean tech startups, Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits. In the spring of 2015, she moved the business from Washington D.C. to the Finger Lakes region of New York to help run her family’s seventh generation farm and 40-year-old sustainable winery (HuntWines.com), and to help accelerate climate action in her home state.

Suzanne has been featured as a “Pioneer” in Science Magazine, and as an expert in her fields in national and international print media and television.

John Magovern is a Vice President at Stifel, the St. Louis, MO based investment bank. In his current role, John is responsible for portfolio construction, market execution, and ongoing monitoring of investments on a leading private wealth management team. He also handles the marketing of transactions in the debt/equity capital market.

Previously, John was an analyst at an investment fund dedicated to deploying capital in Clean Development projects and making a market in EUAs and CERs (Carbon Credits). By 2009, John had transitioned to Barclays where he focused on implementing wealth management solutions for high net worth individuals, family offices, and institutions. His group at Barclays was acquired in 2015 by Stifel.

John grew up in Manhasset, NY. He graduated from Haverford College in 2008 where he majored in Growth and Structure of Cities. His Senior thesis, titled “Market Solutions to Environmental Problems” focused on the statutory carbon market created under the Kyoto Protocol.

Outside of work, John is actively involved with Haverford College’s network through “Fords in Finance”, an industry-specific alumni group he helped to found and where he is a member of the Executive Committee. John is a philanthropic supporter of Energy Vision and +Pool, (The World’s First Water-Filtering, Floating Pool). In his free time, he enjoys fishing, skiing, and surfing.

Victoria Rosamond is a passionate environmentalist and attorney, specializing in executive compensation and employee benefits. Her experience includes the drafting and design of compensation and benefit arrangements for US and multi-national public and private companies, including incentive and deferred compensation, bonus, stock option, restricted stock, and other equity and non-equity-based arrangements.

Victoria is also regularly called upon to provide clarity and guidance on compensation-related public disclosure obligations and corporate governance matters and best practices.
Victoria advises on compensation and benefits issues arising both day-to-day and in the context of corporate transactions and reorganizations. She has substantial knowledge of the tax, ERISA, securities and other regulatory issues relating to benefits and compensation arrangements, and strives at all times to maximize tax efficiency for her clients.

Brendan Sexton has played a civic leadership role in New York City for more than 20 years. Since 2001, he has been principal of Brendan Sexton and Associates, a consulting firm which specializes in environmental issues, community relations and urban initiatives. Before this, Brendan served in City government, as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations during the Koch Administration, and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, where, in l987, he called for the design and implemented NYC’s first major curbside recycling program. He continues to serve as the Chair of the New York City Procurement Policy Board, which has the legislative power to set the rules for contracting or purchasing by New York City agencies.
Brendan has also served as President of the Municipal Arts Society, Vice President for Government Affairs of The Rockefeller Group, a real estate and communications corporation, and, from 1998-2001, as President of the Times Square Business Improvement District.

He serves on the board of Friends of Island Academy, providing counseling and support to disadvantaged youth in New York City. He has managed to accomplish all of the above while serving in one of his most important roles: as the father of ten children.

Simon is the Executive Director of CIV:LAB, a non-profit dedicated to scaling solutions for cities globally. Previously, Simon was the Managing Director at Global Futures Group, spearheading products and programs driving urban innovation and co-founded and produced Smart Cities New York, North America’s largest smart city event and global convening of Mayors, where he led strategy and business development. During the Obama administration Simon was a Strategic Advisor to the US Department of Commerce and the International Trade Administration on cities.

He is in his fifth year as an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Center for Global Affairs where he created the masters course, Global Entrepreneurship. Simon is also a Business Advisory Board Member for Imperial Business School’s Global MBA. Simon is an appointed member of the Brooklyn Innovation Council, an Advisor for Company (formerly GCT), a mentor for Dreamit Ventures and the Founder of Urban Data NYC - NYC’s largest smart city Meetup (+1,500 members). Simon holds an MS in Global Affairs from NYU where he was the O'Mara Energy Fellow and a Shell New Energy Fellow and a BS Honours in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Sussex.

Joanna Underwood, the founder of Energy Vision, launched the organization in 2007 and served as President until 2016. Its goal has been to identify and promote the clean, renewable and carbon-free energy technologies and fuel sources needed for a sustainable future.

From l974 through 2006, she was founder and President of INFORM, a national non-profit organization studying a variety of corporate and technology-related environmental issues, and focused on strategies to prevent these at their source. In the transportation sector, INFORM explored alternatives to petroleum-based vehicle fuel. Its studies pioneered in highlighting the potential of natural gas fuel as a vehicle fuel (Drive for Clean Air - l989) and homed in on its value for heavy-duty fleets: (Bus Futures-2000) and (Greening Garbage Trucks-2003). These reports, related workshops, and media helped drive the expanding use of natural gas buses and trucks.

Energy Vision’s early outreach inspired the first major refuse fleet conversion (2007) in the Eastern U.S (Smithtown, NY). A 2013 EV report, Tomorrow’s Trucks: Leaving the Era of Oil Behind, documents the ten-fold expansion in NG fleets in the NY, Long Island and New Jersey region since then. EV’s research since 2010 has also made this organization a leading educator regarding the sustainable form of natural gas, Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). EV participated in planning the Department of Energy’s first national workshop (2010) introducing the DOE’s Clean Cities affiliates to RNG, and it has published several reports on RNG since then. EV released Turning Wastes into Vehicle Fuel: A Step by Step Guide for Communities in 2013 and launched a series of regional workshops with Clean Cities affiliates to introduce this strategy.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Ms. Underwood, in l999, received an honorary doctor of science degree from Wheaton College.She has spoken on alternative fuels topics at many national business, government, and university conferences, and has served on advisory boards for the US Department of Energy and the Clinton Administration’s President’s Council on Sustainable Development. She served on the Board on the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority from l979 to 1999. Ms. Underwood has received numerous awards, including three from the US Environmental Protection Agency. She was chosen by The Earth Times as one of the world's 100 most influential voices in the global environmental movement.