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Michael Potts, Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute, is a former Managing Partner with Galway Investments, an investment firm focused on alternative public offering strategies for small-cap and mid-cap companies, and a consultant. Prior to Galway, he served as CEO for American Fundware and Vice President of Public Sector Solutions at Intuit. His 25 years' experience in high-tech sales and marketing, and general management, began with IBM, BancTec, Recognition International, and American Fundware. Potts currently serves on RMI's Board of Trustees, as well as the boards of the Business School at the University of Colorado in Denver, Denver's Curious Theater, and Kripalu Center, the nation's largest spiritual retreat center. A Denver resident, Potts will be based in RMI's Boulder, Colorado office. More to come soon.

Marty Pickett, Executive Director, received her master's degree in land-use planning and community development from the University of Colorado and a law degree from the University of Denver. She manages RMI's staff, handles all Institute operations, and takes an active role in the leadership and direction of RMI's Research & Consulting. Since 1991, she has represented RMI on various legal issues, including the Institute's purchase of an interest in and creation of the conservation easement on the Windstar Land Conservancy land in 1996. She was a founding partner in the Aspen law firm of McFlynn Pickett & Whitsitt in 1989. For several years, she was a presenter at the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, headquartered in Denver, on the topic of legislative land-use issues. She is the organist at the Snowmass Chapel where her husband, Edgell Pyles, is the chaplain, and she rides regularly in local rodeo events.

John Waters is Team Leader of the RMI Breakthrough Design Team. Mr. Waters is an engineer and business development professional with 20 years' experience in product design, strategic planning, and production of engineered products and solutions. Mr. Waters currently leads the Team in providing whole-system solutions for the industrial and environmental sectors. Previously, Mr. Waters was vice president of business development for EnerDel, Inc.—a lithium battery joint venture with Delphi Corporation. He led, planned, and completed the joint venture while developing new markets, commercial sales, strategic partnerships, and managing state and federal lobbying efforts. Before EnerDel, Mr. Waters worked for Delphi Corporation, where he oversaw Delphi's production of lithium battery products and advanced energy storage systems for electric and hybrid vehicles. Prior to Delphi, Mr. Waters worked for Electronic Data Systems Corporation, where he led the design and production of the battery pack system for General Motors' first electric vehicle and subsequent electric vehicles (i.e., GM's EV1, and the Electric S-10). His invention of the EV1 structural battery tray won the Society of Plastic Engineers' automotive design "Grand Award for 1996." He began his career at Texas Instruments, Inc., designing and implementing automated (robotic) manufacturing centers for the U.S. Air Force and General Motors. He holds four U.S. and two international patents, has written two defensive papers on battery pack designs, and has received numerous industry awards. He has a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Arkansas. Download full bio…

Michael Brylawski, Principal, is working with Winning the Oil Endgame implementation efforts and the Breakthrough Design Team. Now in his second tenure with RMI, his diverse work portfolio includes positions at a top-tier management-consulting firm, a Fortune 50 aerospace company, and several roles within RMI in the 1990s, including co-founding RMI’s spinoff Hypercar, Inc. (now Fiberforge). He holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management (where he was a Leader for Manufacturing Fellow), an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and a BS with honors in Earth Systems Science from Stanford University. He brings to RMI functional expertise in whole-systems design, market research, operations, competitive and strategic analysis, financial modeling, technology strategy, and corporate venturing. Most recently, Mr. Brylawski was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG, he worked in a variety of industries—including medical devices, athletic footwear and apparel, aerospace, and vacation ownership. His work included advising senior management on implementing innovative strategic planning processes; reconfiguring the supply chain to speed concept-to-shelf times; and conducting primary market research to unearth latent customer needs. Prior to BCG, he worked for Boeing’s Australian subsidiary Hawker de Havilland, where he advised senior management on non-core growth strategies in the aerostructures market, and established a corporate venturing program that led to two new product initiatives. During his first tenure at RMI, Mr. Brylawski was Senior Research Associate, where he led research and consulting engagements with automotive OEMs and suppliers on efficient light-vehicle design and advanced technology adoption strategies. He coauthored five technical papers and the pioneering study Hypercars: Materials, Manufacturing, and Policy Implications, lectured and spoke widely, and was named a “Thought Leader” by Ideascope. At Hypercar, Inc., he was co-founder and Vice President of market development. He was responsible for creating and leading the firm’s business and market planning processes, including authoring the company’s business plans and pro forma financials, and leading primary and secondary market research. He co-resides in Los Angeles and Snowmass, Colo., and is an avid biker, snowboarder, and (aspiring) surfer.

John Holmes, Senior Consultant

Stephanie L. Johns, a Fellow with RMI's Breakthrough Design Team, has a degree in engineering sciences from Dartmouth College with a minor in earth sciences and an ABET-accredited engineering degree from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Ms. Johns concentrated her studies in mechanical engineering, and has her Engineer-In-Training (EIT) certificate (state of New Hampshire). Her project work included the mechanical design, engineering, and fabrication of a remote control vehicle and a sailboat, as well as the design of a nano-satellite release mechanism. She worked in the Thayer School Machine Shop to gain hands-on experience fabricating components, and she also taught other students in the shop. Before joining Rocky Mountain Institute, Ms. Johns completed an ecological design program at the Ecosa Institute in Prescott, Arizona, where she studied architecture, bioclimatic design, and sustainable materials, and participated in design charrettes. At RMI she is involved in research on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), advanced energy storage systems, and energy efficiency in the trucking industry, as well as ongoing efforts to implement the strategies put forward in Winning the Oil Endgame. She loves to travel and hike in the mountains, and enjoys cooking with friends whenever she can.

Alexis Karolides, a Principal with the RMI Breakthrough Design Team, is a registered architect who came to Rocky Mountain Institute with six years of experience in commercial, institutional, and industrial architecture. Her consulting projects for RMI's Green Development Services have included a retrofit project at Hickam Air Force Base to set a new "green" standard for the Air Force, a prototype energy-efficient supermarket for Stop & Shop, a sustainable design and energy plan for Madison, Wisc., environmental consulting for the Wildlife Conservation Society, and campus-wide energy planning and building retrofit strategies for Berea College. She has also provided educational seminars and integrated design workshops for communities, businesses, and institutions, including Shell, Perrier, the Departments of Environmental Protection and Urban Planning in Tianjin, China, and the cities of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. Ms. Karolides is a frequent speaker at national conferences and guest lecturer at colleges and universities; she was the sole representative for the United States at the First International Symposium on Urban Eco Sustainability in Padua, Italy. As a frequent contributor for broadcast and print media, she provides input on topics of energy efficiency, healthy design, and environmental sensitivity for commercial and residential building projects. Ms. Karolides graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College with a bachelor of arts degree in physics and distinction for research work on solar and alternative energy systems. Following a Richter Fellowship in Germany, where she studied post-war architecture, Ms. Karolides completed a master of architecture degree at Rice University. Prior to coming to RMI, she was a project architect and sustainability manager for STG in Austin, a team member with the health care design firm Polkinghorn Cline, and a member of the Austin Sustainable Building Coalition and the local AIA Chapter Sustainability Committee. She was also an adjunct faculty member at Austin Community College in the Building Construction Technology Department. Download full bio…

Jonathan Kevles, Fellow with the RMI Breakthrough Design Team. Mr. Kevles is a California native, born and bred in Pasadena. Jonathan attended Princeton University, graduating in 1990 with a BA Comparative Literature. After college, he worked on various Los Angeles area political campaigns and for various local elected officials. From 1995 to 1998, Jonathan earned from UCLA an MBA and a Master’s in Urban Planning, the latter with a focus on Economic Development. His favorite moments at UCLA involved teaching a two-week MBA to Head Start Directors from around the country. Following graduate school, Jonathan worked in real estate finance consulting and strategy consulting for public agencies, non-profits and internet-based start-ups. In 2001, Jonathan served in Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn’s Office of Economic Development, and was named Deputy Mayor for Economic Development in 2002. As Deputy Mayor, Jonathan was responsible for business attraction, retention, and expansion, streamlining the real estate development approvals bureaucracy, increasing the housing stock with a focus on smart growth projects, and nurturing specific industry clusters which included an effort to create a new association to support the growing Environmental Technologies Industry in Southern California. In October, 2003, Jonathan became the Regional Administrator for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, where he was responsible for CRA Project Areas in Watts, Wilmington, and San Pedro, and a major 22 acre redevelopment project in the Crenshaw district next to the Magic Johnson theaters. The mission of the CRA is to revitalize communities through the redevelopment of blighted real estate. In October 2005, Jonathan resigned from the CRA to shift his career to focus on Urban Sustainability. After some travel in Central America and performing some pro bono work for the United Nation’s Millennium Project, Jonathan began work in July, 2006 at the Rocky Mountain Institute, where as a Fellow he is focusing on how to help cities succeed in their efforts to achieve their sustainability goals. Jonathan has lived for extended periods in England, France, Italy, Mexico, and Guatemala, trekked in Nepal, camped all over the American West, and can instantaneously alphabetize the letters in words or phrases of up to sixteen letters.

Michael Kinsley, a Senior Consultant with the RMI Breakthrough Design Team, co-founded RMI's Economic Renewal program in 1982. He holds a BS in political science from the University of Houston and has taken advanced environmental and governmental management training. As the Institute's senior practitioner of techniques for creating sustainable local economies, he has provided economic development planning, facilitation, and training to communities in forty states and three foreign countries. He is the author of the Economic Renewal Guide (1997)—a distillation of nearly three decades' experience—and several papers addressing community growth issues and sustainable development alternatives. As a Pitkin County (Colorado) Commissioner (1975–85), Mr. Kinsley pioneered programs in affordable housing, environmental and growth management, fiscal efficiency, and economic stability. A former journalist, he co-founded the Western Colorado Congress and a community-based mediation service, for two years chaired the Governor's Health Coordinating Council, and for four years directed the Pitkin County Environmental Task Force. He serves on numerous local committees and organizations. Outside of work, his two passions are kayaking and painting. He has won several local awards for his landscape paintings. Download full bio…

Michael Ogburn, a Consultant with RMI's Breakthrough Design Team, has worked in alternative energy and efficient transportation systems for nine years. While employed as a product development engineer with Ford Motor Company, he worked on the hybrid-electric Escape SUV and on the team of Fuel Cell System Engineers, which created Ford's hydrogen powered Focus FCV. His experience also includes Ballard, Ford's Atlanta Assembly Plant, Cummins Diesel, and GE's aircraft engine division. Mr. Ogburn received two degrees from Virginia Tech: a BSME and an MSME with specialization in hydrogen fuel cell systems for transportation. For three years at Virginia Tech, he led a team of more than 50 engineering students who designed, developed, and drove the world's first fuel cell hybrid five-passenger sedan not built by a major auto company. As part of his research on fuel cells, Mr. Ogburn worked collaboratively with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy to develop advanced hybrid vehicles and the "ADVISOR" vehicle modeling software. Mr. Ogburn grew up in a passive solar home in the Appalachian Mountains and is an avid outdoor enthusiast. In an unusual mix of work interests and travel, he recently retrofitted a cruising sailboat with solar energy systems and sailed it to South America and back.

Jeff Ronning, PE, is a Senior Consultant with the RMI Breakthrough Design Team. Mr. Ronning has substantial experience in hybrid and electric vehicle systems architecture as well as thermal systems design. An engineer by training, he maintains a strong interest in the physics that underlie design parameters. As a result, he often proves design capabilities in working hardware, although he also makes extensive use of a wide range of thermal, fluid dynamics, and chemical computer analysis tools. In the mid- 1990s, he became one of a few visionary pioneers advocating plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. He is passionate about the pursuit of efficiency solutions that are practical and robust and that are enabled by the primary technologies we enjoy today. Download full bio…

Greg Franta, FAIA, Principal Architect and Team Leader, RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team. Since the early 1970s, Greg Franta, FAIA, has pioneered environmentally sustainable architecture around the world. From 1981 to 2005, Mr. Franta led ENSAR Group in providing services on more 800 energy efficient and environmentally sound projects, including offices, laboratories, educational buildings, health facilities, libraries, homes (including the White House), and other buildings—many considered the most energy efficient in the United States. Mr. Franta's work is widely recognized and he is the recipient of the 1998 AIA Colorado Architect of the Year Award. Mr. Franta has been instrumental in developing new environmental resources and design methodologies for architects. He has served on the National Board of Directors for the American Institute of Architects and is a co-founder (past Chairman) of the AIA Committee on the Environment. Mr. Franta is currently chairman of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council. He participated in the development of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program, he is a LEED Accredited Professional, LEED trainer for USGBC, and part of the LEED certification team for the USGBC.

Steve Brauneis is a Sustainable Design Consultant with the RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team. Mr. Brauneis has worked in sustainable building design, eco-efficiency program design and implementation, sustainable building material purchasing, construction, environmental education, health care and commercial sustainability program development. His experience includes sustainable product identification, vehicle purchasing and usage optimization, recycling program design and implementation, and LEED submittal preparation. Mr. Brauneis's work includes engaging materials suppliers, contractors, architects, designers, specifiers, industry groups, and non-governmental organizations in identifying opportunities for positive environmental, social, and economic performance. He has participated in the design of a number of building projects, including retail, office, housing, manufacturing, school, and mixed-use projects. He is a graduate of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and holds a masters degree in international environmental policy. Mr. Brauneis is accredited under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.

Cara Taverna Carmichael, Consultant, RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team, has a degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ms. Carmichael has experience with sustainable design, energy analysis, charrette development, computer modeling, and natural daylighting techniques. She has consulted on a range of projects including daylighting and energy studies for schools, retail, and national park facilities, and has developed sustainable design guidelines internationally. Ms. Carmichael has also managed project data for an in-depth laboratory case study evaluated by the Green Building Tool, an international green building rating system. She has managed the LEED certification process for several projects of various types. She is currently involved with the creation and development of the Sustainable Travel International STEP eco-certification training program and is on the Core Committee for the LEED for Existing Buildings system. She is a LEED 2.0 Accredited Professional.

Aalok Deshmukh, Senior Consultant with the RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team, has experience using a variety of building simulation tools, including energy simulation and computational fluid dynamics tools. He has experience in building commissioning, retro-commissioning, energy auditing, building energy analysis, and sustainable consulting. He has a master's degree in building design with an emphasis in energy and climate from Arizona State University. At ASU, Mr. Deshmukh was involved in research projects ranging from testing thermal performance of building materials in the sun (for mitigation of thermal stress in outdoor areas) to updating web resources for an environmental assessment tool. Mr. Deshmukh earned a degree from the Academy of Architecture in Mumbai, India, after which he worked in India as an architect; he was also briefly involved in research and teaching. He has published and presented several peer-reviewed technical and research papers at national and international conferences. He has also participated successfully, as team leader and as team member, in several architectural competitions. He is a LEED Accredited Professional, a part of the LEED project certification review team for the USGBC and a licensed architect in India. He has a keen interest in the development and application of appropriate technologies, standards, and rating systems as they pertain to energy use and the environmental impact of buildings—in both India and the developing world in general. Download full bio…

Josh Hathaway, RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team
Biography coming soon.

Ashley Muse, Consultant, RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team. Ms. Muse's experience includes sustainable design consulting and technical analysis within the building industry. She has experience in the LEED certification process, daylighting analysis, green materials selection, and green building education. Ashley received her degree in environmental design from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has previously worked on design, master planning, and historic preservation at several Colorado architectural firms. Ashley is a LEED Accredited Professional and part of the LEED project certification review team. She also volunteers within the U.S. Green Building Council as a member of the National Emerging Green Builders Core Committee and founder/chair of the Colorado Chapter's Emerging Green Builders group.

Victor Olgyay, Principal, RMI/ENSAR Built Environment Team. Mr. Olgyay has a wide range of experiences in architectural design, planning, laboratory design and integration, environmental and acoustical systems, with specialization in lighting and daylighting design. While spending eight years as an associate professor of architecture at the University of Hawaii, Mr. Olgyay was named Director of Research with various lighting and daylighting research projects for federal and state agencies. Mr. Olgyay's breadth in lighting and daylighting design ranges from small private residences to large university campuses.

John Anderson, a Principal with RMI's Energy & Resources Team, has had a distinguished 25-year career in clean energy technology and markets. After receiving his MSME from the Solar Energy Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he worked for SERI, the Solar Energy Research Institute, then its successor, NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. As a researcher at SERI/NREL he worked on both energy technology and energy policy projects around the world. He contributed to or managed work on buildings, solar thermal power, solar chemistry, and geothermal projects. At NREL, his clients included the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the U.S. DOE and USAID, and he worked on projects in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region, the Middle East, and North Africa. Mr. Anderson left NREL in 1999 to found and manage the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF), which was focused on making commercial-grade investments in the clean energy sector. While at CCEF, he established the Fund's operations, hired the original staff, and identified, developed, and closed the initial investments. After leaving CCEF, Mr. Anderson consulted for small energy technology companies and institutions on strategic business plans. Mr. Anderson and his family enjoy backpacking, mountain biking, hiking, backcountry skiing, and snowboarding. He is also heavily involved in local efforts to promote the development of Clean Technology companies in Colorado through the Colorado CleanTech Initiative.

Lionel Bony, Analyst for Winning the Oil Endgame. His focus will be on biofuels. Mr. Bony is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (HBS) MBA program. At HBS, Lionel's passion for the environment drew him to become a vice president of the Business and Environment Club, and the president of the school's Net Impact chapter. He also launched HBS's Annual Green Week, a series of events aimed at raising environmental awareness on campus. Before attending business school, Lionel worked for Conservation International in Bolivia, where he was in charge of the NGO's ecotourism strategy and marketing activities. In this position, Lionel collaborated on a variety of projects with international tourists as well as native entrepreneurs in the Amazon part of the country. Prior to this experience, Lionel spent three years at L'Oréal, first as a financial analyst in Madrid, and then as a shampoo and haircare product manager in Paris.

Lena Hansen is a Consultant with RMI's Energy & Resources Team. She holds a master's degree in environmental economics and policy from Duke University, where she was the first recipient of a certificate in energy and environment. She also holds a bachelor's degree in physics with astronomy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Hansen is RMI's project leader for biofuels, and is working to implement the biofuels strategies put forward in RMI's 2004 book Winning the Oil Endgame. She is currently working with the State of Hawaii to assess biofuel's potential and to develop a program to accelerate the development of a biofuels industry within the state. Ms. Hansen also manages and contributes to consulting projects on demand-side management, renewable energy integration, and greenhouse gas strategies for electric utilities. Building upon her master's thesis, she has done extensive research on methods for managing the variability of wind power. Before coming to RMI, she organized a national conference on energy sustainability for leaders from industry, politics, and nonprofits. Ms. Hansen is a private pilot, a former theatrical stage manager, and an outdoor enthusiast, and she is, slowly but surely, learning to ski. Download full bio…

Virginia Lacy, is an Analyst with the RMI Energy & Resources Team and contributes to projects undertaken by RMI's Built Environment Team. Virginia is working with the State of Hawaii in the development of a twenty year energy strategy for the islands. She also works closely with the Hawaiian Electric Light Company’s (HELCO) Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) advisory group, providing analysis for the proper valuation of renewable energy and distributed generation projects. Virginia first joined RMI in June 2005 as a summer intern while earning her master’s degree with Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she focused in energy policy and investment. At Yale, Virginia served as the co-coordinator of the Yale Climate Initiative, an ongoing effort to recommend and implement greenhouse gas mitigation strategies at the University. Prior to her graduate studies, Virginia was a research analyst with the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a socially responsible investment research firm, where she analyzed the environmental performance of S&P 1500 companies for institutional investors and other clients. Prior to joining IRRC, Virginia worked in the political arena in Washington, D.C., serving as the Special Assistant to the Chairman of League of Conservation Voters (LCV). Ms. Lacy has a Master’s of Environmental Management from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Virginia.

Luisa Lombera, Analyst with the RMI Energy & Resources Team
Biography coming soon.

Christina Page is a Senior Consultant with the RMI Energy & Resources Team and project leader for RMI's educational initiatives. She received her bachelor's degree in environmental studies and religious studies magna cum laude from Brown University, and a master's degree in environmental studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her recent work has included creating a computer-based tool for modeling carbon dioxide emissions, creating a semester-long course on RMI's concepts for graduate students at Peking University's School for the Environment in Beijing, China, and various other aspects of RMI's work. Ms. Page has taught classes on sustainability frameworks and solutions at Colorado Mountain College's Aspen campus and has developed curriculum on natural capitalism for MBA students. She also managed a project funded by the Joyce Foundation to introduce Chicago area businesses to the principles of natural capitalism. An educator with more than twelve years' experience on three continents, Ms. Page worked as an instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School teaching wilderness skills, community building, risk assessment, ecology and leadership to college students, teachers, businessmen and Ugandan park rangers. In the early '90s, she wrote interviews, newscasts, and satirical pieces for "Living on Earth," National Public Radio's weekly program on the environment. While at Yale, Ms. Page specialized in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and was awarded the Environmental Protection Agency's STAR fellowship for scientific research in conservation. She is a member of Mountain Rescue Aspen, one of the country's top volunteer search and rescue teams, and is an avid telemark skier and birder. Download full bio…

Aaron Silverman, is a Fellow with the Energy & Resources Team. Aaron contributes to RMI consulting projects for utilities, governments, and industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Yale University. Since joining RMI, Aaron has worked primarily on a project with the State of Hawaii to develop its long-term energy strategy and reduce the state’s vulnerabilities stemming from its current oil dependence. Among his responsibilities, Aaron has led the analysis of historical energy demands across all sectors. Prior to joining RMI, Aaron worked for Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm, and for Search for Common Ground, a conflict resolution NGO based in Washington, DC. While a consultant at Bain, Aaron contributed to case teams in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, health care, consumer products, and financial services. During his tenure at Search for Common Ground, Aaron worked with a team to organize a long-term dialogue focused on reducing the number of child soldiers serving in militias around the world.

Katherine Wang, is a Principal with the Energy & Resources Team. Ms. Wang has an MS in environmental engineering and science and a BS in civil engineering, both from Stanford University. She contributes to and manages RMI consulting projects for utilities, governments, and industry. Ms. Wang has extensive experience in the power utility industry, energy efficiency, and carbon management. She worked for Utility Engineering as a field mechanical engineer on Xcel Energy's Metro Emissions Reduction Project, overseeing the installation of three scrubber units at two large power stations in Denver and Boulder. Ms. Wang's prior employers also include the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy in Washington DC and the energy and environmental consulting firm Econergy International Corporation in Boulder, where she was a project engineer. Ms. Wang is a member of the Society of Women Engineers and has held various committee posts with that organization. She is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding, and rock climbing. Download full bio…

Nathan Glasgow is Special Aide to RMI Chairman Amory Lovins and a Senior Consultant advising RMI clients in the energy, commercial, and industrial sectors. He received his bachelors degree in human biology from Stanford and his masters degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has experience in green building, environmental science, and information technology. At RMI, Mr. Glasgow serves as a liaison between Mr. Lovins and RMI's Research & Consulting Teams while leading in the development and delivery of products and services for clients. He is a coauthor of RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame, which details how the United States—led by business for profit—can revitalize its economy and transition away from oil dependence within a few decades. He performed extensive modeling for the implementation and business-case sections of the report, including construction of the light-vehicle cohort model. In his free time, he enjoys bicycling; he has raced competitively and has ridden across the United States. He is also an avid outdoorsman, and enjoys hiking, surfing, and backcountry and lift-accessed skiing. Download full bio…

Kenneth Scott Pugh graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1976 with a bachelor's degree in physics and completed naval nuclear propulsion training at Mare Island, California and Idaho Falls, Idaho. Later he earned a master's degree in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His early navy assignments included three nuclear attack submarines and duty as a member of the Atlantic Fleet Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board. From 1994 until 1996 he served as Commanding Officer USS Whale (SSN–638), homeported in Groton, Connecticut. Whale was decommissioned in June 1996 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard after 30 years of service and having depleted its second reactor core. From 1996 through 1999, Mr. Pugh served as the U.S. Pacific Fleet Submarine Force Operations Officer at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. From 1999 to 2002 he served in the Navy Special Programs Office in the Pentagon. Mr. Pugh was assigned as the Dean of Science and Mathematics at the Naval Academy from 2002 to 2005, where he also taught ethics and physics to future Navy and Marine Corps officers. He retired from Navy active duty as a Captain in October 2005 and uses his background in science, technology, engineering, nuclear power and education to pursue study of national and global energy challenges. In January 2006 he became the executive director of the U.S. Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. In May 2006 he also assumed responsibilities as full-time Military Principal at Rocky Mountain Institute.

Imran Sheikh, Factor Ten Engineering (10xE, www.10xE.org) Research Fellow in the Office of the Chairman, received his Bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in Biomedical Engineering. While at the UW, he earned an Environmental Studies Certificate from the Nelson Institute which sparked his interest in system modeling and energy issues. Prior to joining RMI, he worked in the medical device industry doing research and development for Datex-Ohmeda, Agilent Technologies, and CardioDynamics with a focus on software development and digital signal processing. At RMI Mr. Sheikh is working on 10xE, an engineering education initiative that uses case studies to teach engineering students and practicing engineers how to develop far more resource efficient (and more profitable) solutions through integrative design. Mr. Sheikh is laying the foundation for this ambitious project by collecting cases, building a network of experts on integrative design, presenting at conferences, and writing articles in engineering publications. In his free time Mr. Sheikh enjoys exploring the Colorado backcountry, fishing, road biking, and landscape photography. He is an avid telemark and alpine skier who loves the deep dry powder that covers the area mountains on occasion.

Aaron Westgate, Special Assistant to RMI Chairman Amory Lovins, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pomona College in 2005. At Pomona, Mr. Westgate studied Environmental Analysis with an emphasis on energy policy and economics, as well as graphic and ceramic arts. He worked for the University of Hawaii Office of Sustainability where he drafted the school's first Charter of Sustainability, and worked for two years with Energy Harvester Inc., a solar energy company based in Southern California. Mr. Westgate's more recent endeavors have focused on integrating creative arts with environmental performance as expressed through whole-system architectural design. He has worked at Yestermorrow Design/Build School and continued applied ecological design work in Costa Rica until arriving at RMI in May ‘06. Here in Snowmass, Mr. Westgate provides planning and communications assistance to Mr. Lovins while managing several design projects at the headquarters building, including a comprehensive renovation of the greenhouse. Beyond the office, you're likely to find Aaron knee deep in fresh powder, painting with watercolors, or strumming his guitar.

William D. Browning, HAIA, is one of the world's leading practitioners and spokespersons for sustainable building design and real estate development. His career has taken sustainability in the built environment from being an abstract idea to being a solid aesthetic, technical, and economic consideration. Mr. Browning had key roles in creating both the U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED™ rating system, and is active on the USGBC Board and LEED committees. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Rocky Mountain Institute, a partner in a new green development consulting firm, Browning + Bannon LLC, and a principal in Haymount, an extraordinary green new-town development in Virginia. In 1991, Mr. Browning created Green Development Services (GDS), a group within RMI whose purpose is to help to define and promote energy-efficient and environmentally responsive design. Now known as the Built Environment Team, GDS's services were based largely on new thinking about basic real-estate principles that Mr. Browning developed while pursuing his master's degree in real estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While earning his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Mr. Browning specialized in energy-conscious architecture and resource management. Mr. Browning led the greening of the White House, and has consulted on more than 300 green development projects worldwide. Representative projects include Four Times Square, Wal-Mart, the Pentagon, Monsanto, Lucasfilm, Habitat for Humanity International, U.S. Naval Facilities Command, a speculative office prototype for Hines, and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Mr. Browning lectures extensively throughout the world. His books include A Primer on Sustainable Building, and the groundbreaking text Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate. He co-authored the influential Greening the Building and the Bottom Line: Increasing Productivity through Energy-Efficient Design, which presented a new economic case for green design in the workplace based on higher worker productivity, lower absenteeism, fewer errors, better quality, and increased sales. Mr. Browning's work has been featured in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, and on broadcasts by NPR, CNN, and PBS. He advises the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, and The Trust for Public Land. He serves on the Board of Greening America, has served as national real estate advisor for The Nature Conservancy, and is on the Interface Eco-Dream Team. Among his numerous honors, he was MIT's Public-Sector Fellow at the Center for Real Estate in 1991, he received MIT's Charles H. Spaulding Award in 1995, Honorary AIA membership in 2001, and the USGBC Leadership Award in 2004.

Jonathan Koomey, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with Rocky Mountain Institute. He holds MS and PhD degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley, and an AB, cum laude, in the history of science from Harvard University. Dr. Koomey is a coauthor of RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security. He also participated in RMI's Low-Power Data Centers Charrette. Dr. Koomey is on leave from his position as staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a position he has held since 1991. He is author or co-author of seven books and more than one hundred articles and reports on energy efficiency, climate change, and environmental policy. His most recent book is Turning Numbers Into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving. He has lectured at the Central European University in Budapest and University of California, Berkeley. In 2002, he was Visiting Scholar for the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Sydney. Dr. Koomey has served as consultant for the International Energy Agency in Paris. He served on the City of Berkeley Energy Commission for four years. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Contemporary Economic Policy, and has appeared on PBS's Nova/Frontline, CNBC, NPR's All Things Considered, KQED radio, and other broadcast outlets. Dr. Koomey received the 1994 National Research Council award for excellence in transportation research. He practices Aikido, plays classical contrabass, and is an amateur astronomer.

Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn, U.S. Navy, retired, is a Senior Fellow in International Security, at RMI. He is working with RMI CEO Amory Lovins and other policy experts on national security issues. Vice Adm. McGinn is a 1967 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He also attended the Naval War College and the Program for Senior Officials in National Security at Harvard University, and served as a chief of naval operations fellow on the Strategic Studies Group. He is a designated naval aviator, test pilot, and national security strategist. In 1995 Vice Adm. McGinn served as commander, Carrier Group One, responsible for operational training and combat readiness for all Pacific Fleet carrier battle groups. He was assigned as director of the Air Warfare Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1996. In 1998, he became commander of the U.S. Third Fleet. Vice Adm. McGinn assumed duties as the deputy chief of naval operations, warfare requirements and programs in 2000.

Dr. Eric Rasmussen, an Adjunct Research Scholar and Consultant, is a Navy physician, an instructor in humanitarian medicine for the United Nations, a medical evaluator for torture victims, and a Principal Investigator for both DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the National Science Foundation. He has served in nuclear submarines, on aircraft carriers, on the ground in Bosnia and Africa, and as the Fleet Surgeon for the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet. His current focus is medical support to humanitarian operations.

Norman Smith, a Senior Adjunct Associate based in New Zealand, has carried out RMI economic renewal programs with support from the Tindall Foundation and EECA, an organization that applies New Zealand government strategies for energy efficiency. He has established energy management programs at two tertiary institutions and has done research in residential energy efficiency. He has set up residential energy efficiency installation businesses to manifest the economic, social, employment, health and environmental benefits of energy efficiency. Mr. Smith collaborated with RMI for several years before the formal establishment of an RMI presence in New Zealand.

Robert C. Wilkinson, PhD, a Senior Fellow with Rocky Mountain Institute, is also a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program and in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For the past five years he has served as coordinator for the climate impacts assessment of the California Region for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy through the National Center for Geographical Information Analysis at UCSB's Department of Geography. Dr. Wilkinson's teaching and research focus is on environmental policy issues, water policy, climate change, and sustainable communities. Dr. Wilkinson consults for corporations, governments, foundations, and non-profit organizations in the United States and internationally on water, energy, environment, and resource issues. He is a founding member of the California Environmental Dialogue, and he was a founding participant in the Aspen Institute's The Environment in the 21st Century. Dr. Wilkinson advises various government agencies, including the California Department of Water Resources on state water planning and the California Energy Commission on climate and energy research. In 1990, Dr. Wilkinson established and directed the Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the Central European University based in Budapest, Hungary. He has worked extensively in Western Europe and in every country of Central Europe, from Albania to the Baltic States, and throughout the former Soviet Union, including Siberia and Central Asia. He has also worked in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa, and China.

Cameron M. Burns, Staff Editor, received a bachelor's degree in environmental design from the University of Colorado, and has done graduate work in environmental management at Harvard. Mr. Burns is editor of RMI's newsletter RMI Solutions, the Institute's annual report, and he copyedits and contributes to dozens of consulting reports, conference papers, and other RMI publications every month. His articles about RMI's work have been reprinted in magazines, on websites, and in books around the world. He also authors two monthly columns for the Institute: one for Nikkei Ecology magazine, the other for the Aspen Daily News. Outside RMI, he has authored, co-authored, or contributed to nineteen books, and thousands of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, and has won twenty-six national and regional awards for his writing including the North American Association of Travel Journalists' 2002 "Book of the Year" award. His book Postcards from the Trailer Park: The Secret Lives of Climbers was a finalist in the 2004 Banff Mountain Book Festival and World Mountaineering, which he coauthored, won the Festival's Grand Prize in 1998. Mr. Burns has more than 17 years experience in journalism, and has worked on marketing campaigns and materials for numerous firms, including The North Face, Gregory Mountain Products, Windjammer Cruises, and numerous ski areas.

Cory Lowe, Media and Outreach Specialist, has a BA in environmental studies from Middlebury College. Mr. Lowe coordinates RMI's outreach and media efforts, fields all outside inquiries to the Institute, tracks media coverage, arranges interviews and speaking engagements, and manages RMI's contact database. He also writes the bi-monthly Advanced Automotive News website column and RMI’s blog, contributes to RMI publications, maintains the Calendar of Events, and coordinates tours of RMI's super-efficient headquarters building. Mr. Lowe came to RMI after working in Vermont and exploring New England. In the Roaring Fork Valley, he participates in the Buddy Program, a local youth mentoring program and enjoys playing outdoors by hiking, biking, and skiing. He also enjoys good food, good wine and catching up with numerous friends who come through the area.

Susan Rich, Communications Fellow, has a BFA in visual communication design from Kent State University. While at KSU, Ms. Rich gained experience in two- and three-dimensional design, and became certified in wayfinding and signage. Ms. Rich was chosen to participate in the student-run design firm Glyphix, which included the top students from her class. Ms. Rich assists with both print and web design projects for RMI, which include event invitations, brochures, CD-ROMs, logos, conference materials, and project websites. Ms. Rich came to RMI from Cleveland, Ohio. There, she did freelance work for a variety of clients in Northern Ohio, including American Greetings. Locally, she volunteers for English in Action, in which volunteers teach English as a second language. Ms. Rich also enjoys hiking, biking, and snowshoeing in the Rocky Mountains, as well as writing, photography, and fine wine.

William Simon, IDSA, Internet Technology & Multimedia Coordinator, earned a BS in industrial design at California State University at Long Beach. Mr. Simon designs, constructs and maintains RMI's five web sites and also provides graphic and multimedia support, designing such things as DVD/CD-ROM packaging and brochures. While attending CSULB, he worked with Nike, Inc. to create an athletic shoe adjustable-fit system. Prior to joining RMI, he worked with several product-development consultancies developing laboratory equipment, scientific instruments, consumer electronics, and toys. Bill has also worked with environmental organizations including the Seattle Audubon Society, Bolsa Chica Conservancy, Earth Day 2000 Network, Student Conservation Association, and CalPIRG, providing technical support and creating promotional material, brochures, and procedure manuals. Active in the local community, he is a board member of the Aspen Young Professionals Association, a member of the Potter's Guild of Aspen, and participates in the Buddy Program, a local youth mentoring program. He also provides web site assistance to several local non-profits including, the Independence Pass Foundation and Aspen Valley Land Trust. In his spare time, Mr. Simon enjoys "experimental" cooking, creating ceramic art and anything that involves the outdoors—mountain biking, hiking, whitewater kayaking, SCUBA diving, ice climbing, snowshoeing, skiing, and snowboarding.

Robin Strelow, Art Director, studied graphic design and art history at Kent State University and has an AA in liberal arts from Cuyahoga Community College. Ms. Strelow is responsible for the design and production of all printed materials for RMI, which include the annual report, thrice-annual newsletter, advertisements, books, etc. She has over twenty-five years of national, award-winning experience in the design of publications, advertising, and marketing projects for a variety of non-profit and for-profit organizations. Prior to joining RMI, Ms. Strelow art-directed and produced a large monthly magazine for the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wisc. She has also owned a graphic design business, was art director of such magazines as Business Finance, Compute, and The Scientist newspaper, and was a certified ski instructor for Copper Mountain and Breckenridge Ski resorts. Outside RMI, she enjoys alpine skiing, mountain biking, hiking, camping, reading, and volunteering.

David Rothstein, Human Resources Director, has BA and MA degrees from the University of California at Riverside and a PhD from the University of Oregon. David has over 26 years' of experience in operations management, organizational development, and human resource management, holding senior positions as a human resources and organizational development executive with several high technology companies, including Integrated Automation, Convergent Technologies and Unisys Corp. His industry experience includes five years as a human resources executive and five years' directorship positions in organizational and management development. David's consulting work focused on operations management, strategic planning/plan implementation, organization development, and human resource systems. He also evaluated the viability of businesses for asset based-lenders and other investors, and headed up the turn-around management activities for clients in technology, manufacturing, and service businesses ranging in size from $2 million to $40 million in revenues. Prior to his career in private industry David was a university professor and taught courses and conducted research in social psychology, inter-group relations, organizational behavior and employee relations. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the Haas School of Business, and the Extension School at University of California at Berkeley.

Siu Chan, Administrative Assistant, earned a BA in psychology from the University of Illinois. Ms. Chan supports RMI's Human Resources, Finance, and Communications Departments. She has more than ten years' experience in human resources and before joining RMI worked in a hospital, a drug treatment program, and an applied art school. Her most memorable experiences have included dressing up as a pirate for a company Halloween party and collecting specimens for a pre-employment drug screening. Ms. Chan is proof that the American dream exists. She emigrated with her family from Hong Kong, grew up on the north side of Chicago (go Cubs!), and now lives happily in Colorado (go Rockies, too!) with her husband and red-haired dog.

Christopher Berry, Director of Information Technology, is a 20–year IT professional. He has worked for IT services firms in Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and Colorado, as well as for the University of Colorado, Denver, Rof.net (a non-profit ISP in the Roaring Fork Valley), and of course, Rocky Mountain Institute. He is also an educator, having taught Information Technology courses and seminars for several years at CU Denver and Colorado Mountain College. He graduated cum laude and with departmental honors from CU Denver with a BA in Anthropology. He also did his graduate work in Archaeology at CU Denver. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Roaring Fork Computer Society and Rof.net.

N. Lynn Bowen, Information Technology Analyst, has a BS in physics from University of Missouri, graduating magna cum laude, and an MS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she graduated with honors. Ms. Bowen supports and maintains RMI's computing infrastructure and generally ensures that the computer system functions smoothly and makes work easier for other members of the staff. Previously, she was a computer instructor for the American Educational Institute, maintaining a small classroom network, and teaching professionals, such as doctors, dentists, and lawyers, how to utilize computers more effectively. Prior to this experience she worked in Silicon Valley California as an integrated circuit design engineer, application engineer, and as the application engineering manager. During her 18 years in Silicon Valley, Lynn worked for Analog Devices, Advanced Micro Devices, Silicon Systems Inc., and National Semiconductor. Lynn has also spent several years as a professional photographer, working for Mountain Photo, and selling her photos in several local galleries.