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David C. Nagel, Executive Vice President, BP America Inc.

David Nagel has over 30 years experience in the global energy industry.  Currently he is Executive Vice President of BP America Inc.  In this role, Nagel is responsible for BP’s engagement with the Administration, Congress, federal regulators, trade associations, and other DC and national stakeholders.  He took this post in July 2009, and oversaw BP’s Washington operations during the Gulf Oil Spill in 2010.  Nagel reports to Lamar McKay, Chairman and President of BP America, who is based in Houston, Texas.

Nagel, a native of Wisconsin, was educated at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he earned a B.S. with honors in Chemistry and an MBA in International Finance.

In 1976, he joined Amoco International in Chicago.  His Amoco career included management positions in treasury, planning & administration, shared services, and international negotiations and business development.

Mr. Nagel joined BP following the merger with Amoco in 1999, and moved to Egypt as the company’s chief representative and business unit leader for natural gas. In 2001 he was appointed President and CEO for BP Algeria, where he worked with Sonatrach and the Ministry of Energy to restructure and expand BP’s business there.  In 2005 he moved into BP Group Finance positions, where he was head of Mergers and Acquisitions, Controller for Exploration and Production, and VP for Finance Transformation.

Nagel chairs the Advisory Board for the Vice Provost of International Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and has actively supported rural land preservation in Vermont. 

Nagel and his wife Helen, who holds a masters degree in East Asian Art History, are based in Washington D.C. They have three adult children.

Andrew M. Vesey, Executive Vice-President and President, Latin America & Africa, The AES Corporation

As the Executive Vice-President and President for Latin America & Africa for The AES Corporation Mr. Vesey leads AES businesses in 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nigeria and Panama), which include more than 45 electric generation plants producing 13,061 MWH, one LNG re-gasification facility and nine distribution companies which serve more than nine million customers. Through its subsidiaries, AES Latin America and Africa employs approximately 13,000 people.

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Vesey has worked as the Chief Operating Officer for Latin America and Vice President and Group Manager for AES Latin America, DR-CAFTA Region. Mr. Vesey has also worked as the Vice President of the Global Business Transformation Group, where his responsibilities encompassed enabling best in class performance at all AES’ existing assets, supporting development activities including the integration of new acquisitions, the validation of new network-based technologies, and the global regulatory function.

Mr. Vesey joined AES from FTI Consulting Inc. where he was a Managing Director of the Utility Finance and Regulatory Advisory Practice. Prior to that Mr. Vesey was a Partner in the Energy, Chemicals and Utilities Practice of Ernst & Young LLP.

Mr. Vesey has over 30 years of experience in the electric and gas utility industry, including CEO and Managing Director of Citipower Pty of Melbourne Australia. His broad experience covers generation, transmission, distribution, customer service, retail sales, corporate support functions, change management and process re-engineering, international project development, business start-up, and product development assignments. Mr. Vesey also has significant experience with labor relations and collective bargaining.

Mr. Vesey is the co-author of Unlocking the Benefits of Restructuring: A Blueprint for Transmission, published by PUR Inc. and a contributing author to The Virtual Utility: Accounting, Technology & Competitive Aspects of the Emerging Industry, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has spoken widely about electric utility restructuring, transmission, and the role of new technology

Mr. Vesey received his B.A. (Economics) and B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady New York and his M.S. from New York University.

The Honorable Branko Terzic, Deloitte

Executive Director of the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions and Regulatory Policy Leader in Energy & Resources for Deloitte Services LP. Also Chairman of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) Ad Hoc Group of Experts (AHGE) on Cleaner Electricity Production.  Member, U.S. National Coal Council, New America Foundation Energy Advisory Council, Bordeaux Energy Colloquium. Former Chairman, CEO, and President of Yankee Energy System Inc., former commissioner Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Wisconsin Public Service Commission.  Published columnist including Energy Metro Desk, Electric Perspectives, Oil and Gas Financial Journal, and Public Utilities Fortnightly.  BS in Energy Engineering and honorary Doctor of Sciences in Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.  Energy Efficiency Forum Hall of Fame (elected 2009), Professional Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.

Lejla Alic, Energy Information Administration

Lejla Alic is the senior member of the International Energy Analysis Team with a focus on energy security at U.S. Energy Information Administration. Ms. Alic is EIA’s expert on Former Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Europe. She has taught seminars on energy security to a wide variety of audiences, including the U.S. Army War College and has participated in planning exercises at the Navy War College at the request of the Chief of Naval Operations. Additional areas of interests include Iran and non-OPEC Middle East, as well as analysis and forecasting of petroleum supply for non-OPEC countries.

Her previous experience includes analysis of domestic natural gas and petroleum markets both with EIA and SAIC and she has published numerous papers and studies on natural gas industry and markets in the United States. She has served as EIA’s representative on inter-agency task forces responsible for assessing market impacts resulting from domestic supply interruptions.

Ms. Alic has a keen interest for entrepreneurship and has participated in three start-ups to date.

Ms. Alic holds a BA in finance and German from Catholic University of America and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Guy Warner, Founder and CEO, Pareto Energy

Guy Warner is the founder and CEO of Pareto Energy LTD, a company that designs and finances peer-to-peer energy networks known as microgrids. Trained as a financial economist, Guy worked for 7 years with the Washington National Tax Service of Price Waterhouse, before founding his own company in 1990. 

Guy has worked on more than 100 energy and infrastructural planning engagements and provided financial and strategic planning advice to a number of electric and gas utilities in the United States, Europe and South America. He has served as an economic and energy expert before federal courts and state public utility commissions.  Since 1995, Guy has concentrated his work on developing new energy efficiency, renewable energy and on-site power projects, working on more than 40 such projects in North, Central and South America. 

Finally, Guy has a long history working on climate change projects.  He helped found and fund a not-for profit organization that sponsored a year of youth expeditions that were featured at the 1992 United Nations Climate Change Convention in  Rio de Janeiro.  Guy also served as a financial advisor on bilateral carbon trades that were successfully registered as part of the US State Department’s Joint Implementation initiative. 

Elias Hinckley, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stocktown LLP

Elias Hinckley leads the clean energy practice for Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, a large international law firm.  He focuses on solving a broad range of energy related business, tax and policy challenges for his clients around the world.  His experience includes representing clients across projects and investments in solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, hydroelectric, batteries, fuel cells, energy efficiency, demand response, transmission natural gas and advanced coal. 

Mr. Hinckley was also a partner and leader of the clean energy practice for a large national firm, where he co-developed and chaired the firm’s clean technology and venture business incubator program.  Mr. Hinckley’s prior experience also includes building and leading the national alternative energy practice for Deloitte & Touche, where he was also the co-architect of the firm’s global climate change strategy.  Mr. Hinckley also acts as a strategic advisor on energy policy and markets for a variety of companies.

Michael D. Ware, Founder, Advanced Capital Markets

Mr. Ware is the founder of Advance Capital Markets, Inc. a private investment firm with a long and successful track record in the energy and power industries.  He has served as a financial advisor to private equity funds, international energy firms, independent power companies, electric utilities as well as a number of successful entrepreneurial enterprises.

Mr. Ware recently stepped down as Managing Director at Good Energies (GEI).  He served as a financial advisor to Good Energies since 2002 and managed many of GEI’s venture capital and project investments in North America. This entailed sourcing the investment opportunity, managing the deal team through closing, monitoring the investment post closing and directing selected exits.  These transactions included solar PV, solar thermal, wind, green buildings, energy efficiency and renewable resource assessment technologies.

Mr. Ware has arranged financings for wind, solar, hydro, biofuels, biomass and geothermal projects and has guided several companies from start-up, through venture financing, and later growth stages including the IPO process.  Prior to founding Advance, Mr. Ware was CEO of Reliance Energy Services, a subsidiary of a $3 billion investment company.

From 1974 – 1980 Mr. Ware was CEO of Energy Decisions Inc. an energy-consulting firm, which served U.S. and international clients.  Mr. Ware’s career began in 1973 at the Federal Energy Office, where he was part of the team that implemented the U.S. Government’s response to the 1973 oil embargo.

Mr. Ware served on the boards of nine GEI portfolio companies and is on the board of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). He has also served on the Board of several NASDAQ and NYSE companies.

He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Detroit and an M.A. degree from Ohio State University where he was a fellow at the Mershon Center for National Security Studies.

International Energy and Security

Sara Zulkosky, Director of Engineering, SkyBuilt Power

Director of Engineering, Sara Zulkosky, was the project manager for the SkyCase system—a man-portable, renewable energy system in a suitcase. She has worked on six renewable energy power stations over the past year and a half. These stations were both trailer-based and container-based. Her renewable energy engineering and field experience includes serving as the engineer on the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF) Transportable Hybrid Electric Power Stations (THEPS) project team for building container and trailer based renewable power stations (2007); design, engineering and construction of both the trailer and container-based renewable energy power systems; and experience integrating solar, wind, batteries, inverters, generators and other control systems for military and commercial use.

Ms. Zulkosky wrote the Operating and Installation Manuals for renewable energy power systems and assisted in the design, project planning, engineering, wiring, fabrication, and testing of various renewable energy power systems. She has experience in working with fabricators, end-use customers, military testers, engineers and other disciplines. She has also participated in the field deployment and testing of two generations of renewable energy power Systems at locations such as Quantico, CIA, and Aberdeen Proving Grounds, performed field repairs on power stations, power analyses and created pricing schematics based on potential customers' power needs.

Ms. Zulkosky wrote numerous project proposals and bids for potential customers based on the power and pricing modeling results, was a participant in key planning meetings on power issues with customers and project officials such as with the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army.

Ms. Zulkosky has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and an M.S. in Engineering Management from The George Washington University with a concentration in Economics, Finance and Cost Engineering.

Project Development

Thomas Leyden, Managing Director, SunPower Corporation

Tom Leyden is Managing Director of SunPower Corporation and heads up its East Coast office out of Trenton.  SunPower is the nation’s leading PV manufacturer and integrator of high efficiency PV modules and systems with over 600 commercial installations worldwide.  SunPower’s East Coast customers include Tiffany, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, JC Penney, Fort Dix, Dow Jones and Bloomberg.

Mr. Leyden began his solar career in 1980, has served as President of the Mid-Atlantic   Solar Energy Industry Association and the board of directors of national SEIA, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, and the Solar Alliance.

Mr. Leyden is a graduate of Princeton University.  He led the Princeton Habitat for Humanity project, and served on the Chesterfield Township Planning Board, working to replace suburban sprawl with sustainable, environmentally sound development.

Mark Reidy, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, LLC

Mark is a Member in Mintz Levin’s Washington, D.C. office, in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Section. He is also a member of the firm's Energy & Clean Technology Practice, which serves more than 270 clients. Since 2006, the firm’s Energy & Clean Technology Practice has completed nearly 200 transactions, including more than 100 since 2009. Mark focuses on the representation of renewable and conventional energy, clean technology, communications, infrastructure, environmental, and investment fund clients.

In his more than 35 years of practice, Mark has represented clients in domestic and international matters, including energy and infrastructure, project development and debt and equity financing contracts, mergers and acquisitions, technology outsourcing, investment fund structuring, venture capital structuring, and regulatory and legislative issues. He also has represented clients in international disputes before U.S. and foreign agencies, dealing with matters such as anti-dumping, export controls, sanctions, and anti-bribery. Before joining Mintz Levin, Mark was a partner at another prominent national law firm, where he led practice groups focusing on renewable energy, climate and India/South Asia.

Mark has counseled renewable and conventional energy clients doing business in 50 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, the Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mauritius Islands, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

Mark is the founder and general counsel of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), the largest domestic and international association of renewable energy and clean tech businesses. He leads the DC Technology Funders, a monthly breakfast meeting which brings together up to 40 venture capital and private equity funders for presentations by new clean tech companies seeking funding. Mark has also served as general counsel and a longtime board member (currently board member emeritus) for the US-India Business Council, the largest U.S.-India business association. He is Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association's Project Finance Committee.

Pete Messman, Co-Founder and COO, Claren Power

Pete Messman is the co-founder and COO of Claren Power, a biomass-to-electricity project developer focused on the Brazil market.  Claren’s business model is to partner with independent mid-sized sugar mills to retrofit their cogeneration facilities to enable export of electricity back to the grid. Previously at start-ups BluePrint Marketing and Current Analysis, Pete held senior executive positions in multiple disciplines including technology development, project management, sales, and marketing. Prior to Current Analysis, Pete worked as a Legislative Assistant at the US House of Representatives.  He has an International MBA with honors from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and an undergraduate degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

Energy Innovation and Technology

Robert Wilkins, VP of Public Affairs, Danfoss North America

Robert Wilkins is vice president public affairs of Danfoss North America. Danfoss, a leading global manufacturer of high efficiency controls, compressors and variable frequency drives for air-conditioning, refrigeration and motion systems, has sales of $6 billion, employs more than 23,000 people worldwide and operates in over 100 countries. Wilkins has served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) since 1998, and served as Chairman of the Board in 2007, during which time he lead the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute as it merged with the Gas Appliance Manufacturers Association to form AHRI. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy.

Wilkins was recognized by the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News as Newsmaker of the Year in 2010 for leadership in advocating for energy efficiency.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Finance

John Moran, Managing Director Investment Development and Coordination, OPIC

Prior to assuming his current role at OPIC, John Moran was the agency’s Director of Investment Development for Central and Eastern Europe, and served as OPIC’s regional representative for Southeast Europe, based in Zagreb from 2000 to 2003. He also served in OPIC’s Insurance Department as a Director and as an Investment Manager.

Before joining OPIC, Mr. Moran was the U.S. Treasury Department’s Deputy Director for the Office for Central and Southeastern Europe, working on issues relating to the Balkans. He earlier served with USAID as its Director of Credit and Investment (1996-1998), and as its Senior Counselor on Investment Funds in Europe and the New Independent States (1993-1996). 

Prior to joining the U.S. Government, Mr. Moran was in private law practice from 1987-1993 with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Duncan & Allen, where he worked in the firm’s domestic energy and international trade and investment practices focusing on emerging markets and the international energy sector.

He has a B.A. from the University of Michigan (Political Economy, 1982) and holds law degrees from the University of Notre Dame (J.D., 1986) and the George Washington University (LL.M., 1992).

Executive Panel

Keynote Speakers

Candace Chandra, Managing Partner, Thula Capital

Candace Chandra is the Managing Partner of Thula Capital, a fund which invests in the energy and water sectors. Prior to starting Thula, Ms. Chandra was a Lecturer at Princeton and UCIrvine, as well as a consultant for over 15 years in the water, waste, energy, and health sectors. Ms. Chandra has been both an entrepreneur (Canary Strategies) and a manager at large multinationals (World Bank, WHO). She has also run a health care company (Cactus Health Services) as CEO and Interim CFO.

A life-long student, Ms. Chandra holds a BA in Physical Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, a MS in Applied Development and Health from Tulane University, and numerous certificates in finance and management. She also can converse in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and a little German.

Dr. Peter B. Lyons, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy

Dr. Peter B. Lyons was confirmed by the Senate as the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy on April 14, 2011. Dr. Lyons was appointed to his previous role as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy in September, 2009. As Assistant Secretary, Dr. Lyons is responsible for all programs and activities of the Office of Nuclear Energy.

The Honorable Peter B. Lyons was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on January 25, 2005 and served until his term ended on June 30, 2009. At the NRC, Dr. Lyons focused on the safety of operating reactors and on the importance of learning from operating experience, even as new reactor licensing and possible construction emerged. He emphasized that NRC and its licensees remain strong and vigilant components of the Nation's integrated defenses against terrorism, and was a consistent voice for improving partnerships with international regulatory agencies. He emphasized active and forward-looking research programs to support sound regulatory decisions, address current issues and anticipate future ones. He was also a strong proponent of science and technology education, recruiting for diversity, employee training and development programs, and an open and collaborative working environment.

From 1969 to 1996, Dr. Lyons worked in progressively more responsible positions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. During that time he served as Director for Industrial Partnerships, Deputy Associate Director for Energy and Environment, and Deputy Associate Director-Defense Research and Applications. While at Los Alamos, he spent over a decade supporting nuclear test diagnostics. Before becoming a Commissioner, Dr. Lyons served as Science Advisor on the staff of U.S. Senator Pete Domenici and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources where he focused on military and civilian uses of nuclear technology, national science policy, and nuclear non-proliferation. Dr. Lyons has published more than 100 technical papers, holds three patents related to fiber optics and plasma diagnostics, and served as chairman of the NATO Nuclear Effects Task Group for five years.

Dr. Lyons was raised in Nevada. He received his doctorate in nuclear astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 1969 and earned his undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1964. Dr. Lyons is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, was elected to 16 years on the Los Alamos School Board and spent six years on the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Branch Advisory Board.

Todd Thurlow, Senior Vice President, Pace Global

Mr. Thurlow leads Pace Global’s Infrastructure Development & Asset Management Practice, providing strategic, technical, and commercial support to Pace's power developer and energy-intensive industrial clients.  He is well versed in power project development, renewable generating technologies, and domestic and international energy markets.  His focus has been on supporting the development of energy assets and infrastructure, including renewable fuel and power generation, distributed generation, and industrial cogeneration. Mr. Thurlow has led activities associated with energy strategies, asset development, engineering and integrated market solutions, and the development and divestiture of generation assets.  He also has significant experience developing and negotiating the commercial agreements associated with energy asset transactions.  His energy market knowledge and strategic energy advice have helped numerous developer and energy-intensive industrial clients capture the opportunities provided by every-changing deregulated electric and fuel markets.

Anna Brady-Estevez, Director of Strategy, AES Corporation

Dr. Anna Brady-Estevez serves as a director of strategy for The AES Corporation, working with the company’s businesses across the globe spanning natural gas, coal, renewables including wind, solar, hydro and energy storage.   Prior to her work at AES Anna was a Kauffman Fellow working in early stage venture capital, focused on disruptive technologies in energy.  Other work experience has included LEED platinum construction, and collaborating with the US ONR overseas on assessing energy technologies.  Anna has had the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs and innovators, also having served as an inventor of a nanotechnology based low energy water treatment solutions.  Dr. Brady-Estevez served as an NSF fellow receiving her PhD from Yale University in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, following a BS in Chemical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.

Emerging Markets

Jean Kim, Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Jean Y. Kim joined OPIC’s Office of Investment Policy in December 2009 as an Environmental Impact Analyst.  Since then she has worked on evaluating the potential environmental and social impacts of a wide variety of projects including energy, infrastructure, construction, manufacturing and financial services sectors with emphasis on renewable energy generation including solar, wind, biofuel and hydroelectric projects.  Prior to joining OPIC, Ms. Kim was a consultant with ICF International where she worked on a diverse set of projects supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s climate change program.  Ms. Kim is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Guatemala, 2002-2004).

Jamie Webster, Senior Manager, PFC Energy

Jamie Webster is a Senior Manager at PFC Energy where he leads the company’s Middle East energy analysis through the well-regarded Market Intelligence Service.   This analysis focuses on gas, electricity, product and crude demand dynamics and its implications for the global energy picture in the future.  He also examines issues of energy security from the point of view of oil states, as well as their future oil production spare capacity and future export potential.  He has recently advised corporate and government clients on Saudi crude burning for power generation, sanctions effects on Iranian energy balances and what Qatari LNG capacity will do to Middle Eastern market dynamics.  He has spoken on global energy issues for CNBC’s Power Lunch, CNN’s The Situation Room, World News Tonight, Al-Jazeera, KSA2, and has been quoted in The New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg and others.

Dr. Ming Yang, Sr. Environmental Economist, Global Environment Facility, World Bank

In December 2008, Dr. Ming Yang joined the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank Group as Sr. Environmental Economist. His major work covered the System for Transparent Allocation of Resources (STAR), a new system to allocate GEF resources to recipient countries. Now, as Sr. Climate Change Specialist in the GEF, he is managing GEF China projects that are related to climate change mitigation.

Prior to joining the GEF/World Bank Group, Ming worked for four years as Energy and Environment Economist and Energy Technology Economist at the International Energy Agency of the OECD in Paris. Before that, he had been in the Asian Development Bank as Energy Adviser and Climate Change Specialist for two years.

Ming holds a Ph.D. in energy economics and planning from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok jointly with l'Institut d'Economie et de Politique de l'Energie (IEPE), Université des Sciences Sociales, Grenoble, France.

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Bruce Lung, Program Manager, Alliance to Save Energy

Robert Bruce Lung, Program Manager, is a Senior Program Manager of the Alliance to Save Energy’s Industrial Team. Mr. Lung provides strategic input into and implements the Alliance’s industrial energy efficiency programs.  Mr. Lung works with key stakeholders, including the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) coordinate outreach, analysis, marketing, research, technology delivery, education and programmatic direction for the DOE’s Save Energy Now and Superior Energy Performance programs. Mr. Lung also works with the Alliance’s International Team on the domestic Watergy initiative and is the editor-in-chief of the program’s newsletter, the Industrial Spotlight.

Mr. Lung holds a bachelor of science in foreign service from Georgetown University, and a master’s in economics from Virginia Polytechnic & State University. 

Government Affairs

Consulting

David Harris Brown, Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton

Mr. Brown works as an Associate within the energy practice at Booz Allen Hamilton were he has developed the Army’s $500 million renewable energy plan, identified a national pipeline of projects across all technologies that will make up the core of this plan, and begun comprehensive due diligence on those opportunities that will provide the highest benefit to the Army.

Previously, Mr. Brown worked as a Commercial and Utility Project / Business Development Manager for a solar power Development Company. In this capacity he coordinated the efforts of the engineering, construction, finance, and executive teams to structure and close both straight acquisition and power purchase agreement transactions. In this capacity Mr. Brown covered markets east of the Mississippi River. Prior to pursuing duel graduate degrees, Mr. Brown worked in commercial real estate for six years, most recently with Boston Properties. His real estate experience has involved roles within development, valuation, consulting, and asset management both nationally, and in the New York City market.

Mr. Brown received a MBA from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University (’09), and a MS in Real Estate Investment from New York University (’07).