Thank You

The Gigaton Throwdown wishes to thank the following organizations and individuals. This project was made possible through their financial or in-kind support:

Sunil Paul and Michelle Odom Foundation

Energy Foundation

Firelake Capital Management

Jesse Fink

Environmental Entrepreneurs

Clean Economy Network

Weber Shandwick

Orrick

Tendris

Clinton Global Initiative

L.E.K. Consulting

Advisors:

Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Neil Z. Auerbach, Managing Partner, Hudson Capital Management

Josh Becker, Founding Partner, New Cycle Capital

Andrew Beebe, Managing Director, Energy Solutions, Suntech America

James Brew, Rocky Mountain Institute

Warren Byrne, CEO, Foresight Wind

Matt Cheney, CEO, Renewable Ventures

Aimee Christensen, CEO, Christensen Global Strategies

Will Coleman, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Jesse Fink, Founding Partner, MissionPoint Capital Partners

Josh Green, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Anup Jacob, Partner, Virgin Green Fund

Greg Kats, Senior Director and Director of Climate Change Policy, Good Energies

Richard Kauffman, CEO, Good Energies

Hal LaFlash, Director, Emerging Clean Technologies, Pacific Gas and Electric

Marty Lagod, Managing Director, Firelake Capital Management

Marc Porat, Chairman, Serious Materials, CalStar; and Pegasus Capital ZETA

Arati Prabhakar, General Partner, U.S. Venture Partners

Scott Sandell, General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Jason Scott, Managing Partner, EKO Asset Management Partners

Jigar Shah, Co-founder, SunEdison

Dick Swanson, CTO, SunPower

Matthew Trevithick, Partner, Venrock

Ravi Viswanathan, Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Sanjay Wagle, Principal, VantagePoint Venture Partners

Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme

Marianne Wu, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Ethan Zindler, Head of North America Research, New Energy Finance

Reviewers and other Contributors:

Andy Aden, Senior Research Supervisor, National Renewable Energy Lab

Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Better Place

Annie Barton, University of Michigan

Gautam Barua, Partner, Aclaria Capital

Anthony Bernhardt

Warren Byrne, CEO, Foresight Wind

Larry Coben, Chairman and CEO, Tremisis Energy Corporation

Bruce Dale, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University

Adrian Foley, Chief Business Development Officer, AltaRock Energy

Charles Forsberg, Executive Director for the MIT Fuel Cycle Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sigurgeir Bjorn Geirsson, Reykjavik Energy

Ron Gremban, CalCars

W. Michael Griffin, Executive Director of the Green Design Institute and Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Bill Gross, CEO, eSolar

Arno Harris, CEO, Recurrent Power

Sean Hazelett

Eirikur Hjalmarsson, Reykjavik Energy

Holmes Hummel, Policy Specialist, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley

Jim Imbler, CEO, Zeachem

Mark Z. Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Willett Kempton, Professor, University of Delaware

Fred Kittler, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Firelake Capital Management

Chip Krauskopf, Chromasun

Craig Lewis, Founding Principal, RightCycle and FIT Coalition

Adam Liska, Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska

Karen Margrethe Oxenbøll, Director, Sustainability Development, Novozymes

Felix Kramer, Founder, CalCars

Marty Lagod, Managing Director, Firelake Capital Management

Peter Le Lievre, Chromasun

Kelsey Lynn, Principal, Firelake Capital Management

David Mills, Ausra

Jack Oswald, CEO, Syngest Inc.

Frans Otten, Tendris

R. Martin Roscheisen, CEO, Nanosolar

Ruth Scotti, U.S. Regulatory Affairs Manager, BP Biofuels

Michael Skelly, Former Chief Development Officer, Horizon Wind Energy

Richard Sears, Visiting Scientist in the MIT Energy Initiative

Jigar Shah, Co-founder, SunEdison

Saurin Shah, Senior Vice President, Neuberger Berman LLC

Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials

Dick Swanson, CTO, SunPower

Marc Tarpenning, Co-Founder, Tesla Motors

Jeff Tester, Croll Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Cornell University

Rob Watson, CEO and Chief Scientist, EcoTech International

Ryan Waddington, Director, ZBI Ventures

Michael Wang, Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

David Wheeler, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Thank You To:
Jeff Anderson, Clean Economy Network

Charles Baron, Google.org

Annie Barton, University of Michigan

Jit Bhattacharya

Jon Bonanno

Sam Borgeson

Michael Borrus

Kevin Cornish

Diane Doucette, Director of the Climate Campaign, Environmental Entrepreneurs

Lucas Dunnington

Candice Eggerss, Managing Director, Firelake Capital Management

Bob Epstein, Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs

Victoria Fleming

Tim Greeff, Clean Economy Network

Eric Heitz, Energy Foundation

Bob Hemphill

Jim Hurd, GreenScience Exchange Thomas Kalil, University of California, Berkeley

Andy Karsner, Former Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy

Anna Halpern-Lande

Thomas Leahy, University of Michigan

Rick Lewis

Jon Mingle

Urvi Parekh, University of California, Berkeley

Spencer Quong

Dan Reicher, Director Climate and Energy Initiatives, Google.org

Joel Serface

Rusty Schmit

Katie Suominen, Wharton School

Gregory Theyel

Patrick Von Bargen, Quinn Gillespie

Dan Whaley, Founder and CEO, Climos

Olga Yunak