- Peter Barden
- Bob Bechtold
- Michael Bradley
- William L. Bryan, Jr., Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee
- Roger Dower, Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Development Committee
- Marianne Ginsburg
- Ashok Gupta
- Steven Hamburg
- Kathy Loftus, Clerk of the Board
- Diana Maguire, Treasurer of the Board, Chair of the Finance Committee
- Adam Markham, Chief Executive Officer
- William Moomaw
- Charles O. Moore
- Claudia Schechter
- Theodore Smith
- Eric Svenson, Chair of the Program Committee
- Susan Tierney,
Chair of the Board
- Dan Viederman, Chair of the Governance Committee
Peter Barden joined CA-CP’s board in 2005.
He is a Managing Director in the corporate finance division of The Seaport Group, a New York City-based investment banking firm.
Formerly, Mr. Barden served as Vice President of Mercury Public Affairs; and before that, senior VP of Public Governmental Affairs for the New York Power Authority, where he gained experience in controversial issue advocacy and crisis management, including the siting of fossil-fueled power plants in New York and the federal licensing of major hydroelectric plants in Upstate New York. Before joining the Power Authority in 2001, Mr. Barden served as governor Pataki’s Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, where he worked as a liaison between Governor and Legislature. From 1996-1999 Mr. Barden served in various capacities with State Senator Jim Wright, including Chief of Staff, Director of Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, and Communications Director. Mr. Barden has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University.
Bob is the founder and president of Harbec Plastics in Ontario, New York. Harbec is a progressive injection molding company that provides a full service of model making, precision mold making, and complex precision plastic injection molding. During the past ten years Mr. Bechtold has developed and managed a cogeneration project, which currently produces all the electric power, heat, and air-conditioning required by his company. Harbec Plastics is one of the first companies in the world to successfully implement a completely micro-turbine powered cogeneration plant; it also boasts a 250 kW wind turbine and operates a business fleet of five alternative fuel vehicles.
Michael is president of M. J. Bradley Associates, a firm that assists clients in the strategic assessment of air quality policy and technical challenges. Michael was Executive Director of NESCAUM for 12 years and has worked for state environmental agencies and for the British Department of the Environment. He founded the Clean Energy Group, which consists of electric generating companies that work with policy makers and other stakeholders to promote effective environmental policy options regarding air quality and climate change.
William L. Bryan, Jr. is Executive Director and Board Member of the Cook Center For Sustainable Agriculture in the American West, a support group to member Agriculture organizations. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Off the Beaten Path, LLC, a travel planning and consulting service specializing in helping clients plan highly personalized trips to the Rocky Mountain West, Desert Southwest, Alaska, and Patagonia. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Environmental Justice Initiative in the School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Vice Chairman of the Yellowstone Business Partnership as well as Board Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Museum of the Rockies of Bozeman, Montana.
Executive Director of the Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wisconsin, Roger is well versed in the workings of government bureaucracy and formerly was at the Congressional Budget Office.
Former director of the Environment Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), Marianne brings a broad knowledge of the Washington environmental community and insights into international environment projects.
Ashok is the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) Air and Energy Program Director. He leads NRDC's advocacy in the Northeast on climate change, electric utility restructuring, clean air issues, energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable building design, reducing petroleum dependence, and low-income energy issues. Prior to joining NRDC in 1991, Ashok worked with the New York City's Department of Telecommunica-tions and Energy. He currently serves on the board of the Hudson River Foundation, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, U.S. Green Building Council-New York, and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute. Ashok also received Environmental Advocates' 2001 Advocate Award for leadership in support of clean air and energy.
He holds a bachelor's degree in physics and math from Georgetown University and a master's degree in economics from American University.
Steve Hamburg is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University. Dr. Hamburg served as the lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) special report on land-use and land-cover change. He has testified before the U.S. Senate and worked with the House and Senate staff on drafting legislation, as well as briefing the U.S. negotiating team prior to the Hague negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol. He was a senior ecologist at the Environmental Defense Fund, the director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas, and the first environmental ombudsman at the University. Professor Hamburg is the author and co-author of numerous articles having appeared in a variety of journals, including Science and Nature, in addition to research reports and books on environmental issues and forest ecology. He received his doctorate and master's in forest ecology from Yale University.
Kathy is Global Leader, Sustainable Engineering, Maintenance & Energy Management with Whole Foods Market. She coordinates strategic energy procurement and energy management and maintenance best practices. She was most recently Director of Business Development for EnerNOC, Inc. working with commercial and industrial national accounts, building beyond demand response to implement improved energy management strategies across their diverse facility portfolios. Prior to joining EnerNOC, Kathy spent eight years as Director of Energy & Environmental Management for Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc., where she was active in the EPA Energy Star and Green Power Partners Programs. She sat on the board of the (Massachusetts) Energy Consortium. Before Shaw's, Kathy worked for Eastern Utilities (acquired by National Grid) for six years. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a Certified Energy Manager through the Association of Energy Engineers. She was a participant on the 2005 New England Roundtable on Federal Renewable Energy Policy and currently serves on the Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.
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Diana Maguire retired in 1998 from an 18 year career in finance. She trained with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and for four years was VP for Corporate Banking at the International Division in Paris before returning to New York as a Director with Chase Investment Bank’s Derivatives Division. From 1987 to 1998 she was a Director and Senior Marketing Officer for Derivatives with AIG (American International Group) in Westport, Connecticut. She has been an active volunteer for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation since it was founded in 1998. She helped set up and was the first chair of the foundation’s corporate fundraising committee. This volunteer-based foundation raised $23 million dollars for cancer research in its first six years. She has a BA from Towson State University in Maryland and a Masters from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. A mother of five, she lives in Darien, CT.
Before being appointed as CA-CP’s founding Executive Director in February, 2000, Adam directed the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) international climate campaign, based in Washington DC. He spent 12 years with WWF, based in Switzerland and then the US, and in addition to his climate work helped design and manage campaigns on tropical forests and on toxic chemicals. Mr. Markham received his B.Sc. (hons.) from the University of Wales at Swansea, in the UK, where he studied zoology. He worked as a journalist and then on acid rain and ozone layer campaigns for Friends of the Earth in London. He has written and edited several books including A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martins) and Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems (Kluwer). He was a contributing author to the forest impacts chapter of the 1995 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, contributed material on biodiversity impacts of climate change to the US National Assessment and has published on climate change and biodiversity in journals including Bioscience, Climate Research, Climatic Change and Parks.
Bill is a Professor of the International Environmental Policy and the Director of the International Environment and Resource Policy Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also directs the Tufts Institute of the Environment, which coordinates a variety of environmental programs in research, education, activism, outreach, and service at all of Tufts University's varied schools and colleges. Bill was a convening lead author of the chapter that identified the technical options for emissions reduction for the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. During the mid 70's, he served as a Congressional Science Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement Science, where he helped to develop the legislation that eliminated CFC's from aerosol cans, worked on energy research following the oil embargo, and crafted language for the National Forest Management Act. Bill is an avid hiker, photographer, and gardener, and he is currently restoring native plants to a meadow near his home. He also enjoys classical music and jazz and pursuing his interests in contemporary and Asian art.
Legislative Director for Oxfam America, and former Executive Director of Environmental Media Services and Associate Director at the W. Alton Jones Foundation, Charlie brings insights about the philanthropic community and knowledge of organizations’ activities.
Claudia retired in August 2001 after four years as the CFO and VP for Operations of the National Park Foundation, where she worked with the President and Board to establish clear strategic goals for significant financial growth, completely renovate the financial management of $70 million in restricted funds and endowments as well as the grant-making process, and in concert with the National Park Service, to create the National Parks Pass. Prior to her leadership at the Foundation she served Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt for five years as Director of Operations for the Department. There she led operations policy development and program implementation, including construction, law enforcement, aviation, wildland fire, and employee and public safety and health. Claudia oversaw both the financial and the development and membership growth of the League of Conservation Voters and the Women’s Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership for Women and Families), helping both reach national prominence. She has extensive nonprofit experience as a board member, volunteer, and staff executive. She also has experience in commercial real estate development and financing, and helped found and lead Mountain Artisans, a cooperative in West Virginia. She earned an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in International Relations from Brown University.
Ted is the Executive Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, a Boston-based environmental grant making foundation. The foundation was established in 1957 and Nobel Laureate Henry Way Kendall led its board of directors until his death in 1999. Before joining the foundation in 1993, Ted headed a U.S. State Department team that designed Indonesia's Biodiversity Foundation, the first of its kind in the developing world. He was also the founding director of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, a consortium of more than 30 national foundations. Prior to his work with the consortium, Ted was president of John D. Rockefeller III's Agricultural Development Council working in Asia and Africa for six years.
Eric is the
Vice President — Environment, Health and Safety for PSEG Services Corporation. He has an extensive background in the electric power industry, including power plant operations, engineering and construction, start-up of a cogeneration business, strategic planning, public policy and environmental management. Eric has been in the forefront for his company on implementation issues associated with the Clean Air Act and electric energy industry restructuring in New Jersey, in the Northeast, and at the federal level. Eric was responsible for the completion of the country's first interstate trade of NOx credits and more recently co-project manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council on a series of reports that benchmark the air emissions of electric utility generators in the United States.
Sue is currently with The Analysis Group, a national firm specializing in economic consulting services; her area of expertise is with economic, environmental, regulatory and policy issues affecting clients in the electricity and natural gas industries. Previously, Sue held the post of Senior Vice President of Lexecon Inc, where she also provided business consulting, litigation support, and policy advice and analysis to such clients. Before Lexecon, Sue was Assistant Secretary for Policy in the U.S. Department of Energy, where she was involved in national energy policy and climate change issues; Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs, where she was involved in the Boston Harbor Clean Up, Clean Air Act implementation, emissions trading regulations, environmental impact reviews, and energy facility siting; and Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. Currently, Sue serves as Chairman of the Board of the Energy Foundation and Chairman of the Energy Innovations Institute. Raised in California, Sue lives in the Boston area with her husband, two teenage sons, and a golden retriever. She enjoys movies, making jewelry, traveling, hiking, and getting together with friends.
Dan is Executive Director of the nonprofit Veritè, which works through a network of NGOs to solve labor problems around the world, primarily in the supply chains of multinational companies. Dan is a winner of the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his work to build capacity among civil society organizations to support human rights. Prior to joining Veritè, Dan was CEO of the China Program for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he established the Beijing office for the first international environmental nonprofit in China. A graduate of Yale University, Dan also has a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. Dan lives in Amherst, MA with his wife Mary Jo and their two children.
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