Advisory Council

Neil Auerbach - Hudson Clean Energy Partners

Neil Auerbach is Managing Partner of Hudson Clean Energy Partners. Hudson launched its inaugural global private equity fund, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, L.P. (“Hudson CEP”), last November. Prior to forming Hudson, Neil was a partner at Goldman Sachs and previously Managing Director at Barclays Capital, having launched his banking career as Principal at Morgan Stanley.

Carter Bales - The Wicks Group

Carter Bales is a private investor, a conservationist and an emeritus director of McKinsey & Company. In recent years, he has worked extensively on issues of global climate change, sustainability and eco-system health in cooperation with McKinsey and other organizations. In past years, he chaired the International Committee of the Board of Governors of The Nature Conservancy and worked extensively on protection of rainforests and other tropical habitats.

Carole Brookins - Public Capital Advisors LLC

The Honorable Carole L. Brookins served from 2001 to 2005 as the United States Executive Director to The World Bank in Washington, D.C. An international consultant, she is currently a Managing Director of Public Capital Advisors LLC (PCA), as well as a director on both corporate and non-profit boards. These include Climate Exchange plc and the Chicago Climate Exchange. She serves on the Advisory Board of Zogby International and as a Board Counselor of the International Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA). Ms. Brookins is a Special Advisor to NTR plc and a member of the GVEP International (Global Village Energy Partnership) Board of Trustees, as well as a member of the Rabobank North American Agribusiness Advisory Board. Born in Indiana, her professional activities have been focused on commodity markets, trade, development, infrastructure finance and public policy.

Michael Eckhart - The American Council On Renewable Energy

Michael Eckhart is founding President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE). He also is co-chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), a member of the Steering Committee of the REN 21 global policy network, and co-head of the North American Secretariat of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). He is a 2008 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 recipient of RSA's Good Deal for All Award, and a three-time participant in the Clinton Global Initiative. He has over 25 years of experience in renewable energy, power generation, high technology, and finance, and in 1998 was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India for his work in bringing financing to solar energy markets. In 1999 he formed a $50 million joint venture between Shell and ESKOM in South Africa which electrified 10,000 off-grid homes with solar home systems.

Andrew Mitchell - Executive Director, Global Canopy Programme

Andrew was Rufford Research Fellow in Environmental Understanding at Green College Oxford, and is now Executive Director of the Global Canopy Programme. In 1989 he co-founded Earthwatch Europe, the UK arm of the international science foundation, Earthwatch Institute, and served as its Deputy Director for six years. As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he is also a Board Member of Conservation International.

Frederik Mowinckel - TNC International UK Ltd

Frederik Mowinckel has served for the last 20 years as CEO, Director and Chairman with several companies, delivering successful business development, investment and management strategies within 45 different countries. He has led turnarounds of global manufacturing and trading companies such as Hunton Fiber AS, TNC International (Asia) Ltd., Rikett Technology AS and Solar Integrated Technologies, Inc. He is currently a non-executive director of Aquamarine Power Limited, a leading Scottish marine energy company. He is also the Chairman of Bergensis Capital AS, a Bergen, based in Norway. Frederik’s native country is Norway – a country that is playing a key role in saving the rainforests.

Michael Naylor - Advisory Council Chairman, Forrester Partners

Michael Naylor is a renewable energy investor, and trusted adviser to some of the world’s leading chief executives. He holds senior leadership positions with Libertas Capital, Forrester Partners, and Canopy Capital Limited. In the non-profit sector he serves the HRH Prince of Wales Rainforest Project, the CEO Council of the American Council on Renewable Energy, and Otjumue Sud.

Hylton Murray-Philipson - Managing Director, Canopy Capital

Hylton established Morgan Grenfell in Brazil and was later Chief Executive of the investment bank Henry Ansbacher in New York. He founded Wingate Ventures to provide corporate finance services to businesses making a positive contribution to the environment. He is a director of Agrivert ( recycling and energy from waste ) and Geothermal International ( ground sourced heat pumps ). Hylton is a Trustee of the Global Canopy Programme and founded Canopy Capital in 2007 to drive value to the services of the standing forest.

Dr Charlotte Streck - Climate Focus

Dr. Charlotte Streck is Director of Climate Focus and a former Senior Counsel with the World Bank in Washington, DC. Charlotte has been actively involved in forest policy and projects throughout her career and has worked inter alia on the first forestry project under the Kyoto Protocol and establishing the BioCarbon Fund at the World Bank. Charlotte is an advisor to several governments, carbon funds, foundations, and non for profit organizations and is actively involved in the debate around the development of new carbon finance mechanisms in the area of avoided deforestation, post-Kyoto solutions, Green Investment Schemes and a reform of the current Kyoto Mechanisms.