BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Led by an exemplary Board of Directors, ESN's reach includes collaborative efforts that connect partners across the nation and around the world, recognizing the global nature of our energy challenges.

Thomas J. Snyder (ESN Chairman)
President, Ivy Tech Community College

Thomas J. Snyder serves as President of Ivy Tech Community College, the nation's largest singly-accredited statewide community college system and the largest institution of higher education in Indiana.

Appointed in 2007, Snyder leads the strategic, academic and operational processes of Indiana's largest and fastest growing college with more than 120,000 students at 23 campuses and 100 learning centers that provide a full-spectrum of educational resources, transfer credits, associate degrees, workforce training and professional certification.

Snyder has installed numerous growth and expansion initiatives to meet the future student services requirements. A negotiated agreement with Dell now provides students with significant computer discounts. Several new facilities projects have been announced and completed. Efficiency improvements, bookstore restructuring, costs savings initiatives and joint ventures have generated more than $ 3 million in new revenue in his first year. And under his leadership the community college has realized upgraded bond ratings of AA- from both Standard and Poor's Ratings and Fitch Ratings.

Prior to joining Ivy Tech, Snyder held Chairman and CEO/President positions at Flagship Energy Systems Center and Delco Remy International, Inc., respectively. During his 11 years at the helm of Delco Remy, he established a new business model and diversified the company from a $500 million automotive parts supplier to $1.3 billion in sales as global leader in truck, off-road and aftermarket products with more than 6,000 employees worldwide.

Snyder began his career at General Motors Corporation, advancing through executive positions in engineering, marketing and sales for automotive batteries, magnetics and electric vehicle components.

He graduated from Kettering University, formerly General Motors Institute in 1967, with a degree in mechanical engineering. Snyder also holds a master's degree in business administration from Indiana University. Snyder also completed a six-year tour of duty with the Air Force with research and development assignments at Vandenberg and Andrews Air Force Bases and the Pentagon. He serves on the boards of Conexus, Contech, Ener1, BioCrossroads, The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, the Education Council of the National Association of Manufacturers, Great Lakes Manufacturing Council, and the Paramount Theatre. Additionally, he is active on the Executive Committee of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and the Executive Council of St. Theodore Guerin High School in Noblesville.

James E. Rogers
Chairman, President & CEO - Duke Energy

Jim Rogers is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy.

Rogers has more than 20 years of experience as a Chief Executive Officer in the electric utility industry. He was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy following the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy in April 2006. Before the merger, Rogers served as Cinergy's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for more than 11 years. Prior to the formation of Cinergy, he joined PSI Energy in 1988 as the company's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Rogers has served as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); Executive Vice President of Interstate Pipelines for the Enron Gas Pipeline Group; and as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Prior to those appointments, he served as Assistant to the Chief Trial Counsel at FERC; as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of Kentucky; and as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, where he acted as intervener on behalf of state consumers in gas, electric and telephone rate cases. He was also a reporter for the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader.

In the course of his career, Rogers has served more than 40 cumulative years on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a director of Fifth Third Bancorp, Cigna Corporation and Applied Materials, Inc. He has served as a director of Duke Realty Corporation, Cinergy Corp., PSI Energy, Bankers Life Holding Corporation, Irkutskenergo AO, and Indiana National Bank.

He is past Chairman and ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the Edison Electric Institute; and is Chairman of the Institute for Electric Efficiency. He serves as a member of the board of directors and the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and is a board member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations. Rogers also serves on the boards of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the National Coal Council, the National Petroleum Council, and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

Rogers is Chairman of the Edison Foundation and co-chair of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Alliance to Save Energy. He serves on the board of directors and the Executive Committee of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Rogers is also a member of the Honorary Committee of the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE). He has testified 19 times on energy and environmental policies before congressional committees. In 2007, Rogers was named the energy industry's CEO of the Year by Platts and Business Person of the Year by the Charlotte Business Journal.

Jeffrey J. Owens
President, Delphi Electronics & Safety and President, Asia Pacific

Jeffrey J. Owens, 54, is a Vice President of Delphi Corporation and President of Delphi Electronics & Safety. He also is responsible for regional coordination in Asia in addition to his divisional responsibilities. He has global responsibility for 19 manufacturing and 31 engineering resource centers with more than 29,000 employees in 16 countries who build more than 310,000 sensors, power modules, radios, instrument clusters and electronic control modules every day. In addition, the Delphi division produces about 1 million integrated circuits (ICs) each day, making it one of the largest in-house manufacturers of custom ICs in the United States. He is also a member of the Delphi Strategy Board, the company's top policy-making group, and the executive champion for the engineering task team.

Throughout his career, Owens has served in a variety of engineering, manufacturing, finance and management assignments. Owens began his automotive career in 1973 as a General Motors Institute engineering student sponsored by the Delco Electronics Division of General Motors (GM) in Kokomo, Ind. He joined Delco in 1978 as an associate manufacturing engineer where he established integrated circuit assembly to support the advent of engine controls.

Following an assignment in finance in 1982, Owens returned to engineering from 1984 to 1990 and was instrumental in helping to establish high-volume, solid-state electronics capability for Delco. In 1990, he was named managing director and moved to Tucson, Ariz., to establish HE Microwave, a joint venture with Hughes Aircraft for the design and manufacture of automotive warning systems and military radar components.

Owens was promoted to Director of Advanced Engineering and Systems Integration in 1994 after returning to Delco and in 1995, he was named Executive Director of Emerging Products & Systems. In 1997, Owens was named Director of Systems and Software Engineering. He became the product line executive for Integrated Body in January 1998 and in September of that year, was promoted to General Director of Engineering. Owens was named General Director of Business Line Management in October 2000. He was named to his current position effective September 2001.

Owens earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) in 1978 and a master's degree in business administration from Ball State University in 1983. He completed the Global Executive Program at Duke University in 1997.

S. Michael Hudson
Chairman & CEO, I-Power Energy Systems, LLC

Mike Hudson serves as Chairman and CEO of I-Power Energy Systems, which produces a unique integrated system of on-site power generation that can utilize multi-fuel energy sources to produce full-time, efficient electricity in tandem with or independent of the utility grid systems.

Prior to his current role with I-Power, Hudson was Vice Chairman of Rolls-Royce North America from 2000 until his retirement in 2002. Prior to that he held the position of President, Chief Executive Officer of Rolls-Royce Allison following its acquisition by Rolls-Royce in 1995. He also served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at various times during this period. Mr. Hudson was one of two managers who, with Clayton Dublier, acquired Allison Gas Turbine from General Motors Corporation. He has served on the management boards of several joint venture companies in which Rolls-Royce Allison has had interest. Mr. Hudson is a member of the Board of directors of the Indianapolis Water Company.

Mr. Hudson has served as Chief Engineer for advanced technology engines, Chief Engineer for small production engines, supervisor of design for the Model 250 engines, Chief of Preliminary Design and Chief Project Engineer in vehicular gas turbines during his tenure at Allison. Mr. Hudson joined Allison in 1968 as the project engineer for the ATEGG core engine demonstrator program.

Following graduation from the University of Texas with a degree in mechanical engineering, Mr. Hudson was employed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft from 1962 to 1968 working in aircraft engine design, installation and performance, engine development and demonstration, and industrial and marine engine application engineering.

Mr. Hudson is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society, an honorary Fellow of the American Helicopter Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mr. Hudson has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers and of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and has served as Chairman of the SAE's Aerospace Council, has been on their Aerospace Program Office Committee and on their Finance Committee. He has received the SAE Franklin W. Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award and the Royal Aeronautical Society British Gold Metal and has been associated with five Collier Trophy winning programs.

Amory B. Lovins
Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist - Rocky Mountain Institute

Amory B. Lovins is the Rocky Mountain Institute's Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist. RMI is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining. The Institute's staff shows businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage, and enjoy many other benefits - largely by doing what they do far more efficiently.

Lovins is a consultant experimental physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford. He has received an Oxford MA (by virtue of being a don), ten honorary doctorates, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Blue Planet, Volvo, Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood ("Alternative Nobel"), World Technology, and Time Hero for the Planet awards, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, and the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, Jean Meyer, and Onassis Prizes.

He is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Honorary Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. He has lately led the redesign of over $30 billion worth of facilities in 29 sectors for radical energy and resource efficiency. He has briefed 19 heads of state, held several visiting academic chairs (most recently the 2007 MAP/Ming Professorship at Stanford), written 29 books and hundreds of papers, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide.

The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of 39 people worldwide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s"; Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers"; and Car magazine ranked him the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry.

France Córdova
President, Purdue University

France A. Córdova became the 11th President of Purdue University on July 16, 2007. Prior to joining Purdue, Córdova served as Chancellor at the University of California (UC) Riverside from 2002 to 2007, where she was also a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

An internationally recognized astrophysicist, Córdova also served as professor of Physics and Vice-Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara. Before joining UC Santa Barbara in 1996, she was Chief Scientist at NASA from 1993 to 1996, serving as the primary scientific advisor to the NASA administrator and the principal interface between NASA headquarters and the broader scientific community.

Córdova's scientific career contributions have been in the areas of observational and experimental astrophysics, multi-spectral research on x-ray and gamma ray sources, and space-borne instrumentation. She has published more than 150 scientific papers, and has a current experiment flying on the European Space Agency's X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission. She is the winner of NASA's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, and was recognized as a 2000 Kilby Laureate. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a national associate of the National Academies, and a member of the National Science Board, the 24-member governing body of the National Science Foundation. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).

In September 2007, Córdova was named to the board of directors of BioCrossroads, Indiana's initiative to grow the life sciences through a public-private collaboration. She was also named to the board of trustees for Mayo Clinic in May 2008 and began a six-year presidential appointment to the National Science Board in November 2008.

The oldest of 12 children, Córdova attended Stanford University, where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English, and, among other activities, conducted anthropological field work in a Zapotec Indian pueblo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She earned a PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1979. In 1997, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.

Córdova is married to Christian J. Foster, a science educator. They have two children in college.

Eizo Kobayashi
ITOCHU Corporation

Mr. Eizo Kobayashi has been the Chairman of the Board of Itochu Corp. since April 1, 2010. Mr. Kobayashi was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Itochu Corp. from June 29, 2004 to April 1, 2010. He joined Itochu Corp. in 1972 and was its Managing Director for Corporate Planning, Affiliate Administration, General Affairs & Legal in 2003. He was also the Chief Information Officer of Itochu Corp. Currently, Mr. Kobayashi is a Director at Nippon Venture Capital Co., Ltd. Previously, he was a Director of Itochu Corp. in June 1997, and a Non-Executive Director of Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd.

Tom Linebarger
President & COO, Cummins, Inc.

Since 2008, Tom Linebarger has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Cummins, Inc., a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, (USA) Cummins serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 500 company-owned and independent distributor locations and approximately 5,200 dealer locations.

Linebarger joined Cummins in 1994 and served in various roles, including as Managing Director of Cummins Turbo Technologies and Vice President of the Engine Business' Supply Chain Management before being named Chief Financial Officer in 2000 - a role he held for three years.

Linebarger moved to the position of President of Power Generation in 2003 and quickly helped return that business to profitability. Under his leadership, the business went from an operating loss of $19 million in 2003 to an operating profit of $334 million in 2007. Today, Power Generation is at the high end of its sales growth and profit targets and is expanding its businesses globally.

Along with Power Generation, Linebarger has led Cummins' corporate strategy and growth planning efforts.

Prior to joining Cummins, Linebarger was an investment manager for the Prudential Investment Corporation. He has master's degrees in business and manufacturing systems engineering from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His undergraduate degrees are in mechanical engineering and economics.

Linebarger is a member of the Board or Directors of Pactiv Corp., a position he has held since 2005. He is on the Advisory Committee for Aeon (formerly Central Community Housing Trust Advisory Council) in Minneapolis and a member of the Heading Home Minnesota Business Task Force. He is also a sponsor of the Cummins Power Generation Fridley plant's community involvement partnerships with Wilder Foundation, Aeon and CommonBond in Minneapolis.

Mark Miles
President & CEO, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

Mark Miles is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Inc. ("CICP"), a regional coalition of the CEO's of Central Indiana's most significant employers and leaders of universities with substantial research operations who seek to foster growth and opportunity throughout the region, advocate policy directions and engage in collaborative efforts to address issues facing the region. CICP encourages region-wide planning and goal setting in both the public and private sectors that recognize the interdependence of the entire area. CICP also develops objective data and analyses that lead to an informed consensus about activities that help Central Indiana businesses to become more globally competitive.

Before joining CICP in January 2006, Mark Miles served as CEO of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 15 years, and was Executive Director of Corporate Relations for Eli Lilly & Company in the late 1980s. During his tenure at Eli Lilly, Miles was deeply involved in a number of civic pursuits, including serving as Chair of the Organizing Committee for the Pan American Games in Indianapolis in 1987. Miles was also involved in the public sector, managed his own marketing firm in the 1980s and acted as volunteer director for the Indianapolis tennis tournament (now the RCA Championships).

John Bear
President & CEO, MISO

John Bear was named President and Chief Executive Officer of MISO (Midwest ISO) on Jan. 16, 2009, after serving as President and Chief Operating Officer since January 2006. 

Mr. Bear has more than 20 years of executive leadership in the utility industry and is a strong proponent of market transparency and efficiency. As CEO he is leading the MISO’s efforts to create added value for all customers through reliable market operations that meet the region’s resource adequacy needs, expand transmission planning activities and foster innovation in the exploration of the region’s demand response and energy efficiency capabilities.

Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Bear was President and Chief Operating Officer of the Midwest ISO, overseeing the ongoing success of Midwest ISO’s market operations. He oversaw the design, construction and implementation of the Day-Ahead, Real-Time and Ancillary Services markets. 

Prior to joining MISO, Mr. Bear was President of the Houston-based energy Reliant Resources, where he directed all operations and commercial activity for their mid-Atlantic and mid-Continent regions. Mr. Bear served as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Reliant's European operations, where he made significant contributions to the restructuring and development of the Netherlands wholesale electricity market as a board member of the Amsterdam Power Exchange (APX).

Mr. Bear also is Vice President of the Very Large Power Grid Operators, an association of the 12 largest international power grid operators.

He is a former member of the ReliabilityFirst Board of Directors. ReliabilityFirst is one of the eight approved Regional Entities in North America under the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).

Mr. Bear also serves as a director on the Greater Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana Regional Board of Directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

A native of Richardson, Texas, Mr. Bear graduated from Southern Methodist University where he earned a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in finance, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance and accounting. He attended the INSEAD Advanced Management Program for Senior Executives in 2009.

Mr. Bear joined MISO in May 2004.

Norio Sasaki
Representative Executive Officer and President & CEO, Toshiba Corporation

Norio Sasaki joined Toshiba Corporation in 1972, and has fulfilled numerous roles within the organization since that time. By 2001, Norio became Technology Executive in Nuclear Energy Systems and later became Vice President of the division in 2003. By June 2007, Norio progressed to become Corporate Executive Vice President and Group Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure Systems Group and currently resides as Director, Representative Executive Officer and President and CEO. Norio graduated from Waseda University in 1972 with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Timur Ivanov
Director General, Russian Energy Agency

In 1997, Timur Ivanov graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, in 2004 with a degree in Finance and Economics from International Academy of Marketing and Management. In 2011 received a degree in economics from Ivanovo State University. Timur has held several leadership positions over the past 20 years, including Vice President of Atomstroyexport, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and Head of Business Development Unit of INTER RAO UES, and currently serves as Director General of the Russian Energy Agency since 2009.