Gregory Kats is Senior Director, and Director of climate change policy at Good Energies, a global private investor in clean-energy technologies. He leads Good Energies’ investments in energy efficiency and green buildings. Previously, Greg served as the director of financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is the founding chair of the International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol, which has served as a technical basis for $10 billion in building upgrades and has been translated into ten languages. He is the founding Chair of the Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group for LEED, and was the principal advisor in developing Green Communities, the national green affordable-housing design standard. Greg is a founder of the New Resource Bank and the American Council on Renewable Energy. Earlier in his career, Greg held senior management and marketing positions at Reuters where he was responsible for product positioning, pricing, and marketing for a range of financial information services Europe-wide, and for negotiating acquisition of specific media-related properties. Greg earned an MBA from Stanford University and, concurrently, an MPA from Princeton University, and is a Certified Energy Manager. He is a principal author of Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development (ULI, 2005) and is the author of the forthcoming book Greening Our Built World: costs, benefits and strategies (Island Press, 2009). He serves on numerous boards and as sustainability advisor to CalPERS. Greg is a frequent keynote speaker at national clean-energy technology and real estate conferences.

Jack Rivkin has had a long and varied career in the Investment Industry encompassing Private and Public Equity, Investment Policy and Management. He is known as a keen observer of investment and business strategy, and a superb manager of highly talented professionals. He retired in early 2008 as Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Private Asset Management of Neuberger Berman. He was also a member of Neuberger’s Executive Management Committee, the Lehman Brothers Council on Climate Change and the Neuberger Berman Climate Change Fund Advisory Board. He is engaged with the United Nations on policy issues related to Private Capital and Climate Change. He is an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society. He retired from Neuberger to devote more time to Climate Change and related Investing and Policy issues. Mr. Rivkin began his investment career in 1968 as a research analyst at Mitchell Hutchins, and subsequently became Director of Research. After Paine Webber acquired Mitchell Hutchins, Mr. Rivkin served in a variety of positions including, Director of Research, CFO of the parent company; President and CEO of PaineWebber Mitchell Hutchins -the equity trading and investment arm of PaineWebber; Chairman of Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management and President and Founder of PaineWebber Capital, the merchant banking arm of PW, where he ran a private equity portfolio. From 1987 to 1992 he was Director of Global Research and, subsequently, Head of the Worldwide Equities Division of Lehman Brothers Inc. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Rivkin served as a Vice Chairman and director of Global Research at Smith Barney (ultimately a subsidiary of Citigroup). He was an executive vice president with Citigroup Investments from 1994 through 2001, responsible for private equity investments. During that period he was also an adjunct professor at Columbia University teaching a course in Security Analysis and classes on Venture Capital. He joined Neuberger Berman in 2002. Mr. Rivkin is the co-author of “Risk & Reward—Venture Capital and the Making of America’s Great Industries,” Random House, 1987. He is a regular guest on various media including CNBC and Bloomberg. He is the principal subject in a series of Harvard Business School cases describing his experience as Director of Research and Head of Equities at Lehman Brothers. He has served as a director of a number of private and public companies and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is currently a director of Dale Carnegie and Associates Inc., Idealab, Distributed World Power, Essentials Brands, Neuberger Berman Mutual Funds and Solbright Corporation. He and his wife, Jane, are involved with a number of NGOs as well. He is also a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Anglers Club of New York, Theodore Gordon Fly Fishers, and a lifetime member of Trout Unlimited.

Matt Christensen has over ten years of experience building European businesses focused on sustainability themes in the UK, France, Spain and Germany. Based in Paris since 2002, Matt continues to act as the Executive Director for Eurosif (the European Sustainable Investment Forum). Since Matt was recruited as Executive Director in a turnaround situation, Eurosif has grown into the premier European think tank and industry association for sustainable investment with more than 80 Member Affiliates that together represent assets totaling over €1 trillion. Recent activities of Eurosif include its EU Market Study, High Net Worth Individual Sustainability Report, and successful submissions to the EU asking for improved transparency on environmental/social/governance issues by companies and funds. Matt is a frequent speaker at international events on sustainable finance matters and is a member of the European Commission Coordination Committee to shape the evolution of public policy around sustainable investment themes in the EU. He is a Non-Executive Director to three investment funds and holds masters degrees from the Wharton School (MBA) and University of Pennsylvania (MA International Political Economy).

Dr Matt Huddleston is the Principal Consultant on Climate Change at Met Office. The Met Office are experts on weather and climate and their impacts on the renewables industry. In particular, we will be drawing on the expertise of the Met Office Hadley Centre—one of the foremost geoscience institutes globally. The Met Office has developed strong links with the financial community and has advised financial institutions thru the investment cycle, from private equity to listed equities, on a wide range of climate related issues and their possible impact on financial performance. The Met Office was a key contributor to the Stern Review on the economics of climate change and has done pioneering research and analysis on renewables for the UK energy industry.

The relationship will be headed by Matt, who is one of the Met Offices main spokesmen on the impacts of weather and climate change. Matt has a bachelor’s degree in physics and wrote his PhD thesis on the Arctic Ocean at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. He has visited both the Arctic and Antarctic on scientific expeditions in ice-breaking ships, including HMS Endurance. Matt worked as a climate modeller for 15 years, and pioneered the application of climate models to how our climate is changing now, helping to develop seasonal forecasts for the UK, Europe and of tropical storms in the Atlantic. He has published peer-reviewed scientific papers comparing global climate models, on observations of the ocean and on tropical storms. In recent years, Matt has consulted widely with the energy, insurance and investment industries, including for the Association of British Insurers and Barclays Bank.

Matt and his colleagues at the Met Office Hadley Centre will be talking at a series of Investor events hosted by Osmosis over the coming months; for more information, please visit the Met Office and the Met Office Hadley Centre.