Dan W Reicher

Dan W. Reicher
Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives
Google, Inc.

Dan W. Reicher has over 25 years of experience in energy and environmental technology, policy, finance and law, including serving as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Clinton Administration. He recently was an advisor to the Obama campaign on energy and climate issues and a member of the Presidential Transition Team where he focused on the energy portions of the stimulus package.

Mr. Reicher joined Google in 2007 where he serves as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives for the company's venture called Google.org which was capitalized with more than $1 billion of Google stock to make investments, advance policy and develop products in the areas of climate change and energy, health, and global development. Mr. Reicher is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, a member of General Electric's Ecomagination Advisory Board, co-chairman of the board of the American Council on Renewable Energy, and a member of the board of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

Prior to his position at Google, Mr. Reicher served as President and Co-Founder of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity firm funded by the California State Teachers Retirement System and Vantage Point Venture Partners to invest in clean energy projects. He also served as Executive Vice President of Northern Power Systems, one of the nation’s oldest renewable energy companies. Mr. Reicher was also an adjunct professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Vermont Law School.

From 1997-2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). As Assistant Secretary, he directed annually more than $1 billion in investments in energy research, development and deployment related to renewable energy, distributed generation and energy efficiency.

Prior to his position as DOE Assistant Secretary, Mr. Reicher was the Department’s Chief of Staff (1996-97), Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy (Acting) (1995-1996), and Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary (1993-1995). He was also a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Climate Change Negotiations, Co-Chair of the U.S. Biomass Research and Development Board, and a member of the board of the government-industry Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles. After leaving the Clinton Administration in 2001 he was a consultant to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a Visiting Fellow at the World Resources Institute.

Prior to his roles at the Department of Energy and in the business community, Mr. Reicher was a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council where he focused on the federal government's energy and nuclear programs as well as environmental law and policy issues in the former Soviet Union. He was also previously Assistant Attorney General for Environmental Protection in Massachusetts, a law clerk to a federal district court judge in Boston, a legal assistant in the Hazardous Waste Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a staff member of President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.

Mr. Reicher holds a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He also studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and MIT. Mr. Reicher was a member of the first group on record to kayak the Yangtze River in China and a National Geographic sponsored expedition that was the first to navigate the entire 1888 mile Rio Grande. Mr. Reicher is married to Carole Parker, who headed the Office of Pollution Prevention at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1994 to 1999. Carole and Dan have three children and live in Piedmont, California.

2010 Speakers

	Dan Adler President California Clean Energy Fund		Dennis Arriola Senior Vice President & CFO SunPower Corporation
	Dan E. Arvizu Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)		Andrew Beebe Chief Commercial Officer Suntech Power
	John Bohn Commissioner California Public Utilities Comission		Ted Brandt Principal-CEO Marathon Capital, LLC
	Michael Butler Co-Founder Cascadia Capital		John Cavalier Managing Partner Hudson Clean Energy Partners
	Ungad Chadda Senior Vice President Toronto Stock Exchange		Matt Cheney Managing Director CleanPath Ventures
	Paul Clark Conference Manager Euromoney Energy Events		Woodrow Clark II Managing Director Clark Strategic Partners
	Tim Derrick Chief Executive Officer Axio Power, Inc		Stephan Dolezalek Managing Director and Group Leader, CleanTech VantagePoint Venture Partners
	Peter Duprey Chief Executive Officer Acciona Energy North America		John Eber Managing Director JPMorgan Capital Corporation
	Michael Eckhart President American Council On Renewable Energy		Ira Ehrenpreis General Partner Technology Partners
	Pat Eilers Managing Director Madison Dearborn		Matt Ferguson Principal, Renewable Energy Practice Leader Reznick Group
	Declan Flanagan Chief Executive Officer Lincoln Renewable Energy, LLC		Lisa Frantzis Managing Director for Renewable & Distributed Energy Navigant Consulting
	Michael Garland Chief Executive Officer Pattern Energy Group		John Geesman Co-Chair, Board of Directors American Council On Renewable Energy
	Kevin Genieser Managing Director Morgan Stanley		Arno Harris CEO Recurrent Energy
	Wendolyn Holland Senior Advisor, Commercialization and Deployment DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)		Dan Kalafatas President 3Degrees
	David Kappos Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)		Craig Kline Partner Troutman Sanders LLP
	Nat Kreamer President Acro Energy Technologies		Gisela Kroess Director Power & Environment, Global Project FinanceUniCredit Bank AG, New York Branch
	William Lee Vice President, Project Finance SunEdison		Jeffrey Lipton Managing Director & Head of the North American Clean Technology Group Jefferies & Company, Inc.
	Scott B. Livingston Chief Executive Officer Livingston Securities		Ken Locklin Director, Finance & Investment, Clean Energy Group
	Laura S. Lovelace President Wellford Energy Advisors		Jeffrey McDermott Managing Partner Greentech Capital Advisors
	Mark Nydam Managing Director, Clean Energy & Technology Group, PCG Asset Management, LLC		Bob O'Connor Partner Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
	David Oxtoby Chief Executive Officer CarbonFree Technology		Bruce Pasternack Operating Partner Venrock
	Don Paul Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute & William M. Keck Chair of Energy Resources		Jackalyne Pfannenstiel Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations and Environment)
	David T. Quinby Partner Stoel Rives LLP		Dan Reicher Director, Climate Change & Energy Initiatives Google, Inc.
	Charles Ricker Vice President, Business Development BrightSource Energy		Lyndon Rive CEO SolarCity
	Matt Rogers Senior Advisor to Secretary for the Recovery Act US Department of Energy		Daniel N. Schochet Executive Vice President Ram Power Corporation
	Sandip Sen Global Head - Alternative Energy Citigroup Global Markets		Alan Synnott Corporate Finance NTR plc
	Adam Umanoff Partner Chadbourne & Parke, LLP		Sha Wang Principal Cybernaut (China) Investment
	Parker Weil Managing Director, Co-Head of Americas Energy & Power Group Bank Of America Merrill Lynch		Mark P. Weitzel Partner Orrick
	Kenneth Westrick Founder and Chief Executive Officer 3TIER		Ray Wood Co-Head Global Alternative Energy Credit Suisse
	Tim Woodward Managing Director Nth Power		Johnathan Yellen Managing Director Deutsche Bank

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