SPEAKER BIOS

Spencer Abraham

Spencer Abraham became the nation's 10th Secretary of Energy on January 20, 2001. He leads a cabinet department with a $22 billion budget and over 100,000 federal and contractor employees.

Under Secretary Abraham's leadership, the Department of Energy has pursued an ambitious agenda that strengthens America's energy and national security.

In the first week of the new Administration, President Bush appointed Secretary Abraham and other Cabinet-level officials to a task force that developed the first National Energy Policy in over a decade. Since the energy plan was released, Secretary Abraham has led the Administration's efforts to increase energy supply and conservation and energy efficiency, and is currently working to secure passage of a comprehensive energy bill.

One of the key components of the National Energy Policy was nuclear power, which provides 20 percent of the nation's electricity. After years of inaction and delay, Secretary Abraham recommended Yucca Mountain as the nation's first repository of nuclear fuel and nuclear waste, and that recommendation was approved by decisive bipartisan majorities in both the House and Senate. President Bush signed the resolution designating the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository on July 23, 2002.

In January 2002, Secretary Abraham launched an aggressive new technology research program to develop the future of energy. Under this new FreedomCAR program, the government and the private sector will fund research into advanced, efficient fuel cell technology which uses hydrogen to power automobiles without creating any pollution. The long-term results of this cooperative effort will be cars and trucks that are more efficient, cheaper to operate, pollution-free and competitive in the showroom. This plan is rooted in President Bush's call, issued last May in our National Energy Plan, to reduce American reliance on foreign oil through a balance of new domestic energy production and new technology to promote greater energy efficiency. The Detroit News said FreedomCAR will transform the energy debate: "Just as Ronald Reagan changed the terms of the defense debate with his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), so the fuel-cell initiative of George Bush and Spencer Abraham may change the terms of debate over energy."

Secretary Abraham has also dramatically expanded the Department's role and focus on nuclear nonproliferation programs. During a November 2001 trip to Moscow, the Secretary and his Russian counterpart announced an agreement to significantly expand and accelerate nuclear nonproliferation work. In May 2002, during a Washington meeting with the Russians, Secretary Abraham announced the creation of a working group to improve security of radiological sources. Washington Post columnist David Broder described these efforts to safeguard Russian nuclear materials as "great gifts to the nation from Abraham and others."

One of the most significant challenges facing the Department is its responsibility for the environmental cleanup of former federal atomic weapons facilities around the country. Secretary Abraham's Expedited Cleanup Initiative represents the most ambitious overhaul ever sought of this $7 billion a year program. The initiative will dramatically increase funding to those sites that agree to expedite cleanup.

As the leader of one of the federal government's largest agencies, Secretary Abraham is also its top manager. After becoming Secretary, he instituted a series of key management reforms that have made DOE one of the most effective agencies in the federal government. The Mercatus Center audit of federal agency performance reports for 2001 ranked DOE 4th out of all federal agencies for top performance. In the previous year, DOE was ranked 10th.

Under Secretary Abraham's leadership, every DOE program has conducted top-to-bottom reviews of their spending priorities and established new blueprints for the future. The reform plan is not just about controlling spending and bureaucracy, but about managing programs effectively.

Prior to becoming Secretary of Energy, Mr. Abraham served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995-2001 where he was the author of 22 pieces of legislation signed into law - an unprecedented accomplishment for a freshman Senator. Before his election to the Senate, Abraham served as co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) from 1991 to 1993. He was also Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1983-1990 and Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle from 1990 to 1991.

Spencer Abraham and his wife, Jane, have three children. He is a native of Lansing, Michigan and a graduate of the Harvard University School of Law and Michigan State University.

David E. Baldwin, Ph.D.

Dr. Baldwin is Senior Vice President of General Atomics. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in plasma physics from MIT in 1958 and 1962, respectively. From 1962 to 1970 he held research and faculty positions at Stanford University, Culham Laboratory (England), and Yale University. In 1970 he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a theoretical plasma physicist for Magnetic Fusion Energy (MFE) and in 1983 became Deputy Associate Director for MFE. In 1988 he was named Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He returned to LLNL in 1991 in as Associate Director for Energy.

Since May 1995 Dr. Baldwin has been a Senior Vice President, Energy Group, General Atomics (GA) in San Diego. The GA Energy Group activities include hosting the DIII-D National (tokamak) Fusion Facility and its supporting theory and computations; technology, fusion materials and diagnostic development; target fabrication and handling for the U.S. Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program; and the world-wide research activities conducted by GA scientists for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Group is known as one of the leading providers of high power microwave systems, fusion technology, and tokamak engineering and design to the international marketplace. Its activities also include government and commercial applications of ultra-short-pulse electro-magnetic radiation, ranging from microwave to optical frequencies. Recently, the Group has incorporated GA's gas-reactor development and hydrogen generation research activities.

Dr. Baldwin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1988 served as Chair of the Division of Plasma Physics. He has also served as technical editor for plasma physics for several scientific journals.

Vladimir Bernstein

Vladimir Bernstein is Director of Strategic and Investment Planning for Alfa Group, where he is responsible for business development and the Group's portfolio strategy. Previously Mr. Bernstein was President and CEO of Genesis Energy Group, Inc, which invested in businesses involved in renewable energy development and production, and served with Cisco Systems and Bain & Company. Mr. Bernstein has an MBA from Stanford, an MA in Counseling Psychology from Stanford, a BS in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Bernstein was born in Moscow.

Steven K. Black

Steve Black is currently Acting Director of the Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). His office is responsible for a broad range of non-proliferation policy, arms control, and international security issues. The office provides technical and policy expertise to nearly all interagency, bilateral, and multilateral arms control and nonproliferation deliberations, but particularly to those involving nuclear technology and weapons of mass destruction. It also coordinates and manages programs involving former Soviet weapons scientist, develops initiatives involving the nuclear fuel cycle, executes the Department of Energy’s statutory responsibilities for export control, and provides the U.S. Mission in Vienna with personnel, policy, and technical expertise, especially in the area of international nuclear safeguards.

Prior to joining NNSA, Steve Black served for over twenty years in Air Force. He retired in April 2001 after a wide range of staff and operational postings including tours in Tactical Air Command, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (Germany), U.S. Space Command, and a variety of staff positions in Washington, D.C.

During his career, Steve Black commanded a watch center in Cheyenne Mountain, conducted on-site arms control inspections throughout Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, served as military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the waning days of the Soviet Union, and served on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He finished his Air Force career in 2001 upon completion of a tour of duty in the Office of the Vice President, where he was responsible for international security issues with a technology component (i.e. aerospace, arms control nonproliferation, information warfare, computers, and telecommunications).

Phillip J. Bond

Phillip J. Bond was sworn in as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology on October 30, 2001. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, and confirmed by the United States Senate on October 23, 2001.

Secretary Evans announced on January 22, 2002, that he had chosen Bond to serve as his Chief of Staff as well, stating that he viewed technology policy as a top priority in his mission to advocate for American business at home and abroad, and that Bond's appointment would ensure that the Department will continue to focus on technology as a vital component of our nation's economy.

Under Secretary Bond serves as the principal advisor to Secretary Evans on science and technology policy to maximize technology's contribution to America's economic growth. In this context, Mr. Bond's primary responsibilities are to supervise policy development and direction among the Office of Technology Policy (OTP), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). He also serves on four committees of the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), a Cabinet-level council established by the President to coordinate science, space, and technology policy within the Federal research and development enterprise.

One of Mr. Bond's top priorities is to transform the Technology Administration into the pre-eminent portal to the federal government for the U.S. technology industry. In that regard, he directs efforts of TA to advocate on behalf of U.S. technology in the federal policy-making process. Some of the high priority issues that he is involved in include support for American innovation and entrepreneurship; the emerging field of nanotechnology; strengthening U.S. technology cooperation with other countries, especially in areas such as and standards development; education and training of a high tech workforce; and an array of issues of concern to the telecommunications and information technology industries.

LHis experience in the private sector includes serving as Director of Federal Public Policy for the Hewlett-Packard Company, a position he held immediately before joining Commerce, and previously serving as Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Treasurer of the Information Technology Industry Council.

From 1993 to 1998, Phil Bond served as Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn (R-WA). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs from 1992 to 1993 for then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Earlier, he was Chief of Staff and Rules Committee Associate for Congressman Bob McEwen (R-OH) from 1990 to 1992. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. He is a graduate of Linfield College in Oregon.

Sonya Bowyer, PH.D.

Dr. Sonya Bowyer is currently an IPA working in the Nuclear and Radiological Countermeasures Portfolio of the Office of Programs, Plans, and Budget within Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security. Her major areas of focus include active interrogation technology and short-term improvements to currently deployed radiation detection detectors and systems. Prior to her current position, Dr. Bowyer was on assignment to the Director of Research, Development, and Evaluation in the Applied Technology Division in U.S. Customs as on-sight technical support for the Radiation Portal Monitor Project. Dr. Bowyer is assigned out of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a Staff Scientist.

Dr. Bowyer received her PhD. from Indiana University in Nuclear Physics. Her postdoc and staff work at PNNL focused on radiation detection systems for national security applications with technical specialization in coincident detection techniques of multi-mode radiation. Dr. Bowyer has also worked on cooperative threat reduction, international safeguards, CTBT atmospheric monitoring, waste characterization, and trace radioisotope identification programs.

Randy Bregman

Randy Bregman, a partner in the New York office of the multi-national law firm, Salans, heads up the U.S. desk of Salans' CIS practice. Mr. Bregman's practice encompasses international transactions and CIS trade and investment.

Mr. Bregman has focused his practice on the CIS for over 30 years, part of the time based in Moscow where he lived from 1991 to 1995. Bregman has significant experience in corporate and M&A matters and advises Russian and Western clients in a diverse range of industries including banking and finance, oil, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and consumer goods.

Recent examples of Mr. Bregman's work include representing Russian companies and individuals in disputes with Western banks, in acquisitions and sales of significant stakes in Russian entities and in business activities in Europe and the U.S. Mr. Bregman advises several major consumer goods and pharmaceutical companies in their efforts to establish sales offices and distribution networks within the CIS and in their investments in production facilities.

In Moscow and Washington, DC, Mr. Bregman has represented a number of multinational corporations in negotiations with Russian and CIS partners from start-up meetings through concluding transactions and operational matters.

Steven Buchsbaum

Dr. Steven B. Buchsbaum is a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA), created in 2003. He brings extensive experience with detection design, development, and application to his current position as Project Manager.

Prior to joining HSARPA, Dr. Buchsbaum spent three years as Program Manager in the Special Projects Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was responsible for the development of three program areas: sensor defense against biological weapons; technologies to counter use of underground facilities; and other classified work

Dr. Buchsbaum managed the U.S.-India International Fund for Science and Technology Cooperation for the State Department from 1997-98. Previously, he spent eleven years as Senior Scientific Analyst at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he was team leader or key contributor to over 20 advanced technology programs. This included work on seeker simulation for the Sidewinder Missile; algorithm and software design of precision air drop LIDAR sensor systems; and design review and performance improvement of the Thermal Neutron Analysis Explosive Detection System (TNA-EDS) for FAA airport security use. Dr. Buchsbaum’s early experience includes research at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

From 1995-1997, he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Environment and Development; he has also contributed to many research publications. He was selected as a Science and Diplomacy Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as a Congressional Fellow by the American Physical Society in 1998.

Dr. Buchsbaum received an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics, as well as his MP.I.A. in International Technology Management, from the University of California, San Diego. He earned his B.A. from Hamilton College in New York.

Ambassador Linton F. Brooks

Ambassador Linton F. Brooks was sworn in as Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security / Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on May 16, 2003 following nomination by President Bush and confirmation by the Senate. He had been acting in this position since July 2002. Immediately prior to his appointment he was serving as Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, a post he assumed in October 2001. The NNSA includes approximately 37,000 federal, military, and contractor personnel charged with carrying out the national security responsibilities of the Department of Energy. These responsibilities include designing, producing, and maintaining safe and reliable nuclear weapons for the U.S. military, providing safe, militarily effective naval nuclear propulsion plants, and promotion of international nuclear safety and nonproliferation.

Ambassador Brooks has over four decades of experience in national security, much of it associated with nuclear weapons. As a career Navy officer he deployed on four nuclear-equipped ships, serving as Weapons, Executive, and Commanding Officer. In Washington he had assignments as Special Assistant to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, responsible for all Navy nuclear programs and for international nuclear weapons cooperation, as Director of the Navy's Strategic and Theater Nuclear Warfare Division, and as Director of Defense Programs on the staff of the National Security Council. In the latter assignment he was the White House official responsible, among other things, for all Department of Energy nuclear programs and for U.S. nuclear testing policy during the final third of the Reagan Administration.

For the eight years prior to joining the George W. Bush Administration, Ambassador Brooks served as a Vice President at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), where he directed research and analysis of issues of national importance. During this period he also served as an advisor to Sandia National Laboratories and took part in a number of far-ranging studies on nuclear weapons issues.

In addition to his security and weapons background, Ambassador Brooks has extensive arms control experience. During the George H.W. Bush Administration, he served as Assistant Director for Strategic and Nuclear Affairs at the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and in the State Department as Head of the United Stales Delegation on Nuclear and Space Talks and Chief Strategic Arms Reductions (START) Negotiator. In this latter capacity, he was responsible for final preparation of the START I Treaty, signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow on July 31, 1991. In December 1992, he performed a similar function during the final preparation of the January 3, 1993, START II Treaty.

Ambassador Brooks holds a BS in physics from Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Navy War College and has published a number of prize-winning articles on naval and nuclear strategy.

Sarah C. Carey

Sarah C. Carey leads Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey LLP's CIS practice. Her practice concentrates on trans-border transactions involving the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Ms. Carey provides legal counsel to a broad range of multinational companies and investment funds, including the structuring of new investments, mergers and acquisitions and compliance with local regulatory regimes. She is often called upon to structure creative collaborations between industry and government, particularly in regard to large investment projects. Ms. Carey was instrumental in the implementation of many of the business forms and procedures now available in the CIS including joint ventures, joint stock companies, holding companies, production sharing arrangements, limited liability partnerships, branches and representations.

Ms. Carey has represented both US and CIS companies in regard to investments in the high technology sector. These representations have included the purchase by Western companies of CIS technologies, the structuring of teaming agreements, joint development agreements, and joint ventures and the structuring of patent strategies. Recent technology investments have included products in the space, pharmaceutical, bio-tech, and communications sectors.

Ms. Carey is the chair of the board of directors of the Eurasia Foundation, a presidential appointment, and a director of Yukos Oil Company. She serves on numerous other boards and advisory committees. She also writes and speaks frequently on legal, commercial and economic developments in the CIS.

Tarik Choho

Tarik Choho has 14 years’ experience in oil, gas, and radioactive waste engineering and project management in Europe and the U.S. Mr. Choho is currently Manager of the Russian-MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility project for Duke COGEMA Stone & Webster. He is responsible for supporting DCS in directing all aspects of the R-MFFF contract, with the long-term goal to support technology transfer from the U.S. Department of Energy to the Russian Federation.

Prior to joining DCS, he was Vice President and Project Director for Numatec Hanford Corporation from 1996 to 2003. At the Hanford site, he directed the construction, testing, and startup of the Nuclear Waste storage tank ventilation system. While there, he managed a staff of nearly 300 engineers and technicians in charge of major environmental cleanup projects on the Hanford nuclear waste storage site.

From 1989 to 1996, Mr. Choho was Project Manager for Sofregaz in Clichy, France, with responsibilities for gas production, transport, and storage in Russia, Ireland, Poland, Azerbaijan, and India.

Mr. Choho holds master’s degrees in General Engineering (Ecole Polytechnique), Mechanical Engineering (Ecole Nationale Superieure Techniques Avancees), and Mathematics and Automatics (University of Paris). He is fluent in French, Arabic, Berber, and English.

Guy della Cioppa

Guy della Cioppa, Ph.D. is Executive Vice President, Business Development at NanoInk, Inc. NanoInk is a venture-backed company organized to exploit the commercial opportunities presented by the Dip Pen Nanolithography™ (DPN™) method of nanoprinting and nanomanufacturing. DPN™ technology is a patented process that enables the building of nanoscale structures and patterns by literally drawing molecules onto substrates such as silicon microelectronic devices. Prior to NanoInk he served as Vice President, Business Development at Large Scale Biology Corporation (Nasdaq: LSBC). At LSBC he was an executive officer and twelve-year veteran of the senior LSBC management team and represented the company at major scientific and investor conferences. He was a key member of the team responsible for the company's successful $97 million public offering in August 2000. Prior to serving in Business Development he was Vice President of the Genomics Division where he drafted the genomics business plan, filed key enabling patents, and managed the functional genomics collaboration with The Dow Chemical (1998-2001). The collaboration with Dow ramped up to 35 new employees in less than 12 months and required the construction of a new 10,000 square foot, automated genomics laboratory. The genomics deal with Dow resulted in more than $53 million in cash payments to LSBC over the three year research phase of the agreement. Dr. della Cioppa has extensive experience working with corporate partners and university laboratories on collaborative development projects, licensing, technology transfer and regulatory affairs. His doctoral degree in biology from UCLA was followed by study as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and five years in various senior positions in Corporate R&D at Monsanto Company in St. Louis (1984-1989). At Monsanto, he was a key member of the team that developed the first genetically modified (GM) crops now sold worldwide. He has 16 issued US patents and has published numerous peerreviewed scientific papers, meeting reviews, editorial opinions, and invited book chapters. He serves on the editorial board of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology and is a frequent invited guest speaker at biotechnology and nanotechnology conferences. He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES), co-chair of the LES Nanotechnology Committee, and has recently completed executive education studies in financial analysis at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Bruce Crocker
General Partner
Pitango Venture Capital

Mr. Bruce Crocker has more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry, including venture investing, general management and investment banking. Mr. Crocker joined the Pitango team as a Managing Director with the combination of the Eucalyptus and Pitango management groups in April 2000.

Prior to that, Mr. Crocker co-founded Eucalyptus Ventures in 1997, and since that time has served as Managing Director of the fund. Prior to founding Eucalyptus, he served as a managing director in technology investment banking at Hambrecht & Quist. Mr. Crocker led the development of H&Q's initial underwriting practice in Israel, and sponsored six H&Q venture investments. Mr. Crocker previously served as President and CEO of Exploration Systems, a start-up application software company targeting the oil and gas exploration markets, and of EG&G Geometrics, a manufacturer of geophysical instruments and a supplier of airborne geophysical survey services.

Mr. Crocker holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Crocker is Chairman of Elity Systems, serves on the Board of Directors of Mercado Software, Virtio, Silverback Systems, and VisonCare Ophthalmic Technologies among others, and is an observer at XACCT Technologies and Cadent.

Patrick Davis

Patrick Davis is a Team Leader of the Fuel Cell Technology Team in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies. The fuel cell team conducts R&D of stationary and transportation PEM fuel cell technology, including systems, fuel processing and component development efforts. He is also co-chairman of the FreedomCar Fuel Cell Technical Team.

Prior to joining the Fuel Cells for Transportation Program, Mr. Davis managed the United States Advanced Battery Consortium battery test program and the DOE ultracapacitor R&D program. He has over 20 years experience in the development of electrochemical technologies.

Jarius DeWalt

Jarius DeWalt joined M. R. Beal in 1992 to assist in developing the firm's corporate finance capabilities. Today, as Executive Vice President for Financial Advisory/Corporate Finance, Mr. DeWalt heads the Investment Banking Department and has been responsible for banking relationships with CitiCorp, Excel Realty, the Resolution Trust Corporation, FDIC, BellSouth, SBC and Cingular Wireless. He has provided extensive coverage of the insurance, banking, thrift and telecommunications industries, including a number of well regarded industry surveys. Among these reports are: "MetLife, Inc.", "AT&T Broadband: A Fronte Praeciption Tergo Lupi (A Precipice in Front, Wolves Behind)", "AT&T - When Elephants Fly", "Banks to Watch From a Distance" and "How Do You Spell Earnings".

Mr. DeWalt leads M. R. Beal in the development and continuing refinement of its propriety equity research model, based upon the concept of "Economic Profit". The concept is an expansion of fundamentally based modeling, using Economic Value Added (EVA) developed by Stern, Stewart & Co. Economic Profit measures both opportunity cost and resource utilization through an enhanced version of excess free cash flow over a company's cost of capital, and its effect on sustainable market price.

Mr. DeWalt began his financial services career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where for six years he held a number of positions in research, internal analysis, and marketing. He subsequently joined the Freedom National Bank in New York, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

He earned an A.B. in Government and Economics from Harvard College in 1976.

Aleksey Dudnik

Dr. Aleksey Dudnik is leader of the Fuel Cell Research Group at the Coal Energy Technology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Fuel and Power of Ukraine. His research group has reached the seventh stage in their research: modernization of installation for test and certification of fuel cells under pressure. Dr. Dudnik is also a senior teacher at the Faculty of Nuclear Power Plants and Technical Heat Physics of National Technical University ("Kiev Polytechnical Institute").

Following his honours degree in Engineering from the Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry, Dr. Dudnik worked in Azerbaijan and then returned to Ukraine in 1991, when he joined the Department of High Temperature Energy Conversion of the National Academy of Sciences. He continued his PhD studies in industrial power systems at the Gas Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and joined the Coal Energy Technology Institute in 1996.

In 1993, Dr. Dudnik participated in a "Clean Coal" program sponsored by the Ministry of Electrification of Ukraine and the U.S. Department of Energy, during which he traveled to six modern thermal power plants and coal gasification plant in the U.S.

In addition to giving a number of international conference presentations, Dr. Dudnik has published 52 scientific works, and is currently a correspondent with the "Energy Policy of Ukraine" journal. Since 2002, he has been working with European Union partners on a project to create software for calculation of modern boilers.

Kutlay Ebiri

Kutlay Ebiri is the Chief Economist of International Finance Corporation (IFC)'s Central and Eastern Europe Region. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is a global investor and advisor committed to promoting the development of the private sector in its developing member countries by financing economically beneficial, financially sound, and environmentally and socially sustainable investment projects. Established in 1956, IFC is the largest multilateral source of loan and equity financing for private sector projects in the developing world.

Before he joined the World Bank Group, Mr. Ebiri held various positions with the Turkish government, including State Planning Organization, Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank. He also taught at the Middle East Technical University as an Assistant Professor. After joining for the World Bank Group, he took senior level positions in the Latin America Department, became Regional Representative for Albania and Azerbaijan, and was the Senior Economist for Central and Southern Europe Department prior to assuming his responsibilities in his current department.

Stephen C. Engelken

Stephen Engelken has directed the State Department’s Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction since August 2002. This office manages the State Department’s programs to redirect former Soviet Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) scientists to peaceful, civilian employment by working through the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow and the Science and Technology Center – Ukraine in Kiev. Commercializing the science performed by these WMD scientists is currently Mr. Engelken’s top goal.

Prior to taking his current position, Mr. Engelken held a wide variety of posts over a 30 year career in the State Department. In recent years, for example, he has served as Political Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia; Deputy Director of Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the State Department in Washington; and Chief of Political-Military affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France. Mr. Engelken is a graduate of George Washington University with a B.A. in International Affairs. He also holds a diploma from the Ecole Nationale de l’Administration in Paris, France.

Oleg Gang

Oleg Gang, Ph.D., is scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY. His current scientific interests are focused on the soft materials at nanoscales, functional organic films, unconventional nano-lithography and manipulation by nano-objects. The research has potentially high impact on applications dealing with novel nano-functional materials, nano-fluidics, realization of biological and chemical "lab-on-the-chip" concept, and variety of nano-fabrication methods. Prior joining Brookhaven National Laboratory Dr. Gang was research fellow at Harvard University, where he initiated and developed the scientific program focused on nano-modified interfaces.

Dr. Gang has published tens of scientific papers in the peer-reviewed journals and received prestige awards and honors including Rothschild Foundation Distinguished Fellowship, Wolf Foundation Scholarship, Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship.

Dr. Gang received Ph.D. in physics with Highest Distinction from Bar-Ilan University (Israel) in 1999, and performed his postdoctoral studies at Division of Applied Science at Harvard University. He is co- principal investigator on DOE and NSF granted scientific programs, and also involved in collaborative industrial research and development with IBM, Lucent, ExxonMobil, Molecular Imprinting.

Tim Goldburt

Dr. Tim Goldburt is the Founder and CEO of Nanometrology LLC, a subsidiary of General Phosphorix LLC (GP LLC), a New York-based high-tech company started in 1998. Nanometrology LLC provides sub-100nm metrology solutions for the semiconductor industry's SEM and CD-SEM critical dimension (CD) measurements. Nanometrology's solutions enable precision beyond that required by the ITRS roadmap as well as true accuracy in CD and Line Edge Roughness (LER) measurements for SEM and CD-SEMs. The company developed two products, NanoCal™ and CD-LER™, to meet the sub-100nm metrology challenges of the semiconductor industry. The products offer for the first-time solutions for SEM precise and accurate magnification calibration and CD and line-edge roughness (LER) measurements.

After completing his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he received a number of distinguished awards - Gerhard M.J. Schmidt Memorial Prize for best Ph.D. Thesis, 1985; Dr. Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, 1983; Feinberg Graduate School Prize for Excellence in Ph.D. studies, 1982 - Dr. Goldburt began his professional career as a visiting scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, after which he was a Senior Member Research Staff of Philips Research. Prior to starting General Phosphorix LLC, Dr. Goldburt was co-founded Nanocrystals Technology in 1993, where he was VP of Materials and led the development of nanocrystalline phosphors and their applications in microeletronic and photonic devices. To date, Dr. Goldburt has over thirty patents issued/pending, and over a hundred publications.

Seth Grae

Seth Grae is the President of Thorium Power. His expertise is in structuring and implementing high-technology international business transactions, and he has worked as an attorney in this area. Mr. Grae has played an active role in business and legal activities of Thorium Power since the company's founding. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security and of the Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, which publishes The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Mr. Grae has served as Co-chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Mr. Grae holds a BA from Brandeis University, JD from American University, LLM in international law from Georgetown University, and MBA from Georgetown University.

Gennadi Grigoriev

1971 - Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Department of theoretical and experimental physics
1971 - Engineer, RRC Kurchatov Institute
1972 - Junior Researcher
1977 - PHD in physics
1980 - Senior Researcher
1985 - Head of Technological Department, Institute of Molecular Physics
1996 - First deputy director of Institute of Molecular Physics, RRC "Kurchatov Institute"

Main area of scientific interests - isotope technologies and applications

Trevor Gunn

Trevor Gunn is Director of the Commerce Department’s Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS), the clearinghouse for U.S. Commerce Department information on doing business in the former Soviet Union. The office comprises, both in Washington and in ten of the 12 NIS countries, a staff of 35.

He has served the past eight years as Adjunct Professor at CERES/School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

He received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco. After starting Ph.D. coursework at the George Washington University, he received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1992.

He has worked with the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Sweden, Dover Elevator Corporation (now Thyssen), International Executive Service Corps and on the staffs of the former San Francisco Mayor and two U.S. Senators from California.

David Huizenga

David Huizenga is the Assistant Deputy Administrator for the Office of International Material Protection and Cooperation (MPC&A) at the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. The MPC&A Office is responsible for reducing the threat to U.S. national security by securing nuclear weapons, weapons-usable nuclear materials, and radiological sources in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and other countries of concern and enhancing the detection of illicit trafficking of nuclear and radiological materials. With an annual budget of approximately $230 million dollars, the program involves security upgrades at sites controlled by the Russian Navy and the 12th Gumo, MinAtom nuclear weapons sites, and Russian civilian nuclear research sites. Russian highly enriched uranium is consolidated at two locations and downblended to low enrichment. Through the Second Line of Defense and Megaports initiatives, the program works closely with the Departments of State and Homeland Security to deter worldwide nuclear smuggling activity.

Prior to his tenure at MPC&A, Mr. Huizenga was the Associate Assistant Deputy Administrator for the Office of International Nuclear Safety and Cooperation from February 2002 until November 2002. Mr. Huizenga was instrumental in the transfer of the Elimination of Weapons Grade Plutonium Production program from the U.S. Department of Defense to the National Nuclear Security Administration and he initiated a program to enhance the safety and security of research reactors around the world. In response to a May 2002 Bush-Putin Summit initiative, he successfully chaired a joint U.S.-Russian experts group that developed proposals to eliminate additional inventories of highly enriched uranium and plutonium above those covered by existing agreements.

Mr. Huizenga's career at the U.S. Department of Energy includes a long and successful leadership role in the Office of Environmental Management (EM) starting in 1990. This program was responsible for cleanup of the DOE Cold War legacy at 150 sites in 30 states. As Deputy Assistant Secretary, Mr. Huizenga's domestic focus was on safe and sure transportation of radioactive waste and nuclear materials, including oversight of operations of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - the world's first deep geologic repository. He worked with the State Department to establish a 13-year program to return 20 metric tons of U.S. origin spent fuel from 41 nations in support of U.S. non-proliferation goals to eliminate the use of highly enriched uranium worldwide. In international activity, he served as the United States representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency’¡Çs Radioactive Waste Safety Advisory Committee and as the first DOE representative to the trilateral Artic Military Environmental Cooperation program with Russia and Norway.

Mr. Huizenga started his career at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1985. He received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University. He resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and two children.

Mark A. Jackson

Mark Jackson has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Noble Corporation since September 1, 2000. From August 1997 to August 2000, Mr. Jackson served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Santa Fe Snyder Corporation and Snyder Oil Corporation prior to the merger. Prior to August 1997, Mr. Jackson served consecutively in the positions of Vice President and Controller, Vice President Finance and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Apache Corporation, beginning in 1988. Mr. Jackson has over 25 years of experience in finance and accounting, 22 of which has been in the energy industry. Mr. Jackson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Oklahoma Christian University.

Paul Z. Jankowski

Mr. Paul Jankowski is currently the Manager of the Mitigation and Technology Outreach Branch at the Transportation Security Laboratory located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This Branch focuses on vulnerability assessment of aircraft and the development of technologies such as hardened containers and overhead liners to mitigate to damage due to an explosion. The branch is also tasked with developing working relationships with other agencies and foreign governments. In addition, the branch is responsible for developing Quality Control and ISO9001 programs at the Laboratory.

Most recently he served as the Chairman for the TSA Innovative Technologies in Maritime Security Conference.

Previously, he served as the Acting Deputy Program Director of Aviation Security Research and Development Division. This Division conducted research focused on developing Explosives and Weapons Detection Systems, Hardened Containers for Aircraft, pursuing performance improvements for screeners through the Human Factors Program, integrating new security systems into the airport environment, and deploying the latest detection equipment.

Previously, he served as the Program Manager for the Trace Explosives Detection Program. That group was responsible for the development of Explosive Detection Equipment to screen electronics, carry-on luggage, personnel, and cargo. He managed over 30 different projects that ranged from developing improved detectors and sampling methods to the evaluation of commercial equipment and the development of standards.

Prior to coming to the FAA Technical Center, he spent 12 years working for the US Army at Picatinny Arsenal as an electronics engineer and physicist working on projects to develop sensors for Smart Projectiles. Paul has over 25 years of Federal experience.

Paul is a 1992-93 Department of Transportation Fellow sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government and holds a Masters Degree in Physics from Fordham University.

Kempton B. Jenkins

Kempton Jenkins is currently President of the Ukraine-U.S. Business Council. He was Corporate Vice President of ARMCO for International and Government Affairs from 1981 to 1990. Since 1990, he has been a Senior Consultant with the public affairs firm, APCO Worldwide.

A former career diplomat with 31 years service, Mr. Jenkins served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East-West Trade from 1978-1980. Before his assignment with the Commerce Department, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from 1973-1978. He was Assistant Director of the United States Information Agency for Soviet and Eastern European Affairs from 1968-1973.

From 1950 to 1956, he served in Germany and Thailand before taking Russian language and area studies at Harvard. In 1958, Mr. Jenkins was assigned as political officer to the United States Mission in Berlin Mr. Jenkins continued to focus on Berlin affairs as political officer at the US Embassy in Moscow, where from 1960-1962 he served as Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's aide in Berlin negotiations with the Soviets. Mr. Jenkins served in the State Department's Office of Soviet Affairs from 1962 to 1965. He then served in the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela as Political Counselor from 1965-1968.

Following government service, Mr. Jenkins was appointed President of the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council (1980-81), an association of some 200 top US corporations involved in trade with the USSR. His principal challenge was to assist American corporations in fulfilling US Government requirements levied in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan while sustaining the limited non-strategic trade relationship. He worked on this issue in close cooperation with the US State and Commerce Departments.

Mr. Jenkins received a BA in 1948 in History from Bowling Green University, an MA in International Law from George Washington University in 1950, and an MPA in Russian Studies from Harvard University in 1958. He completed his service in the United States Navy from 1944-46 as a Lt. (j.g.).

Mr. Jenkins was a Professorial Lecturer on East-West Trade at Georgetown University (1981-1983). He was awarded an Honorary PhD in Public Affairs by Bowling Green University in 1984.

Alexandra Johnson

Alexandra Johnson is the Managing Director of Landbridge Capital LLC, a firm, focusing on commercialization of foreign technologies in the United States. Ms. Johnson has extensive experience in building profitable international businesses.

For the past decade she has provided executive management, investment, and corporate strategy services to multi-national companies. Prior to forming Landbridge Capital, Ms. Johnson was the CEO of Libritas, Inc., a venture backed provider of Information Technology (IT) products and services for small, medium and Fortune 500 Corporations. Previously, Ms. Johnson worked at "Yanas Points", helping early stage companies with market definition, funding, recruitment, and sales execution. Under her guidance, several clients moved from seed to early stage development.

Prior to her entrepreneurial experience, Ms. Johnson led teams at several privately held companies focusing on strategic investments in the oil and cargo transportation industries, providing access to capital as well as direct operational assistance. Ms. Johnson also spent two years as a VP of Eastern European Operations for a Washington DC based private placement firm.

She holds a doctorate degree in Philology from the University of St. Petersburg and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ms. Johnson was born in the port city of Vladivostok in Eastern Russia and frequently travels to lecture and advise early stage companies in Eastern Europe and Asia. She now resides with her family in Piedmont California and is a founding member of San Francisco Chamber Music Group.

Steven P. Kadner

Steve Kadner is President of Canberra Aquila, Inc., a subsidiary of Canberra, Inc. and a member of the AREVA Group. Canberra efforts account for the majority of safeguards instruments delivered to the international community. Aquila participates in numerous efforts in the Russian Federation and the Newly Independent States to assist in the economic restructuring and nuclear security issues facing these regions.

Mr. Kadner has more than 30 years experience in Engineering Management Operations, and he directs research, development, and manufacturing efforts at Aquila. Central to Aquila's success are Mr. Kadner's efforts in conjunction with various government agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Energy's Material Protection, Control, and Accounting program, to improve nuclear material security in the former Soviet Union.

In 2001, Mr. Kadner was honored to serve as a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Board of the Waste Management Symposia, and the National Advisory Council of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, a congressionally chartered museum located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mr. Kadner holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from New York University.

Melanie Kenderdine

Melanie A. Kenderdine joined GTI in March 2001 as the Vice President of GTI's Washington Operations Office. At GTI, Ms. Kenderdine is involved in major initiatives to increase domestic natural gas supply, to enhance energy efficiency, and to promote the research needs of the natural gas industry, including carbon sequestration and biomass gasification.

Prior to joining GTI, from 1993 to 2001, Kenderdine served in several key posts at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Her last position at DOE was Director of the Office of Policy, the policy development arm of the agency. She was a key advisor to the Secretary on a variety of issues, including: negotiations with oil-producing nations to increase oil production; an international initiative to improve the quality of oil data; efforts to rationalize EPA rules on gasoline, diesel and MTBE; the California electric power crisis; establishment of a home heating oil reserve for the Northeastern United States; the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; the privatization of Elk Hills Petroleum Reserve and the transfer of the Naval Oil Shale Reserve to the Ute Indian Tribe; and White House initiatives to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

In addition, Kenderdine was also the Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of DOE for oil, gas, coal and nuclear issues, and was the primary architect of: R&D initiatives for ultra-clean fuels and energy grid reliability; the Strategic Petroleum Reserve royalty-in-kind initiative; and creation of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, including a Strategic Center for Natural Gas Studies. Kenderdine also managed the DOE response to the Japan nuclear accident in 1999.

Prior to joining DOE, she worked as chief of staff and as legislative director for New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson, who was later named Secretary of DOE in the Clinton Administration. On Capitol Hill, she staffed the House Energy & Commerce Committee where she worked on legislation to deregulate the natural gas industry, reauthorize Superfund, repeal the Fuel Use Act, amend the Clean Air Act, and many other energy/environment initiatives.

Kenderdine served on a Council on Foreign Relations Task Force to develop a national energy strategy; on a Task Force to advise the Taiwanese Government on energy R&D; and on the Consumers Energy Council of America Working Group on Distributed Energy. She is on the Board and Executive Committee of the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America, and is also on the Boards of the Texas Energy Center, the Keystone Energy Board, and the Center for Energy in the Americas. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on numerous occasions and has recently published articles in Harts E&P and Physics Today. She is a frequent speaker on energy issues and has spoken at the OPEC Conference on Sustainable Development in Vienna, the Sixth Annual International Energy Experts Conference in Abu Dhabi, and the Energy and Nanotechnology Conference at the Baker Institute in Houston.

Albert Koenig

Dr. Albert Koenig is a founder of The Nanotechnology Institute, a Pennsylvania-based collaborative research and development enterprise among academic and research institutions, corporate partners and government. He is also a director at Ben Franklin Technology Partners University Technology Programs, an independent not-for-profit economic development organization established in 1982 to stimulate economic growth through innovation, entrepreneurship and the development and adoption of new technologies. BFTP/SEP, part of a statewide network supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, provides capital and expertise in technology, finance and business that helps entrepreneurs and established businesses overcome challenges and plan for growth.

Dr. Koenig is the former President of Silent Power Systems, a company developing innovative modular distributed electrical energy storage technology for utility industrial customer applications. For 21 years, Dr. Koenig has held various engineering management positions with General Electric, Chloride Group in the United Kingdom, and Rheinishes Westfahlia Electriche in Germany. He received a Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Duke University and a B.S. in Physics/Engineering from Loyola College in Baltimore.

Andriy Kolodyuk

Andriy Kolodyuk is a President and CEO of AVentures, a private Ukrainian technology-focused venture capital company with nine years of successful venture capital investments in five Telecommunications, Media and Technology portfolio companies in Ukraine.

Mr. Kolodyuk has many years of experience as a successful tech-entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He started his business in New York in 1992 while working at U.S. consulting and trade companies. In 1994 he saw the growth potential in the rapidly developing Ukrainian market and founded AVentures. Andriy Kolodyuk is well known throughout the Ukrainian technology industry for his ability to increase revenues and build shareholder value through disciplined operations, especially during tough economic environments. Mr. Kolodyuk is also a Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Ukrainian Software Consortium. He brings an 8-year track record of executive leadership for high-growth technology companies to Ukrainian Software Consortium which consolidates leading software companies.

Mr. Koloduyk has been Chair of the Telecom committee of The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine for three years, and since 2003, he has served as Chair of the Electronic Ukraine working group which consists of Ukrainian government officials, businessmen and education institution representatives. He is also a Senior Expert of All Ukrainian Information Society of Ukraine Fund which is a member of Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP).

Mr. Kolodyuk holds a Bachelor of Science degree from National Technical University of Ukraine and a Master's in Corporate Law degree from National Taras Shevchenko University (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky

Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky is the Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States. His portfolio includes Energy, Science and Technology, Education, Environment, and Medicine.

Dr. Korsunsky has extensive professional experience with scientific and technological programs. He previously held positions as Deputy Director for the Department for Economic and Scientific Cooperation; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Counselor for Economy for the Embassy of Ukraine in the State of Israel; First Secretary of the Ukrainian National Commission for UNESCO; Director of Department for State Scientific & Technological Programs in the Ministry of Science & Technology of Ukraine; Consultant at the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Senior Researcher with the Institute of Theoretical Physics; and Researcher with the Institute of Hydromechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The author of 77 scientific papers, including three books, Dr. Korsunsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine. He earned an MA in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. at the Kiev State University. He also received a D.Sc. at the Institute of Physics in Riga, Latvia. Among Dr. Korunsky's accomplishments are the European Academy Award for Young Scientists and the UNESCO Fellowship Award.

David Kostorowski

David Kostorowski is a Program Manager within the International Security and Nonproliferation Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He has spent the past seven years managing various cooperative nuclear materials security and nonproliferation initiatives, spending most of this time overseeing the implementation of Material Protection Control and Accounting (MPC&A) upgrades at Ministry of Atomic Energy and Ministry of Defense sites of the Russian Federation. Before joining PNNL, Mr. Kostorowski was the Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear Warhead Protection within the Department of Energy's Office of International Materials Protection and Emergency Cooperation (NA-25). In his current role, he continues to provide strategic planning, program management and technical assistance to NA-25 headquarters personnel. Mr. Kostorowski received his undergraduate degree from Washington State University in Business Administration and also has a Master's of Business Administration from Southeastern University.

Vladimir Kouznetsov

Vladimir Kouznetsov specializes in cross-border transactions in the power, telecommunications and high-technology sectors primarily in Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Kouznetsov's practice involves structuring, negotiating and documenting cross-border mergers, acquisitions, investments, new and joint ventures, venture capital and private corporate finance transactions. He also advises clients on various commercial transactions and general corporate governance and securities matters.

Mr. Kouznetsov graduated from Case Western Reserve Law School and from Wittenberg University.

Michael Lempres
Vice President of Insurance
OPIC

Michael Lempres has extensive experience in the development of integrated financial service and risk management products. He is the former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Pacific Exchange, Inc., in San Francisco, a national securities exchange listing more than 1,200 stocks and one of the world's leading derivative markets. There he supervised the development and approval of new risk management and new market structure products. He was also responsible for the company's policy development and government affairs, including regulatory and legislative matters.

From 1999 to 2000, Lempres served as general counsel with The Carmen Group, Inc., and from 1993 to 1999 practiced law at Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, LLP, and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. While in practice, Mr. Lempres was a civil and administrative law litigator whose clients included insurance companies and multinational corporations.

From 1989 to 1993, Lempres served in a variety of positions at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was a Deputy Associate Attorney General advising and assisting the Associate Attorney General responsible for oversight of all non-criminal components of the department. In addition, he served as director of the Office of International Affairs, where he was responsible for coordinating international activities throughout the department, with an emphasis on newly emerging democracies in Eastern Europe and Central America. He also served as Executive Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Lempres served as a White House Fellow during 1988-89, and as a judicial law clerk for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, from 1985-87. He received a J.D. from the University of California at Berkley School of Law in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1981.

Serhiy Loboyko
CEO
Ukrainian Software Consortium

Serhiy Loboyko has wide experience in project management and policy development for the technology industry. Among his achievements are leading the Civic Internet Portal Project for the International Renaissance Foundation, and launching a business incubator named after Victor Glushkov in the Cyber Center of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. Mr. Loboyko has served as an advisor to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, BARENTS Group (KPMG), and the World Bank. He graduated with excellence from the faculty of economics of Lviv State University (Ukraine), and holds a Certificate in Technological Entrepreneurship from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA).

Steve Manz

Steve graduated from the University of Texas in 1987 with a BBA degree in Finance. He began his career with Price Waterhouse in Washington D.C. and joined Noble's internal audit group in 1995. Steve later served as Manager of Investor Relations until 2000 and as Vice President of Strategic Planning until he assumed his current role as Managing Director of the Noble Technology Services Division in 2003.

William Martorelli

William Martorelli is an accomplished IT industry research analyst with more than 15 years of experience, a strong research management background and a proven ability to design and execute research programs. Bill's primary areas of coverage include utility-based computing, managed services, business process outsourcing, ASP/application hosting and Web hosting.

Prior to rejoining Giga Information Group, Bill served as vice president of enterprise services strategies at Hurwitz Consulting Group, where he covered the IT services, outsourcing and business process outsourcing markets.

Previously, Bill held the position of vice president at Giga Information Group. Prior to working at Giga Information Group, Bill served as communications director for Index Summit, a multi-client research program of CSC Index Research and Advisory Services. He was responsible for client research, written research, deliverables and client forums. Before joining CSC, Bill's eight years with New Science Associates culminated in his appointment to senior vice president of research. During his tenure there, Bill founded the Advanced Software Development research service.

Bill earned a B.S. in speech from Northwestern University. He is a frequent speaker on topics relating to systems integration, outsourcing, IT management and software development. In addition, he has appeared on CNBC and has been quoted in a variety of business and technical publications, including Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily and Financial Post.

Boris V. Mislavsky

Boris V. Mislavsky is Vice President of the recently launched National Industry Coalition (NIC) based in Moscow. Modeled on USIC, the new NIC is an independent association of Russian businesses, scientific institutes and investors joined together with the primary aim to advance Russian and US high tech business cooperation and technology commercialization.

Dr. Mislavsky is an expert in international technology development and transfer. He spent five years with General Electric Co., the last three as General Director for the GE Technical Business Center and GE Engineering & Technology Center in Moscow. Prior to GE he held executive positions in the companies designed to support high tech business ventures formed by Western companies and Russian high tech groups, and to assist Western industrial and high tech companies in locating partners in Russia for R&D and engineering services as well as in managing projects for them. He earned his PhD in polymer chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Physics.

Charles Ostman

Charles Ostman currently is VP, and chair of the NanoElectronics and Photonics Forum of NanoSig, an organization with the primary charter of facilitating investment in nanotechnology related ventures, and senior consultant with the Strategic Synergy Group. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures, a consulting group which provides strategic research, analysis, technical due diligence, and related technology centric development services to Fortune 500 companies and institutions worldwide.

He is an active participant with the Millennium Project for Global Futures Studies and Research, of the American Council for the United Nations University, a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities.

Charles has 25+ years experience in the fields of electronics, physics, materials sciences, computing and artificial intelligence, including eight years at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Subsequent professional experience encompasses a diverse range of technical development projects at facilities including GTE Lenkurt, Litton Industries, Lucas Films, Phoenix Laser Systems, NanoThinc, Omni Scientific Instruments, Evolutionary Networks, and a variety of other technology related companies and institutions.

He is currently on the scientific advisory board of Legendary Pharmaceuticals, a privately held company which has been developing nanobiological solutions to the pathology of aging, is a member of MRS (Materials Research Society), AAAS(American Association for the Advancement of Science), and a senior associate of the Foresight Institute.

Charles has authored numerous technical papers and published articles, lectures frequently around the country and abroad, and has contributed content featured in a number of  books, including CyberLife, Secrets, the SIRS Applied Sciences journal, and is involved in various other authoring projects.   He has been a featured guest and speaker in a diverse variety of nationally broadcast television and radio programs in venues ranging from PBS Television to the nationally syndicated Coast to Coast AM radio program.

Aleksey Ostrovskiy

Professor Dr. Aleksey A. Ostrovskiy has been Counselor, Science & Technology, of the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United States since 1998. Dr. Ostrovskiy represents the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry, Science & Technology, and in this capacity provides diplomatic support to the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation and to the U.S.-Russian Cooperation and Agreements in Environment, Earth Sciences, Health, Supercomputing, and Telecommunications.

Prior to joining the Embassy, Dr. Ostrovskiy was a senior and main research scientist at the Institute of Oceanography from 1980-98. He has been the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships, including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship (Germany, 1991-93); the Soros Foundation International Science fellowship (Russia, 1993-95); and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant (1995-98).

A graduate of the Physics faculty of the Moscow State University in 1977, he earned his PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1980, and a Doctor of Sciences degree in 1995.

Dr. Ostrovskiy is the author of 40 articles in geophysics published in Russian and international scientific journals. He has participated in and been head of numerous scientific marine expeditions.

Stepan Pachikov, Ph.D.

Stepan Pachikov, Ph.D. - EverNote LLC, Hyperboloid LLC. 23 years with the Academy of Sciences of USSR (Senior Researcher, CEMI), MicroContour (President), ParaGraph (CEO), Silicon Graphics (VP), Pen&Internet (Founder), ParaScript (Founder, board member). Listed in "Who's Who" as the most influential figure in the Russian software industry. A founder of Moscow Children's Computer Club, Mr. Pachikov has been President/CEO since 1989 of ParaGraph, one of the most famous and successful Russian companies. He has done extensive work with computers in the former Soviet Union, including developing a computerization plan for the Soviet School System, consulting on information and computer software and hardware for virtually everybody, and devising a computer model for energy consumption for the Academy of Sciences. Mr. Pachikov has a degree with honors from Tbilisi (Georgia, USSR) State University, MS in mathematical methods of economic applications from Moscow State University, and a Ph.D. from the Academy of Sciences of USSR. The subject of Mr. Pachikov's dissertation was the use of fuzzy logic for controlling robotics movements using natural programming languages. Mr. Pachikov is married with three children and for the last three years lives in NY.

Leon Polott
5iTECH

Leon Polott is Founder and President of 5iTech, a nationally recognized leader in identifying and commercializing technologies developed by scientists from the top R&D labs in the former Soviet Union. As an attorney with the California based Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard; and later with the Cleveland-based Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, Polott worked on multi-million dollar international business transactions and negotiated cross-border technology transfer and other related activities. Having represented some of the largest US companies as well as FSU scientists, Leon co-chaired the International Department at Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP and served as the Chair of the International Section of the Cleveland Bar Association.

Polott, who speaks unaccented English and Russian, was instrumental in the establishment of Imalux, Inc., a medical imaging device start-up. 5iTech recently launched Aria Analytics, based on a novel method for characterizing the acoustic properties of complex liquids; and Bio-ID Diagnostics, bio-medical device company. Polott is a member of the advisory Board of World Trade Center Cleveland, 2003; he is a member of the Northern Ohio Export Assistance Council (appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce); a member of Civic Task Force on International Cleveland, 2003. He has become a regular contributor to regional and national forums on tech transfer.

Leon holds a BA degree (with honors in government) from Oberlin College and a Juris Doctorate from The University of Texas School of Law.

Noah G. Pope

Noah Pope has worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1985 and served in several technical and management positions. He spent over a decade working in the Los Alamos Plutonium Facility providing instrumentation and engineering support to plutonium processing operations. He developed several novel radiation measurement systems that are still used today to provide process control to plutonium separation processes. In addition, Mr. Pope holds a commercially licensed US patent for an ultrasonic interferometer instrument that can be used to noninvasively measure chemical concentration in process pipes and tanks. Mr. Pope also managed several large projects including the replacement of the TA-55 Plutonium Facility control system, the design of a renovation project for a major nuclear materials storage facility, and the project planning for a new analytical chemistry building. Currently Mr. Pope is the Deputy Team Leader for the US MPC&A Project Team at the All-Russian Research and Development Institute for Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) and the US Project Manager for a new Central Storage Facility Project at VNIIEF. Mr. Pope has a Masters of Science degree from Colorado State University in Mechanical Engineering with a technical emphasis in instrumentation and control systems.

Dr. Arthur T. Porter

Dr. Arthur T. Porter is President and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center. DMC encompasses over 14,000 employees and 3,000 physicians in a network consisting of ten hospitals and institutes, 100 ambulatory sites, and a health plan. At $1.6 billion, DMC is one of the nation's largest urban healthcare systems, and the largest non-government employer in Detroit.

Dr. Porter first joined DMC in 1991 as radiation oncologist-in-chief. His major area of interest is medical use of radioactive isotopes and treatment of prostate cancer. He developed a significant private physician practice while holding several senior positions, including Director of clinical care at Karmanos Cancer Institute and associate dean for health care initiatives at the Wayne State University School of Medicine.

He is on the Editorial Board of 13 scientific journals and has to his credit more than 300 scholarly works in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in books and in proceedings of conferences. He is a frequent speaker at the university and medical conference level throughout the world. His major area of academic endeavors relate to the medical uses of radioactive isotopes and the treatment of prostate cancer.

Dr. Porter has served as president of several organizations: the American Brachytherapy Society; the American College of Oncology Administrators; the American Cancer Society (Great Lakes); and the American College of Radiation Oncology, where he recently completed a term as Chairman of the Board of Chancellors. He is currently on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute. President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Porter to the Presidential commission to review health care provided by the Defense Department and Veterans Administration. He has also served as a consultant for the World Health Organization working to establish international medical research and treatment programs in several countries around the world.

Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he received his early education in Sierra Leone and Kenya, East Africa. After attending the University of Sierra Leone, he transferred to Cambridge University in England, where he earned a BA in anatomy, an MA in natural sciences and an MD. Later, Dr. Porter took an MBA from the University of Tennessee and Certificates in Medical Management from Harvard University and the University of Toronto.

Kirk Robertson

Kirk Robertson is the President of KKRI, Inc. He served in the Clinton and Bush Administrations as Vice President and COO and then acting President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC is the US government's international development bank and the global leader in political risk insurance).

With Mr. Robertson's leadership OPIC launched new financial products, supported Administration foreign policy initiatives, and provided over $10 billion of financial support to projects in Russia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He led work on OPIC's nearly $2 billion portfolio in Russia following devaluation and managed joint activities with the US Ex-Im Bank, the World Bank, and private equity and commercial lending institutions. Mr. Robertson helped establish a $200 million on-lending facility with Citibank, and several of OPIC's private equity funds, which included four private equity funds in Russia and the $150 million Soros Fund in the Balkans and Central Asia.

He is also noted for 15 years of public service in positions in the United States Senate relating to commercial, international and national security matters. In the early 1990s he headed the Senate Defense Conversion Task Force that introduced a $1.4 billion legislative plan for post-Cold War economic conversion.

Most recently Mr. Robertson was Senior Policy Advisor to the Baker Donelson law firm and a member of the firm's International Business Group, headed by former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger.

Today Mr. Robertson manages and directs KKRI, a company he founded after leaving OPIC to help US and multinational companies tackle financial, commercial and political challenges in emerging markets overseas and in the United States. KKRI specializes in helping to identify, develop and finance international business opportunities and formulating strategies for working in Washington, DC and foreign capitals.

Mr. Robertson is a member of several international organizations and chairs the Northern Virginia Technology Council's International Public Policy and Finance panel. He received a B.A. from Grinnell College and a M.B.A. from George Washington University.

Fredrick L. Roder, Ph.D.

Dr. Roder originated the concept of computed tomographic explosives detection [the basis for all currently certified explosives detection systems (EDS)], and was the Principal Investigator for the CTX 5000, the first such system. At the FAA he served as a Technical Advisor and as the Integrated Program Manager for Checked Baggage Security. Currently, he is the Portfolio Manager for Explosives in the Science & Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Roder has worked in explosives detection and security technology for more than 35 years, and has published extensively in the field. He holds a B.S. in Physics from the City College of New York, an M.A. in Physics from Yeshiva University, and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Catholic University of America.

Aleksandr Yuryevich Rumyantsev

Russian Federation Minister of Atomic Energy

Background, expertise, academic degrees and titles

1969 - Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
1969 - Engineer, RRC Kurchatov Institute
1973 - Junior Researcher
1982 - Senior Researcher
1989 - Head of Solid Physics Department
1993 - RRC Kurchatov Institute, Director for Science Development
1994 - RRC Kurchatov Institute, Director
1997 - Russian Academy of Sciences, correspondent member (specialized in physics)
2000 - Full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Moscow Technical Physics Institute

Academic Activities

Expert in experimental physics. Major academic interests are associated with exploration of the structure and dynamics of solid-state crystal lattice by means of neutron scattering techniques.

1986, Laureate of the USSR State Prize, awarded for "Developing physical fundamentals and new methods of research in solid-state physics, aided by stationary nuclear reactors."

Academic leader of the Solid-state Department, Institute of Super-conductivity and Solid-state Physics, RRC Kurchatov Institute.

Actively cooperates with Russian and foreign colleagues on topics of thermal neutron scattering.

Public Academic Activity

Member of the Presidium, RAS, Chair of the Scientific and Technical Council, Minatom of Russia, member of the Academic Board, RRC Kurchatov Institute.

Member of the Advisory Council on Science, Education and Science Committee, State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Member of the Board, Nuclear Society of the Russian Federation.

Member of editorial Boards, magazines "Surface", "Nature", "Neutron News".

Margaret L. Ryan

Margaret L. Ryan is editorial director of the nuclear and coal group in Platts, the energy division of the McGraw-Hill Companies and the world's largest provider of energy industry information. A professional journalist, she has been with McGraw-Hill more than 22 years and has risen through a variety of positions including managing editor of Nucleonics Week, Inside NRC, and Coal Week. Her coverage has including the Three Mile Island-2 accident aftermath and the Chernobyl-4 disaster, and she pioneered Platts' statistical reporting on nuclear plant technical and financial performance. She has reported on nuclear programs from such locales as Sydney, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Paris, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Before coming to Platts, she was city editor and reporter at daily and weekly newspapers, and won awards for investigative journalism and editorial writing. She holds an MA in communications from American University and a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the National Press Club and, in 2003-04, she is president of the American News Women's Club, Washington's oldest professional journalists' club open to women.

Stanley Satz

Dr. Stanley Satz, a former educator and a physicist, is President of Bio-Nucleonics Pharma, Inc. Headquartered in Miami, the company focuses on the solution of health problems by utilizing radiation to sustain quality of life and improve human health. In addition to radio-pharmaceuticals, the Company develops “next-generation” shape memory stents for treatment of vascular disease, and brachytherapy devices.

Satz pioneered the development and importation of medical isotopes from Russia, successfully organizing and negotiating a radioisotope production program with MinAtom and the State Research Centers of the Russian Federation, while closely working with regulatory agencies in the U.S. and Russia.

Today, Bio-Nucleonics has contracts in Russia for production of FDA approved radioisotopes and devices, including Strontium-89 Chloride, a radio-pharmaceutical that offers non-narcotic relief to ease the pain of cancer that has spread to bone in advanced stage breast, prostate, lung and other cancers. In 2002, the Company received U.S. Food and Drug Administration marketing authorization for this drug. Satz coordinates business activities between Bio-Nucleonics and Russian and Ukrainian institutes that includes clinical, laboratory and analytical efforts. Approximately one half of the products manufactured are for export to Western customers.

Together with its collaborators in the FSU, Bio-Nucleonics has received over $3 million in research and development grants for medical products, including the NIST Advanced Technology Program, NATO, the U.S. Army, the National Institutes of Health, Enterprise Florida, and the ISTC.

Andrew B. Somers

Andrew B. Somers became president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia in December 2000, bringing with him 25 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience in Russian and American business, legal and political environments.

From 1989-1995, Mr. Somers was executive vice president, general counsel and member of the board of American Express TRS Company, with operations in over 70 countries and generating most of the revenue of the American Express group of companies. Mr. Somers was also special adviser to the chairman of the board of American Express Company on the Russian market. From 1973 to 1989, Mr. Somers held legal positions for American Express in New York and London.

Subsequent to his corporate career Mr. Somers formed his own consulting firm. He made extended business trips throughout the Russian Federation and gained extensive knowledge of the Russian marketplace. He successfully negotiated with regional Russian authorities to secure federal intervention against local regulatory obstacles. His firm organized development ventures among international hotel companies, construction and architectural firms and local governments, providing clients with practical and legal advice on overcoming barriers to foreign investment. Mr. Somers also maintained his own law firm in New York, advising both the U.S. State Department and private clients on commercial and legal issues involving U.S. and Russian interests.

He received his law degree from Columbia University and a Master's Degree in Russian History from Columbia University's Harriman Institute.

Dag M. Syrrist

Mr. Syrrist is a General Partner with Vision Capital, a $190 million venture capital firm focusing on Trans-Atlantic investments in high technology areas with offices in Burlingame, CA and Geneva. Vision Capital invests in leading European technology companies seeking to enter the US product and capital markets as well as U.S. venture based companies seeking to expand into the European market place. Mr. Syrrist serves on the Board of Directors of Saqqara Systems Inc and More Magic Inc. Prior to joining Vision Capital Mr. Syrrist was a Vice President with Technology Funding, a $350 million national venture capital group with over 200 portfolio located in San Mateo, California. At TFI Mr. Syrrist established a new investment group and build it into the nationally recognition leader in the environmental technology sector. He was responsible for all investment strategy, corporate partnering and portfolio company management. He founded the largest VC investment conference focused on environmental technologies in the US and brought together leading representatives from industry, government and the investment community to develop state and national regulatory reform initiatives designed to accelerate commercialization of environmental technologies. He has chaired numerous national, private and government advisory boards.

Mr. Syrrist holds a BA in Business Administration from Lincoln University and a MA in International Economics from San Francisco State University.

Askar Tazhiyev

January 2003	Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to USA
1999-2003	Director, Department of Europe and Americas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
1996-1999	First Secretary (trade & economic), Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to USA, Washington DC
1992-1996	Third, Second Secretary of the Department of International Organizations and Economic Relations, Head of Division on Regional Cooperation (Central Asian states, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan)
1991-1992	KazsvyazImpex Association (within Ministry of Telecommunications)
1986-1991	Various positions in telecommunications sector (engineer, senior engineer at the Telecom of Taldykorgan, Almaty region)
Education	Institute of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg (Leningrad, 1986) Institute of Foreign Languages, Almaty, 1991

Susan A. Thurman
The PBN Company, President & COO

Ms. Thurman supervises operations and client services for The PBN Company's Washington, DC, Moscow, Kyiv, Chisinau, Riga and London offices. She provides senior strategic communications counsel and services to a range of clients in the energy, chemical, mining, airline, insurance, pharmaceutical, real estate and restaurant industries. Ms. Thurman also has managed crisis communications projects involving major oil spills and environmental releases, high-profile sexual/racial/age discrimination litigation, product tampering and recalls, incidents of workplace violence and safety, and allegations of financial mismanagement.

During her 25-year career, Ms. Thurman has directed numerous national, statewide and regional initiative and public policy campaigns, including election campaigns on issues ranging from health care reform and taxation policy to higher education funding, water management and land use policy. She has directed many of The PBN Company's largest and most complex projects, including the firm's management of the 20-nation Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (PECC IX), the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Golden Gate Bridge, the 1990 visit to San Francisco of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the successful campaign of California Supreme Court Justice Ming William Chin.

Ms. Thurman is a graduate of San Francisco State University and is the recipient of many professional society awards for excellence in marketing, public relations, advertising and political consulting.

The PBN Company delivers results-driven, cost-effective strategic communications, government relations and public affairs services to public and private sector clients throughout the United States, Europe, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union.

The firm undertakes a range of public information, public affairs, government relations, crisis management, market research, financial communications, media relations and special event assignments from offices in Washington DC, London, Moscow, Kyiv, Riga and Chisinau.

Founded in 1983, The PBN Company is an independently owned, award-winning consultancy dedicated to achieving our clients' strategic business objectives rapidly and efficiently.

Rachael Turner

Rachael Turner is a Country Manager for the Eurasia Region at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), where she has worked since February 2002. USTDA is an independent U.S. Government agency that advances economic development and U.S. commercial interests in developing and middle income countries. The agency funds various forms of technical assistance, feasibility studies, training, orientation visits and business workshops that support the development of a modern infrastructure and a fair and open trading environment.

Ms. Turner came to USTDA after three years at the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration, where she specialized in insurance and leasing in Eastern Europe at the Office of Finance and counseled exporters at the Department's Trade Information Center. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree in Russian and East European Studies from Stanford University.

Dr. Humberto Vainieri

Dr. Humberto Vainieri is Vice President - Research, Development and Engineering of Yukos. In addition, he serves as Executive Advisor on Technology to the Company's Chairman.

Upon receiving his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Dr. Vainieri joined the Gulf Oil Research and Development center. After a number of assignments in Gulf's refining and marketing system, he joined Sohio when that company acquired a refinery in which he held the post of Technical Manager. Following Sohio's acquisition by British Petroleum, Dr. Vainieri moved to Europe, where he held a variety of positions, including that of Managing Director of BP's activities in Spain. In 1996 Humberto became Vice President of BP's global refining system, with responsibility for leading a number of initiatives that improved performance and profitability. In recognition of those accomplishments, World Refining Magazine named him 1999 Refining Executive of the Year.

In November 1999, Dr. Vainieri was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of UOP, one of the world's leading refinery technology development firms. He was responsible for significant changes to UOP's business structure, including streamlined delivery of new technologies, which achieved both cost savings and operational efficiencies.

In August 2002, Dr. Vainieri joined Baker & O'Brien, an independent consulting engineering firm as a Senior Consultant in the firm's Houston Office. He left Baker & O'Brien in March 2003 to join Yukos in his current capacity.

Humberto is currently an active member of The University of Pittsburgh's Engineering School Board of Visitors and also on the Advisory Board of The International Fuel Quality Center. He has also served on the Advisory Board of IMD.

Dr. Vainieri holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2003 he was named Outstanding Alumnus of the Chemical Engineering Department. In addition to those degrees, he also holds an MBA from John Carroll University.

Humberto and his wife Deborah have been married for 29 years and have three children.

William C. Veale

Mr. Veale assumed his duties as the first Executive Director of the Association in April 1999. Since then he has established the Association as a premier business organization for promoting interest and investment in Kazakhstan. He has also forged close ties with U.S. congressional and executive branch offices to advance understanding of Kazakhstan's investment potential and steady reform efforts. Mr. Veale has twice served as a panelist at the World Economic Forum's Eurasia Economic Summits held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in April 2000 and 2002.

Previously, Mr. Veale served as a career Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State in Washington and in Europe and Asia. His last assignment was as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where during 1995-98 he was responsible for Nunn-Lugar counter-proliferation assistance programs in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. From 1992-95, he worked on international space cooperation at the Department of State, and helped negotiate Russia's entry into the International Space Station partnership. Earlier in his diplomatic career, Mr. Veale served at Embassies, Missions, and Consulates abroad. He did political work in Rangoon, Burma, during considerable unrest; political-military work in Cold War-era Berlin; and economic-commercial work in Strasbourg, France. In Washington, at the Department of State and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, he worked on arms control, political-military, Soviet, and African affairs.

Mr. Veale speaks French and German, some Burmese and studied Russian. He taught political science at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, and, after active military service in Germany and Vietnam, he served as a reserve officer in the United States Army. Mr. Veale was graduated from Georgetown University with both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Foreign Service. He is married and has four children.

Evgeny P. Velikhov

World-renowned physicist Evgeny P. Velikhov is president of the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute. Dr. Velikov joined Kurchatov in 1958 after completing his postgraduate degree from Moscow State University in theoretical physics.

In over 30 years with the Institute, Dr. Velikov has emerged as a major researcher in the fields of plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion. He proposed and tested the magnetic-hydrodynamic power generator, which has practical applications for electromagnetic sounding of the earth’s crust. Dr. Velikhov also has extensive experience with the nuclear fuel and fuel cell cycles. As scientific chief of the program for development and implementation of technological lasers, he has made essential contributions in the development of gas lasers. Dr. Velikhov is also founder and first academician-secretary of the department of information science, computer facilities, and automation of the USSR Academy of sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

As a science advisor to the Gorbachev administration, Dr. Velikhov was consulted on the early stages of computer introduction in the Soviet Union and the reevaluation of Soviet arms-control policy. Experiments showing the accuracy of seismic detection of nuclear detonation, which demonstrated the viability of verification and monitoring technology, contributed to the compliance framework of disarmament treaties. He was given the responsibility of supervising containment efforts at the Chernobyl reactor site in 1986.

Dr. Velikhov has a deep commitment to technology education. In 1988, he started an e-mail pen pal exchange for American and Soviet children. Through Junior Achievement Russia, a nonprofit educational organization he founded in 1991 with over 2 million participants to date, Dr. Velikhov has introduced business concepts such as entrepreneurship and business management to young Russian students. In April 2003, the Freedoms Foundation presented him with its Friendship Medal for promoting free enterprise in Russia.

In other professional affiliations, Dr. Velikhov is the Russian representative in the council on controlled thermonuclear synthesizing at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He is also a member of the Russian Federation President’s Council on Sciences and High Technologies. In 1981, he was elected an honorary member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering. He holds numerous state awards from the USSR. Among his recent accomplishments, Dr. Velikhov received the Scillard Prize from the American Physics Society and the World and Science Prize from the World Federation of Scientists.

Dr. Velikhov is a professor at Moscow State University. He holds honorary doctorates from Notre Dame University, Tufts University, and several other international institutions.

Alexander Vershbow

Alexander Vershbow took up his duties as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation on July 19, 2001. He is a career member of the Foreign Service, with rank of Career Minister, and has extensive experience in East-West relations and European security affairs.

From January 1998 until July 2001, Alexander Vershbow served as the U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). As U.S. Representative on the North Atlantic Council, Ambassador Vershbow was centrally involved in transforming NATO to meet the challenges of the post-cold war era, including the admission of new members and the development of relations with Russia through the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council. In June 2001, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell awarded Ambassador Vershbow the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for his work at NATO.

From 1994 to 1997, Alexander Vershbow served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. During this period, he helped shape U.S. Policy toward NATO enlargement, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and other U.S.-European issues. He was a principal member of the U.S. team that helped negotiate the founding act between NATO and the Russian Federation signed in 1997. In October 1997, former Secretary of Defense William Cohen presented Mr. Vershbow with the first annual Joseph J. Kruzel Award for his contributions to the cause of peace.

Ambassador Vershbow is a long-time student of Russian and East European Affairs. He received a B.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale College (1974) and a Master's Degree in International Relations and Certificate of the Russian Institute from Columbia University (1976). He has held a series of assignments since joining the Foreign Service in 1977, including postings to the U.S. Embassies in Moscow and London and Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Reductions Talks in Geneva. Ambassador Vershbow was director of the State Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs during the last years of the USSR and participated in numerous U.S.-Soviet summits and ministerial meetings. In 1990, he was awarded the Anatoly Sharansky Freedom Award by the Union of Councils of Soviet Jews for his work in advancing the cause of Jewish emigration from the USSR.

In 1991, Ambassador Vershbow was posted to NATO as U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative and Chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Mission, where he participated in NATO's earliest initiatives to forge cooperative relations with Russia and the other states of the former Warsaw Pact. He served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs from 1993-1994, before joining the National Security Council Staff in 1994.

Ambassador Vershbow was born in Boston, Massachusetts and is now a resident of the District of Columbia. His wife, Lisa Vershbow, also a Boston native, is a professional jewelry designer and art instructor. The Vershbows have two sons: Benjamin, who graduated from Yale College in 2002, and Gregory, who currently attends Hampshire College.

Dr. Yuri Vinitzsky

Dr. Yury D. Vinitzsky is the Director of Electrical Engineering Programs at General Electric Engineering Technology Center (ETEC). At ETEC, Dr. Vinitzsky oversees system regimes simulation; project management; and research and development into gas turbine generator design, wind generator design, and other distributed energy systems. He has facilitated, launched, and managed more than 30 projects since joining General Electric International in 2000.

Prior to joining General Electric, Dr. Vinitzsky spent 30 years with the Electric Power Research Institute (VNIIE) in Moscow, where he was Department Head and Director of the Laboratory "Thyristor Frequency Converters and Power Plants Operating Regimes." While at VNIIE, Dr. Vinitzsky was responsible for the design, control, and applications of fossil fuel power plant operations, and served as scientific leader and project manager for several major European Community projects. Among his accomplishments at VNIIE were development of a theory of USSR turbo-sets with a gas and Steam Turbines Soft Starting, and new technologies, methods and algorithms for the Gas and steam Turbines operation with Frequency Converters. As VNIIE director, Dr. Vinitzsky designed technical training courses for engineers, supervised power plant personnel, and managed field testing, commissioning, and installation of power station units.

Dr. Vinitzsky holds a master's degree in electromechanical engineering, and PhD and DSc. in electrical engineering. He holds several patents and Russian inventor's certificates. From 1995 to 1999, he was Visiting Professor at the Universite de Franche-Comte in Belfort, France. Among his many professional activities, Dr. Vinitsky is a member of IEEE and a distinguished member of CIGRE.

Glenn G. Wattley

Mr. Wattley is the Chief Executive Officer of Stolar Horizon, Inc., which is an advanced technology firm based in Raton, New Mexico, selling products and services to the mining, energy and military industries. He has over 28 years of general management and engineering experience in the energy and coal industry. He began his career as a field service engineer with CONSOL Energy, the United States' largest producer of underground coal. He has held senior executive and leadership positions at Mine Safety Appliances, Arthur D. Little, and Accenture, responsible for business profit and loss, including technology development, marketing and sales, organization development, finance, engineering and operations. He is a recognized coal industry expert frequently interviewed by and quoted in leading journals (e.g., The Economist, Fortune, Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times). He has appeared on CBNC-cable TV, and NBC's The Wall Street Journal Reports. He has presented numerous papers and keynote addresses at industry conferences on a range of topics including new energy technologies. He has appeared many times as an expert witness on behalf of major energy companies including appearance before utility commissions, and he has been retained by the US Department of Justice representing the IRS in tax litigation. Recently, as Stolar's CEO, Mr. Wattley's testified before the Special Commission in Pennsylvania that was investigating new technology to prevent underground coal mining inundations such as the one that occurred at the Quecreek Mine. Several of Stolar's technologies have been judged to be suitable for preventing such accidents in the future. Mr. Wattley hold a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Viktor Weinstein

As the CEO of Aplana Software, Viktor Weinstein is in charge of strategy development and overall company management. He began his career at I.T. Co in 1990. From 1992 to 1999, he directed the company’s work with smart card technology. He provided senior leadership guidance that helped build the I.T. Co Software Development Center and, later on, to grow it into a new business, Aplana Software.

Mr. Weinstein stays informed of the latest business and technology strategies. In 2001, he was selected to participate in the US Department of Commerce’s SABIT training program for executives of Russian software services companies; he also gained Technology Management qualification from Academy of National Economy. Recently, Kommersant Publishing House rated Viktor among the Top 100 Russia’s leading IT managers.

Mr. Weinstein is a graduate of Moscow State University.

U.S. Representative Curt Weldon, R-Pennsylvania

Curt Weldon was elected to represent the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania for a ninth term in 2002. Following his most recent reelection win, Congressman Weldon became the most senior Republican in the Pennsylvania Delegation. A Member of the House of Representatives since 1987, Weldon has taken leadership roles on a wide variety of issues, ranging from national security to the environment.

A senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, Weldon served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee, overseeing the development and testing of key military systems, weapons programs, and technologies that fulfill military needs. Weldon has used that position to become the leading House supporter of a national missile defense.

Weldon, a major in Russian Studies, has made improving relations with Russia one of his major efforts in the House. He has worked with Russian leaders on a variety of issues, including efforts to improve Russia's energy supply, correct environmental damage, and protect both nations from ballistic missile attack. Weldon is the founder of the Duma-Congress Study Group. This bilateral parliamentary exchange helps coordinate legislative efforts in the Russian Duma and the Congress which fosters a better working relationship between the two nations. Recently, Congressman Weldon co-authored a comprehensive framework designed to improve the state of relations between the two countries. His proposal makes recommendations for cooperative efforts in eleven different areas ranging from defense and national security to space exploration and scientific research.

Prior to becoming a Member of Congress, Weldon worked as an educator at local schools in Delaware County and volunteered as a firefighter in Marcus Hook. He was nominated twice as mayor of the Marcus Hook Borough, and later moved on to serve as the Director of Training and Manpower Development for a large corporation.

L. Scott Wilshire

Scott Wilshire is Director of Marketing Engagement for Plug Power. Mr. Wilshire has been involved in efforts focusing on developing commercial applications for fuel cell systems for over two and a half years. Mr. Wilshire's role includes management of Plug Power's commercial launch and applications engineering. This responsibility includes all customer interface, new business development, and responsibility for work being performed with Long Island Power Authority and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and Plug Power's 50 kW fuel cell program with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and the US Department of Energy.

Prior positions at Plug Power include Director of Large Residential Systems, responsible for work with the US Department of Energy and prime technical interface with the General Electric Company. Mr. Wilshire has over 18 years of engineering experience in the power generation industry. Prior to Plug Power, Scott worked two years with General Electric Nuclear Energy and thirteen years with Lockheed Martin's Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in various engineering and senior management positions in New Hampshire, California, and New York.

Mr. Wilshire received a BS degree in Marine Engineering/Nuclear Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Engineering School.

Dr. Zvi Yaniv

Dr. Zvi Yaniv is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Nano-Proprietary, Inc. (NPI) and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Nanotech, Inc. in Austin, TX, guiding the company to become a leader in the display industry utilizing electron field emission from carbon films/carbon nanotubes.

Dr. Yaniv is an authority in electro-optics, liquid crystal technology, amorphous semiconductors, technology commercialization and business management. He has published over 100 articles, holds more than 50 patents, and has extensive contacts in the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Far East.

Dr. Zvi Yaniv was a founder of Kent Display Systems in Kent, Ohio, the "no-power" reflective LCD Company and of OIS Optical Imaging Systems, Inc. in Novi, Michigan. As President and CEO of OIS, Inc., he led the company during its years of development and initial commercialization of advanced active matrix liquid crystal displays and amorphous silicon image sensors. While at OIS, Dr. Yaniv was one of the founders of Unipac, currently one of the premier display companies in Taiwan.

Earlier, Dr. Yaniv held ranking positions with the Practical Engineering College, Beer-Sheeba; National Institute for Technical Training, Tel-Aviv; and Ben- Gurion University of the Negev.

In 1999, Dr. Yaniv introduced a new expression of kinetic art (Digital Window), allowing static two- or three- dimensional artworks to become dynamic and interactive.

Dr. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. in physics/mathematics and a M.Sc. in electro-optics with distinction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics at Kent State University. He has received awards from both universities and the Scientific Research Society. Dr. Yaniv is a member of the Board of Directors of SIDT, Inc. and of the Society for Information Display (SID). In May 1989, Dr. Yaniv was elected Fellow of the Society for Information Display for "his innovation and leadership in the development of large area high performance active matrix LCDs and scanners." As a member of the SID, Dr. Yaniv founded two chapters of the Americas Region: the Metropolitan Detroit and the Texas Chapters and served as director of these chapters for more than ten years.

In March 2000, Dr. Yaniv was nominated and he accepted the honorific title of Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute of University of Texas.

Rosa Chiang Young

Dr. Rosa Chiang Young is currently the Vice President of Advanced Materials Development and Hydrogen Storage at Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD Ovonics) in Rochester Hills, Michigan. She also serves as Vice President, Technology, for Texaco Ovonic Hydrogen Systems LLC. Dr. Young received her Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Prior to her joining ECD Ovonics in 1984, she was a senior research staff member in the Solid State Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her research expertise ranges from radiation damage, photovoltaics, laser-solid interaction, optical memory, high Tc superconductors, NiMH batteries and solid hydrogen storage.

Evgenij Il'ich Zaitsev

Evgenij Il'ich Zaitsev has several years of experience related to design, manufacture and implementation of systems to measure ionizing radiation. Since 1991 he has worked with Aspect as a lead designer of measurement and detection equipment. Mr. Zaitsev has received multiple design awards including a gold medal for designs of spectral analyzers. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute in 1974 with a degree in Physical Engineering in Automation and Electronics. Mr. Zaitsev is listed as the principal co-author to four designs patented in the last five years.