BNEF Summit 2016

Jacqueline Lilinshtein has worked at Bloomberg New Energy Finance as a Senior Associate in finance and energy economics. Her research focused on analysing trends in global renewable finance and tracking developments in corporate procurement. Currently, she works on the product strategy and marketing team, tasked with developing concepts into useful products for BNEF clients.

Nathan Serota is a US Solar and Clean Energy Economics Analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. His responsibilities include covering, interpreting and forecasting developments in US photovoltaic markets, with a main focus on the 'downstream' elements of solar (deployment) and where investment risks and opportunities lie.   Nathan has also completed research on the clean energy debt capital markets (green bonds and solar... Read More →

Gary has over 18 years of strategy development, corporate site selection, and negotiations experience covering a wide range of industries and operational areas.  He has personally managed projects involving hundreds of millions of dollars of capital expenditures, and has executed strategic projects on five continents.   In Gary’s current role, he develops overall direction for Google’s global data center site strategy... Read More →

Lily Donge is a Principal with RMI’s electricity practice, where she leads the Business Renewables Center. Lily focuses on accelerating the market for corporate renewable energy. She is exploring new markets for the rapid uptake of renewable energy and developing tools and products for corporate leaders to purchase renewable energy. Lily joined RMI in December 2014. BACKGROUND Lily comes to RMI with over 17 years experience in... Read More →

Brian is responsible for leading the development and execution of Microsoft’s global data center energy strategy. These data centers provide the foundational cloud infrastructure for over 200 Microsoft online and cloud services for consumers and businesses worldwide. His responsibilities include oversight of all energy supply agreements, distributed generation, and strategic partnerships to ensure a power supply that is reliable and... Read More →

Rob Threlkeld is Global Manager, Renewable Energy for General Motors. In this role he manages the more than 100 megawatts of renewable energy that make up GM’s global renewable energy portfolio and assesses  the feasibility of future projects as they pertain to GM’s overall sustainability strategy. Threlkeld is responsible for negotiating long-term power purchase agreements with projects underway at various facilities across... Read More →

Bill Weihl is Director of Sustainability at Facebook.  His group directs work on sustainability and energy efficiency across the company, driving projects to track and reduce the company's environmental footprint in all aspects of its operations.  They also work collaboratively with other companies to scale sustainability solutions across the IT industry and into other industries.  Prior to Facebook, Bill was Green Energy Czar at... Read More →