CalCEF Innovations5 Third St. Suite 1125
San Francisco, CA 94103
P: 415 957 0167 F: 415 957 0177
general info: info@calcef.org
Board Members
Michael R. Peevey (Chairman)
President, California Public Utilities Commission
Barbara Lloyd
Managing Director in the Infrastructure Advisory Group,
KPMG International
Art Rosenfeld, PhD.
Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Jan E. Schori
Of Counsel, Downey Brand
Mason Willrich
Chairman of the Board of Governors,
California Independent System Operator
Staff
Paul Frankel
Managing Director, CalCEF Innovations
Michael R. Peevey (Chairman) is President of the California Public Utilities Commission. Prior to joining the CPUC, Mr. Peevey was CEO of TruePricing Inc., a technology company enabling companies and government entities to better control their energy costs. Before that he was president of NewEnergy Inc., then the nation’s largest energy service provider, and before that had served as president of Edison International and Southern California Edison. Mr. Peevey holds a B.A and M.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Barbara Lloyd joined KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory Services practice in October 2008, bringing 25 years of experience in government and public finance. She covers primarily the Western Region. Ms. Lloyd’s most recent position was as a senior vice president of public finance at Lehman Brothers. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Barbara served as the chief deputy treasurer and deputy treasurer for public finance for the California State Treasurer’s Office, where she was instrumental in the largest and most complex transactions issued by the State. Ms. Lloyd also served as the treasury manager for the City of Oakland, and a financial advisor to California local governments. She received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in political science from UC Davis.
Art Rosenfeld, PhD is a Commissioner of the California Energy Commission and Emeritus Professor of Physics and the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Dr. Rosenfeld focused on particle physics from 1963 to 1973 and on energy thereafter, and served as founder and director of the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Dr. Rosenfeld served in the Clinton Administration as senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was the co-founder of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Dr. Rosenfeld has authored 375 publications and holds the distinction of being the last graduate student to work with Enrico Fermi.
Jan E. Schori is the former general manager and chief executive officer of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the nation’s sixth largest publicly owned electric utility. During her 14 year tenure as CEO, the utility earned a strong reputation for its renewable energy and energy efficiency programs as well as the national number one ranking in commercial customer satisfaction by JD Power & Associates in 2006-7 and 2007-8. Prior to serving as CEO she spent 15 years on the legal staff at SMUD, the last 5 as general counsel. She is past chair of the American Public Power Association, the Large Public Power Council, and the California Municipal Utilities Association. She is also past chair of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and served on the board of the Alliance to Save Energy. She was elected in 2009 to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) board as an independent trustee. NERC is responsible for the reliability of the US and Canadian bulk power grid. She continues to serve on the board of the
Climate Action Reserve which develops protocols and tracks greenhouse gas reduction projects, and the board of Valley Vision, a regional action tank seeking collaborative solutions to community issues in California’s central valley. She is of counsel to the law firm Downey Brand LLP in Sacramento, CA.
Mason Willrich is an independent consultant, advising clients on energy matters. He is chair of the Board of Governors of the California Independent System Operator and trustee and past chair of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Mr. Willrich has previously been a partner of Nth Power, a venture capital firm which invests in early stage energy technology companies, and a director of Evergreen Solar, Inc., a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules. He was founder and served as chairman of EnergyWorks LLC, a joint venture of PacifiCorp and Bechtel providing combined heat and power to industrial firms located in less developed countries. Previously he served in several executive positions for PG&E and as CEO of PG&E Enterprises, which managed PG&E’s unregulated business. Earlier in his career, Willrich was a law professor at the University of Virginia, assistant general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and pilot in the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Willrich is author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles on energy policy and security issues. He graduated from Yale University and holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Before joining in 2008 Paul Frankel was co-founder and Managing Partner of Ecosa Capital providing expansion financing to growth stage companies in the clean energy, green building and sustainable agriculture markets. In 1999, he co-founded the Wi-Fi Alliance and continued to serve as the organization’s vice-chairman after joining 3Com Corporation where he was responsible for M&A, venture capital investments and technology licensing. As a director in the company’s wireless communications business unit, he worked directly with 3Com Ventures, a $200 million strategic investment pool, to make in excess of $62 million worth of new investments and acquisitions in 11 silicon, hardware and software companies. Mr. Frankel is an industry fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at UC Berkeley and an associate at the Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism at St. Mary’s College. He has held adjunct faculty appointments at UC Berkeley and at Stanford University. Mr. Frankel received a B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Arizona, a MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a FINRA Series 7 license.