Alison Wise

Alison is a Senior Strategic Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, with focus areas in renewable markets and private sector investments, public policy and market/corporate policy. At the lab she leads analysis for the Market Data Resource Center and is the coordinator for the Venture Capital Strategic Advisory Board. Prior to joining NREL, she was a senior research consultant with Clean Edge, Inc. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.

Trent Yang

Trent is the Director of Entrepreneurship and Business  Development at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI).  RASEI is a joint research institute between NREL and University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) on research, development and commercialization of next generation renewable and sustainable energy focused technologies.  Prior to joining RASEI, Trent has spent over 10 years in the cleantech industry from policy analyst to investor to strategy consultant to starting new companies. 

Dave Mayer

Dave has been passionate about sustainable business practices and clean technologies for more than two decades.  From an early age, Dave saw that the  "best practices" of major corporations were simply not sustainable.  Dave started small, in implementing corporate recycling programs and organizing meetings of like minded individuals in Boulder and Denver.  In his nine years in the IT realm, He focused on helping organizations enact sustainable solutions such as Green Data Centers and technologies that encourage virtual interaction.  Dave's current role, when he isn't helping to coordinate REBN meeting logistics, is to assist companies in developing custom, earth-friendly, web-based and mobile software applications to support their great causes.