Dr. Quinta Warren is the Associate Director of Sustainability Policy at Consumer Reports (CR), where she leads the legislative, regulatory, and corporate engagement strategies for sustainability on behalf of consumers.
She is the co-author of a major CR survey report on consumer attitudes toward electric vehicles and low carbon fuels. She recently testified before Congress about the consumer benefits of the historic clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. She and her team have also worked closely with policymakers and consumers to advance reforms such as California’s...Read more
Dr. Frank Zhu is a Honeywell-UOP Senior Fellow leading technology innovations and has made significant contributions to the fields of energy efficiency, operation optimization, and process modeling and design. Franks’ methods have been successfully applied to industries and generated significant benefits in economic margin, energy savings and emission reductions. For example, he led design of several grassroots refineries and petrochemical complexes which are ranked in the category of the highest energy efficiency worldwide.
Frank was the recipient of the prestigious AIChE Energy...Read more
Sue Babinec is the Program Lead – Stationary Storage at Argonne National Lab where she leads efforts ranging from new tools and capabilities to enhance existing technologies and breakthrough research for new approaches to long duration energy storage goals. Babinec previously served six years in Washington DC as senior commercialization advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) where she co-managed the energy storage portfolio for both transportation and grid. Prior to ARPA-E she led several research groups focused on design and scale-up of Li-ion technologies as a...Read more
As a scientist, clean energy entrepreneur and CEO, and now as a Member of Congress, Representative Sean Casten has dedicated his life to fighting climate change. In Congress, Casten draws on his two decades of experience as a business leader to reduce emissions while creating jobs, lowering energy costs for Americans, and spurring economic growth.
Casten serves on the House Financial Services Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC).
Alison Moore, PhD, is the Chief Technical Officer for Allogene, overseeing product sciences, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and technical operations. Alison has extensive experience in all aspects of biomanufacturing and CMC product development, working in both operations and research and development. She most recently served as Senior Vice President, Process Development, at Amgen. Previously, she held senior roles at Amgen in Operations Technology, Process and Product Engineering, and Corporate Manufacturing. Prior to these positions, she was Vice...Read more
Kevin Eggan, PhD, joined BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. in October 2020 as Group Vice President, Head of Research and Early Development and was recently promoted to Chief Scientific Officer, SVP, Head of Research and Early Development. Kevin is responsible for the execution of BioMarin’s discovery research programs, helping to shape the vision and longterm growth of our company through the oversight of an exceptional research pipeline of first- or best-in-class therapies. Prior to joining BioMarin, Kevin served as a tenured Professor in the Department of Stem...Read more
Berrian Puma is a 20-year P&G veteran, currently at Clorox, leading R&D for the Burt’s Bees brand. Trained as a Chemical Engineer, Berry has gained extensive consumer packaged goods (CPG) experience in both upstream and downstream leadership roles in multiple R&D disciplines. He has held global R&D assignments in Venezuela, United Kingdom, Mexico, and US and is Bilingual (English, Spanish). Throughout his career, Berry has held diverse leadership roles spanning marketing and R&D functions and has leveraged his significant CPG experience in developing and...Read more
