Ron Pernick is co-founder and principal of Clean Edge and co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution. He is an accomplished market research, publishing, and business entrepreneur with more than two decades of high-tech experience. At Clean Edge he has co-authored more than a dozen reports on emerging clean technologies and has worked with a range of clients including multinationals, start-ups, government agencies, and investors. Ron oversees the company's annual co-production of the Clean-Tech Investor Summit, a gathering of leading clean-tech investors and businesses, and the company's NASDAQ® Clean Edge® US Index, an index which tracks US-listed clean-energy companies. Prior to founding Clean Edge, he ran his own consulting practice and helped build the brands of such Internet pioneers as Internet In A Box, Global Network Navigator (GNN), Preview Travel (which later merged with Travelocity), The WELL, and Yahoo!

Ron has been an instructor and adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley Extension, New College's Green MBA program, and now Portland State University. He sits on a number of corporate and nonprofit advisory boards and was named one of the 50 most influential men under the age of 42 in the October, 2006 issue of Details magazine.

Clint Wilder is a veteran award-winning business and technology journalist and co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution. He joined Clean Edge in 2002 after 17 years covering the high tech and Internet industries for Optimize, Information Week, Computerworld, and Corporate Computing magazines. He won the 2002 American Society of Business Publications Editors award for best feature series. As contributing editor at Clean Edge, he often writes the monthly CE Views column on the cleanedge.com web site, co-authors the firm's annual Clean Energy Trends Report, and has helped research and write reports for Clean Edge clients in industry, finance, government, and the NGO sector. Wilder is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events including United Nations World Environment Day, the Wharton Private Equity Conference, Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Conference, DowJones' VentureOne, and the AustralAsian Clean Tech Forum in Melbourne, Australia.

Wilder holds a B.A. in history from Yale University and lives in Sausalito, California with his wife, artist Ellie Barrett Wilder.

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Clean Edge, Inc., with offices in Oakland, Calif. and Portland, Ore., is a leading research and publishing firm that helps companies, investors, and policymakers understand and profit from clean technologies. Through its research and reports, conferences and events, and strategic consulting services, Clean Edge tracks and analyzes clean-tech markets, trends, and opportunities. The company publishes the annual Clean Energy Trends report, co-produces the annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit, and co-publishes the NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. index. Launched in 2001 by environmental and high-tech business pioneers Ron Pernick and Joel Makower, Clean Edge and its network of partners and affiliates offer unparalleled insight and intelligence. For more information, visit www.cleanedge.com.

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