Paul Baier Vice President of Sustainability Consulting, leads Groom Energy's Sustainability Consulting practice, which assists Groom Energy's customers with their sustainability strategies and GHG inventories. Paul recently co-published Groom's research report titled "Enterprise Energy and Carbon Accounting (EECA) Software: A Buyers Guide" and also authors a sustainability blog.

Paul has been active with the emerging national organizations focused on GHG emissions and climate impact, representing Groom Energy at associations such EPA Climate Leaders, The Climate Registry, Carbon Disclosure Project and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Paul is also a senior contributor for Greenbiz.com.

Prior to his current role with Groom Energy, Paul held multiple senior executive roles with enterprise software service and management consulting firms such as Authoria, Open Market, AOL and Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Baier earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Kenyon College.

Thomas Balf has more than twenty five (25) years of diverse experience in the environmental, health and safety and sustainability fields. His experience ranges from the arcane world of environmental regulatory compliance to the challenging world of developing and tracking indicators of environmental progress for the purpose of affecting institutional change. He has served as Director of the C2E2 since 1999.

Garrett Burke is a certified safety professional and Harvard University's EH&S Associate Director. During his 13-year tenure at Harvard, Garrett's progressive approach to construction and occupational safety has resulted in major improvements and advancements in these disciplines. His constant focus on safety integration into routine business decisions has helped shape the way people think about safety at the University. The validity of his work is evidentiary by the fact that Harvard's incident rate is 100% lower then the national rate for colleges and universities.

He founded the University's Construction Safety Group (CSG) in January 2007. The group is responsible for ensuring that safety and environmental management that is integral to the University's capital construction process. The group?s rapid growth is a direct result of the impressive return on investment experience on projects that utilize CSG services. Examples of this return on investment are reductions in project delays, missed permit deadlines, regulatory agency inspections, incident rates and significant reduction in project costs.

Garrett is also a faculty member at Harvard University's School of Public Health. He co-founded the course Safety in Design and Construction: A Lifecycle Approach. The course focuses on how design changes significantly affect safety during the construction process and the operation of a building.

Prior to working at Harvard, Garrett spent five years working on Boston's Central Artery /Tunnel (CA/T) Project as a construction safety officer. Garrett was a vital part of the CA/T team that developed and refined the contract specifications that required contractors to perform work to measurable safety guidelines. Garrett is the recipient of the Construction Industry Institutes' Volpe Eagan Award for outstanding contribution to construction safety.

Donald A. Robinson, Ph.D., CSP, PE is the Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance for Emergency Management and a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus. He has served as EH&S director for over 35 years and previous served as head of safety operations for the General Electric Company in Lynn, MA.

Dr. Robinson received a doctorate in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts and is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Board Certified Safety Professional. Dr. Robinson is currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Safety Council of Western New England and on the Board of Delegates for the National Safety Council. He has served as the Chair of the CSHEMA. He was also involved in the beginnings of C2E2 spending time with Tom Balf and Attorney Michael Last in the Everglades with folks from EPA and DEP and the alligators. He is married for 44 years to Sara and they have three children and five grandchildren.

Ralph Stuart, CIH has more than 20 years working at the interface between electronic information and environmental safety programs in higher education. This work has been conducted both locally at the University of Vermont and globally over the Internet.