Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Vice President and Technical Staff Manager, holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology. Dr. Cheremisinoff is an internationally recognized authority in EHS, pollution prevention, and related fields, including environmental cost accounting, regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness and response, environmental site assessment, and site remediation. He has carried out more than 100 facility audits, pollution prevention projects, and training programs in a wide variety of industries, including petrochemicals, oil and gas, iron and steel, plastics, and armaments. Dr. Cheremisinoff has served as senior advisor to Fortune 100 companies on environmental due diligence and pollution prevention issues and as expert witness in environmental responsible care cases. His international work has taken him to countries of the former Soviet Union, East and West Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Dr. Cheremisinoff has authored, co-authored, or edited more than 160 technical books dealing with environmental health and safety and industry-specific technologies, including Handbook of Pollution Prevention Practices, published by Marcel Dekker, Inc in February 2001. Dr. Cheremisinoff is also co-author of Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention, published by Butterworth-Heinemann in April 2001, and Achieving Environmental Excellence: Integrating Environmental Management Systems with Pollution Prevention, soon to be published by Government Institutes.

Daniel F. Ancona III is Vice President for Renewable Energy, with more than 30 years of experience in wind energy and other electric power technology development, market analysis, and policy formulation. His expertise is in the integration and utilization of grid-connected and off-grid renewable energy technology interconnected with conventional electric power generators. He has served commercial clients on many assignments and represented the U.S. government on numerous overseas missions. Prior to joining PERI, Mr. Ancona worked for the U.S. Department of Energy for 20 years in various senior management positions in the wind energy research, development, and deployment programs. He served as Chairman of the International Energy Agency Wind Turbine Systems Agreement Executive Committee, with 17 member countries. Currently Mr. Ancona is a member of the Virginia State Advisory Board on Air Pollution and he is teaching Wind Energy Business Development in the Graduate Business School at Saint Francis University. He graduated from the University of Michigan, with a MS degree in Industrial Engineering and a BS from the University of Maine in Mechanical Engineering.

Allan R. Evans is a Senior Engineer and Project Manager with more than 25 years of experience in energy efficiency and renewable energy studies, technology transfer, and energy policy analyses for federal research organizations, the international donor community, state energy agencies and private industry. Dr. Evans has prepared extensive technology options protocols to inform stakeholders about renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies for buildings and utilities. As part of this work, he served as U.S. representative on the Experts Group contributing to the International Energy Agency’s Promotion Manual for District Energy Systems, a “how-to” publication to inform decision-makers about the implementation and potential benefits of district heating and cooling. In addition, he has assessed advanced technologies to estimate their energy savings and analyze the potential role of utility demand-side management programs and other incentives for increasing market penetration. He developed and presented technical material for training courses on renewable applications for decentralized rural electrification in Middle Eastern countries. Prior to joining PERI, he was an Associate Division Director and Director of Conservation R&D Programs at Argonne National Laboratory. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Kathryn George, with more than 10 years of expertise, is a Senior Economist and Financial Analyst at PERI. She developed the FATE-2 model (Financial Analysis Tool for Electric Energy Projects) that is widely used at DOE and other U.S. research laboratories. The model performs both cost-based utility revenue requirements analysis and market-based Discounted Cash Flow Return On Investment analysis and has been used to model improved technology designs, resource variability, and favorable tax treatment on renewable energy products. Ms. George designed a model to calculate “green” renewable energy supply and demand by regions as input to DOE’s National Energy Modeling System for firm renewable technologies and for as-delivered renewable technologies. Prior to joining PERI, Ms. George worked for power plant developers and various financial institutions in New York. She has an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.