Jeff Gleason
CATF Board Chairman
Deputy Director, Southern Environmental Law Center
Charlottesville, VA
Jeff Gleason is the Deputy Director and Director of Regional Programs at Southern Environmental Law Center. He was previously head of SELC’s Energy and Healthy Air Project and for 14 years led SELC’s efforts to promote energy reform and improve air quality in the Southeast.
Mr. Gleason is a past recipient of the EPA’s Clean Air Excellence award and was named Clean Air Conservationist of the Year. He earned his J.D. in 1981 from the University of Virginia School of Law and his B.A., with honors, in 1976 from Union College.
Stephen Brick
Independent Consultant
Madison, WI
Stephen Brick has worked for thirty years at the intersection of energy and environmental policy; his expertise includes utility regulatory policy, energy economics, energy technology assessment and air pollution control policy and economics. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Brick served as the manager of the Environment Program for the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. In this capacity he directed a $6 million per year grant portfolio focused on energy and water issues in the Great Lakes region. Previously he served as Research Director at the Energy Center of Wisconsin, where he was responsible for a wide range of studies on energy efficiency, renewable energy and on the environmental impacts of energy systems. Other experience includes director of environmental affairs for PGE National Energy Group, science and policy director for the Clean Air Task Force, and co-founder and vice president of the energy consulting firm MSB Energy Associates. He received his BA and MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently Senior Fellow in Climate and Energy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Armond Cohen
Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force
Boston, MA
Armond Cohen is co-founder and Executive Director of the Clean Air Task Force, which he has led since its formation in 1996. In addition to managing CATF, Armond is actively involved in CATF projects focusing on Arctic stabilization, low carbon technology innovation and coal transition.
Prior to his work with CATF, Armond led the Conservation Law Foundation's Energy Project starting in 1983. He is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, and served as judicial clerk for the late Harlington Wood, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 1982-1983. Armond has published numerous articles on climate, energy, and air pollution, and speaks and testifies frequently on these topics. He is a member of the Keystone Energy Board and US EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee.
Eric Ingersoll
CEO and Founder, General Compression
Cambridge, MA
Eric Ingersoll is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of General Compression. Eric is a nationally recognized expert in Compressed Air Energy Storage, and is the inventor of the GCAES™ technology. In addition to extensive experience managing technology development and commercialization as the CEO of several companies, Eric has advised the National Renewable Energy Lab, the California Energy Commission, the US EPA, the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, and numerous other regional energy policy organizations on energy market transformation and energy technology commercialization. He is also a participant in the National Commission on Energy Policy.
Jane C.S. Long
Fellow, Center for Global Security Research
Principal Associate Director at Large
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
Dr. Long is currently the Principal Associate Director at Large for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Fellow in the LLNL Center for Global Strategic Research. She works on reinvention of the energy system, adaptation in response to climate change, and geoengineering. She is co-chair of both the California’s Energy Future Committee and the National Commission on Energy Policy’s Task Force on Geoengineering, and a member of the governor’s advisory panel on adaptation. She is the former Dean of the Mackay School of Mines at University of Nevada, Reno, Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, and Chairman of the Nevada State Task Force on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Dr. Long also worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where she served as Department Chair for the Energy Resources Technology Department including geothermal and fossil fuel research, and the Environmental Research Department.
Bruce Phillips
Director and Co-Founder, The Northbridge Group
Concord, MA
Bruce Phillips is a Director and co-founder of The NorthBridge Group, an economic and strategic consulting firm serving the electric and natural gas industries. Mr. Phillips works with clients on competitive market and regulatory initiatives to improve their economic performance. In over 25 years of consulting, he has advised companies in the electric utility, merchant power, power marketing, natural gas pipeline, and gas marketing industries, as well as government agencies and non-profit organizations. His recent work has focused on electric generation planning, investment analysis, and the economics of greenhouse gas emissions abatement.
Prior to helping establish The NorthBridge Group in 1992, Mr. Phillips was a Principal with Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, an economic and management consulting firm. He holds a B.A. from College of the Atlantic, a M.F.S. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.
Dr. Susan Tierney
Managing Principal, The Analysis Group
Boston, MA
Sue Tierney is an expert on economics, regulation and policy in the electric and gas industries and utility sector. She has consulted to business, industry, government, and other organizations on energy markets, economic and environmental regulation and strategy, and energy facility projects.
She previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Formerly she served in various senior positions in state government in Massachusetts, including as the Secretary for Environmental Affairs, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and executive director of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council. She recently chaired the Massachusetts Oceans Advisory Commission. She co-chaired the Department of Energy Agency Review Team for the Obama/Biden Presidential Transition Team. Dr. Tierney has authored numerous articles and speaks frequently at industry conferences. She serves on a number of boards of directors and advisory committees. She co-chairs the National Commission on Energy Policy, and chairs the board of the Energy Foundation. She is on the board of directors of the Clean Air Task Force, Clean Air – Cool Planet, World Resources Institute, and is a director at Evergreen Solar, Inc., at EnerNOC, Inc., and at Ze-gen, Inc. She chairs the Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and serves on the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York Independent System Operator, and the China Sustainable Energy Program’s Policy Advisory Council. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine, currently teaches at MIT, and earned her Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in regional planning at Cornell University.