Eric Winkler is Director of Technical Services in the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CEERE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst . He is primarily responsible for outreach and technical support services on energy and environmental systems to public and private sector clients. Dr. Winkler is also Director of the Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Partnership leading state and region wide initiatives with industry, public utilities and state agencies on energy and resource conservation. Dr. Winkler is part of the implementation team for two other DOE funded programs at CEERE, the Industrial Assessment Center and the Northeast CHP Application Center. Dr. Winkler's academic responsibilities include university based research and development and technology transfer for innovative energy and environmental technologies. He is a leading expert on proprietary environmental treatment technologies and testing procedures. He has served on numerous state and federal advisory panels. He has created several state and national technology transfer initiatives and has published numerous reports and journal articles on innovative technologies. Dr. Winkler holds graduate degrees in soil science, public heath and received a Doctorate in Environmental Chemistry in 1995, all from UMass Amherst. Dr. Winkler has been at UMass Amherst since 1988.

Professor Ambs is the director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CEERE) in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. Within CEERE, the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC), supported by the US Department of Energy, provides New England industry with technical assistance in identifying and reducing energy use, operational waste and productivity barriers in their manufacturing operations. Other activities in the CEERE include Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources funding to support energy related technical assessment for the Massachusetts Strategic Envirotechnology Partnership (STEP) and technical support for the US DOE Industrial Thermal Insulation Guidelines. Major research interests of Professor Ambs are in the area of applied thermodynamics and energy conversion with particular emphasis on building systems, thermal power generation and industrial thermal processes. Recent projects have involved identifying operational strategies to minimize energy use of industrial equipment such as fluid chillers, cooling tower systems and injection molding machines. Additional research interests include gas turbine combustion and mixing problems, gas turbine steam cycle analysis and cogeneration process and economics.

Mr. Foley founded Integrated CHP Systems Corporation (ICHPS), in 2003, to provide business development, engineering services and modularized thermal systems for thermal energy recovery from onsite power systems and waste thermal process streams. Mr. Foley has concentrated for the past decade in the construction, HVAC and onsite power industries and has played a role in the national effort led by the Department of Energy to develop integrated energy systems. He has collaborated with Oak Ridge National Labs, major power equipment manufacturers, energy research organizations, the American Gas Association and various gas utilities among others. He is a member of the Energy Solutions Center and the USCHPA and has served as peer reviewer for the Department of Energy's Distributed Energy program as well as participating in their Distributed Generation and Thermally Activated Technologies road mapping sessions. Mr. Foley has previously been involved in numerous integrated energy systems research projects funded by DOE and managed by ORNL and ICHPS is currently working as a key sub-contractor with the California Energy Commission through a PIER Program grant. His experience includes working with the engineering community in the application of absorption, chiller system design and national level sales and marketing. Mr. Foley has worked with worldwide suppliers of chillers as well as traveled overseas extensively. Mr. Foley has presented papers and spoken at national seminars and association meetings including ASHRAE, AEE, ASME and PowerGen. He has given seminars on CHP at national and regional conferences for multiple organizations and utilities. Mr. Foley earned a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from University College Galway in Ireland . He is currently president of Integrated CHP Systems which specializes in the development of HVAC systems for cogeneration applications.

Bob Laurita is the Senior Program Administrator for ISO New England’s Demand Response Program. He is responsible for marketing demand response programs to customers throughout New England. Bob has 20 years of diverse experience in the utility and energy services industries. The majority of his career has been spent developing and implementing programs and services to help customers use energy more efficiently. Bob has held senior management positions at the Applied Energy Group, InSITE Services and XENERGY, as well as Public Service Electric and Gas Company in New Jersey, Inc and Commonwealth Electric Company in Massachusetts. Bob has a BS degree in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Western New England College.

Jim first joined Northern Power Systems in 1997 as a project manager in the Village Power group working on projects ranging from solar-powered runway lights for the ice runways at McMurdo Station, Antarctica to a complete power generation and 4,160 V distribution system for the Island of Monhegan , Maine. Since helping to found the Distributed Generation group at Northern, Jim has worked on projects ranging from 30 kW to 15 MW, developing DG projects for a number of Northern's Blue Chip customers. He is currently focused on business development for the Onsite Generation Group developing cogeneration and critical load support projects for grid-connected customers in the manufacturing, institutional and commercial sectors. Jim has a BE from Vanderbilt University and a Master's Degree from Dartmouth College .

James H. Watts is the director of marketing for IR Energy Systems, part of the Independent Power Sector of Ingersoll-Rand Company, a leading diversified industrial firm. In this position, Mr. Watts, who works in the company's Portsmouth, NH location, creates and implements strategies related to the marketing of the IR PowerWorks microturbine systems, which represent a significant breakthrough in power efficiency, endurance, system versatility, and compact design.