Denise Kutsch is a Senior Investment Officer with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation’s (OPIC) Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Department. She is responsible for identifying, structuring, underwriting and closing transactions in the renewable energy and clean technology sectors. Prior to joining OPIC, Denise worked at FOCUS LLC, a boutique investment bank, and in the Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Division of the International Finance Corporation. She began her professional career at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.

Denise received her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from Tulane University.

Martin D. Considine is Vice President, Technology, in Peabody Energy Generation Development Group and is responsible for managing Peabody's BTU Conversion activities. His main responsibility is to increase the utilization of Peabody's coal reserves in industrial applications, beyond conventional power production. Applications include utilization of clean coal technologies to produce syngas. Considine joined Peabody Energy after serving in various capacities at Chevron Texaco and Texaco for almost 28 years. He initially was in the crude and product Supply and Distribution Department, followed by a period as executive assistant to Senior Vice Presidents responsible for Texaco Canada and Caltex. Considine served as Senior Vice President in Texaco's Worldwide Power and Gasification Division, responsible for developing conventional power plants and gasification industrial plants, utilizing Texaco's proprietary gasification technology. He also served as Vice President of Texaco Development Corporation, the licensing subsidiary of Texaco, Inc. He continued in this same capacity after the Chevron Texaco merger. A graduate of Manhattan College in New York, Considine holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering, and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Pace University in New York.

Tim Richards is managing director for International Energy Policy in the Washington, DC, office of the General Electric Company. He serves as chairman of the World Energy Council’s newly formed Task Force on Energy and Trade; co-chair of the Energy Services Coalition, and chairman of the Task Force on Trade of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. Mr. Richards is also a private-sector member of the Asia Pacific Partnership’s Renewable and Distributed Generation Task Force, a member of the board of directors of the Corporate Council on Africa, and a member of the United States Trade Representative’s Advisory Council on Trade with Africa. Mr. Richards was the deputy assistant United States trade representative for Western Europe and the Middle East from July 1994 through January 1996. From August 1991 through July 1994, he served as the trade policy attaché at the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels, and from 1988 to 1991, he acted as director for Information Industry Trade Policy at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). Before joining USTR, Mr. Richards was employed as an international economist with the law firm of Dewey Ballantine. He is the co-author of Intellectual Property Rights: Global Conflict, Global Consensus? (Westview Press, 1988) and has written several articles on intellectual property rights and trade in high technology products. Mr. Richards holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a bachelor’s degree in economics and government (magna cum laude) from Bowdoin College. Timothy Richards is married and has two children.