Global sponsors

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Deloitte

Deloitte is the leader in serving clean tech companies. Our extensive experience working with clients in a broad range of industries - energy, utilities, technology, manufacturing, and biotechnology - arms our practitioners with the insight to provide solutions to complex issues that clean tech companies face.

We advise clients on a broad range of audit and enterprise risk, tax, consulting, enterprise sustainability, and financial advisory issues to support the growth of clean tech companies worldwide.

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and its member firms.

Global Premier Sponsors

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital provides startup venture capital for very smart people who want to turn ideas into companies. As the "Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs", Sequoia Capital's Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of Network Appliance, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of NVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube, Steve Goldman and Sujal Patel of Isilon Systems and Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Networks. Michael Goguen is a managing partner at Sequoia Capital. Sequoia Capital was an original investor in Google, Yahoo, YouTube, PayPal, Flextronics, Network Appliance, NVIDIA, Netscreen, Cisco, Oracle, and Apple Computer. Michael is the global head of Sequoia’s cleantech investment efforts, which are particularly focused on finding capital efficient cleantech businesses with strong IP. Michael is also active in semiconductor, systems and internet businesses, and has served on the boards of over 40 Sequoia companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1996, Michael spent 10 years in various engineering, research, and product.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide. Our clean technology and renewable energy practice is built on the firm's leadership in the fields of intellectual property counseling and patents, venture capital finance, project finance, technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate and environmental law. We counsel companies and entrepreneurs creating and commercializing clean technologies in a wide variety of industry segments, including renewable energy (such as wind, solar, ocean, biomass, biofuel, and geothermal); fuel cell, battery, and other energy-storage technologies; distributed power generation systems; software, sensors, and controls; and grid management/interface enhancements. Our government initiatives team focuses on providing clients with critical information regarding legislative and regulatory developments, as well as an understanding of the processes that companies must follow to obtain government funding for their clean technology ventures and renewable energy projects.  In addition, the firm helps its clients to both mitigate risks posed by global climate change and to maximize opportunities created by the solutions to this issue.

Credit Suisse

Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse can call upon a long tradition and many years of experience in the banking business. It provides companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland, with advisory services, comprehensive solutions, and innovative products. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs more than 48,500 people from approximately 100 different nations.

Consensus Business Group

Experts at Finance. Imaginative in Business. Consensus is a multi-faceted principal advisor to the trustees of the Family Trust, its ultimate beneficial owner. The core business includes structured finance; acquisition, management and development of commercial and residential real estate; and a substantial portfolio focused on the environment, new technologies and technology start-ups.

Sterling Communications, Inc.

Sterling Communications, Inc. has a 20-year track record of generating visibility and building brands for emerging technology companies across a variety of sectors. We have worked successfully with industry pioneers in silicon, software, systems, and ecosystems — from back-office IT solutions to global cleantech industry organizations. Why do they choose Sterling? Our communications professionals take the time necessary to thoroughly understand the client’s business as well as the broader competitive landscape and critical market dynamics.