Global sponsors

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Deloitte

The member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu are leaders 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.

Global Premier Sponsors

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.

Ontario, Canada

Ontario is making innovation a key driver of the provincial economy. Through the $3.2-billion Ontario Innovation Agenda, the province is capitalizing on its creative environment, diverse culture, highly skilled workforce and internationally recognized education system. By investing in research and innovation, Ontario is helping to pioneer the discoveries of tomorrow that will create high-value jobs and a strong and competitive economy. The Ontario Government created the Ministry of Research and Innovation in 2005 as the nexus for innovation policy in Ontario.

SAIL Venture Partners, L.P.

SAIL Venture Partners is a national venture capital firm with offices in Southern California and Washington, D.C. We invest primarily in early-stage companies in the Energy/Cleantech sector.

SAIL’s five partners are experienced, successful investors with a history of adding value to companies and delivering superior returns to investors.