Alexandra Goldstein serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Bison Fuels and has dedicated herself to the clean hydrogen opportunity for the past three years. She previously co-founded Ambient Fuels, a Generate Capital-backed clean hydrogen developer, leading that company through a successful fundraise and scale-up. Prior to her time in the energy transition, Alex spent ten years in investing. She began her career as part of the founding team of Manor Road Capital, a long/short equity hedge fund, working as a research and investment professional until 2019. Alex then joined the corporate strategy and M&A team of Buck Global, an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company, which was successfully sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.   Alex received her A.B. from Princeton in History in 2011. She wrote her undergraduate senior thesis on the development of U.S.-Saudi relations during World War II, with a particular focus on energy security.  Alex is an avid classical violinist and member of the New Conductor’s Orchestra. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

Josh Sutton is a Co-Founder of Bison Fuels and assists as the Chief Legal Advisor. Josh is the Head of Legal for Solugen Inc., a cutting-edge biotech company operating in the chemical manufacturing space to decarbonize the chemicals industry. He previously practiced in the project development space, with a focus in carbon capture and EV charging, at Sidley Austin, to which he had returned in 2021 after 7 years living in Saudi Arabia and working for Saudi Aramco as Senior Counsel. There he was involved in the negotiations of the joint venture arrangements, construction contracts, financing and offtake agreements for cogeneration power plants, petrochemical facilities, maritime shipyards, and equipment manufacturing facilities. Before moving to Saudi Arabia, Josh was an associate at Sidley Austin, and before that at McDermott, Will & Emery, in each case focusing on the development, purchase and sale of renewable power facilities domestically and globally. Josh earned his BA in History from Rice University, and his JD, cum laude, from the University of Texas School of Law. In between those periods of study, Josh was a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps, teaching Environmental Education in Tobati, Paraguay. When not at work, or supporting his three teenagers in their extracurricular activities, Josh enjoys long motorcycle trips, having ridden the ring road of Iceland, the Highlands of Scotland, the Pyrenees and the Italian/Swiss Alps.

Don earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Lafayette College (Easton, PA) and immediately went overseas with Exxon to work at the Lago Oil & Transport Company refinery on the island of Aruba. Returning to the States, he transferred to the Benicia, CA refinery and earned his MBA from St. Mary’s College (Moraga, CA) while working full-time. Early engineering assignments included Process Support, Capital Project and Maintenance roles. Soon Don was the Maintenance Manager responsible for routine and turnaround maintenance for one-half of the high-complexity refinery. Valero Energy purchased the refinery from Exxon in 2000 and Don transferred to the Environmental department where he was responsible for Title V compliance with all applicable air regulations and NPDES wastewater compliance. As a principal engineer, he led the environmental permitting process for a $1B flue gas scrubber project that reduced criteria pollutant emissions by thousands of tons per year. Later Don enjoyed roles as Environmental Engineering Manager and finally Director of Health, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory Affairs where he and his team were responsible for Occupational and Process Safety, environmental compliance for all media, regulatory advocacy, industrial hygiene and emergency response. Don came out of retirement to collaborate with like-minded professionals who recognize that solving the carbon emissions puzzle will require creative solutions and considerable engineering talent. In this role Don will coordinate the technical workflow between EPCs, OEMs and the project Owner to ensure on-time, on-budget project execution followed by a safe and reliable startup.

Kestler is the Founder and President of Kestler Energy Consulting, LLC, which provides energy consulting services to generation and load clients, in both the wholesale and retail markets. Kestler has more than 35 years of experience in the energy industry, and is an innovative and collaborative energy professional with a proven record of success. He is skilled in pursuing and negotiating term power purchase and/or alternative hedge agreements, and helping clients procure their energy economically and within defined risk tolerances. Prior to founding KEC, Kestler was Vice President of Power Marketing at Acciona Energy NA, where he managed all power marketing activities in the U.S. and Canada. He negotiated and executed long-term power purchase and alternative structure hedge agreements and actively managed the renewable attributes portfolio. Previously, Kestler held marketing director positions at DTE Energy Trading, Williams Power, Reliant Energy, and Commonwealth Edison, leading those organization’s power marketing activities in the MISO, PJM, and SPP markets. Kestler earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a Master’s of Management degree from Northwestern University’s, Kellogg School of Management. He has served on the Illinois Chamber of Commerce board of directors, as well as Chairman of the Illinois Energy Council, and has been an active member of Wind on the Wires.

Joey drives market research, assists with Bison’s business development strategy, and provides operational support for team leadership. Before joining Bison, Joey was a consultant in PwC’s M&A Advisory group where he supported transactions of all types in the tech, professional services, and utility-scale power industries. From developing client outreach strategies to implementing change management programs, Joey’s breadth of experience allows him to support Bison in a variety of functions. Joey received his B.S. from Northwestern University in Learning & Organizational Change, and lives in Los Angeles. Joey loves the outdoors, is an avid snowboarder, and a struggling surfer.

Roxy Schneider is Senior Director of Crew Capsule Design and Development at Blue Origin, where she leads the Design and Development teams for the New Shepard space launch vehicle. Prior to this role, Roxy was a Director of Mission Operations, where she led the teams that refurbish the hydrogen-fueled reusable launch vehicles to Blue Origin's First Human Flight and to a 6x growth in launch rate. Previously, Roxy worked in the oil and gas industry, where she held a number of engineering and leadership roles for BP. Roxy's tenure at BP included 6 years of working based on oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico where she held the roles of Lead Offshore Engineer and Maintenance Team Leader - where she was responsible for keeping a $15 million / day oil platform up and running. Prior to these operational roles, Roxy's first years at BP were spent leading establishment of new risk management and process safety processes following the Deepwater Horizon incident. Prior to her time at BP, Roxy worked at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), where she was a Project Engineer and Operations Leader for the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). A graduate of Princeton University, Roxy holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

David B. Kultgen is the former General Counsel and Board Secretary of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), and provides legal and consulting services from offices in Austin, Texas, focusing on business, commercial, and international law; legal and regulatory compliance; and dispute resolution, leveraging 43 years of experience (32 of which were spent in Saudi Arabia) with Saudi Aramco, its predecessor the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) and their affiliated companies. Kultgen was the second general counsel in Saudi Aramco’s history and only the 5th in the combined 80-year history of Aramco and Saudi Aramco. Kultgen joined the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) in 1973 and retired from Saudi Aramco, its successor on October 1, 2016. From January 1, 2010 until May 1, 2016, he served as the Company’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. From May 1, 2016 until his retirement he served as Senior Vice President, Special Assignment. While a member of the Corporate Management team (01/01/2010 – 09/30/2016), he was a member of the Company’s Strategy Council, Management Committee, IPO Steering Committee and several other corporate level bodies. Kultgen graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1970, and obtained his J.D. from the School of Law of the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. He attended the Program for Senior Executives at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1991. In 1973 Kultgen joined the Arabian American Oil Company in New York, N.Y., moving to the Company’s headquarters in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in May 1974. In 1982, he was assigned to the Law Department of Aramco’s principal U.S. based subsidiary, Aramco Services Company, where he remained until he returned to Dhahran in 1989 following his appointment by Saudi Aramco’s Board as Associate General Counsel. He was made Deputy General Counsel in 2007 and was appointed General Counsel and Board Secretary effective January 1, 2010. Kultgen supported the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (HRH, the Minister) in negotiations with the United States and the European Union on energy related issues associated with Saudi Arabia’s accession to the World Trade Organization. After becoming General Counsel, Kultgen managed the restructuring and expansion of the Company’s global legal organization, including the creation of a local practice unit comprised entirely of Kingdom trained Saudi lawyers to manage domestic litigation, supplementing Saudi Aramco’s staff of U.S. trained and qualified American and Saudi lawyers, overseeing the organization’s growth by more than two and a half times over five years.

Zachary Goldstein is Vice President of Nature-Based Solutions Investments at Carbon Direct Capital, an investment fund focused on carbon management. Prior to this role, Goldstein served as Head of Investments at Aspiration Partners (now Catona Climate), focused on carbon removal investments. Previously, Goldstein worked as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs Renewable Power (now MN8 Energy) with fellow Advisor Michael Conti. Prior to Goldman, Goldstein worked at True Green Capital Management LLC, an asset manager in the distributed energy space, and as a Project Finance attorney at Latham & Watkins, Baker Botts, and Sidley Austin LLP. Zach received an A.B. summa cum laude from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School. He lives in New York City.

Michael Strong is a partner and Chair of the Energy Law group at Chicago-based boutique law firm Fox, Swibel, Levin & Carroll, LLP, where he helps trade associations shape the “rules of the game” before Illinois regulators and helps companies across the energy industry in all aspects of their strategy, transactions, and operations that touch the regulated energy space. Michael works primarily with developers and long-term asset owners in the solar industry and retail energy providers, helping navigate the complex regulatory frameworks impacting revenue streams, such as advising on new products, strategic partnerships, asset acquisition and disposal, customer contracts, and compliance. From transmission to energy end-users, from financing to incentive applications, Michael works across disciplines and with cross-disciplinary business, technical and legal teams to drive client results. In addition to working with firms as large as the (then) largest firm in the world and as small as solo practice, Michael was the first in-house general counsel of the Illinois Power Agency, which procures renewable energy resources and wholesale energy products. Michael received his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. cum laude in Government (with honors) and Mathematics from Dartmouth College.

John Marciano is the CEO of Eight Buffaloes LLC. Eight Buffaloes has a portfolio of over 30 investments across the energy transition ecosystem through its portfolio company, Cheltenham Capital. He also chairs the board of Goodpeak and serves on the board of Redball Power and Redball Energy. Marciano has structured, executed, and closed most of the leading-edge renewables transactions over the last 15 years, resulting in over $30 billion of new renewable energy facilities and several that exceeded over $2 billion each. A seasoned veteran in renewables financial architecture, Marciano has led two of the largest law firm teams focused on project finance. Most recently, he was co-head of Allen & Overy's 350-lawyer global energy practice. Prior to that, he led Akin's 40-lawyer US renewables practice (moving the entire team to Allen & Overy in early 2021). His legal work is complimented by his policy work in the renewables space. From 2016-2022, he served as the tax committee chairman of SEIA. Marciano is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners Global for his work in renewable energy law. He holds a BA from Canisius University, JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and an LLM (tax) from Georgetown University.

Jamie Hutson is a partner at GoodFinch, an asset manager founded by solar financing experts, and focused on private credit and structured equity in renewables. Jamie previously served as Chief Investment Officer at DSD Renewables (DSD), where he raised over $2B of project capital. Prior to that, at GE Capital - Energy Financial Services, Jamie transacted over $3B of tax and cash equity. Before business school Jamie co-founded and led two startups, including a renewable energy trading business that was subsequently sold. Jamie graduated from Skidmore College where he was co-captain of the lacrosse team and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Larchmont, NY and is based in New York City.

Michael Conti is the founder of Salamander Power, a greenfield clean power project developer, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Michael has nearly twenty years of experience developing businesses, managing teams, negotiating, and closing renewable energy deals. Prior to founding Salamander, Michael led deal origination for MN8 Energy, formerly Goldman Sachs Renewable Power. At GSRP/MN8, Mchael originated, negotiated, and closed acquisitions totaling 3.5 GW of solar PV and 1 GW of battery storage projects. His past deals include the largest solar projects in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and upstate New York. Michael’s career has built successful businesses and driven the clean energy transition, spanning roles in business development, project development, off-take origination, and investing. Previous employers also include SunEdison, Hudson Sustainable Group, and BloombergNEF. Michael earned a Master’s in International Energy Management and Policy from Columbia SIPA and a BA in Economics from Connecticut College. He lives in the mountains around Salt Lake City with his wife and two dogs.

Zachary Squire is the Chief Investment Officer and co‐founder of Tekmerion, a systematic global macro fund backed by Alan Howard and Mike Novogratz which marries fundamental insight with systematic process to produce uncorrelated absolute returns across liquid global markets. Prior to Tekmerion, Squire traded emerging markets at HBK and worked at Bridgewater Associates, where he was a member of the “Ray team” which directly supported the CIO’s investment strategy research and headed the Trading Execution Strategy for FX, the firm’s largest asset class. Squire began his career at The D. E. Shaw Group, where he reported to the firm's first Chief Risk Officer to stand up a new risk measurement and reporting framework across the multistrategy portfolio. He graduated as Valedictorian from Princeton University with a degree in Classics (Latin and Ancient Greek), after retiring from his first career as a professional child opera singer with the Metropolitan Opera.