Samsung has set comprehensive goals to become a leading eco-friendly company by 2013. Check out the video.

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Cleantech Open’s National Investor Conference will feature Rami Branitzky, Senior Vice President of Sustainability Management & Strategy at SAP AG, as the event’s exciting closing Keynote speaker. Sustainability and becoming a model of energy efficiency is part of SAP’s wider global strategy. Rami’s keynote will touch on SAP’s sustainability initiatives, entrepreneurship, and how the company is making a global impact.

Meanwhile, catch Rami at the Uptime Institute Symposium, where he was on a panel entitled “The Disrupted Enterprise: Efficiency, Cost, Energy and Carbon.

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Vinesh Mehta, Suntulit’s Head of Business Development, explains the company’s innovative product, what it means to be an Ecomagination Challenge winner, and what’s next.

Author, Speaker, Advisor, and Venture Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV)

Geoffrey Moore is a best-selling author, a Managing Director at TCG Advisors, a venture partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and the founder of The Chasm Group.

Recognized as a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, Moore is the Chairman, Founder and Managing Partner of TCG Advisors, a consulting practice that provides marketing strategy and organizational services to many leading high-technology companies as well as to those in other sectors. In this role, he divides his time between consulting on strategy and transformation challenges with senior executives and developing mental models to support the practice. With this focus in mind he has written Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution.

Moore is also a Venture Partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures, a California-based venture capital firm specializing in specific technology markets, including e-commerce, internet, enterprise software, networking and semiconductors. In this latter role, as a venture partner at a leading “VC” firm, he provides market strategy advice to their high-tech portfolio companies.

Moore has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life’s work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Fault Line and Dealing with Darwin are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. In his most influential work, Crossing the Chasm, Moore examines the gap or “chasm” which innovative companies and their products must cross in order to reach the lucrative mainstream market. As a follow-up, Moore’s second book, Inside the Tornado, provides readers with insight into how to capitalize on the potential for hypergrowth beyond the chasm, detailing the need for radical shifts in market strategy and prescribing appropriate tactics for succeeding in each stage of the cycle.

Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group, a consulting practice based in California that provides market development and business strategy services to many leading high-technology companies.

Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.

Senior Vice President, Sustainability Management & Strategy, SAP AG

Managing Director, SAP Labs North America

Rami Branitzky has been Managing Director of SAP Labs North America of SAP AG, since September 2007. Mr. Branitzky heads SAP Labs North America strategy and operations, tapping Silicon Valley’s rich culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to deliver increasing value to its worldwide development organization and to its partners and customers in the United States and Canada. He joined SAP in 2001.He was an early member of the TopTier Software team, holding field and product leadership positions. Mr. Branitzky began his tenure at SAP as vice president of business development, in the global ecosystem and partner group. Since 2006, Mr. Branitzky served as senior vice president in charge of SAP global software solution partnerships. In these positions, he was instrumental in driving SAP ecosystem strategy and partnering practices. His many achievements include launching the “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” partner program, as well as the SAP Endorsed Business Solutions program. Mr. Branitzky holds an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business.

Senior Vice President, GE Financial Services

Ricardo Angel is Senior Vice President for GE Energy Financial Services’ venture capital team, focusing on investment opportunities in the western United States. GE Energy Financial Services focuses on equity investments in companies that pursue game-changing technologies and services throughout the energy and water value chain, from natural resources to clean tech. The GE unit’s venture capital group is one of the most active investors in energy technology markets, with a presence in San Francisco, Munich, Boston and Stamford, CT. Based in San Francisco, Mr. Angel joined GE Energy Financial Services from ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures, where he originated and executed Energy and Cleantech venture capital investments. He previously worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and as a technology consultant with CNA Corporation. Mr. Angel holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School and Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees in Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Chief Commercialization Officer, Suntech

Andrew Beebe oversees a global sales and marketing organization at Suntech, one of the largest solar companies in the world. Andrew was previously Vice President of Global Product Strategy at Suntech, where he drove the global product roadmap. Andrew joined Suntech in 2008 when his company, EI Solutions was acquired by Suntech Power Holdings.  Andrew grew EI Solutions from a 3-person installer to a major regional player supporting customers such as Google, Disney, Sony Pictures, and British Telecom.  The 2MW installation at Google’s world headquarters is the largest corporate installation in the US.  Andrew has been honored for his work by groups like Global Green and the California League of Conservation Voters with its “Environmental Leadership” Award.

Before leading EI Solutions, Andrew helped found the high-concentration PV company, Energy Innovations with Bill Gross at Idealab in 2002.  Andrew has also been a partner with the clean-tech consulting firm Clean Edge, where he served as an advisor to investors and early-stage companies working on a range of renewable technologies including solar, wind power, hydrogen and biomass.

In 1998, Andrew co-founded Bigstep, one of the world’s first small business e-commerce solutions available online.  After achieving profitability with over 9,000 paying customers, Bigstep was acquired by Affinity Internet, Inc.

Andrew has served on the boards of the Clean Economy Network, Global Green and The Apollo Alliance, and is one of the founders of the CEO Council for the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a BA in Government.

Peter Belisle, President Energy and Sustainability Services,  Jones Lang LaSalle

As President of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Energy and Sustainability Services (ESS) practice, Peter leads a team that generates over $130 million in annual energy savings for clients. Under the credo that sustainability must first be good business, this team serves as sustainability consultant for many Fortune 500 companies, and has completed more than 230 LEED certification projects, in addition to building a robust worldwide solar power solutions practice. With 20 years of experience including directing large development projects for the Walt Disney Company, through his role as President of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Project and Development Services group, Peter has proven that with sound planning and execution, sustainable strategies can reduce portfolio costs and improve return on investment. Peter holds a B.S. in civil engineering and an M.B.A. in real estate and finance from UCLA and is a LEED AP. He is active in the Urban Land Institute and CoreNet Global.