Jamie Wimberly.  Mr. Jamie Wimberly founded and currently serves as CEO of the Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC (DEFG LLC). DEFG LLC has three branded business units:  DEFG, a specialized consulting firm focused on innovative energy technologies and solutions, DEFG Ventures, LLC, an investment arm that provides capital and advisory services to alternative energy companies seeking angel and venture capital, and EcoAlign (www.ecoalign.com) a strategic marketing agency focused on the energy and environment space.

Mr. Wimberly has more than 15 years of experience in the energy and environment space and is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top energy experts. He has published more than 50 articles and/or been cited in a number of trade and mainstream publications, including The Economist, USA Today, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, to name a few. In addition to DEFG LLC, Mr. Wimberly currently serves on the Board of Directors of Lunera Lighting, a LED flat panel lighting company.

Prior to founding DEFG LLC, Mr. Wimberly co-founded and formerly served as President of the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (CAEM), a non-profit think tank focused on the energy sector.  Prior to CAEM, Mr. Wimberly served as the Vice President of the Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA), the oldest public interest organization in the nation focusing on the energy, telecommunications and other network industries providing essential services to consumers.

Nat Treadway.  Mr. Nat Treadway is a DEFG LLC Managing Partner with 25 years of energy industry experience. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Combined Heat and Power Initiative, where he works to promote clean, reliable energy resources in Texas. Mr. Treadway provides industry leadership on regulatory policies that affect energy efficiency and retail competition, and he is a frequent conference speaker. He is the author of the "ABACCUS" report on the status of retail electricity competition in North America. His practice focuses on competitive market structure, end-use energy efficiency, demand response and premium customer services.

Prior to founding DEFG LLC, Mr. Treadway worked as a senior researcher for the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets where he prepared the Retail Electricity Deregulation Index (RED Index) and reports related to resource adequacy, distributed generation, and the electric distribution utility of the future. In the lead up to Texas restructuring, Mr. Treadway served as a senior advisor to the Texas Public Utility Commissioners on ratemaking, special tariffs, resource planning, competitive resource acquisition, and the unbundling and separation of regulated electric distribution functions from competitive energy services. In the late 1990's, he led the development of the interconnection guidelines for distributed generation in Texas and the regulatory team that oversaw eight electric utility Deliberative Polls®. These surveys revealed -- and the Texas Legislature later agreed -- that Texans prefer a resource mix that includes renewable energy resources and energy efficiency investments.

Mr. Treadway provided ten years of expert testimony before the Public Utility Commission of Texas on the economics of demand-side management programs, integrated resource planning and emerging competitive issues. In the early 1980's, he was a municipal energy conservation coordinator for the city of Ogden, Utah.