Mark Morales is a Vice President of SBA Lending at City National Bank. Mark has over 20 years of business banking experience and specializes in SBA financing and loan programs for diverse owned businesses. Mark is the SBA Los Angeles District Office - 2016 Financial Services Champion of the Year and the California Department of Insurance - 2018 Insurance Diversity Trailblazer. Mark is also Co-owner of Charles Jacobsen, Inc., an importer of antique furniture and accessories from Asia, which is a Certified LGBT Business Enterprise.

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Grant Harrison, Green Finance & ESG Analyst for GreenBiz Group, leads on program development for GreenFin — the premier ESG event aligning the sustainability, investment and finance communities. He works to direct the vigor of capital markets toward the realization of a clean and just economy, and to make GreenFin the launchpad of the ideas, insights and connections that will shift capital allocation to support sustainability.

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Kyle Burnett is an audio/video specialist and environmental communicator currently working as the executive producer of the “How to Disaster - Podcast Recover. Rebuild. Reimagine.” for Sonoma County, California-based non-profit After the Fire ™.

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Dr. Laureen Meroueh is the CEO of Alchemr, a company focused on democratizing green hydrogen at the speed and scale required by developing low-cost green hydrogen production solutions. A pioneer of industrial-scale anion exchange water electrolyzers, having demonstrated the world’s largest module based on this technology.

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Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO of After the Fire and a lifelong resident of Sonoma Valley.

After the devastating fires of October 2017, Jennifer Grey Thompson accepted a position as Executive Director of Rebuild NorthBay Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping our region rebuild better, greener, safer, and faster.

Under her leadership, Rebuild North Bay has expanded to 11 States and was rebranded to “After the Fire”, helping communities with wildfire mitigation, recovery and disaster resiliency.

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Kevin Noertker is Co-founder and CEO of Ampaire, and Founder and President of the Amp Division of Surf Air Mobility. Kevin and his team have pioneered practical, compelling electrified flight through the upgrade of existing aircraft types.

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Tamara McCrossen-Orr is the Director of Environmental Sustainability and Compliance for Los Angeles World Airports, owner and operator of Los Angeles International Airport and Van Nuys General Aviation Airport. Ms. McCrossen-Orr has worked for LAWA since 2014.

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Jennifer Brooks is President of B Water & Beverages, Inc., the Exclusive Licensee of Brita Water based in San Fernando, California. 

Verdical Group CEO and Net Zero Conference Founder Drew Shula's "Climate Optimism" Keynote at the Net Zero Conference. Drew is laser focused on solving the climate crisis and reversing the trend in atmospheric carbon.

The event is produced by Verdical Group. Are you and your company at the leading edge of building a net zero future? See you there.

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Our solution to grappling extreme heat and climate change lies with large scale implementation of renewable energy. Renewable energy comes in several forms, with the leaders being Electric Energy Technology and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology, often having supporters at odds with each other.

ESJ hosted a roundtable where we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of each with Keith Malone (@Keithman63), a Hydrogen expert, and head of public affairs for the California Fuel Cell Partnership, and Wei-Tai Kwok (@weitaikwok), an electric energy executive who speaks frequently for The Climate Reality Project.

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