" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Bradley Berman is the editor of PluginCars.com. Brad writes about alternative energy cars for The New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Reuters and other publications. He is quoted in national media outlets, such as CBS News, ABC News, CNBC, CBC, and MarketWatch. Mr. Berman is a tireless researcher of the green car market. He is the transportation editor at Home Power magazine, and is the founder/director of AutoFutureTech, an industry conference affiliated with the Globe Conference on Business and the Environment in Vancouver, British Columbia.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Chelsea Sexton is a veteran clean transportation and energy advocate; her work on General Motors’ EV1 program was featured in the Sony Pictures Classics film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” She continues her work as the Founder of the Lightning Rod Foundation, and has led the creation of the Automotive X PRIZE, and is a co-founder of Plug In America, the largest consumer-oriented electric drive advocacy organization. Additionally, Chelsea is a Senior Advisor to VantagePoint Venture Partners’ CleanTech practice, and is a Consulting Producer on Chris Paine’s next film, “Revenge of the Electric Car”.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Brian Beck has worked for over 20 years in various engineering and business development roles. He started his career at North Telecom where he helped build some of the first North American fiber optic networks, and later in his career moved on to work on renewable energy solutions with a specialty in clean vehicle technologies. Most recently Brian joined the Sustainability Group at the City of Vancouver to lead greenhouse reduction and climate change adaptation initiatives within the City operations and in the community. One of Brian’s lead projects at the City is enabling the early adoption of light duty electric vehicles to replace combustion engines.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Tomoki Yanagawa is the Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Corporate Planning for Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada Inc. Tomoki has 19 years of experience with Mitsubishi Motors in Engineering, Sales, and Marketing areas.
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" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Nick is a tireless and passionate next generation car enthusiast. Since 2007 he has written hundreds of posts for outlets such as The New York Times, Motor Trend, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, AutoTrader.com, The Daily Green, HybridCars.com, and Gas 2.0.
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Nick has also been syndicated in dozens of other outlets including the Matter Network, AP, and Reuters. He is recognized widely as a leading thinker and influencer in the world of electric cars and has been an invited guest of many auto manufacturers at major events, an invited speaker at alt-car conferences, and a consultant to help governmental entities figure out how to develop plug-in infrastructure.
Highlights of his career include being invited to be one of the first five Americans in the world to test drive a pre-production Nissan LEAF in Japan as well as being the first individual on the planet to be given the chance to do a full range test of the LEAF. He is also a driving force in the state of Washington to convince politicians to bring electric vehicle infrastructure to rural areas of the state.
Nick currently resides in Central Washington where electricity is 3 cents per kWh and electric cars can be driven for a half a penny per mile on clean hydro power.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Remy Tennant is Principal and founder of CleanTech Media Solutions (www.cleantechms.com). He has over 10 years of professional experience in business development, marketing communications, international business and management for both corporate and NGO organizations. He has been involved with cleantech since 2007, and has worked with various cleantech organizations including Rising Sun Energy Center, The Clean Tech Open, Commuter Cars, Plug In America, CalCars, Jonway International, EV Battery Forum, Dufrense Market Research, and ElectraDrive. He also spent three years living and working in Spain and in France. He has years of experience in photography and videography, and relishes getting his hands on the latest editions of popular post production software applications. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and an MSBA from San Francisco State University with the dual emphasis in High-Tech Marketing and Sustainable Business.
" alt="" title="" width="65" height="65" />Olmo is the CEO of The Green & Energy Consulting Group, a german company focused on the topics of electric mobility and green energy. He has worked with electric cars for more than 10 years doing research and consulting. He is author of a ebook (The TOP 10 FAQ about electric cars) and has developed an electric car simulator for iPhone called iEV, which purpose is to analyse the user's driving profile and calculate if he will be ready to drive any electric car in the market.
Olmo is also a open networker on linkedin and twitter, where he is the host of a weekly conversation about electric cars called #EVChat.