CleanEquity Monaco 2012 - Additional Companies & Speakers Announced

LONDON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- An invitation-only event, CleanEquity showcases the most exciting emerging cleantech companies to a world-class gathering of senior delegates including specialist financial and strategic investors, opinion leaders, policymakers and international trade media.

Eminent speakers will lead plenary sessions tackling key issues.

Working titles:

• The VC model is broken - now what?
• Transitional energy strategies and the challenge of natural gas
• Key ingredients for emerging company acceleration
• Unlocking emerging company access to BRIC markets

Confirmed speakers:

John Leggate CBE – Senior Adviser to VantagePoint; Venture Partner since 2008 and member of the CleanTech Advisory Council. Formerly CIO, BP John played a key role in developing corporate policy on technology foresight, global environmental performance and sustainability.

Dr. John Miles – Professor of Transitional Energy Strategies at the University of Cambridge. John has served on the UK Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, was director of the UK Housing Forum, and a board director at Arup for 17 years. He is a member of the UK Automotive Council, the UK Energy Research Partnership and a non-executive director of the Construction Industry Research and Information Association.

Dr. Marcelo de Andrade – Chairman of the Brazilian Tijuca Centre for Applied Sustainability and Co-founder, Partner at Earth Capital Partners. Marcelo has 30 years experience in the sustainability sector and has run large-scale projects in sustainable development for corporations, governments and multilateral agencies.

Lord Paul Drayson - Founder and Managing Partner of Drayson Racing Technologies, a motorsport R&D business that develops novel technologies such as high performance electric drives. Paul has 25 years experience as a science entrepreneur in lifesciences and cleantech and was Science Minister in the UK government from 2008-2010.

Andrew Meranus - Vice President, PR Newswire, a UBM plc company.  PR Newswire is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Previously, Andrew was the director of strategic alliances at ScreamingMedia, Inc.

This year's presenting companies include:

Contact:
Tom Faggionato
Innovator Capital Limited
+44 20 7297 6840
tom.faggionato@innovator-capital.com
www.cleanequitymonaco.com

SOURCE CleanEquity Monaco