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Cascadia Capital (www.cascadiacapital.com) is a national investment banking firm based in Seattle that focuses on financing the future for sustainable industries. Cascadia's Sustainable Industries practice has been a key player in some of the clean technology sector's most significant transactions. Having entered the space early in its cycle, Cascadia's team of professionals has been at the forefront of this wave and has played a part in shaping market expectations and understanding in this challenging and dynamic environment.

Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/cleantech) is the leader in serving clean tech companies. With our multidisciplinary experience in energy, utilities, technology, life sciences, manufacturing and consumer products, Deloitte is well-positioned to help clean tech companies across their entire life cycles and to grow and diversify their offerings. To support innovation and the growth of clean tech companies worldwide, we advise clients on a broad range of audit and enterprise risk, tax, consulting, enterprise sustainability, and financial advisory issues.

Hobbs & Towne Inc. (www.hobbstowne.com) is an Executive Search firm that has specialized in Alternative Energy, Power and Clean Technology since 1999. The Founders of HTI, Robert Hobbs and Andrew Towne, have been recognized as the "pioneers" of Cleantech recruiting and have been involved with some of the most successful companies and exits in the space. HTI has 7 partners and over 20 recruiters spread across 3 offices in Valley Forge, PA and both New York and San Francisco, CA.

Akin Gump (www.akingump.com) Akin Gump's renewable energy practice, which includes clean-tech expertise, is headquartered in San Francisco, with practitioners located in California, Texas, New York and Washington, D.C., thereby giving our clients access to key centers of renewable investment activity, project finance, and legislative action. Our lawyers are experienced in structuring transactions, interpreting and managing regulatory requirements, and anticipating -and helping our clients stay in front of - market and regulatory changes affecting the clean tech sector.

Blue Practice (www.bluepractice.com) Clean technology companies deserve clear, informed communications from industry professionals who speak their language. Solely dedicated to the sustainability and clean-tech sectors, Blue Practice is as a collection of creative, strategic communications specialists who use their marketing and public relations expertise toward supporting tomorrow's transformative technologies and products. We're a voice for innovation and conservation, and we're making an impact on awareness and behavior with marketing and PR campaigns for a cleaner future.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (www.newenergyfinance.com) is the world's leading independent provider of news, data, research, and analysis to decision-makers in renewable energy, the carbon markets, energy smart technologies, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear power. The group has staff of more than 130, based in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. New Energy Finance Limited was acquired by Bloomberg L.P. in December 2009, and became Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) (www.e2.org) is the independent business voice for the environment. E2 is a national community of individual business professionals who work towards developing economically beneficial solutions to top priority environmental issues. Founded in 2000, E2 has grown to 850 members across the country. Our diverse membership provides the business voice needed to advance sound environmental policy - addressing environmental issues from climate change to energy to oceans - based on its economic merits.

Mintz Levin (www.mintz.com) works with start-up, emerging, and established companies in all sectors: renewables, smart grid, water, waste treatment, biofuels, electric vehicles, and green building, among others. Our Energy and Clean Technology attorneys help clients optimize IP, raise capital, manage operations, interact with government, build and expand facilities, and enter into joint ventures. We have closed more than 120 clean-tech transactions and supported the successful development and financing of more than 8300 MWs ($9 billion) of energy generating facilities.