Pat Dopler, has been a resident of Red Lodge, Montana for much of the time since 1974. Pat started his adult working career as a union carpenter and also worked with developmentally disabled adults.      In 1982 he became a small business owner by starting Dopler Solar Construction to design and build passive solar homes, additions, and commercial projects. It recently completed a model, near-zero-energy-use solar home. Pat also founded Red Lodge Glass, a company he owned for 14 years. And he has been a dealer, and sales representative for a number of energy efficient products.

     In 2005, Pat helped organize the well attended "Bringing Wind to the Ground" conference. He and Russ Doty are business associates in New World WindPower LLC, a company which assists communities and individuals that want to acquire renewable energy.

     Brian Greenman is the Principal of Greenman Financial Advisors. He has senior executive leadership experience serving as CFO for four entrepreneurial, aggressive growth real estate start-up environments. Specializing in the wind industry, Brian’s business services included the full range of real estate siting, development, financing, design, construction, operations, business sales and acquisitions.

     Previously Brian was Director of Financial Accounting at Hyatt Corporation for the Pritzker family in Chicago and Chief Financial Officer of Exclusive Resorts, LLC for Steve Case (former CEO of AOL-Time Warner), in Denver.

     Tracy Velazquez works for justice in New York. Before leaving Montana in the spring of 2008, she was a small business owner and resident of Bozeman, Montana. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Master of Public Administration from Montana State University.      

     Tracy became interested in the issue of electricity when working as communications director for the Montana Food Distributors Association, which is comprised of small, independent grocery stores. There, she wrote several articles about deregulation’s impact on that industry’s large use of electricity.

     A congressional candidate in 2004, Tracy is a member of the Montana Conservation Voters. In addition to her interested in developing wind and solar energy for Montana, Tracy believes in our state’s biomass potential to reduce forest fuel loads and to generate electricity using municipal and other waste.

     Her Montana firm, Commonweal Consulting, advised environmental/sustainability-focused, and other health related non-profit organizations from across Montana. Much of her professional work concentrates on issues affecting our rural citizens, health care, poverty, education and economy.

     As an active community member, Tracy has served on local boards, and has helped pass public health legislation at the state and local level.

     She and her husband, Dennis Alexander, have four children, ages 4 – 14. Email: Tracy Velazquez tvelazquez@mcn.net      Web Site: http://www.commonweal.net/default.asp

      Dr. R. Paul Williamson has been the Executive Director for Hydrogen and Alternative Energy Research & Development at the University of Montana, Missoula since the winter of 2006. For four years prior to that he was Dean of the University of Montana’s College of Technology. There he was the architect of Montana’s Hydrogen Futures Project -- a plan designed to take advantage of Montana’s extensive human, natural and renewable resources to create a state-wide hydrogen-based economy.

     Having earned his PhD in Education from West Virginia University, Paul has a long list of consulting and academic leadership positions to his credit. For example, he served from 1994-1998 as Executive Vice President, Academic Dean, and Dean of the College at Bethel College, McKenzie TN. At Bethel Paul led the College into fiscal stability by controlling finances, reducing expenses, increasing revenue, and developing new programs, among other things.