Mr. Kumar leads a business that has sales and service operations on five continents supported by an engineering team from the US, France, Italy, Poland, and India; and supply chain operations in US, Italy, China, and India. He has moved seamlessly across diverse industries like automotive, healthcare, aviation, energy and oil & gas in roles varying from P&L management, product management, business development, and marketing. He is known amongst his peers as the turnaround man — an expert at business turnaround, tactical strike back against tough competitive situations, and new market entry. Mr. Kumar received his MBA from the Ross School of Business.

Ms. Koh is responsible for working with Midwest-base multinationals and fast-growing companies to explore opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to this position, she was part of the Consumer Businesses division, where she promoted and developed the Household and Personal Care industry in Singapore. Ms. Koh holds a B.S. in Biology and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master of Public Policy from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan.

Mr. Osha is the senior equity analyst in charge of overseeing solar energy research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. During his 20-year career in equity research Joe has worked in a variety of industries and locations. He began his career as an equity analyst with Baring Securities in 1992, in Tokyo. Prior to taking up his current role, he was head of Asia ex-Japan equity research for BAML, based in Hong Kong. He joined Bank of America in 1995 as an equity analyst based in Tokyo. He returned to the United States in 1997 to cover semiconductor stocks, and worked in that capacity in New York and San Francisco until 2007. He relocated to Hong Kong in the fall of 2007 as a member of the research management team.

Aside from his professor positions, Dr. Adriaens serves as CleanTech Director to the Wolverine Venture Fund of the University of Michigan. He is past-President of the Association of Environmental Science and Engineering Professors, and a member-by-eminence of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering. Following a 20-year career focused on validating laboratory-based bioremediation, environmental sensing and green building technologies in the field, his current work focuses on CleanTech innovation and entrepreneurship. He founded Global CleanTech LLC, and is Director of Asian Operations at LimnoTech, an environmental services firm focused on energy-water nexus issues in the US and China.