Association of Power Producers of Ontario

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Bruce Ander Markham District Energy Bruce Ander is President & CEO of Markham District Energy Inc. (MDEI), the competitive affiliate of Markham, Ontario. Mr. Ander was appointed to this position in September 2002. Mr Ander’s career covers over 20 years in the energy sector in Ontario with specific expertise developing high efficiency embedded cogeneration and district energy projects. Mr. Ander has served on the Boards of IPPSO, the Canadian District Energy Association (CDEA), and the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance (CEEA). Mr. Ander is a Professional Engineer with a degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Toronto.

Judith Andrew Vice President, Ontario Canadian Federation of Independent Business Appointed Vice-President, Ontario in January 1999, Ms. Andrew is the Federation’s lead representative before the Ontario government. Ms. Andrew held several positions in the Federation’s research and legislative departments before assuming her current post. Among a range of appointments representing CFIB’s 42,000 Ontario member businesses, Judith served on the Energy Minister’s Electricity Transition Advisory Committee 1998-2003. Ms. Andrew is the author of numerous CFIB briefs and reports on a wide range of issues affecting small- and medium-sized firms. CFIB is a non-profit, non-partisan political action organization with over 105,000 member businesses across Canada.

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Linda L. Bertoldi Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Partner and National Leader of BLG’s Electricity Markets Group.  Advises on electricity and natural gas matters including new regulatory requirements, market rules, energy agreements and energy procurement strategies. Advised clients since 1987 on all aspects of power project development including structuring transactions, project finance, contract design and completion, regulatory issues, power purchase and energy sales agreements, construction contracts, operations and maintenance agreements and non-utility generation contracts. Advises Ontario municipalities and municipal electric utilities on issues relating to electricity market restructuring, mergers, divestitures, governance and ongoing corporate structures. Advises municipalities and private sector clients regarding restructuring and commercialization of water and wastewater. Member, Board of Director, APPrO (Association of Power Producers of Ontario). Called to the Ontario Bar 1976. Holds a B.A. and LL.B. (University of Toronto).  Recognized as one of the leading 500 lawyers in Canada by Lexpert since 2002 in the energy field, and as one of the top 25 women lawyers in Canada by Lexpert in 2003.

Bruce Boland Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG).  In this position, Bruce is responsible Public Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Strategy, and Information Technology.  He also serves as Chair of OPG Ventures. Prior to 2005, Bruce was Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions. Bruce was responsible for OPG’s customer interactions by developing commercial-based relationships that provide mutual advantage to OPG and its customers. Bruce also served as Senior Vice President, Energy Markets, from 2000 to 2001. Bruce Boland was previously Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, where he was responsible for the relationship of OPG with all economic regulatory agencies. Bruce Boland served as a member of the Electricity Conservation and Supply Task Force, which published its report in January 2004. He was also a member of the Province’s Market Design Committee on electricity restructuring in 1998/99. He also served as a Board Member of the IESO (previously the IMO), the organization in Ontario responsible for the development and operation of a competitive electricity market, from 1999 to early 2005. He is currently on the Board of the Ontario Energy Association whose mission is to foster a business environment conducive to a prosperous and sustainable energy industry. Bruce Boland joined Ontario Hydro in 1982 and holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University, and is a Certified Management Accountant.

Paul Bradley Vice President, Generation Development, OPA As Vice President of Generation Development Paul, is responsible for procuring power generation and conservation and demand response resources for the Province. Most recently, Paul was founder and managing director of PJB Energy Solutions, a financial advisory and direct investment company dedicated to the Ontario electricity sector. Paul previously served as the Financial Services industry representative to the Technical Panel of the Independent Electric System Operator. Paul was previously an Executive Director for the Power and Utilities group of the investment bank CIBC World Markets. He also worked for 8 years for Duke Energy Corporation’s independent power subsidiary, with supplementary roles in treasury, risk management, and mergers & acquisitions. Paul is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and has a Bachelor’s degree from Boston College magna cum laude.

Tom Brett Gowling, LaFleur Henderson LLP Mr. Tom Brett is a senior partner and Vice-Chairman of the Energy Department of the national law firm of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, where he specialises in the transactional and regulatory aspects of energy law. Mr. Brett is a director and past president of the Independent Power Producers’ Society of Ontario.  He has represented end users, marketers, pipelines, and power producers in various contractual matters, development projects, and regulatory proceedings.

David Brown Stikeman Elliott LLP David M. Brown is a partner in the firm’s Civil Litigation and Energy Groups in Toronto and has extensive experience in natural gas and electricity regulation. Mr. Brown is recognized by Lexpert as “most frequently recommended” in the area of Electricity. Listed in the 2005 Lexpert/ALM Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada as an expert in Electrical Energy. He is cited as a leading practitioner in the energy/natural resources field by the London-based Guide to the World’s Leading Energy & Natural Resources Lawyers (2003). He appears before the Ontario Energy Board and the Manitoba Public Utilities Board at numerous hearings, including natural gas rate and deregulation hearings, electricity transmission and distribution hearings and leave-to-construct applications. Transmission hearings have included: Hydro One transmission rate design; Ontario transmitters pooled rate hearings, including FNEI; Most major Ontario transmission leave-to-construct hearings since Bill 35, including the TransAlta, Hydro-Quebec/Hydro One, Great Lakes Power and Falconbridge applications; and The on-going proceedings to amend the Transmission System Code. Mr. Brown was part of the firm’s 1999 advisory team to the Ontario Market Design Committee, he acts as regulatory counsel to the Independent Electricity System Operator and is on the list of approved outside counsel to the Ontario Energy Board. Mr. Brown provides advice to energy clients on commercial and marketing issues, including power purchase contracts, gas supply contracts, ancillary services contracts, transmission interconnection agreements and the retailing of natural gas and electricity. Professional Actiities: Mr. Brown teaches Energy Law at OsgoodeHallLawSchool, Toronto, Ontario; taught trial advocacy at the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University from 1990 until 2002. Director, Advocates’ Society. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Energy Bar Association, Advocates’ Society, and the Metropolitan Toronto Law Association. He speaks frequently on energy matters. Education: University of Toronto (J.D. 1981), NanjingUniversity (Diploma 1978); Beijing Languages Institute (Certificate 1977), University of Toronto (B.A. Honours 1976).

Jan Buijk Detroit Diesel Allison Canada East GE Energy – Jenbacher Gas Engines Jan Buijk is the Sales Manager at DDA Canada East responsible for the sales and marketing of GE Energy’s Jenbacher Gas Engines that are utilized for on-site power, CHP and renewable energy projects such as biogas fuelled power generation systems. Jan started his career in the power generation business in 1984 as a design engineer, involved in numerous CHP projects at “Spruyt Energy Systems” in the Netherlands. Since moving to Canada in 1988, Jan has had direct sales and marketing responsibilities for more than 60 CHP, renewable energy, and other distributed generation projects currently in operation acrossCanada. Jan holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands, where he also wrote a thesis on the use of landfill gas for power generation applications.

David Butters Association of Power Producers of Ontario David Butters is President of APPrO. He comes to APPrO from Hill & Knowlton in Toronto, where he was Vice President, Public Affairs, and Director of their Canadian Energy Asset Group. He has been active in the sector as Secretariat to the Stakeholders Alliance for Competition and Customer Choice. His professional background also includes work for Bruce Power, TransAlta, AECL, Fortis, Toronto Hydro, the Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario, and as Chief of Staff to a federal cabinet minister. Mr. Butters also has an extensive background in advertising and marketing communications.

Mike Butters MBC Energy and Environment MBC Energy and Environment specializes in emission reduction planning and reporting, energy management, and the development and application of emerging sustainable technologies. The company combines engineering, business, and marketing capabilities to provide a unique integration service that helps stakeholders understand and capitalize on the energy and emission reduction markets.  The company principal, Michael A. Butters P.Eng., has more than twenty years’ experience in the energy industry, specializing in energy management and conservation in the commercial and institutional sectors. During his ten years at (the former) Ontario Hydro, he was responsible for some of the largest energy retrofit projects in the province.  MBC has provided emission reduction protocol and verification reports for a number of renewable and conventional electricity generators, and was one of the first companies in the province to register Set-Aside Allowances on the Ontario Emissions Trading Registry. Mr. Butters is the principal author of the Emissions Trading Primer, and is the former executive director of Pilot for Emissions Reduction Trading (PERT).

Hon. Donna Cansfield Ontario Minister of Energy On October 11, 2005, after serving for two years as a Parliamentary Assistant, Donna Cansfield was sworn in as Minister of Energy. Ms. Cansfield was first elected in 2003, after serving constituents as a school trustee for 15 years. Over that period, she became well known as a tireless contributor to services for communities, families and, in particular, children. Among her many roles, she served as a trustee and chair of the Toronto District School Board, as a trustee of the Etobicoke Board of Education, as president of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association , and as vice chair of the Toronto Foundation for Student Success. Ms. Cansfield has also served in a national capacity, through her work as a director of Prime Mentors of Canada and as a president of the Canadian School Board Association. Representing Etobicoke Centre, the riding that contains Canada’s largest proportion of senior citizens, Ms. Cansfield has taken particular interest in issues of aging. She served as a director of a hospice and has been active on other health care efforts. She has long exhibited abilities to elicit input and co-operation from the public and to work with all constituents to recognize key social goals. While in the position of Parliamentary Assistant to the Honourable Dwight Duncan, the previous Minister of Energy, Ms. Cansfield was called on to lead the government’s Conservation Action Team. Over the course of 2004, that team traveled across the province meeting with over 300 stakeholder groups and individuals representing a wide range of interests in energy. That effort culminated in Building a Conservation Culture in Ontario, a report that concludes with a series of 30 recommendations. Donna currently lives in Etobicoke with her husband Bill. They have two children, Jennie and D’Arcy who now live and work in Ontario

Rob Cary R Cary Associates Rob Cary provides consulting services in electricity markets and related commercial issues. He established his consulting company, Robert Cary & Associates Inc in 2000. He provides extensive services in electricity market design and re-design in Ontario, including five years participation in the IESO’s technical panel, and representation of generators in a number of IESO and OEB