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Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Appendix B: Biographies of Speakers
Pages 181-204
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TARDEC is located Warren, MI, and is recognized as the ground vehicle center of excellence and the premier laboratory for advanced military automotive technology for ground vehicle systems and logistics support equipment. A recipient of the Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award in 2008, Dr.
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There, she led programs to align all ground-based systems science and technology research objectives to meet the Army's future warfighting and logistics needs including vehicle survivability, robotics, vehicle electronics, hybrid electric, alternative power and energy, and software engineering. In this dual-hatted role, she also was responsible for Science and Technology strategic planning, program selection, resource management, policy development, professional leadership and organizational liaison with the Director.
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PATRICK DAVIS Patrick Davis is the Program Manager of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Program Office at the U
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Additionally, he has participated in A World in Motion, sponsored by the SAE Foundation. LINDA GAINES Linda Gaines is a Systems Analyst at the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory.
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9, 2009, Gioia directs strategy and planning for the next generation of Ford's global electric vehicle portfolio, touching all aspects of electrified transportation, including product planning, supplier partnerships and collaboration with the energy industry and government. Prior to taking her current role, Gioia was Ford's director of Sustainable Mobility Technology and Hybrid Vehicle Programs for North America, overseeing research, development and ultimately deployment of other sustainable mobility technologies such as hydrogen internal combustion engines and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
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She then served as chief program engineer for the all-new 2002 Ford Thunderbird, delivering the vehicle from concept to production. Gioia combines her hands-on and management experience in electronics architectures, manufacturing, vehicle engineering, vehicle program management, quality engineering systems and executive direction to the Sustainable Mobility Technology and Hybrid Vehicle Programs group.
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Department of Energy Headquarters, in Washington DC. Earlier, he was Manager, Electrochemical Energy Storage Research and Development, a position that he had been in since
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BATTERY INDUSTRY FOR ELECTRIC DRIVE VEHICLES 2003. For the past 6 years he has also served as the DOE Co-Chair of the FreedomCAR Electrochemical Energy Storage Tech Team.
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BOB KRUSE Bob Kruse is the Founding Principal of EV Consulting LLC and the former Executive Director of global vehicle engineering for hybrids, electric vehicles and batteries at General Motors. As part of GM's commitment to fuel diversity, Kruse's division addresses strategic national interests and climate change risk by developing innovative vehicle design, reshaping the workforce and forging partnerships both inside and outside the automotive industry.
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Senator Carl Levin. A Berkley native, he currently lives in Bloomfield Township with his wife, Mary Freeman, and their four young children.
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The expansion would help preserve "Shipwreck Alley" for divers and historians, where dozens of ships sank in the waters of Lake Huron. Carl Levin is the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he has earned a reputation as a strong supporter of our national defense, a tireless advocate on behalf of our service men and women, and an effective fighter against wasteful government spending.
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It also includes strengthening assessments of technologies that are under development and requiring the Department of Defense to conduct preliminary design reviews in advance of approving new acquisition programs. The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute awarded Senator Carl Levin its 2007 Four Freedoms Medal for his bipartisan efforts to reassert the role of the U.S.
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Levin chaired numerous hearings delving into abusive credit card industry practices that help keep families mired in debt. The effort culminated in the 2009 enactment of the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act or Credit CARD Act, which bans unfair practices by credit card companies including preventing credit card companies from retroactively raising interest rates on people who play by the rules, forcing banks to restore a lower interest rate for late-payers who make six months of ontime payments, and prohibiting the charging of interest on debt that is paid on time.
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He has fought for increased funding for the Head Start preschool program, Title I for educationally disadvantaged students, and Pell Grants and loans for college and vocational school students. Senator Levin has been a strong advocate for the effective use of technology in K-12 schools and helped create the Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology, a groundbreaking Michigan partnership helping teachers master technology skills.
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Main served as the state's chief economic development officer, administering a $90 million budget encompassing 180 employees. He designed and implemented initiatives including the award-winning Oklahoma Quality Jobs program and Quality Jobs Investment Act.
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an advanced battery technology company serving military and aerospace markets with significant R&D funding from the US Department of Defense and Department of Energy. Earlier at EaglePicher, he served as Chief Operating Officer of EaglePicher Horizon Batteries, LLC, where he directed the start-up of an advanced technology battery facility in Beijing, China.
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In energy technologies, her laboratory has developed new materials, invented techniques for the manufacture and optimization of batteries, and algorithms for optimization of power systems. Her laboratory's projects, sponsored by General Motors, the DoE, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NSF, the Keck Foundation, and the Ford Motor Company, include numerical simulation of performance of Li batteries for electric vehicles, design of microbatteries for implantable systems, creation of biological batteries comprised of cellular organelles coupled with engineered substrates, and modeling of fully integrated structural batteries for realization of multifunctional, composite materials.
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His chief responsibilities are oversight and design of the state's climate change, alternatives fuels, vehicle travel and land use, and zero emission vehicle programs. He also served as co-director of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard study, requested in the Governor's January 2007 Executive Order.
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He received the following awards: 2009 Robert Zweig Public Education Award of the National Hydrogen Association, National Associate member of the National Academies in 2004, 2002 Carl Moyer Memorial Award for Scientific Leadership and Technical Excellence by the Coalition for Clean Air, 1997 "Clean Air Award" by the American Lung Association of Sacramento, 1996 Distinguished Public Service Award by the University of California, Davis, and 1993 Gilbert F White Fellowship by Resources for the Future (Washington, D.C.)
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She is a recognized leader in the fight to make prescription drugs more affordable and to bring innovative technology to the health care system. Her proposed Green Collar Jobs Initiative would retool older manufacturing facilities and invest in the newest energy technologies, including advanced batteries, to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create jobs here at home.
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BILL VAN AMBURG Bill Van Amburg is Senior Vice President for WestStart-CALSTART, a nonprofit, fuel-neutral and member-supported consortium of more than 145 companies worldwide. It focuses on helping companies and agencies develop and produce clean and efficient vehicles, advanced and renewable fuels and new systems for transit and personal mobility, serving as a strategic broker to the industry.
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He is also involved with WestStart-CALSTART projects focused on overall greenhouse gas reduction and energy security strategies. Van Amburg brings more than 25 years of experience in marketing and market development, technology commercialization, communications and environmental markets, including emission credit trading.
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She is currently working at US Army Tank Automotive Research Development Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Warren, MI and holds the position of Energy Storage Team Leader in the Research Business Group under the Ground Vehicle Power & Mobility Directorate and has worked at TARDEC for 9.5 years.
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