Lee Matecko, Global Vice President,  Store Development and Construction, Whole Foods Market
 
Lee Matecko graduated from the Univeristy of Texas at Austin in 1983 with a BBA in Accounting, and received an MBA in 1995 from Univeristy of Texas - San Antonio.    Lee has spent most of his career in tactical and strategic leadership roles, spanning Operations, Finance, Business Planning and Analysis, and most recently Construction and Store Development.   Lee has been with Whole Foods Market for over 9 years.  In his current role, Lee is responsible for oversight of the new store development program, as well as the Green Mission initiatives in energy, building and development. 

Lee will be a keynote speaker on Friday, January 25.

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Jeff Renaud, Director Ecomagination, General Electric
 
Jeff is currently serving as Director, Ecomagination, working for GE’s Corporate Vice President in charge of Ecomagination. Ecomagination is GE’s commitment to develop and bring to market new solutions that tackle customers’ most difficult environmental challenges. In this role, Jeff has taken a lead role in developing several solutions for the green building market, including GE’s recently launched Ecomagination homebuilder program. Additionally, Jeff works closely with GE’s Water, Energy and Energy Financial Services businesses on other key initiatives related to biomass, distributed power generation, water

reuse, and greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to joining GE, Jeff spent almost five years performing sales and marketing work in early stage technology startups in several different industries, including clean energy, semiconductor equipment and software services. He received a Price Institute Entrepreneurial Fellowship in 2004.
 

Jeff has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BS in Chemical Engineering and Mathematical Economics from Tulane University.
 

Jeff will be a keynote speaker on Saturday, January 26.

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