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The Harvard Business School Alumni Association and the Arlington Club cordially invite you to a presentation on The Business of Renewable Energy by Nancy Floyd, Managing Director of Nth Power.

Please join us on January 27th, 2008, 5:00 PM, at the Arlington Club for what promises to be a very interesting and informative evening on an issue of critical national importance.

Nancy Floyd is a highly accomplished and respected national leader in the renewable energy business. Ms. Floyd is founder of Nth Power, one of the leading national venture capital firms focusing on renewable energy. As managing director of Nth Power, she has overseen significant investments in this sector. In recognition of her national leadership in renewable energy, Ms. Floyd was invited by President elect Obama to speak at the 2008 Democratic National Convention on our national energy policy. See below for her complete CV.

Program:

5:00 PM Wine, Hors D'oeuvres, Networking
6:00 PM Presentation

Cost $20 for HBSAO members, $25 for non-members of HBSAO or Arlington Club.
The Arlington Club is located in downtown Portland on SW Salmon and Park Avenue.

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For more info contact event chairs:

Keith Kullberg, HBS OPM 2004, 503.310.0123
Andrew Rowe, Arlington Club, 503.816.9727

Nancy Floyd CV:

Nancy is Founder and Managing Director of Nth Power.

Ms. Floyd has led Nth Power’s investments in Silicon Energy (Nasdaq: ITRI), Northern Power (Nasdaq: DESC), Smartsynch, Serveron, SpectraSensors and Propel Biofuels. In addition to these Boards, Ms. Floyd sits on the boards of ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy) and the Center for Resource Solutions. She has been an advisor to the National Renewable Energy Lab, was a board member of Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich, Switzerland and is an active member of E2. She also helped organize the Northwest Business Leaders for Clean Energy campaign and was also appointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Economic and Community Development Commission.

Prior to founding Nth Power, Ms. Floyd built, managed and negotiated the sale of two high-growth energy and telecommunications companies. In 1982, she founded NFC Energy Corporation, one of the country's first wind development firms utilizing advanced technology developed by NASA and Sandia Labs. She developed over $30 million in projects and sold the company, generating a 25-fold return on the original capital invested in three years. In 1985, she helped found PacTel Spectrum Services, a network management company for private voice and data networks and a subsidiary of Pacific Telesis. Ms. Floyd was responsible for the nationwide launch of Spectrum Services, which was ultimately sold to IBM in 1987.

In 1977-1980, Ms. Floyd worked for the Chairman of the Vermont Public Utilities Commission where she worked on energy and telecommunications issues as well as served as the Commission’s chief legislative liaison. She sat on the New England Regional Facility Siting Council and founded one of the first non-profit companies in the U.S. to fund home energy audits.

Ms. Floyd holds a masters degree in political science from Rutgers University (1977), where she was an Eagleton Fellow. She received a bachelor's degree in political science from Franklin and Marshall College (1976), where she currently serves as a Trustee.