Harrison Wellford has spent 25 years in the alternative energy and political arenas as a Presidential advisor, policy analyst and advocate, senior executive of clean tech companies, entrepreneur and regulatory and project finance lawyer. Mr. Wellford has advised Democratic President elects, Presidential nominees and Senate Committees on Presidential transition planning for over 20 years.

He served as Chairman of Latham & Watkins energy practice where he helped establish the firm’s Clean Technology Group.

In 1992, Mr. Wellford served as White House transition advisor to President-elect Clinton and served on the Economic Policy Group of the Transition Team with responsibility for planning Congressional budget strategy.

In 2004, he chaired Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry's pre-election transition taskforce responsible for organizing the transition of the White House Staff and the Executive Office of the President.

In 2008, he advised then Senator Obama on White House organization and strategic planning for the Presidential transition during the pre-election period and served as transition advisor to Michelle Obama and Senator Biden.

He currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Green Bank Coalition which helped develop legislation now pending in the Congress to create a government sponsored bank to promote long term investment in clean energy.

Political Experience
At the White House from 1977 to 1981, Mr. Wellford was Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, the top managerial policy job in the Executive Branch. He was in charge of management, reorganization and regulatory policy reform for OMB. He served for four years as Executive Director of the President's Reorganization Project which prepared and advocated before Congress executive agency reorganization plans for the Executive Office of the President, the Dept. of Education, the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency (FEMA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and international trade agencies among others.

During 1976-77, he was head of the Government Reform Task Force for President-elect Carter's Transition Team and prepared the White House staff organization plan for the new President.

During 1980-1981, he served as Presidential Transition Director for Executive Departments and Agencies during the Carter-Reagan transition.

In the US Senate between1972-76, Mr. Wellford served as Chief Legislative Assistant to the late Senator Philip A. Hart, chairman of the Antitrust and Environment Subcommittees in the Senate.

Energy Industry Experience
In the 1980's, he was a leading advocate for the creation of the competitive power industry and was a founder of the largest trade association for the independent power companies, the National Independent Energy Producers.

He served as outside counsel, strategic advisor and investor in two of the leading independent cogeneration power companies created during that time, Intercontinental Energy Corporation and Sithe Energies. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Wellford was Vice Chairman of Sithe Energies, Inc., one of the world's largest merchant power generation companies.

Since 2000, in addition to ongoing work in mergers and acquisitions and energy project finance, Mr. Wellford has assisted a number of renewable energy, energy efficiency, resource recovery and environmental technology companies with private equity financing, project financing, and mergers and acquisitions.

Education
Mr. Wellford holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law School. He was a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University and Valedictorian of his graduating class at Davidson College.

Books & Articles
He has written two books, Sowing the Wind, a study of government regulation of environmental hazards, and Unfair Competition? The Challenge to Charitable Tax Exemptions. His articles have appeared in Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Monthly, the Outlook Section of the Washington Post and other national and professional publications. His most recent article on Presidential transitions "Avoiding the Hazards of Transition: Neustadt’s Rules"was published by the Brookings Institution in 2007.

Non-Profit Affiliations
He is Treasurer and a founding board member of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, a nonprofit that has raised over $35 million to commission leading contemporary artists to produce paintings and sculpture to enhance the cultural ambience of American embassies throughout the world. He has also served as a Trustee of Davidson College.

Corporate Board Affiliations
Mr. Wellford has served on the boards of public companies including Vivendi North America, Sithe Energies, WorldWater and Solar Technologies, KGen Power and the General Nutrition Corporation.