Photos from PBLN's "Business Leadership and Public Policy: Inventing a More Sustainable Economy" summit at the JFK Presidential Library - November 2009

Tom Clay, CEO of Xtalic Corporation.	Tom Dretler, President & CEO at Eduventures, Inc., and President of PBLN delivers the welcome address.
Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder of Practically Green.	Tom O’Brien, Managing Director of the HYM Investment Group, leads a roundtable discussion on creating a housing market that is affordable and sustainable.
Laura Bartsch, Principal at Millville Partners, leads a round-table discussion on messaging energy efficiency.	Janet Kraus, former CEO of Spire, Inc. leads a discussion on affecting change in the corporate carbon footprint.
Martin Madaus, CEO at Millipore Corporation.	Fred McKinney, President of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council.
Phil Budden, Consul General of the British Consulate.	"Tom Dretler, President & CEO at Eduventures, Inc., and PBLN President with Andy Tarsy, PBLN Executive Director.
Brenda McKenzie, Director of Development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority.	Priscilla Douglas, Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Loretta Sherblom, President of LHS Benefits.
Aaron Abend, Managing Director at Recombinant Data, Tom Dretler, President & CEO at Eduventures, Inc., and Ted Stimpson, CEO at Imagitas, listen in during a discussion on healthcare coverage.	Jim Lampert, President & CEO of Global Green Consulting Group, and Susan Kaplan, Marketing Coordinator for the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.
Massachusetts State Rep. Jay Kaufman, PBLN co-Chair and Flybridge Capital Partners General Partner Jeff Bussgang, and Jeff Glass, Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures.	J.J. Bartlett, CEO of Fishing Partnership Health Plan and Philip Edmundson, CEO of William Gallagher Associates.
John Davidow, Executive Director of WBUR.org and Paul Levy, President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.	Mitch Tyson, PBLN Energy/ Environment Working Group Chair and CEO at Advanced Electron Beams.
Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services.	Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai Technologies, leads the Education Working Group panel discussion.
Chris Gabrieli, PBLN co-Chair and Chairman of Massachusetts 2020, participates on PBLN’s Education Working Group panel discussion.	Nick d’Arebeloff, Vice President of Enterprise Energy Management at EnerNOC, Martin Madaus, CEO at Millipore Corp., Patti Prairie, CEO at Brighter Planet, and MA. State Representative Jay Kaufman speak during PBLN’s Energy/Environment Working Group panel discussion on the business role in climate change.
Jim Roosevelt, Jr., PBLN co-Honorary Chair and PBLN Healthcare/Life Sciences Working Group Co-Chair, leads the Healthcare/Life Sciences Working Group panel discussion on cost containment in healthcare.	Paul Egerman, co-Founder and former CEO at eScription, introduces Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.	Milton Benjamin, President at Initiative for a New Economy.
Bob Crowe, co-Managing Partner at Nelson Mullins, and Brian Carey, PBLN Healthcare/Life Sciences co-Coordinator and Partner, Foley Hoag, LLP.	Norm Gorin, Managing Principal CFO at Analysis Group, Congressman Michael Capuano (D-MA), and Bob Crowe.
David Belluck, Managing Partner at Riverside Partners, and Alan Khazei.	Massachusetts Senate candidates Alan Khazei, Jack E. Robinson, Congressman Mike Capuano (D-MA), and Stephen Pagliuca.
Jeff Bussgang, PBLN co-Chair and General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners	Chris Pinney, Director of Research and Policy at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Anthony Artuso, former Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Katherine Catlin, Partner at Catlin and Cookman Group.
Denise Williams, Executive Director of One Family, and Eydie Silva.	Congresswoman Nikki Tsongas (D-MA) speaks to guests during the reception.
Beth Boland, Partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP., with Katherine Catlin, Partner at Catlin and Cookman Group, and Janet Kraus, former CEO at Spire, Inc.

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