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Summit Speakers
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ENERGY ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENT |
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Cincinnati |
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Summit Speakers
Jim Turner is a group executive of Duke Energy and president and chief operating officer of its U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas business. In this role, Turner has overall profit and loss responsibility for the regulated business segment, the company’s largest. Turner is responsible for legislative and regulatory strategy and policy, rates, economic development and the state presidents’ organizations for Duke Energy Carolinas, Duke Energy Ohio, Duke Energy Kentucky and Duke Energy Indiana. He also directly oversees power delivery, gas distribution, customer service, fuel and portfolio optimization, wholesale business, new generation projects, and environmental health and safety. Prior to the merger of Duke Energy and Cinergy, Turner served as president of Cinergy. Before that, he was the company’s chief financial officer, where he was responsible for the company’s financial operations, investor relations, corporate development, and strategic planning. He also served as chief executive officer for Cinergy’s regulated business unit. Before joining Cinergy in 1995, Turner was employed as a principal in the Indianapolis law firm of Lewis & Kappes, P.C., representing industrial customers in state utility commission proceedings as well as before the Indiana General Assembly. Before joining Lewis & Kappes, Turner served as the Indiana Utility Consumer Counselor from 1991 to 1993, leading a state agency responsible for representing all classes of Indiana consumers of electricity, natural gas, telephone, water and sewer services. In 1992, he served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates. From 1984 to 1991, he was employed as an attorney in the Indianapolis law firm of Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman (now Bingham McHale), where he was elected to partnership in 1990. Turner serves on the board of directors of EnerNOC Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC), a publicly traded energy management company focused on using technology to help customers manage energy demand. He is a past chairman and current board member of the Charlotte Center City Partners. Turner is also a board member of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. From 1999 to 2004, he served as a member of the Ohio State Board of Education. Turner received a bachelor of science degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and a juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School; the Leadership at the Peak Program at the Center for Creative Leadership; and the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at MIT. He and his wife, Leah, have two daughters and a son. Gary Jay Saulson is director of Corporate Real Estate for The PNC Financial Services Group where he leads PNC’s Realty Services business unit. He is responsible for all of PNC’s non-lending real estate functions, including the management of properties, construction and development, as well as the development and implementation of occupancy and ownership strategies for all PNC real estate. This includes owned and leased, as well as foreclosed OREO (Other Real Estate Owned), residential properties and commercial assets.
In June 2008, PNC announced the development of PNC Place in Washington, DC. Scheduled for completion in 2010, PNC’s new regional headquarters and office building is expected to be the first office building in Washington to be certified at the LEED™Platinum level. In addition, PNC currently has Three PNC Plaza under construction, a 780,000 sq. ft. mixed used project in downtown Pittsburgh that will include office space, a Fairmont hotel, condominiums and a parking garage. Three PNC Plaza is expected to open in 2009 and play a key role in revitalizing the city’s core. It is one of the largest green mixed-used projects in the country.
Saulson is also responsible for leading PNC’s environmental strategy that has resulted in PNC having more buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) than any other company in the world. Construction projects completed under Saulson include: PNC Firstside Center in Pittsburgh; Eastwick Operations Center in Philadelphia; BlackRock Building in Wilmington, Del.; and PNC Global Investment Servicing world headquarters in Wilmington, Del. In addition, PNC is the first financial institution to build green bank branches using PNC’s Green Branch® construction and the first company to qualify under the USGBC volume build program. PNC has constructed more than 60 green branches to date.
In 1990, after working as a principal of a real estate development and investment company in Phoenix and other real estate-related positions, Saulson joined PNC as a manager of PNC Realty Holding Corp’s OREO department.
Saulson is a member of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), Real Estate Executive Board and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Saulson has received a number of awards including the USGBC’s LEED Award for his advancement of the LEED Rating System (2006); and received the Green Building Alliance’s Shades of Green Leadership Award (2005). He was also instrumental in promoting the USGBC’s Volume Build LEED Certification Program in support of PNC and other U.S. firms. In addition, Saulson serves on the board of directors of the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Real Estate Advisory Committee and Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh.
Saulson is a graduate of the George Washington University, Washington D.C., and is a frequent speaker on green building, design and construction. |