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Mr. Westly is founder of The Westly Group, which helps entrepreneurs build great companies in clean technology. Previously he served as controller and chief fiscal officer for the State of California. As controller, he chaired the State Lands Commission and served on 63 other boards and commissions, including CalPERS and CalSTRS, the nation’s two largest public pension funds. He also led an effort to commit more than $1 billion to clean technology investments. Westly began his career in Washington, D.C., where he worked first on Capitol Hill and later in the Office of Conservation and Solar at the U.S. Department of Energy. Westly then returned to California to become special assistant to the President of the California Public Utilities Commission. While there, he published two books on alternative energy and the utilities. | 