The Energy Daily's Leadership Awards Judges
 Llewellyn King
Founder, Executive Producer and Host, “White House Chronicle”
Founder, The Energy Daily
Llewellyn King is the creator, host and executive producer of “White House Chronicle,” a weekly news and public affairs program, airing on PBS, commercial and public access television stations, and Voice of America Television. Now in its 12th year on air, the program can also be heard on Sirius XM Radio and viewed online at whchronicle.com.
In addition, King writes a regular column for the Hearst-New York Times Syndicate. In 2006 University Press of America published a collection of his columns, “Washington and The World: 2001-2005,” which mainly appeared in Knight Ridder newspapers, including The Miami Herald, The Saint Paul Pioneer Press, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer and The Columbus Post Dispatch.
King was the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of The Energy Daily, the iconic energy industry newsletter. Launched before the energy crisis broke out in 1973, The Energy Daily was the flagship of his King Publishing Group, whose other award-winning titles included Defense Week, New Technology Week, Navy News & Undersea Technology and White House Weekly. King's insightful reporting and analysis of energy issues, led to frequent guest spots on network news programs, including NBC's “Meet the Press” and “Today,” PBS's “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” CNN and C-SPAN.
King's remarkable career in journalism began in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, as a 16-year-old foreign correspondent for Time magazine. He also reported from Africa for London's Daily Express and News Chronicle and United Press. In 1959, King moved to London and worked as an executive for The Daily Mirror Group, a reporter for Associated Newspapers, and a scriptwriter for BBC and ITN.
Three years late, he moved to the United States and worked as an editor for The New York Herald Tribune, The Baltimore News-American, The Washington Daily News and The Washington Post.
A stint at McGraw-Hill's Nucleonics Week led to his founding The Energy Daily. But it was not King's first ahead-of-its-time publication. His first was Women Now, a monthly magazine targeted to emerging professional women in the 1960s. “It didn’t liberate any women, but it liberated all my money,” King quips.
Before creating “White House Chronicle,” King hosted “The Bull and The Bear,” a daily stock market program, which aired on the GoodLife and Jones cable television networks in the mid-1990s.
King has given more than 2,000 speeches, and he continues to be an in-demand and erudite commentator on energy and other subjects. He has organized more than 1,000 conferences on issues ranging from nuclear energy to landmine removal to Social Security to campaign and political finance.
He is a pilot and equestrian and lives in Virginia's Hunt Country.
 George Lobsenz
Executive Editor, The Energy Daily
George Lobsenz, executive editor of The Energy Daily, has been with the publication for 15 years. Previously, George was a reporter at UPI for 11 years, covering energy and environmental affairs and Congress. George graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in history. He is been the recipient of many prestigious awards, including a newsletter journalism award for Best Exclusive Story at the 33rd Annual NPC Journalism Awards in 2006.
 Eric Lindeman
Editor, Clean Energy Daily
Eric Lindeman has been involved in the electric power industry for 25 years as an award-winning journalist and a consultant. For much of that time, he has specialized in nuclear power, and as a consultant, in the international nuclear fuel cycle.
Lindeman was managing editor for McGraw-Hill Publications Company’s Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel, and Inside NRC, in Washington, D.C., and New York City. He was also southeast energy correspondent for the company’s World News Division, based in the Oak Ridge (Department of Energy) – Knoxville (Tennessee Valley Authority) corridor. In that position, he wrote for a dozen energy-related publications.
He was editor-in-chief for Washington-based Exchange Publications, responsible for periodicals on nuclear energy and environmental remediation of nuclear weapons production sites in the United States and the former Soviet Union. As Washington office representative of New York Nuclear Corp. and as president of Washington Nuclear Corp., he started three publications covering all aspects of nuclear power. And as president and owner of International Nuclear Associates, he started a weekly publication on nuclear power with a monthly supplement.
As a consultant, Lindeman’s clients included state-owned and private companies in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He provided information services on nuclear markets, pricing (historical and current), government relations, nonproliferation requirements and agreements, international transport of nuclear materials, business opportunities (mergers, acquisitions and partnerships), nuclear fuel brokerage and trading, public acceptance campaigns, operations and maintenance costs.
 Brian F. Keane
President, SmartPower
Twice named "Connecticut’s Environmental Hero", Brian F. Keane is President of SmartPower, a Washington, DC-based non-profit marketing organization, dedicated to promoting clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Hailed as the "Got Milk" campaign for the wind, solar and waterpower, SmartPower’s award winning marketing campaigns have been credited with creating hundreds of GWh of clean, renewable nergy across the nation. With operations coast to coast, SmartPower has become the unrivaled marketing organization for the clean energy industry. For their efforts, Keane and SmartPower have been recognized with numerous awards over the past years. Among them: the coveted Green Power Pilot Award presented by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy; Four Gold Awards from the Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA); and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protections’ "Green Circle" Award. In 2005 Brian Keane was recognized as one of Connecticut’s "Outstanding Forty Under 40".
A former advisor to the late Senator Paul Tsongas (D-MA) and a Congressional Aide to Representative Les Aspin (D-WI), Keane has built an extensive background in management, political organizing and communications. On multiple occasions, he has used his background in politics and communications to create organizations that challenge the conventional wisdom and ultimately become part of the national conversation and set the national agenda. He was one of the architects of The Concord Coalition, a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating the federal budget deficit. Keane was also the founding Executive Director of Economic Security 2000 (ES 2000), the nation's first nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to saving and reforming Social Security. Keane’s testimony before the U.S. Congress helped make ES 2000 a recognized national leader in the debate on Social Security reform. In fact, Former Presidents Clinton and Bush both recognized ES 2000 as a valuable resource in the discussion on Social Security.
Keane combines a passion for the environment with a marketers’ commitment for creating compelling messages that resonate not simply with the converted – but with the general population. As such, Keane is a much sought after interview and presenter on clean energy and energy efficiency. He has spoken extensively across the nation, internationally and to the local and national media.
Keane is a 1989 graduate of The American University in Washington, D.C. where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science. The 10th in a family of 11 children, Keane served as the Chairman of his eldest brother’s successful campaign for the Boston City Council and his brother’s subsequent race for the U.S. Congress in Massachusetts’ 8th Congressional District in 1998. Brian Keane was himself, briefly, a candidate for the Massachusetts State Senate in 2002. Today Keane serves as the President of the American University Alumni Association while also sitting on the Board of Directors of the Vermont-based Clean Energy Group and the Washington, DC-based Anacostia River Water Keepers Alliance. Keane is also a faculty member to the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria where he speaks on environmental marketing and messaging. Keane and his wife, Kate Sawyer Keane, live in Arlington, Virginia with their two children Karenna (4) and Jack (2).
 George Sarkisian
Principle and Co-Founder, Environet/PR
George Sarkisian is Principle and co-founder of Environet/PR, a full-service public relations firm specializing in renewable energy, recycling, and water and energy issues. Environet/PR provides strategic communications for its clients. This includes communications messaging, employee communications, creative advertising, media relations and media buying services. The firm also specializes in crisis management and digital media design and services, which includes web design and social media consulting. Environet/PR provides marketing consulting for business-to-business and business-to-customer communications.
Prior to creating Environet/PR, George was Vice President, Communications and Marketing for the American Gas Association (AGA), which he began is 2007. He was responsible for developing and implementing strategic communications plans that helped AGA’s member companies effectively deliver these messages. The AGA represents 202 local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States, providing service to 70 million customers.
George guided AGA’s external communications efforts, including media and public relations activities, as well as liaison with AGA member company corporate communications, public relations and public affairs professionals. He was also responsible for the association’s opinion research and advocacy advertising programs as well as the association’s publication resources.
George began his career with Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1981 directing public relations for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, working his way up News Director at PG&E’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco. He then joined the Salt River Project (SRP), located in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991 and served as their manager of corporate communications, internet communications and media relations for 16 years. SRP is an electric and water utility serving about 1 million customers in central Arizona.
President and CEO, GF Energy
Roger Gale has managed and participated in numerous senior executive planning and strategic business design processes in North America, Europe and Asia. He is well-known globally as a leading corporate strategist and publisher of Electricity Outlook. In addition, he has expertise in corporate governance for large enterprises. Currently, his work focuses on new generation and demand-response strategies.
He is widely quoted in leading business publications including Fortune, Business Week, Financial Times and appears on CNN, PBS, etc. He is a frequent public speaker at industry and in-house events.
Roger began consulting in 1988 after working in senior positions for the US Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the US Environmental Protection Agency. He was an assistant to the secretary of energy and the EPA administrator and served as director of external affairs at FERC. Prior to working for the US government he lived in Japan where he covered energy issues for a number of publications. Since entering consulting in 1988, he has developed skills in successfully managing top level corporate business development processes working with boards, shareholders and senior executives. He was CEO of PHB Hagler Bailly and headed PA Consulting's global energy practice before starting GF Energy in 2001.
Roger has a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the board of directors of Adams Express, Petroleum and Resources Corp, Ormat and the US Energy Association.
He can be reached at +1.202.236.8198, or by email at rgale@gfenergy.com.
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