CRAIG SIEBEN | Producer

Recognized energy authority Craig Sieben, founder and CEO of Sieben Energy Associates, is a leading expert on energy efficiency and pioneer in the modern, rapidly-growing field of professional energy management for over two decades.

Craig traces his interest in energy efficiency, both as a business and a public policy issue, to the oil shocks of the 1970s and to the highly-publicized nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. With the supply side of the international energy equation clearly vulnerable, he correctly saw that drilling the demand side made more sense and would be more profitable. The recent extraordinary bounces in oil prices, plus global warming, as urgent international concerns underscore the practicality of Sieben’s insight.

During his undergraduate years at Hampshire College in Massachusetts – where he graduated with a B.A. in Energy Policy in 1983 – Craig served in Washington as a summer intern at the House Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power, as well as the Department of Energy’s Office of Solar Energy.

Following graduation, he worked as a research and marketing assistant at Daniel Yergin’s Cambridge Energy Research Associates; founded the Superinsulation Information Service, a consultancy to building professionals; and was vice president for marketing at The Lighting Corporation before founding Sieben Energy Associates in his native Chicago in 1990.

SEA continues to innovate and expand on its pre-eminence in the field that its founder pioneered. Craig has emerged as a national opinion leader, an experienced and deeply knowledgeable expert on energy efficiency and conservation in the built environment, which generates approximately 40% of U.S.greenhouse emissions.

He speaks often on what he calls the “second Saudi Arabia” waiting to be tapped in America’s building stock, and on the profound potential impact that enlightened energy efficiency practices and programs could have on the economy and the environment.

Craig is the Secretary / Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Leadership Greater Chicago, is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executive’s Club of Chicago and the City Club of Chicago.  He is also the Producer of Carbon Nation, the upcoming global warming solutions film that will be widely released in 2010.

He is also a semi-professional harmonica player, having begun his musical career at 13 studying with the world’s leading harmonica innovator Howard Levy, and was Levy’s first student in 1972. Craig and his wife Amy live in Chicago with their two young children.

KAREN WEIGERT | Producer

Karen Weigert currently serves as Senior Vice President of ShoreBank. ShoreBank is the nation’s leading community development and environmental bank. Karen’s career has encompassed politics, government and private enterprise.

Karen began her career at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame. Her political work focused on the second Clinton campaign and inauguration where she served as State Director of on Indiana and Deputy Director of Operations respectively. Karen joined the federal government when she received a political appointment, serving first in the United States Department of Agriculture in the Foreign Agriculture Service and later at the Global Environment Center at USAID. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School Karen joined the Chicago office of McKinsey &Co. She spent over 4 years serving a range of clients across the sectors including Fortune 500, government and nonprofit. Her work included clients in the energy and transportation fields as well as land use and foreign policy. Karen branched out on her own and did independent consulting in the sustainability space where ShoreBank was one of her clients. She helped them successfully launch the on-line product she now runs from inside the bank.

ARTEMIS JOUKOWSKY III | Producer

Artemis Joukowsky is a venture capitalist, asset advisor, entrepreneur, non-profit activist and film producer. He has formed ten for-profit and eight non-for profit institutions and has been a founding partner in two venture capital funds. He has produced one book, and is in the process of making two movies and on-line TV projects.

Artemis is a Senior Advisor of Econergy International, a publicly traded company in the AIM market on the London Stock Market. Before the IPO, he was Vice-Chairman of Econergy which is a diversified international energy services company, focused on clean energy markets. In addition, Artemis is Chairman and CEO of Avalon Financial Group, Union Limited Partnership and HFG Financial Group.

ERIC DRISCOLL | Editor

Eric Driscoll has been editing professionally for over 10 years and has cut documentaries for Peter Jackson’s “Two Towers,” “Return of the King,” and King Kong.” Other documentary work includes programming for the National Geographic Channel and behind the scenes content for “Ugly Betty.”

Eric also has extensive experience in reality, promo, and trailer work. Major clients have included NBC, Fox, New Line, TLC, ABC, Discovery Channel, Warner Brothers, National Geographic, DirecTV, Fox Movie Channel, Capitol Records, BET, and The Weinstein Company. Eric graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of San Diego with a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities / Music.

GILL HOLLAND I Associate Producer

Spirit Award nominee for Producer of the Year, Gill Holland, has worked on over 50 films, including Sundance faves FLOW: For Love of Water, ADVENTURES OF POWER, SPRING FORWARD, LOGGERHEADS, triple winner HURRICANE STREETS, the FOX sit-com GREG THE BUNNY, the Spirit Award winner and first carbon-neutral independent film SWEETLAND, Al Gore’s 2008 Reel Current Award winner MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL, and the Emmy-nominated DEAR JESSE. He produced three volumes of cineBLAST! the short film compilations  He is partner at The Group Entertainment, the KY/NYC management/production company

Half-Norwegian, half North Carolinian lawyer and former adjunct professor at NYU Graduate Film School, Gill worked at the French Film Office. He has been on the jury for shorts at Sundance and selection committee for the Academy Awards, Student Division.  His record label sonaBLAST! features Kelley McRae, Ben Sollee, The Old Ceremony and Irish star Mark Geary. (Featuring CDs made with recycled plastic and cardboard cases.) He, his wife Augusta, daughter Cora and twins Owsley and Lilla opened The Green Building, the first LEED certified platinum building in Louisville, KY and are also starting up the Jefferson Public Market, a year round public/farmers market in Louisville’s East Market District. Louisville Magazine named him its “Person of the Year” in 2009.