HONOREE

Joseph L. Boren is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AIG Environ­mental, the leading U.S. provider of environmental insurance products and services. Under his leadership, AIG established the Office of Climate Change, which has led to the creation of a green investment trust fund and certain green insurance products, including auto insurance policies packaged with emissions offsets and policies to cover risks related to a company's emissions of greenhouse gases. Mr. Boren has been instrumental in addressing the in­herent uncertainty of environmental liabilities in transactions involving some of the country's largest superfund and brownfield sites, federal government facilities, commercial mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and real estate.

Mr. Boren started his career in the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and has since then managed a hazardous waste remediation company, as well as water and wastewater treatment plants. He has also developed waste-to-energy facilities, and spent a significant amount of time in the solid and hazardous waste collection and disposal business. He brings innovation and leadership to the environmental community through his unique perspective of having experience in virtually every segment of the environmental market.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Since taking office in January 2007, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has already proven to be a champion for New York's environment. He created a new position, Special Deputy Attorney General for Environmen­tal Protection, to enhance the Office of the Attorney General's emphasis on protecting New York's air, water, and natural resources. Recently, his office announced a multi-state legal challenge to the federal govern­ment for adopting a rule that refuses to regulate mercury and other pollutants from existing portland cement plants. He is also taking legal action against the ExxonMobil Corporation, as well as four other com­panies, to force the cleanup of a 17 million gallon oil spill in Greenpoint, and to restore Newtown Creek, the contaminated waterway separat­ing Queens from Brooklyn.

Mr. Cuomo was picked by President Clinton to serve as HUD Secretary at age 39 in 1996. Under his leadership, HUD created innovative internet-based electronic mapping systems to provide communities with information about environmental hazards in their area.