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Cleantech AustralAsia and CII are proud to announce sponsors of the 2nd India Cleantech Forum™. These leading enterprises have committed to work together to build India’s Cleantech industry and position our companies and investors for success in the rapidly expanding global Cleantech market.




Principle - Platinum Sponsor
PhillipCapital Australia


PhillipCapital Australia

PhillipCapital Australia is part of the international PhillipCapital group, based in Singapore and spanning across Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and France.

PhillipCapital has an active international corporate finance and services practice to serve the specialist needs of Australian companies that wish to access international capital and corporate development opportunities.

In Australia, PhillipCapital has a shareholding connection with Intersuisse Limited, stockbrokers, an ASX market participant.



PhillipCapital Australia Website | Top


CoSponsor - Gold Sponsor
SUN Group


SUN Group

SUN Group is a leading principal investor and private equity fund manager in Russia, India and other emerging and transforming markets. The founder of SUN, part of an Indian family group active in India for more than 100 years, first started working with Russia in1958.

The Group has been active in areas such as Oil & Gas, Mining, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Food & Beverage and Technology.

SUN Group's investment approach combines fiduciary expertise and discipline with entrepreneurship. SUN deploys capital as a direct principal investor, often with strategic partners, and as a private equity fund manager, often in partnership with other global firms.



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CoSponsor - Gold Sponsor
YES Bank


YES Bank

YES BANK, India’s new age private sector Bank, is an outcome of the professional entrepreneurship of its Founder, Rana Kapoor and his highly competent top management team, to establish a high quality, customer centric, service driven, private Indian Bank catering to “Emerging India”. YES BANK is the only Greenfield license awarded by the RBI in the last 13 years, associated with the finest pedigree investors. YES BANK has fructified into a “full service” commercial Bank that has steadily built Corporate and Institutional Banking, Financial Markets, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Business and Transaction Banking, Retail and Private Banking business lines across the country, and is well equipped to offer a range of products and services to corporate and retail customers.

The Bank has adopted international best practices, the highest standards of service quality and operational excellence, with innovative state-of-the-art technology, and offers comprehensive banking and financial solutions to all its valued customers. A key strength and differentiating feature of YES BANK is its knowledge driven approach, which goes beyond the traditional realm of banking, and helps adoption of a diagnostic and prescriptive approach towards superior product structuring.

YES BANK has a vision to champion ‘Responsible Banking’ in India where the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability are embedded in the DNA of the organization and integrated in its Business Focus. YES BANK is committed to adding long term value to society, to differentiate itself in the marketplace based on a strong 'sustainability mandate' and to build in flexibility and openness as part of its core strategy. The Bank has engaged with global thought leadership forums like the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) and Tallberg Forum. YES BANK has recently become the first Indian Bank to become a signatory with the United Nations Environment Programme (Financial Initiative). YES BANK has also recently launched YES MICROFINANCE INDIA, a specialized division of the Bank focused on developing a pioneering strategy of Direct Intervention for the microfinance domain in collaboration with ACCION International, USA.

YES BANK has received significant national and international recognition which includes:

  • No. 2 Ranking amongst New Private Sectors Banks, at the Financial Express Awards for India’s Best Banks of 2006, while being ranked #1 on the key parameter of Growth, among 64 Private, Public and Foreign Banks in India.
  • No. 3 Ranking in “The BW Banking Special 2006 – An Annual Survey of India's Best Listed Public and Private Banks”, while being ranked # 1 on the key parameters of Safety, Efficiency & Growth (3 out of 6).
  • Received the prestigious Euromoney - Trade Finance ‘Deal of The Year’ award for a structured & innovative Rural Financing solution in providing loans to over 2000 nomadic honey bee farmers in Jammu & Kashmir. YES BANK was the only Indian private sector Bank to have won this award as the lead arranger out of a total of 367 deals presented across 30 countries.
  • Member of the select Community of Global Growth Companies (GGC) at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos. YES BANK is the only Indian Bank to have been identified by The Forum as one of India’s growing organizations on the way to becoming a global industry leader.
  • Included as the Chairman’s Circle Member of the US-India British Council’s (USIBC) significant initiatives to enhance trade and investment opportunities between India and US.
  • Received the Environment Leadership award from USAID.
  • Awarded the ‘IT Innovations in Emerging India’ by NASSCOM in April 2006.
  • Continuous Innovation in HR Strategy award at The Indiatimes Mindscape Employer Branding Awards 2007
  • Most Innovative Recruiting and Staffing Programme award at the Recruitment & Staffing Best in Class (RASBIC) Awards 2006
  • Organization with Most Innovative HR Practices award at the Global HR Excellence Awards, both part of the Asia Pacific HRM Congress 2007 held from February 1-3, 2007 in Mumbai. These awards were instituted to recognize the pursuit of excellence in Human Capital across the Global Corporate Sector across 60 countries.

YES BANK has also gained significant momentum on setting up a US $200mn South Asia Clean Energy Fund, in which we have partnered with Global Environment Fund. The fund will invest in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in renewable energy / energy efficiency projects that will provide substantial economic and environmental benefits, reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), improve local air quality, ease growth in fossil fuel-based energy demand and resulting upward pressure on energy prices, and improve energy security. ADB will act as an anchor investor of the Fund. The process of setting up of the SACEF PE fund is currently in progress. Once the fund structure is formally in place we shall be keen to invite you to participate, which we expect to be by the end of June 2008.



YES Bank Website | Top


CoSponsor - Gold Sponsor
PCG Asset Management


PCG Asset Management

Founded in 1979, Pacific Corporate Group LLC is a research-driven investment management firm focused solely on private equity.

Our broad expertise and network with activities across the full spectrum of the private equity business enables us to develop unique insights and opportunities for the benefit of our clients.

PCG Asset Management invests in private equity funds through a combination of discretionary management and advisory arrangements.

PCG Capital Partners invests directly in operating companies through the PCG Corporate Partners Fund, which provides equity financing to fund growth initiatives, and the PCG Co-Investment Funds, which invest in transactions led by top-tier financial sponsors.

PCG Asset Management focuses exclusively on the private equity asset class. We oversee more than $15 billion of private equity commitments through a combination of fund-of-funds, separate accounts and advisory relationships.

Our goal is simple: to build private equity portfolios that outperform on a risk/return basis. We achieve this through a combination of superior fund selection and optimal portfolio construction. Our experience and approach has been developed and refined over the past 17 years. Our investment process is based on an extensive market presence and research platform, utilizing a proprietary mix of qualitative and quantitative factors to select outperforming fund managers throughout various market cycles. Our investment process is complemented by PCG Asset Management's expansive private equity database, our proprietary sector research and use of industry-leading portfolio analytics tools.

We believe that the growing complexity and global nature of the private equity market requires a specialized approach. PCG Asset Management has a global investment platform organized into operating groups. These specialized operating groups, Research/Diligence, Client Service/Portfolio Management and Monitoring/Analytics, enhance our market knowledge and strengthen key relationships.

PCG Capital Partners has a 13-year record of providing innovative financings for companies in industries including business services, consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial, and communications.

We are committed to generating superior results for our clients through a risk-managed approach to private equity investing. We know that private equity investment results are driven by information and access to opportunities. Consequently, we have refined our investment process to emphasize rigorous fundamental analysis and risk mitigation.



PCG Asset Management Website | Top


CoSponsor - Gold Sponsor
City Of Melbourne


City Of Melbourne

Melbourne has arrived as a global business and investment centre. Located in the Asia Pacific time-zone, Melbourne is ideally placed between East and West. Australia is the first market to open each day, providing a time zone bridge linking the closing of the US and the opening of the European markets. With half of the world’s most expensive cities in Asia, Melbourne stands out as the location of choice within the region, offering the best array of services at the most competitive price. Melbourne’s lifestyle and business are complementary.

Melbourne has a thriving and sustainable economy that welcomes and supports many different industries.

With a globally connected infrastructure and shared time zone, it is an attractive location for business and investment of all sizes around the globe. This ‘Knowledge City’ provides international networks and connections and is home to research excellence and an advanced economy.

Melbourne also offers a cost-competitive and politically stable environment.

The multilingual and multicultural environment with its open, tolerant and merit-based culture allows an outstanding quality of life for those who choose to live, work, study or visit here.

Located in the Asia Pacific time-zone, Melbourne offers economic stability, a rigorous intellectual property and taxation regulatory environment together with access to all levels of business support services. The City's advanced infrastructure including access to broadband, advanced telecommunications and competitive utility prices further add to Melbourne's status as a pre-emminent business centre in south-east Australia.

Melbourne’s modern landmark buildings offer a superior business environment, coupled with a strategic transport network which includes Australia’s only curfew-free 24 hour international airport, a major container port, access to Australia’s busiest rail network and a highly efficient system of roads, highways and freeways. Melbourne Airport recorded the fastest growth of international passenger movements of any airport in the country since 1998 and has been an important contributor to the state’s growth. The Port of Melbourne retains its ranking as the freight and logistics capital of the nation. Trade figures for 2001/02 indicate a record 11.3 million mass tonnes of overseas exports left Australia via Melbourne.

As part of its worldwide cost of living service, the Economist Intelligence Unit published a new survey in October 2002 assessing the level of hardship for expatriates. Melbourne and Vancouver emerged as the best cities in the world. The hardship rating assessed 130 cities by hardship rating by looking at 12 factors grouped by categories:

* health and safety
* culture and environment
* infrastructure and services

With half of the world's most expensive cities in Asia, Melbourne stands out as the location of choice within the region, offering the best array of services at the most competitive price.

For more information about the key industries in Melbourne, please visit our website.



City Of Melbourne Website | Top


Associate - Silver Sponsor
Blue Energy


Blue Energy

Civilizations have dreamed of capturing the energy of the ocean’s powerful tidal currents for millennia. Now, in the face of global climate change, Peak Oil scarcities and technological advances, energy specialists seeking reliable, utility-scale, renewable and non-polluting energy have identified the world’s oceans - and its tidal currents especially - as the most likely source.

Blue Energy International is poised to lead the emerging ocean energy revolution with its proprietary turbine design to harness the power of ocean currents. Our commercialization path will offer 4 classes of turbine to customers, ranging from micro-units for remote settings through mid-range models to our large 2-5 MW ‘Ocean Class’ scale turbines for transmission grid hook-up. Linked in series to generate hundreds of MW, the Blue Energy ‘Tidal Fence’ design will also offer the opportunity for surficial bridge or corridor construction, thus providing dual-infrastructure solutions.

Blue Energy recently concluded 3 rounds of successful prototype and design testing in the marine engineering test tank of the University of British Columbia in collaboration with the department of Mechanical Engineering and the Canadian federal government, and the company is now moving on to the next stage of prototype demonstration.

Today, inquiries about commercial applications of Blue Energy technology are reaching us from every country bordering on an ocean. Resource locations appropriate for development, including proximity to existing grid infrastructure, abound. We are preparing to do business in a world increasingly hungry for the non-polluting energy solution we will be providing and we invite you to join with us.



Blue Energy Website | Top


Associate - Silver Sponsor
Sindicatum Carbon Capital


Sindicatum Carbon Capital

SCC is a specialist end-to-end developer of climate change related projects. We use our own expertise and capital to develop projects from conception through to implementation and long-term operation. We work in partnership with companies and governments to deliver cost effective means by which to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Our institutional shareholders include Citigroup, one of the world’s largest banking groups, AIG, the world’s largest insurer, and Black River Asset Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cargill.

SCC brings together strengths in Development, Finance and Technology. Together, we believe that these elements differentiate our business and the services that we offer.

Development

Our approach is based on hands-on project development, with a team of over 100 engineers, technicians and climate change specialists working in the field. We identify opportunities, develop solutions, implement projects and oversee their operation.

Finance

Our principal finance approach adds value to all project participants - business owners, host governments and buyers of emissions reduction credits. Our business benefits from strong institutional partnerships that enable us to access deep pools of capital where required.

Technology

Through our subsidiary Sindicatum Carbon Technology, we enter partnerships and agreements with providers of leading technical solutions. These partnerships enable us to provide the optimum technical and engineering solution for each project.



Sindicatum Carbon Capital Website | Top


Network Sponsor
Sunengy Pty Ltd


Sunengy Pty Ltd

Sunengy Pty Ltd was formed in 2006 to develop and commercialise developed a new solar PV method to generate solar power at well under US$1 per watt. This patented technology we call the LSA. A simple revolutionary solar technology that has the potential to produce electricity at costs comparable to fossil fuel generators.

The LSA system is based on floating solar collectors made mostly of plastic. Each has a very small area of silicon photovoltaic cells at the water surface with a large, thin plastic focussing lens rotating slowly above to track the sun. The water cools the silicon cells and in bad weather the lens is protected by rotating it fully under the water to avoid damage in high winds.

Patented in most major markets of the World. Not limited by the availability of specialised materials (PV Silicon) or rare materials (Indium). Low capital requirements as production lines already exist for the major components. Extremely low installed cost when in high mass production ($0.50/W)

Thin film photovoltaic systems are projected to achieve US$1.20 per watt by 2012, while Sunengy has a PV concentrator system that could credibly reach $1 per watt by 2010 and is projected to ultimately achieve $0.50 per watt (at current dollar values), with lower deployment costs than other PV systems.



Sunengy Pty Ltd Website | Top


Network Sponsor
Environmental Clean Technologies


Environmental Clean Technologies

Environmental Clean Technologies Ltd (ECT) focuses on commercializing clean technologies for heavy industry sector. Located in Victoria, which has the worlds largest deposit of brown coal, ECT has focused on commercializing technologies that add value to brown coal whilst reducing environmental impacts.

ECT has the global rights to two patented technologies, Coldry and Matmor

The Coldry® Clean Coal technology Coldry which delivers a commercially viable, low cost per tonne, brown coal dewatering solution, that is immediately deployable. Existing brown coal power stations gain immediate CO2 reductions (around 6% to 14%) from Coldry® without significant modification to existing plant infrastructure. The new Coldry feedstock supports the business case for evolution to super critical boiler technologies and the efficiency/financial benefits they deliver.

The Matmor technology is a one step steel making process, that utilises a the Coldry Technology to produce high grade, low carbon steel at a significant cost saving and reduced emissions

ECT is an Australian listed company (ASX Code: ESI).



Environmental Clean Technologies Website | Top


Network Sponsor
FCUBED Australia


FCUBED Australia

F CUBED is dedicated to be the global leader in producing and delivering cutting edge technology, cost effective strategies and sustainable innovation for the conservation and production of the world’s most critical resource, water.

After three years of extensive research, development and prototype testing F CUBED will start production in mid 2008 of Carocell – solar desalination panels. F Cubed will establish its first manufacturing plant in Australia by mid 2008. Its aim is to establish other manufacturing plants globally - with a focus on India.



FCUBED Australia Website | Top


Network Sponsor
Australia India Business Council


Australia India Business Council

The AIBC is a business association that exclusively promotes, develops and maintains bilateral trade and business relationships between Australia and India. The only one of its kind in Australia, it is the conduit through which exporters and investors from both countries can make connections and leverage opportunities.



Australia India Business Council Website | Top


Supporting Organisation
The Financial Express

The Financial Express

Financial Express, in association with Asian CERC, provides you an authentic Ocean of information along with the financial data covering over 5500 companies. It provides a complete and full range of information about a company. To jump in, just enter the first few letters of the company or either BSE Code or NSE Code in search box provided below



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Supporting Organisation
New Ventures India

New Ventures India

New Ventures provides management training, business advisory services, professional mentoring and access to capital and markets to small environmentally-friendly businesses.

As a business accelerator, New Ventures equips small business leaders with the skills needed to succeed in today's markets. The only program of its kind, New Ventures aligns social and environmental development with local economic growth to create a successful model for emerging economies like India.



New Ventures India Website | Top

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