Speaker Biographies

Bruce Usher

CEO, EcoSecurities Group Limited

Bruce Usher is CEO of EcoSecurities Group Limited, the world’s leading climate change advisory firm. He is responsible for management and structuring of EcoSecurities’ emissions reductions transactions, and for the company’s external financing, corporate control, and operational functions. Prior to EcoSecurities, Mr. Usher was co-founder and CEO of TreasuryConnect LLC, which provided electronic trading solutions to banks, investment banks and Global 1000 corporations. TreasuryConnect was financed by investment subsidiaries of AIG Financial Products Corporation and Enron Corporation. TreasuryConnect was sold to eSpeed Inc, developer of the world’s largest electronic financial marketplace, in 2001.

For the previous six years, Mr. Usher was responsible for managing sales, trading and administration as COO of The Williams Capital Group, a boutique institutional investment bank specializing in capital markets activities for major corporations and institutional investors. During that time Williams Capital grew from a start-up to 55 professional employees with offices in New York and London.

Prior to that he spent four years as a Vice President and trader of structured derivative securities at Lehman Brothers in both New York and Tokyo. Before joining Lehman, he worked for several years trading derivatives at the Chuo Trust & Banking Company in Tokyo.

Mr. Usher received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and is an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School.