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Professor Usher is CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc (ticker “ECO” on the London Stock Exchange). EcoSecurities is one of the world’s leading companies in the business of originating, developing and trading carbon credits. EcoSecurities structures and guides greenhouse gas emission reduction projects through the Kyoto Protocol, acting as principal intermediary between the projects and the buyers of carbon credits. With a network of offices in 21 countries, EcoSecurities has amassed one of the industry’s largest and most diversified portfolios of emission reduction projects. Today, the company is working on 408 projects in 36 countries using 18 different technologies, with the potential to generate more than one hundred million carbon credits. Prior to EcoSecurities, Usher was co-founder and CEO of TreasuryConnect LLC, which provided electronic trading solutions to banks, investment banks and Global 1000 corporations. TreasuryConnect was sold to eSpeed Inc, developer of the world's largest electronic financial marketplace, in 2001. For the previous six years, 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, Usher worked for several years trading derivatives at the Chuo Trust & Banking Company in Tokyo.

• Fall 2009
  Carbon Finance
  
• Spring 2009
  Finance & Sustainability
  
• Spring 2008
  Finance & Sustainability
  
• Spring 2007
  Finance & Sustainability
  
• Fall 2006
  Finance & Sustainability