Mr. Drake (Dean): - Received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University and a Master of Business Administration from Michigan State University.
- Retired from General Motors (GM) in 1999 following 34 years of service, most of which was in corporate Public Policy.
- Initiated and planned the GM Conference on Global Warming in 1989.
- Initiated the first formal policy dialogue between GM and an environmental group (Environmental Defense Fund.
- Developed guidelines for one of the first “cash for clunkers” programs
- Co-invented the Virtual Emissions Sensor.
- Developed with California an emissions averaging and trading approach used in California and later adopted nationwide
- Represented GM on the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD), the Center for Strategic and International Studies Enterprise for the Environment study, and the Yale University Next Generation Environmental Management conference.
- Founded the Defour Group (now Defour Group LLC) in 2007.
David M. Aldorfer
Stationary Source Regulatory Analyst Mr. Aldorfer (Dave): - Received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University and a Master of Science – Environmental Health Science from the University of Michigan.
- Retired from General Motors in 2006 following 44 years of service, most of which were in staff support of facility environmental management.
- Helped implement the requirements of the 1970 Clean Air Act air pollution control issues throughout Chevrolet’s extensive manufacturing operations.
- Implemented GM’s 10-year, $3 billion plant paint emissions reduction plan, and oversaw the new source permitting process for GM plants seeking to modernize or expand.
- Developed guidelines to implement the ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems standard in GM manufacturing.
- Directed GM’s global environmental audit program, overseeing its extension into health and safety in GM’s overseas regions.
 Thomas Walton Economist Mr. Walton (Tom): - Obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a Ph.D. in economics from the UCLA.
- Was an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business, New York University.
- Served as Special Advisor for Regulatory Affairs, United States Federal Trade Commission.
- Oversaw the analysis of the effectiveness and costs of current and prospective government policies for General Motors.
- Authored several publications regarding environmental, health and safety, antitrust, international trade, and other policy issues.
- Former Vice Chair of the Business Research Advisory Council to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Served as the GM representative for the advisory council to Resources for the Future and for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
- Is currently Adjunct Professor of Finance at Lawrence Technological University.
Michael Whinihan
Economic Analyst Mr. Whinihan (Mike): - Has a BA from Harvard, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a Ph. D. in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
- Worked on many public policy issues with General Motors such as taxes, the employment and economic effects of plant openings and closings and cost/benefit analyses on ethanol fuels, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and fuel cell vehicles.
- Participated at conferences and meetings on topics such as Global Climate modeling, Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulation, oil and natural gas supplies, and cost/benefit analyses of the Clean Air Act.
- Represented GM at a meeting of an International Panel on Climate Change committee in Eisenach, Germany.
- Estimated the employment effects of allowing California and 13 other states to set higher fuel economy standards than mandated by the U. S. government and critiqued an Environmental Protection Agency study that estimated a cost multiplier for mandated equipment upgrades for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.
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Dean Drake, President