MON., SEP. 27, 2010
6:00 PM - Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square

T. Boone Pickens
"Ending America's Dependence on OPEC Oil"

• Energy Activist and Chairman, BP Capital Management – one of the nation's most successful energy-oriented investment funds
• Founder of The Pickens Plan, which advocates expanding wind and solar power generation and replacing foreign oil, diesel and gasoline with natural gas for transportation fuel
• Author of The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future (2008)
• Has donated almost $1 billion – nearly a third of his net worth – to charity
• One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People
• Received the 2009 Bower Award for Business Leadership for 50 years of visionary leadership in oil and domestic renewable energy, and for his philanthropic leadership

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