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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Clean Energy space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jonathan Budd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Powur
Jonathan Budd joined Powur, PBC as Founder, CEO in 2014. Jonathan heads up day-to-day operations and strategy that allow Powur’s entrepreneurs to succeed at their finest. From forming key strategic partnerships, attracting the best talent, and innovating how solar is sold… Jonathan has his hands in everything Powur. Prior to Powur, he built one of the largest online training and education companies in direct marketing with more than 100,000 customers. In 2010, he shifted his entrepreneurial pursuits toward projects focused on game-changing global impact. He founded MyStand in 2011, which developed a first-of-its-kind gaming app to engage users in positive global change. He is also Founder and Executive Director of The Global Transformation Council, Inc., a 501c3 organization that’s donated close to $1,000,000 to local and global initiatives for change.
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About AVOS Systems, Powur: Powur, a technology company, enables direct sellers to participate in the residential shift from dirty to clean energy.
Christopher Hopper
Co-Founder and CEO of Aurora Solar
Christopher Hopper is the Co-Founder and CEO at Aurora Solar.
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About Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Jacob DeWitte
CEO & Founder of Oklo
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About Oklo: Making reactors people want.
Shannon Miller
CEO and Founder of Mainspring Energy
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About Mainspring Energy: Mainspring Energy is engineering advanced technology to revolutionize the way electricity is generated and delivered
Alexandra Rasch Castillo
Founder and CEO of Caban Systems
Alexandra Rasch Castillo is founder and CEO at Caban Systems.
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About Caban Systems: Caban Systems designs a software enabled energy storage solution for telecom infrastructure providers worldwide.
Patrick Maloney
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Inspire
Clean Energy Entrepreneur and Investor
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About Inspire: Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Matthias Kurwig
Co-Founder & CEO of Enervee
Prior to putting #WattsInYourWallet with Enervee, Matthias was the global COO of [email protected], the digital media and marketing arm of WPP’s Ogilvy Group. He headed operations of [email protected]’s 30 offices around the world, and lead the development of technologies, systems and processes for a staff of 700. Matthias is founder of Planetactive, one of the leading full-service digital agencies in the German-speaking markets with more than 80 specialists at offices in Düsseldorf, Zurich and Vienna. Planetactive was acquired by the Ogilvy Group in 2006, and is now part of [email protected]
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About Enervee: Enervee is a platform-oriented company that drives energy efficiency and consumer engagement through a suite of innovative SaaS products.
Tom Buttgenbach
Founder and CEO of 8minute Solar Energy
Tom Buttgenbach is co-founder and president of 8minutenergy. He has over 15 years of experience in large-scale project development, entitlement, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, and capital structuring and origination. Tom has successfully managed over $1 billion in transactions in the solar energy and electric utility industry. Tom has also worked in the clean-tech, high-tech, large-scale real estate project, land development, asset management, private equity and financial services sectors. He is responsible for the land entitlement process for over 2,000 megawatts of 8minutenergy’s solar projects, and for becoming the first solar PV project in California’s Imperial County to complete the land entitlement process.
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About 8minute Solar Energy: 8minute Solar Energy is the nation’s largest independent developer of solar PV and energy storage projects.
Arcady Sosinov
CEO & Co-Founder of FreeWire Technologies
Founder at FreeWire Technologies
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About FreeWire Technologies: FreeWire Technologies is a provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging and power solutions.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Billy Parish
Co-Founder & CEO of Mosaic
Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Billy developed a proposal to create a Clean Energy Corps to produce 5 million green jobs, which shaped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest green investment in U.S. history. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” an Utne Reader “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Billy is co-author of Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money & Community in a Changing World (Rodale/Penguin 2012).
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About Mosaic, Solar Mosaic: Mosaic is a residential solar lending platform that enables thousands of people to profit from the benefits of clean energy.
Richard Wang
CEO/Co-Founder of Cuberg
CEO and Co-Founder at Cuberg
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About Cuberg: Cuberg is a company delivering lithium metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions.
Ty Jagerson
Founder & CEO of Village Power Finance
Ty has 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including over 10 years in solar. Ty was most recently President of HelioPower, a top 10 solar installer in CA. He was also the co-founder of SolFocus, a pioneering concentrated photovoltaics company. Ty was at Xerox PARC for five years, and is on the UC Merced Board of Trustees. He is also on the boards of Azzuro Inc. and Speck Design. Ty received his MBA from Wharton and M.A. from Wesleyan, holds four patents, and is a member of YPO
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About Village Power Finance: The Village Power funding platform provides community-driven institutions a better way to go solar.
Roman Rusev
CEO, Co-Founder of Field Complete
Roman Rusev has been in the real estate industry since junior high. Starting at the age of 17, Roman scaled a flooring company with 25+ technicians and grown it into a large outfit Property Service company. During last year of college, he has built over 100 homes across several markets. With extensive experience in real estate, investment, and business development Roman co-founded Field Complete, the new and upcoming platform for property service providers who can’t use current solutions on the market.
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About Field Complete: Software for real estate contractors to manage their operations
Emily Kirsch
Founder and CEO of Powerhouse
Emily Kirsch is the Founder and CEO at Powerhouse.
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About Powerhouse, Powerhouse: Your partner in building the future of energy and mobility.
Jason Appelbaum
CEO of EverCharge
Jason Appelbaum, founder and CEO of EverCharge and has a background in bringing products to market as a serial entrepreneur. He set out to drive an electric car, and he ended up finding a problem significant enough to start EverCharge. Jason has 15+ years of experience in consumer electronics, IOT, computer software, and wireless networks. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Southern University.
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About EverCharge: Evercharge provides electric vehicle charging services to EV owners in multi-unit residences.
Steve McDougal
CEO and Co-Founder of 3Degrees
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About 3Degrees: 3Degrees is a provider of carbon offset and renewable energy services and solutions.
Philip Mezey
CEO of Itron
Philip Mezey was appointed president and chief executive officer and named to Itron’s board of directors on January 1, 2013. Mezey has served the company in several capacities during his career at Itron, most recently as chief operating officer for Itron’s global Energy segment, with responsibility for the operations of Itron’s electricity and gas businesses around the world. He also previously served as senior vice president and chief operating officer — Itron North America, group vice president and general manager, as well as senior vice president for Software Solutions. Upon Itron’s acquisition of Silicon Energy in 2003, Mezey joined the company as managing director of Software Development for Itron’s Energy Management Solutions group. Prior to joining Silicon Energy in 2000 as vice president, Software Development, Mezey was a founding member and served 12 years with Indus, a provider of integrated asset and customer management software. Mezey earned his BA degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Itron: Itron is a technology company that offers products and services on energy and water resource management.
Jeremy Goodwin
Founder & CEO of SyncFab
Jeremy is an international fintech executive fluent in Chinese and French and social impact entrepreneur passionate about technologies improving on the human condition including Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, AI (artificial intelligence), Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cleantech, Crypto, Decentralization, DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), Ethereum and ML (Machine Learning). Currently, Jeremy is CEO of SyncFab an IIoT Industry 4.0 Blockchain Manufacturing Industry Partner to the $140MM US D.O.E. & D.O.C. Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (CESMII) appointed by the White House and US Departments of Energy and Commerce National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). SyncFab is also the San Francisco Mayors Office of Civic Innovation – 2016 Startup in Residence (STIR) in partnership with the Cities of San Leandro, Oakland and West Sacramento. From 2008 to 2012, Jeremy served as Executive President and CFO of China Advanced Construction Materials Company leading it to peak performance of 2,000 employees and NASDAQ IPO. As the only bilingual member of the company board of directors, he was responsible for negotiating large international contracts, implementing SOX 404 compliance, managing international accounting audits, SEC and shareholder communications. Jeremy successfully clinched a $100M Private Equity investment offer in support of company expansion plans and NASDAQ listing before board decision to privatize.
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About Forbes Business Council, SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
Soumitra Mishra
Co-founder and CEO of Claro Energy
Soumitra Mishra and Kartik Wahi founded Claro Energy in 2011, since which Soumitra has been serving as one of its directors.
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About Claro Energy: Claro Energy operates in high-power deficit, diesel dependent, agrarian, and poor economic regions of India.
Dami Rafael Jegede
Founder & CEO of Roombus
In 2012, I founded Swipe, a SaaS and Product Design B2B company, powering some of the biggest banks across Africa. Swipe’s operational and monitoring products process over a combined value of USD $4 Billion in transactions yearly for the banking sector. I also co-founded Nairabox, a Lagos-based FinTech startup, with a few friends. Nairabox created the de facto standard of banking in Africa — Lifestyle Banking. Today, Nairabox powers 90% of the mobile banking apps in Nigeria — Africa’s largest market by volume and GDP. I am training to become a kick-ass Jazz Pianist.
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About Roombus: Building smarter cities – starting with fully autonomous and modular smart houses.
Conlan O’Leary
Chief Executive Officer of Sighten
Conlan oversees all commercial aspects of the business and dabbles in front-end programming when he has time. Before Sighten, Conlan ran the financing product and pricing desk at Clean Power Finance with Graham.
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About Sighten: Sighten develops a software toolset to manage the complexity of distributed solar.
Michael Thornton
Co Founder & CEO of Carbon Analytics
Startups + Business + Environment + Engineering + Systems Solutions
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About Carbon Analytics, Odyssey Sensors: Carbon Analytics transforms a company’s accounting data into a highly visual, actionable carbon footprint analysis.
Mary Powell
CEO of Sunrun
Mary Powell is former chief executive of Vermont utility Green Mountain Power. She is currently the CEO of Sunrun.
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About Sunrun: Sunrun provides residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners.
Doug Davenport
Founder & CEO of Prospect Silicon Valley
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About Prospect Silicon Valley: ProspectSV is a nonprofit urbantech innovation hub focused on solutions for sustainable, smart cities.
Fred Walti II
CEO of NGIN Network for Global Innovation
Fred Walti is the Co-Founder of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and for a period of six years served as its Founding CEO, combining experience as an entrepreneur with his passion for clean technology. LACI is now recognized as one of the premier cleantech commercialization programs in the world: ranked as the #3 Global Incubator by the UBI Index of 1200 incubators; selected by the Department of Energy (DoE) as one of its three national incubators; and chosen by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a Los Angeles Regional Energy Innovation Cluster through a $5 million CEC grant. Fred Walti now serves as the Founder and CEO of the Network for Global Innovation, headquartered in Los Angeles. Under Fred Walti’s leadership, LACI has helped 115+ domestic and international companies raise $160 million in funding and enter new markets globaly. These efforts have created 1,700 jobs and delivered more that $330 million in long term economic value for the City of Los Angeles. In 2016, LACI celebrated the grand opening of the La Kretz Innovation Campus and is the recipient of numerous recognitions, including the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. Fred Walti speaks often to groups on creating cleantech innovation ecosystems, harnessing innovation to build large green economies, how to develop a culture of entrepreneurship in a wide variety of organizations, on both the cultural and economic challenges that climate change presents; and creating public/private partnerships that work. Fred Walti was named on the Techweek100 as one of the most impactful technology leaders in 2014. Fred Walti received his BA from New York University.
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About NGIN Network for Global Innovation: NGIN is a global ecosystem for cleantech entrepreneurs that accelerates commercialization of impact technologies.
Martin Milani
CEO & CTO of Sunverge Energy
Mr. Milani is Nexant’s CTO responsible for directing the development of the company’s advanced energy software applications and tools. He is an industry-recognized thought-leader and expert on SOA with more than 20 years of experience in distributed systems architecture, product design, and development spanning the evolution of distributed systems. He joined Nexant from Tidal Software (acquired by Cisco Systems), a leading provider of business process automation solutions for the enterprise, where he was CTO. Mr. Milani joined Tidal Software in 2006 through the acquisition of Intersperse Inc. (funded by Kleiner Perkins), a leading provider of monitoring and management solutions for the service-oriented enterprise, where he was president, CEO, and CTO. Prior to Intersperse he was CTO of iBuilding, a web services process-flow management and orchestration company where he led the design, application development, product management, support, and consulting teams. Under his leadership, iBuilding was named by CIO magazine as providing one of the 100 most innovative products of 2001. Previously, Mr. Milani was at the Times Mirror Corporation where he held the positions of chief internet technologist and strategist as well as chief enterprise architect for Times Mirror and the Los Angeles Times. Before joining Times Mirror, he held senior-level technology, consulting, and distributed system architect positions at Wells Fargo, IBM, Retix, and Locus computing. His areas of expertise include: massive parallel systems, asynchronous messaging systems, distributed operating systems and kernels, directory services, enterprise application integration, and systems and network management. Mr. Milani received a B.S. in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About Nexant, Sunverge Energy, Tidal Software: Sunverge Energy provides integrated solar solutions for distributed generation and storage.
Josiah Nelson
Co-Founder & CEO of Trolysis
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About Trolysis: Powering the Future – Turn Aluminum and Water into Hydrogen and Electricity
Susan Casey Stone
CEO of Ubiquitous Energy
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About Riverhorse Investments, Sierra Wasatch Capital, Ubiquitous Energy: Ubiquitous Energy makes transparent solar technology for windows, electronics, and other applications.
Jian Zhang
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of GridX
Jian Zhang is founder and CEO of GridX, a provider of Big Data billing and analytics solutions for to streamline the back office and analytics operations for smart grid. Previously, Jian had spent more than a decade developing and delivering large scale billing and settlement technologies for telecom carriers and digital media companies. Prior to founding GridX, Jian was founder and CEO of Tradescape, a financial clearing and analytics software provider for digital media applications. In that capacity, Jian led the technology startup from inception through profitability. Prior to Tradescape, Jian headed product management for new product group at Portal Software and was responsible for a line of billing products for cable operators, online media companies and telecom carriers. Portal Software was acquired by Oracle for $220 million and became Oracle Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) product offering for telecom carriers. An early pioneer of financial back-office technology for cloud services, Jian was the Principal Investigator of a NIST-funded research project in 2003 to develop the financial accounting technology for cloud/grid computing resources. Jian holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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About GridX: GridX is a provider of cloud-based business operations support tools to utilities and energy suppliers.
Virginia Klausmeier
President & CEO of Sylvatex Inc
Virginia founded SVX and has been President and CEO since 2012.
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About Sylvatex Inc: Sylvatex has developed a next generation cathode active material manufacturing process for electric vehicles and energy storage that lowers cost, capital, and carbon footprint.
David Murray
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Greenspire
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About Greenspire: Greenspire facilitates national home savings programs. Our mission is to lower your cost of living by providing a sustainable lifestyle.
Diane Vrkic
Founder & CEO of Waypoint
Founder of Waypoint Building Group.
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About Waypoint, Waypoint Building, Waypoint Energy: The Real Estate Performance Platform(TM) – SF-based CRE Technology SAAS
Clifford Morris
CEO of C3Nano
Clifford Morris, also known as Cliff, serves as Chief Executive officer of C3Nano Inc. Clifford Morris served as Vice President for Global Business Development at NanoGram Corporation.
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About C3Nano: C3Nano develops transparent conductive ink and films intended to enhance touchscreen and digital display experience.
Eric Steen
CEO & Co-founder of Lygos
At Lygos, Dr. Steens’ primary responsibilities include establishing a strategic vision, managing partnership and customer development, process commercialization, product development, and fundraising. Dr. Steen is an expert in optimizing sugar to product conversion efficiency, and prior to co-founding Lygos he led efforts to engineer yeast for the conversion of sugars into fuels and chemicals at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute; these technologies resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications and patents, which are in various stages of commercialization. Dr. Steen earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University in Providence, RI, and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. While in graduate school, Dr. Steen completed a program in Management of Technology at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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About Lygos: Lygos provides biotechnology solutions for today’s renewable chemical challenges.
Mike Mrozek
Chief Executive Officer of Colored Solar
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About Colored Solar: Colored Solar manufactures, distributes and integrates solar electric systems.
John Redfern
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member of Eavor
John Redfern serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Eavor Technologies.
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About Eavor: Eavor is a technology based energy company that provides a clean, carbon-neutral, scalable, baseload power solution.
Elizabeth Muller
Founder & CEO of Deep Isolation
Elizabeth is the co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, CEO of Muller & Associates LLC, and the Managing Partner of Global Shale. Previously, she was Director at Gov3 (now CS Transform) and Executive Director of the Gov3 Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 she was a policy advisor at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Elizabeth has advised governments in over 30 countries, in both the developed and developing world. She has extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and communications, especially with regard to technical issues. She developed numerous techniques for bringing government and private actors together to build consensus and implement action plans, and has a proven ability to deliver sustainable change. She has also designed and implemented projects for public sector clients, helping them to build new policies and strategies for government reform and modernization, collaboration across government ministries and agencies, and strategies for the information society.
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About Deep Isolation: Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste storage or disposal, a $500B untapped market.
Andrew Littlefair
CEO & Preseident of Clean Energy Fuels
Andrew J. Littlefair is President and CEO of Clean Energy, a company he co-founded with T. Boone Pickens in 1997. Previously, Mr. Littlefair served as Vice President of Public Affairs at MESA Inc., then one of America’s largest independent producers of natural gas. In this role Littlefair oversaw the company’s natural gas vehicle activities and served as special assistant to Mr. Pickens. Mr. Littlefair served as Chairman of NGVAmerica for 8 years from 2003 to 2011. In 2004, he was named an NGV Champion by the International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV). In 2014, Mr. Littlefair received an Environmental Leadership Award from the California League of Conservation Voters for his work in renewable natural gas and building America’s Natural Gas Highway.
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About Clean Energy Fuels: Clean Energy is the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America
Greg Ryan
CEO & Co-Founder of Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG)
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About Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG): Pasteurization Technology Group (PTG) develops eco-friendly wastewater disinfection with the generation of renewable energy.
Trever Neves
Chief Executive Officer of Green Farms Energy
A proven leader and successful entrepreneur, Mr. Neves has extensive experience in developing successful solutions including Language Services, Intelligence Analysis, Training, and Information Technology programs for the U.S. Government. Responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies for government and non-governmental agencies to rapidly respond to critical and evolving needs. With over 12 years of service, he has been responsible for the overall management, business development, recruiting, and operations that has resulted in achieving annual revenues in excess of $50Million for AcclaimTechnical Services(www.acclaimtechnical.com)
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About Green Farms Energy: Green Farms Energy, Inc. (GFE Global) develops and implements sustainable solutions and technologies in the field of energy.
Roberto Baldizon
CEO & Founder of Silibrain LLC
Roberto C. Baldizon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Silibrain.
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About Silibrain LLC: Silibrain LLC is a Miami based company.
Rodney Alves
CEO of Shift Energy Holdings, Inc.
Seasoned entrepreneur, investor and M&A attorney with over 35 years experience and a strong mix of business strategy, legal, operational and investing background. Involved in structuring project finance strategies, with strong ESG focus.
Legal and Investment experience in a broad range of industries, from consumer products to industrial and engineering, to trade, internet and consulting, as well as financial institutions. Career includes successful ownership of a plastic engineering company and participation in renewable fuels, technology, consulting, e-commerce, coffee business, and movie production companies, as well as venture capital firm.
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About Shift Energy Holdings, Inc.: Shift Energy Holdings, Inc., is a California based company that designs, develops, finances, builds and operates biorefineries using biomass and various forms of municipal waste as feedstock.
Shift Energy integrates commercially proven technologies in a proprietary design that maximizes the simultaneous production of renewable products (transportation fuels, electricity, and chemicals) and results in a new advanced waste management standards for the industry, proving that “Zero Waste” is possible.
Shift Energy biorefineries produce renewable fuels without the need for any additional processing, with ultra low sulfur content and that can be used directly as transportation fuel (“drop in”) or as a regular fossil fuel additive (“blending”) adapting fossil fuels to legal requirements and increasing their quality. Cleaning the environment is the core of our business practice. We believe industrial processes can be sustainable, have zero environmental footprint and be profitable.
Mark Gresser
President & CEO of Wildcat Discovery Technologies
Mark Gresser serves as the president and CEO of Wildcat Discovery Technologies. Mark has more than 25 years of experience in general management, materials & product development, international sales, marketing, and engineering. Prior to joining Wildcat in 2008, Mark served as Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing and company officer at Material Sciences Corporation, a public company listed on the NYSE. In this role, Mark oversaw strategy development, global sales and marketing, and R&D for the company’s multiple businesses including metal coatings for appliance, construction, and consumer electronics; laminated NVH products for automotive body panel and powertrain components; quiet products for the OE and aftermarket brake markets; and coated electrogalvanized steel for automotive fuel systems. Prior to joining MSC, Mark was Director of Honeywell’s automotive plastics business supporting the sales and use of compounded nylon and polyester, served in various management roles at AlliedSignal, and spent several years at ExxonMobil in technical sales of polyolifins and polypropylenes. Mark began his career as a plastics and design engineer at Ford Motor Company, and is a certified six sigma black belt. Mark received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
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About Wildcat Discovery Technologies: Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a developer of materials for the use in batteries.
Jennie Nigrosh
CEO of The Green Garmento
With one mission: Sustainability, The Green Garmento began with one foundational product: the all-in-one reusable dry cleaning bag. Jennie is changing the way dry cleaners do business, by cutting down on how much disposable plastic enters the eco-system. It’s being done in grocery, it’s time to implement change in the laundry game.
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About The Green Garmento: The Green Garmento is an eco-friendly 4-in-1 reusable garment bag that can help you green your dry-cleaning routine.
Thomas Quinn
Chairman & CEO of EFUEL
Thomas Quinn is the founder and CEO of EFUEL.
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About EFUEL: EFUEL offers ethanol production system (MicroFueler), and generators (Personal Energy System) that run 24/7 year round off 100% ethanol.
Joseph Yawar
Founder, CEO of InnogenEnergy
Joseph Yawar is the Founder and Chief executive officer at Innogen Energy.
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About InnogenEnergy: InnogenEnergy is an energy solutions company dedicated to bringing innovative, practical, and affordable power generation systems.
Zack Moore
CEO of Hydrone Aerospace
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About Hydrone Aerospace, reactiv: Hydrone is capable of generating clean, renewable energy on the fly, literally.
Brian L. Hoekstra
CEO of Asura Development Group
CEO at Asura Development Group
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About Asura Development Group: Asura Development Group, Inc., formerly IA Global, Inc., is a construction, development and clean technology company.
