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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 United States 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.
Thomas Neyhart
Co-founder & CEO of PosiGen
[Thomas Neyhart](https://ideamensch.com/thomas-neyhart/) is the CEO of PosiGen, a provider of energy-efficient solutions for low-to-moderate-income homeowners. You can see his experience and values reflected in a number of ways across the company. Newhart has long promoted equality and he’s approached business from a very different standpoint than many of his counterparts. In 2014, he was named as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs. The PosiGen CEO has long understood the value of products like solar PVs. These solutions allow people to take advantage of our natural resources and reduce their monthly utility bills. By cutting down on both cost and energy consumption, Neyhart has built a successful business and helped more than 10,000 families lead better lives. PosiGen was founded in 2011 to make a financial impact on the lives of its customers. Across New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut, and Louisiana, the company has introduced low-cost solutions that save homeowners money every year. Under Thomas Neyhart’s leadership, the company was named to Inc. 5000’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies List for three years running. PosiGen raised $125 million of equity and $275 million of tax equity. The company’s credit lines total more than $150 million. PosiGen has received numerous recognitions since its founding with the help of Thomas Neyhart’s vision. It won the Patriotic Employer Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Blue Ribbon Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a variety of awards from the US Department of Energy. In 2015, Business Insider named it as one of the top 27 Coolest New Businesses in New Orleans. It’s also been named Best of Home Solar Installer multiple times. After assuming the [PosiGen CEO](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20961323) position, Thomas Neyhart would spearhead a partnership with Connecticut Green Bank. This collaboration was designed to bring energy-efficient solutions to low-income communities in the state. Compared to similar programs in more affluent communities, his efforts managed to distribute resources evenly across the neighborhoods he served. Before his start in energy efficiency, Neyhart was in the business of rentals. He served as the president of the Louisiana Rental Dealers Association for five years and was named Rental Dealer of the Year by APRO. He was named as a Top 10 Franchisee of the Year for eight years out of his nine years in the business. Today, Thomas Neyhart continues to learn as much as he can about his [industry](https://callaiscapital.com/entrepreneur/thomas-neyhart/). He’s also actively involved in a number of organizations related to his field. He serves as a member of NREL’s Solar Futures Study Technical Review Panel and the Energy Sector Team of the City of New Orleans’ Office of Economic Development. He’s an invited speaker at a number of forums for renewable energy and construction and a sustaining member of the Society of American Military Engineers.
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About PosiGen, TNL Enterprises: Solar Energy and Energy Efficiency
Kiran Bhatraju
Founder & CEO of Arcadia
Kiran Bhatraju, is cofounder and CEO of Arcadia Power. Previously, Kiran was a founder of an energy efficiency technology company and worked as a policy aide on Capitol Hill. He is on the board of the Environmental Voter Project and is a published author.
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About Arcadia: Arcadia is a technology company empowering energy innovators (Arc) and consumers (Community Solar) to fight the climate crisis
Bob Boucher
President & CEO of Wheelabrator Technologies
As president and CEO, “Robert “Bob” C. Boucher Jr. is responsible for providing the strategic vision for Wheelabrator as well as the management and growth of its fleet energy-from-waste facilities, independent power plants and monofills, representing more than $2.5 billion in assets and 1,200 employees in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Boucher is an experienced waste management executive who has built a distinguished career in the industry. Mr. Boucher previously served as the CEO and executive director of Transpacific Industries Group Ltd., a publicly traded waste management business in Australia. Prior to Transpacific, he served as executive vice president of operations for Republic Services, Inc. Mr. Boucher joined Republic in 2010 as area president before progressing to region president in 2011, managing operations generating in excess of $2 billion annually. Mr. Boucher has worked across the U.S. waste management industry for more than 20 years, serving in senior executive positions with Synagro Technologies, Inc., and management roles with Waste Management and American Waste Systems.
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About Waste Management, Wheelabrator Technologies: Wheelabrator is an industry leader in the safe and eco-friendly conversion of municipal solid waste and other renewable waste fuels
Abe Issa
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Envirosolar
Abe Issa, founder, and owner of EnviroSolar has been recognized on multiple occasions with Entrepreneur of the Year awards, awards for owning and running the fastest growing companies in their categories, and awards for sustainable development and operation. Born in Beirut in the early 80s, Abe Issa experienced some of the greatest hardships life can impose on even the youngest and most innocent among us. But being raised amid the fires of war and escaping to the United States at a tender age taught Abe Issa that success, and even survival, requires action, initiative, and ingenuity. Abe Issa created EnviroSolar in order to make sustainable smart homes and security solutions affordable for more and more people. This organization has been ranked among the top Texas solar power installers. They offer two free solar panels to new customers just to help more people understand the true value of natural power derived from the Sun: a symbol of truth and generosity that has clearly inspired Abe Issa. These panels come with an unprecedented 20-year warranty, a promise that exceeds the operational lifetime of most solar panels working today. Any company that provides that kind of commitment to quality and customer service, cannot do anything other than win awards for quality, growth, and innovation. But the question that many people have asked is, how has such a young man with such a traumatic upbringing been able to develop such a strong work ethic and a commitment to the people his organizations serve? Despite his origin in war-torn Beirut, Abe Issa was inspired by the athleticism and the dazzling performances of the great basketball hero, Michael Jordan. Abe Issa saw that Jordan was not just an extremely talented athlete, but that he used his virtuosity on the court to add style, flair, and imagination to the game. Abe Issa wanted to deliver value and create a winning business model. But the idea of creating a successful business wasn’t enough. Feeling deep gratitude for the country that made it possible for him and his family to live prosperous lives free from the horrors of war, he wanted to deliver a level of service and quality that would make a real difference. At the age of 27, with the values of honesty and hard work imparted to him by the Texas Christian University, Abe Issa went on to create a real estate investment company and redeveloped over 500 homes in the span of just five years. That’s a track record that even the nation’s greatest developers would be proud of. Today, his successes and penchant for giving back more than he receives continue to fuel not only his own growing reputation, but that of the companies he operates, and the teams he has assembled.
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About Envirosolar: Envirosolar offers commercial, agricultural, and residential solar solutions.
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.
Erik Birkerts
CEO of Clean Energy Trust
Erik is CEO at Clean Energy Trust (CET). CET is an impact investor that fuels early stage clean energy innovation in the Midwest.
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About Clean Energy Trust: Evergreen Climate Innovations supports entrepreneurs and startups that are bringing impactful climate technologies to market.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Founder & CEO of Acumen
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About Acumen: Acumen is a non-profit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
Jacob DeWitte
CEO & Founder of Oklo
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About Oklo: Making reactors people want.
Dennis Lacey
CEO of RGS Energy
Dennis Lacey came to RGS Energy with over 25 years of executive leadership experience. Prior to RGS Energy, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Imperial Bancorp, a $6 billion publicly traded commercial bank. Before Imperial Bancorp, Dennis was president and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Associates, a publicly traded equipment leasing company. His experience also includes serving as Chief Financial Officer for CKE Restaurants and TeleTech, one of the largest customer experience management companies in the United States, and as head of capital markets for a private alternative asset investment and management firm.
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About RGS Energy: RGS Energy customers making a positive impact on the planet by choosing a cleaner energy source that gives them real savings.
John Berger
Founder and CEO of Sunnova
John Berger has more than 19 years of experience in the power industry. He co-founded Sunnova Energy Corp. in November 2012 and serves as chief executive officer. Prior to Sunnova, he co-founded and served as chief executive officer of SunCap Financial, a leading residential solar power service company. Before SunCap, Berger co-founded Standard Renewable Energy (SRE), a top-10 provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient products and services for residential, commercial and government customers. He also co-founded and served as managing partner for Contango Capital Partners, LP, a venture capital firm focused on renewable energy and energy technology companies. Berger began his career in 1996 as an analyst for Enron Corp. and completed his tenure there as director for Enron Energy Services. Berger graduated cum laude from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2003. He served as an advisor to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during business school.
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About Sunnova: Sunnova is a solar power company providing nationwide coverage with local minded service to thousands of homes across the United States
Zaid Ashai
CEO of Nexamp
Zaid Ashai is a General Partner at Point Judith Capital. As Chairman and CEO, Zaid Ashai provides the vision and leadership to drive our continued growth and innovation. Before joining the management team, Zaid oversaw Nexamp as a General Partner at Point Judith Capital. Previously, Zaid worked at Good Energies, a global Clean Technology venture capital firm, where he focused on investments in next-generation energy efficiency technologies—including Nexamp, 3TIER, Emergence Bioenergy, Everpower, and Kalpan in India. Zaid has also worked for HarbourVest Partners, a global private equity firm, and as an investment banking analyst in Credit Suisse’s Technology Group. Zaid currently serves on the boards of Nexamp, MyEnergy, Power Assure, and Retroficiency, and previously served on the boards of 3TIER, Kalpan Hydro, and Emergence Bioenergy. Zaid holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPA from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University, and an AB in International Relations and Economics from Brown University. He was selected as a Zuckerman Fellow and as a Kauffman Fellow. Zaid has served as a judge and mentor for the New England Cleantech Open and as a guest faculty member for the Pennsylvania Power Law Conference hosted by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
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About Nexamp: Nexamp transforms the new energy economy with proven solutions for solar energy development, ownership, and operation.
Cole Walker
Chief Executive Officer & Investor of Energy Surety Partners
Cole is a Partner in ESP, located in Huntsville, Alabama, with extensive development experience including new emerging markets, large scale project financing, renewables, real estate, and technology. He is the 2014 recipient of the Energy Innovator of the Year Award, and a recent TedX and GovCon guest speaker. As a founder of Redstone Energy Group, he worked locally to develop solar and microgrid solutions for federal and commercial customers. Prior to Redstone, Cole partnered in COMAR Energy, an Atlanta based renewable energy company focused on bio fuels. Cole co-founded ESP and was one of the first investors in the company. He is respected regionally for his participation in energy initiatives including Energy Huntsville, a mayoral task force established to focus on the emerging energy technology industry, and as co-founder of the Nexus Energy Center. Under his guidance, the organization received program implementation funds from the Departments of Energy and Labor. ??
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About Energy Surety Partners: ESP has developed the first turnkey, modular low voltage solar microgrid on the market. This system is based on bankable, proven solar.
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.
David Blivin
President & CEO of Cottonwood Technology Fund
Dave is co-founder and a managing director of Cottonwood Technology Fund. Cottonwood Technology Fund is focused on early/seed stage companies and brings with it an extensive network to additional capital and strategic customers/partners. Dave has experience working with the national labs and the research universities throughout the southwest at the leadership and research head levels. Prior to co-founding Cottonwood Technology Fund, Dave founded and served as Managing Director of Southeast Interactive, the first and largest information technology-focused fund based in the Southeast. While at Southeast Interactive (SEI), Dave was responsible for raising three funds totaling over $175 million. He was directly involved in fund raising and exit transaction events totaling in excess of $1 billion across the SEI portfolio and generated cash on cash returns on his directed investments of approximately 4X. Dave holds a MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
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About Cottonwood Technology Fund, Respira Therapeutics: Cottonwood Technology Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund that primarily invests in technology-driven companies.
Lynn Good
Vice Chairman, President & CEO of Duke Energy Corporation
Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy Corporation. Good has served as Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy Corporation (electric utility) since July 2013. She served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Duke Energy from July 2009 to June 2013. Good is a member of the Audit Committee and the Finance Committee.
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About Duke Energy Corporation, Duke Energy Corporation, Duke Energy Florida, Duke Energy Indiana: Duke Energy makes life better for every day by providing electric and gas services in a sustainable way – affordable, reliable and clean.
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.
Diego Pavía
Chief Executive Officer of InnoEnergy
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About InnoEnergy: InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe.
Christian Müller
CEO of KIC InnoEnergy Germany of InnoEnergy
Christian Müller studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and at the University of California, Berkley, United States. In 1996, he received his PhD in technical thermodynamics.Christian then started working as a project manager in the corporate technology units of the former Hoechst AG, which was subsequently acquired by Siemens AG, in 2000. In several management functions at Hoechst, and respectively at Siemens, he was involved in the commercialisation of technologies and services, as well as in the creation of new businesses. From 2006 until 2009, Christian was responsible for the global business development of Siemens in the Food and Beverage industries. Other positions in Christian´s professional career included the management of the global Center of Excellence for Chemical industry at ABB, and the start-up of the business development department at Infraserv Höchst.Since 2013, he has been managing KIC InnoEnergy´s activities in Germany and holds the position of CEO, KIC InnoEnergy Germany.
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About InnoEnergy: InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe.
Kenneth Johansson
CEO of KIC InnoEnergy Sweden of InnoEnergy
Kenneth Johansson holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as well as a BSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Uppsala University in Sweden.Kenneth has worked for over 20 years in high tech manufacturing industry areas such as telecommunication, power conversion and renewable energies, and he has gained an extensive experience in complex technical systems, development and business operation in international markets.He has held various executive management positions in listed SMEs as well as corporate organisations, focusing on operational efficiency, product and business development, strategy and people management.
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About InnoEnergy: InnoEnergy is the innovation engine for sustainable energy across Europe.
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.
Jereme Kent
CEO of One Energy
Jereme Kent is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of One Energy Enterprises Inc. Jereme has the complete set of skills necessary to develop, design, and build a wind project from a blank piece of paper. He is a recognized expert in utility scale wind turbine construction and all aspects of distributed wind energy projects. Prior to founding One Energy, Jereme ran construction of several of the world’s largest wind projects for utility-scale construction firms including RMT, M.A. Mortensen, and D.H. Blattner, and has overseen more than half a billion dollars in wind turbine construction projects. Jereme developed several safety, quality, and production methods that are considered standard within the utility-scale wind industry. He also pioneered the concept of just-in-time construction for utility-scale wind turbine projects. Jereme holds three wind energy related patents including both structural and electrical designs. He has developed innovative cyber security systems and protocols for installing large distributed generation systems on-site at critical infrastructure facilities. Jereme was a 2019 Peer Reviewer for the Wind Energy Technology Office Bi-Annual Project Peer Review. He has also developed and taught wind energy development and design courses at the University of Michigan and other universities. Jereme studied Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering. He dropped out with one class left to help run what was, at the time, the largest wind project in the world. He is a Certified Tower Rescue Instructor and Instructor Trainer, a Certified Crane Operator, a Certified Crane and Rigging Inspector, and an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician.
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About One Energy: One Energy is decarbonizing manufacturing, enabling customer control, and building the customer-centric power grid of the future.
Duncan Earl
Founder & CEO of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Earl has over 20 years of experience developing optical technologies for both private businesses and government organizations. As a former staff member at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Dr. Earl was a researcher with ORNL’s Cyber Warfare group and Quantum Information Sciences team. During his 18 years with ORNL, Dr. Earl’s research focused on quantum encryption solutions and the integration of this technology with the emerging smart grid. He holds numerous patents and research publications and is the inventor of GridCOM’s principle IP. Dr. Earl is also the former founder and CEO of Sunlight Direct, Inc., an ORNL spin-off that commercialized a passive, fiber optic solution for delivering sunlight to the interior of commercial buildings to reduce energy consumption. Dr. Earl invented the technology, founded the company in 2004 and secured $1M in federal funding and $1.2M in private seed investment from the California-based Tech Coast Angels. He oversaw the evolution of the product from a laboratory prototype to a commercial product with over 80 installation sites before returning to ORNL in 2009.
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About Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Qubitekk: Oak Ridge National Laboratory holds a range of R&D assignments, from fundamental nuclear physics to applied R&D on advanced energy systems.
Andrew Coors
CEO of Steelhead Composites
Mr. Coors is the founder and CEO of Steelhead Composites LLC. Previously, he was Principal at 9th Street Capital, a venture capital and private equity fund. Mr. Coors spent 6 years as Corporate Economist and Investment Strategist at Qualcomm Incorporated, a Fortune 500 company. Prior to joining Qualcomm, for 5 years he served as the Director of Research at Laffer Associates, a money management and institutional economic research and consulting firm. He serves on various corporate Boards and has received numerous awards in industry including being named one of Treasury and Risk magazine‘s ’40 under 40’ Upwardly Mobile Finance Execs in 2007. Mr. Coors is a CFA Charterholder. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and a Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University.
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About Steelhead Composites: Steelhead Composites is a provider of hydrogen storage solutions used to allow widespread zero-emission fuel cell electrification.
Eric Fischgrund
Founder/CEO of FischTank PR
Eric Fischgrund is the founder and CEO of FischTank PR, a boutique communications and marketing firm headquartered in New York City. A career MarComm executive, Eric has worked both agency side and in-house prior to launching FischTank PR. The firm specializes in a number of corporate practice areas, including but not limited to B2B and B2C technologies, renewable energy and sustainability, financial services and personal finance products, and non-profits. Eric resides in North Jersey with his wife Monica and dog (Buddy), and enjoys spending time with family and friends, biking, golfing, hiking, reading, and writing.
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About Boom Local, FischTank PR: FischTank PR is a public relations and marketing firm specializing in media relations, content writing, branding, digital/social, & more.
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.
Daniel Shani
Founder & CEO of Energy Intelligence
CEO at Energy Intelligence
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About Co-Created, Duke Corporate Education, Energy Intelligence: Energy Intelligence offers a technology solution that stores waste energy when cars use the brake and generates electricity for local use.
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.
Jonathan Abe
CEO and Founder of Sunwealth Power
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About Sunwealth Power: Sunwealth Power is a operator of a tech-driven clean energy investment firm created to invest in clean and solar energy projects
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.
Jeffrey Kurtz
Chief Executive Officer of Blue Power Systems
Jeffrey has a 20 plus year background in global product development/commercialization, complex sourcing and executive leadership spanning from start ups to Fortune 500 organizations. Jeffrey is a true citizen of the world having lived abroad in China, Taiwan, India and Saudi Arabia during his career. He started his career in 1998 working for National Chemsearch (NCH) in Irving, Texas where he found is passion in global sourcing and manufacturing working inside the AM General facility where they manufactured the Hummer for military and commercial applications. Since, he has developed, sourced and manufactured thousands of components and sub-assemblies used by some of the largest and most respected companies in the world such as General Electric, Boeing, Halliburton, Thalys and many others. After the passing of his mother in 2006, he founded a supply chain management company, EHK International, which were his mother’s initial’s as way to keep her giving spirit alive. In 2014, he was retained as subject matter expert and consultant for the largest oil company in the world, Saudi Aramco. He was a launch member of the IKTVA program that is designed to create 500,000 Saudi jobs by 2021. He worked along side key members of the Aramco organization, foreign government representatives and distinguished global CEO’s. Upon returning stateside in 2017, he has worked with numerous startups commercializing finished goods across a spectrum of industries including oil and gas, air pollution control products and off grid energy systems. The passion of creating solutions and commercializing products for internal and external clients is what drives Jeffrey each day. When not living on an airplane, Jeffrey loves to spend time with his wife Andrea, their son Rook and three dogs in Austin, Texas. His favorite achievement was fulfilling his boyhood dream of being a pilot by earning his private pilot’s license in 2014. Jeffrey has made Texas home off and on since he graduated with his bachelor’s degree in Entrepreneurship from Ball State University in 1998.
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About Blue Power Systems: Adaptive Energy Generation and Storage System
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
Thomas Healy
Founder & CEO of Hyliion
Thomas’s passion for racing and motorsports inspired him to pursue a dual engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University. A Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, he founded two prior startups and has been featured as a technical author in the New York Times.
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About Hyliion: Hyliion is a provider of electrified powertrain solutions for the commercial vehicle industry.
T. Patrick Walsh
Founder & CEO of Greenlight Planet
T. Patrick Walsh is the Founder and CEO at Greenlight Planet.
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About Greenlight Planet: Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.
Christopher M. Crane
President & CEO of Exelon Corporation
President & CEO of Exelon Corporation.
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About Exelon Corporation, Pepco Holdings: Exelon Corporation is a utility services holding company that provides services for energy generation businesses in the United States.
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.
Lauren Salz
Co-Founder & CEO of Sealed
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About Sealed: Sealed offers smart home retrofits and turnkey project management to upgrade home easily.
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.
Dawn Lippert
CEO of Elemental Excelerator
Dawn Lippert is CEO of Elemental Excelerator, a startup program that each year funds 15-20 companies up to $1 million each to improve systems that impact the planet and people’s lives: energy, water, agriculture, transportation, and beyond. Dawn initially started funding companies in Hawaii in 2009, and in the past six years alone Elemental has awarded over $36 million to 99 portfolio companies. This funding goes toward innovation projects that are co-designed and co-deployed by the startup, customers, community members, and the Elemental team in the geographies of Hawaii, Asia, and California. Elemental portfolio companies have gone on to raise follow-on funding of over $1.1 billion. Elemental is a non-profit funded by a coalition of utility partners, corporate partners, philanthropic organizations, and the U.S. Navy.
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About Elemental Excelerator, Emerson Collective: Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time.
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.
Scott Frazier
Co-Founder and CEO of Bright Energy
Scott Frazier is CEO of Bright Energy Storage Technologies, a developer of innovative low-cost bulk energy storage and other carbon emission mitigation technologies. Frazier is an aerospace engineer and holds more than 10 US cleantech patents including concrete compressed air & thermal energy storage systems and natural gas hybrid rail propulsion systems. Prior to founding several cleantech companies, he was Chief Engineer for Beal Aerospace where, over a three-year period, he built and ran a team that designed, built and tested the world’s largest rocket engine (and associated testing facilities), massive composite tanks and custom propellant manufacturing facilities.
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About Bright Energy, Carbon America: Bright Energy is a Swedish electricity company that offers companies and households hourly rates on electricity.
Jacob Munns
CEO and Founder of Boomsourcing
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About Boomsourcing: Boomsourcing makes scaling easy and cost effective with onshore, nearshore, and offshore resources in the USA, Mexico, and Philippines
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.
Steph Speirs
Co-founder & CEO of Solstice
Steph Speirs is co-founder and CEO at Solstice. She is responsible for external engagement and partnerships, marketing and communications, raising capital, and expansion. She is a social entrepreneur and community builder with operational experience in the U.S., Middle East, and South Asia. Steph was selected as an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, a Global Good Fund Fellow, a Kia Revisionary, and an Acumen Global Fellow. She previously led sales and marketing innovation initiatives at d.light India, a solar products company powering areas without reliable electricity; spearheaded Acumen’s renewable energy sector investment strategy in Pakistan; developed Middle East policy as the youngest Director at the White House National Security Council; and managed field operations in seven states for the first Obama presidential campaign. Steph holds a B.A. from Yale and a master in public affairs with distinction from Princeton, and is a recipient of the Paul and Daily Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
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About Solstice: Solstice provides turnkey customer solutions for shared solar.
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.
Leif Elgethun
Founder and CEO of Retrolux
Leif Elgethun is a serial entrepreneur with fifteen years of full stack clean energy experience and deep market expertise in commercial and industrial building energy retrofits. A licensed Professional Engineer and LEED accredited professional, he has three engineering and science bachelor degrees and a Masters in engineering. Previously, Leif was a founding partner in three profitable energy services companies, in a utility scale renewable energy development firm where he personally developed a 330MW solar PV project that was sold for an 8x return, as well as in a micro hydroelectric development firm that developed the first inline micro hydro turbine installation for the City of Portland. Leif serves on the Boards of the CleanTech Alliance, Idaho Clean Energy Association, and Treasure Valley YMCA, and previously served as Chair of the Idaho Chapter of USGBC. He has also been on the board of several additional non profit organizations. When he isn’t busy building Retrolux or helping improve his community, Leif can often be found biking, running, mountaineering, skiing, or rafting up and down mountains across the country.
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About Retrolux: Retrolux is the leading digital retrofit company for the emerging era of smart and sustainable buildings.
We provide robust digital contractor and commerce tools for building modernization, because transforming the built environment is the fastest, most reliable path to Carbon Neutral.
We serve forward-thinking contractors, ESCOs, manufacturers and suppliers who want to get the upper hand on retrofit complexity, so they can capitalize on the $Trillion building transformation opportunity.
We deliver fully-integrated software, marketplaces and engineering expertise to help them discover, design and deploy winning retrofit solutions across end-to-end project and procurement lifecycles, so they can produce easier, faster, and more profitable building upgrades.
Benjamin Brant
Chief Executive Officer of ECOPONEX
Benjamin has been the driving force behind the startup of multiple sustainable high-tech companies in the advanced biofuels, water and efficiency sectors involving both public and private ventures. He has 36 years award-winning experience in energy, water, waste, environmental and sustainable development. Founded companies – Watergy, Microgy, Byogy Renewables and Planetec, focusing on produced water, advanced biofuels, utility efficiency, pollution prevention, land use planning and resource conservation. He comes from an extended family with a rich tradition in farm management operations and the medical profession with his roots from Indiana. Academically, he has a B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Arizona majoring in Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture (1974), and a Master degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado (1978). Professionally, he is certified as an Energy Manager (CEM) and Cogeneration Professional (CCP) by the Association of Energy Engineers and by the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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About ECOPONEX: Ecoponex develops it’s own renewable energy efficient farms.
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.
Gregory Levinson
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Genlith
Greg Levinson serves as the Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Genlith.
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About Genlith: Genlith is a venture holding company that focuses on energy storage and critical battery materials.
Alice Min Soo Chun
Founder CEO of Solight Design
Alice Min Soo Chun is a Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Solight Design and the inventor of the SolarPuff. Alice will primarily be responsible for designing the new products for Solight Design. Alice is a Professor of Design and Material Culture at Parsons the New School for Design. She was formerly the Director of the Materials Resource Lab at the New School and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and at the University of Pennsylvania. She has built award-winning community outreach projects in Philadelphia and her work has been published in the New York Times, Architectural Record, Dwell, and the Journal of Architectural Education. In 2009, in collaboration with colleague Laura Briggs, she developed and researched photovoltaic solar harnessing materials integrated with thin film fabric substrates. Her book entitled GROUND RULES in Humanitarian Design will be published with Wiley Press in 2015. It stresses the importance of design principles for the long-term sustainability.
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About GuideStar, SEEUS-95, Solight Design, Solight Design: Bringing Solar Innovation into Every Household
Ben Glass
Co-Founder , CEO & CTO of Altaeros Energies
s a cleantech entrepreneur, Ben is driven by a passion for boosting efficiency and sustainability through elegant technical solutions. He developed the idea for Altaeros while conducting research on compact, efficient turbomachinery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Gas Turbine Lab. After developing the initial prototypes, Ben co-founded Altaeros in 2010, and is currently leading the company to full commercialization of the technology. Ben holds a BS and MS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from MIT.
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About Altaeros Energies: Altaeros Energies develops airborne wind turbine to produce abundant, low cost, renewable energy.
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.
Mark Russell
CEO and Founder of HyperSciences
Mark is the founder and CEO of HyperSciences. Mark has a Masters from Stanford in Aero/Astro, is the former lead engineer for Blue Origin, and has a long history of family mining development and operations for some of the world’s largest mines. Mark provides both the vision and technical expertise to lead the world’s first company focused on hypervelocity applications.
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About HyperSciences, Pipeline2Space: HyperSciences provides solutions for tunneling, energy drilling, transportation, aerospace, and materials production problems.
Ryan Harmon
CEO & Co-founder of Press Technologies
Ryan Harmon is the CEO & Co-Founder at Press Technologies.
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About Press Technologies: Press Technologies provides customers an easier way to get laundry and dry cleaning done.
Jay Fraser
President and CEO of New Dominion Enterprises
Mr. Fraser is an innovative leader with extensive experience spanning consumer packaged goods, product concept and development, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. He has demonstrated experience in coordinating and managing complex research and development efforts including a 3-year, $2.5 million contract from the Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense.
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About New Dominion Enterprises: NDE is commercializing new inorganic electrolyte additives for lithium batteries that stabilize organic lithium ion battery electrolytes.
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.
Andrew Gold
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of GreenPACE Capital
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About GreenPACE Capital: GreenPACE Capital provides commercial financing through PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy)
Cynthia Adams
CEO of Pearl Certification
Before co-founding Pearl, Cynthia served as the Executive Director of the Local Alliance Energy Program (LEAP), an award-winning non-profit organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia that helped thousands of Virginia homeowners improve the energy efficiency, health and comfort of their homes. Cynthia also helped found and is Past Chair of the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council, a non-profit industry organization the promotes energy efficiency throughout the state. She was appointed by Governor McAuliffe in 2013 to the Virginia Energy Council and to the Governor’s Executive Committee on Energy Efficiency in 2014. She was also elected to the national Governance Board of Efficiency First. Cynthia previously served as co-founder of Stone/Metal/Wood, a design-build construction firm that built energy efficient, green homes in McCall, Idaho. She has a Masters in English from Virginia Polytechnic University and in a previous life taught American Literature and Business Writing at JMU and Virginia Tech.
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About Pearl Certification: Pearl provides third-party certification of healthy, safe, comfortable, energy, and water-efficient homes.
Mike Mrozek
Chief Executive Officer of Colored Solar
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About Colored Solar: Colored Solar manufactures, distributes and integrates solar electric systems.
N. Ross Buckenham
Founder, Chairman, & CEO of California Bioenergy
N. Ross Buckenham is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer at California Bioenergy.
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About California Bioenergy: CalBio designs, develops, operates, and finances as needed dairy digester projects.
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.
Anurag Bajpayee
Co-founder & CEO of Gradiant
Dr. Anurag Bajpayee is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Gradiant. He also serves as Business Advisor at Safar Partners. Under his leadership, Gradiant has evolved from a technology start-up into a global brand with diversified applications and multiple divisions around the world. Prior to founding Gradiant, Anurag earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT where he worked on industrial desalination and water treatment. His doctoral work was recognized by the Scientific American as a top 10 world changing idea and is now part of Gradiant’s technology portfolio. Anurag has co-authored seminal journal articles and holds several patents in the field of water treatment. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri and a Masters from MIT.
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About Gradiant, Gradiant Energy Services: Gradiant is a leading global solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water & wastewater treatment.
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
Joann MacMaster
Chief Executive Officer of Desert Angels
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About Desert Angels, Desert Angels: Desert Angels is a network of investors looking for opportunities to invest in early-stage ventures.
Hudson Gilmer
Co-founder and CEO of LineVision
Hudson Gilmer is the co-founder and CEO of Line Vision.
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About LineVision: LineVision increases the capacity, flexibility, and reliability of transmission lines with non-contact sensors and advanced analytics.
Jason Loyet
CEO & Founder of Solar Site Design
Jason is CEO & Founder @ Solar Site Design.
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About Clean Power Design, Clean.Tech, Correlate, Inc., Energy Blockchain Network, Loyal.Energy, Solar Site Design: Its mission is to offer the Solar Site Design information technology platform to solar professionals worldwide.
Eliot Barton
Founder & CEO of BNG Fuel
Founder at BNG Fuel
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About BNG Fuel: BNG Fuel is a natural gas company.
Amy Gasca
CEO of Torch Energy
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About Torch Energy: Torch Energy is a company that allows individuals to name their own price for energy that they buy.
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.
Bud Vos
President and Chief Executive Officer of Enbala
With over 15 years of energy industry experience, Bud Vos has in-depth knowledge of and experience with providing high-value software solutions to utilities. As president and CEO of Enbala, Bud is leading the company through the next phase of its business as it continues to expand its distributed energy resource management platform. Prior to joining Enbala, Bud served as the Chief Operating Officer at Simple Energy, where he had primary responsibility for sales and sales strategy, along with other critical functions within various parts of the organization. Bud has also been Senior Vice President of Utility Sales and the Chief Technology Officer at Comverge, where he oversaw the company’s technology architecture while working with their utility client base to identify and deliver high value projects using smart grid technology. At Comverge, Bud also served as Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Vice President of Marketing, Products and Alliances. Before the company’s acquisition by Comverge in 2003, Bud served as Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Sixth Dimension, a provider of Internet-based control systems for demand response and distributed generation systems. Bud holds a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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About Enbala: Enbala exists to create an energy future that’s sustainable and balanced. We do that by harnessing the power of distributed energy.
Stephen Moritz
Founder, President and CEO of Encentiv Energy
Steve is the President & CEO of Encentiv Energy and one of its co-founders. For the last 20 years Steve has been at the leading edge of multiple energy industry trends. At Strategic Energy he led marketing and national sales as the company grew from a startup to revenue of over $1.2B when it was sold to Great Plains Energy. He then joined the executive team at Cadence Network, a utility bill management software company, where in less than four years helped triple the size of the company and sell it to its largest competitor. Steve developed the concept for Encentiv Energy in 2009 just as the energy industry was moving from focusing on deregulation to developing incentives to promote energy efficiency. His vision for Encentiv Energy is to provide customers the information and tools to leverage the most value out of their energy efficiency projects. Steve has a JD degree from the University of Pittsburgh – School of Law and a BS in Business from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Steve is also a graduate of the Wexner Heritage Leadership Program and is President of the Board of the Agency for Jewish Learning.
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About Encentiv Energy: Thousands of people are making better energy efficiency decisions by using Encentivizer™ – the industry’s #1 customer engagement platform.
Wayne McFarland
CEO of SynTech Bioenergy
Wayne McFarland has spent more than a decade in the field of renewable energy focused on finding solutions for converting biomass and other problematic global waste streams into carbon negative clean energy. His current focus is on how to deliver immediate solutions to some of the world’s most troubling energy, environmental, economic, social and political problems. Wayne founded SynTech Bioenergy with a mission to be a leader in meeting the challenge of climate change head-on, through delivering renewable, carbon negative clean energy and end-of-waste solutions on a global scale. A successful serial entrepreneur and attorney, Wayne’s expertise in environmental law & policy, global manufacturing, renewable energy and retail energy markets, coupled with his inner drive to better the environment, has been fundamental to his leadership of SynTech. Prior to SynTech, he served as Managing Member, CEO and Chairman of Admiral Energy, LLC, which explored energy management and green and renewable energy technologies during which time he led Admiral’s successful pursuit of a $1.6B (USD) sustainable airport project for the Republic of the Philippines. Simultaneously he served as Chairman, CEO and Managing Member of Native American Tribal Energy Company, LLC, which focused on delivering a full range of energy related products and services to tribal entities across North America. Wayne holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lewis University and a J.D. degree with honors from the IIT/Chicago Kent College of Law. He has also served on various Continuing Legal Education faculties speaking on subjects relative to energy and corporate finance.
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About SynTech Bioenergy: SynTech Bioenergy is on a mission to solve the most pressing energy, environmental, economic, social, and political problem.
Walter Breidenstein
CEO, Chairman of GasTechno Energy and Fuels
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About GasTechno Energy and Fuels: GasTechno Energy and Fuels is a CleanTech Emissions Reduction company that converts stranded gas into valuable chemicals and fuels.
Mark Speccia
President and CEO of SynGas North America
Skilled executive in the alternative energy and renewable energy sector, with expertise in technology evaluation, project management, market development, technology integration and financial/technical modeling. On hands, working knowledge in a diverse array of renewable energy sectors including Advanced Biofuels, Green Diesel, Compressed Natural Gas, Solar Power, Hydrogen, Electrical Vehicles and Waste To Energy Technologies. Comprehensive working knowledge of the entire life cycle of alternative energy projects: inception, technology evaluation, project development, funding, planning, project management and construction.
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About SynGas North America: SynGas North America is introducing an Innovative, Clean Diesel Fuel Technology.
Jeffery C Burnham
Founder, CEO & President of VitAG
Dr. Burnham has been a business executive for the past 19 years. Prior to that, he was a Professor of microbiology at the Medical College of Ohio, where he was published more than 65 times in 28 years. He has more than 43 years of experience in environmental microbiology, wastewater biosolids processing and public health. Dr. Burnham is the developer of the technology platform used by Anuvia Plant Nutrients and holds more than 14 Anuvia patents. Some of Dr. Burnham’s previous roles include President and CEO/ Founder of VitAg Corp, CTO for Unified Environmental Services Group, VP of N-Viro International and Founder of BioCheck Laboratories.
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About VitAG: VitAG engages in the disposition of municipal biosolids and animal residuals into inorganic fertilizers.
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.
Matthew Portis
Founder and CEO of Solgreen Solutions Corp.
Matthew Portis founded Solgreen® Solutions in 2009. With his vision to lesson the worlds dependence on fossil fuels Matthew continues to work with SolGreen® to develop and patent emerging solar innovations that can be used by the everyday consumers to safely harvest power from the sun, and lesson our foot print on the planet. Matthew started his career as a process engineer in 2000 at Intel Corp, and later became a government contractor serving as a Systems Integration & Validation Test Engineer with Raytheon, testing and validating the accuracy of the Patriot, and AAMRAM missile system, additionally Matthew has worked as a technial consultant for the federal government’s IRS, DOJ, the US Air force, and the US Army. Matthew holds a Masters of Science from The George Washington University’s, School of Engineering and Science; and a Bachelors of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology from DeVry University.
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About Solgreen Solutions Corp.: Clean Technlogy manufacture of high tech commerical outdoor furniture
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.
Amos Epstein
Co-Founder & CEO of Tank Utility
CEO and co-founder at Tank Utility, Inc.
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About Tank Utility: Tank Utility streamlines energy delivery for those that rely on truck-delivered oil or propane.
Suzanne Russo
CEO of Pecan Street
Suzanne is chief executive officer for Pecan Street. Prior to joining the organization in 2010, shewas director of sustainability initiatives for New York City’s Department of Housing Preservationand Development where she led the development of green building and sustainable retrofitstandards for municipally-funded affordable housing. Over the past seven years, Suzanneserved as chief of staff and then chief operating officer for Pecan Street, during which timeForbes named her one of five women ‘Using Technology to Blow Up Social Change.’ An urbanplanner with a masters degree in community and regional planning from the University of Texasat Austin, Suzanne has worked in Africa, China, India and the USA on community-basedsustainable development.
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About Pecan Street: Pecan Street research and develop clean energy and smart grid technologies, systems and business models.
Jonathan W. Berger
CEO & Director of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation
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About Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock is the largest provider of dredging services in the United States.
James DeLuze
Founder, CEO of Fusion Energy Solutions of Hawaii
James DeLuze is the Founder and CEO at Fusion Energy Solutions of Hawaii.
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About Fusion Energy Solutions of Hawaii: Fusion Energy Solutions is a company based out of Hawaii that builds a Fusion Reactor Prototype under a new patented concept.
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.
