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Andrew Krause
I believe in the power of the social web to drive sustainable behavior change at scale. I am working at the intersection of sustainability-science, social networking and technology to build applications that empower consumers to make better collective decisions.
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Andy Frank
Andy previously co-founded Efficiency 2.0, an energy efficiency software start-up that helped utilities engage and reward their residential customers. Proving all classical economists wrong, he was inspired to start Sealed when he literally found $100 lying on a sidewalk.
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Antoine Paquin
Antoine is the Founder President and CEO at Solantro.
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Dan Leff
Dan Leff has extensive operating experience building, leading and restructuring global energy services businesses. He recently served as chief executive officer and member of the board of directors of Hara, a global energy and sustainability enterprise software company. Previously, Dan was an Advisory Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, where he worked actively with CD&R on sourcing and evaluating new transactions, as well as providing strategic insights related to CD&R portfolio company matters. Formerly, Dan served at Invensys plc, a £7 billion worldwide manufacturing and services company, where he co-led a turnaround as co-COO and as COO of the Energy Management Division. Before joining Invensys, Dan was selected to be chairman and CEO of Enron Energy Services by the creditor-appointed management team to help the parent corporation following its 2001 bankruptcy filing. Earlier Dan was COO of Enron Energy Services and also led the restructuring of the parent company’s international power plant and pipeline engineering and construction business. Dan previously founded a forward-looking energy services company, which he sold to Enron in 1997. Prior to that he operated, acquired and sold a New York City-based energy services company. Dan serves on the boards of a private company and non-profit organizations and has served on the board, audit and compensation committees of a publicly traded company. Dan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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Daniel Ahn
Dan is Managing Director at Voyager Capital, where he focuses on Internet, infrastructure, clean IT, wireless and core technology areas. Prior to Voyager, Dan was a partner and managing director for nine years at Woodside Fund, an early stage venture capital firm. At Woodside, he led the firm’s investing in core technology and infrastructure companies and led the creation, development and investment in numerous successful organizations, including such companies as Analogix and Berkeley Design. Prior to Woodside Fund, he was an associate at the Foster Management Company and the co-founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Inc., a successful technology startup that developed and sold real-time control systems for semiconductor device fabrication. Dan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College. In addition to being a classical violinist, Dan enjoys outdoor activities and reading.
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Dave Curry
Dave is a successful entrepreneur having founded taken public and exited two companies for nearly $1B and has over 30 years of combined telecommunications and software industry experience. Prior to starting Demand Energy in 2008 he was President & CEO of World Wide Packets a layer 2 point to point Ethernet switch vendor to Comcast Clearwire & AT&T that was acquired by Ciena in 2008. Before World Wide Packets he co founded Architel a provisioning software telecom OSS vendor to Verizon Cable & Wireless BT NYNEX and GTE that was taken public in 1998 and subsequently acquired by Nortel in 2000. In 1996 Dave was selected Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year for his leadership at Architel.
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David LaBua
David LaBua is the Founder and CEO of VoicePark, LLC. He is a best selling author, holder of multiple patents and patents pending, a leader in the sustainable urban mobility movement, and nationally recognized expert in emerging parking technologies. VoicePark represents a ten-year quest to create a simple, transformative and ubiquitous mobile app and vehicle detection sensor system that will forever change the nature of the global urban parking experience.
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Gary Cook
Dr. Cook is Chairman of the Board of Directors, and prior to the company's incorporation in 2011, served as Chairman of the Management Committee of InEnTec LLC since 2002. He also currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a building products company. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of LRM Industries, a specialized producer of very large, thermoplastic products. Dr. Cook received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. He joined E. I. DuPont in 1969 as a Research Chemist. He spent 23 years with DuPont, holding a variety of senior management positions, including Vice President of Medical Products, Vice President and General Manager of Publishing and Printing, and Vice President-Corporate Plans. He joined Ethyl Corporation as Senior Vice President and President-Chemicals Group and Director in 1992. In 1994, the Chemicals Group was spun off from Ethyl as the Albemarle Corporation as an independently traded specialty chemical company. Dr. Cook served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Albemarle. He was named Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Witco Corporation in 1996. He served in that capacity until the merger of Witco and Crompton and Knowles in 1999, at which time he was named Chairman of the merged company, CKWitco. Dr. Cook has served on numerous industry association boards, including those of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, the Soap and Detergent Association, the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and the Health Industry Manufacturers Association.
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Guy Warner
Guy Warner is the founder and CEO of Pareto Energy LTD a platinum partner of the US Conference of Mayors that designs and finances peer to peer energy networks known as microgrids. Trained as a financial economist Guy worked for 7 years with the Washington National Tax Service of Price Waterhouse before founding his own company in 1990.
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John Carrington
ohn Carrington, CEO and Director, has a distinguished track record with over 25 years of proven leadership in technology, energy and industrial companies. John comes to Stem from thin film solar company MiaSole, the largest CIGS-based solar company globally with over $550 million of investment, where he was Chief Executive Officer. John executed on the sale of Miasole to Hanergy in December 2012. Prior to MiaSole, John was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at First Solar where he grew the company revenue from $400 million to $2 billion, opening markets in the US, Asia and Europe. John also spent over 16 years at General Electric, most recently as General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer of the $7 billion GE Plastics global organization where he led global innovation, new technology efforts and product strategy for over 30,000 customers. John was part of a small executive team that executed on the $12 billion sale of GE Plastics to SABIC in 2007. While at GE, John led innovation efforts in the healthcare, electronics, business equipment, transportation and aviation, solar, wind, defense, telecommunications, security and media sectors. He is an alumnus of the University of Colorado. - See more at: http://www.stem.com/company#sthash.G2YERgX8.dpuf
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Julie Corbett
Julie Corbett, Founder & CEO of Ecologic Brands, was shocked by the amount of plastic jugs and cartons her family produced on a regular basis, and decided to do something about it. Inspired by the Canadian milk pouch-a clear lightweight pouch placed in a reusable carafe-Julie decided to create a bottle that used a lot less plastic to provide a lot more sustainability. Her eureka moment came in 2007 when she opened the box for her new iPhone, and it was nestled on a smooth, yet sturdy molded fiber tray. Having found her ideal material, Julie designed a bottle that combines a sturdy outer molded fiber shell made from cardboard boxes and old newspapers with a thin inner plastic pouch and re-sealable cap. With a bottle prototype in-hand, Julie filed a patent for her technology. In May 2008, Ecologic Brands was born. Today, Julie and the Ecologic team are committed to giving consumers and brands better packaging choices and replacing shelf after shelf of rigid plastic, headed for landfill, with a new kind of bottle that uses our limited resources more efficiently.
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Mario Landau-Holdsworth
BA Economics, Lewis & Clark College. Authored thesis on the habits and behavior of EV owners and EV adoption in urban areas. Developed and invented EV charging technology for 6 years.
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Michael Steifman
Upon graduating from the Wharton School of Business Michael began his career at the Starrett Housing Corporation. As Vice President he was responsible for overseeing real estate development projects from site negotiations and acquisitions to design financing construction management marketing and leasing of projects. Developing proprietary analytics technology used to capture parse scrub and analyze massive amounts of utility billing data into meaningful information Michael founded UtiliSave in 1991. UtiliSave educates clients on sustainability through their energy usage and uncovers billing errors through forensic utility bill auditing. Michael further expanded UtiliSave's business into a wide range of products and services related to energy efficiency procurement benchmarking and consumption optimization. He is committed to furthering his vision for UtiliSave evolving into a Total Utility Management Partner.
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Mike Dubrovsky
Mike is the founder and CEO of Simply Grid. He is a recent graduate of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Stuyvesant High School. His background is in engineering and polymer chemistry with a strong understanding of hardware and software.
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Oliver Koehler
After working for over 12 years in the solar industry as a product and marketing manager with industry leading companies like SunPower Corporation and BP Solar, I have founded a company, Integrated Solar Technology / IST, which is dedicated to bringing specialized solar products to market, which integrate into how we live and how we build. In addition, I provide business consulting services as a principal of Koehler Solar Consulting. In this capacity, I leverage my in-depth knowledge and experience of the solar industry to help advise clients. Specialties: Product management, business and marketing strategy, product development, market research, project management, business administration, start ups Management experience: have lead teams of up to 20 individuals
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Paul Tasner
PulpWorks is the capstone in a 35-year career in supply chain management for Paul. Earlier, he held leadership positions in procurement, manufacturing, and logistics in ventures ranging from start-up to Fortune 100. Included among them are: The Clorox Company (consumer packaged goods), California Closet Company (home furnishings), Method Products (consumer packaged goods), Hepagen (vaccines), OM2 (supply chain consultancy), and the Reclipse Group (supply chain consultancy). His clients have included: Clif Bar, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis Consumer Health, Borden Chemical, Dial Corporation, Unilever, and Industrial Light+Magic. In 2008, Paul founded and continues to lead the San Francisco Bay Area Green Supply Chain Forum – the first such assembly of supply chain executives anywhere. He is an Industrial Engineering graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University. Paul has authored many papers and presentations on supply chain sustainability and currently lectures on this timely topic in the MBA Program at San Francisco State University and Golden Gate University.
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Peter Gregory
Peter is an experienced, proven leader in the utility industry, having served as: CEO, CFO, BD, Sales & Marketing, Engineering, and Software Manufacturing at utility industry companies including General Electric, EnerNet Associates, and Real Enterprise Solutions. He holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Purdue University and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and served as an Officer in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power program.
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Shihab Kuran
Dr. Shihab Kuran is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned semiconductor and cleantech executive. Reporting to the CEO of SunEdison he is responsible for energy solutions and markets that incorporate advanced grid management products and technologies. Prior to joining SunEdison, he founded Petra Solar in 2006 and served as President, CEO and board member through end of 2012. Petra pioneered “smart solar” which combines solar energy with smart grid technology. Under his leadership, Petra developed technologies and launched the world’s largest solar electric project in 2009, a 40MW installation NJ. In 2012, he led the company in launching a large solar project targeting 20,000 rooftops in Jordan. Also in 2012, he led the company in launching a Smart City project in Bahrain. He was named by Greentech Media as one of the “100 people you must know in Smart Grid in 2012.” In 2011, he was named by NJBIZ as one of “The 100 most powerful people in New Jersey business,” and Petra Solar was awarded the American Technology Award in both Smart Grid and Clean Tech. In 2010, E&Y recognized him as the NJ Green Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, and Fortnightly Magazine named him as a “top guru” in the solar industry. Prior to founding Petra, he assumed various technical, executive and board positions in the semiconductor and cleantech industries. His efforts are fueled by a vision for a peaceful world with universal access to clean and sustainable sources of food, power and water. He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of the Charles Edison Fund and the Edison Innovation Foundation. He is also on the Advisory Board at The Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He served as a Board Member of the NJTC and an External Advisory Board Member of Rutgers Innovation Park. Dr. Kuran holds a Ph.D. in EE from the City University of New York and a TGMP in Executive Management from Harvard Business School. He is an inventor and has published over 40 papers.
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Shirish Sathaye
Shirish joined Khosla Ventures as a General Partner after a decade of investment experience at Matrix Partners and a long operating career at several technology companies including FORE Systems and Alteon Websystems that had very successful IPOs. Shirish has a Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon an MSEE from Virginia Tech and a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering from IT BHU Varanasi India.
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Vikram Aggarwal
Vikram Aggarwal is the chief executive and founder of EnergySage. He believes that choosing clean energy is as much a financial decision as an environmental one and that consumer education will help bring it to the mass market. With more than fifteen years of experience with a major global financial services leader he gained deep and diverse functional expertise. He subsequently spent several years in private equity creating and investing in new and growing businesses. He played a key role in the consolidation of the building materials supply industry and the creation of the nation s largest building materials supplier to professional homebuilders. He has been working in the clean energy space since 2006 first as a private equity investor evaluating several companies in the clean energy supply chain where he quickly realized the significant consumer need for an independent source of information and guidance. For the past several years he's provided consulting services to potential clean energy consumers. He launched EnergySage to help a broader audience navigating the clean energy purchase process.
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