Energy Tech Dinner Attendee Bios
Energy Tech Dinner Attendee Bios
2013
ATTENDEE BIOS
Retroficiency enables energy service providers, utilities, facility managers, and owners to cost-effectively prioritize high potential commercial buildings and evaluate thousands of energy efficiency measures in minutes.
EnerNOC is one of the world's largest full-service energy management providers with over 700 employees and operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Prior Experience: Energy Technology Laboratory for Northern Power Systems, Inc., Merrill Lynch, International Fuel Cells (now UTC Fuel Cells), Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Student Advantage. Boards: Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), Massachusetts High Technology Council, New England Clean Energy Council, and serves on TechNet's Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees for the New England Aquarium. Education: B.A. Dartmouth College, and M.B.A. Tuck School of Business.
Schneider Electric SA specializes in energy management and offers integrated solutions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, residential applications, and data centers/networks.
Makarand Mak Joshi Director, Energy Management Platform, Strategy and Innovation
Prior Experience: Utkarsh Strategies, Grid Sensor, Cadence Design Systems, Knowledge Based Silicon. Boards: Boston Product Management Association and the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. Education: M.S. Computer Engineering, University of South Carolina-Columbia, and M.B.A. Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
Altenex is the energy management network that Fortune 500 companies use to source clean energy for their power portfolios and control cost and manage risk.
Prior Experience: PowerAdvocate, Polaris Venture Partners, Harris Williams & Co. Boards: Fluid Trade. Education: B.S. Babson College.
BRIDGE Energy Group is a leading strategic consulting, systems integration, technology and outsourcing solutions provider for the Utility industry.
Prior Experience: eneStream, AnchorPoint, Demos Solutions, Darwin Partners, Atlantic Data Services, Logica, Boston Technology. Boards: Bridge Energy Group. Education: B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and M.B.A. Elkin B. McCallum Graduate School of Business.
Energy Points platform combines advanced analytics with complex resource scarcity data to translate all resources into primary energy, enabling a direct, one to one comparison of domains such as electricity, water and fuel.
Ameresco engages in the development, design, engineering, and installation of projects that reduce the energy, and operations and maintenance costs of facilities in the United States, Canada and Europe.
ATTENDEE BIOS
Black Coral Capital typically invests in the alternative energy, cleantech, renewable energy, technology, service sectors with a focus on energy efficiency, storage, and natural gas. The firm seeks to invest in smarter use of energy resources and plays that leverage existing infrastructures.
Prior Experience: Climate Change Capital, AOL, Bain & Company. Boards: of Clean Energy Collective and One Roof Energy. Education: B.A. Stanford University, and M.B.A. MIT Sloan School of Management.
Spectrum Equity Investors seeks to invest in the telecommunications; media and entertainment with a focus on internet and digital media, information technology; software, information and business services, communications; consumer discretionary; information technology; network infrastructure; and related growth sectors.
RockPort Capital Partners seeks to make equity investments in energy and power, advanced materials, mobility, sustainability, and process and prevention sectors often described as cleantech or energy tech. Prior Experience: Z Associates. Boards: New England Council on Clean Energy and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center. Education: B.A. and M.B.A. University of Oxford.
General Catalyst Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm seeking to invest in technology with a focus on advanced materials, clean energy solutions, disruptive energy solutions, technology enabled services, energy management services, as well a number of offer sectors.
Braemar Energy Ventures seeks to invest in technology and communications opportunities in the energy sector with a focus on clean fuel processes, advanced power conversion, clean fuel storage, pollution control, management and energy efficiency, power electronics and power semiconductors, and energy communications.
Prior Experience: McKinsey & Company, Structured Materials Inc. Boards: UtiliData, Viridity Energy, Grid Net, and ChargePoint. Education: B.S.E. Princeton University.
RockPort Capital Partners seeks to make equity investments in energy and power, advanced materials, mobility, sustainability, and process and prevention sectors often described as cleantech or energy tech. Prior Experience: Alcatel-Lucent Technologies. Boards: FirstFuel Software, Gridco Systems, ENOVIX, SustainX, Gazelle, Member of Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Group, New England Clean Energy Council, Boston University Clean Energy Ignition Award and TiE Boston. Education: B.S. University of Mumbai, and M.B.A. Yale School of Management.
Battery Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm investing across all industry categories with a focus on private equity investments in cleantech, software; financial services; technology enabled businesses; IT services and outsourcing; communications components, systems, and services; and industrial technology sectors.
ATTENDEE BIOS
Harris Williams & Co. is a preeminent middle market investment bank focused on the advisory needs of clients worldwide. The firm has deep industry knowledge, global transaction expertise, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Harris Williams & Co. provides sell-side and acquisition advisory, board advisory, private placements, and capital markets advisory services.
Prior Experience: Tucker Anthony Sutro (n.k.a. RBC Capital Markets), Dean Witter Reynolds (n.k.a. Morgan Stanley). Education: B.A. Brown University and M.B.A. Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
Prior Experience: BDO Capital, Houlihan Lokey, and BankBoston. Education: B.A. Colby College, and M.B.A. Dartmouth College.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, P.C. is a general practice, full service law firm employing approximately 450 attorneys worldwide. Headquartered at One Financial Center in Bostons Financial District, the firm also has offices in London, Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco, Stamford, and Washington, DC, and a liaison office in Israel.