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Tech Leadership Panelists' Biographies
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Barry Cinnamon
CEO
Akeena Solar |
Barry Cinnamon, is a widely recognized expert and long-time
advocate of solar power. He began his career in solar energy at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During the late
1970s and early 1980s, he designed and installed active solar,
passive solar and ground coupled heat pump systems. He served as
CEO of Software Publishing Corporation, and founded Allegro New
Media. Mr. Cinnamon earned a BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering
from MIT and an MBA degree in Marketing from Wharton. He is a
NABCEP Certified Solar Installer, a licensed California C-46
Solar Contractor, an active member of the Silicon Valley
Leadership Group and a member of the Board of Directors of the
national Solar Energy Industries Association and California
Solar Energy Industry Association.
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Michael Pak
CEO
Nanoexa
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Michael is the Founder and CEO of Nanoexa.
Michael has 15+ years business development, marketing,
engineering, and general management in nanotechnology, clean
energy, alternative energy, telecommunications, semiconductor,
and consumer electronics industries as well as two years with a
leading Silicon Valley nanotechnology start-up focused on
delivering advanced nano-catalysts to gasoline and diesel
engines. He was a co-founder and CEO of Nanostellar, Inc. and
successfully built and led the team through start-up and early
stage funding and initial product development and release of
beta nano-catalysts to initial automobile and chemical
customers.
Previously Michael was the Founder and CEO at Xpeed Networks,
which was acquired by Nayna Networks in March 2003. Xpeed
focused on the broadband access market with DSL and Passive
Optical Network Switch solutions. Under his leadership, Xpeed
successfully penetrated the Japanese, Korean and US markets and
post acquisition has subsequently continued to penetrate global
markers or carriers including Hanaro Telecom, Northpoint,
Bellsouth, Lucent, eAccess and NTT. At Xpeed, Michael built &
led the team from startup to $28 million revenue and NASDAQ-IPO
filing - in just 16 months.
His previous business experience includes Director of Business
Development at 3DO, where he brought the company to
profitability in record time. At 3DO, he was the tireless leader
of international business development and technology licensing
after holding several prior positions. Previously he was with
Cagent Technologies, a company that was acquired by
WebTV/Microsoft. He has been invited to speak at numerous
Nanotech and Cleantech conferences.
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Geoff Sharples
Director
Electra |
Geoff specializes in transitioning renewable
energy companies from prototype to full scale project deployment
and production.
Most recently Geoff was a key member of the team that brought
Clipper Windpower from a prototype start up to a fully fledged
manufacturing company delivering over 300 MW of turbines
annually to the North American market. At Clipper Geoff led
transactions in turbine and project sales as well as supply
chain.
At Easenergy, the US corporate venture arm of Électricité de
France Geoff lead business development and investments in high
tech energy venture backed start ups.
Prior to joining EasEnergy, Geoff developed and project-financed
independent power plants in Europe and North Africa for PSEG
Global. His experience includes structuring and negotiating
finance and project agreements and project management. This
included the first IPP in Tunisia, a 471 MW combined cycle gas
power plant.
In 2003, Geoff founded a financial advisory consultancy,
SeventhGen Financial providing strategic, operations and sales
services to solar energy companies focused on the commercial
market.
Geoff holds an MBA degree from Cornell University in finance and
marketing and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from
the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Marc Gottschalk
Partner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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Marc Gottschalk is a
partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's real estate and
environmental practice and heads the environmental practice.
Marc also coordinates the firm's energy and environmental
technology practice, focusing on emerging alternative energy
companies and companies with environmentally beneficial
technologies. He is also co-chair of the 2007 California
CleanTech Open, the nation's premier business plan competition
for clean technology ventures.
Marc represents a wide range of companies on environmental and
real estate matters, working closely with clients to find
effective, efficient solutions to their legal concerns. He has
lectured and published articles on the impact of environmental
laws on real estate transactions, as well as on the European
Union environmental directives (WEEE and RoHS), the Clean Air
Act, the Clean Water Act, Superfund, underground storage tank
laws, and the California Environmental Quality Act. He also has
worked on a wide range of complex real estate transactions from
corporate campus and residential and retail mixed-use projects
to leasing and financing transactions, including Sanmina-SCI
Corporation's acquisition of its corporate campus in San Jose,
California, and Silverstone Communities—Northern California's
development of a mixed-use residential and retail project in
Cupertino, California.
Marc also assists clean tech companies with advice on getting
established and building their businesses.
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