The Clean Energy Fusion Center provides a place to meet, build businesses and discuss the future of clean energy and technology. We are not a funding organization, rather we provide the intellectual capital that helps facilitate venture capital, government, angel and other forms of investments.
Management
Executive Committee – The Center is governed by a rotating executive committee that is focused on the mission, conceptualizes and carries out educational and networking events, brings varying business people together to learn from one another and makes valuable business connections while helping clean technology businesses thrive.
Current members of the Executive Committee are:
Maureen Ellenberger brings over 30 years of successful executive management and entrepreneurial experience in professional services, technology enabled solutions and online consumer service sectors. As CEO and president of Eggrock Partners, she grew the company from a business plan to a profitable $36 million firm focused on emerging enterprises and mid -market clients. Eggrock was sold in 2000 providing a 10x return to investors.
Mike O’Neill is a senior business executive with more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He was VP of Military/Aerospace & Communications Products with ON Semiconductor, and ran the digital & communications business units at AMI Semiconductor. As a General Partner with Kodiak Venture Partners, he focused on early stage investments in the semiconductor & communications markets. He began his career at IBM, and received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Paul Sereiko has over 25 years of experience in technology, marketing, business development, and business planning across companies ranging in size from startups to global multi-nationals. He has personally raised or been associated with raising over $40M in private financing and has completed one NASDAQ public offering, has been a CEO twice, and has co-founded one company. Paul graduated from the University of Illinois' Computer Engineering program and received his MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg school with concentrations in marketing and investment finance.
Lorraine Wheeler is a successful serial entrepreneur. She was co-founder and CEO of Actual Software. Palm purchased Actual in 2000 and shipped its email product, now called VersaMail, on millions of Palm units. Subsequently, Lorraine was on the founding team of Zeemote, a venture backed company specializing in wireless controller technology for mobile devices. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Management from MIT. She was named a top innovator (TR100) by Technology Review and a "Woman to Watch" by Mass High Tech.