Many senior executives from the Boston area call the Clean Energy Fusion Center home. Some of us are serial entrepreneurs while others have had long careers in energy related industries. We all share a passion for development of the region as a clean energy hub. Current residents of the Fusion Center are:
Maureen Ellenberger Maureen Ellenberger brings over 30 years of successful executive management and entrepreneurial experience in professional services, technology enabled solutions and online consumer service sectors. For the last 12 years, she has focused on creating and managing companies from startup and early stage, positioning them for growth and sustainability in rapidly changing environments. 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. Most recently, Maureen served as the CEO and founder of a Web 2.0 company, auctionPAL, which provided an easy way for consumers to sell online. Currently, Maureen is working with several early stage companies, providing fundraising assistance, market positioning and strategic growth planning in the consumer and energy space.
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Bob Gatewood Bob Gatewood is an information technology entrepreneur who was the founding CTO of Athenahealth, Inc. and later led product management and business development for the company. He is working on a scalable, network-based infrastructure that can be used by all manner of new-energy companies, corporations with facilities in multiple states, energy-efficiency program managers, and regulated utilities installing advanced metering infrastructures. Bob has an MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Virginia. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
Dinos Gonatas Dinos Gonatas of CPG Advisors consults extensively in the cleantech sector with recent assignments advising the DOE on stimulus projects, energy efficiency and smart grid technologies. He is particularly interested in electric transmission for wind power and advised clients on transmission access leading to a 30 MW expansion of a wind farm in Maine. Clients have also included venture funded startups. His work in the technology sector also includes a focus on analytical instrumentation.
He has led teams resulting in bid wins such as a 1000MW electrical transmission line, and in financial due diligence for the acquisition of integrated electrical utilities, while a business development manager at Enron. Previously, he developed synthetic fuel technologies for coal and gas conversion at ExxonMobil, leading to 6 US patents. He holds a BA in Physics from Princeton, a PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from Babson College.
Brad Hafer Brad Hafer is the Managing Director of Minuteman Advisory Partners, LLC, an outsourced corporate development consulting firm which works with public and VC-backed high tech and renewable energy companies. Brad brings more than 20 years of business and consulting experience. His former executive roles include VP, Corporate Development at MatrixOne (sold to Dassault Systemes); VP, Marketing & Business Development for Synchronicity (sold to MatrixOne); and VP, Corporate Development for SupplierMarket.com (sold to Ariba). Prior to his technology operating experience, Brad was a Principal with global strategy consultancy A.T. Kearney and started his career with IBM. He also spent a summer working in the DOE's Office of Solar Electric Technology. Brad holds a B.A. in Engineering from Lafayette College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
John Hanratty John has founded and held executive positions at a number of venture-backed startups that delivered IT and networking products. Most recently, John founded Ampient Inc., which develops software to make data centers more power efficient. Previously, he was founder and VP of Products and Services at Bit9 Inc., a leader in application white listing software. John was founder and VP of Marketing at Paceline Systems (acquired by Motorola) that developed high performance data center networks. He was also on the founding teams at Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent) and Synernetics Inc. (acquired by 3Com).
Mike O'Neill 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. Mike was part of the leadership team at early-stage startup Philsar Semiconductor and saw the company through its acquisition by Conexant Systems. He began his career at IBM, and received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Tandhoni Rao Tandhoni (Tan) Rao is a recognized technology pioneer with over 20 years of product development and senior-level management experience in the semiconductor and wireless communications industry. He was Founding CEO and later Vice President of Engineering and Product Strategy for Radiospire Networks, Inc. a fabless semiconductor company that designed and delivered multi-Gbps wireless chipsets for short-range, high-bandwidth applications. Earlier, he was Co-Founder of 3G wireless infrastructure equipment startup Envoy Networks (acquired by Texas Instruments, Inc. in February 2002), serving as its CTO and VP Engineering. He began his career with Texas Instruments where he held both product line management and systems engineering management positions related to its mixed-signal chipset product lines. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, an MBA from the University of Texas, Dallas and MSEE and BSEE degrees from the University of Delaware, where he was an Alison Scholar. For his career achievements, he was named University of Delaware’s College of Engineering 2008 Outstanding Alumnus. Dr. Rao is a frequent industry speaker, has authored numerous articles for technical and trade publications, and holds 5 U.S. patents with 15 patents pending.
Paul Sereiko Paul Sereiko's renewable energy interests are focused on renewables project development, energy efficiency models, and wireless sensing for energy efficiency.
Paul 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 has developed, launched, and marketed over 20 technology products in his career in the computing, embedded software, and wireless sensing sectors.
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.
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