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Executive Team:
Board
of Directors and Strategic Advisors
Executive
Team
Mike Miskovsky, Co-Founder,
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Miskovsky is a seasoned executive
with a track record of success in sales, business development,
and management roles with a number of world-class companies
in media, technology, financial services and architecture/construction
marketplaces.
Prior to co-founding CleanSource Power, Mr. Miskovsky served
as VP Business Development for Reva Systems, a leading developer
of RFID infrastructure hardware. He joined Reva from Avaki,
where he was VP Business Development and worked with an
exec team to recast a university-developed grid computing
platform into a market-leading data integration solution.
Mr. Miskovsky drove technical and joint sales/marketing
partnerships with IBM, Sun, Informatica and Sybase, refining
Avaki’s position in the data integration space and
setting the stage for the company’s 2005 sale to Sybase.
Prior to Avaki, Mr. Miskovsky served as VP, Sales &
Business Development for Lipstream Networks, a Sequoia Capital-backed
Voice over IP startup. There, he built the entire sales,
BD, professional services and account management teams and
led them to identify and dominate high-growth market segments
for voice-enabling enterprise applications (customer service,
helpdesk, education), closing over 70 customers (including
future investors Amex and Compaq), reaching over 170mm minutes
of voice traffic monthly, and 80% share in contested market
segments.
Immediately prior, Mr. Miskovsky had been recruited onto
the founding team of Autodesk Data Publishing, a division
of worldwide computer-aided design software leader Autodesk
(ADSK) which rose to prominence as the leading distributor
of CAD digital content in the architectural and mechanical
design marketplace and was subsequently acquired by partner
Thomas Publishing.
Prior to Autodesk, he held several management roles at Time
Warner/Sports Illustrated, running a variety of new SI-branded
businesses. In his last role there, Mr. Miskovsky secured
financing for, co-founded, staffed, and ran all business
operations for Sports Illustrated TV. SITV created
and distributed such programming as: 40 for the Ages,
an hour-long, NBC-aired feature on the most memorable sportspeople
of the past 40 years; ABC Wide World of Sports
segments, placing SI writers, their stories, and SI-sold
ads onto this iconic sports showcase; Coca Cola TV,
7 hours of ground-breaking, single company-sponsored programming
hosted by Terry Bradshaw and airing the week before Super
Bowl XXVII; ABC Monday Night Football halftime
segments featuring football writer Peter King; a series
of Year In Sports videos; and the much-heralded
"Sports Illustrated For Kids Show" series on CBS.
Mr. Miskovsky began his career as a corporate banker at
Bank of Montreal in New York, working fist on secured, middle-market
loan transactions and then representing the bank in large,
senior credit facilities in cooperation with leading money-center
bank syndicates.
He is a graduate of Princeton University, and received his
MBA from Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business
Administration. He is a longtime member of the Nature Conservancy,
Sierra Club and NRDC, among other organizations, and a frequent
speaker on renewable energy topics.
Dan
Magni, Vice President, Technology & Operations
With over a dozen years of leadership
experience in the renewable energy field, Dan Magni is a
recognized expert in photovoltaic technologies, products,
architectures, installation techniques and operational best
practices. He has direct overseen the technical design,
field installation, and ongoing operations and maintenance
of hundreds of solar deployments ranging in size from 20
kilowatts to 5 megawatts, and has an extensive background
in semiconductor design and manufacturing.
Directly prior to joining CleanSource Power, Mr. Magni served
as President of NexGen Energy Systems, a prominent provider
of solar engineering and consulting services located in
Northern California. Prior to leading NexGen, Mr. Magni
served as Director of Engineering at RWE Schott Solar, where
he oversaw operations for the design and installation of
grid-tied and hybrid photovoltaic arrays for commercial
and residential solar applications.
Prior to Schott, Mr. Magni served as Director of Integrated
Systems and Operations at Global Solar Energy, an early
leader in the development of flexible thin film photovoltaic
cells. At Global, Mr. Magni created a division that designed
and installed turn-key grid tied and hybrid photovoltaic
arrays, and was instrumental in establishing the company’s
quality systems, process engineering standards, and production
and inventory controls.
Mr. Magni began his career in the renewable energy at BASEF
Inc., a Tempe, AZ-based maker of solar-thermal-assisted
biofuels, where he performed direct research into processes
and biological components and feedstocks (standard crops,
cellulosic mass) for the creation of ethanol.
Mr. Magni is a graduate of Arizona State University, where
he earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.
Jennifer
McFarlane, Chief Financial Officer
Jennifer McFarlane is an internationally
experienced finance executive who has raised over $500 million
utilizing a diverse range of structures including project
finance, tax exempt asst backed securities, convertible
debt, public and private equity, and venture capital. Ms.
McFarlane also has significant management and board experience,
including at a publicly quoted energy technology company.
Prior to joining CleanSource Power, Ms. McFarlane was CEO
of Astia, a San Francisco based non-profit that provides
programs to early stage women-led companies. While at Astia,
she developed a five year strategic growth plan and doubled
the organization in 2 years.
Prior to Astia, Ms. McFarlane was Executive Director and
Deputy Chair of Southern Pacific Petroleum, a public energy
technology company quoted on NASDAQ and headquartered in
Australia. In this role she raised over $250 million globally
and developed the company’s Sustainability Strategy
to reduce its environmental footprint.
Prior to SPP, Ms. McFarlane spent 14 years in investment
banking, principally at Salomon Brothers in New York and
Dean Witter (now Morgan Stanley) in San Francisco. During
this time, she worked extensively in emerging markets in
Central Europe and Asia.
Ms. McFarlane was awarded Australia’s Centenary Medal
by the Prime Minister for contribution and leadership in
business in 2003. She is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Mayor of San Francisco’s Clean Tech
Advisory Committee. In addition, she has served on several
non-profit boards and was a member of the Young Presidents
Organization, for which she organized a Conference on Sustainability.
Ms. McFarlane earned an MBA from Stanford Business School,
a BSc. in Biochemistry and a Law Degree from the University
of New South Wales, Australia.
Board
of Directors and Strategic Advisors
Bruce Katz, Co-Founder, Chairman
of the Board
Bruce Katz is an entrepreneur,
marketer, and investor with a track record of building companies
with distinct, innovative and progressive brand identities.
Mr. Katz founded the Rockport Shoe Company, which he built
into a well-respected international brand while promoting
the benefits of fitness walking. After selling Rockport
to Reebok in 1986, Mr. Katz dedicated substantial time and
resources to early-stage venture investing, technology entrepreneurship,
philanthropy and socially responsible causes.
He founded Rosewood Stone Group, a venture capital and business
incubation firm which ultimately acquired and helped to
transition The Well from an early and iconic ISP to a thriving,
award-winning web community. Mr. Katz oversaw the spin-off
of The Well’s software division and its subsequent
merger with Delphi.com to become Prospero Technologies,
a company that managed the first online discussion forums
at such websites as The New York Times, WebMd, CBS Sportsline,
The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal,
and E*Trade.
Mr. Katz has co-founded or acted as significant investor
in such prominent American brands as Cannondale Bicycle
and The Republic of Tea, and has been an active real estate
investor and developer.
Mr. Katz’s commitment to issues of environmental stewardship
and social responsibility has been a constant throughout
his distinguished career. He was a founding member of Business
for Social Responsibility, and has been an active participant
in both the Social Venture Network and Global Business Network.
He is currently a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs
(NRDC), and serves on the Board of Directors of Global Green.
He has been a supporter and adviser to a number of diverse
non-profit organizations, including Outward Bound, The Farm
and Wilderness Camp, Camp Hill Communities and the Rocky
Mountain Institute. Mr. Katz studied Engineering Physics
at Cornell University.
James
Joaquin, Director
James Joaquin is a seasoned entrepreneur
with 20 years of experience building and growing consumer
technology companies. He currently serves as a Venture Partner
in the Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Bridgescale Partners.
Prior to Bridgescale, Mr. Joaquin served as President and
CEO of Xoom Corporation, a global money transfer service
providing consumers an easy and convenient way to transfer
money across countries and currencies. Prior to Xoom, Mr.
Joaquin served as President and CEO of Ofoto, the leading
online photo sharing and printing service, leading the Ofoto
team to become the world's most popular photo sharing and
printing service, with more than 20 million members and
more than 1 billion images stored. Having successfully completed
a sale of the company to Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), he then
ran Ofoto as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding
the service beyond the United States into Europe, China,
and Japan.
Prior to that, Mr. Joaquin co-founded and headed business
development for When.com, an Internet calendar and events
service that was acquired by America Online (NYSE: TWX).
As a Macintosh programmer in the 1980’s, Mr. Joaquin
began his career in technology by co-founding Clearview
Software while still a computer science student at Brown
University. The applications company was acquired by Apple’s
Claris division, after which Mr. Joaquin spent six years
with Apple in engineering, product marketing, and business
development management roles.
Lawrence
Bender
Lawrence Bender, renowned producer
and political activist, boasts an illustrious career spanning
more than twenty years in the entertainment industry. His
films to date, among them Oscar-winning An Inconvenient
Truth and influential mega-hits Kill Bill, Vol.
1 and Vol. 2, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction,
Anna and the King, Jackie Brown, and Reservoir
Dogs, have been honored with twenty one Academy Award
nominations, including two for Best Picture.
Mr. Bender’s most recent film, An Inconvenient
Truth, weaves the science of global warming with Al
Gore's lifelong dedication to reversing the effects of global
climate change. An environmental advocate, Bender along
with his team worked with director Davis Guggenheim to produce
this gripping and engaging rallying cry that calls for all
Americans to protect the earth we share. The film was honored
with the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary and Best
Original Song for Melissa Etheridge’s ‘I Need
To Wake Up.’ Prior to this, Mr. Bender’s Innocent
Voices was selected to represent Mexico for the Academy
Awards and received the 2005 Producers’ Guild Stanley
Kramer Award and the National Board of Review’s Freedom
and Expression Award.
Mr. Bender was nominated for a Producer’s Guild Award
and a Golden Satellite Award for the 1998 film Good
Will Hunting, which received a total of nine nominations
and won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting
Actor. Pulp Fiction, which received seven Academy
Award nominations and won Best Screenplay, was also nominated
for a Producers Guild Award, a BAFTA Award for Best Film,
and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and
Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Mr. Bender produced Reservoir Dogs, which was nominated
for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, and won
both Italy’s Raymond Chandler Award as well as the
award for Best Picture by the Australian Film Critics. Mr.
bender executive produced Tarantino’s and Robert Rodriquez’s
From Dusk Till Dawn, produced Tarantino’s
Jackie Brown, for which Robert Forster earned an
Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Mr. Bender’s other producing credits include Havana
Nights: Dirty Dancing 2 , Knockaround Guys, The Mexican,
Anna and the King, (nominated for two Academy), A
Price Above Rubies, White Man’s Burden, Killing Zoe
and Fresh, which was in the Director’s Fortnight
at Cannes Film Festival.
Mr. Bender is also a passionate social and political activist.
In 2003, Bender co-founded the Detroit Project, targeting
the gas-guzzling SUV. He has also traveled to the Middle
East with the Israeli Policy Forum. Mr. Bender is a member
of the Executive Forum for the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC), sits on the Board of Trustees of the Israel
Policy Forum (IPF) and is a member of the Pacific Council.
He is also on the Advisory Board to the Dean at Harvard’s
John F. Kennedy School of Government and serves on the board
of The Creative Coalition. He is a recent recipient of the
Torch of Liberty Award from the ACLU. His new philanthropic
effort is called 18 Seconds. With the EPA and the DOE, he
has created a campaign with a network of different groups,
including ThinkLA, the Muppets, Yahoo, Wal-Mart, and many
other academic, religious, and political groups. He has
met with many other fortune 500 groups, including GM, Home
Depot, Simon & Company, along with helping to create
Wal-Mart’s first sustainability day at the headquarters
in Bentonville, Arkansas.
John
Anderson
John Anderson, a Principal with
the Rocky Mountain Institute's Energy & Resources Team,
has had a distinguished 25-year career in clean energy technology
and markets. After receiving his MSME from the Solar Energy
Lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he worked
for SERI, the Solar Energy Research Institute, then its
successor, NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
As a researcher at SERI/NREL he worked on both energy technology
and energy policy projects around the world. He contributed
to or managed work on buildings, solar thermal power, solar
chemistry, and geothermal projects.
At NREL, his clients included the World Bank, the InterAmerican
Development Bank, the U.S. DOE and USAID, and he worked
on projects in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Region,
the Middle East, and North Africa.
Mr. Anderson left NREL in 1999 to found and manage the Connecticut
Clean Energy Fund (CCEF), which was focused on making commercial-grade
investments in the clean energy sector. While at CCEF, he
established the Fund's operations, hired the original staff,
and identified, developed, and closed the initial investments.
After leaving CCEF, Mr. Anderson consulted for small energy
technology companies and institutions on strategic business
plans. Mr. Anderson is also heavily involved in local efforts
to promote the development of Clean Technology companies
in Colorado through the Colorado CleanTech Initiative.
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