CORE
Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy
Colorado CleanTech Initiative (CCI) Tuesday, April 28, 2009
4:30-7:00 PM, Denver Metro Chamber of CommerceWe want to do a better job of planning the beer and food for the CCI events so we urge you to pre-register by 5 PM April 27th
Speaker: Ron OndechekAssociate, Altira Energy, LLC
Ron joined Altira in 2006 with 8 years’ experience working in the energy industry and on his own entrepreneurial ventures. After earning a BS in chemical engineering as a Renaissance Scholar at Penn State University, Ron began his career at Exxon Mobil Corporation as a refinery engineer in New Orleans. During his tenure at ExxonMobil, Ron worked in diverse roles ranging from an environmental advisor to project manager to volunteer fire fighter.
While working full-time at ExxonMobil, Ron obtained an MBA from Tulane University where he was awarded the Dean’s Service Award and the Outstanding Entrepreneurial Leadership Award. He also was president of the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association and helped found the Tulane Business Plan Competition. After graduating from Tulane, Ron left ExxonMobil to start businesses in several industries including international sports marketing, environmental biotechnology, business consulting, and a non-profit entrepreneurial organization.
Commercial buildings create 25% of all green house gas emissions, primarily due to energy use, according to the United Nations. One third of all forecasted energy efficiency savings can be made by reducing large building lighting through technology and daylighting, according the Electric Power Research Institute. Escalating and highly un-stable energy costs have gone from being a small line item to the most scrutinized cost item for building asset owners and leaseholders, says the National Green Building Council.
BrightPhase's patent pending PhotensityTM System is a fusion of concentrating photovoltaics and daylighting technologies in one module, which effectively addresses these global and local problems in a compact and highly energy dense system. Photensity delivers onsite energy generation (electricity and heat) and negawatts (same lighting intensity without electricity cost) by letting natural diffuse light flood building interiors. Tom Warda, CEOTom brings over 25 years experience in executive management, manufacturing and marketing strategy to BrightPhase. He has held executive positions with Whirlpool, Huffy, E-Tech products, Fusion Specialties and Vertex IPS. His background is mainly in new product development and marketing in various industries, both inside corporations and as an entrepreneur. He has raised over $20 million in start-up capital and cut his teeth in the renewable energy business as VP of Sales & Marketing for SolarFrameworks in Denver. He is passionate about selling environmentally responsible products and has been a national lecturer on that subject.
Presentation: Also Energy, LLC
Also Energy develops and maintains portfolios of clean mini electricity utilities. These portfolios sell solar electricity to commercial buildings. At competitive rates. The building owner / occupant pays for the electricity generated, not the equipment on their rooftop. It is as easy as turning on a switch.
Our focus is on the local market, Colorado, the fourth sunniest market in the U.S. Our Customers, high credit commercial building owners / occupants, are hesitant to invest in Clean solar electric systems because they do not want to add debt and they do not want to become a utility. We overcome our
Also Energy performs 100% of the system maintenance and uses its patent pending, automated monitoring and management software to ensure that the investment is running at peak performance. Customers do not have to become a solar utility to be green.Robert Schaeffer, CEOOver his 25-year career, Robert has established a broad base of experience in Engineering, Operations, Sales and Marketing. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Breece Hill, LLC, a company he helped found in 1994. He previously held executive technical positions in a variety of industries, with leading companies such as Hertrich Development, MaxOptix and the Digital Equipment Corporation. Robert graduated from M.I.T. with an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and received a Masters Degree in Control Systems in 1993 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado.
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