
Andy Leventhal, CEO and Co-founder
Throughout the past 22 years, Andy Leventhal has lead business development, strategic alliances, channel development, joint ventures, and subsidiaries for some of the most successful companies in the software industry such as EMC, Verisign and Red Hat.
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Andy began his career with
EMC in 1986 at the forefront of the storage market, where he established beachhead offices and strategic channel partnerships throughout Western Canada, Japan and Southeast Asian territories. While based in Tokyo and leading
EMC Japan and Asia, he established its initial customers, partners and team that built the largest market share position of any 3rd party peripheral vendor throughout the Pacific Rim.
In 1995, as a member of the founding team at VeriSign, Andy lead the global business development efforts to establish the first and most influential network of global Certification Authorities in 10 of the world’s largest markets. With partners like BT, France Telecom, Acer Taiwan, Gemplus, NTT Data, Mitsubishi and Persetel, VeriSign Affiliates established a worldwide network of the most trusted brands to issue digital certificates in every major market.
In 1999, Andy led strategic alliances and business development for Red Hat where he managed all Linux initiatives throughout HP, Intel, Oracle, Cisco and Compaq. Andy’s relationships within the largest Linux OEM’s produced millions of dollars of revenue and increased brand value as Red Hat became synonymous with the global enterprise Linux standard. These strategic relationships also accelerated Red Hat’s migration from a consumer “boxed” Linux vendor in 1999 to the de-facto enterprise Linux vendor of choice.
Andy has also lead Business Development, Channels, Resellers and Alliances for Sana Security and Imperva, leading, venture backed data security vendors, who have created new markets in database security and host – based intrusion prevention solutions.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island, and an international marketing degree from Richmond College in London, England.
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Aaron Dallek, CTO and Co-Founder
Aaron Dallek is the leading technologist behind EcoSynergy’s Emissions Intelligence Platform solution. He has been researching and developing life cycle assessment technology for 3+ years as well as being a successful entrepreneur.
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Aaron owned and operated two successful businesses over the past eight years. In 1999 he ran a technology consulting firm that helped businesses and individuals analyze their technology options. He saw his customer base double year after year for three consecutive years through implementing a direct sales model and focusing on customer satisfaction.
In 2002, Aaron co-founded Cheap Ink, a printer cartridge sales and recycling company, which focused on selling and promoting high quality, environmentally sustainable products for small and medium sized businesses. He managed all of the top clients and suppliers directly and was instrumental in increasing sales by over 50% year on year for 4 straight years.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Walter Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Nathan Taylor, Director of Technical Services
Nathan has 6 years of experience in the sustainability industry. Prior to joining EcoSynergy, he worked as an environmental consultant for a large engineering services firm. His work involved environmental risk assessment studies for many Fortune 500 companies, including large oil and gas companies, banks, and manufacturers, as well as several Federal and State government clients. Read More
Nathan received his Master’s in Energy Management from the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he performed whole supply chain Life Cycle Analyses of many building and construction products. Nathan was a researcher and instructor at the University of Georgia Institute of Ecology for 3 years, where he studied carbon cycling in natural and human-impacted systems. He also was a founding member and instructor with GeoJourney, the premier field-based environmental education program for university students in the US.
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Craig Ramini, Director of Sales and Business Development
Craig has 15 years of software product consultancy experience, working closely with both early stage and mature companies to bring their software products to market and to sustain their products competitive edge. Prior to joining EcoSynergy, Craig served as Director of Business Development at ThoughtWorks, a leading provider of custom software product development and agile process consulting services. Craig was also Vice President of Sales at eFORCE Global, Director of Strategic Alliances at Verizon, Vice President of Channel Development at Nortel, and Director of Large Account Sales at
MCI.
James Norman, Director of Research
James has 4 years of experience working on environmental and sustainability issues. Prior to joining EcoSynergy, he was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives managing environmental and natural resource issues for Representative Mike Thompson. He worked extensively on legislation and policy concerning climate change, energy resources, electronics recycling, and water resources.
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James received his Master’s in Ecology from the University of Georgia, where he developed Habitat Conservation Plans and regulations in accordance with the Endangered Species Act for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Prior to his Master’s degree, James was a researcher at University of Georgia’s Institute of Ecology for 3 years, where he studied carbon cycling, ecosystem and population ecology, and geomorphology in natural and human-impacted systems. He was also an instructor with University of Georgia’s Honors Interdisciplinary Summer Field Program, a field-based environmental educational program for university students.
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Advisors
Peter Fusaro, Chairman & Founder, Global Change Associates Inc.
Peter C. Fusaro is best selling author, keynote speaker and energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights on emerging energy and environmental trends. Peter has been at the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 33 years. He wrote “What Went Wrong at Enron” as well as 12 other books on energy and environmental financial trading. He coined the term “Green Trading” to capture the value of emissions reductions, renewable energy and energy efficiency, and holds the annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit in New York each spring. Peter co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center which publishes both a directory of energy & environmental hedge funds and a free newsletter Energy Hedge.
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Peter was selected for Who’s Who in America for 2007 & 2008. His latest work has focused on carbon trading and financial, alternative energy, cleantech and their interplay with venture capital and hedge funds. He founded Global Change Associates in 1991 to focus on the interplay and convergence of energy and environmental financial markets. Peter has an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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H. Scott Matthews, Research Director, Green Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Scott is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University as well as the Research Director of the Green Design Institute (GDI). Scott’s primary research interest is the sustainable, life cycle management of infrastructure.
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Scott defines infrastructure broadly to include transportation and building facilities, as well as energy, utility, and telecommunications networks. In assessing the efficiency of management methods, Scott considers private and social aspects such as externality costs of pollution. His current projects include: Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment (EIO-LCA), Assessment Tool and Visualization for Regional Supply Chain Impacts, Assessment and Redesign of Processes for Sustainable Construction and Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies. He has also taught courses on Benefit-Cost Analysis, Civil Systems Investment Planning and Pricing, and Infrastructure Management.
Scott has been involved with the annual IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment as well as the International Society for Industrial Ecology.
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J.J. Healy, President and Founder, Healy Capital
J.J. Healy is the founder of Healy Capital, a venture, real estate and investment company, and is a Venture Partner at Grand Banks Capital, an early stage venture capital fund. JJ is a technology industry veteran with more than fifteen years of operational, investment, and M&A experience with companies including EMC Corporation, CS First Boston and Yahoo! Inc.
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Prior to founding Healy Capital, Mr. Healy was vice president of corporate development for Yahoo! Inc., where he teamed with founder Jerry Yang, to develop Yahoo’s acquisition and investment program. During his tenure at Yahoo!, J.J. led a team that completed over 20 corporate investments and 16 acquisitions, totaling more than $10 billion, including several of the largest acquisitions in the history of the Internet. He is also Owner of the Double J Ranch LLC, a cattle operation located in Daniel, WY, where he is on the Advisory Board of the Upper Green River Valley Land Trust.
J.J. received his BS in chemistry from Saint Anselm College, where he is a member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Technology Committee. He received his MBA in International Finance from the American Graduate School of International Management-Thunderbird.
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Lawrence Schulsinger, President, LIS Consulting
Lawrence Schulsinger has been a distinguished marketing executive over a career that spans more than 25 years. The first half of his career was spent at Procter & Gamble where he managed numerous brands across a range of categories, in the U.S. and on international assignments. Most of the balance of his career was spent as a principal at Management Ventures, Inc., one of the world’s leading sales and marketing consultancies to the consumer products industry. Today, Mr. Schulsinger divides his time between advising marketers as President of LIS Consulting, and leading a start-up production company, Blue Planet Creative.
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Over 14 years at P&G, Mr. Schulsinger moved through increasing levels of responsibility, culminating in being named Advertising Manager for one of the Company’s most profitable international subsidiaries. In this capacity he had senior marketing responsibility for the organization’s Paper (Pampers, Bounty, Always, Charmin), Healthcare (Vicks, Crest), and Household Cleaning (Dawn, Mr. Clean), brands. Additionally, the assignment included leading the successful introduction of the Company’s Food and Beverage line-up (Pringles, Hawaiian Punch, Sunny Delight) into their first international markets.
Prior to his international assignment, Larry managed a series of P&G U.S. brands, primarily in Food & Beverage. In his capacity as Advertising Manager for juice products (in the 1980’s), he led the introduction of a number of ‘first ever’ initiatives, including the first nutritionally fortified juice products, the first ‘lite’ (low carb/calorie) juice line, the first resealable juice cartons, and the first juice ‘pitchers’ ...all now mainstays in the beverage category.
Following P&G, Mr. Schulsinger has spent the majority of his career with Management Ventures (MVI), helping develop it into the world’s preeminent retail research and training company. Today, MVI is a wholly owned subsidiary of WPP, the world’s leading marketing services firm. MVI has developed a client roster that includes most of the best-practice branded consumer products companies, including Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Gillette, Nestle, J&J, 3M and P&G. As one of the four principle partners, he helped develop and market a range of services for these clients, including web-delivered databases, and sales and marketing strategy consulting and training.
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Dag Syrrist, General Partner, Vision Capital
Dag has spent 20 years in the venture capital industry, the last 10 as Managing General Partner of Vision Capital, a Trans-Atlantic venture group with offices in Silicon Valley and Geneva. He has overall fund management responsibilities and manages a number of direct investments for Vision.
Prior to Vision, Dag spent nine years at Technology Funding (TFI), a $350 million venture group based in San Mateo, CA. At TFI, Dag established a new investment group in the environmental technology sector with the responsibility of investment strategy, corporate partnering and portfolio company management.
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At TFI Dag was also involved in extensive regulatory and policy work regarding state and national regulatory initiatives. These reforms were designed to accelerate the commercialization of environmental technology at the state and federal level.
He holds a Master’s degree in International Economics from San Francisco State University and speaks English, Norwegian and Spanish.
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Joe Green, Engineering Director, Google/Postini
Joe has been working in the computer industry for nineteen years with the last twelve years in the SaaS sector. Most recently Joe is working for Postini (and Google following the acquisition in September 2007) as an Engineering Director responsible for the development and deployment of Postini’s managed secure messaging applications. Prior to Postini, Joe worked for over eight years at VeriSign, Inc where he managed a number of roles including Director of Quality Assurance, Release Engineering and Development of VeriSign’s Digital Certificate business. Earlier in his career, Joe worked at Taligent and Hewlett-Packard. Joe earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell Engineering, as well as a Masters and PhD in Computer Science from UCLA.