Cleantech Companies in Mainstream Markets: Fourth Annual CEO Panel on Innovative Strategies

June 11, 2008
Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Street, NYC
Organized by SJF Ventures

2008 Event Press:

Brammo Motorsports raising funds at SJF Venture' cleantech panel, TechConfidential, June 12, 2008

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Future Panels: To be considered as a speaker for a future Cleantech CEO panel, please contact Anne Claire Broughton at broughton @ sjfund.com (without the spaces).

Event Description: Following up on SJF's successful events in 2005-2007, this panel again demonstrated that well conceived cleantech business models can scale rapidly by reducing costs and improving quality for customers. The panel consisted not of policy advocates or analysts but of CEOs who are actually carrying out innovative strategies and growing venture-backed companies. These companies – with revenues between $1 million and $20 million or more – are all growing rapidly by pursuing innovating green strategies in mainstream markets. Companies featured in previous years include groSolar, Intechra, Zipcar, RecycleBank, IceStone, Gaia Power Technologies, Native Energy, ConsumerPowerline, and BioDiesel Solutions. Read event press release.

2008 Keynote:

Kevin Skillern is a Senior Vice President at GE Energy Financial Services and leads the venture capital team focused on the energy and water industries. This includes opportunities across the energy value chain, including renewables, power infrastructure and oil & gas technologies. The venture capital group at GE Energy Financial Services is one of the most active investors in energy technology markets, with a 7-person team with presence in San Francisco, Munich, Boston and Stamford, CT. With US $19 billion in assets, GE Energy Financial Services, based in Stamford, Connecticut, invests more than US $5 billion annually in two of the world’s most capital-intensive industries, energy and water.

2008 CEO Panelists:

Chuck Newman, CEO of Recellular, Inc.
Andrew Kennedy, President of FoodLogiq
Frank Shinneman, CEO, Lamina Lighting Inc.
Craig Bramscher, CEO, Brammo Motorsports
Allen King, President, Excellent Packaging & Supply
Jacob Susman, CEO, OwnEnergy
Rusty Jewett, CEO, Sencera

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