CLEARVUEPV - Key Persons
Alexander has over 15 years of senior management experience in marketing, sales and business development, acting as vice president of European and Global operational activities whilst working for innovative companies in the renewable energy sector.
He has a successful track record of business development and sales achievements, selling in a B2B level to leading industry players in the areas of building & construction materials, automotive, advertising and electronic consumer markets.
Alexander has deep technology understanding and execution experience using several PV technologies: crystalline silicon, amorphous thin film technologies, organic PV, nanotech interlayers, etc. and is particularly familiar with printing, evaporation, vacuum deposition, roll-2-roll, and other innovative PV manufacturing processes.
Anna comes with over 20 years of experience in marketing and advertising with a proven track record of achieving strong business results. In her last role as a Marketing Manager, Anna managed a team of 9 driving strategy and managing day-to-day activities for a global brand. Anna has expertise across all major areas of marketing including research and analytics, brand management, marketing automation and CRMs, websites, campaigns, content marketing, and engagement.
Chris is a Mechatronics Engineer graduated from Sydney University with a background working on solar and wind farms. He is involved in the PCB design and embedded software for the Smart Façade system in addition to solar and thermal modelling, data analytics and software for the broader ClearVue ecosystem.
Chris brings a knowledge of integrated software, hardware and AI systems to the team.
Mr Charles (‘Chuck') Mowrey has over 5 decades of experience in the commercial glass and glazing industries. Mr Mowrey is currently CEO of leading US contract glazier 8G Solutions. Mr Mowrey who was formerly President and CEO of Harmon Inc. (a part of Apogee NASDAQ APOG), was brought into 8G Solutions in 2019 to lead it through a growth strategy that includes growth by project size, scope and geography with a vision to expand across the U.S. Prior to G8 Solutions and whilst at Harmon, Mr Mowrey was responsible for increasing revenue from USD $87m to over $300m and assisted with various acquisitions and internal startups.
Mr Mowrey is passionate about innovation in the glazing industry.
After 22 years with Harmon/Apogee he spent approximately 3 years with View Inc. (NASDAQ VIEW) from 2008 as Executive Vice President assisting it to complete its Series B funding to get it to full commercial manufacturing. Mr Mowrey then spent the next 8 years from 2011 with Guardian Glass (a part of Koch Industries) as its Managing Director of Emerging Technologies.
Job Titles:
- Chief Business Development Officer
Clifton brings 20+ years in façade, architectural & construction sector with extensive experience in global supply chain management, risk management and securing projects across Europe and the Middle East. Held senior positions with McMullen Facades Ltd, Linder Group, Multiforms and Kann Finch Group (UAE).
Doug Hunt is the former Chief Executive of Europcar Asia Pacific and former Regional Director Asia Pacific for Europcar International, responsible for 31 countries in the APAC region. He has extensive international experience in international franchising and licensing and also brings extensive experience in the application and integration of alternative energy solutions, with seven years experience in the renewables industry in the USA and Australia.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Chemical Technologies
Dr Jeroen ter Schiphorst joined ClearVue as Chief of Chemical Technologies through its subsidiary, ClearVue Europe B.V. following ClearVue's acquisition of Lusoco B.V.'s IP and assets. Dr ter Schiphorst founded Lusoco whilst completing his PhD in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at TU/e and has expertise in both the characterisation and application of dyes for luminescent solar concentrators and in microfluidics.
Dr Mikhail Vasiliev graduated from Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia) in 2002. He is a multi-skilled expert with research interests in the fields of optical physics, optical engineering, photonics, nano-engineered functional materials, and scientific software development. Mikhail has been part of the Australian optics and photonics industry since early 2001, working as Development Engineer at JDS Uniphase Corp., North Ryde, Sydney, and later as Physicist at Optoelectronics Pty Ltd (Melbourne), until 2005. As Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University between 2005-2020 Mikhail has worked on a number of research projects and in particular for ClearVue Technologies' projects since 2010. He is now employed full-time at ClearVue Technologies as Lead Scientist. Mikhail has co-authored multiple high-impact research articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as several scientific book chapters (View Mikhail's Google Scholar profile here).
Job Titles:
- Chief Commercial Officer & Head of IR / Chief Commercial Officer & Head of IR
Earle Harper has over 25 years' of corporate and federal government experience. His broad commercial background includes time at the Australian Trade Commission, where he was a Senior Trade Adviser for the fintech, ICT and renewable energy sectors.
As a senior corporate adviser, Earle has worked with multiple financial services and corporate clients where his key responsibilities included stakeholder engagement, investor relations and business strategy. As a commercialisation adviser, Earle has assisted multiple start-up companies through their commercialisation journey from product ideation, corporate responsibilities and communications strategies.
Geoff is qualified CPA with over 30 years experience in CFO (including ASX listed companies), senior financial and commercial roles across a variety of service organisations.
During that time, Geoff has acquired a wealth of knowledge with start ups, mergers and acquisitions, high growth businesses, equity and debt capital raisings, turn arounds, building financial systems and procedures and strategic planning and implementation.
Job Titles:
- Company Secretary ( BCom, MPA ) Company Secretary
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- General Counsel
Jamie has over 20 years' experience working in the areas of IP, commercialisation and technology both as an IP and commercialisation lawyer and as a technology commercialisation specialist. In his work as a lawyer he has worked with a number of well-known local and interstate law and patent firms and internationally with a specialist IT law firm as well as in-house with BHP Steel (now Bluescope) and multinational IT services provider SchlumbergerSema (now ATOS). As a commercialisation adviser, Jamie has assisted a number start-up and early stage companies both as an adviser and a Director (of which he retains a number of current positions). He has also operated and managed the Western Australian government's Innovation Centre incubator under two separate outsourced consultancy terms where he was responsible for assisting innumerable innovative West Australian businesses on their path to successful commercialisation.
Mr Deil brings a deep knowledge of the international façade and architectural envelopes business to ClearVue having spent the past 22 years in various senior management roles of increasing responsibility including as CEO, Deputy CEO and COO within the Permasteelisa Group in different locations globally.
Mr Deil has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Management and Systems from City University London.
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Director
- Industry Leader
Mr Gerd Hoenicke is a recognised industry leader in facades and curtain wall systems - a senior level executive with more than 35 years of progressively responsible experience in the international facade industry. Mr Hoenicke has served as CEO of Gebrüder Schneider GmbH a German Façade contractor before he joined Seele GmbH in 2009 as its Technical Director. He has also served as Director Consulting International Projects for Schüco International KG. Mr Hoenicke currently operates an independent building envelope consultancy that engages with architects and façade engineers on large construction projects in the US and Europe.
Mr Hoenicke's impressive project portfolio includes the German Chancellery building in Berlin, Central St. Giles in London, EZB in Frankfurt, the Kimbell Art Museum in Dallas, 5 Broadgate in London and The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Each of these and many other projects reflect his attention to detail in façade design and innovation. In 2019 Mr Hoenicke established his own façade consultancy business and where he has continued to be involved in various prestigious projects in the US and the UK including recently Parcel 9 in Washington DC and Landmark Pinnacle London.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Officer ( Public Infrastructure )
Mr Teun Wagenaar joins both ClearVue Europe B.V. and ClearVue Technologies Limited as consulting adviser following completion of acquisition of Lusoco B.V.'s IP and assets. Mr Wagenaar is an industrial designer and serial entrepreneur who was a founder of Peer+ which was sold to Merck KGaA and formed the basis for its Merck Eyrise liquid crystal dynamically switchable glass solution. Mr Wagenaar will support activities to integrate the Lusoco technologies into the ClearVue product suite and to progress trials with third-party collaborators in the outdoor advertising, automotive and architectural areas.
Job Titles:
- Electrical Engineer
- a Sustainability Engineer
- Sustainability Engineer
Shyam Shivakumar is an electrical engineer who recently graduated with a Masters degree in Renewable and Sustainable Energy from Murdoch University. His main interests lie in energy efficiency and developing practical carbon reduction strategies. Shyam completed his coursework masters dissertation focusing on implementing smart building technologies for optimizing indoor climate control in Local Government Buildings. He has capability in greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, lifecycle assessment, carbon management (decarbonisation), renewable energy and energy efficiency
Shyam has joined ClearVue as a Sustainability Engineer providing technical support to firstly measure, then determine how to improve the Company's ESG and sustainability metrics in the implementation of the ESG strategy and work towards reaching their leading targets. This includes measuring the GHG inventory and lifecycle emissions of the company and its products respectively, and then developing and implementing an ambitious, science based, practical decarbonisation pathway.
Shyam also provides technical expertise to assist ClearVue's customers and end-users understand how the unique ClearVue PV products can assist them in meeting their own decarbonisation goals.
Job Titles:
- Consulting Engineer
- VP Development - North America ( Product, Technology, Sales )
Steve Coonen is a photovoltaic consulting engineer, specializing in building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) based in California. He is an electrical engineer from the University of Arizona (1982). Mr. Coonen has been working in the photovoltaics field since 1983 starting as a contractor specializing in new construction photovoltaics for Westinghouse. In 1994 he cofounded Atlantis Energy Systems (still in business today) where Mr. Coonen began his focus on BIPV. Applied Solar of San Diego then hired Mr. Coonen in 2004 as their Corporate Technology Officer to direct the development of a new line of BIPV glass products. For the past 25 years he has had a sole direction of developing and certifying new solar electric building materials. He currently has over 3,000 BIPV systems fielded to his credit, including the California Academy of Science in San Francisco, the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Manhattan and 1,500 new homes for Pulte Homes.
Job Titles:
- Project Manager & Senior Technical Officer
- Senior Technical Officer
As a chartered professional engineer in both Australia and China, Tao has extensive experience on project management, engineering study & analysis and civil/structural design for a large number of international projects.
Tao is currently ClearVue's Project Manager & Senior Technical Officer, leading the technical team on ClearVue product certification programmes in compliance with international standards, and participates in R&D on new product models and functionalities. He also supports the sales team and directs the global OEM manufacturers to achieve project timelines with efficiency and quality.
Tao currently manages several projects from small to large scale, in the application of ClearVue products onto residential, commercial and agricultural buildings in Australia, China, Japan, Singapore and other countries/regions.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Non - Executive Chairman
Mr. Rosenberg has 25 years of glass industry experience and is a serial entrepreneur globally recognized for his industry contributions. He brings extensive senior executive sales and management experience to ClearVue, having led multiple start-ups in the pharmaceutical and food manufacturing industries.
Victor, a former pharmacist, has won an International Innovation Award in Germany for developments in food processing technologies, and now through his passion to achieve energy security through sustainable sources has turned his vision to glass. Victor believes energy generation and protecting our environment are two of our most important challenges and his dreams of producing a product to address both have now become a reality.