DALLAS - Key Persons
Dana has a long background with cleantech. He was one of the founding reporter/editors for Inside...
Ellisa has worked in cleantech as a sustainability and communications consultant with a variety of organizations and projects, including environmental and carbon management firms, a hydrokinetic energy start-up, city government and non-profits. She also has experience in corporate social responsibility gained by working with Oracle through a PR agency, where she also managed numerous technology accounts. Ellisa received an MBA in sustainable management from Presidio Graduate School. She resides in San Francisco.
Jean-Francois has been working with innovators and entrepreneurs as a professional consultant for...
Jim is former Chinese managing director of the Cleantech Group and ran the company's Cleantech Forum events in Beijing and Shanghai. He has been in China 17 of the last 20 years, and is fluent in Mandarin. He's responsible for Kachan's Hello Cleantech Showcase events in Beijing and Shanghai and consults to international companies seeking to do business in China.
Mark is a UK-based contributor to TIME, CBS SmartPlanet and The Guardian who has also written for Fortune, the Financial Times, Forbes, the New York Times, Wired and others. He focuses on renewable energy and has written from London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Cairo, Cannes, Berlin, Helsinki and elsewhere. Before turning his attention to clean technology, Mark spotted emerging trends in the clash between telecom, media and technology firms.
Rachel practiced as a lawyer at three different organizations, where her work focused on law and policy projects related to environmental assessment, natural resource management, local government sustainability and land use planning, and Aboriginal rights and consultation issues. She also led the development of firm policies related to human resources, volunteer management and student recruitment, and actively published professional reports, public information documents and blog posts. Prior to law, Rachel worked in sustainable community planning, in particular with the UniverCity project at SFU. She is currently a non corporate member of the Planning Institute of BC and President of the Georgia Strait Alliance.
Ryan's experience combines journalism with public relations agency experience. He has managed...
Shannon has been studying renewable energy and alternative energy systems since 2007. She holds a BSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Calgary and her MEng in clean energy engineering from the University of British Columbia. Shannon gained exposure to non-traditional cleantech innovations through several years of participation in the ASME Earth Saver Challenge and participation in multinational cleantech entrepreneurship courses in China. Prior, she served on a simulation and modeling team at ABB Corporate Research in Switzerland.
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- Columnist for the Toronto Star
Tyler is a columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. His weekly column...