Experts in Business Strategy for New Technology
Business solutions provided by 2GreenEnergy will build and/or tune your green energy enterprise for accelerated expansion.
Kathryn Alexander: Corporate Sustainability
Kathryn Alexander offers 2GreenEnergy clients a variety of sustainability training and consulting services. She and her team at Ethical Impact L3C, who collective have over 150 years’ experience in the industry, bring the advantage of strategic sustainability to companies through collaborative strategic planning, backcasting to create a strategic environmental plan, and leadership development to ensure a committed and robust culture. The team helps companies achieve the rich rewards gained by mimicking the Earth’s elegant approach to effective business practices.
Bruce Allen: Senior Solar Energy Consultant
Bruce Allen is 2GreenEnergy’s senior consultant in solar energy, specializing in large-scale solar electricity projects. He has also written numerous articles on solar technologies, solar energy systems, and national energy policy. His recent book, Reaching the Solar Tipping Point, describes the key technologies and applications that are enabling solar energy to become a primary cost-effective energy source for the US. He has designed solar concentrator systems sold worldwide and worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under contract to NASA, DOD and the US Missile Defense Agency.
Sara Biddle: Renewable Energy Grant Writer
Sara Biddle writes grants for 2GreenEnergy clients in small business and agricultural production who may be looking for funding from government entities, utilities, or private foundations. Sara’s background makes her a perfect fit for this position; she earned her Master’s in Environmental Law and Policy from the Vermont Law School, then began working in the solar industry, where she focused on residential sales, grant writing and some renewable policy work. Sara continues to work in solar, now in commercial sales.
Vicki Brace: Renewable Energy Grant Writer
Vicki Brace has been actively involved in alternative energy and green technology for the better part of 30 years. Along with her passion for the environment, she brings over 25 years of experience in grant writing, proposals and submissions. She holds a BS in Political Science from Linfield College (Oregon), a Masters in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Northern Kentucky University and she is currently working towards her Ph.D. Her husband Mike (a senior R&D engineer) proves to be a very valuable resource in the area of technical proposals. Vicki writes EPA grants, DoE and EERE/APRA-E grants, as well as grants from private foundations.
Franklin Burke: Business Planning Development Software
Over the years, many hundreds of people around the world have asked for our help with business plans, and we’re pleased to offer an easy solution that will help a significant portion: business planning development software. In fact, 2GreenEnergy Associate Burke Franklin invented business planning software in 1988 with the introduction of his best-selling BizPlanBuilder® — a proven business planning system that simplifies the way people write, share and deliver business plans. The product makes it easy for entrepreneurs, inventors and business owners to organize and communicate their ideas to motivate their team as well as to raise capital, if necessary, from friends, family, angel investors and venture capitalists. Burke was elected to the White House Conference on Small Business and nominated for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” award.
Ken Chan: Establishing Cleantech Companies in China
Ken Chan helps 2GreenEnergy clients develop and build successful cleantech and renewable energy companies in China. Ken has worked in businesses in Australia and Asia for more than 35 years, and is quite well connected with China’s NDRC’s Department of Climate Change and other Environment Protection Agencies. Ken establishes companies, sets up joint ventures with strategic partners and investors, and trains management teams to operate successfully for local and export markets, often taking companies to markets they never knew existed. Trained in Germany, Ken had worked successfully with US, UK, German companies in his early years
Adrien J. D. Corbett: Global Financial Services
If you’re trying to raise investment capital, consider tapping into Adrien Corbett’s strength: offering 2GreenEnergy clients a wealth of experience in capital markets throughout the world. Adrien currently resides in Manhattan, but his three-decade career has called upon him to live and work in England, Australia, Japan, China, the Bahamas and Hong Kong. Multi-lingual (English, French, Spanish and Japanese), Adrien is one of the most well-connected people in the global financial services industry.
Agostinho Miguel Garcia – Renewable Energy Project Consultancy
For 2GreenEnergy clients in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Mr. Garcia and his partners at Sun Business Development provide a wide rage of business and technical services, including feasibility studies, EPC project support, field layout optimization, cost-reduction and power output maximization, evaluation and selection of suppliers, project life-cycle analysis, as well as maintenance and service.
Dr. Peter Lilienthal: Hybrid Power Optimization Analyst
Dr. Peter Lilienthal is arguably the world’s foremost expert in hybrid power optimization, and stands ready to help 2GreenEnergy clients who wish to design and implement such systems. The software that he and his team created – initially at NREL — has been used by over 36,000 energy practitioners in 193 countries.
Dr. Lilienthal was the Senior Economist with the International Programs Office at NREL from 1990 – 2007. He has a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and has been active in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency since 1978. His work has included designing and teaching courses at the university level, project development of independent power projects, and consulting to industry and regulators.
Brent Marsh: Doing Business With China
Brent is a 27-year veteran of manufacturing, marketing and implementation of clean tech, currently working on his sixth energy-related start up. He began making wind turbines in Taiwan in 1984, and, during the 10 years he lived there, gained fluency in Mandarin. Currently, Brent helps 2GreenEnergy clients navigate the challenging but promising waters of dealing effectively with China: selling products, raising capital from Chinese public sector agencies and private investors, developing relationships with manufacturers, and establishing sales channels in China.
Jim Martin: Behavioral Marketing
Jim is keen on helping 2GreenEnergy clients grow to their fullest potential with the expertise he has developed in behavioral marketing — the art and science of getting people to take action favorable to a product or service. Areas of specialty include Advertising, Promotional Marketing, Event Marketing, Sponsorships and Partnerships, Interactive Marketing, Direct Marketing, Lead Generation, and Lead Follow up and Sales Conversion.
During his distinguished 25+ year career, Jim has held senior management roles at some of America’s leading product development, design, and marketing communications organizations, including Ogilvy Action, The Interpublic Group, and Young & Rubicam – each NYSE-listed corporations.
Lindsay Oliver: Strategic Partnerships and Joint Ventures
Lindsay Oliver advises 2GreenEnergy clients on the structuring and implementation of business partnerships and joint ventures. If you’re interested in expanding your business to global markets, while reducing your costs and increasing your production capacity and profit margins, please let us know. Mr. Oliver’s expertise lies in finding suitable partners, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, negotiating, and structuring international joint ventures. Lindsay maintains an impressive network of global associates that provide intimate knowledge of market conditions and practices, as well as regulatory requirements.
Annemarie Osborne: Public Relations
2GreenEnergy’s senior writer, producer and publicist, Annemarie brings over 25 years of experience working with visionaries and thought-leaders in multiple disciplines to launch new business models and develop new markets. She develops innovative communications strategies, which expand far beyond traditional public relations to include original content and program development, multimedia production, and global content distribution.
Terry Ribb: Customer-Centered Strategic Marketing
Green technologies are adopted first by those who aspire to protect the environment. By developing a profound understanding of customers’ eco-centered lifestyles, we are able to fashion a marketing strategy that parallels the true unmet needs of each segment, and communicates how your technology makes a real and practical difference in the individual’s daily life. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you identify early-adopter segments, and design marketing strategies to attract and retain target customers.
Vijay Rochlani: Establishing Business Roots in India
Vijay Rochlani helps 2GreenEnergy clients establish roots in India and elsewhere in Asia. Vijay has enjoyed a multi-varied 30-year career in general management, business consulting, stock brokering, international branding and creativity, fund raising, and technology transfer. His dealings with the Bombay Stock Exchange, Tata, BMW AG – Rolls Royce, Volkswagen Financial Services, Phillips, BP, H-P, Novartis and dozens of others have earned great respect, and positioned him well to help clean energy businesses expand their reach into this huge and rapidly expanding market.
Monique Seifullin: Building Active Online Communities
Monique offers 2GreenEnergy clients a unique approach to customer acquisition and retention as a route to achieving revenue goals. Contact us to learn more about Ms. Seifullin’s capabilities in viral marketing, social networking, blogging, creating engaging communities, email marketing, e-commerce, banner advertising, and search engine marketing (paid and organic).
Mary Jo Shaub: Renewable Energy Grants for Agricultural Businesses
Mary Jo Shaub helps 2GreenEnergy clients in agricultural businesses who are interested in exploring their renewable energy potential: solar, utilization of farm waste, and energy efficiency. 20 years in the business has proven that reducing a farm’s reliance on power from the grid creates significant savings. Since the financial aspects of these projects can be intimidating, Mary Jo writes grant proposals and assists with loan applications.
