Nick d'Arbeloff, President
Nick is President of the New England Clean Energy Council and is a veteran entrepreneur, having held senior positions in a number of technology companies and start-ups over the past 20 years. Before joining the Council, he was the CEO and founder of Conjoin, a developer of sales productivity software for corporate sales teams. The company was acquired by Intranets.com (subsequently acquired by WebEx). Previously, Nick co-founded and served as VP Marketing for Wildfire Communications, which brought to market a voice recognition-based electronic assistant for managing all of an individual’s telephone activities. Wildfire was acquired by Orange PLC, now a subsidiary of France Telecom. Nick also served as Vice President of Marketing for C-bridge Internet Solutions, Director of Marketing for PRI Automation, and Product Manager for Apollo Computer. Nick is a representative of The Climate Project, trained by former Vice President Al Gore to educate audiences about the science underlying global climate change. He serves on the Board of the Carlisle Conservation Foundation and the Mass Audubon Council. He is also the author of Excessive Entanglement, a novel, published in 2008. Nick holds a BA from Georgetown University.
Peter Rothstein, Senior Vice President
Peter is Senior Vice President of the New England Clean Energy Council and leads the Council’s Energy Innovation Consortia project and other innovation-stage initiatives, including the Council’s Clean Energy Fellowship Program. Peter has many years of venture, entrepreneurial, executive and deal experience across the cleantech venture market. Previously, Peter was part of the Flagship Ventures team, a leading seed and early stage venture capital firm in Cambridge Massachusetts, and founder of Allegro Strategy, a consultant, advisor and interim executive with early-stage cleantech start-ups. Peter has been in early-stage deal or executive roles with a number of cleantech companies, including Mascoma, Planar Energy Devices, Ze-gen, Novomer, Boston-Power, and Mechanology. Peter is actively involved in a range of leading cleantech and entrepreneurial organizations, including the National Renewable Energy Lab’s VC Advisory Board, catalyst to MIT Deshpande Center solar and energy storage MIT projects, and a Board member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.
Trish Fields, Director of Operations
Caitlin Vaughn, Program Manager
Tom Matthews, Program Manager
Walter Frick, Program Assistant
Committee Co-Chairs
Innovation Task Force
Co-Chairs:
Peter Rothstein, New England Clean Energy Council
Jeff Andrews, Atlas Venture
Fellowship Program Co-Directors:
Laura Bartsch and Helen Fairman, Millville Partners
CEO Council
Co-Chair:
Mitch Tyson, Advanced Electron Beams
Workforce Development Committee
Co-Chairs:
Wanda Reindorf, Conservation Services Group
Kevin Doyle, Green Economy
Adoption Task Force
Co-Chairs:
Chris Anderson, Mass High Tech Council
Steve Taub, GE Energy Financial Services
Policy Committee
Co-Chairs:
Berl Hartman, E2
John P. DeVillars, BlueWave Strategies LLC
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