Who are industry insiders?

Our industry insiders are not journalists, they are professionals who are working in the clean technology industry that write about what they are learning, seeing and experiencing.

If you want to be an industry insider there are only a couple, simple criteria.

1) You live and/or work is primarily in the Boston, New England area.

2) You work in clean technology, or you work is strongly related to it. For example, a lawyer focusing on clean tech innovation.

3) You have something interesting to say.

4) You’re young. I’ll let you define that yourself, so I won’t offend anyone

If you want to join contact me.

GLD – BOSTON

Jesse Gossett

Director of Community Affairs

Emergent Energy Group

Jesse Gossett was born in the wilderness of Washington State. Educated at Tufts University in Environmental Science, Jesse has followed his passion for renewable energy and sustainability into the professional world.

Jesse has been actively involved in environmental politics at the Massachusetts State House, where he worked for the Committee on the Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture. He presented at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, in January 2008 on the role universities play in the renewable energy sector as incubators for both technology and young leaders of industry and business. Jesse is currently a leader of the Boston Net Impact chapter, a group of MBA students and professionals interested in using business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. He has also since conducted research on microfinance’s potential to contribute to poverty alleviation in Africa.

Jesse is currently the Director of Community Affairs. His efforts focus on developing new ways of helping clients, staying abreast of renewable energy policy and regulations, and overall project management.

Emergent Energy Groups plans, designs, and facilitates the advancement of community focused energy and sustainability solutions. Our contribution helps public and private entities assess, optimize, and create on-site clean energy systems.Emergent Energy Group has recently won Business Week’s ‘Top 25 Under 25 Competition’.

Brian Hayden

Director of Education

HeatSpring Learning Institute

Brian Hayden founded HeatSpring Learning Institute in 2007.  He’s an accredited geothermal installer and creates technical training programs on geothermal and solar systems. HeatSpring has been featured in Business Weeks: America’s Top 25 Promising Social Entrepreneurs

Jessica Manganello

Founder New Leaf Legal

Jessisca R. Manganello is an attorney with and founder of New Leaf Legal, LLD. She works with sustainable and emerging businesses in the Boston area on their corporate and intellectual property needs. Passions include everything green, concept cars, food, movies, heavy metal music, body art, and kitty cats. To learn more check out New Leaf Legal and follow her @mangojess.

Joanna Hamblin

Marketing Consultant

A results driven marketing and communications professional, Joanna has over 7 years of experience in developing marketing strategies that generate leads, raise awareness and grow market share. Working with clients of various sizes and stages she’s helping to build strong foundations for the clean tech, energy, sustainability and local food verticals by developing marketing strategies that are effective, scalable and provide consistent ROI. Her specialty includes project management, web 2.0 and social media planning, event management and corporate communications.

On a local level, Joanna is a founding member of the Dedham Sustainability Advisory Committee, where she provides guidance to the Town of Dedham, its businesses and residents on topics ranging from energy efficiency to sustainability and transportation. Also a member of the Open Space and Recreation Committee she helps explore preservation of open, recreational and public spaces in her community for all to enjoy. Promoting locally grown foods and a liaison between vendors, town officials and patrons, Joanna manages the Dedham Farmer’s Market, now in its third year. In this role she advocates for the importance of locally grown food and its impact on economic vitality, environmental sustainability and social benefit.

In addition to work and volunteer opportunities Joanna is pursuing a graduate degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from the Extension School at Harvard University. Always looking at ways to acquire marketable skills, she’s interested in learning how public policy, science and business best practices can be utilized for managing complex, intertwined environmental, social and economic issues.

To learn more about Joanna and her work you can follow her on Twitter @GoodNatureGirl.

Adam Standley

Process Engineer

Wakonda Technologies

Adam Standley is a Boston-based “Mainer” who loves to invent. He is currently creating low-cost, high efficiency solar materials with Wakonda Technologies.  At Wakonda, Adam designs semiconductor manufacturing processes & equipment to transfer the company’s technology from concept to prototype.

Prior to joining Wakonda, Adam founded Electro-Epi Inc to manufacture a solar material he developed in college. His work on single crystal substrate manufacturing was published in peer-reviewed journals including Materials Research Society and Applied Physics Letters.

In 2008, Adam co-founded SWEET ANTHONYS, an all-natural, gourmet Italian dressing producer.  He placed the product in Whole Foods Market where it is currently sold throughout northern New England.

Adam earned his MS in Entrepreneurship and BS in Aerospace Engineering, both from Brown University.  He ran track for the Brown bears, and in his spare time Adam works with his fellow Brunonians at Anza Technologies to deploy low cost, high utility products to farmers in rural Africa.  Adam loves adventure, travel, a cold Sam Adams after a weekend surf sesh’.

Walter Frick

Program Assistant

New England Clean Energy Council

Walter Frick works for the New England Clean Energy Council, managing the Council’s communications, web presence, and student outreach.  Prior to joining the Council, Walter worked for the U.S. Green Building Council, creator of the LEED rating system, in D.C., where he focused on membership recruitment.  Before that he worked in Richmond for the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus.  In addition to clean energy, Walter is interested in public policy, information and media, and how the web is changing our relationships with each.  He is a graduate of Colgate University.  Follow Walter on Twitter: @wfrick

Matt Marino

Clean Pursuits

Matt C. Marino is a LEED Green Associate and 2010 graduate of the Boston College Carroll School of Management MBA program, where he studied energy and technology markets. He is the founder of Clean Pursuits (@cleanpursuits) a “for-benefit” venture committed to promoting cleantech in the developed world, and developing cleantech application in communities in need; and the co-founder of Switchback Life, a healthy snacks company. When not working, Matt can be found making lists of training for ultra-distance endurance competitions, often with his Brittany (spaniel), Cooper.

Miles Ryan

Miles Ryan is becoming an expert in SREC (Solar Renewable Energy Credit) markets and PPA (Power Purchase Agreement) providers in an effort to prepare for his next career move.

GLD – NYC

Kosta Stavreas

Corporate Strategy Professional

Kosta Stavreas has forged a career out of helping senior executives to make strategic decisions about how to grow their companies.  He has worked with some of the worlds largest energy and resources companies to develop global growth strategies and assess M&A opportunities.

He also has hands on management experience in the renewable energy industry, having spent two years working in a senior strategy and corporate finance role for Agri Energy Ltd, a publicly listed biofuels startup.  The business was developing a pipeline of world-class biofuels assets around the world, including ethanol and biodiesel projects in Australia, the United States and Europe.  The flagship project was an $80 million dollar state-of-the art biodiesel facility located in Nebraska, and at 50 million gallon pa was the second largest biodiesel facility in the US.

He is now exploring new business models in the cleantech industry and monitoring emerging development across the renewable energy technology spectrum.

Kosta has a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University and a Masters of Applied Finance through the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.  To learn more about him check out his site or contact him here.