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Clean Energy Council picks Levin, Wheeler, among its 2009 Fellows
By Mass High Tech staff
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The New England Clean Energy Council has named the 25 Fellows for its second annual Clean Energy Fellowship Program which helps teach and train experienced executives on how to run companies in the region’s clean energy sector.
According to council officials, the application period ended on March 2, and this year NECEC received nearly 200 applications for the 25 slots. Among those chosen for this year are Mass High Tech Women to Watch honoree for 2005, Lorraine Wheeler, one of the founding members of Zeemote Inc.; serial entrepreneur Stuart Nixdorff founder of NCS and co-founder of RedShift Systems among others; and Doug Levin, founder of Black Duck Software.
The first round of the Fellowship initiative was launched as a pilot program last year and put 12 founding CEOs from a variety of industries through a three-month crash course in designing, building and managing a company in the clean industry sector. The first round featured well-known local CEOs, including Chuck Digate of Convoq Inc., Perry Solomon of Boston Coach Inc. and Rick Daniels of MultiLayer Coating Technologies Inc., and it was completed last summer. Since that time, program graduates have gone on to found four new ventures -- WindPole Ventures, ThermoGen, Aardwolf Controls and Clean Energy Venture Fund.
This year’s 25 participants includes fellows from New York and Georgia. Those executives selected include:
• Michael Bayer
• Jeffrey Carbeck
• Brian Cohen
• Maureen Ellenberger
• Brian Fitzsimons
• Bob Gatewood
• Elena Grinev
• Brad Hafer
• John Hanratty
• Todd Hasselbeck
• Marni Hoyle
• Ken Jones
• Douglas Levin
• Patricia Meisner
• David Mendels
• Stuart Nixdorff
• William O’Farrell
• Mike O’Neill
• Ahmet Ozalp
• Tandhoni Rao
• Paul Sereiko
• Peter Vandermeulen
• Peter Vicars
• Jeffrey Weiss
• Lorraine Wheeler
The program, which runs through July, will be coordinated by NECEC president Nick d’Arbeloff and Flagship Ventures executive-in-residence Peter Rothstein. This year the tandem will also be joined by Andrew Friendly, a principal at Advanced Technology Ventures, on the committee.
News of the Clean Energy Council fellows was first reported on Scott Kirsner's blog Innovation Economy.
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