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Ron Pernick, co-founder and principal of Clean Edge, is an accomplished market research, publishing, and business development entrepreneur with two decades of high-tech experience. At Clean Edge he has co-authored more than a dozen reports on emerging clean technologies and has worked with a range of clients including multinationals, start-ups, government agencies, and investors. In addition to conducting market research and providing consulting services, he oversees many of Clean Edge’s strategic initiatives including the co-production of the annual Clean-Tech Investor Summit and the creation and management of the NASDAQ® Clean Edge® U.S. Index. Prior to founding Clean Edge, he ran his own environmental web consulting practice and earlier helped build the brands of such Internet pioneers as Internet In A Box, Preview Travel, The WELL, and Yahoo! During his career, he has worked in the U.S. and Japan, serving both emerging and established companies. He has been an instructor and adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley Extension, New College's Green MBA program, and now Portland State University. His book The Clean Tech Revolution (with co-author Clint Wilder) will be published by Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins, in June 2007.
Joel Makower, co-founder and principal, is a leading strategist on clean technology and sustainable business practices. Prior to founding Clean Edge, he was editor of The Green Business Letter, a monthly newsletter on corporate environmental strategy, and founder of GreenBiz.com, an acclaimed web portal on business and the environment. He is a former nationally syndicated columnist; a bestselling author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including The E-Factor: The Bottom-Line Approach to Environmentally Responsible Business; founder of Tilden Press Inc., an award-winning company that researches, writes, and produces books, newsletters, and other editorial products and services; and a frequent lecturer to companies, associations, and business schools on clean technology and sustainable business strategy. Joel is a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and sits as on the clean-tech advisory council for VantagePoint Venture Partners and for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Tim Miller, senior consultant, is a high-tech entrepreneur and management professional. At Clean Edge, he works with a range of corporate clients on business development and strategy. His renewable energy work includes multiple projects for the Energy Trust of Oregon and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. He also worked with the Portland Sustainable Development Commission to present a vision for Portland becoming a renewable energy economy by 2040. Prior to shifting to sustainability, Miller was the COO of TheBigDay.com, a Portland-based Internet start-up and one of the most popular online honeymoon gift registries. Before that, Miller was at Citysearch.com, a leading online city guide, where he served in a variety of leadership roles including vice president of directory business development and regional vice president, directing 13 Citysearch offices around the country. Prior to the Internet, Tim worked for Intel Corporation in a number of marketing and management positions. He holds an MBA from Stanford University.
Alison Wise, senior research consultant, has been working with business and government on triple bottom line issues and clean technology for more than a decade. At Clean Edge, Alison works on research projects that help companies and organizations better understand and profit from clean technology. Through her legislative experience in the non-profit sector, she researched and wrote reports on issues including clean energy and transportation. At a leading socially responsible investment firm, she directed business development efforts and conducted research and writing assignments. She was also the director of Public Policy & Development for the Future 500 and founder and executive director of the Sea Change Sustainable Business Interest Group. She holds a BA in History and Alternate Biology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and an MBA. from the University of Oregon.
Dexter Gauntlett, research and marketing associate, has worked in the clean-energy sector for both private and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and developing countries. At Clean Edge he works on numerous market-research assignments, manages the company’s website, and performs other operational duties. Dexter lived in Sri Lanka and Tajikistan before moving to Portland. Prior to joining the Clean Edge team he worked for Green Empowerment, Green Mountain Energy, and Relief International. Born and raised in Silicon Valley during the height of the tech boom, Dexter received his degree from UCLA with a specialization in international relations.
Clint Wilder, contributing editor, is a veteran award-winning technology and business journalist. His book The Clean Tech Revolution (with co-author Ron Pernick) will be published by Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins, in June 2007. Before joining Clean Edge in 2002, he was editor-at-large and columnist for Optimize magazine, CMP Media's monthly journal for high-level business technology executives. As editor-at-large and columnist for Information Week magazine before that, he won the 2002 American Society of Business Publication Editors gold award for best feature series, as well as numerous CMP editorial awards. A frequent speaker and panelist at industry events, Wilder also worked as a writer and editor at Corporate Computing and Computerworld.
Zac Christie, Clean Edge 2007-2008 intern, is a 2008 MBA candidate at the Yale School of Management and a 2008 MEM candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He is focusing his studies on energy finance and emerging markets. Zac also holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies from Duke University. Prior to the MBA/MEM program, Zac worked in marketing program management, as a web program manager for Veritas Software and IBM WebSphere in San Francisco, CA. He recently completed an internship with Airtricity, Inc.’s finance department. Zac has lived in Germany and South America and is conversant in both German and Spanish.
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