Financing and Commercializing Green Technologies in San Diego
Speaker Series
05/10/2012, 06:00pm-08:00pm
Location: UC San Diego Robinson Building Complex Auditorium
Open to: Public, Invited Guest, Students
Event email: darobertson@ucsd.edu
An Environmental Policy and Business Forum event
The Net Impact Chapter of IR/PS presents the Spring 2012 Environmental Policy and Business Forum. The Forum aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, government representatives, students, and business/community members working on the environmental challenges of today's world.
Panelists
Dr. Gordon McCord, Moderator
Dr. McCord is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego. Dr. McCord completed his Ph.D. in Sustainable Development from Columbia University and works at the intersection of development economics, public health, and environment.
Dr. Rosibel Ochoa, Commercialization Director, von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement
Dr. Ochoa received her B.Sc. in chemical engineering from the National University of Honduras, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Louisville. Prior to joining the von Liebig Center, Rosibel was the founder of TekDome, LLC., a technology commercialization consultancy.
Lane Sharman, Entrepreneur
Mr. Sharman develops sustainable business ventures as a serial entrepreneur. Having formed Solana Energy in 2005, he facilitated the establishment of Solarpack Development Corporation, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Spanish Company, Solarpack. He went on to develop its Southern California projects and assisted the company in its project portfolio development and a financial closing. Sharman's corporate and project development activities included team member management, project review meetings, interconnection meetings with utilities, submission of PPAs, civil and technical engineering oversight, permitting, entitlement, community outreach, project origination, congestion analysis, and site acquisition. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from San Francisco State University.
Kris Skrinak, President, adaptiveARC
Kris brings a record of entrepreneurial successes to adaptiveARC that draws on experience from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Before his role as President at adaptiveARC, he held the same position at ClearStation.com, a web-based investment research firm. After 18 months of aggressive growth, Kris guided the sale of the company to E*TRADE Financial (NYSE: ET). Prior to this work, Kris worked at his first start-up, Capital Technologies, which developed SiteRock, an outsource system administration organization of over 100 professionals and FogLight a network monitoring system. FogLight was acquired by Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) and SiteRock by Navisite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI). Before these entrepreneurial ventures, Kris worked at Sun Microsystems and Goldman Sachs, where he moved from mergers and acquisitions to the quantitative strategies group run by Fischer Black where he built one of the first fully electronic trading systems. He received his B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from King’s College.
Registration
The evening includes a hors d'oeuvres reception, and registration is required:
Non-students; business and community members:
$15 registration fee. Non-students register here through our secured registration page.
Student admission is free:
IR/PS students register at IRPSCAREERS.
Non-IR/PS students contact David Robertson at darobertson@ucsd.edu.
The forum is a presentation of Net Impact, the Environmental Policy and Business Forum, and IR/PS.
Click here for driving directions and parking information.
Contact David Robertson at (858) 534-1104 for more information.
