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Andrew Perlman |
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Andrew Perlman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of GreatPoint Energy. Since co-founding the Company in 2004, Mr. Perlman has been deeply involved in all aspects of its growth, driving the development of its technology and building a highly experienced team which marries both scientific and commercial expertise. As CEO, he also has lead responsibility for the development and execution of all capital projects. Mr. Perlman is an entrepreneur who has successfully co-founded six venture-backed companies. Prior to founding GreatPoint Energy, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company which was purchased by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). In 1995, Mr. Perlman founded Cignal Global Communications, a pioneer in voice over data network communications, and served as President until its sale in 2000 to one of the largest cable operators in Europe. Mr. Perlman sits on the Board of GreatPoint Ventures, an investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies. He was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of Massachusetts’ most promising business people and has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal as a leading young entrepreneur. |
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Avi Goldberg |
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Avi Goldberg, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for managing all business development, legal, financial, and operational planning functions for the Company. In this role, he ensures that a wide-range of core activities are properly prioritized and resourced, enabling their successful execution. With a decade of experience in multiple sectors, Mr. Goldberg brings a unique blend of strategic project management skills and entrepreneurial spirit to the Company. In 2001, Mr. Goldberg co-founded Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company developing novel polymer materials for use in the semiconductor industry. As the Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of Directors, he was instrumental in assembling the executive team, securing venture and debt financing, and negotiating the purchase of the company in June 2003 by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD). From 1998 through 2000, Mr. Goldberg served as Director of Worldwide Sales and Profit Optimization for Cignal Global Communications, a pioneer in voice over data network communications, where he managed global sales and cost containment for Cignal’s core business units, generating over $50 million a year in revenue. In addition to GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Goldberg is a Partner at GreatPoint Ventures, a specialized investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies. Mr. Goldberg also sits on the Board of Zafgen, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing obesity therapy. Mr. Goldberg graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Political Science and Strategic Intelligence. |
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Daniel P. Goldman |
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Daniel Goldman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, brings 20 years of energy industry experience in strategy, corporate and project finance, project development, policy as well as private equity and venture capital investing. He joined GreatPoint Energy in July 2006 and oversees finance, accounting, strategic planning, risk management, public affairs and policy initiatives, and business development for the company. Mr. Goldman led GreatPoint's $103 million preferred stock sale, one of the largest venture investment deals ever completed in the clean tech sector and overall one of the largest venture deals of 2007. He has also led negotiations of multiple strategic relationships with investors and partners for joint development of projects and the purchase and sale of feedstock and natural gas. Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, from 2002-2006, Mr. Goldman was a co-founder and served as Chief Financial Officer of New Energy Capital Corp., one of the first funds focused exclusively on investments in clean energy projects (renewable energy, renewable fuels and distributed generation). Mr. Goldman developed New Energy Capital's clean energy project investment strategy, assembled the team, and raised equity from a venture capital firm and the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), and also secured several hundred million of non-recourse project finance. He oversaw New Energy Capital's eight investments from its formation in 2004, including development of and equity participation in three biofuels projects, which were later sold at an attractive multiple of invested capital. From 1996-2001, Mr. Goldman held regional and corporate senior management development and finance positions in Hong Kong and Boston at InterGen, a leading power generation company co-owned by the Bechtel Group and Royal/Dutch Shell. While at InterGen, he was actively involved in over $4 billion of project development, acquisitions and non-recourse financings, and also played a key role in strategy formulation and operational management of the global business. Prior to InterGen, he held positions of increasing responsibility as a senior member of the global energy consulting team at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge and Singapore from 1989-1996, including Director of the Asia Pacific Energy Consulting practice based in Singapore from 1992-1996. Mr. Goldman has played a founding role in several other companies and funds. He is a co-founder of Minuteman Wind, a New England-based wind development company; a co-founder of MMA Renewable Ventures energy efficiency business (the predecessor to Metrus Energy, an energy efficiency finance firm); a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Clean Energy Venture Group, an early stage clean tech investment fund which has a portfolio of six investments; and senior advisor to Asia Environmental Partners, a $250M Asia-focused private equity fund managed by Olympus Capital. Mr. Goldman serves on the Board of Directors of Sunrise Ridge Algae, a renewable fuels company, and is a Board Observer to Next Step Living, a residential energy efficiency company, and OutSmart Power Systems, a building energy management solutions company. He is also a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England (www.e2.org), a business advocacy group linked to NRDC. Mr. Goldman received a B.S. from Cornell and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and he serves on Cornell University's undergraduate Business Advisory Council. |
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Donald B. Anthony, Sc.D. |
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Donald Anthony, Sc.D., Chief Technology Officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for the Company’s technology strategy, engineering, research, technical project development, operations and licensing. He brings more than 30 years of executive and technology management experience from the energy, chemical, engineering, construction and manufacturing industries. Dr. Anthony has spent his entire career involved in the coal gasification process, ranging from research & development, to commercial design and plant operation. Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, Dr. Anthony served as President and Executive Director of the Council for Chemical Research, a 25 year old non-profit organization consisting of 30 leading chemical industry companies, 140 leading research universities, and 10 national laboratories. During his tenure, he was responsible for overall leadership and strategic direction, engaging in an active advocacy role for new energy solutions, including coal gasification. In 2001, Dr. Anthony served as President, CEO and Director of NineSigma, a rapidly growing entrepreneurial company providing proprietary tools to facilitate industry transition to an “open innovation” environment. He brought the company to cash breakeven in two years and negotiated a strategic alliance with Procter & Gamble. In 1998, Dr. Anthony was named President and COO of ABB’s $550 million U.S. process automation business, having previously served as President and COO of the Bailey Controls Company, a $300 million global supplier of automation technology. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Anthony held a number of management positions at Bechtel, including Vice President, petroleum and chemicals technology, in which he was charged with overseeing the Company’s gasification efforts including (i) engineering design, construction, and start-up for Phase II of Tennessee Eastman coal gasification plant, (ii) engineering design, construction, and start-up for the TECO IGCC plant (Dr. Anthony was a member of Project Steering Committee), and (iii) forming strategic alliances with Conoco, Texaco and Shell to promote petroleum coke gasification; Vice President of Asia Pacific Operations; and Vice President of Worldwide Refining. Dr. Anthony completed his doctoral research on coal gasification at M.I.T. While on the M.I.T. chemical engineering faculty, he was consultant to one of the first fluid bed coal gasification technologies, FMC’s COED process. In 1975 he joined Standard Oil to start a coal conversion research program. Five years later, he became manager of Standard Oil’s commercial development efforts in synthetic fuels. These efforts included sponsorship of the Texaco Cool Water Demonstration project and partnership in the Hampshire Coal Gasification project. In 1985, he was named Vice President of Standard Oil R&D. Two years later, he became Vice President of BP America Research. Dr. Anthony is a member of the University of Chicago Review Committee for the Energy Portfolio of the Argonne National Laboratory. He is a past member of the National Research Council’s Energy Engineering Board and participated in a number of evaluations of coal gasification readiness and economics. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Glennan Microsystems Initiative and was an Executive Council member of the Northeast Ohio Regional Technology Coalition (NorTech). He is also a past member of the M.I.T. Department of Chemical Engineering Visiting Committee. Dr. Anthony received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo and his S.M. and Sc.D. from M.I.T. |
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William E. Preston |
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William E. (Bill) Preston is the Executive Vice President of Engineering & Development. Mr. Preston has had a 25-year career in gasification, beginning as a design start-up and operations engineer with Texaco and culminating in the leadership of ChevronTexaco's gasification business unit as its Senior Vice President and General Manager. Along the way, Mr. Preston was directly involved in, and responsible for, more than twenty-five gasification projects from conception to successful operations. He successfully led the development of two petroleum coke gasification projects with development budgets of $20 million each. Bill led Texaco's successful project development effort of the Polk Power Station, an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant owned by the Tampa Electric Company. Bill also led several other successful project development efforts for gasification-based cogeneration projects for Texaco throughout North America, including those in Texaco-owned refineries. Bill was responsible for the execution of a multi-plant gasification agreement with Exxon, and he led Texaco's project development efforts on Exxon gasification projects in Baytown, Texas and in Singapore. Later, Mr. Preston was the Director of IGCC Commercialization for GE Energy, where he was responsible for global IGCC product development. In this capacity, Bill successfully negotiated GE's collaboration with Bechtel to execute the IGCC offering, and initiated the development of ongoing projects with American Electric Power and with Duke. Mr. Preston received a B.A., Chemistry from Pomona College in California, and an M.S., Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas (Austin). |
