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A seasoned strategy advisor for large corporations and growth stage companies in energy, utilities, chemicals and industrial sector, looking to support climate tech companies to scale their business and positive impact.

While working at Tesla, Apple, and Instrumental, I’ve visited over 32 factories in 8 countries. Along the way I’ve noticed that every manufacturer is suffering from the same 5 problems. I hope the next generation of climatetech solutions can skip those challenges.

Rina Shin is a New York-based CMF Design Consultant, educator, and founder of Unwrap CMF – an online education platform to promote CMF Design (color, material, finish). As the former Head of CMF Design at Motorola, a Lenovo company, Rina has led the team successfully delivering iF and Red Dot award-winning products to the market. With over 14 years of global experiences at Fortune 500 companies and a M.A. in data science from Columbia University, presently, Rina has been helping global companies in crafting CMF strategies and trend-watching insights. Key clients and partners include Logitech, WGSN, and Women in Design IDSA.

40+ years taking successfully innovation to market. Fortune 100 Exec., Cornell CleanTech Startup CEO, NYSERDA and Launch NY EIR, NYSERDA Innovation Advisor, Grow NY Mentor, Engineering Undergrad, Business Masters. Inventor and Investor.

Mitch served as President and co-founder of IPS, a large, multi-functional product development professional services company. The IPS team serves many large corporate clients including Zebra Technologies, Becton Dickinson, Anheuser Busch, L3 Communications, Pepsi, Google, Verizon and Steinway as well as many more early stage and mid-size established clients. Mitch’s present role is as a strategy and business development consultant to IPS several years after the sale of IPS. The career at IPS followed a long, successful career at Symbol Technologies (now Zebra Technologies) where he served as Vice President of Engineering. Mitch is a recognized visionary and expert in smart, connected devices known as the Internet of Things. He has a long-established record of having built and run high performance engineering organizations working in innovation-driven advanced development as well as technology product development.

Besides his corporate record, Mitch is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Tesla Science Center in Wydencliff and is long term member of the Dean’s Engineering Advisory Board at New York Institute of Technology.

Mitch has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in NY as well as an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in NJ. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Science from Hofstra University.

Data-driven marketer with experience scaling brands, product lines, & programs for start-ups & small businesses. 15 years of experience bringing products to market, with a proven track record for leading go-to-market strategy, branding, e-commerce, growth & product marketing.

Jim LoGerfo is a finance professional with board experience who has closed over $1 billion of transactions. He has invested in and advised cleantech companies for more than two decades. His expertise includes financial modeling, cost accounting, and raising capital.

Started my career as an EE working on security and access control systems. I’ve since worked as a program, and product manager in the IoT, Medical Device, and PropTech markets. Hardware is my passion. I enjoy working with people whose passion is using hardware to affect change in the world.

Veteran cleantech entrepreneur accelerating startups from whiteboard to mass adoption. Grounds big vision with operational pragmatism – securing efficiencies and customer promises sustaining competitive edges. If you need inspired outcomes benefiting people and planet, let’s connect!

Jacob grew up with a passion for design and making. After a path focused on Graphic Design in Graduate School, he found himself re-focused on the craft of making and manufacturing — apprenticing with a fine furniture maker. This led Jacob to build a passion for the business side of manufacturing with an understanding of the design and work done ‘on the floor’.

After running his own successful design/build studio, Jacob began developing programs for customer engagement, business development and partnerships at the Global Autodesk Technology Centers. During his time at Autodesk, he developed the skills he now uses to help clients achieve their goals.

After relocating to New York, Jacob further focused his efforts on supporting manufacturers by joining ITAC — the NYC MEP — followed by a startup, building an advanced control platform for robotics. He has since co-founded and is the Executive Director of the New York Robotics Network, a non-profit robotics cluster.

Jacob has always had his finger on the pulse of industry and his persistence, with an eye towards progress, is second to none. His passion and focus is to support the growth of emerging technologies in manufacturing and industry. He has a photographic memory and is not afraid to use it.