Organizing Team - Nov 2009

malaki (at) stanford (dot) edu

Amy is currently a Master's student in International Policy Studies focusing on energy and environmental policy at Stanford University.

This past summer Amy was a research assistant at Stanford’s Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness where she developed a knowledge base and financial analysis of clean tech companies in Northern California. She has been an associated consultant for A. T. Kearney during which she served technology companies seeking to improve the energy efficiency of data centers. She graduated with a BA in International Studies (Asia) and a BA in Chinese from the University of Washington and has also attended Beijing University and Fudan University in Shanghai. Amy is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Master Gardener, two roles that fit perfectly with her dedication to the principles of sustainability.

Yohei pursues joint MBA/MS in Environment and Resources at Stanford University. Yohei is passionate about clean technology entrepreneurship. Yohei worked for EnerG2 for his summer internship and is the CFO of Environmentally Sustainable Business Club. Prior to Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yohei was an attorney at Uchida & Samejima Law Firm, where he practiced business laws in the combined area of finance, M&A, and intellectual property. Prior to joining Uchida & Samejima Law Firm, Yohei was an attorney at Nishimura & Asahi, where he worked on private equity finance, LBO finance, intellectual property finance, and real estate finance. As an attorney, he worked on various largest finance transactions in Japan and volunteered to defend the alleged socially vulnerable as a court-appointed lawyer. With best professional musicians in Japan, Yohei also co-founded an non-profit organization of educating children with orchestral music performance. Yohei received a bachelor of laws from University of Tokyo, where he passed the Bar Examination in Japan while he was an undergraduate student.

David is a Stanford University Master's degree student in the Management Science and Engineering department. He has worked with renewable energy and climate change from both an academic and commercial perspective, first as a Fulbright Scholar studying Indonesia's electricity market, and more recently in the Jakarta office of EcoSecurities, a pioneering project developer in the global carbon market. His current studies are focused on entrepreneurial technology development for geothermal power. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Earth Systems Program at Stanford University.

hrishikesh.sathawane.2011 (at) anderson (dot) ucla (dot) edu

Hrishi is currently pursuing an MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management (class of 2011) with a focus on Sustainability, Marketing/Strategy and International Management.

He is also working full time at Micron Technology as Engineering Manager. He developed verification environment to test NAND, NOR Flash chips and coordinates team in San Jose, Shanghai and Bangalore. He is currently working on developing OVM verification environment for eMMC, Clear NAND and other Flash products.

Hrishi has an MS in Electrical Engineering, specializing in PhotoVoltaic Solar Cells. He is working in the semiconductor industry for the last 10 years. He wants to turn his passion for CleanTech into a career by leveraging his technical and management skills to address challenges in this Industry.

MBA Candidate Class of 2010, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

David Schoenberg is an MBA candidate (Class of 2010) at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Prior to coming to Haas, he spent five years as a marketing and sales consultant. His studies are focused around the energy sector, in particular smart grid and solar. To that end, he has worked with a variety of different entities, including Siemens, Accurate Solar Power, the German-American Chamber of Commerce, PD Solar and Fundación Chile. Schoenberg earned his Bachelor of Business Administration at Emory University.

Lois has 15 years experience in business development and strategic alliance management. At Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies she led global M&A teams that evaluated and executed more than $300 million in acquisitions and equity investments. She started her career as an Account Executive at AT&T where she consistently exceeded quota selling local area networks, PBX’s, and long distance service. Lois has focused on building resilient third party relationships and designing effective business processes, as well as crafting product and channel strategies for new businesses.

In addition to volunteering with the Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference, Lois volunteers with the Clean Tech Open, plays an active role at two local schools, and is coordinating the San Francisco Bay Area Summer Camp for CISV, a global youth leadership organization. She lives in San Carlos, CA.

Lois holds an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Augie Rakow is an attorney practicing in the Silicon Valley office of the national law firm Alston & Bird, LLP, where he specializes in intellectual property litigation in U.S. federal courts and provides strategic advice for emerging renewable energy and energy efficiency companies.

In 2009, Augie founded and chairs the Harvard Club of San Francisco’s Cleantech Thought Leader Series, a semi-monthly series of public lectures and presentations featuring distinguished leaders in solar energy, wind power, electric transportation, water management and the other fields of clean energy and environmental technology.

Augie has worked in intellectual property for over 10 years, since entering the field in 1998 as a patents translator and prosecution apprentice at one of the leading prosecution boutiques in Tokyo. During that time he translated over 150 patents for Toyota, NEC, Canon, Panasonic and Fujitsu that were successfully filed to the USPTO, including some of the first Japanese business method patents in the fields of finance and music content management. Augie maintains close contacts with members of the bar and bench in Japan.

Augie graduated from U.C. Berkeley with high honors in history in 1995 and pursued graduate studies in theology and intellectual history at Harvard University before becoming an attorney.

He can be reached at augie (dot) rakow (at) alston (dot) com.

Rashmi graduated with MBA Degree in Organizational Leadership in Dec 2008. Her two papers were published - 1 each in Marketing and Finance in the year 2008.

Rashmi started her professional career as an Assistant to Treasury Marketing Officer at Citibank leading to starting her own business and achieving an International exposure. She is currently working as a Product Manager implementing Technical, Business, and Management skills successfully. Her professional goal is to be the ERP Project Manager.

Rashmi holds a record in Limca Book of Records. Website designed by her won two International prizes.

Rashmi was the Director for Club Services I and II of a Rotary Club. She was the Directors’ Advisory Group Member and founder of Student Chapter of Association of IT Professionals at The University of Findlay.

Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2007.
B.S. (Hons), Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, December 2004.

Current research is in design optimization and development of a metallic nanoconcentrator electrode for a lateral multijunction photovoltaic cell. Other research interest lies in optimization of the power grid through dynamic demand response in order to deal with the intermittency of renewable energy sources and hence make them a serious contender against fossil fuels, and also to seriously reduce the number of peaking power plants and spinning reserves we would need to sustain the human population. The aim of bi-way communication at the demand level is to additionally give grassroots efforts an increased role in realizing a healthier and more equitable planet.

Having been educated in one of 3 oldest schools in England, Ramesh graduated in physics from Imperial College, London - Royal College of Science which was merely ~150 years old. Further studies in physics resulted in specialization into Relaxation, the Magnetic Resonance type! This ensured that his BS could be supported with MS, his 'Tale from Canterbury', and became a definitive PhD, thanks to 'William of Ockham' and his razor.

After several years of playing with technology in diverse areas such as radars, smart cards, parallel and distributed processing, ATM networking, image processing, etc and a variety of companies ranging from IBM, ATT Bell Labs and others, he decided that the allure of climbing rock in California could not be resisted further -- particularly if he could put his relaxation expertise into practice. This brought him back to the Pacific shores and also gave the opportunity to shape undergraduate minds at university level in San Francisco -- additionally a magnetic personality and resonating with the market was also put into practice as a telecom market analyst in the areas of the big iron switches and routers. Here he perfected the science and art of balancing market opportunity/dynamics and technology which was much appreciated by all concerned. After evolving and testing this approach further in the field, he became convinced that this version of Ockhams razor is quite effective.

Lately, having seen the light at the end of the quantum tunnel, he has been primarily focused in areas related to energy sources and its channeling and the power within. He hopes to finally reach a state of enlightenment in this field -- so that he can write the definitive treatise on "Zen and the art of Energy". SmartGrid is just a feature in this path which will be treated in the "108 Silicon Valley Tales" variety. As yet to be decided is whether these will be written in C, C++, English, Hindi, Mandarin or other -- perhaps all of the above.

raoramesh (at)ieee (dot) org

Holds a BS in French and has been a social worker. Currently he is interested in long term effects of Climate Change and looking for investments that will help transition the world economy away from Coal and Oil. He is a carpenter and studies and teaches Aikido.

Dick Zeren advises companies selling to the energy industry on strategy, policy, economic analysis, marketing, services, consulting, operations, and technology management. His over 25 years in energy with EPRI, Booz Allen & Hamilton, an energy efficiency start-up, and Siebel Systems’ energy vertical, brings critical insights and understanding to industry executives.

Brian is a software quality engineer focused on ensuring that customers can achieve their goals quickly and effectively. He is interested in the Smart Grid and the potentially world changing impact it can have on all aspects of our lives.

Karen has been providing marketing consulting services since 2002. Her services include marketing research and analysis, marketing program management and sales database management. Her long-time client LifeScan is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. It is a worldwide market leader of glucose monitoring systems. With LifeScan, Karen provides marketing analysis, promotional analysis and manages US Managed Care sales database. Previously, Karen worked for Logic Division of Philips Semiconductors. One of her responsibilities was to manage marketing programs.

Karen is a frequent volunteer for US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC). She recently joined UCGEC Smart Grid task force.

Karen received a Bachelor of International Law from Beijing Foreign Affairs University and a Master of Art in Economics from Mankato State University, Minnesota. Karen taught Cultural Anthropology of China in University of Idaho. She also taught International Business in Mankato State University in Minnesota.

Vrushal is a software product manager specializing in enterprise B2B and SaaS product offerings and strategy. As a product manager and technology consultant his experience spans industries like advertising, digital media, consumer wireless and supply chain management. He is currently consulting at Cisco and volunteering his time at Green Resources Network on a research project on non-solar renewable energy sources. Vrushal holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from Mumbai University, India and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.