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New Energy Congress Scouting for Key Leadership
In expanding from a volunteer organization to a due diligence
corporation supporting the financing and business development of the most
promising clean energy technologies, the NEC is looking for individuals to fill
the primary leadership roles.
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The New Energy Congress (NEC), which brings you the Top
100 Energy Technologies listing, and which helps screen for worth-while,
cutting-edge, clean energy news and technologies to be featured at the various
PES Network Inc sites (ref, ref,
ref, ref),
is in process of attaining $1.25 million dollars to expand from a volunteer
organization into a due diligence corporation more able to facilitate the
emergence of the most promising new energy technologies.
In this upgrade, the NEC plans to do more matching of funding to fledgling
technologies of merit. They also plan to provide more business incubation
services to help the new companies launch successfully.
They are presently looking to fill several key positions for this roll-out,
including CTO, CFO, Academy Dean, VP of Sales and Marketing, and VP of IT.
All of these will interface with the ongoing volunteer force presently
assembled. In addition to the skills needed for the particular roles,
significant experience in start-ups and interest in exotic alternative energy
will be a primary consideration in making the selection of these individuals.
What sets the NEC apart is its focus on exotic energy technologies that work,
but which get overlooked by mainstream organs because they appear to defy
presently-understood laws of physics. The NEC is of the opinion that some
of the most revolutionary breakthroughs are likely to come from such
outside-the-box approaches -- solutions that could help make our dependence on
fossil fuels obsolete.
The following openings will be full-time, salaried positions.
The Chief Technology Officer's duties will include:
- Be the general expert on all renewable energy topics, especially the
exotic kind.
- Should be a subject-matter expert in at least one major alternative energy technical area (e.g. solar, wind, ZPE, ocean/wave/hydro, etc).
- Manage the Technical Advisory Board.
- Coordinate the assignment of specialty energy topics to specific
volunteers in the NEC.
- Recommend the dispersal of stipends to the most active volunteers to cover
their expenses.
- Gradually hire several full-time technology specialists.
- Coordinate the organized aggregation of information at PESWiki.com.
- Oversee the vetting and validation of the best technologies in the Top
100 list.
- Source measurement equipment (to purchase, rent, or borrow) to use for
testing.
- Oversee the care of NEC lab equipment.
- Hire a Lab Engineer in Q3 2008 to handle the testing and replication of
technologies.
- Oversee the identification of the most deserving and needy technologies
for business expertise and funding match-up.
- Recommend which conferences NEC personnel should attend.
- Oversee the Academy Dean's functions.
The Academy Dean should have a doctorate
degree, preferably related to alternative energy or related technical areas; and
should be a subject-matter expert in at least one major alternative energy
technical area (e.g. solar, wind, ZPE, ocean/wave/hydro, etc). The Academy Dean's duties will include:
- In the first quarter, create six 10-minute videos to introduce the NEC.
- Oversee the creation of courses on working clean energy technologies,
focusing on the exotic variety that are not being addressed by mainstream
academia.
- Use the PESWiki.com venue
for creating, organizing, and hosting the instructional material.
- Organize the physical presentation of course material, first at
conferences and symposia, then at colleges and universities.
- Coordinate and facilitate the open
source projects. Help develop the material so it is clear, complete, and current.
- Coordinate the development of models and kits for key open source
projects.
- Hire a Manager in Q3 2009 to oversee the open source projects.
- Consult for the ongoing video projects.
- Help compile the NEC technical materials into reports and books.
- Plays a consulting role in customer
engagements with focus on technical due diligence and testing.
The Chief Financial Officer's duties will include:
- Coordinate with the volunteer NEC Capital Resources Committee to
scrutinize various funding sources to know which would be the best match for
a given energy technology funding need.
- Oversee the dispersal of stipends to the most active volunteers to cover
their expenses.
- Match up funding sources with technologies, and know and comply with the
laws regarding the same.
- Match up business talent with technologies, to provide an incubator
service.
- Plays a consulting role in customer engagements with focus on due diligence, preparation of documentation required for funding (business plans; investor presentations), helping client companies get ready to raise funds.
- Establish a customer database to plug customers into emerged technologies.
- Establish and maintain a strategic partnerships with an investment
brokerage firm.
- Coordinate the sales of NEC open source project models and kits.
- Incorporate the NEC.
- Oversee the site selection for the headquarters.
- Oversee the headquarters build-out.
- Oversee human resources.
- Management of legal affairs and contracts.
- Oversee operations, including receptionist, secretaries, security.
- Hire Receptionist/Secretary in Q2 2008.
- Hire a Grant Coordinator in Q1 2009. (There is a need for a grant coordinator who can help find and prepare grant applications to help promising technologies find research funding.
Many are not ready for investment capital, so grants are a major source of early money to test concepts and develop prototypes.)
- Hire Funding Specialist in Q1 2010
- Manage bank account and payroll.
- Oversee accounts receivable and accounts payable.
- Oversee tax return filings.
- Serve as primary contact with the company's investors. (Quarterly briefings of investors on company projects and due diligence reports on technologies found and companies evaluated.)
A background in marketing, sales, and media content creation will be far more important
for the Vice President of Sales and Marketing than a background in alternative energy.
This person's duties will include:
- Establish and oversee advertising relationships.
- Oversee store operations, identifying new products to feature, vendor
relations, sales performance tracking.
- Obtain customers; close sales.
- Create content to support marketing efforts.
- Hire Store Manager in Q4 2009.
- Oversee the development of booth resources for conferences.
- Help with video presentations, focusing on entertainment value.
- Hire Videographer in Q1 2010.
- Oversee site design to ensure that it is user friendly, visually
appealing, and contains the most fruitful social networking aspects such as
ease of commenting and personal profile development.
The Vice President of Information Technology's duties will include:
- Oversee the hardware and software purchase, installation, and maintenance
issues.
- Oversee website hosting accounts.
- Oversee the programming of the Top 100 Energy Technologies voting,
tallying, and presentation, including user-friendly interfaces for NEC
members and for the public.
- Oversee the programming of general site functions such as comments, ad
display, flash animations, navigation.
- Oversee the proper function and implementation of PESWiki capabilities.
- Farm out the necessary tasks to accomplish these purposes.
- Hire a Programmer in Q1 2009.
- Support CFO in maintaining internal financial reporting, project management, and collaboration systems.
The NEC is
planning on headquartering in Portland, Oregon, due to the local support there
of all things green. Most of the above personnel will need to be situated
at the headquarters.
Those who wish to inquire about or submit a CV or Resume for one of the above
positions should send an email to Sterling
D. Allan, founder of the NEC. Applicants should specify which
position is being sought, list credentials applicable to that position, indicate
experience in start-ups and in alt. energy, include at least three references
and a photo, and indicate whether the candidate is willing to relocate to
Portland.
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Special thanks to Dr.
Richard P. George, who provided substantial guidance.
See also
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Page composed by Sterling
D. Allan January 1, 2008
Last updated February 01, 2008
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