Sustainable Housing and its Technology

Financing Sustainable Housing and its Technology - How does it work, how do you stay alive and survive to profitability? Is the return on investment there to change an industry?

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Is your passion the rapidly growing business of sustainable housing technology & design?

Do sites like BluHomes.com, Inhabitat.com, Ekotrope.com, Treehugger.com, and 360Chestnut.com inspire the potential to revolutionize the housing environment?

Are you an innovator or entrepreneur interested in how to attract investors in sustainable housing design and its technology?

Freddie Mac values the US housing stock at $16.4 Trillion. In McGraw-Hill's latest SmartMarket Report: ‘World Green Building Trends" indicates firms are shifting their business toward green building, with 51 percent of respondents planning more than 60 percent of their work to be green by 2015. This is a significant increase from the 28 percent that said the same for their work in 2013 and double the 13 percent in 2008.

How can a startup or innovator successfully meet the 3 challenges of raising investment, delivering attractive returns while meeting sustainability goals? How have successful businesses survived and become profitable? What are the challenges, pitfalls, alternative and successful strategies to success?

In our next Forum our Panel will delve into these questions and more. Please join us for an evening of making the sustainable house a financial reality.

SPEAKERS:

Ryan Dings Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Blu Homes, Inc. Blu Homes is the leading provider of premium prefab homes in North America. Ryan is responsible for managing the company’s legal and regulatory matters and advising its board of directors. In addition, Ryan also serves as a member of Blu Homes’ executive team and relies on his background in law and design to provide both sound legal counsel and actionable guidance to the company’s leadership. Prior to joining Blu, Ryan practiced law in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he focused his practice on residential real estate development.
Ryan earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law and his Master in Design Studies (with a concentration in real estate) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Ryan is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, U.S. Green Building Council, and Association of Corporate Counsel, and he lives with his wife Kate and daughter Ava in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Ziv Rozenblum, Founder and CEO, Ekotrope. Ekotrope uses an MIT based technology created for NASA to allow production builders to make smarter design choices. Some of the top builders in the US already use Ekotrope to quickly examine all design options and identify the most cost-effective way to meet energy related goals. As a result of using Ekotrope, a typical client reduces construction costs by thousands of dollars per unit while increasing energy efficiency and reducing decision time for design choices from months to minutes.
Ziv is an MIT Sloan graduate, industry executive (HP, ARCHIBUS) with over 18 years of experience in R&D and business capacities. Experience includes defining, building and leading a multimillion solution for managing buildings and energy systems.

Harold Simansky, CEO and cofounder, 360Chestnut.
Before that he was a cofounder and VP of Sales & Marketing for Green Guild of MA, LLC, a full-service energy audit and home weatherization company that has helped some 1000 MA home owners make their homes more energy efficient. Earlier, Harold was the developer of one of the first green, LEED-certified residential buildings in the Boston-area. Harold also has experience in the world of finance and as a consultant with Bain & Company. He is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Brandeis University.

Dr. Makarand H. Chipalkatti, Sr. Dir. SSL & Emerging Market Initiatives, OSRAM SYLVANIA INC.
Dr. Makarand “Chips” Chipalkatti was till recently Senior Director, Solid State Lighting (SSL) and Emerging Market Initiatives for OSRAM SYLVANIA. Since March 2010 his primary focus was on execution of innovation, SSL standards and public advocacy as an SSL evangelist for OSRAM. Chips received a Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Eng. from Univ. of Massachusetts and a B.Tech Chem. Eng. from IIT Bombay. Chips began his professional career with GTE Laboratories and later joined OSRAM SYLVANIA (A Siemens Company). His work included research on advanced materials and organic light sources. Chips transitioned from technology development to commercial execution in 2000, when he led the start-up of OSRAM’s LED lighting business in North America. Since 2005, Dr. Chips led the Strategic Innovation Management function for OSRAM SYLVANIA and continued to serve as a key member of OSRAM’s global innovation community. Chips’ role as a corporate entrepreneur has led to several new business initiatives and open innovation projects. Dr. Chips has also played a pioneering role in the SSL industry as an industry leader in various trade bodies. Dr. Chips has launched an independent practice focusing on industry transformation, innovation and entrepreneurship with special emphasis on the commercialization of innovation. He serves as an industry consultant for product, services and business strategy targeting the technology intensive verticals including the emerging Ecosystem of Solid State Lighting.

Marc A. Guy, Co-Founder & CEO, Faze1, Inc., Ambassador for the Clean Tech Open

Faze1 is the leading source of consumer data and market intelligence for the solar PV industry. Faze1 provides enterprise analytic technologies to businesses to help optimize their sales and marketing strategies. Faze1’s first product, SunVIEW, is a map-based web application that drives greater sales productivity by identifying high value customers with unmatched relevance, accuracy, and speed. With SunVIEW, businesses are able to dramatically reduce their costs of acquiring customers by focusing resources on prospective customers that represent real opportunities.

Marc earned his B.A. from St. Lawrence University and his M.B.A. from Babson College. He has more than 8 years experience in startups and the solar energy industry. Marc has been directly involved in the successful completion of over $100 million in distributed generation solar projects throughout North America.

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Moderator:

Frederic Bowne, Principle, Aristata, LLC.
Fred is working on the Living House Project and BCP/DR Technology Collaborative. The Living House project facilitates sustainable design and finance in housing to help mitigate impact from climate change. The BCP/DR Technology Collaborative provides a central point for continuity and recovery planning professionals to solve shared technology challenges in disaster resiliency. Fred has over 20 of years experience in technology and investing. Aristata also helps startups and growth companies with organization, planning and strategy. Fred has also worked with government and non-profit organizations. Key areas of interest are investment strategy, technology research, risk analysis, project management (PMP), business continuity, and cyber security.

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