2007 Cleantech Awards recipients

Cleantech Leaders of the Year – 2007
Sir Nicholas Stern
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Sir Nicholas Stern is a distinguished British economist and academic and was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003. During his recent tenure with Her Majesty’s Government as Second Permanent Secretary Treasury, Sir Stern evaluated the effects of climate change on global economics. His groundbreaking research led to the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, which provides a clear economic case and roadmap for policy-makers that higher investments in clean technologies in the short-term would lead to reduced economic disruption.

Jesse Fink, Managing Partner and Founding Sponsor
MissionPoint Capital Partners
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MissionPoint is an investor in solar company SunEdison and other energy firms. Despite beginning his career as a forest and land manager for Georgia-Pacific, Fink was the founding Chief Operating Officer of priceline.com, running operations from inception through IPO. He and his wife Betsy also established and run Millstone Farm, which produces organic produce and sells it to local markets & restaurants.

Bob Epstein, co-founder
E2, New Resource Bank and Sybase
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Bob Epstein currently splits his professional time between his roles as co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs, Director of New Resource Bank and Trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Epstein was Vice Chairman of California's Economic and Technology Advancement Advisory Committee for AB 32. Epstein is a co-founder of five companies: Sybase, New Resource Bank, GetActive Software, Zight and Britton-Lee. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Cleantech Emerging Enterprise of the Year – 2007
Renewable Energy Corporation
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Renewable Energy Corporation is focused on the latest innovations in solar energy and is one of the fastest growing cell and module companies in Europe. The company is the world’s largest producer of solar grade polysilicon wafers. Renewable Energy Corporation is the only international provider of products that address the full value chain of the solar energy market.

SunEdison
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Solar project developer SunEdison is a large North American solar energy services provider. The company provides solar-generated energy to a broad and diverse client base of commercial, municipal and utility customers. It develops projects customers, retains ownership of the assets and leases power to its customers.

Cleantech Pioneer Award Winner – 2007
Marcel Brenninkmeijer; founder and CEO, Good Energies, Inc.
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Brenninkmeijer's Good Energies is a private investment firm focused on solar photovoltaic and wind energy investments. The firm currently holds investments along the solar PV value chain, from silicon feedstock supply to the wafer, cell and module production with additional investments in North American wind developers. Before establishing Good Energies in 2001, Brenninkmeijer was advisor to Anthos Consult in Amsterdam and held a number of management positions with C&A, an international fashion retailer.

Most Promising Technology – 2007
Serious Materials
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Since being recognized by attendees at the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, CO2-free drywall maker Serious Materials has received serious attention. Founded in 2002 and intially backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, it subsequently raised a $50 million Series B round, in which New Enterprise Associates and Foundation Capital.

ChromoGenics Sweden AB
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ChromoGenics is developing electrochromic Smart Window technology based on thin plastic foils that change their transmittancy of light and heat radiation by the application of a low electrical voltage. The company's main office and development center is in Uppsala. Shortly after presenting at the Cleantech Forum in Frankfurt, ChromoGenics announced a $6M investment round.

Prism Solar
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Attendees of the 2007 Cleantech Forum in Toronto voted Prism Solar's holographic optical solar concentration the most promising technology of the conference. Prism collects and spectrally selects useful wavelengths from sunlight and focuses them onto solar cells to create electricity.

Horizon Fuel Cell
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Fuel cell maker Horizon has been playing with toys. Fuel cell-related toys, that is. The company has made a name for itself by developing and shipping the most popular fuel cell-powered toys in the world. Now, it's developing higher powered products targeting emergency power, recreation, industrial, light transport and aerospace applications.

YLX Corporation
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YLX develops solid-state lighting systems based on LED and laser technologies. It is initially focused on projection display applications because of their high brightness, long lamp life, color fidelity and reduced power consumption. Future applications include automotive headlamps and industrial lighting. YLX keeps its systems cost competitive by using standard commercial-off-the-shelf LEDs as opposed to requiring a custom semiconductor fab facility.