eConference 2011 - HOT MARKETS: Clean Tech

The Darden School of Business and its Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation held it's annual Entrepreneurship Conference on November 3rd & 4th, 20011in Charlottesville, Virginia. This year's conference theme: "Innovate. Effectuate." unraveled the mysteries behind successful entrepreneurs and innovators and provided the framework for applying their strategies to build a viable business.

The first panel of the afternoon session was on Clean Tech and was moderated by Michael Lenox, Director of the Batten Institute.

Panelists were:

-- Scott Green, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Marz Industries, a Richmond, Virginia company which develops and manufactures hydrogen fuel cell-based systems designed to reduce fuel consumption and emissions for the transportation industry.

-- Matthew Hantzmon, co-founder and chief operating officer of HelioSage, a solar energy development company. Hantzmon is also a founder of Columbia Power Technologies and previously was managing director of Greenlight Energy, a wind energy power producer sold to BP Alternative Energy.

-- Mark Miller, co-founder and CEO of award-winning, San Francisco-based architecture firm MKThink. Prior to MKThink, Miller was founder and CEO of successful clean tech start-up firm Project FROG.

-- Manoj Sinha, co-founder of Husk Power Systems, a globally lauded business that was launched in Darden's business incubator. Husk uses discarded risk husks to provide power to approximately 150,000 people in rural India

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