| Aeronautica Windpower is
a manufacturing and marketing company that builds and markets
mid-scale commercial and industrial (225 to 750 Kw) wind
turbines. New Turbines to be
made in the USA! Beginning in the fall of 2010 we will
begin shipping our new 225 and 750 kW turbines that are now manufactured in the United
States. The result will be shorter shipping times and costs in
North America for American-manufactured turbines, combined with a Danish turbine design that has been
proven
around the world since the 1980's.
Our 'Queen-Size' machines are larger and much more cost effective
than residential-scale turbines, but smaller than the
multi-megawatt 'King-Size'
turbines used in large, expansive wind farms. They are the perfect size
for supplying clean electricity to farms, ranches, industrial
parks, commercial complexes and small neighborhoods, or smaller
wind 'parks' of between 2 and 5 Megawatts in size.
We sell to
both end users and the wind energy industry. Through our network
of professional contacts, we can assist
with a full range of engineering, feasibility and support services
in order to provide turnkey projects where needed. If you have
the land and the wind, we can supply everything else you want.
Our R&D efforts in power train and blade technologies are
at the cutting edge of wind power technology, helping to insure
our long term growth in this exploding market.
Key Members of Our Team Jeffrey Warren
(President)
Jeff Warren
is the CEO and is recognized for his leadership and business
planning skills with developing stage businesses. Jeff has
experience as a private equity investor/fund manager, CEO, and
director of several companies, and is also a seasoned
corporate finance lawyer with an unusually wide breadth of
experience. Mr. Warren has recently served in various
management capacities for, or as a strategic advisor to and as
a director of MatrixBio, Inc. (a cancer diagnostics business
using nuclear magnetic resonance technologies to assess
metabolites), Ionz BlueWater Solutions (a water treatment
manufacturer), and Lucerna Bio (a CRO using novel imaging
approaches). Mr. Warren is also on the boards of Patriot
Managed Care Solutions, Inc., Houston; and Clear Medical,
Seattle.
Mr. Warren was previously a partner
in large law firms, among them
American Lawyer
100 firms with international offices. He practiced law for more
than 20 years and has been admitted for over 28 years in Texas,
and is also admitted in Arizona, California and Massachusetts.
Jeff left the large firm practice, to form and act as
co-managing partner of Eaglestone Partners I, LLC, the general
partner to Eaglestone Investment Partners I, L.P., an
institutionally financed private equity fund based in Southern
California. When Eaglestone was fully invested, Jeff returned to
a large law firm and then established his own law and business
consulting practice.
In addition
to the companies mentioned above, Jeff is and has been a member
of the Board of Directors of several private and public
companies, and several not for profit organizations, including
the Old Colony Y which is one of the largest social services
contractors in New England; Jeff sits on the Executive
Committee. Jeff has served as the executive consulting CEO for
Patriot Managed Care and Ionz BlueWater Solutions, and remains
the managing director of Ionz. Jeff is also an advisory director
of the Emerging Innovations Fund housed at Purdue University, an
early stage venture fund, and is also on the Discovery Park
Advisory Board. Mr. Warren is also a member of the National
Panel of Commercial Arbitrators of the American Arbitration
Association, and is a designate to the Complex Investments
program. Mr. Warren is often engaged as a speaker on
entrepreneurship and other business related topics. Jeff earned
his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and a Juris
Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center, both with
honors. Jeff resides in Duxbury, Massachusetts with his wife and
two children.
Jeff.Warren@aeronauticawind.com
Matthew Glynn
(Chairman, Board of Directors)
Mr. Glynn serves as Aeronautica's Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Glynn is also President of Glynn Electric, one of New England's premier industrial electrical contractors,
with over 20 years of experience and over 200 employees. Glynn Electric is also one of Aeronautica Windpower's premier
dealers in the New England market, overseeing feasibility studies, installation and service.
Glynn Electric is
integrally involved in over 20 wind energy projects around
New England. They are experts at utility electrical
interconnections and large systems engineering for shopping
centers, hospitals, apartment buildings, factories and other
commercial/industrial properties.
With its long history and
proven track record, multi-million dollar sales revenues, over
200 valued employees and growing, Glynn Electric is one of the
premier electrical contractors in Massachusetts. Its range of
projects include:
•Medical - Including offices, labs, surgical
suites and hospitals.
•Education - Including dormitories, classrooms
and athletic centers.
•Commercial - Including restaurants, hotels,
retail stores and corporate offices.
•Residential - Including security systems,
complete home wiring and landscape lighting.
•Specialties - Including electrical renovations in
historic churches, ball field lighting, irrigation systems, fire
alarm systems and video surveillance.
Matt.Glynn@aeronauticawind.com
Brian D. Kuhn
(VP of Development,
Co-Founder)
Mr.
Kuhn’s responsibilities at Aeronautica currently include
all new business and product development efforts.
He works with various Wind Working Groups around the
country to promote Community Wind projects and is
instrumental in providing technical expertise to
dealers, customers and affiliates of AW.
Brian holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in ‘Renewable Energy Systems and
Business’, from the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst,
MA (’77). This special (BDIC) degree was a 4 year mix of
Mechanical Engineering and Business studies. During his time at
UMass he studied under Professor William Heronemus, a
noted naval architect and world renowned primary investigator
for off-shore wind systems. He was a member of a small team of
engineers that designed and built the first
UMass Solar Habitat and
Wind Furnace for the Department of Energy. This wind
turbine introduced many innovations, including the use of a 3
bladed, variable pitch rotor and the use of a monopole tower –
features that are now standard in today’s modern wind turbine
designs. The Wind Furnace turbine is currently heading to
a new home at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The wind
turbine and solar habitat later went on to become the highly
respected Renewable Energy Research Laboratory at UMass.
Mr. Kuhn offers the perspective of over 30 years
of product and service development in the fields of Energy, Real
Estate and general marketing. He currently teaches Wind Power
and Solar Energy courses at Cape Cod Community College in
Barnstable, MA. As National Solar Specialist
for Rheem Manufacturing in the early ‘80s, Brian taught
hundreds of distributors and dealers across the country how to
design and install solar hot water systems. He has had
several articles published about solar and wind power. He is a
member of the National Association of Home Builders and
the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. He is also
a past member of the National Association of Realtors,
and is licensed as a real estate broker involved in land
procurement and development projects across the Northeast,
previously licensed as a professional broker in 8 states.
In his hometown of Plymouth,
MA, Mr. Kuhn has served as Chairman for the
Plymouth Energy Committee (PEC), a volunteer advisory
group which reports to the Board of Selectmen. He is the
principal author of ‘Plymouth 2020’, a plan which calls
for virtually all of Plymouth’s Municipal electricity to be
produced by renewable sources in time for the town’s 400th
anniversary .
brian.kuhn@aeronauticawind.com
Tim Stearns
(VP Operations and Manufacturing)
Mr. Stearns
directs the day-to-day operations of Aeronautica and
synchronizes the relationships between AW and our manufacturing
and license partners. Tim
provides over
twenty five years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience
in corporate logistics and supply chain operations, overseeing
all operations and vendor relationships in the supply chain. Mr.
Stearns is integrally involved with licensee relationships, and
procurement operations for all components and sub-components.
Mr. Stearns brings his expertise of logistics, plant and fleet
operations to our company from several previous clients.
His success is due to his keen ability to understand the needs
of both customers and vendors, whether domestic or
international, and bring them together on profitable common
ground.
Tim began his
entrepreneurial business career directly out of college (BSBA,
Thomas College) as Vice President and co-owner of a logistics
firm in New England. In this position, Tim worked extensively
with bidding, negotiating and closing US Government contracts
for the transportation and warehousing of US Navy supplies. Tim
developed strategic policy and processes to comply with
contractual demands due to the high security and time sensitive
nature of the Navy supply chain. He was responsible for the
development and implementation of operational policy to ensure
the highest quality, post-sale service to retail customers.
These policies are designed for optimal budgetary efficiencies,
and replace expensive, inefficient systems.
During his twenty plus years in the logistics
industry, Tim has worked closely with the National and the New
England Motor Freight Bureaus on freight tariffs. He was a
member of the ATA and the Short Haul Carriers association.
Tim.Stearns@aeronauticawind.com
Mike Glynn
(Chief Financial Officer)
Mike Glynn is Chief Financial Officer of
Aeronautica Windpower, LLC. In that capacity he is responsible
for all financial aspects of the company, maintaining
relationships and reporting for banks, bonding companies and
investors. He is also responsible for annual financial reports,
setting budgets, projecting sales targets and establishing
company policy and procedure.
After retiring as an
Officer and Pilot from the U.S. Navy, Mike earned his MBA from
Suffolk University in 2004. Mike's Navy career began after
graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis MD. Prior to
his retirement as a Pilot, Mike was Maritime Patrol
Commander/Instructor Pilot of a P-3 Orion aircraft. He also
served as US Navy Liaison Officer to the Royal Air Force
Maritime Patrol/NATO.
Mike.Glynn@aeronauticawind.com
Shaun Lockett
(National Sales
Manager)
Shaun brings
over 20 years of sales, marketing, business development, and
merchandising expertise to Aeronautica. He is responsible for
driving our worldwide sales efforts—including our inside sales
focus—while building, mentoring, training, and deploying our
sales staff. In addition, he is tasked with the development of
conceptual and tactical global marketing strategies, account
management, and partner channel programs.
Prior to
joining Aeronautica, Shaun led diverse, competitive teams to
sales and marketing success across multiple industries and
verticals: He was the founder of the consulting firm Shaun W.S.
Lockett & Assoc., LLC, which offered clients sales
development/training, e-marketing, and SEO services. His
professional experiences have included diverse senior executive
positions with Brooks Brothers, Garfinckel’s, Tree of Life
Landscapes, Information Workstation Group, Trak Auto
Corporation, The Dart Group, Commerce TV, Marquis Digital
Imaging, Barton & Gray Mariners Club, and FourthLink, Inc.
Shaun is an
award-winning public speaker and seminar leader, and has been
selected twice (2002, 2009) for membership in Cambridge’s
Who’s Who Among Executives, Professionals, and Entrepreneurs.
Shaun holds a
Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University,
and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from George Mason
University.
Shaun.Lockett@aeronauticawind.com
David Wright
(Vice President, Manufacturing)
Mr. Wright is a manufacturing engineer with a specialty in plastics and plastic molding. His first involvement in the wind industry
dates back to the 1970's. David was a principal investigator on a study for mid-range wind turbine blade molding from NREL in 2007
with his partner, the late windpower pioneer Forrest (Woody) Stoddard. Mr. Wright is responsible for manufacturing operations at Aeronautica Windpower, and in hand selecting many of the wind turbines that the company refurbishes.
david.wright@aeronauticawind.com
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