Kevin Surace
Chairman
Kevin Surace Inc. Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year, is on a mission to drive energy efficiency in the built environment, bring green jobs and manufacturing back to the United States and bring innovation to industries that had long lost it. As CEO of Serious Materials, Surace leads the company in its mission to reduce energy usage of the world's largest contributor, our buildings.

Before joining Serious Materials in 2002, Surace held executive and technical positions with Perfect Commerce, General Magic, Air Communications, National Semiconductor and Seiko-Epson. He received his degree in electrical engineering technology from Rochester Institute of Technology where he currently serves on the board of trustees, and has been awarded nine patents. Surace also serves on the boards of ArrayPower, Arch Rock and Zeta Communities.

Wendy Arienzo
Wendy Arienzo has extensive experience in the technology development sector, bringing 30 years of technical and management experience in the semiconductor industry to her current position.

Previously, Arienzo worked at some of the leading companies in the technology industry, including IBM, Phillips and NXP Semiconductors. Arienzo began her career in the solar technology development field developing polycrystalline silicon cells in Florence, Italy.

Arienzo has received numerous accolades for her accomplishments and is a sought-after public speaker in the technology sector. She has been recognized by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Center for Economic Growth, a non-profit based in New York state promoting economic growth throughout the state’s capital region.

Arienzo holds a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. She received her combined bachelor’s/master’s degree in materials science engineering from Brown University.

Daniel Shugar
Daniel Shugar has spent over 20 years advancing the renewable energy industry, most recently as president of SunPower Corp., Systems. Prior, during his tenure as president of PowerLight, Shugar oversaw revenue growth from less than $1 million to over $800 million and was responsible for the completion of approximately 500 projects serving commercial, industrial and utility clients worldwide. Shugar has invented various PV system applications, holds multiple U.S. patents and has published over 50 technical papers. Shugar holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.B.A. degree from Golden Gate University.

Don Wood
Don Wood is a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he leads the DFJ Global Network Funds and is a member of DFJ's investment team, with a primary focus on cleantech and IT investing. The DFJ Global Network has grown to include 17 funds managing over $7 billion on four continents, with 140 professionals and hundreds of active portfolio companies. Wood’s cleantech career began with his first post-college job at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., working in the policy planning department. Later he was senior vice president of sales and marketing at International Power Technology, which designed, financed, installed and operated co-generation power plants. Wood also assisted the founders of SunPower (SPWR) in writing their original business plans and raising capital. Wood served on the board and was president of Metricom (MCOM), which provided wireless smart grid systems to utilities and pioneered the first wireless mesh-network Internet service known as Ricochet.

John Moragne
John Moragne is a senior managing director of Trident Capital, and has been with Trident since co-founding the firm in 1993. From 1989 to 1993, Moragne was a principal with Bain Capital, a leveraged buyout firm affiliated with Bain & Co. He was also a principal of Information Partners Capital Fund, a private equity firm associated with Dun & Bradstreet Enterprises and Bain Capital. Earlier in his career, Moragne was a management consultant with Bain & Co.

Moragne’s current directorships include AirTight, Appia, ECO2 Plastics (ECOO.OB), E&C Medical Intelligence, HomeAway, Perfect Escapes (Intagio), Sojern, Turn and Vixxi. He is a board observer to Sabre.

Moragne’s past directorships include Chamberlin-Edmonds Associates (acquired by CharterHouse Group), Datatel (acquired by Hellman & Friedman), MapQuest.com, Inc. (MQST) (acquired by AOL), Newgen Results Corp. (NWGN) (acquired by Teletech Corp. (TTEC)), bamboo.com (acquired by Internet Pictures (IPIX), Daou Systems Inc. (DAOU), Frisco Holdings Inc., Internet Profiles Corp. (acquired by CMGI), Medicode Inc. (acquired by Ingenix, now United Health Group), Resolution Health (acquired by WellPoint) and Vality Technology,Inc. (acquired by Ascential Software (ASCL).

Moragne holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Tim Wilson
Between 1997 and 2001, Tim Wilson was the chief marketing officer for Digital Island (ISLD) a Partech portfolio company. The company was acquired in 2001 for $350 million. Prior to Digital Island, Wilson was a general manager at Lucent Technology, where he led the international voice communications product management team (now Avaya) with P&L for product lines generating over $2 billion in annual sales. Before Lucent, Wilson held a variety of senior management positions within AT&T (North America and Australia) and AT&T Bell Labs from 1983-1995.

His current boards include Invensense (in IPO registration), Prysm, Five9s, LedEngin, ArrayPower  and Acco Semiconductor. Previous investments include Teknovus (Broadcom) and Ario Data (Xyratek).

He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College, receiving his undergraduate degree in physics. He received his M.B.A. degree from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.

Peter Shannon
Board Advisor
Peter Shannon is a managing director at Firelake Capital Management. He is focused on early stage investments in renewable energy, technologies improving use and delivery of natural resources, and other innovations on mature industries. Prior to Firelake, he was a principal at Atlas Venture, where he focused on solar, grid-scale energy storage, industrial energy efficiency, solid state data storage and related software investments. Over his time at Atlas, he served as an observer on the boards of Advanced Electron Beams, Simple Tuition, MiaSole, Songbird, Active Endpoints, Pixtronix and Lilliputian Systems. Shannon holds an M.B.A., with High Honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree, with Distinction, in systems engineering from the University of Virginia.