HydroPoint Executives & Directors |
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EXECUTIVES
Chris Spain
President and CEO
Chris Spain is president and CEO of HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc., providers of WeatherTRAK water management solutions. Mr. Spain co-founded HydroPoint in 2002 with the long-term vision of providing intelligent water management for sustained conservation and cost savings. HydroPoint is now regarded as a proven leader in clean technology, with top-tier venture and strategic partnerships. Under Mr. Spain's direction, the Company helps many thousands of customers collectively save a billion gallons of water each year.
Mr. Spain has over 20 years of experience successfully managing cutting-edge technology, media and information services companies. Previously, he headed Shaman Corporation, which he co-founded in 1996. Shaman Corporation provided mission critical IT data services to such leading companies as Hambrecht & Quest, DLJ, Lockheed, Department of Education and Intuit.
In early 2000, Mr. Spain successfully sold Shaman to Corporate Software and Technology, one of the country's largest corporate software resellers. Prior to Shaman Corporation, Mr. Spain was President of Accelerated Media, a broadcast and interactive media company that produced the Discovery Channel's science- and technology-based "Know Zone" program, for which Mr. Spain received an Emmy award. Accelerated Media created one of the first interactive TV/website systems, later adapted by the Discovery Channel for other programs. In addition, Mr. Spain led multimedia projects for NBC, Apple, Pacific Bell and Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios, among other clients. Prior to Accelerated Media, Mr. Spain won numerous awards for direction and design as a Special Projects Producer for Chronicle Broadcasting in San Francisco. His work focused on live, national television shows that blended complex technology integration with large-scale project coordination, honing an ability that serves him well at HydroPoint, where he leads the Company in delivering enterprise-wide water management solutions for a wide variety of industries.
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Chris Ciauri
Senior Vice President, Sales and Services
Chris Ciauri leads HydroPoint’s sales organization, which includes sales, professional services and alliances. Reporting directly to HydroPoint President and CEO Chris Spain, Mr. Ciauri is responsible for developing and executing sales strategy and growing the Company’s revenue.
Mr. Ciauri brings over 17 years of technology sales and general management experience to HydroPoint. Prior to joining the Company, he led strategic marketing and revenue generation initiatives as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Valen Technologies. While serving as Regional Director for Adobe Systems, Mr. Ciauri expanded Adobe’s footprint in the enterprise market by building an organization which grew revenue and pipeline by over 100% and established key industry reference accounts as a foundation for growth. As Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific and Latin America for E.piphany, Mr. Ciauri had full P&L responsibility including the strategic direction of the company in those markets. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ciauri held a variety of sales management and operations management positions at Peoplesoft in both the US and Latin America. During his tenure, Peoplesoft expanded in size from 600 employees to over 7,000 while it grew annual revenue from $100M to over $1.5B.
Mr. Ciauri holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a B.S. in finance from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. Mr. Ciauri, who has lived and worked in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, speaks Spanish and French.
An active contributor in his San Francisco Bay Area community, Mr. Ciauri sits on the board of the Seneca Center, a non-profit organization which provides a broad range of care and services to acutely troubled children and their families.
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Robert Torre
Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations
As senior vice president of finance and operations, Robert Torre is responsible for all aspects of HydroPoint's finance and operations, both in the U.S. and internationally. He is charged with managing the Company's financial operations, supply chain management and implementing enterprise systems to support the company's rapid growth.
Mr. Torre brings more than twenty years of experience in managing financial as well as overall operations to his role at HydroPoint. Previously, he served as vice president and general manager of multi-national corporation Avery Weigh-Tronix, an ISO 9001-certified manufacturer of precision measurement devices where he steered the turnaround of an international division to reach profit levels that exceeded projections by more than 35%.
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Peter Carlson
Vice President, Web and Data Services
Vice President of Web and Data Services, Peter Carlson, has extensive experience building complex data systems, highly scalable web portals and managing large scale technology projects.
Most recently Mr. Carlson served as vice president of engineering at the Shaman Corporation where he managed a team in the development of a cutting edge information service portal serving Fortune 1000 companies. Additionally, Mr. Carlson has managed and engineered the development of enterprise and desktop software applications that were nominated for several industry awards, such as the CODIE, for innovation and performance.
Prior to the Shaman Corporation, Mr. Carlson held key roles at the University of California at Berkeley's College of Chemistry and Environment, Health & Safety Department managing university wide air quality programs and the university's chemical inventory tracking.
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Chris Manchuck
Vice President, Business Services
Chris Manchuck founded HydroPoint Data Systems along with Chris Spain in 2002. As vice president of business services, Mr. Manchuck is responsible for strategic partner development, training and support programs.
Mr. Manchuck has over a decade of experience managing media, technology and data services strategies for Fortune 500 companies. Most recently Mr. Manchuck served as vice president of content development at the Shaman Corporation where he was successful in securing partnerships with over 200 leading software publishers, including Microsoft, Adobe and Symantec, for inclusion in the Shaman service. Additionally, he helped secure and manage relationships with Fortune 1,000 companies and governmental agencies, including DLJ and the Department of Education.
Prior to the Shaman Corporation, Mr. Manchuck served as technical producer for the Discovery Channel where he secured strategic partnerships with Apple Computers, Xerox and Silicon Graphics, among others. In addition, he managed operations, financing and production for multiple Emmy Award winning Discovery Channel projects. Mr. Manchuck also spent two years in finance for Pepsi Cola West, where he was responsible for production budgeting, operations finance and general accounting for the Northern California region.
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Adam Opoczynski
Vice President, Engineering
Mr. Opoczynski brings more than two dozen years experience building and delivering telecommunications hardware, software and network management products to HydroPoint's engineering organization.
Prior to joining HydroPoint, Mr. Opoczynski served as vice president, engineering for Larscom, a leading provider of WAN connectivity and network access equipment. Previously, Mr. Opoczynski held the position of vice president of R&D for ECI Telecom Inc., one of the world's leading providers of telecommunication networking solutions, where he was responsible for delivering carrier-class multi-service aggregators along with many other key products. Prior to ECI, Mr. Opoczynski led hardware development for Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. with responsibility for the development and delivery of advanced Sonet multiplexer products. He has also held senior management positions with ADC Telecommunications, Inc. and Siemens Communication Systems, Inc.
Mr. Opoczynski holds a BSEE in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
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Ben Slick
Vice President,
Key Accounts and Business Development
Ben Slick joined HydroPoint with over 24 years of sales and general management experience in the software and network services industry. Mr. Slick guides the Company's business development strategy, oversees strategic partner relationships and manages key customer accounts.
Previously, Mr. Slick successfully served as vice president of sales in two publicly traded software companies as well as general manager in a publicly traded Internet services company. He ultimately co-founded, led and sold an Internet startup where as CEO he successfully raised venture capital and designed and launched products that produced multi-million dollar service streams.
Prior to joining HydroPoint, Mr. Slick was the Principal in his own consulting business, advising early stage software and services firms with sales, channel development and general business strategies.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Lou Ryan
Chairman of the Board
Lou Ryan is a renowned entrepreneur and business leader with more than twenty-five years experience with technology companies including Borland Corporation, Delrina Corporation, Entercept Technologies and Foundstone Technologies. He contributes significant expertise in the areas of strategic planning, sales and marketing, international relations, mergers and acquisition as well as venture and late-stage financing.
Mr. Ryan was president, CEO and founder of Entercept Security Technology, acquired by McAfee in 2003. Mr. Ryan also played an instrumental role in negotiating McAfee’s acquisition of Foundstone, where he was an early investor and board member. Previously, Mr. Ryan served as executive vice president of worldwide sales for Delrina, a leading software supplier with over $100 million in annual sales, acquired by Symantec in 1995. Mr. Ryan also sits on the boards of Certicom Corporation and Isothermal Systems Research, Inc., and is an advisor to SandHill Capital, SandHill Security and DiamondHead Ventures.
Teymour Boutros-Ghali
Monitor Ventures
Teymour Boutros-Ghali is co-founder and managing partner of Monitor Ventures. Mr. Boutros-Ghali brings over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and management executive. He founded and served as CEO of several technology-driven start-ups including AllBusiness, Zowie Intertainment and Thrive Online, which were sold to NBCi, LEGO and AOL, respectively.
Mr. Boutros-Ghali spent ten years as a senior executive with Time Warner both in operations, as publisher of Time International, and in investments, as vice president of Time Inc. Ventures. During his tenure, Time Inc. Ventures developed a number of successful media franchises including Martha Stewart Living and Vibe. He started his business career at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked closely with Neal Bhadkamkar, with whom he co-founded Monitor. Mr. Boutros-Ghali holds a degree in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, and received both a Ph.D. in physics and a M.S. in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Giselle S. Everett
Sustainable Development Investments (SDI), Citi Alternative Investments (CAI), a division of Citi
Gisele Everett is a Director at SDI, a unit of CAI. Gisele is a board member of HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc. and of another SDI-funded company active in the water industry. Prior to joining SDI, Gisele was a private equity investor at CAI's CVCI for over 9 years, where she completed private equity investments and divestitures in the packaging, media, technology, distribution, business services, and utilities sectors in Latin America and the Hispanic market in the United States. Gisele holds an M.B.A. degree with distinction from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a B.B.A. degree in Finance from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil.
Martin Lagod
Firelake Capital Management
Martin Lagod is a managing director and co-founder of Firelake Capital Management, LLC, where he is responsible for private company investments. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Lagod worked in the energy technology sector. He was the co-founder and CEO of Solo Energy Corporation, a start-up energy technology company based in Alameda, California. Solo Energy developed microturbine and clean combustion reciprocating engines for the distributed power market. For the previous 19 years, Mr. Lagod was an intellectual property attorney based in Silicon Valley. He was a partner in the Palo Alto office of Phoenix-based Brown and Bain until 1995 and at Cooley Godward, LLP in Palo Alto from 1995 to 2001. In his law practice, Mr. Lagod represented companies ranging in size from start ups to Fortune 500 public companies that addressed a wide variety of technologies including gas turbines, photovoltaics, semiconductors, wireless systems, telecommunications, software medical devices and new materials.
Mr. Lagod received a bachelor’s degree with honors in economics from the University of North Carolina and a law degree from Vanderbilt University. He serves on the advisory board for the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He also serves as a member of the board of other Firelake portfolio companies including Nano-Tex, Miasolé and Plextronics.
John Morrissey
J. F. Shea Co., Inc. and Shea Ventures
John Morrissey is executive vice president of J. F. Shea Co., Inc. and managing director of Shea Ventures. He is also a director of J. F. Shea Co. and its affiliated entities. J. F. Shea Co. is one of the nation’s largest privately held companies. The firm’s operating businesses include Shea Homes, the nation’s largest private homebuilder, and J. F. Shea Construction, a general contractor known for its work on large public works projects, particularly tunnels and water treatment facilities.
Shea Ventures has a long history of participation in venture capital, as a direct investor and active participant in venture capital funds. Prior to joining J. F. Shea Co. and Shea Ventures, Mr. Morrissey was a partner of the Bingham McCutchen law firm. He joined that firm, then McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen in 1986 in San Francisco. In 1990, he opened its Los Angeles office, serving as managing partner and as a member of the firm’s executive committee. Mr. Morrissey has earned degrees with honors from Yale College, Oxford University and the University of Chicago Law School.
Dr. Wal van Lierop
Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital
Dr. Wal van Lierop, as co-founder, President & CEO of the Fund, oversees the firm's operations and investments. In addition to HydroPoint, he currently works with Angstrom Power, H2Gen Innovations, Day 4 Energy and a number of other early stage companies.
Dr. van Lierop is a member of the Cleantech Venture Network Advisory Board and holds a part time adjunct professorship in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia. He is also the initiator of New Ventures BC the successful new ventures and business plan competition in the province of British Columbia. Dr. van Lierop is a frequently invited speaker on topics related to new energy, venture financing and global business and provides ongoing industry support to organizations such as Fuel Cells Canada. He is heavily involved in the community and is a proud supporter of the arts. He is an avid jogger and likes to enjoy the outdoors of British Columbia.
Prior to joining Chrysalix, Dr. van Lierop was Vice President of Strategic Planning at Westcoast Energy, Inc. headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. van Lierop was with McKinsey & Co for 7 years, prior to which he worked for almost 10 years in various positions at the Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From that base he consulted to business, government, and major international institutions such as the European Community and the World Bank.
Dr. van Lierop holds a Ph.D. in Economics.
Stoddard M. “Todd” Wilson
Rockport Capital Partners
Todd Wilson is a General Partner of RockPort Capital Partners.
Mr. Wilson began his career at AT&T, where he held technical, sales and marketing positions. In 1990 he joined Wilbraham & Monson Academy, a 200-year old private secondary school located in central Massachusetts, where he was Director of External Affairs and held positions in Admissions, Development and Financial Assistance. He later joined Montague Corporation, a manufacturing business where he was a general manager involved in all aspects of the business. In 1998 Mr. Wilson joined RockPort Partners, a merchant bank specializing in the energy and environmental sectors and helped form the venture fund in 2001.
He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Davidson Instruments, EcoSMART Technologies, HydroPoint Data Systems, MicroSeismic, Inc. and Pionetics Corporation, and is an observer to the Boards of Directors of NeoPhotonics Corporation and NanoGram Corporation.
Mr. Wilson received a BA in History and Economics from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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