GTA Launch Team

ATC is a non-profit organization representing the interests of technology firms in the Austin area. Since Austin is emerging as a leader in expanding growth sectors such as clean energy and green technologies, ATC finds these areas critical to support. Interests such as GTA correspond with our mission of driving initiatives designed to help Austin emerge as the leading technology community in the world. As the Director of Business Development, my role is to work with our 250 corporate members to equip them with the tools and resources necessary to get to the next level, whether that is through education, advisement, or facilitation.

GTA Role

Carol will be the primary liaison between the GTA and ATC member companies.

Represented Organization: Austin Technology Council

Since 1994, the Austin Technology Council has been the principal point of connection for companies from the technology industry that represent a critical mass of businesses in Central Texas. It is our mission to ensure that Austin maintains its world-renowned technology status, and a community that capitalizes on its assets - university-based research, venture funding, a broad array of support services, an entrepreneurial culture and a rich pool of intellectual talent and leadership.

www.austintechnologycouncil.org

Darren Minke-- Creative Director Creative Ink Advertising and Design

I was eager to help out with the GTA because of the type of companies it represents and the excited energy of the people working to put it together. I think the time has come for a paradigm shift in the way that business operates, and the GTA is a step in that direction. Many companies are feeling the pressures of the market and consumers to make themselves more green and socially responsible. The GTA will provide those comapnies with the education and the services to make that happen.

GTA Role

Darren will be responsible for creating eye-catching and informative designs for the GTA's parent and related websites, as well as their other marketing and collateral materials. He will also be providing consultation to the executive and marketing teams to ensure that the message and branding of the GTA is clear and understandable to the many groups that it will represent.

Represented Organization: Creative Ink

Creative Ink is a full service Advertising and Design Agency located in Austin, TX. By using an extensive network of freelance professionals, we are able to handle any size project, bring savings to the client and reduce our energy usage and carbon footprint. We are committed to working with clients that are local, green, sustainable, organic, creative or socially conscious and responsible. When you want Creative...think Ink!

Link: www.creativeinkonline.com

Eve Richter-- Emerging Technologies Coordinator, City of Austin, Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services

The City of Austin's Emerging Technologies program is participating in the Green Technology Alliance because promoting local economic development and emerging technologies is our mission. We are interested in the GTA's focus on supporting green technologies, which is a high priority for our program. My role is to help emerging technology companies to gain access to city and other resources, and to grow and flourish in the Austin community. Our goal is to provide a single point of contact for emerging companies and organizations to obtain advice and referrals to city resources and community information through the Emerging Technologies Program.

GTA Role

Eve will be the primary liaison between the GTA member companies and organizations and City Economic Development resources and referrals.

Represented Organization: City of Austin-- Emerging Technologies Program

The Emerging Technology Program works to attract, retain, and facilitate growth of emerging technology firms in Austin. We will serve as a central clearinghouse for information about opportunities and resources for networking, financing, market development and business development.

The Emerging Technology Program target industries include:

Clean Energy and Green Technologies
Digital Media
Wireless
Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Early-Stage Technology Commercialization

www.austinisit.com

Heath Naquin-- Managing Director, Green Technology Alliance (read his founder's note)

Mirus Services-- Program Deployment Director

Mirus Services is joining this alliance because Business success requires constant innovation. Technology is a driver in the marketplace no matter your business. The Green Technology Alliance is based on the core value that an effective alliance will require an exchange of value between all stakeholders. To achieve a clear exchange of value, GTA will need to have a crystalline strategy, utilize project management tools and methodology, emphasize ROI, and focus on business development in order to succeed. These are the core pillars of any successful project and my role will be to bring all these elements to bear and ensure that we deliver the needed value to all stakeholders.

GTA Role

Heath will be the primary lead for all strategy, advisory board, financial and investment community programs and committees.

Represented Organization: Mirus Services

Mirus Services is recognized for delivering pragmatic, market-driven solutions to its clients across a wide range of sectors. We focus first on the fundamentals of any strategic change whether technology driven or not. Mirus provides the services, methodology and tools that best assist organizations in planning, selecting, implementing, and maintaining programs that deliver business value from day one.

Mirus Services specializes in:

Strategy Development and Implementation
Project Management Consulting
IT Strategy & Transformation
Product and Technology Commercialization

www.mirus-services.com

Jefre Outlaw-- Director, Airband Communications

I am excited to be a part of this alliance because I believe education is the most critical part of our future as we begin supporting green technologies. There is so much information available it is hard to know what is creditable and up to date. My goal is to create, assemble and distribute world class education programs delivered through various systems for members of GTA.

GTA Role

Jefre will be responsible for ensuring that the target audiences of the GTA have world class training programs in order to educate themselves on the issues around the adoption and support of green technologies.

Represented Organization: Airband Communications

Airband Communications is the nation's largest Fixed Based WiMAX carrier. Providing bandwidth to businesses in 17 US cities from 2 Mbps to Gig E. Using wireless technology we promote green practices by eliminating costly, disruptive and polluting infrastructure build outs.

www.airband.com

Kevin Koym-- Founder and CEO, Enterprise Teaming

Over 50% of the jobs created in the US last year were created by firms that had ten or fewer employees. Moreover, most technology is driven by entrepreneurial startups that take business risk in order to advance new solutions to today's problems. In order to serve the needs of technology startups that are driving the leading edge of green technology, Enterprise Teaming, LLC is pleased to join the Green Technology Alliance.

As Founder and CEO of Enterprise Teaming, I look forward to supporting the alliance and its entrepreneurs in supporting them to build their businesses, through organizing these businesses into a thriving Enterprise Tribe.

GTA Role

As Founder and CEO of Enterprise Teaming, I look forward to supporting the alliance and its entrepreneurs in organizing these businesses into a thriving Enterprise Tribe.

Represented Organization: Enterprise Teaming

We at Enterprise Teaming help all organizations build high performance teams that leverage the energy and drive best illustrated by successful entrepreneurs. Our focus is on building entrepreneurial units of strategic action. We organize teams of entrepreneurs supporting each other in order to build their businesses collaboratively, enabling them to get to business sustainability more reliably.

Contact Enterprise Teaming to leverage our methodology to deliver results to your community, company, now!

www.enterpriseteaming.com

Matt Genovese-- Founder, door64

I joined this alliance because green matters and so does community. My passion is helping build connections between people in the Central Texas technology community based on sustainable relationships and a trust network that extends beyond just an immediate need or current role. We are all selling a business or service-- and in many ways ultimately it is ourselves.

I believe only through our relationships will we find the support required to help every person achieve their goals, launch a new business or find that dream job. My goal is to provide the next generation online and face-to-face networking tools that support and enable all technology professionals to achieve their personal goals. I personally want to specifically enable sustainable technologies to accelerate their time to market through a strong community.

GTA Role

Matt will be responsible for overseeing the building of our community conversation based technology infrastructure and providing event support for our networking sessions throughout Central Texas. He will also help ensure maximum exposure for our events and to build the conversations on and offline that create real community.

Represented Organization: door64

door64.com is an online community of over 1700 high-tech professionals in Central Texas. The goal is to enable each member to realize the benefits of being both geographically concentrated and well-connected. Through door64.com, members communicate, online, network in person, discover relevant events happening in our area, publicize personal expertise, and find local tech employment opportunities. The result is informed and empowered technology professionals who manage their peer network, continuing education, employment readiness, and ultimately their career in the Central Texas high-tech arena.

www.door64.com

Matthew Parente-- CEO, Aperio Marketing

I am excited to be a part of this alliance because I have a passion for nurturing innovative ideas into pragmatic endeavors that create value for everyone involved. Furthermore, helping businesses succeed and achieve their goals is incredibly rewarding. My goals are to help responsible and sustainable businesses build credibility and achieve maximum exposure with their target markets, establish the GTA and its members as leaders in their respective fields, and demonstrate the value of the Alliance and its members to the community at large.

GTA Role

Matthew will be responsible for ensuring that the target audiences of the GTA receive value through uniquely innovative and informative services and the establishment of a knowledge base. He will also ensure senior level CIO and IT decision makers-- the buying audience-- has maximum exposure to all GTA members and their technologies through innovative green marketing initiatives, including viral, guerrilla, Internet, and experiential marketing.

Represented Organization: Aperio Marketing

Aperio Marketing offers marketing strategy and Internet marketing services to small- and mid-sized organizations in Texas. Through services such as our "Google AdWords Campaign Management" service, Aperio Marketing increases sales and revenues through targeted programs that can be measured and tracked.

www.aperiomarketing.net

Michelle Naquin-- CEO & CSO, Green Technology Alliance (read her founder's note)

Ms. Naquin is the founder and CEO of the Green Technology Alliance (GTA). The GTA is the first green technology initiative to focus on building implementable solutions that offer real business benefit-- to every sector of the IT industry. Since the official launch of the GTA June 18th 2008, it has grown from 400 GTA supporters to over 1600 representing 4 countries and over 800 organizations.

The sole mission of the GTA is to accelerate the adoption of green, clean and sustainable business practices, technologies and solutions. Ms. Naquin combines strong systems and process development with tactical implementation to help organizations succeed and exceed in their objectives—now more than ever with an emphasis on efficiency. Ms. Naquin has over 15 years of experience successfully developing alliances and business development programs of high impact and leverage through use of systems theory and models. She also brings significant tactical experience in the development of software and services divisions, including start-ups, through leadership, strategic planning, business development, and alliance management.

Her tactical approach to strategic planning achieves business objectives for all partners in the various alliances she has built throughout her career. She focuses on driving results across the business value spectrum including achieving target revenue goals, higher customer satisfaction and mutually beneficial partnerships. For the GTA her goal is no different; help create the strategies required to deploy real solutions that deliver an immediate business benefit to the companies that invest in sustainability; such as reduced costs, improved efficiency and greater productivity.

GTA Role

Michelle will be the primary lead for all steering committee, launch team and technology industry programs across all stakeholder tiers within the alliance.

Philip Wheat-- Architect Evangelist Microsoft

Philip Wheat is the Community Architect Evangelist for the Microsoft South Central District. Through his career he has worked in most of the areas of Computer Science and has in the past few years become very interested in Composite Applications in general and SharePoint/Office delivery mechanisms. My interests are software, hardware, and the wonderful ideas that writers (fiction and code) can come up with to put the two together. My passion and reason for joining the Green Technology alliance is to leverage technology to drive innovation and build highly dynamic industry partnerships.

As our knowledge in materials science has grown through the efforts to keep Moore's statement a "Law", the ability and returns for using these advances has become available for both the large scale scope of companies as well as the personal scope of individuals. Combining the ability of leveraging ceramics, superconducting materials, MEMS, Nanotech, self assembling machines, personal fabricators, and other waves of innovation in technology with our growing ability to make the very matter we work with able to react to the environment around it is promising to change the very nature of what we view as "green." Through intelligent usage of energy, local power generation, resource recovery, and predictive techniques for load and generation balancing we can continue to advance the human experience while reducing our impact and expanding the number of people receiving the benefit of our knowledge and experience.

GTA Role

Phil will be responsible for helping to build a network of technology professionals that provide the resource and support base for the growth of all things green in computer and information technology. He will ensure that all our tiers of industry partnerships from the smallest start-up to the largest corporation has the tools, programs and resources necessary to ensure the adoption of green technologies across all markets-- from Enterprise to SMB.

Represented Organization: Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Every successful corporation has a responsibility to use its resources and influence to make a positive impact on the world and its people. We are committed to our customers and partners and have a passion for technology. Read more about Microsoft’s broad commitment to Green Technologies.

www.microsoft.com/About/CorporateCitizenship/US/ResponsibleLeadership/EnvironmentalSustainability.mspx

Ryan Confer - Investment Manager, Texas Emerging Technology Fund

I am very excited to be part of this initiative. My goal for the GTA is help propel Austin to the top of the charts, as the greenest U.S. city by 2012. GTA's model offers tremendous opportunity for economic development in Central Texas, and will further demonstrate why Texas has one of the best business climates in the United States.

Ryan has reviewed hundreds of business plans and company presentations, and has worked extensively on more than 50 ETF projects, from the initial seed stage to acquisition. His experience in clean technology includes projects in photovoltaics, waste-to-ethanol production, algae-to-ethanol production, wind energy, piezoelectric harvesting, and advanced fuel cell technology.

GTA Role

Ryan will fulfill a key role in the GTA by providing mentoring, counseling and support services to many stakeholders within the alliance on the key drivers and success metrics for emerging and start-up technology firms (and products) in the green sector. Ryan will ensure that the primary objectives of the alliance are achieved by utilizing his expertise to provide all startup companies and entrepreneurs in the alliance from any size organization the tools, support and programs that will ensure their success.

Represented Organization: Emerging Technology Fund

The Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF), a $200 million initiative created by the Texas legislature in 2005, encourages the creation of companies and jobs in new technologies. House Bill 1188, passed in September 2007, allocated approximately $100 million of additional monies for use over the 2008-2009 biennium. The ETF gives priority to proposals that involve emerging scientific or technology fields, including clean technologies. The ETF provides Texas with an unparalleled advantage by expediting the development and commercialization of new technologies, and by recruiting the best research talent in the world.

www.emergingtechfund.com

Steven "Doc" List-- Founder, AnotherThought Inc

Doc is a member of numerous Austin-based and international organizations and networks, and brings his local focus and international awareness to bear. Building groups of likeminded individuals into a true network of support, resources and community that forms an alliance to achieve common goals is Doc's passion. This is what attracted Doc to the Green Technology Alliance. Doc will be the primary facilitator and communicator for the Alliance.

GTA Role

Doc will fulfill a critical role for the Alliance by providing the tools and processes that will bring people of differing perspectives and experience together, assist them in effective communication, and help in the formation of a cohesive community. He will also contribute in such areas as using technology to further the goals of the Alliance, electronic marketing initiatives, and public outreach.

Represented Organization: Another Thought

AnotherThought is a small, boutique consultancy addressing the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs in a variety of ways. We provide: public speaking services, speech writing, and public speaking coaching; meeting facilitation; traditional and electronic marketing strategy consulting; business development coaching; Open Space facilitation and logistics. Steven List (known professionally as "Doc") is the heart of the business, and is recognized for his unusual combination of skills and experience, including: a 30 year career as a technologist, manager, leader, and executive; professional speaking; Open Space facilitation; consulting and coaching.

www.stevenlist.com