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John Van Scoter
John Van Scoter, Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned leader in the advancement and implementation of global market strategies for emerging technologies.
Throughout his 25-year career at Texas Instruments (TI), Mr. Van Scoter served as Senior Vice President responsible for the DLP® Products
division growing the technology to a recognized ingredient brand in the HDTV, Projector, and Digital Cinema markets. He also served as TI's
Vice President for emerging DSP start-up businesses in MP3/Internet Audio and Printing markets, as well as in various product development,
manufacturing, and sales capacities. Immediately prior to joining eSolar, Mr. Van Scoter developed TI's Alternative Energy strategies for the
smart grid/meter, solar, LED lighting, smart motor, and energy harvesting markets. Mr. Van Scoter obtained his BS degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Vermont and also serves on the Tyco Electronics (NYSE: TEL) Board of Directors.
Bandel L. Carano
Bandel L. Carano, Managing Partner, joined Oak Investment Partners in 1985 and became a General Partner in 1987. Mr. Carano has invested in companies with emphasis on Wireless and Rich-Media communications (2Wire, Airspan, Avici, CommVerge, CoreTek, Endwave, FiberTower, General Bandwidth, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, MobiTV, NeoPhotonics, Netopia, PictureTel, Plastic Logic, Polycom, Presidio, PulsePoint, Qtera, Sentient Networks, SmartDrive Systems, Tegic, Trapeze, and Wellfleet); Advanced Software Systems (Entropic, firstRain, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas and Visto); Advanced Semiconductors (Actel, Airgo, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NemeriX, Newport Media, nLight, Qpixel, Resonext, SMIC, Solarflare, Stretch, Synaptics and Virata); Design Automation (Centric Software, Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys and Tensilica) and Clean Energy Technologies (Aurora BioFuels, Boston-Power, eSolar, GreenVolts, NanoH2O, PML, ReliOn, and Sundrop Fuels). Prior to Oak, Mr. Carano joined Morgan Stanley's Venture Capital Group in 1983. He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments. Mr. Carano received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.
Paul Browning
Paul Browning is the president & CEO thermal products for GE Energy,
overseeing the worldwide business plan and execution of GE’s Heavy Duty Gas
Turbine, Steam Turbine, Generator and Controls, and Gasification product lines.
The global Thermal Products team leads the product management function
responsible for design, manufacturing, and installation of large scale electricity
generating equipment.
Prior to his current position, Paul was most recently with Caterpillar Corp., as
managing director, Caterpillar Motoren, based in Kiel, Germany. He was
responsible for a global business in Caterpillar’s Marine & Petroleum Power
division.
Previously, Paul was the vice president, Turbomachinery Products in
Caterpillar’s Solar Turbines division. Within that division, he worked in
commercial, manufacturing, and technical roles.
Paul began his professional career as a research engineer for eight years at the
GE Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. This included a role as a program
manager for GE Power Systems after receiving his B.S. degree in Metallurgical
Engineering and Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S.in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Doug McPherson
Doug McPherson serves as Idealab's General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior to joining Idealab, he served as Chief Legal Officer and Vice President, Business Development for Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch and its predecessor company, CitySearch. Before working at CitySearch, Doug was with the law firm of HellerEhrman LLP. He also served as a law clerk for a federal district judge and worked for The Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. He holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, an M.A. in Greek and Roman History from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School where he served on the Stanford Law Review and Environmental Law Journal.
Brian Spitz
Brian is currently Vice President of Finance for American Tank & Fabricating Company, a steel fabricator and processor servicing primarily the energy, defense and construction markets. American Tank has three wholly owned subsidiaries and has a minority interest in Composhield A/S, a Danish company that manufacturers composites for the international defense industry.
Brian has worked at AT&F since 1991. Prior to that, he was a senior accountant at Kopperman & Wolf, an accounting firm. Brian has been a board of director for American Tank & Fabricating Company since 2001, acts as the recording secretary on the board for AMTANK Armor LLC and attends the board of directors meetings for Composhield A/S as an invited guest and consultant. He is also a director and officer of AT&F’s wholly owned subsidiaries.
Brian graduated with a bachelor’s of science from Miami University with an accounting major in May 1989. He earned his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation in 1992 and received a masters’ in business administration from Baldwin Wallace College in August 1995.
He currently serves on the finance committee for WIRE-Net, a local non-profit that focuses on providing manufacturing services to companies in the greater Cleveland area. Brian has served as President of the local soccer organization and continues to volunteer his time as a soccer coach for youth teams.
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