Pivotal Leaders supports local talent

Pivotal Leaders, a new Portland-based business network focused on building human capital in cleantech industries, today released its first Pivotal Leaders list. The list of entrepreneurs will receive support and guidance from members of the network, which was started by Pivotal Investments. A new list of Pivotal Leaders is slated to be selected each year.

The network received more than 600 nominations since the community nomination process opened Feb. 23, 2010. Through a peer selection process, the 32 leaders emerged.

"The concept and process has been enthusiastically embraced by the Northwest business community as a way to identify the people and attract the resources to build the clean tech economy in the Northwest," wrote Jennifer Allen Newton of Bluehouse Consulting Group Inc. for Pivotal Leaders.

The 2010 Pivital Leaders are:

David Allen, McKinstry
Allen Alley, Pixelworks
Ash Awad, McKinstry
Jules Bailey, Oregon State Legislature
Kipp Baratoff, Equilibrium Capital Group
Rob Bernard, Microsoft
Jesse Berst, GlobalSmartEnergy
Gino Borland, Cake Ventures
Bill Campbell, Equilibrium Capital Group
Dave Curry, Demand Energy Networks
Mark Edlen, Gerding Edlen
Pat Egan, Pacific Power
Mark Frohnmayer, Arcimoto
Aaron Goldfeder, EnergySavvy
Alan Hickenbottom, Tanner Creek Energy
Dave Kaplan, Founder V2Green
Tyson Keever, Sequential Biofuels
Jeff Kim, Shorepower Technologies
Rick Luebbe, EnerG2
Ross MacFarlane, Climate Solutions
Tim Miller, Green Lite Motors Corporation
Kelly Ogilvie, Blue Marble Energy
Gregg Patterson, PV Powered
Ron Pernick, Clean Edge
Roby Roberts, Horizon Wind Energy
Skip Rung, ONAMI
Derek Smith, Clean Energy Works Portland, City of Portland
David Van’t Hof, Lane Powell
Joe Whitworth, The Freshwater Trust
Jean Wilson, SunPower Corporation
Darcy Winslow, Designs for a Sustainable World Collective
Kim Zentz, SIRTI