Entrepreneurial Energy Expo
It's not just about being green, it's about making green too.
PANEL B: Starting a Clean Energy Business
The “Starting a Clean Energy Business” panel will identify core issues and opportunities for clean energy entrepreneurs to be successful. The audience will be able to listen and interact with a clean energy entrepreneur, an expert in government regulations, an attorney specializing in clean technology, and a financier focused on Boston-area businesses.
- Panelist, Christopher Poirier, President and CEO, CoalTek
- Panelist, Tom Burton, Chair of the Energy and Clean Tech Practice, Mintz Levin
- Panelist, Rebecca Regan (Babson MBA ’98), President of the Boston Community Loan Fund, Boston Community Capital
PANELISTS
Christopher Poirier
President and CEO, CoalTek
Since joining CoalTek in 2003, Mr. Poirier has spearheaded CoalTek’s efforts to commercialize and deploy the company’s Clean Coal technology, overseeing corporate strategy, operations, financial management and business development.
Tom Burton
Chair, Energy and Clean Tech Practice, Mintz Levin
Tom is a member in the firm's Boston office where he practices in the Business and Finance Section. He is chair of the firm's Energy and Clean Tech. Practice Group and co-chair of the Boston Office Hiring Committee.
Rebecca Regan
President, Boston Community Loan Fund
Babson MBA '98
Rebecca Regan is the President of Boston Community Loan Fund and Acting Chief Financial Officer for Boston Community Capital. She joined Boston Community Capital in 2005. As President of the Loan Fund, she oversees all lending programs, managing a portfolio of loan serving low-income people and communities across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Greg Watson
Assistant Secretary for Clean Energy Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
From 1995 to 1999 Watson served as executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), a resident-driven community planning organization in Roxbury, Massachusetts.