Clean Power Finance has assembled a team of well-seasoned Silicon Valley veteran entrepreneurs. Solar is an evolving industry and we were very fortunate to assemble a team of people from the solar, finance, consumer internet and real estate industries.

Gary Kremen, Chairman and Founder

Joseph Brakohiapa, President and CEO

Robin Lee, Chief Financial Officer, VP Operations

Adam Marsh, Chief Technology Officer

Michael Pryde, Director of North America Sales

Eric King, Chief Marketing Officer (Consultant)

Gary Kremen

Chairman and Founder

Gary Kremen has over twenty years experience as a serial entrepreneur and expert in emerging growth companies, developing information technology, and internet domain management. He is an investor in over 40 companies, private equity funds and venture capital funds.

Prior to Clean Power Finance, he was the founder and CEO of Grant Media, LLC a highly profitable internet traffic distributor owning numerous websites, including Sex.Com. Gary’s sale of Sex.Com was for the highest amount ever paid for a domain name. Grant Media LLC was sold to its employees in 2006. Prior to Grant Media, Gary co-founded and was President of NetAngels.Com, Inc., a 40 person company focused on Internet profiling and personalization that was merged with Firefly Network, Inc. (Agents, Inc.), the company’s largest competitor, and later sold to Microsoft.

From 1993 through 1996, Gary founded and was Chairman of the Board of Electric Classifieds, Inc. / Match.Com, the leading on-line classifieds advertising technology outsourcing company and perhaps one of the most widely accessed ‘communities’ on the Internet. Match.Com was eventually sold to Ticketmaster / Citysearch for $50 million. Prior to Match.com, Gary was a co-founder of Los Altos Technologies, Inc. (LAT) , a leader in UNIX security. At LAT, Gary was responsible for marketing, business development, and finance. The company created the first anti-virus product for UNIX as well as the only government approved data deletion product for classified data.

In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, Gary was the successful plaintiff in the pioneering internet intellectual property case Kremen vs. Cohen, Network Solutions, et. el. which created the precedent that domain names are property and subject to conversion. He is the primary inventor of the seminal US patent for creating Internet web pages dynamically, patent #5706434.

Gary’s education includes an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Joseph Brakohiapa

President and CEO

Joseph has over 17 years of international sales development and business leadership experience. He’s held senior management positions in companies and carried corporate responsibility in North America, and Europe, Middle & East Africa regions. He has extensive experience in sales distribution and marketing for early-stage companies.

Prior to joining us, Joseph held division management positions with Computer Associates in Barcelona. During his tenure at CA, he spearheaded a successful turnaround of the company’s Europe, Middle East & Africa channels division directing improvements to all operational business areas. Prior to this, he led the expansion of GSI Commerce’s European business delivering new go-to-market strategies, building an international distribution network and leading major client wins.

Early in his career Joseph held sales and business development roles at Hewlett-Packard and iPass Inc. There he consistently exceeded revenue goals and drove attainment of corporate objectives. He made significant contributions through the delivery of strategic partnerships and high value contracts from Fortune 500 companies in the finance, technology and telecommunications verticals. Joseph received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Robin Lee

Chief Financial Officer, VP Operations

After receiving and MBA from the Stanford Business School, Mr. Lee spent 25 years in finance and operations positions with Apple. He was there during Apple’s multiple ascensions and declines and each time helped to re-build the company. He was the Site Controller of two flagship factories, once for the Apple II and once for the Macintosh. He helped create Apple’s Worldwide OEM Procurement Organization. He led the finance team for the Macintosh Business Unit for four years. He conceived and implemented the online procurement authorization system in use by Apple today. He also conceived and led the implementation of an integrated, worldwide system for standard and target costing system which has enabled Apple to be constantly on top of changing costs for new products. For three years, he coordinated Apple’s worldwide Sarbanes-Oxley program. He initiated and helped lead a group that re-engineered non-manufacturing procurement in 34 legal entities and 26 countries. For ten years, he managed all financial aspects of Apple’s Hardware and Software R&D divisions. He was the source of many financial and process enhancements that were used throughout Apple. He is a licensed CPA and holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University.

Adam Marsh

Chief Technology Officer

Adam is a serial entrepreneur with a wide range of operational management experience. Adam co-founded Coactive Networks, a technology startup enabling energy management and remote monitoring and control over the Internet. Coactive pioneered value-added services to help corporations and utilities respond to energy deregulation, and won the first deployments of Internet control technology in homes and commercial buildings. At Coactive, Adam led strategic planning, product marketing, and investor relations, helping to manage rapid expansion from 4 to 90 employees and raise three rounds of venture funding totaling $42 million.

Adam also co-founded Internet identity company PrefPass, and developed software ranging from user interfaces to embedded systems at companies including SMIS and Integrated Automation. Adam holds an M.S. in physics from M.I.T., a B.S. in mathematics and physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and has carried out postgraduate work in theoretical physics.

Michael Pryde

Director of North America Sales

Michael has 44 years of finance and banking experience. He has relevant experience in banking operations and specifically lending practices within the solar contracting marketplace. During his career he has held senior management positions building small operations into multi-million dollar businesses.

His career includes experience at Merchandise National Bank of Chicago where he served as an officer and held the position of Vice President responsible for all bank operations. He managed the EDP group at Merchandise and was responsible for managing the banks data processing activities, procedures, security and disaster recovery systems. He was recruited by Empire Funding and successfully built the organization into a major Title One Home Improvement Lender. His efforts at Empire lead to multiple liquidity events for the lender. Later, Michael went on to join GE. At GE Money, Michael single handedly create a new solar financing product and was awarded the “GE Imagination At Work” award for creativity and innovation in entering a new market for “Solar Financing.”

Michael has a wealth of experience in finance, banking, lending operations and brings great credibility as a result of his excellent work in to the solar contractor industry.

Eric King

Chief Marketing Officer (Consultant)

Eric brings a broad skill set to Clean Power Finance to include extensive experience in internet lead generation, consumer finance, and start-up operations. Eric also serves as a Venture Partner for Arena Holdings and as an advisory board member of VestMatch.com, a Silicon Valley based start-up facilitating group (and family) collaborative investing towards a common goal.

Prior to Clean Power Finance, Eric was co-founder, President, and CFO of FastFind.com, an online lead generation company based in San Francisco and successfully sold to Bankrate, Inc. While leading FastFind, the company grew to over $6 million in annual gross sales in the first year.

Prior to FastFind, Eric was VP Corporate Development at Providian Financial Corp, a consumer sub-prime financing company. While at Providian, Eric lead and participated in acquisitions and divestitures totaling nearly $12 billion.

Eric began his career with USI Holdings, a private equity financed insurance broker roll-up targeting regional commercial brokers serving the middle market. While at USI, Eric was involved with multiple private equity placements, a $200 million debt syndication, and a $150 million high yield debt offering. Eric holds a B.A. from Southern Illinois University and an M.B.A from San Francisco State University.