Clean Power Finance has assembled a team of veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneurs from the solar, finance, and internet industries, all working together to provide the services to take clean power to the mass market.


Joseph Brakohiapa, President & CEO

Adam Marsh, CTO & Co-Founder

Daniel Poore, VP Sales & Business Development

Spencer Carlsen, VP Operations

Gary Kremen, Chairman & Founder

Joseph Brakohiapa

President & CEO

Joseph has over 20 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.

Adam Marsh

CTO & Co-Founder

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.

Daniel Poore

VP Sales & Business Development

Daniel Poore has a highly successful 25 year career in high technology, renewable energy, and finance markets, both nationally and internationally, where he has driven sales of nearly $1 billion in software, hardware and services. He began his career in Technical Sales at Hewlett Packard and has worked for innovative industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape Communications, AVCOM Technologies, WorldScape Inc., Solar Power Partners and Noveda Technologies where he steadily increased his roles from Sales, Sales Management, Executive Management to CEO.

Dan has extensive experience with channel and partner development and founded a computer business in South America where he became fluent in Portuguese and proficient in Spanish. He is an early stage angel investor in several companies and holds Advisory Board positions with Solar Power Partners and WorldScape. He earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Rutgers University.

Spencer Carlsen

VP Operations

Spencer has over 25 years of experience in financial operations and executive management. His most recent experience was as President of a regional mortgage bank, and he was a co-founder of Irwin Home Equity. He is a results-oriented business executive with demonstrated accomplishments in financial operations, strategic planning, marketing and business development, employee relations, performance management and productivity improvements.

Prior to joining Clean Power Finance, Spencer utilized his extensive financial experience to lead First California Mortgage Company through the recent volatile mortgage market cycle. Implementing prudent credit policies and expense management, Spencer led First Cal into new markets and increased market share during a most challenging business environment. Subsequent to First Cal, Spencer was a co-founder of Irwin Home Equity, a start up home equity lender that grew to over $1.5 billion in annual loan production. Spencer held several key roles in the company, including heading up Retail lending and developing the company’s Wholesale loan production group.

Spencer has a B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis. He and his wife Leslie reside in Novato, CA and they have three children.

Gary Kremen

Chairman & 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. 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.