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Don Graunstadt | ANEW Detroit TIC  Eco Park Partner | Business Development | Detroit Michigan - USA

Don Graunstadt | ANEW Detroit Eco Park Partner | Business Development | Detroit Michigan | Graundstad brings 5+ decades of product development and leadership to ANEW Energy Detroit Copy Factory. A multicultural senior executive with international management experience in the automotive technology sector. Former CEO at Lotus Automotive | Detroit Electric | Geely Automotive. Graunstadt also led the development team to verify the first Tesla prototype performance on the Lotus chassis. As a Detroit native, Don brings local relationships to our project that others can not. | e: don.g@anewenergy.co   


 

Don McClasky | Large Utility Scale Research | Power Purchase Agreements | Tax and Carbon Credits | Board Member | Kansas City - USA

McClasky PV | LED, Audits Analytics | Market Research |Consulting | Investment and Fund Administration | Power Purchase Agreements - PPA's | Due Diligence Vetting | Strategic Partnerships | Tax Credits | Technical and Business Research | e: don@anewenergy.co 

 
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Doug Turner | Director of Engineering | Manufacturing | Systems Logic | The Grand Vision | Colorado - USA

Turner brings over 4 decades of product design, electro-mechanical engineering, development, industrialization and manufacturing to ANEW Energy products and Copy Factory build. As the Flextronics Colorado Design and Industrialization Center Manager, Mr. Turner created and led teams in product design, development and factory production lines for customers such as Microsoft, Sony, GM, Lear, Whirlpool, Pfizer, Lifescan, Dell, HP, IoT products, Batteries, and more. Turner's relationships have a global reach. Turner provides embedded microprocessor systems logic | UI/UX system controls | QA/QC factory-wide controls along with a long list of high-tech product fabrication know-how | Turner holds 3 patents on products utilizing speech recognition as a user interface. | e: doug@anewenergy.co  

 
       

Hana Blasco | Engineering Executive Assistant to Pat and Doug | Complex System Deployment | Project Management | Virginia - USA

Ms Blasco is the glue between the cracks that brings thousands of components to the shop floor. Split between Doug and Pat her job has to be one of the most demanding at ANEW Energy. Hana is responsible for ensuring that vendors are paid at scale and large capital equipment is scheduled and paid for. Blasco has overseen a large automotive garage with dozens of mechanics making payroll ordering parts and seeing that customers are invoiced and aware of their incurred costs. | e: hana@anewenergy.co 

 
       

Howard Hanael | President | Legal Strategies | Board Member | New Mexico - USA

Hanael brings 4+ decades of general law to ANEW Energy. Howard has thousands of deals he has brokered and guided clients to successful outcomes on the deal. His background pivots him to steer the team across the high seas of business with his deal-making experience and wisdom.  | e: howard@anewenergy.co

 
       

Jennifer Williams | Executive Assistant to the CEO's at Head Quarters | Special Projects | Travel and Lodging |  Colorado - USA

Williams is customer-centric. She has managed large complex 5-star resort hospitality transactions at scale. Jennifer is the gate to meetings with Pat and Ray on a daily manner. She manages to turn on SAS services and documentation to the rest of the team, and our vendors.  | e: jen@anewenergy.co

 

Jesse Stubbs | Strategic Partner | Board Member | Master Distributor for ANEW Energy | Large Utility Scale Project Engineering | Colorado - USA

Stubbs got into renewable energy back when Jimmy Carter put solar on the Whitehouse. Jesse's company Ventara is a utility-scale renewable energy company under contract with ANEW Energy to cover North America and the Caribbean with training distribution for all renewable energy products and solutions built by ANEW Energy.  | e: jesse@anewenergy.co 

 
                                                               

Joel Gregoire | Special Projects Research | Caribbean Business Development | Crypto | SAS User Journey | Marketing Integrations | Midlands UK | Board Member |

Gregoire is the first to join ANEW years back and sits on the ANEW Energy Board. With his leadership in complex user journeys, work experience in distribution & business development, and studies within engineering, he can bring methods to our madness. Not long after ANEW Energy was formed Gregoire signed up to help without pay. | e: joel@anewenergy.co

 
                                                               

John Kamau| President of Africa Operations | Business Development | Research & Development | CEO ANEW Energy Africa | Remote Engineering Support | Nairobi Kenya | 

Educated as a Physicist in America, John worked in finance for JP Morgan Chase as a finance professional. ANEW Energy Africa is expected to lift up communities that have been left behind on the great continent of Africa | e:john.k@anewenergy.co

 
                                                               

Marc Jaker | Advanced Manufacturing | Solid State Battery Partner | Material Science Expert | Polymer Expert | Minnesota USA |

Jaker brings the magic to our company's utility-scale battery storage solutions with 5 decades of developing and moulding exotic materials for the world's manufacturing greats. Marc and his brother Kim are referred to as "The Jaker Brothers" Technology have licences with ANEW Energy for their world-changing injection molded batteries. High volume with high energy storage impact is what Marc and Pat are tooling up at ANEW. | e: marc@anewenergy.co 

 
                                                               

Mark Tranter | Events Planning | Hospitality| Marketing | Business Development | User Journey | Boston MA - USA | - USA

Mr Tranter brings 4+ decades of event management to the table at ANEW Energy in a worldwide format. The vibe and happy feel for who ANEW Energy is could not be in better hands with Trant. Mark and his wife Paula have owned and operate one of the best floral businesses in the country with life and love into everything they do. This trade show wizard delivers those amazing experiences at the next clean-tech shows you only expect from a Fortune 500 company. | e: mark@anewenergy.co  

 
                                                               

Mike Cullinane | Semiconductor Manufacturing & Business Development | Critical Thinking | Boston MA - USA 

Cullinane brings 5 decades in the field of semiconductor robotic system engineering development systems. Mike has led teams of thousands of engineers to deliver the most advanced semiconductor-related manufacturing processes. Human-proofing complex manufacturing processes both at a software and electrical matrix is what Mike delivers to ANEW Energy. Mike's network of technicians and engineers is a global network in itself is the who's who of advanced manufacturing technology. Mike has held many senior leadership positions for multiple successful start-ups from concept through large-scale global successful growth and execution involving challenging technologies. Mike purchased Pats' Semiconductor business MicroTool 3 weeks before 911. | e: mike.c@anewenergy.co                      

Naa Kwaley Darko | Chief of Staff  | Special Projects | Board Member | Accra Ghana

Darko leads ANEW Business Development Team with a JD in Law and is a licensed broker on the London Stock Exchange. Naa was selected as a cohort of 330 exceptional women from 10 African countries. “Future Female Leaders in Energy” programme, a collaborative initiative between the African Management Institute (AMI) and the Transforming Energy Learning Partnership (TEA-LP). Darko brings strength and drive to everything we do at ANEW Energy with that African love and happiness to all. Darko is a natural-born leader and aspires to be the CEO one day soon. | e: naa@anewenergy.co

 
                                                               

Pat Conarro | | Chairman | Co-CEO | CTO | Manufacturing Lead  | Colorado USA 

Conarro brings over 4 decades of hands-on manufacturing know-how to build today's demanding electro-mechanical products and IoT services. Most FABs around the world use the technology Pat developed to keep their systems operational. His hands-on machine and robotic language programmer experience with a worldwide cloud-based team of tooling and automation engineers brings the very best in the business collaborating to program machines from afar.  Conarro developed G-Code to run CNC's back in the 1980's with cardboard ticker tape programs.  Today he leads young tooling and automation professionals across the globe collaborating in the cloud to build out the ANEW Energy Grand Vision of 10 copy factories on planet earth before the end of the decade which manufacture wind, water, solar, storage and distribution products at scale.  | e: pat@anewenergy.co  |  more about Pat Conarro here. 

 

 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Paul Blasco | Business Development | Critical Thinking Advisor | Pennsylvania USA

Mr Blasco brings decades of running high-volume production operations with a deep understanding of building teams that can engineer and build products that hold up under the most extreme conditions | data analytics | QA/QC Measures | Workforce Management | Design for Manufacturability | Paul coaches Pat in his personal life and business decisions. | e: paul@anewenergy.co 

 
                                                               

Ray Rohrbach | Co-CEO Founder | International Business Development | London United Kingdom    

Mr Rohrbach brings decades of business development from our close cousins in the United Kingdom, with a focus on building meaningful relationships across all aspects of ANEW Energy. Virgin Group Business Development and Warner Bros Licensing are two of the many significant legacies that Ray brings through to ANEW. Ray and Pat go back decades on Cleantech projects. | e: ray@anewenergy.co 


                                                         

Rodrigo Gutiérrez Hermelo | Director of Knowledge Transfer | Executive Assistant to Pat | New Brunswick Canada |

Rodrigo has nearly four decades of experience as a communications professional working in print journalism, radio, television, film and multimedia. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has worked in the broadcast, nonprofit, and higher education sectors in English, French and Spanish. Through extensive technical expertise and seasoned interviewing skills, he has developed a range of training materials and has helped experts communicate complex ideas to the general public. | e: rodrigo@anewenergy.co  

 
                                                               

Sam Macmillan | Copy Factory Construction Lead | Colorado USA |

Macmillan is a construction industry professional for more than 4 decades with a multitude of proven success completing projects on time and under budget.Liaison with management, architects, designers, and most importantly clients. For several years I have been involved with ANEW energy and have seen incredible progress. | e: sam@anewenergy.co 

 
                                                               

Taylor Holcomb | SAS Integrator | AI Integration Trainer | Big Data  Analytics | Block Chain Lead | User Journey |  Pennsylvania - USA 

Holcomb brings decades of all things digital to the team. A natural learner who gets bored if the assignment is not the most challenging data assignment. Holcomb leads the 75 + Zoho Tool Integration across CRM | IoT Customer Portals | Project Management | HR & Vendor Payroll at a Global Scale | Inventory | Website & Social Analytics | Data Flow | Business Logic | Finance Logic | AI Integrations & Implementation experience and wisdom.  | e: taylor@anewenergy.co 

 
                                                               

Thomas Bates | Copy Factory 3D Architectural Lead | BIM Digital Twin Documentation Lead | AutoDesk BIM Lead | Nevada USA | 

| Bates is our internal Architectural design wizard with more than 120+ remote designers of all things that are needed to build and deploy the copy factory. Proven to deliver to demanding customers like Apple & Google. With a long list of 3D wizards that convert low voltage | high voltage systems design, Bates is our human that will deliver this complex factory with supporting documentation to repeat again and again. | e: thomas@anewenergy.co

        

 
                                                               

Trey Hamond | Production Machining Tool Room Lead | CNC Progamer | Robotics Systems Build| Mould and Die Construction | North Carolina USA |

Hamond brings two decades of hands on advanced manufacturing with the worlds most advanced machining centers. Trey and Pat will lead ANEW Energy forward at the tool room to bring online thousands of manufacturing parts and their respective processes. Hammonds leads 125+ Tooling and Automation programmers working across the globe in the AutoDesk Fusion360 Cloud. Trey is responsible to the transfer of knowledge through the ANEW Energy LMS Learning Management System. | e: trey@anewenergy.co

        

 
                                                               

Viktor Winkler| Chief Financial Officer | Budapest Hungary | San Diego USA

My leadership approach is to assess the strategic goals and develop the best team to reach them. We define the key success factors and set our benchmarks together with my team. In our volatile world I believe in the continuous development and refinement of the best approach to achieve our goals.  Major manufacturing customers include; Electrolux, Volvo, Scania, Audi, BMW and Toyota.  ISO 9001 certified lean operation, specialized to provide highly aesthetic components. Contact info:  +36 70 341 6906 | e: viktor@anewenergy.co | https://www.linkedin.com/in/viktor-winkler-2b26b6131/