PeopleConnect to Donate $125,000 in Executive Search Services to the Winners of the California Clean Tech Open
High-tech search firm contributes to nation’s largest cash and service prize package awarded to promising clean-tech entrepreneurs
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) September 11, 2006 – PeopleConnect (www.peopleconnectstaffing.com), a full-service, high-tech executive search firm, today announced that it is donating $125,000 in executive search services to the winners of the first annual California Clean Tech Open. The competition’s five winners will be awarded more than half a million dollars in cash and service prizes at a ceremony here on Sept. 26. The prizes will further the development of innovative, environmentally conscious technology in the categories of renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart power, transportation, and water management. Each of the five winners will receive $25,000 in executive search services from PeopleConnect.
“We are honored to be part of the California Clean Tech Open. We believe it’s critical to support the innovation at clean-technology companies that are committed to reducing pollution, working towards a cleaner and healthier environment, and finding better ways to produce and manage energy,” said PeopleConnect CEO Max Shapiro. “California businesses have an excellent opportunity to work together to make California a leader in clean technology, and we are glad that we can contribute to this important cause.”
“Human capital is perhaps the most critical piece of any successful company,” said Laurent Pacalin and Mike Santullo, market-based environmental entrepreneurs and cochairmen of the California Clean Tech Open. "We’re absolutely delighted to offer our competition winners the services of PeopleConnect to aid in their search for the right mix of talent to develop their young companies."
The California Clean Tech Open received more than 155 submissions to its initial challenge to contestants in May. A panel of experts—including venture capitalists, researchers and faculty from the state's leading universities and research laboratories, and leading industrialists from related sectors—narrowed the field to 43 finalists in June. The finalists spent the remainder of the summer preparing their completed business plans, which were submitted this week. The judges will review the final plans over the next few weeks to determine the category winners, which will be unveiled in a ceremony at San Francisco City Hall on Sept. 26.
About PeopleConnect
PeopleConnect is a full service high tech executive search firm specializing in the recruitment and placement of experts in business development, finance, human resources, marketing, sales, as well as in scientific and technical positions. PeopleConnect fills positions at the Manager, Director, Vice President and "C" level for all industry sectors including, Clean Tech, Biotech, E-Commerce, Electronics, Wireless, Software, Semiconductor, and Telecommunications. PeopleConnect is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information visit: www.peopleconnectstaffing.com
About the California Clean Tech Open
The mission of the California Clean Tech Open is to encourage the development of clean technology companies that foster a healthy natural environment — companies that provide environmental benefits in the areas of renewable energy, energy efficiency, pollution reduction and resource protection, and conservation. The competition will also serve as a platform to educate the public, as well as the participants, about the environmental challenges we face and new technologies that can provide solutions to those challenges. The inaugural competition opens in April 2006, and winners will be announced in September at a finals event in the Bay Area. The best plan submitted from five categories — Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Smart Power, Transportation, and Water Management — will be awarded a bundle of prizes to create a sustainable business. Prize sponsors to date include: Energy Efficiency — Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas Company, and San Diego Gas and Electric; Smart Power — AMD; Transportation — Lexus; Water Management — Agora Foundation, led by President Wynnette LaBrosse. The competition was initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Club of Northern California (MITCNC) with charter partners Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Horn Murdock Cole, A&R Edelman, Plug & Play Real Estate and PeopleConnect and CalCEF. Ernst and Young and MCF Corp. are also supporting the competition as Gold Sponsors.
A group of entrepreneurs and technologists from Silicon Valley — Derry and Charlene Kabcenell, Mark Farley, Frank H. Levinson, Geoff Ralston, and Michael and Amy Santullo — have generously provided the charter funding to launch the competition. The 2006 Host City is the City of San Francisco. Venture capital partners are Advanced Technology Ventures, Chevron Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, J.P. Morgan's Bay Area Equity Fund, and Venrock Associates. Innovation partners include Electric Power Research Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center, SRI International, and Technology Ventures Corporation. Competition partners include Clean Edge and Clean Tech Venture Network. University partners include: the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley Institute for the Environment; Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students; Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University; Stanford Graduate School of Business Environmental Management Club; and Stanford Graduate School of Business Energy Club. Competition supporters include California Clean Energy Fund, Environmental Entrepreneurs, CalPERS, and Natural Resources Defense Council. The competition co-chairs are Laurent Pacalin and Michael Santullo.
Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth, a California 501(c)3 non-profit public benefit corporation (Tax ID 23-7064937) is the administrative and fiscal sponsor of the 2006 California Clean Tech Open legally responsible for the activities of the competition. Acterra is located at 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303-4303. Additional details about the program are available at www.CaCleanTech.com.
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