Cleantech Open names Rocky Mountain Region Volunteer and Mentor of the Year for 2010
Volunteers and Mentors Needed for 2011 to Help Cleantech Entrepreneurs in Rocky Mountain Region Turn Ideas Into Successful Businesses
The Cleantech Open, the world's largest business competition created to find, fund, and foster startup clean technology companies, today announced the Rocky Mountain Region Volunteer of the Year and Mentor of the Year for 2010.
Jennifer Mayes, a Financial Advisor with the Denver office of Trilogy Financial Services, was selected Volunteer of the Year for her role as Business Clinic Coordinator. Ms. Mayes, a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Vanderbilt University, led the region's 15 Cleantech Open entrepreneurs through a series of rigorous training and helped them successfully present their businesses at the regional and national levels of the competition.
"Jennifer learned the responsibilities of this position quickly and did an excellent job," Cleantech Open Programs Chair Jerry Healey said. "Furthermore, she has become a critical piece of the team, offering excellent ideas for improving the quality of our services."
Brian Williams was selected Mentor of the Year. Williams is President and Senior Advisor for Cache Creek Partners, which specializes in strategic and financial advisory services to both large publicly-held companies and early sage privately held companies. Brian is a graduate of the University of Illinois and a CPA who began his career with Ernst and Young in Chicago. He later joined Baxter International and worked in the US and Switzerland in high level corporate finance. Prior to Cache Creek Partners he worked with McKinley, Inc. where he was CFO where he helped raise in excess of $10 million. He sits on a number of boards and advisory groups.
"Brian Williams was selected due to his dedication to seeing his teams through this intensive process," said Healey. "He is a perfect example of the type of Mentor the Cleantech Open seeks--dedicated, intelligent, experienced and hard working."