John F. Curtis III - Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Philadelphia office - has over 20 years of experience in sales management and marketing in the medical and IT markets. He spent over 8 years with United States Surgical Corporation (NYSE: USSC), a manufacturer of surgical staplers, suture and laparoscopic instruments in a variety of sales and sales management positions. During his tenure, he helped drive the company’s share price of $22 to over $130 in less than two years, placing USSC as the number one and two leading percentage gainers on the NYSE two years in a row.  During his stay with USSC, he never missed a management objective.  In 1995, he joined STERIS (NYSE: STE) as the European Area Sales manager responsible for distributor sales in over twenty countries.  During his term with STERIS he was recognized as the number one sales Director in the International group increasing the company’s new product sales in excess of 1200%  Mr. Curtis was the founder and CEO of two Internet Ventures.  Recently, Mr. Curtis was the Eastern US Development manager for UPC Solar a Chicago based solar development company, leaving the company in April, 2007 to form Green Energy Capital Partners, LLC.  

Mr. Curtis has lived and worked for eight years abroad, including Warsaw Poland, Budapest Hungary, Rome Italy and traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Mr. Curtis graduated from Edinboro University of Pennylvania in 1984 with a B.A. degree in Economics. 

Gary Miller - VP Southwest Green Development - Santa Fe, NM Office - has arranged over $100 million in financing for the acquisition, construction and development of residential and commercial real estate as a senior loan officer and as former president of his own brokerage in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a financial service sales and marketing professional with over fourteen years experience and is consistently recognized for his performance, leadership and creativity. Throughout his career he served as a business consultant and manager for several businesses including a national water services company for which he invented a proprietary inventory control system-the first of its kind in the industry. He is a skilled business development and relationship manager with extensive resources to assist businesses with achieving their objectives. He regularly participates in community planning and sustainability meetings and served as a negotiating liaison between community members, government leaders and developers to achieve development plan consensus leading to municipal approval of a large residential and mixed-use commercial subdivision. He currently works with private capital groups for domestic and international real estate acquisition and development and actively represents individuals seeking investment capital for business development based on proprietary intellectual property. 

  

Rudolph M. Tomarelli, Jr. - Green Energy Business Development - Philadelphia Office - Known by his middle name, Michael, was raised in the small farming village of Kimberton, PA in Chester County.  He attended Phoenixville High School where he was a letterman in tennis and wrestling.  He enrolled at Pennsylvania State University where he received B. S. degrees in both Mineral Economics and in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering.  His other certificates earned include: Blowout Prevention School, University of Southern Louisiana, Petroleum Fire Fighting, University of Reno, and Environmental Auditor, University of Southern California Long Beach.  Michael worked in the oil industry for ten years gaining experience in reservoir studies, drilling engineering, oil field construction, and refining.  Companies he worked for include Amoco Oil, Tenneco Oil and Texaco Refining and Marketing.  He received a real estate brokers license in California in 1986 and has experience as an appraiser, as a mortgage broker, and in marketing and sales. Michael and his wife, Karma, returned from California to Pennsylvania to help his octogenarian father care for his ailing mother.   He received a PA brokers license in 2003 and worked as an industrial specialist until joining Green Energy Capital Partners.

 

James H. Thomas  -  Green Energy Business Development - Philadelphia Office  -  For four years prior to joining Green Energy Capital Partrners, he worked as an independent consultant in arbitration, Mediation and Process Improvement . Prior to this he was the Commissioner, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, assigned to the Philadelphia and Mechanicsburg, Pa. Offices from October 1997-January 10, 2004As a Federal Mediator, he mediated over 400 contract negotiations and served as a Mediator in resolving more than 200 grievances between employers and labor. James served as lead trainer in 125 training programs in Traditional Bargaining, Interest Based Bargaining, Grievance and Arbitration, Managing Conflict and Collaboration in the Work Place.  Additionally he provided Alternative Dispute Resolution assistance to the US Social Security Administration, the US Postal Service, and numerous private companies and labor organizations.

he has over 30 years of professional experience in dealing with National Employers/Employees Associations. He was the National Field Coordinator of the Laborers-Associated General Contractors Training & Education Fund, Washington, D. C. and a Instructor for Pennsylvania State University, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Union Leadership Program.

He graduated from Antioch University / George Meany Center for Labor Studies; Washington, D.C.  Bachelor of Arts, Labor Studies and Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Labor-Management Relations.  

Giuseppe Uslenghi -  European Director of Green Development - Rome, Italy Office  -  Uslenghi is spearheading Green Energy Capital Partners European project development initiatives.  He is a founding partner of Team2Market, based in Rome, Italy.  Mr Uslenghi specializes in helping Companies enter new markets and in the development and implementation of new strategies and performance improvement programs.  This typically includes evaluating strategic options, planning and setting up new ventures, and implementing major change.  His areas of expertise include: market entry strategy and support, technology enabled strategy and implementation, IT strategy and alignment, linking strategy to operations, business transformation and organization design, teambuilding and change management, business reengineering, turnaround programs, large scale program management, new venture setup and development.  Mr Uslenghi has over 20 years of industry and management consulting experience in a number of industries in Europe and the Americas and has a keen interest in Renewable Energy Development. 

Mr Uslenghi was the Director in charge of the Rome Branch and of the Italian Information Management Practice with Arthur D. Little (2000 – 2003), a Principal in the European E-business core team of A.T. Kearney (1995-2000), a Senior manager in the European practice of CSC Index (1989 – 1995), and a Consultant in the North American Practice of  Nolan Norton & Company (1985 – 1989).

Mr Uslenghi holds a degree in Business and Economics from the University of Genova, is a native Italian, and speaks fluent English

Joshua Ramirez, MSM-PM  -  Green Energy Business Development  -  Pacific Northwest  - Mr. Ramirez grew up on a 21,000 acre ranch in southwestern Montana, where he spent his early years raising cattle and putting up hay.  In his late teens, he began to assume some of the management responsibilities of the family cattle business.  It was here where he first developed an interest in management and business development.
 
When Mr. Ramirez was 21 he joined the United States Army, where he graduated with honors from the U.S. Army Infantry School, U.S. Army Airborne School, and was eventually stationed in Ft. Lewis, Washington.  While stationed in Ft. Lewis, he met his wife Jessica, and they were married two years later.  Joshua and Jessica currently live in Washington State with their four children.
 
Mr. Ramirez gained valuable leadership and effective communication experience as a lead drill instructor at a boot camp for juvenile offenders.  He also utilized business strategies including marketing, team building skills, and SWOT analysis to successfully boost revenues as a manager for a Verizon Wireless Premium Retailer, taking his location to be one of the top in the northwest.  Mr. Ramirez has several years experience in Project Controls/Project Management.  As a Project Controls Specialist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (a DOE national laboratory), he worked construction and national security projects with total cumulative project budgets of $150 million, managing project scheduling, cost reporting, earned value reporting and risk analysis.
 
Since moving to Washington, he has spent the last five years researching renewable energy in the northwest.  He has experience in project management, cost estimating and control, time and workflow management, strategic planning, conflict resolution, team leadership and motivation, change management, leadership development, and marketing.
 
Mr. Ramirez graduated Magna cum Laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in Management, cum Laude with a B.B.A. in Accounting and Finance, and most recently graduated with a Masters in Science in Management in Project Management from Colorado Technical University.  He also holds professional certificates in Business Management, Change Management and Project Management.

William J. Murphy - Green Energy Business Development – NJ, Southeastern PA and DE- William Murphy is currently a resident of Philadelphia who grew up near Trenton, NJ. William graduated from Rowan University in 1999 with degrees in History, Philosophy, and Religion with concentrations in both Asian and Middle Eastern Affairs.

After graduating, William pursued a career in Mortgage Banking, attaining the level of Branch Manager for a mid-sized mortgage and finance firm. During his career, William personally lent over fifty million dollars while overseeing the management of an additional two-hundred million. In addition, William had a key role in negotiating several sizable contracts with regional businesses to make his firm the lender of choice for their employees.

William has been very active in the green energy movement for the past several years, seeing its growth as necessary to the positive economic and environmental stability of the world. Since entering the work force, he has taken an active part in developing conservation and green energy plans for his various employers, utilizing his business sense in conjunction with his renewable energy knowledge to save  them money, labor and resources.