TON Tuesday - Focus On: Cleantech Project
Financing Opportunities in Ottawa
February 23, 2010 4-6:30 pm
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Bringing local clusters and initiatives together to focus the expertise of experienced management and engineering talents on emerging cleantech opportunities.

We invite you to join the conversation!

Register for the event here.

We are pleased to introduce the panelists for the event:

Rob Miller, VP of Development, AxioPower

Rob joined Axio Power in 2008 from Canadian Hydro Developers, where he was the Project Engineer for CHD’s Ontario wind projects including Wolfe Island (a $475 million and 200 MW project) and Royal Road (18 MW). Rob also worked for Vector Wind Energy as a project manager in Eastern Ontario. Prior to working in the private sector, Rob managed municipal engineering for the municipalities of Whistler and the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Rob has over 15 years of experience with senior-level operations, construction management, and environmental engineering. He is a Professional Engineer with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario and a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of British Columbia.

Matt Cinnamon, Green Soldiers

Mr. Cinnamon currently shares profitable partnerships in several corporations in the Ottawa area. He has a solid 15 years of experience in the construction, heating, plumbing, and electrical industries, housing developments and maintenance contracts for multi-national firms and government entities. His executive experience brings a bird’s eye view to the entire operation.

Adam Patterson, Independent Green Energy

Mr Patterson is CEO and co-founder of Indpendent Green Energy, a partner firm of Sutton Renewables and co-founder of the Geothermal initiatives at both groups.  Adam brings 13 years experience in international trade finance, investment banking and analytics.  As a former investment analyst and presently focused on driving capital into long term resource and energy projects within North America he brings experience in analyzing and working on large scale projects.  Mr Patterson became more heavily involved in the alternative energy space when he began to look for solutions for the financial and logistical bottlnecks associated with the industry. Upon reviewing several methods for making alternative energy a more relevant choice for residential consumers he founded Indpendent Green Energy.  Within Independent Green Energy, we are able to draw upon the experience gained from the management of Sutton renewables Kinersis wind projects both in North America and Europe.  Adam has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Guelph, is accredited with the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association and holds numerous trading and financial designations.

Trevor Strauss, NextEnergy Inc.

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Gowlings Monthly TON “Starting your Startup Series”, Continues The 2 Part Seminar Series on Business Plans

Part 2 – Preparing A Business Plan To Raise Capital
Tuesday February 9th, 2010 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
160 Elgin St., 26th Floor

In Part 1 of our seminar series on business plans, “The Business Plan You DON’T Take To The Bank”, we discussed how a business plan can be used to help your Company stay focused on primary business objectives and to operate more efficiently.  Part Two of the series will focus on the role of the Business Plan when your start-up is raising Capital.

Our panel for the Feb 9th event will consist of experts on various sources of capital, including: Senior and Subordinate Debt (working capital loans, asset financing etc), Government (OCE, IRAP etc) and Equity (Convertible Debt, Preferred Shares etc).  The panel will be moderated by Anil Dilawri of Hill and Knowlton.

Gowlings is very pleased to host Starting Your Start-Up, The Ottawa Network monthly event stream that combines quality networking with practical advice and insights from industry leaders and subject matter experts.  Starting Your Start-Up focuses on the business basics that are the foundation for launching and building a successful start-up in these promising and challenging times including financing, team formation, business & product development, sales, and marketing.

This event is provided at no cost for members of The Ottawa Network. Click here for registration details.

Moderator: Anil Dilawri, the Director of Investor Relations Consulting at Hill & Knowlton Canada. - Anil provides strategic counsel to organizations on how to effectively communicate to the investment community. Anil also leads the executive presentation training service at Hill & Knowlton Ottawa. Anil has a vast amount of experience in communicating with members of the North American and European investment communities. This community includes sell-side analysts, buy-side shareholders, prospective institutional shareholders, venture capitalists, retail shareholders, and financial media.  Anil’s experience includes working with companies in many industries such as metals and mining, technology, automotive manufacturing, packaged food, oil and gas, and financial services.  Before joining Hill & Knowlton Anil was the Director of Investor Relations (IRO) for March Networks Corporation where he was the strategic leader and day-to-day contact for a number of key stakeholders. Prior to March Networks Anil was at Cognos Inc. (now IBM), where he held several senior positions in investor relations, product marketing, and research and development.

Panelist: Kevin J Carroll BA, MBA, Director of Commercialization, OCE Centre for Commercialization of Research - As Director of Commercialization for OCE’s Centre of Commercialization of Research,  Kevin helps high-potential early stage companies build the capacity to become sustainable global competitors by providing management expertise, advice and investment.

Kevin joined the Centre for Commercialization of Research in July 2008. Kevin has over 17 years of experience in the Telecom Industry, with extensive knowledge of Information Systems and a proven track record directing and managing multi-million dollar operations. Kevin is the former Leader for IT Procurement at Nortel, in this capacity, he managed cost saving programs in resource management and led the global outsourcing of Information Technology for Nortel which resulted in large corporate cost savings. Kevin has held several senior positions at Nortel including key roles in IT Business Operation and Portfolio Management for strategic partners such as AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. Additionally he serves on the Board of  a number of private, not for profit and charitable organisations. For the last 9 years Kevin has held the position of President for Kevin James Consulting Ltd a small consulting firm based in Ottawa.   Kevin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, a Master of Business Administration and is ITIL certified. Kevin and his wife Sue have four wonderful children and reside in Ottawa, Ontario.

Panelist: Robert Shaw, Account Manager, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) - In his capacity as Account Manager at BDC, Robert consults regularly with executives from a variety of fields and companies to help provide flexible long term growth financing and strategic consulting services.

Prior to joining BDC, Robert spent several years with an Asset Based Lender and over seven years in the high tech with Entrust and Corel. Robert holds a BA (Economics) from The University of Western Ontario and has completed the Canadian Securities Course as well as other courses in accounting and finance.

This event is provided at no cost for members of The Ottawa Network. Click here for registration details.