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Chester Aldridge
Doug Froese
Greg Knight
Mary Hubert
Simon Price
Todd Weimer
Tony Shapiro |
| Chester Aldridge
Mr. Aldridge has over 17 years of experience in founding, operating and financing businesses, ranging from start-ups to multi-million-dollar publicly traded companies. Areas of operation have included technology, manufacturing, publishing and software verticals. Highlights of Mr. Aldridge's career include raising over $100 million of private equity, licensing major Hollywood properties including MTV's Jackass, Disney brands and Frank Miller's Sin City, and securing sales and distribution deals worth tens of millions of dollars from partners including Vivendi Universal, Sony and Disney.
Mr. Aldridge is Co-Founder and Chairman of a green energy technology fund Green Edge Ventures (a founding sponsor of the TechBridgeTM Program) and has been a valuable advisor to the TechBridge Program from its inception. The TechBridgeTM Program was established by the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (Fraunhofer CSE) to support the development of innovative clean energy technology companies. Fraunhofer CSE, based in Cambridge, Mass., also works in close cooperation with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, with the new CSE center located in the immediate vicinity of the MIT campus.
Currently Mr. Aldridge is Co-Founder and Chairman of Equity Solar, which has secured the exclusive license to a patented solar photovoltaic technology. Equity Solar's technology is used within the solar cell manufacturing line. The technology was co-developed by Special Materials Research and Technology (SPECMAT), NASA and the US Department of Defense. Equity Solar has retained Fraunhofer CSE as a consultant for the purpose of validating the commercial value of the technology.
Mr. Aldridge is also Co-Founder and Chairman of Equity Micro Tech, which has secured the exclusive license to a room-temperature silicon-oxide-based coating process for multiple applications within the microelectronics industry, including semiconductors, optoelectronic sensors (digital cameras), and TV displays (AMOLED and LCD) . The technology was co-developed by Special Materials Research and Technology (SPECMAT), NASA and the US Department of Defense.
In addition to his renewable energy and technology interests, Mr. Aldridge is Founder and CEO of The Royal Factory, a music label that has exclusively licensed the entertainment rights to Austin Brown, nephew of Michael Jackson. Austin is currently working on his debut album, "85," with Grammy Award-winning producer and co-writer Rodney Jerkins, who has produced for Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson and many other artists. Walter Afanasieff, also a Grammy Award-winning writer and producer who has produced for many leading artists including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Lionel Richie and Luther Vandross, is collaborating with Austin on the album.
Mr. Aldridge is a Life Member of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association. The Stanford Business School also awarded Mr. Aldridge for attending the Executive Program for Growing Companies in 2000. |
