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Karen Alonardo

My passion, since graduate school, has been to deliver a viable technology solution to the business community to rationalize cleantech efforts.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.csrware.com
Industries: Cleantech, Information Technology
Skills: Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Sales
Location: San Francisco, CA
Groups: California Clean Tech Open, CleanTech Circle Forum, Women 2.0
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Trading services
Tags: carbon accounting, carbon credit, carbon footprint, carbon management, carbon management software, carbon offset, clean tech, climate change, Corporate Social Responsibility, eco-investing, eco-tech, energy efficiency, energy management, energy software, environmental protection, environmental sustainability, ghg software, global warming, green business, green it, green products csrware selected as microsoft bizspark startup of the day http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/microspark-bizspark-startup-of-the-day/lists/posts/post.aspx?id=38, green tech, sustainability, sustainability software, water
Schools: Northeastern University, University of San Francisco

FEATURED STARTUP

CSRware, Inc.

CSRware, Inc. CSRware, Inc.

CSRware "Energy & Sustainability Software" and "Sustainable Supply Chain Software" is an enterprise sustainability management platform (SaaS) using state-of-the art technology to measure, report and take action on reducing costs and emissions.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

FULL BIO

CSRware Selected as Microsoft BizSpark Startup of the Day
http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/Blogs/Microspark-BizS...

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: CSRware, Inc.
Position: Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Time period: December 2005 - May 2009
Description: Started CSRware while pursuing my Graduate degree in Environmental Science.

Employer: Critical Path
Position: VP of Operations
Time period: December 1997 - November 2001
Description: Responsible for running > 50M hosted email operation with over 100 staff and significant budget.

Employer: Electronic Arts
Position: Information Technology & Online Operations
Time period: December 1988 - November 1998
Description: Part of team responsible for growing the EA IT and ea.com business services.

EDUCATION

University: Northeastern University
Degree: Business, BSc

University: University of San Francisco
Degree: Environmental Science, MSc

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: CNBC, Fortune, Alta Terra, Financial Times (IT Going Green: Standardisation issues bedevil carbon budgets), The 451 Group (Eco-Efficient IT), eWeek (SAAS Startup Tunes Enterprises into Social Responsibility), Search Data Center (New green data center products: Corporate Sustainability Software and VFD systems), Forrester (Emerging Software Tools For Corporate Social Responsibility)
Papers: CSRware Whitepaper for Uptime Institute
Patents: Pending

INFORMATION

Sports: Love most sports!
Memberships: SDForum, CA Cleantech Open, SVASE, WITI, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Sustainable Silicon Valley, Cleantech Network, Women 2.0, GRI

Karen's Startups (1)

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  • CSRware, Inc.

    CSRware "Energy & Sustainability Software" and "Sustainable Supply Chain Software" is an enterprise sustainability management platform (SaaS) using state-of-the art technology to measure, report and take action on reducing costs and emissions.

Karen is Following (11)

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  • Better Place

    Better Place is working to build an electric car network, using technology available today.

  • Agrion.org

    Agrion.org is a business network for companies concerned with Energy, Sustainable Development, and Clean Technology.

  • Skipso - The Cleantech Platform

    Skipso is an innovative online platform and vertical business to business marketplace that aggregates Cleantech professionals and businesses globally providing them with a new channel to carry out their business and unleash sustainable innovation.

  • Clean Tech Zone

    News, directory & industry portal. Includes the Clean Energy Evaluator: an information product like http://wikimatrix.org enabling organizations to evaluate alternate clean energy products in reference to their own needs. A lead up to Clean Zap.

Karen's Contacts (7)

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  • Dan Steketee

    Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .

  • Lyle Deitch

    VC, entrepreneur, keen to learn about exciting, startups. American, 36, based in Florida. Operating partner at 21Ventures (www.21ventures.net)

  • Angie Chang

    product manager / designer / marketing

  • Shaherose Charania

    Connectivity leads to productivity, progress and sustainability. I believe in the power of communications technologies to save the world..!