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Nick Ellis

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.brightgreentalent.com
Industries: Cleantech, Financial, Health, Information Technology
Skills: AJAX, Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, Flash, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Investment, Italian, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, MacOS applications, Management, Marketing, PHP, Public speaking, Recruitment, Software Engineering, SQL, Viral marketing, Web design, Web Development
Location: San Francisco!
Interested in: Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Helping friends, Internships, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Starting a company
Tags: entrepreneur
Schools: London School of Economics and Political Science, Stanford University

FEATURED STARTUP

Bright Green Talent

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Executive and search for a Bright Green future

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

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Stone & Youngberg, LLC
Position: Public Finance Banker
Time period: September 2004 - December 2007
Description: Underwrite over $500,000,000 in public securities for local agencies throughout the State of California to finance local infrastructure projects.

Employer: Global Legacy
Position: Volunteer Consultant
Time period: June 2004 - September 2004
Description: Advised Global Legacy as to the direction of their organizational technology strategy, while simultaneously redeveloping their online presence, globalegacylondon.com.

Employer: Pink
Position: Principal
Time period: September 2002 - September 2004
Description: Established an international technology consultancy, whose clients included international finance firms, local businesses, and non-profit organizations. Served as lead business development officer and graphic/web designer. Pro-bono website development for A Drop of Life (www.adropoflife.tv), a fictional short-firm highlighting the impact of water privatization on a rural Indian village.

Employer: The FiftyCrows Foundation
Position: Business Development Intern
Time period: June 2002 - September 2002
Description: Performed market analysis and identified potential partners. Helped to develop fundraising strategy. Concurrently developed prosthetic relief project for victims of genocide.

Employer: ActiveTelco
Position: Software Design Intern
Time period: June 2000 - September 2000
Description: Documented and streamlined the ActiveTelco API for VoIP system. Implemented XML interface and setup WAP server and site. TUTSystems acquired ActiveTelco in 9/2000 for $39,000,000.

EDUCATION

University: London School of Economics and Political Science
Time period: 2003 - 2004
Degree: New Media, MSc

University: Stanford University
Time period: 1998 - 2002
Degree: Science, Technology, & Society, BA

INFORMATION

Sports: ‘Block S’ Award recipient – Stanford University’s most outstanding male athlete in junior class.
Water Polo (Goalkeeper): 4 Time NCAA Division I All-American; 2 Time NCAA Champion; 4 Time Stanford Scholar Athlete; Team captain; 2 Time Verizon Academic All-American; 4 Time Academic All-American; NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient; Member of USA National Teams (1993-2002), competed in Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, and Spain.
Hobbies: Development Entrepreneurship, Municipal Broadband, Conflict Resolution, and Frisbee Golf.
Clubs: Olympic Club (water polo)

Nick's Startups (1)

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Nick is Following (2)

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  • S3: Sustainable Solution Systems

    The most enticing water conservation solution since showering with a friend.

  • Puentes Global

    Puentes Global--recipient of the 2009 Stanford GSB Social Innovation Fellowship--is a nonprofit international employment agency, which aims to connect low-income, semiskilled workers from Mexico with legal, well-paying jobs in Spain.

Nick's Contacts (4)

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  • Stephanie Frasco

    Entrepreneurial Minded :: Socially Charged

  • Steve Puma

    Effective communication skills developed over 15 years volunteering in the personal growth field. Excellent technology skills from over 10 years in Information Technology.

  • Tom Savage

    Brit living in San Fran... banging the social business drum for Bright Green Talent after peripatetic life beyond with Blue Ventures in Madagascar, working with government, two business degrees and avoiding suits (both wearing and wearers)