Renee Fry
Operations and Logistics graduate from Pennsylvania State University, with MBA from Harvard. Currently working as consultant for various organizations.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business |
| Groups: | Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Harvard Business School, Pennsylvania State University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Various organizations |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Lead multiple team efforts on growing businesses, focus on clean tech and alternative energy.
- Leading team effort across business units to assess market opportunities and take action to grow and protect core business. Authored business plan, including extensive forecasting, for GT Solar, Inc.’s new business unit with team as they assess going public. Developed strategy for partnership with company with new technology that better uses GT Solar assets. - Act as advisor for venture capitalists and trade groups on energy issues, future development initiatives and how government interaction will affect those initiatives. Serving on MIT Enterprise Forum’s IGNITE CLEAN ENERGY ’08 organizing committee and New England Clean Energy Council. - Consulted for Cindy Gillespie on projects including construction of a Corporate Development plan for CNA, Inc., an 1100 person services company and a $14B NYC Development project. |
| Employer: | Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts |
| Position: | Cabinet, Dir. of Business & Technology, Sr. Staff |
| Time period: | December 2001 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Led Business and Technology efforts and oversaw all Energy, Environment, Transportation and Economic Development cabinet agencies in final assignment. Executed landmark deals for the state and created structures in place today to attract business and jobs to Massachusetts.
• Led team effort to put out landscape changing energy and environmental plan to move state forward in clean tech and alternative energy uses. • Moved stalled agenda items, worked with major outside constituencies in developing and overseeing execution of the state’s Energy initiatives, Transit Regulations and LNG siting decisions. • Cut $435M from the budget due to state revenue shortfalls with no key services or initiatives affected. Managed state offices of Tourism, International Trade, Women and Minority Business, Small Business and Business Development with direct oversight for 55 staff and a budget of approximately $25M. • Increased jobs pipeline from 1330 in 2003 to approximately 40,000 in 2005, and grew private investment opportunities from approximately $75M to $3.4B during my tenure. o Spearheaded team that developed and managed the operations of the Business Resource Team (BRT), the state’s one-stop model for selling MA and helping businesses. - 219 companies expanded or located in the state, including Bristol Myers Squibb’s $1.3B bio-manufacturing plant which will create 650 new jobs • Represented and directed state representatives’ votes on over 15 boards. Brought all together under the BRT. • Performed interviews in print, on television and radio to promote Department’s achievements. • Named on of Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40 in 2005. |
| Employer: | Celarix, Inc., Cambridge, MA, Venture Backed Start-up |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 1998 - November 2002 |
| Description: | Director Strategic Alliances, 2000-2002
Defined business development strategy, developed and negotiated relationships and managed operational alliance activities for start-up software supply chain company backed by Charles River Ventures. Customers included Agilent Technologies, Sharp Electronics, Abercrombie & Fitch, TruServ and Lowe's. Helped grow a one year old, 15 employee company into a multi-million $/yr business later acquired by the former GE Information Systems. • Established formal alliances sponsored by practice heads at Accenture, CGE&Y and KPMG to promote Celarix offerings to integrators' clients and to serve as professional services arm of Celarix. o Managed team and all operational activities of alliances from marketing to sales to education. Responsible for 70% of total active sales pipeline opportunities and 65% of revenue for fiscal 2002. • Led successful selection as Accenture preferred alliance choice over 54 other firms, many publicly traded and also those that Accenture had an equity stake in. • Secured consultant partners that acted as key references for $17.5M series D round of funding. Marketing Manager 1999 - Managed marketing activities including direct mail, brand awareness campaigns, and web presence. - Created and ran corporate ROI model for sales team. |
| Employer: | BASF, Mount Olive, NJ, Corporate Headquarters |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 1993 - November 1997 |
| Description: | Materials Planner, North American Urethanes Division, Polyols, 1995-1997
Managed supply and demand planning for $110M, 350M pound NAFTA Region Polyol network with two plants and twelve satellite locations. • Led Sales and Operations Planning meetings with plant managers and business directors from six divisions. • Served as division SAP MRP II expert user. Responsible for system implementation and training. • Developed master production schedules and detailed production schedules for plants. Decreased average order fulfillment time by 10%. Reduced missed shipments 12%. Reduced days on hand of inventory 25%. Logistics Professional Development Program 1994-1995 Successfully completed rotational assignments in corporate and divisional logistics: Inbound Transportation Project Leader, Corporate Logistics; Materials Planner, North American Polymers Plastics Division; Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Project Leader, Corporate Logistics. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Harvard Business School |
| Time period: | 1999 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Pennsylvania State University |
| Time period: | 1994 |
| Degree: | Operations and Honors Degree in Logistics , BSc |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Harvard Business School
- Currently serve on the HBS Boston Alumni Board and oversee Program Committee for 2008. |
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Larry LaFranchi
Engineering graduate from UCLA, with MBA from MIT. Financial executive with extensive breadth and depth of experience serves in part-time CFO role for early-stage companies. Currently working as Independent Consultant.
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Tracy Sykes
Economics graduate from University of Wisconsin, with JD degree from Boston University. Currently working as Founder & Managing Partner at Ambertech Group, LLC.
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Chad Joshi
Dr. Joshi is an accomplished inventor and entrepreneur whose expertise is incubating basic scientific discoveries into commercial products.