Trent Bigelow

Current

Chairman at Society for Sustainable Mobility
Presenter at The Climate Project
Founding Partner at Luova Group

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Past

Chief Marketing Officer at Climate Clean, Inc.
Special Executive Advisor to the Chairman at a Global Holdings Group in Hong Kong SAR
Chief Executive Officer at Reaction Concepts

Youth Marketing Strategy, New Business Creation Unit at Hewlett-Packard

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Education

University of Southern California

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

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Trent Bigelow’s Summary

Trent Bigelow is an agent of change in the spaces of open innovation, social connectivity, new media, branding, community building, cause-focused messaging, and social progress. Trent works with other change agents, both emerging and established, to instigate greater storytelling, and in turn, enable significant recognition, action, and results.

Causes Trent is passionate about include solving climate change, microinvesting, cooperative commerce, poverty alleviation, open government, social justice, education and health care reform, all issues on a local, state, and global scale.

His interests include modern design, new media, technology, modernity, modern history, sustainable thinking, traveling, fashion, trendspotting, and sailing.

Trent Bigelow’s Specialties:

youth marketing strategy, branding and identity strategy, image consulting, new ventures, new business creation, product innovation, open source business, bootstrapping, tech sector, venture capital, green business, sustainability

Trent Bigelow’s Experience

Chairman

Society for Sustainable Mobility

(Automotive industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

The Society of Sustainable Mobility is the volunteer community behind the Open Source Green Vehicle project, subsequently spinning off a commercial venture, Motivus Corporation, competing in the Progress Auto X-Prize. SSM in 2009 will focus on consumer education, advocate for improved investment in a green transit infrastructure, and encourage open-source collaboration between academia, new startups, and established automakers - in efforts to offer consumers more sustainable options.
Presenter

The Climate Project

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)

The Climate Project consists of 2,500 dedicated and distinguished global volunteers from throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Spain, and the UK, all personally trained by former Vice President Al Gore to educate the public about climate change. TCP presenters have reached a combined 4 million people worldwide. Our hope is that by raising the awareness of our fellow citizens about this crisis and informing them about potential solutions, all of us, together, can preserve the climate balance on which humanity and our planet depend.
Founding Partner

Luova Group

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

We are a network of global visionaries in design, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We live and work for one simple goal: make the world a better place. We believe in the positive power of change.

We are Luova.

We focus in four primary areas:
* Early-stage venture incubation
* Strategic Consulting
* Social Entrepreneurship
* Global Collaboration
Chief Marketing Officer

Climate Clean, Inc.

(Environmental Services industry)

August 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 6 months)

Lead the positioning, marketing, and co-branding strategy for the world's pioneering marketer of high quality greenhouse gas offsets and carbon footprint reduction consulting. Also charged with the creation and rollout of an “Intel Inside”-like embedded label and process for display on the company’s highly visible clients’ offerings.
Special Executive Advisor to the Chairman

a Global Holdings Group in Hong Kong SAR

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

May 2006 — November 2006 (7 months)

I advised the Chairman of a large global holdings group in Asia in the areas of new business creation, corporate social responsibility, internal entrepreneurship and innovation.

I was able to begin to better understand Chinese consumers and business trends. In return, I helped the company understand many challenges that they face ahead. I focused on several key projects in the areas of real estate development, renewable energy, natural resources, and brand management.
Chief Executive Officer

Reaction Concepts

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

August 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 11 months)

I co-founded Reaction Concepts, LLC. with my partners Isaac Sims and James Ravagni during my freshman year of school at USC. Since then, our company expanded beyond youth marketing consulting services alone, and made its best attempt at launching new internet ventures, mainly in social networking.
Youth Marketing Strategy, New Business Creation Unit

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 3 months)

I focused on Youth Marketing Strategy within HP's New Business Creation Unit in Corvallis, Oregon. One of my main projects was organizing the HP Student Innovation Center, a hands-on lab for high school students to help HP inventors understand the youth segment.

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Trent Bigelow’s Interests:

brand evangelism, viral marketing, new technology, new ventures, travel, social entrepreneurship, social progress, microinvesting, design, affordable housing, new business models, next generation urban planning, green business, sustainability, nanotechnology, collaborative ventures, sailing