Seasoned entrepreneur, advisor, educator and consultant
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Advisor at Atayne
- Member, Board of Directors at Maryland Clean Energy Center
- Member at Maryland Clean Energy Economic Development Workgroup
- Co-Founder and Member, Board of Directors at Green Guild Biodiesel Co-op
- President at Foundation for Renewable Energy Education
- Member, Board of Directors at Eneractive Solutions
- Founder and Executive Director at Biodiesel University
- Senior Fellow for Renewable Energy at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
- Member, Board of Directors at HandsOn Toys, Inc.
- Scientific Advisory Board Member at New Markets Venture Partners
- Past
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- Member at Maryland Secretary of State's Renewable Fuels Committee
- Chairman at Zernike USA, Inc.
- Advisory Board Member at Minerva Seed Fund
- Advisory Board Member at Chesapeake Innovation Center
- Co-Founder, Partner at BrainChild Maryland
- Technology & Business Reviewer, Advanced Technology Program at National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Entrepreneur in Residence at University of Maryland, College Park, Office of Technology Commercialization
- Director of Software Development at eQuest Technologies, Inc.
- Founder, CEO and Director of Engineering at Silverthorn Group, Inc.
- Education
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- Nat'l Institutes of Health, Foundation for Advanced Education in Science
- University of Maryland
- Sandy Spring Friends School
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Dan Goodman’s Summary
Lifelong entrepreneur with extensive tech transfer and startup experience. Focused on education, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, and economic development in the renewable energy sector.
Dan Goodman’s Specialties:
Renewable energy technologies, technology transfer and commercialization processes, startups and entrepreneurship, strategy and business development, various forms of venture midwifery
Dan Goodman’s Experience
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Advisor
Atayne
(Renewables & Environment industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Atayne is a Maine manufacturer of highly environmentally responsible performance sportswear made from recycled materials. The company operates under a model that reduces energy, water, harmful chemicals, emissions, and waste (industrial and consumer).
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Member, Board of Directors
Maryland Clean Energy Center
(Renewables & Environment industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley. Treasurer and Chairman of the Finance Committee. The Maryland Clean Energy Center is a quasi-public authority recently created by the state legislature to grow renewable energy economic development and deployment in Maryland. The MCEC will help create new jobs, foster investment, innovation and growth in the state’s clean energy supply and infrastructure, and promote energy efficiency and a cleaner environment.
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Member
Maryland Clean Energy Economic Development Workgroup
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Administration industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
MCEEDW is a Maryland governmental interagency workgroup focused on advising the Governor, state legislators and policy makers on strategies for growing Maryland's clean energy business sector, and building inter-agency collaborations for executing those strategies. Members represent the Office of the Governor, the Office of Senator Cardin, state legislators, the Maryland Energy Administration, the Department of Business and Economic Development, the University of Maryland, Biodiesel University, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), and the Maryland Clean Energy Center.
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Co-Founder and Member, Board of Directors
Green Guild Biodiesel Co-op
(Renewables & Environment industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
The Green Guild Biodiesel Coop is a member-based, non-profit, social entrepreneurship venture that serves the community and environment through promoting and producing quality biodiesel fuel in the Washington DC metro area. We use biodiesel as a teaching tool to educate consumers, youth and the community about climate change, energy issues, and community solutions.
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President
Foundation for Renewable Energy Education
(Non-Profit; Renewables & Environment industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
The parent organization of Biodiesel University, the Foundation is a stand-alone non-profit headquartered within the University of Maryland, College Park. Our mission is to inspire adoption of careers in renewable energy science and technology. Our central methodology is to provide exciting hands-on experiences in renewable energy technologies via our fleet of mobile education labs. These extreme science labs offer sponsoring organizations unique, high-profile experiential marketing opportunities while providing students and other visitors an unforgettable high-touch renewable energy education.
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Member, Board of Directors
Eneractive Solutions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Based in Asbury Park, NJ, Eneractive Solutions is an independent, full service energy engineering and project development company specializing in the analysis, design, development, and installation of energy efficiency, building infrastructure, and renewable energy projects. (www.eneractivesolutions.com)
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Founder and Executive Director
Biodiesel University
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Biodiesel University is a non-profit renewable energy education organization focused on students from middle school through college, teachers and the public.
Biodiesel University is about growing three things: renewable energy knowledge, environmental sustainability mindsets, and inspiration for careers in science and technology.
Key objectives of all Biodiesel University programs are:
•Convey the centrality of energy use and its role in climate change, environmental health, economics, national security and geopolitics
•Inspire a new awareness of our responsibilities and opportunities as energy consumers
•Provide an unbiased framework for making wise energy choices
We use biodiesel as a tangible example of a renewable energy technology to explore these larger issues.
Biodiesel University is affiliated with the University of Maryland. We are pro-sustainability, and feedstock and process agnostic.
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Senior Fellow for Renewable Energy
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
The University of Maryland's nationally respected Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship helps entrepreneurs develop, grow, and fund their businesses. Dan mentors entrepreneurs from many vertical markets on new venture strategies and execution, with special focus on renewable energy and social ventures, preps companies for investor presentations at the Center's subscription investor forum (Capital Access Network), judges business plan competitions domestically and in China and co-teaches masters-level entrepreneurship classes. Dan has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Dingman Center since 2005. (www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dingman/)
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Member, Board of Directors
HandsOn Toys, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
August 2003 — Present (6 years)
HandsOnToys brings innovative new toy products and inventions to the toy market. The company, founded in 1993 by Arthur Ganson (famed kinetic sculptor and MIT Artist in Residence) and two other entrepreneurs, develops their own toys and licenses new toy concepts from the toy design community. HandsOnToys prototypes, tests and refines toy products and their packaging, then positions and markets them. Some of the company’s successes include the wildly popular Floam® (seen regularly on Nickelodeon), Toobers & Zots® (winner of over 30 major toy awards), the Wiggly Giggly ball (a crossover hit in the pet market), the craft market perennial Crunch Art, and many others.
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Scientific Advisory Board Member
New Markets Venture Partners
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2003 — Present (6 years 2 months)
New Markets Venture Partners is a leading early stage venture capital firm that invests in and actively assists innovative information technology, education and healthcare companies. The New Markets Team has over a hundred man-years of experience investing in and building high growth companies, and includes the wisdom, tenacity, and vision of founders of a highly successful public company and one of the U.S.’s premier venture firms. Our team has proprietary relationships with centers of innovation, and particular domain expertise around technology and education. (www.newmarketsvp.com/)
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Member
Maryland Secretary of State's Renewable Fuels Committee
(Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
Co-organizer of the Maryland Secretary of State's Maryland-Brazil Renewable Fuels Conference, held at the Aspen Institute Conference Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore in May 2007. Moderator of the Environment and Externalities conference track. The conference focused on the state of the biofuels industries in the US and Brazil, opportunities for trade and research collaboration, and the environmental repercussions of large-scale biofuels production.
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Chairman
Zernike USA, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2004 — 2007 (3 years)
Zernike Group is one of the largest private early-stage venture investors in Europe and one of the most respected science park management companies in the world. With offices in 12 countries, Zernike's core activities include seed fund management, science and technology park management, business development consulting, and cross-border sales and marketing of innovative products and services. (www.zernikegroup.com)
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Advisory Board Member
Minerva Seed Fund
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
April 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 9 months)
The Minerva Seed Fund was a early-stage venture capital company that made $50,000 to $500,000 investments in promising high-growth companies. The fund focused on facilitating business development and the subsequent economic development opportunities for technology companies in the Metro DC area.
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Advisory Board Member
Chesapeake Innovation Center
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)
August 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 11 months)
The Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC) focuses the power of entrepreneurship on America’s most pressing security requirements. By creating a bridge between major users of security technology and small companies at the forefront of innovation, the Center enhances America’s technological edge and helps propel the “Informatics Corridor” centered in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The Center and its member companies specialize in informatics, knowledge discovery, security, visualization, information assurance, homeland security, human capital development, and other technology areas. (http://www.cic-tech.org/)
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Co-Founder, Partner
BrainChild Maryland
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2002 — February 2004 (2 years 1 month)
BrainChild Maryland was the State of Maryland's public-private partnership formed to create technology startups from the intellectual property generated by Maryland's universities and federal labs. It was sponsored by the state's Department of Business and Economic Development.
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Technology & Business Reviewer, Advanced Technology Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
NIST's Advanced Technology Program is the US Government's highly competitive, prestigious funding program for advanced technology development. APT helps industry invest in longer-term, high risk research with payoffs far beyond private profit. By sharing the cost with companies, ATP accelerates the development of early-stage, innovative technologies, helping industry raise its competitive potential while providing Americans with a higher standard of living. (http://www.atp.nist.gov)
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Entrepreneur in Residence
University of Maryland, College Park, Office of Technology Commercialization
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
April 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Performed technology matching and business development to help the University license its intellectual property portfolio to industry.
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Director of Software Development
eQuest Technologies, Inc.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Managed a team of software developers and network engineers developing and deploying OSS, BSS and server farm provisioning systems for Tier 1 telcos, ISP's and ASP's in North America, Europe and Asia. This team largely served as a dedicated contractor to Microsoft's Consulting Group, designing and implementing Microsoft solutions for major Microsoft clients.
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Founder, CEO and Director of Engineering
Silverthorn Group, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
1986 — 2000 (14 years)
Embedded systems design firm, specializing in LonWorks intelligent distributed control system product development for building automation, transportation, energy, and medical systems. The company developed, manufactured and marketed a line of LonWorks components (control modules, voice annunciators and dialers) as well as recreational and therapeutic devices for people with traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. Silverthorn also performed "expert witness" analysis of complex multi-manufacturer control system installations for determining network device manufacturer liability in systems owned by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ray Ozzie, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, and many others.
Dan Goodman’s Education
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Nat'l Institutes of Health, Foundation for Advanced Education in Science
Technology Transfer 2002
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University of Maryland
BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1986
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Sandy Spring Friends School
HS , 1974 — 1978
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Dan Goodman’s Interests:
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, New Technology, Venture Capital, Startups, Biodiesel, Glassblowing
