Andrew Perlman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of GreatPoint Energy. Since co-founding the company in 2004, Mr. Perlman has been deeply involved in all aspects of its growth, driving the development of its technology and building a highly experienced team which marries both scientific and commercial expertise. As CEO, he also has lead responsibility for the development and execution of all capital projects.

Mr. Perlman is an entrepreneur who has successfully co-founded six venture-backed companies. Prior to founding GreatPoint Energy, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company which was purchased by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD).

In 1995, Mr. Perlman founded Cignal Global Communications, a pioneer in voice over data network communications, and served as President until its sale in 2000 to one of the largest cable operators in Europe.

Mr. Perlman sits on the Board of GreatPoint Ventures, an investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies.

He was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of Massachusetts’ most promising business people and has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal as a leading young entrepreneur.

Aaron Mandell, co-founder and senior vice president of technology at GreatPoint Energy, identified the original technology on which GreatPoint Energy was built, assembled the core engineering team, and led the company as chief technical officer from inception until July 2007. He also serves on the company’s board of directors. In addition to GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Mandell co-founded GreatPoint Ventures, a specialized investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies.

Prior to founding GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Mandell co-founded and served as CTO of Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company developing novel polymer materials for use in the semiconductor industry. The company was acquired in 2003 by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), the world’s largest manufacturer of flash memory chips. Mr. Mandell remained at AMD for one year as director of strategic intellectual property. Prior to Coatue, Mr. Mandell served as a lead scientific director for Optimod Software Systems, where he developed computer models for groundwater remediation.

Mr. Mandell founded and serves on the board of three other venture backed energy companies; Coskata, Ethos and Altarock.

Mr. Mandell is a member of the board of advisors of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont and a member of the board of directors of the Health Justice Collaborative.

Mr. Mandell holds both a B.S. and M. S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont and has held visiting scientist appointments at MIT and Tel-Aviv University.  

Avi Goldberg, co-founder and chief operating officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for managing all administrative, business development, legal, financial, and operational planning functions for the company. With close to ten years of start-up company experience, Mr. Goldberg brings a unique blend of strategic project management and entrepreneurial spirit to the company.

In addition to GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Goldberg is a managing partner at GreatPoint Ventures, a specialized investment firm focused on early stage commercialization of new, cutting-edge technologies. Since the firm’s inception in 2001, he has leveraged his extensive operational, business development, fundraising and recruiting experience to form and build an impressive portfolio of companies active in a broad spectrum of investment sectors including energy, biotech, telecom, material science and semiconductors. Collectively, these companies have raised in excess of $200M from some of the leading venture capital and private equity investors in the world.

In 2001, Mr. Goldberg co-founded Coatue Corporation, a microelectronics company developing novel polymer materials for use in the semiconductor industry. As the Chief Operating Officer and member of the board of directors, he was instrumental in assembling the executive team, securing venture and debt financing, and negotiating the acquisition of the company in June 2003 by Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), the world’s largest manufacturer of flash memory chips.

From 1998 through 2000, Mr. Goldberg served as director of worldwide sales & profit optimization for Cignal Global Communications, a pioneer in voice over data network communications, where he managed worldwide sales and cost containment for Cignal’s core business units, generating over $50 million a year in revenue. In 2000, Cignal was sold to United Pan-European Communications (NASDAQ: UCOMA), one of the largest cable operators in Europe.

Mr. Goldberg graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Political Science and Strategic Intelligence.

Daniel Goldman, executive vice president and chief financial officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for all financial matters including internal corporate accounting, controls, cash and treasury functions, capital raising, project finance, as well as strategy and planning. With 20 years of energy industry experience, Mr. Goldman brings a strategic understanding of the global energy market, technology applications within the market, and deep development, structuring and transactional experience in the venture and energy project finance arena. Over the course of his career, Mr. Goldman’s experience has spanned the upstream, midstream and downstream oil, gas, coal and power generation sectors of the industry, and includes an extensive focus on renewable/clean energy and distributed generation technology and project investments.

Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Goldman was a co-founder, chief financial officer, and member of the board of directors of New Energy Capital Corp., a private equity fund focused on investments in renewable energy, renewable fuels and distributed generation projects. Mr. Goldman developed New Energy Capital’s clean energy investment strategy and deployed capital in projects with a total cost of more than $250 million. He oversaw the company’s eight investments from its formation in July 2004, including three ethanol projects, a biodiesel production facility, a biomass-fired power plant acquisition, and a portfolio of three cogeneration projects; several of these projects have recently had successful exits.

From 1996-2001, Mr. Goldman held regional and corporate senior management positions in Hong Kong and Boston at InterGen, a leading power generation company co-owned by the Bechtel Group and Royal/Dutch Shell. While at InterGen, he was actively involved in more than $4 billion of project development, acquisitions and non-recourse financings, and played a key role in strategy formulation and operational management of the global business. Prior to InterGen, he was a senior member of the energy consulting team at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge and Singapore from 1989-1996, with responsibility for the Asia Pacific Energy Consulting practice from 1992-1996. As a management consultant, Mr. Goldman advised a wide range of utilities, energy companies, multi-laterals and financial institutions regarding technology development, strategy formulation, organizational and operational issues, and investment planning.

Mr. Goldman currently serves as a non-executive director of Asia Environmental Partners Ltd, a to-be-listed fund focused on energy and environmental investments in Asia and, prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, he co-founded and currently serves as an executive advisor to the energy efficiency investment business launched in combination with MMA Renewable Ventures, a division of MuniMae (NYSE:MMA). He is also a founding investor in several clean energy technology companies, a co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs in New England, and a founding member and advisor to the New England Clean Energy Council.

Mr. Goldman received a B.S. from Cornell and a M. Sc. from the London School of Economics.

Donald Anthony, Sc.D., chief technology officer at GreatPoint Energy, is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, engineering, research, technical project development, operations and licensing. He brings more than 30 years of executive and technology management experience from the energy, chemical, engineering, construction and manufacturing industries. Dr. Anthony has spent his entire career involved in the coal gasification process, ranging from research & development, to commercial design and plant operation. 

Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy, Dr. Anthony served as president and executive director of the Council for Chemical Research, a 25 year old non-profit organization consisting of 30 leading chemical industry companies, 140 leading research universities, and 10 national laboratories. During his tenure, he was responsible for overall leadership and strategic direction, engaging in an active advocacy role for new energy solutions, including coal gasification.

In 2001, Dr. Anthony served as president, CEO and director of NineSigma, a rapidly growing entrepreneurial company providing proprietary tools to facilitate industry transition to an “open innovation” environment. He brought the company to cash breakeven in two years and negotiated a strategic alliance with Procter & Gamble. 

In 1998, Dr. Anthony was named president and COO of ABB’s $550 million U.S. process automation business, having previously served as president and COO of the Bailey Controls Company, a $300 million global supplier of automation technology.

From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Anthony held a number of management positions at Bechtel, including vice president, petroleum and chemicals technology, in which he was charged with overseeing the company’s gasification efforts including (i) engineering design, construction, and start-up for Phase II of Tennessee Eastman coal gasification plant, (ii) engineering design, construction, and start-up for the TECO IGCC plant (Dr. Anthony was a member of Project Steering Committee), and (iii) forming strategic alliances with Conoco, Texaco and Shell to promote petroleum coke gasification; vice president of Asia Pacific operations; and vice president of worldwide refining.

Dr. Anthony completed his doctoral research on coal gasification at M.I.T. While on the M.I.T. chemical engineering faculty, he was consultant to one of the first fluid bed coal gasification technologies, FMC’s COED process. In 1975 he joined Standard Oil to start a coal conversion research program. Five years later, he became manager of Standard Oil’s commercial development efforts in synthetic fuels. These efforts included sponsorship of the Texaco Cool Water Demonstration project and partnership in the Hampshire Coal Gasification project. In 1985, he was named Vice President of Standard Oil R&D. Two years later, he became Vice President of BP America Research.

Dr. Anthony is a member of the University of Chicago Review Committee for the Energy Portfolio of the Argonne National Laboratory. He is a past member of the National Research Council’s Energy Engineering Board and participated in a number of evaluations of coal gasification readiness and economics. He served as chairman of the board of the Glennan Microsystems Initiative and was an executive council member of the Northeast Ohio Regional Technology Coalition (NorTech). He is also a past member of the M.I.T. Department of Chemical Engineering Visiting Committee.

Dr. Anthony received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo and his S.M. and Sc.D. from M.I.T.