Analysts

• Shyam Mehta:

  Senior Solar Analyst

  Shyam Mehta is a Senior Analyst at GTM Research, focusing on global solar markets. Before joining GTM Research, Shyam was a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research where he covered equities in the alternative energy sector, primarily solar companies. Prior to Goldman, Shyam was a Research Analyst at The Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm, where his work focused on problems within the electricity industry. Shyam received his Bachelor's in Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.

  

• Eric Wesoff:

  Senior Analyst, Author of the Greentech Innovations Report

  Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.

  Eric's expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.

  From 1988 to 1996, Eric served as product marketing manager for Siemens Optoelectronics, where he oversaw complex product lines and managed relationships with global customers. He then became the U.S. marketing and sales manger for Akzo Nobel Photonics, which was acquired by JDS Uniphase. Eric later served as the sales director for Dicon Fiber Optics, where he was responsible for selling millions of dollars of fiber-optic telecom-equipment. He has consulted for Merck, JDSU, Coherent, IBM and scores of other firms, governments and organizations.

  

• Travis Bradford:

  Consultant, President of the Prometheus Institute

  Travis founded the Prometheus Institute in 2003 as a means to connect the vast reach and power of industrial and capital markets with the technologies necessary to sustain and develop long-term economic well-being for people around the world. Travis is currently the Editor-in-Chief of PVNews, the solar energy industry's oldest newsletter, and is the author of Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry published by MIT Press. He is also a partner at Atlas Capital, a hedge fund based in Cambridge, MA.

  

• David J. Leeds:

  Smart Grid Analyst

  David Leeds is an Analyst at Greentech Media, focusing on the emerging Smart Grid sector. Prior to joining Greentech Media, David worked as an Analyst at Babson Capital/MassMutual in the Global Capital Markets Group. An avid world-traveler, David has come into contact with many of our most pressing environmental and social challenges. His research, focused on the convergence of IT, telecom and energy networks, leads him to believe that a smarter future is possible if we can reinvent our collective relationship with energy. Mr. Leeds completed his degree in international business and finance at Trinity College at Oxford (U.K.) and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. David lives and works in New York City.

  

• Scott Clavenna:

  Founding Analyst

  Scott Clavenna has been leading high-tech market research firms for over 15 years. In his capacity as a trusted analyst and consultant, Scott has helped dozens of companies enter and succeed in complex and intensely competitive markets worldwide. He also has authored more than 30 reports that helped define important emerging market segments in optical and broadband communications.

  Prior to founding Greentech Media, Scott was chief analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. CMP bought Light Reading in 2005. Before creating Heavy Reading, Scott founded PointEast Research, providing strategic consulting and market intelligence to a broad mix of startups, venture capitalists and major suppliers in the communications/IT industry, and worked as director of research for Light Reading. In 1997, Scott co-founded Pioneer Consulting, which quickly grew into the leading market research firm covering the optical and broadband communications industry.

  

• Rick Thompson:

  Founding Analyst

  Prior to co-founding Greentech Media in 2007, Rick Thompson spent 15 years at leading technology start-ups, incumbent networking and communications companies, and technology media and market research firms. Most recently, Rick was senior telecom analyst at Light Reading/Heavy Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market, acquired by CMP Media in 2005. Mr. Thompson previously served as the vice president of marketing at PanGo Networks, a wireless software company, and as director of product management and marketing at Sycamore Networks Inc., where he defined the product strategy and launch of the industry's first intelligent optical switching platform. Under his leadership, Sycamore deployed several of the world's largest intelligent optical network infrastructures. Prior to joining Sycamore, Rick held similar product management positions with Packet Engines, a pioneer of Gigabit Ethernet switching that was later acquired by Alcatel, and FORE Systems, a leader in ATM networking that was later acquired by Marconi and, subsequently, Ericsson. Mr. Thompson earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

  

• Shayle Kann:

  Senior Energy Analyst

  Shayle Kann is a Senior Energy Analyst with GTM Research, focusing on global downstream solar markets. Shayle joined GTM Research upon returning from Australia, where he was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar with the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University. His Fulbright research, which focused on renewable energy project financing during the credit crisis, was published in the international journal Energy Policy. Prior to this, Shayle worked in the Clean Energy Markets division of Conservation Services Group, focusing on voluntary and compliance markets for renewable energy certificates and carbon credits. Shayle received a Bachelor’s cum laude, phi beta kappa from Pomona College.

  

• Brett Prior:

  Senior Analyst

  Brett Prior is a Senior Analyst with GTM Research, focusing on solar energy.  Prior to joining GTM Research, Brett served as the Director of Business Development for Solasta, a thin-film solar startup backed by Kleiner Perkins.  While in business school, Brett worked with a solar project developer on CSP, CPV, and PV solar farms in southern Europe.  Brett also worked as a summer associate in the strategy group at Evergreen Solar, a manufacturer of silicon PV modules with over $200M in revenue.  Before business school, Brett spent six years working for mutual fund companies as a buyside equity research analyst covering energy and other sectors.  Originally from the U.S., Brett lived in England for two years, where he earned an MBA with distinction from London Business School.  Brett holds a BA in Political Science and International Studies from Yale University.  He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

  

• MJ Shiao:

  Solar Analyst

  MJ Shiao joined GTM Research as a Solar Analyst following a three month project in Goa, India with Promethean Power Systems as a field engineer implementing and testing solar-powered refrigeration for rural dairy farmers.  Prior to Promethean, he worked as a solar design engineer at Solar Design Associates, where he managed and designed building-integrated solar photovoltaic projects ranging from 2 kW to 2 MW.  MJ graduated from the University of Delaware with a bachelor's degree with distinction in electrical engineering.