Leadership - Executive Team

Rex Northen - Executive Director

Rex is an entrepreneur with a long history of building and managing companies and successful teams. He has product development, management and technical expertise having founded and served as CEO with technology companies both in Europe and the United States. His background includes experience in the design, development and implementation of business automation systems as well as sales, marketing, online marketing, and consulting. Rex has worked with many hundreds of companies including a diverse range of startups and global corporations. In 2007-2008 volunteered for the California Cleantech Open as Chair of the Mentors and Angel Investor programs and an active member of the fundraising team. He holds an M.A. with Honors from Oxford University.

Tom Hunnicutt - Director of Development

Tom is an experienced sales, marketing, and business development executive with over 20 years of experience with both large and small companies - Apple, Intel, Pandesic (an e-business joint venture between SAP and Intel), and Vantage Point Properties, a real estate investment partnership. Tom has a passion for helping organizations and cleantech entrepreneurs tell their story effectively, so they can establish the relationships that are required to get funded and successfully bring their innovative solutions to market. For Tom, the journey is about doing Well and doing Good.

Helen Lambert - Operations Manager

Helen is a veteran in high-tech and brings over 20 years of specialized business building and entrepreneurial know-how. Her business experience includes product marketing, marketing communications and operations at companies including Hitachi and HP. The past ten years, she has focused her efforts on entrepreneurial ventures providing her expertise in product and go-to-market strategies, and most recently assisting fledgling companies in organizational development and management. Helen’s life-long passion for environmental issues and sustainability practices brought her to the Cleantech Open in 2007 where she vounteered as the Event Co-Chair. Since then she has used her many years of event management experience to organize Cleantech Open launches and awards galas. Helen’s role has now expanded to include management of all Cleantech Open events and company operations.