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Management team

  • Mark Cironi - President
     Mark CironiMark Cironi has over 30 years of experience in corporate management, sales management, and project management. Throughout his career he has sold, managed and implemented technology in the information technology industry with IBM, Oracle and Digital Equipment Corporation. Under Mr. Cironi's direction, major projects at Alltel Corporation, Goodyear, Michelin, British Petroleum, Raytheon and Lear Jet were all delivered to successful completion. Since the founding of Green Energy Technologies in 2006, he has marshaled the resources of local companies to develop a wind technology for the commercial and industrial marketplace.

    He is listed as the secondary inventor on the WindCube® patent. Mr. Cironi is a member of Green Energy Ohio, the Ohio Wind Working Group, and the American Wind Energy Association.
  • John W. Fedor - Inventor
    John W. Fedor was President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Masco Machine, Inc., a Cleveland, Ohio company that developed custom machine tools and systems. Mr. Fedor's broad manufacturing career includes tool and die making, manufacturing engineering, quality control, project management, lean manufacturing, and plant layout. He is a designer, inventor and innovator with over 40 years experience in the research and development of custom machine tools and systems serving the automotive, truck, heavy equipment, aerospace, hydraulic, electrical and medica l industries.

    He is active in the industry's trade association, the Association for Manufacturing Technology, which he served as a Board member for 11 years and Chairman for one year. He also served as an industry advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Energy.
  • Dr. David Spera - Engineering Consultant
    Dr. David Spera's expertise is in the fields of Aerospace Engineering, Structural Mechanics, and Mechanics of Materials. Dr. Spera has over 45 years of experience in performing, leading, and evaluating engineering research and development projects. His technical specialties include advancing the technology of wind turbines for generating electricity, analyzing the aerodynamic, structural, and mechanical performance of wind tunnels, analyzing and improving the structural integrity of components, analyzing and reporting test data, and writing and editing technical publications. Dr. Spera served as the Chief Engineer of NASA's wind turbine projects and Deputy Division Chief for Technical Assessment on the Space Station Freedom Project. Dr. Spera now works as an independent consultant for DASCON Engineering, which he founded in 1991. He is Lead Author and Editor of the internationally recognized book Wind Turbine Technology and led the development of the ANSIIASME Performance Test Code for Wind Turbines, which is an industry standard. Dr. Spera holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics and a M.S. in Civil Engineering, both from the University of Wisconsin, and B.S. in Civil Engineering and a B.S. in Physics/Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Denison University, respectively.
  • Nick Merlini - Vice President of Engineering
    Nick MerliniNick Merlini, co-founder of MRD Solutions LLC, has worked in the custom machine tool and metal removal industry for over 30 years. Mr. Merlini is a member of the Association for Manufacturing Technology and Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He has provided direction and insight through all phases of project management from the engineering design development to shop floor assembly to evaluating performance data.

    Mr. Merlini has been active in manufacturing process development and high-volume production techniques with emphasis on new materials and construction technologies. His management experience with manufacturing, quality control and equipment start-ups bring a unique perspective to his product development and testing methods. Mr. Merlini is a seasoned traveler with business trips to China, Japan, Mexico, Canada and Germany.
  • Al Rapp - Vice President of Technology
    Al RappOver the past 28 years, Al Rapp has worked in the Custom Machine Tool industry and is an active member of the Association for Manufacturing Technology. As a self-motivator, Mr. Rapp started as an electrician wiring panels and machines, working his way into management positions. Mr. Rapp is now a successful business owner creating and implementing new technologies throughout the industry.

    As co-founder of MRD Solutions LLC, he has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad, supporting machine tool product lines. Mr. Rapp has successfully initiated and developed customer service departments as profit centers and has worked as a consultant to provide electrical and mechanical assistance for companies in Canada and Virginia. He has worked with the University of Michigan to help develop and support a RMT machine tool for the Universities R&D center.
  • Isamu Fairbanks - Vice President of Operations
    Isamu FairbanksIsamu Fairbanks has served as founding member and Principal of Fairbanks LLC, a management consulting firm that assists state and local government, health care and education clients improve their revenue cycle and other business processes.

    Fairbanks LLC has averaged over 100% growth per year with current revenues in excess of $5 million and approximately 20 staff members. Prior to founding Fairbanks LLC, Mr. Fairbanks was a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Fairbanks is a strong problem solver with a developed sense of business strategies committed to achieving optimum levels of competitive advantage and profitability.

    Mr. Fairbanks holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA in Economics from Brigham Young University.
  • Mark A Cironi - Director of Business Development
    Mark CironiFor the past two years, Mark A. Cironi has served as the Director of Business Development for Green Energy Technologies. He has headed the implementation and sales of anemometer installations and remote management capabilities on the WindCube® turbine. He has also headed the expansion plan to commercialize the WindCube® for IT, manufacturing equipment, and real estate.

    He is a member of the American Wind Energy Association and holds a Bachelors of Science in Technology from Kent State University and Associates in Business Management in Technology from the University of Akron. In the nine years previous to Green Energy Technologies, Mr. Cironi served as a General Manager for CompUSA Inc, and started their commercial sales division for the Cleveland, Ohio market.
  • Lloyd Hansen - Advisor
    Lloyd HansenLloyd Hansen recently retired as a Vice President and Corporate Officer of the Ford Motor Company. During his 33-year career, he held several positions, including Vice President & Controller, Vice President - Revenue Management, and Controller or CFO of several of Ford's domestic and international operations. He is widely recognized as pioneering Revenue Management concepts in the automotive industry. Mr. Hansen's innovative initiatives were a key driver of Ford's profit improvement of more than $5 billion a year between 1995 and 2000. Under his guidance, Ford had the best net revenue performance of any major automotive company over his last three years with Ford, improving revenue per unit by $2,400 in a declining market.

    With his leadership, Ford was consistently on the leading edge of applying a disciplined approach, analytical tools and technology to managing product features, pricing and incentives, as well as quality of inventory, lead management and residual values. Ford has been particularly successful at developing a business-focused and analytically driven sales organization, using customer input and demand data to drive decisions.

    Mr. Hansen's initiatives have been featured in several publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, CFO Magazine and Automotive News. In addition, Mr. Hansen served as Chairman of the Beanstalk Corporation in 2003 and 2004. Beanstalk is a licensing company, then majority-owned by Ford, that licensed products for the Ford brands and other Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Hansen is an active member of his community, serving as a Chairman of the Board of Trustees and for Hospice of Michigan, Director of Operations for the Perpetual Education Program that provides educational loans with 36,000 participants in 40 countries, and a member of the National Advisory Council for the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He earned an MBA in Finance from Northwestern University and a BS in Economics from Brigham Young University.