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Nolan Browne
Charleston, West Virginia, United States
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Nolan combines his deep background in CleanTech and BuildingTech commercialization for the Fortune 1000 with nearly a decade of venture-backed founder / executive experience in Silicon Valley and Boston to help the world’s leading companies find, develop and scale deployment of CleanTech and AI solutions to simultaneously become more profitable and sustainable. A corporate business developer and strategist by training, his extensive technology commercialization work with MIT, Fraunhofer, the US Department of Energy, the US National Labs provides a platform for America’s leading companies to coordinate with government and university to develop technologies that transform both balance sheets and the environment. Most recently, through ADL Ventures, Nolan has been developing the DOE’s Advanced Building Construction Collaborative with RMI with the intention of creating millions of manufacturing jobs, retrofitting millions of homes and delivering trillions of dollars of value to the US GDP. Developer of the first Living Lab for Building Energy Efficiency in the United States for the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems that he founded at MIT in 2008. Co-founder of three successful startup companies, including a leader in corporate venturing with Fortune 1000 clients in power & gas, construction and information technology. Successfully founded and operated two CleanTech accelerators and invented ProblemSpace, a novel open sourced partnering platform for hard tech start-ups to co-develop and commercialize their innovations with manufacturing corporations. Board seats in a number of sustainable energy related concerns and three time invited speaker at the National Academy of Science. Developer of “The Case for Prefab; Why the US Can Not Afford to Fail” and the vision for an American Sematech for Prefabricated Buildings. Winner of American Inventions Made Onshore Award and co-author of 2018 Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) award with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a USAF AFWERX award from the Department of Defense. Invited TEDx Speaker published in Harvard Business Review. Nol co-founded the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems in 2008 where he and his team built a leading US sustainable energy R&D center supporting industrial and government research partners to discover and commercialize clean energy technologies.
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Nolan combines his deep background in CleanTech and BuildingTech commercialization for the Fortune 1000 with nearly a decade of venture-backed founder / executive experience in Silicon Valley and Boston to help the world’s leading companies find, develop and scale deployment of CleanTech and AI solutions to simultaneously become more profitable and sustainable. A corporate business developer and strategist by training, his extensive technology commercialization work with MIT, Fraunhofer, the US Department of Energy, the US National Labs provides a platform for America’s leading companies to coordinate with government and university to develop technologies that transform both balance sheets and the environment. Most recently, through ADL Ventures, Nolan has been developing the DOE’s Advanced Building Construction Collaborative with RMI with the intention of creating millions of manufacturing jobs, retrofitting millions of homes and delivering trillions of dollars of value to the US GDP. Developer of the first Living Lab for Building Energy Efficiency in the United States for the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems that he founded at MIT in 2008. Co-founder of three successful startup companies, including a leader in corporate venturing with Fortune 1000 clients in power & gas, construction and information technology. Successfully founded and operated two CleanTech accelerators and invented ProblemSpace, a novel open sourced partnering platform for hard tech start-ups to co-develop and commercialize their innovations with manufacturing corporations. Board seats in a number of sustainable energy related concerns and three time invited speaker at the National Academy of Science. Developer of “The Case for Prefab; Why the US Can Not Afford to Fail” and the vision for an American Sematech for Prefabricated Buildings. Winner of American Inventions Made Onshore Award and co-author of 2018 Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) award with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a USAF AFWERX award from the Department of Defense. Invited TEDx Speaker published in Harvard Business Review. Nol co-founded the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems in 2008 where he and his team built a leading US sustainable energy R&D center supporting industrial and government research partners to discover and commercialize clean energy technologies.
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The Deployment Engine
The Deployment Engine connects hard-tech innovative building decarbonization technologies with customers and deployment opportunities.
by ADL Ventures
Low-Carbon Mass Deployment Accelerator
Low Carbon Mass Deployment Accelerator for Construction Hard-Tech Innovation in Appalachia.
by ADL Ventures
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