Scott Clavenna

CEO and Co-Founder
clavenna@greentechmedia.com

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.

Shayle Kann

Senior Vice President, Research
kann@gtmresearch.com

Shayle Kann is the Managing Director of the GTM Research solar practice. He has spoken about the U.S. and global PV markets in conferences around the world and been cited in publications such as The Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters, Fast Company, and more. Mr. Kann joined GTM Research upon returning from Australia, where he was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar with the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems. His Fulbright research, which focused on renewable energy project finance during the credit crisis, was published in the international journal Energy Policy. Prior to this, Mr. Kann worked in the Clean Energy Markets division of Conservation Services Group, focusing on voluntary and compliance markets for renewable energy certificates. He has a Bachelor’s cum laude, phi beta kappa from Pomona College.

Stephen Lacey

Editor-in-Chief
lacey@greentechmedia.com

Stephen Lacey is the Editor-in-Chief at Greentech Media, where he focuses primarily on energy efficiency. He has extensive experience reporting on the business and politics of cleantech. He was formerly Deputy Editor of Climate Progress, a climate and energy blog based at the Center for American Progress. He was also an editor/producer with Renewable Energy World. He received his B.A. in journalism from Franklin Pierce University.

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