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Dr. Charles V.
Fishel was the founding CEO and director of Gold Star Biodiesel. He serves
on the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausaane Roundtable on Sustainable
Biofuels (Environmental Impacts Working Group and Social Impacts Working
Group)
He is the chairman of
Hoffman Row Group, Inc., a consulting firm that works with emerging
technologies and international entrepreneurial ventures. He serves as a
director on the boards of several public and private for-profit companies,
including the Brownfield Foundation, Inc., a charitable, non-profit
corporation dedicated to land recycling for the good of the community and
the environment.
Fishel is a managing
director of the Restoration Capital Fund, which aligns capital, technology
and redevelopment principles in ways that create value for investors,
support communities and are sustainable to the environment. Other recent
consulting projects have involved strategic business planning, corporate
finance, acquisition and merger and international technology transfer.
Dr. Fishel has held
senior management, finance and legal roles with Fortune 100 multi-national
organizations (Intel, Teledyne, Carnation Company, Peter Kiewit Sons and
Williams) as well as start-up companies. His industry experience includes
technology (electronics, biotechnology and nanotechnology), insurance,
construction, mining, publishing, broadcasting, food processing, energy,
manufacturing, public utility, and consulting about technology evaluation
and commercialization.
As a consultant,
Fishel has worked with hundreds of small, emerging companies.
Representative clients have included high-tech companies (computer
hardware/software, robotics, Internet, printed circuit boards, microwave,
equipment manufacturing, etc.), retailing, healthcare, and banking, as
well as development agencies and not-for-profit organizations (United
Nations Development Programme, Bank Pembangunan Malaysia and the Northern
California Manufacturing Technology Center).
After leaving Intel in
1980, Dr. Fishel created ImaginAction, Inc., the first “shared management”
consulting firm in the Silicon Valley, where he and his colleagues
provided entrepreneurial companies with part-time management – an
“incubator without walls.” In 1985, ImaginAction merged with the Utah
Innovation Center at the University of Utah to form Genexus. As president,
Fishel worked with universities and community organizations in the United
States and overseas to develop innovation centers (“business incubators”)
to enable commercialization of laboratory-developed technology. Genexus
developed innovation centers in cooperation with the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory and at universities in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts and New
York.
In 1986, Dr. Fishel
became executive director of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Research
Institute where he planned for and initiated development of Commonwealth
Bioventures, the first biotech-focused innovation center/venture capital
fund.
Dr. Fishel is a distinguished executive lecturer at California State
University, Monterey Bay, senior lecturer at San Jose State University and
visiting professor at Naval Postgraduate School. Before joining Hoffman
Row Group, he was director of the Center for International Business
Planning, and senior lecturer in global business strategy and industrial
competition at Monterey Institute of International Studies. Other teaching
experience has included Santa Clara University and University of
California, Berkeley. His teaching emphases are global business
strategy, international business, and comparative management.
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