About Helix Wind
| Our Philosophy Freedom is at the heart of our values – energy independence and autonomy – a freedom fueled by a resource that never runs out. The wind. Often the simplest and most elegant solutions are the best. We believe that energy self sufficiency is better than the current antagonistic legacy system in decline. However progressive change requires courage, creative and positive innovation and unerring focus on performance. This is the soul of the Helix system. |
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| Our Promise Helix Wind energy systems are designed, engineered and tested at corporate facilities in San Diego, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Each component is individually tested to ensure the system performs seamlessly as a whole. Our performance data is from real installed working turbines, not a theoretical power curve created on a computer. |
Our Team
Ian Gardner
CEO & Board Member
Ian holds a B.S. in Pre-Med from Davidson College in North Carolina and an MBA with a focus on technology and entrepreneurial studies from The Anderson School at UCLA. Ian's early career included extensive international private power work on Duke Energy's development team, acquiring and building large scale generation and distribution projects in Latin America, Australia, China and Southeast Asia. Subsequently Ian left Charlotte and headed West, where he was the lead analyst for the Boston Consulting Group's International Energy and Utilities practice group headquartered in San Francisco. For the next two years Ian lived and worked in Latin America, Europe and Australia on projects in the electric and natural gas industries. After completing his MBA from UCLA Ian's focus shifted to technology and he led several startups in the broadband media and wireless spaces raising over $10MM in funding. Two years of business planning and development work with The Esalen Institute in Big Sur rounded out a strong business background with broad exposure to sustainable technologies and construction as well the human development sector
Scott Weinbrandt
President & Chairman of the Board
Scott is a seasoned top executive with a broad spectrum of startup and operations experience directly related to business, consumer personal electronics and enterprise technology. Before joining Helix Wind, Scott held the position of CEO and Chairman of GoPaperless Solutions, Inc., a solutions provider of hardware and software for encrypted signature technology. During a 10 year career at Dell Computer, Scott held a number of high level executive positions and was responsible for product development (1st three generations of the PowerEdge and PowerVault servers and storage products), product marketing, supply chain management, manufacturing, sales, marketing and over $2.6 billion in revenue generation in the Server/Storage, Enterprise System Products and K12 Educational divisions. In addition Scott ran Dell Ventures for the public sector for 12 months. After leaving Dell Scott cast a wide net with similar successes working as a Technology Consultant for Solana Capital Partners a Venture Capital Firm, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Systems Division and Senior Vice President, Gateway Business Division of Gateway Inc., and Entrepreneur in Residence for CONNECT San Diego. CONNECT San Diego is a program associated with the UCSD Business School dedicated to creating and sustaining the growth of innovative technology and life science businesses in San Diego. The CONNECT program links inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources they need including venture capital to take their business to success. Scott holds a BS degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University.
Paul Bradley
Board Member
Mr. Paul Bradley is the founder and managing director of PJB Energy Solutions Inc., a direct investment and financial advisory organization dedicated to the energy industry as well as all aspects of Corporate Finance, Project Finance, and Business Development activities.
Paul Bradley most recently served as Vice President, Electricity Resources for the Ontario Power Authority, from June 2005 to June 2007. At the OPA, Mr. Bradley was responsible for designing implementing and managing the OPA’s power generation procurement program. During his tenure, the OPA procured over 3,000 MW of power generation resources, including Demand Response, and managed over 116 contracts totalling 8,600 MW. As a result of this effort, Mr. Bradley was awarded the prestigious Hedley Palmer award by the Association of Power Producers of Ontario in November 2006.
Prior to founding PJB Energy Solutions in 2003, Mr. Bradley spent six years as Executive Director with CIBC World Markets’ investment banking Power and Utilities team, with his main focus on cross-border transaction origination as well as financial advisory in the power and utility industry. Mr. Bradley played key roles in a number of financial advisory engagements, examples include advising the Province of Ontario with respect to the electricity industry restructuring, advising TransAlta in the divestiture of their distribution and transmission businesses, the US$8 billion sale of Westcoast Energy to Duke Energy, and leading the initial public offering of the $264 million Calpine Power Income Fund.
For the eight years prior to CIBC World Markets, Mr. Bradley served in a number of roles at Duke Energy including the roles of Project Director for various international business development efforts, independent power project developments and acquisitions in the US and Asia. Mr. Bradley also worked extensively on the US$7.7 billion merger between Duke Power Co. and Pan Energy Corp. and developed the organization’s policies for treasury risk management.
Mr. Bradley has also served as a Senior Accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co. in the Small Business Client Services group which provided audit, tax and consulting services for small entrepreneurial and growth oriented companies.
Mr. Bradley holds a B.S. in Business/Accounting from Boston College and holds a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) designation in the U.S.
www.pjbesi.comMichael Slattery
Design Engineer
Michael holds a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) with a specialization in structural design. Michael's professional and technical development background includes work with the University of Massachusetts on radar assembly design and fabrication as well as work in statistical and mathematical data modeling, system design and integration, manufacturing and process control and light aircraft design and modeling.
Rich Osborne
Advisory Board
Rich brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the Helix team from his career at Duke Energy in a variety of executive positions including Treasurer, CFO, EVP Risk Management and Group Vice President Public and Regulatory Policy in Washington. In addition to his role in communicating and managing relationships with Wall Street, Congress, the EPA, the FERC and state industry regulators, Rich’s responsibilities have included the development of new energy and communications related technologies, management of Duke’s venture and real estate arms, management of Duke’s international and private power initiatives as well a host of other duties related to various aspects of the global energy industry.
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