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Alex Burney | CEO
Alex Burney co-founded RavenBrick in 2006 with a vision of helping builders and architects respond to the energy challenges of the future with green building materials. As CEO, Alex oversees RavenBrick’s strategic growth and holds overarching responsibility for business development, operations, marketing and financing.
A serial entrepreneur, Alex has developed, funded, operated and sold several successful businesses – all with a trademark “bold and honorable” approach. His most recent endeavor was entrepreneurial consulting firm Huge Consulting. Previously, Alex co-founded Huge Hosting, a web hosting company that he guided through three consecutive years of profitability and a lucrative sale to Data393. In 1996, Alex co-founded LyncStar Integrated Communications. His expertise was key in growing LyncStar to become the nation’s seventh largest private cable company and successfully selling its assets to AT&T, Comcast, and Time Warner in 2000.
Alex graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from Carleton University and a post-graduate degree in education from St. Francis Xavier University. He has been recognized as one of Denver’s “40 under 40” and currently sits on boards for RavenBrick and Mad Greens.
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Wil McCarthy | President
Wil McCarthy co-founded RavenBrick in 2006 and currently serves as president, bridging the gap between the company’s science and business sides. In his multi-faceted role, Wil provides the vision for RavenBrick’s R&D efforts, maintains the company's IP portfolio, manages partner relationships and contributes to the company’s strategic planning and development. Wil previously founded Programmable Matter Corporation, a programmable materials research company that was acquired by RavenBrick.
Wil brings a diverse skill-set to RavenBrick as a widely recognized engineer, writer and entrepreneur. Earlier, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards, an aerospace research corporation, and as systems engineering manager for Omnitech Robotics. Wil also spent more than a decade working for Lockheed Martin Space Launch System in a variety of senior-level engineering positions.
An accomplished novelist and journalist, Wil is a former contributing editor for WIRED magazine, a long-time columnist for scifi.com and has authored ten books, including the non-fiction bestseller Hacking Matter.
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Zach Frisch | CFO
Zach is a serial entrepreneur with extensive finance experience in start-up and venture capital backed companies. Zach’s primary responsibilities at RavenBrick include business planning, finance, and raising capital. Prior to investing in and joining RavenBrick, Zach co-founded Raindrop Partners, an investment company focused on sustainable real estate and energy efficient start-up companies. Raindrop Partners has invested in four clean tech companies and successfully raised over $10M from institutional and high net worth investors in its 5 years of operation.
Before founding Raindrop Partners, Zach worked in finance and business development for several global telecommunications companies. Zach lived and worked in Europe, Brazil, and Asia and was the youngest Vice President of Finance for KPNQwest, a European telecom company. Previously Zach worked in Real Estate finance at Trammell Crow and focused on acquisitions and development in Colorado. He began his career working on the International Securities Lending desk at Goldman Sachs in New York.
Zach has a B.A. in International Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He is a member of Entrepreneur’s Organization, Leadership Denver, a mentor at the Unreasonable Institute, Co-Chair of the Ben Gurion Society, LMB, and sits on the board of several non-profits.
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Chris Ketchum | Vice President of Sales
Chris Ketchum brings over 20 years of sales and marketing experience to his position as vice president of sales for RavenBrick. Chris is focused on advancing the sale or license of RavenBrick's suite of technology to interested parties. He further markets RavenBrick's energy efficient technology to various fenestration, architectural and green building companies to ensure widespread industry knowledge of the technology.
Prior to joining RavenBrick, Chris served as regional sales manager for Hunter Amenities International where, in less than two years, he grew the business from one customer account to more than 60 accounts and increased annual sales by almost $3 million. Prior to that, he spent over a decade in various sales and management positions with Unisource Canada, managing a combined territory with annual sales in excess of $14 million. Chris' first job out of university was selling heavy equipment for Finning, the largest Caterpillar dealer in the world.
Chris received a bachelor’s degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
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