Clean Tech Case Studies

Back in 1990 when we first started working with companies that environmental solutions that make business sense (our term), these products were called environmental technologies. Almost a generation later, Clean Tech is attracting millions in venture capital www.cleantech.com and governments are mandating their use. We have worked with more than 40 different clean tech solutions and companies over the last 18 years.

Clean Tech companies need smart efficient and fast growth strategies. Our philosophy is to get them joint venture partnerships with large companies that will gain market share by adopting a clean tech product and strategy. Here is a partial selection of the kinds of companies we helped grow. Have a clean tech company that needs more market leverage and is already revenue positive? Call us at 604-306-7707 to discuss where in the world we can help you grow to.

Clean Tech Case Studies

• Can an Alternative Energy Business be Built on a Nasty Waste Stream?
• Introducing New Consumer Products in a Highly Competitive Market
• Ocean Energy in Canada: Pathways to Commercialization
• Introducing Environmentally Smart Substitutes into Established Industrial Product Markets
• Greening a New Product in an Old Line Business
• Finding Joint Venture Partners/Buyers

Lorraine Rieger McGregor – Biography

As CEO, it’s Lorraine’s job to develop our network, manage our outreach and seminars and work with key mergers and acquisitions partners. As a senior consultant Lorraine leads strategy, marketing and financial management to improve client performance so they can grow, sell or acquire companies.

Lorraine is also a senior management consultant and co-developer of the Smart Team Toolbox which is what we use to help people to learn how to change how they think, lead and manage.

Lorraine’s career has been devoted to helping organizations learn how to grow through becoming champion problem solvers for their customers.

As one of the first people to work in the Clean Tech space, Lorraine made a name for herself in the US as a business development specialist by helping get technology for water, wastewater treatment, alternative energy and other environmental solutions to market.

Lorraine has worked with more than 100 organizations to help prepare them for growth, repositioning products, customer development, joint venture partnerships and financial performance. As an Mergers & Acquisition specialist, she works with owners and shareholders to prepare their companies so they are actually saleable, worth their desired exit goals and to be attractive to target investors.

Lorraine is the former President of the Association for Corporate Growth, Vancouver Chapter the leading M&A authority in North America. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, a Marketing Diploma from the BC Institute of Technology and Design Arts Diploma from Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology.

What’s Lorraine Been Doing Lately ?

• Wrote white paper for banks entitled “Is Your Business Saleable” which will be available in the Fall 2010 from business-friendly banks in North America
• Wrote two articles as a guest columnist for BC Business Magazine (Dec 2008) and Business in Vancouver (Nov 24, 2008)
• Guest lecturer at Simon Fraser University on how to grow a company with an exit strategy in mind and how to develop a marketing strategy to grow a software technology company.
• Elected President in 2008 of the Vancouver Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, www.ACG.org
• Will be completing a full length webinar and book on how to prepare a company so that it is saleable, at the desired price to the right acquirer which will be available in 2011.
• Joined the board of A W.I.S.H, A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity www.AWISH.NET which fosters sustainability projects around the world

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