MITEF UK Event - The Art of Entrepreneurial Eco-Investing

What:	The Art of Entrepreneurial Eco-Investing
Who:	John T. Preston - Managing Director and founder of C Change Investments & Senior Lecturer at MIT
When:	05 Oct 09 , registration from 17:00 - event starts 30 mins later, ending at 20:30
Where:	University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Woolgate Exchange, 25 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5HA map

The MIT Enterprise Forum of the UK is delighted to welcome John T. Preston, Managing Director and founder of C Change Investments, as our next speaker in the forum's Distinguished Entrepreneur series.

John Preston is the Managing Director and founder of C Change Investments as well as CEO of Continuum Energy Technologies LLC (CET) and a Senior Lecturer at M.I.T., and original co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Center at MIT Sloan. John's primary expertise is in energy, environment, technology, and entrepreneurship. Before starting CET, Mr. Preston was the Director of Technology Development (and Licensing) at M.I.T., where he was responsible for the commercialization of intellectual property developed at M.I.T. In that capacity, he oversaw activities that led to the creation of hundreds of new technology-based companies as well as the negotiation of thousands of licenses with existing companies. He also oversaw many complex negotiations including the creation of the U.S. standard for high definition television, while representing M.I.T. on the HDTV Grand Alliance.

Mr. Preston was awarded the rank of "Knight of the Order of National Merit of France" by French President Mitterrand. He was awarded the Hammer Award for Reinventing Government by Vice President Gore. He is the recipient of numerous other awards and honors including the Thomas Jefferson Award, given to the leading American in technology transfer and the Renaissance Engineering and Science award from Stevens Institute of Technology. Mr. Preston is Honorary Alum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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