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Founder and CEO of JEL & Associates
Joseph E. Levangie joined Sat Con's Board of Directors in December 2004. Mr. Levangie founded JEL & Associates, a financial and investment banking services firm based in Bedford, Massachusetts. Through this firm, Mr. Levangie has over the last two decades co-founded, incubated, advised, invested in and operated dozens of technology and manufacturing companies. He brings to SatCon, relevant experience from a variety of industries, including government contracted R & D, electronic subassembly companies, alternative and renewable energy technologies and policy formulation. He has expertise in corporate governance and capital management of publicly-traded micro-cap companies. He has served as CFO for such public companies as GreenMan Technologies (co-founder), Cybernetics Products (co-founder), Palomar Medical Technologies (co-founder), Colorgen (co-founder) and Spire. For 10 years he was Planning Director for the $100+ million Systems Division of AVCO (now Textron), where he developed and implemented strategies for a series of successful commercial spin-offs of a world-class engineering organization funded by Government contract R&D. He helped launch Dynaco (Derry, NH and Tempe, AZ ), a flex circuit board manufacturer on whose Board of Directors he served from inception.
In the energy arena, Mr. Levangie authored a comprehensive book on Renewable and Alternate Energy (1975) under the aegis of Congressman (and later Senator and Presidential candidate) Paul Tsongas. He was recruited as Division Manager for Commercialization for the Northeast Solar Energy Center ( Boston , MA ), where he counseled hundreds of companies engaged in solar thermal, solar electric (photovoltaics), wind energy and biomass conversion. Subsequently, he received a Presidential appointment as Executive President- Designee of the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank (D.C.). He served on the Board of Advisors to the Solar Energy Research Institute (Golden, CO). He is an editor of (and regular contributor to) the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship. Mr. Levangie was educated at MIT (SB in Ch E) and Harvard (MBA).
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