Mr. Pokorney has extensive business and financing experience, and has lead and helped finance a number of successful high-tech startups. He is currently the COO of Gemini Environmental, a startup company in the natural gas industry. Prior to Gemini, he was the operations manager of Intel's Acceleration Products Division (formerly Conformative Systems, Inc.), where he was previously vice president of operations before it was acquired by Intel in 2005. Prior to Intel, he was senior vice president of sales, marketing, and manufacturing logistics at Newisys, Inc., a startup company which was the first to introduce an enterprise server based on AMD's new x86-64 processor. At Newisys, he oversaw the development and introduction of several product lines and drove sales to a $200 million annual run rate within four years. Before Newisys, he served as the vice president of operations for Living.com, a startup e-commerce company which supplied furniture and home accessories to the U.S. market. Financed by Benchmark Capital, GE Capital, and Starbucks, Mr. Pokorney helped Living.com enter a multi-million-dollar strategic alliance with Amazon.com to create a "Home Living" store at Amazon.com.
Mr. Pokorney holds a Master of Science degree in Manufacturing and Operations Management from Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, graduating Summa Cum Laude. |