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Clark Suprynowicz, Executive Director of the Energy Innovators Network, served as E.D. of Immersive Arts Alliance from 2020-2024. With the Alliance, he facilitated presentation of many large-scale works of public art in the pandemic environment, including the Bay Area premiere of Night Watch, a floating exhibition by Shimon Attie (2021), Oakland Festival of Immersive Arts (2022), multiple iterations of Mobile Light Art Station (2023), and an installation for APEC at SF City Hall for the SF Chamber of Commerce (2023).
Clark founded the Energy Innovators Network (EIN) as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2024. In January of 2025 EIN founded with DOER (Deep Ocean Exploration and Research) a Hub for Blue Green Innovation in Alameda, Ca.
A Hampshire College alumnus, Clark is also a diver, and a longtime member of the Cal Sailing Club. With the rest of the EIS Team, he is giving his all to creating a cleaner, improved environmental future.
Originally from Lyons, France, Julien Vergely graduated (JD) first-in-class from Université Jean Moulin.
After practicing law in France, he transitioned into leadership roles, including five years as Chief Operating Officer for Swissnex San Francisco, a global innovation hub connecting Switzerland and the world through education, research, and entrepreneurship.
Julien led strategic projects and fostered international partnerships at Swissnex. He played a key role in facilitating incubator and accelerator programs.
He now contributes his expertise in Development, Strategy, and Operations to the Energy Innovators Network.
Chief Financial Officer Dave Brossard served from 2015 to 2020 as the Chief Financial Officer of Future Fires, a company focusing on the nexus of art and technology in the SF Bay Area. With Non Plus Ultra, Future Fires originated the pioneering Luminary event series at the Midway in San Francisco.
For several decades, Dave worked as an engineer, engineering manager, and business manager for Chevron Corporation. He is delighted to serve the Energy Innovators Network, pushing toward a future less reliant on fossil fuels, with responsible stewardship of our land, our oceans, and our resources.
A bassist, an avid photographer and birdwatcher, Dave is also database manager for the Art Deco Society of California. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley and an MSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Bilgenur Baloglu, a consultant and advisor to the Energy Innovators Network, is a molecular biologist specializing in biodiversity monitoring.
She is the co-founder of Wild Genomics, where she serves as Chief Scientific Officer, and is teaching faculty at the University of Southern California, where she is a lecturer in Translational Genomics. Bilgenur holds a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the National University of Singapore and a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Istanbul Technical University.
Dr. Baloglu has worked at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, and she has consulted on the US EPA funded Great Lakes biomonitoring project, collaborating with taxonomists, ecologists, and molecular biologists.
Ralph Chami, the founder of Blue Green Future, is Economist in Residence with the Energy Innovators Network. Ralph is a financial economist, with 25 years spent at the IMF. At the center of Ralph’s work is a new field, which he has helped to pioneer. This provides valuation of ecosystem services of living nature, mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss, creating markets for natural capital that are equitable and nature-positive.
Ralph has expertise in
Remittances, inclusive growth, financial markets, and banking regulation and risk management
Working operationally with fragile states worldwide and providing capacity development on macro-financial economic policy
A consultant to the Energy Innovators Network, Carlos Vadillo is a seasoned leader in innovation, design, and strategy consulting. He serves as a managing partner at Mir Meridian, a company focused on helping startups grow. His diverse career spans roles at Silicon Valley Bank's Venture Capital Group, co-founding the Trigger Point Collective, and serving as Co-founder/Co-CEO of Agribots, a web app for cost accounting and activity tracking in agriculture.
Carlos was awarded the Grand Prize at UPenn's Y-Prize Engineering Competition (2014), the Santander Venture Award (2014), and the Wharton Innovation Award (2015). With expertise in venture capital across Latin America, Japan, and Asia, Carlos is fluent in Spanish, English, Japanese, and Italian.
Lexi de Guzman is Development Officer for the Energy Innovators Network. Previous roles include Partnerships Coordinator, assisting in grants and philanthropy, with Clark Suprynowicz, for the Bay Area non profit Immersive Art Alliance (IAA).
With her assistance and management, IAA was awarded major grants in 2023 from the California Arts Council and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lexi’s political science research has concentrated on international affairs, geopolitics, and political history.
Lexi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (International Relations) from the Saint Louis University Madrid.
Maritime Advisor Anastasia Fischer is a connector and leader in marine technology and coastal resilience, bringing together innovators across maritime industries, research, government, and environmental organizations. As President of US Harbors, she transformed a coastal weather platform into a national resource, while building key partnerships with NOAA, NWS, maritime businesses, and coastal communities.
Drawing on her extensive management consulting and environmental communication background, Anastasia helps startups translate technical innovations into real-world impact. She combines industry knowledge with strategic thinking to help companies navigate the marine technology space, develop commercialization, and scale environmental solutions effectively.
Marcus Lehmann, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CalWave, is an advisor to Energy Innovators Network (EIN) and its Hub for Blue Green Maritime Innovation.
In 2023, CalWave’s open-ocean wave energy pilot successfully concluded after 10 months of continuous operation off the coast of San Diego, CA. The project was supported by a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) award with the goal to demonstrate CalWave’s scalable xWave™ technology as a “reliable, cost-effective solution for sustainable energy generation.” The press release is here. CalWave partners include Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, DNV, MarineLabs, and University of California, Berkeley.
Alice Elizabeth Schmitz is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environment, urban, and spatial economics. Before starting at Berkeley, Alice worked as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
During her time at Chicago, she assisted in academic research studying the regulation of energy markets and the effects of air pollution on human capital, in addition to engaging in policy work on the Social Cost of Carbon.
She acts as an advisor to Energy Innovators Network, helping with the daunting challenge of determining environmental harm and benefit.