Everwild Enterprises helps its clients with sustainable business creation.  A passion for launching new growth has driven an entrepreneurial background launching new companies, new business divisions, and new product lines.

President Biography - Larry Simpson

lsimpson@everwildenterprises.com

Experience:

Larry Simpson is a serial entrepreneur who has analyzed, vetted, and launched tens of new business opportunites for himself and his clients. 

Before launching Everwild Enteprises, was hired as consultant to write the business plan for Connected Energy Corp. as it moved from Clean Dry Air, Inc. to its current focus as provider of IT solutions for remote management of energy assets, and joined full time from 9/01 to 5/03 to lead the sales, marketing, and business development as its VP, Sales & Marketing. 

In 1999, raised over $5,300,000 in venture and angel capital funding as co-founder, President and CEO of Web Product Realization Network (WebPRN), which launched in 1999 in Rochester, NY and Palo Alto, CA.  WebPRN provided to OEMs a web-based resource and software tools to find, qualify and collaborate with a database of firms and individuals delivering intellectual property and product development services (e.g. marketing, hardware design, software design, prototyping, tooling).  

Prior to starting WebPRN, was a vice president at Questra Corporation from January 1, 1997 to June 30, 1999.  Started at Questra as the founder of its Strategic Consulting Division, providing strategic consulting in new business line and product development initiatives.  Went on to direct all profit and loss activities for the northeast region, and managed more than 140 consultants and project managers delivering professional services in high-technology product development, and in IT custom application and package integration.  

Before joining Questra, had > $400 million worldwide responsibility a vice president market development and sales (imaging and peripheral segment) at Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.  In this position, I developed relationships with third-party companies and managed the system engineers and salespeople for this segment.  I was with Motorola from 1986 to 1997, in a variety of sales and market development roles, and averaged growth of approximately 40% per year as individual salesperson as well as sales manager.

Education includes Master of Business Administration in finance from Rochester Institute of Technology, and Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary engineering and business from Clarkson University.

Invited speaker or panelist at:

q       New York State Assembly Roundtable on Development & Marketing of Advanced Energy Technologies.  Syracuse, NY.  October, 2005.

q       M2M (Machine-to-Machine) Expo.  Dallas, TX.  April, 2004.

q       Remote Communications and Onsite Power.  San Diego, CA.  September, 2003.

q       Distributed Generation Forum.  San Francisco, CA. May, 2003.

q       7^th Annual Distributed Generation Conference.  Houston, TX. March, 2003.

q       Networking Distributed Generation – Connectivity and Market Access.  San Diego, CA.  November 2002.

q       Department of Energy Distributed Generation Review.  Washington, DC.  March, 2002.

q       Participant and contributor to the Department of Energy’s stakeholder development for Communication and Control of Distributed Generation.  Washington, DC.  May 2002.

q       Panel of Marketing Executives at Tech Entrepreneurs Week at Lennox Tech Center, Rochester, NY. November 2002.

q       Tens of additional forums while at Motorola, Questra, and WebPRN.

In 2000, was recognized one of the “Top 50 CEO’s to watch” by CMP, which included startup and Fortune 500 companies.