Ira Saul Rubenstein, Founder and Chair of the Board since 1996
Mr. Rubenstein is also Senior Partner – International Business at Traficon Advisors s.r.o. in Prague. He specializes in Alternative Energy & Clean Technology (AE&CT) matters and has advised and helped to finance AE&CT companies and projects for thirty years. Business opportunities and client needs have taken him to more than two dozen countries on 4 continents.
Mr. Rubenstein also is Senior Investment Banker at Starlight Investments LLC, an investment bank based in Berkeley, California. He previously was Senior Advisor in the AE&CT investment banking practice at Avalon Group, Ltd., and Managing Director in the AE&CT investment banking practices at both Bradley Woods & Co. Ltd., and Spencer Clarke LLC., all based in New York. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63 and 79 securities licenses in the United States.
Mr. Rubenstein has also been an AE&CT industry entrepreneur, involved in founding several firms, and currently sits as an Observer on the Management Board of Terra Vis a.s. in Slovakia.
Mr. Rubenstein has helped found several business-related non-profit organizations (with others in the developmental pipeline):
Czech Green Building Council (founding Chairman and Treasurer),
Slovak Green Building Council (convener of organizational meeting),
Business Incubator Association of New York State, Inc. (incorporator).
Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership, Inc. (Chairman), and
Environmental Business Association of New York State, Inc. (co-founder and Executive Director).