Abe Zelkin

An accomplished innovative entrepreneurial executive with extensive experience building companies and businesses who can advise C-level executives of early stage clean tech and renewable energy companies on growth strategies and executing corporate and business development deals to raise capital and build revenue.

Abraham (Abe) Zelkin is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in leading organizations to achieve record sales and profit growth. A builder and mentor of peak performance teams, a marketing innovator who knows how to turn markets upside-down to create opportunity, and an "inspirational" leader who has an exceptional track record in driving organizational improvement and business strategy. Abe excels in challenging environments and has a great deal of executive and management experience in both large corporations and startups. He has a unique perspective, based on his many years in technology, that in order to effect change, one must not only be a bold and visionary leader, one must also understand how to collaborate and create a culture that is self-sustaining across functional lines. Abe is able to use his knowledge to create a winning formula for implementing sustainability; and, while doing so, help organizations achieve innovation and a competitive advantage by viewing their business through an environmental lens.

Abe has served as a founding CEO of one software development company and COO of a second. As CEO, Abe managed his company for 17 successful years where he developed strategic relationships with large Telecoms and major multinational corporations. After building the company to $50 M in global revenue, he successfully sold the company to a Fortune 1000 corporation. Abe prides himself on his rolodex which contains both C level executives and investment bankers.

Currently, Abe is consulting to technology and cleantech companies on strategy, product management, marketing and business development.