Primary Job Title President Primary Organization Scientific Bioprocessing
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Greater Philadelphia Area, Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
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John A. Moore has been a Director and CEO of Acorn Energy Inc. (ACFN-NASDAQ) since March 2006. He also serves as a Director of Voltaix, a leading producer of specialty gases used in the production of solar cells and semiconductors. He was previously a Director of Comverge and served on its IPO committee. He serves on the Advisory Council of
EnerTech Capital a $350 million energy technology fund. Mr. Moore was formerly President and Co-Founder of Edson Moore Healthcare Ventures, a fund which acquired $150 million of bio- technology assets from Elan Pharmaceuticals in 2002.
John was also Co-Founder and CEO of Optimer Inc., a specialty materials company that was sold in 2007 to Sterling Capital, a leveraged buyout fund with over $4 Billion under management. John believes that the three biggest sectors of the US economy, energy, healthcare and education, are about to be transformed by digitization and this will lead to a period of unprecedented prosperity. He says he invested in USEED because "Connecting the courage, energy and creative genius of our students with the wisdom, capital and experience of alumni will be transformative for our society. USEED is exactly the platform the education industry needs to scale and manage this revolution."
