John S. O’Donnell
Vice
President, Business Development
GlassPoint Solar,
Inc.
Education:
BS with
Special Distinction in Computer Science, Yale University, 1976
Professional Experience:
PARTNER
VenEarth Group, LLC
Explored climate-mitigating
technologies, primarily new solar and biochar systems. Explored market entry,
revenue model, feedstock reserves, and production technologies for biochar systems.
Supported and aided efforts to build awareness and support for biochar as a tool for carbon sequestration in soils, both
as part of agricultural systems as as part of
carbon-negative power generation arrangements.
Developed a pipeline of new investment candidates in solar technologies
including solar thermal process heating, direct solar lighting of commercial
buildings, and very high concentration photovoltaic systems.
FOUNDER,
PRESIDENT, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT,
Ausra, Inc.
Worked
with Vinod Khosla and Kleiner-Perkins to identify solar thermal technologies
ready to scale up; wrote Khosla’s Solar Power 2006
keynote speech. Identified David Mills’
Australian CLFR team and technology as likely candidate, secured financing,
recruited Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Development Officer, VP Engineering,
and other team members. Created
marketplace and government awareness of the technology and the company, speaker
at Goldman Alternative Energy Conference, Simmons Alternative Energy
Conference, WIREC, Southwest Renewable Energy Conference, EUEC, EFI, EUCI,
Colorado PUC, New Mexico PUC, California Energy Commission, Solar Power
Conference, Barcelona CSP Summit, Oberlin Climate Solutions Summit, Florida
Business Development Summit. Keynote
speaker at 2007 Western Governors Association annual meeting. Oversaw Ausra’s
public communications and media relations, with major stories in a wide range
of publications from WorldWatch to Fred Krupp’s
“Earth: The Sequel” to BusinessWeek, Fox Business,
Bloomberg, NPR, and multiple articles in New York Times. Worked closely with Congressional leaders to build support for the
. Built relationships with NGOs
including Clinton Foundation, Sierra Club, EDF, Western Progress, Center for
American Progress, Center for Global Development,
World Bank.
VICE
PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Pixelworks
Inc.
Worked
with Pixelworks management to integrate the Equator
technologies into advanced TV product roadmap, and integrate the Equator team
into the company. Created programs with
Best Buy, Apple, and Dell including high-performance photo player, advanced audio
processing, TV-integrated IPTV, and “super-scaler” 9X
zoom technology for iPod.
FOUNDER
AND CEO, CTO
Equator
Technologies, Inc.
Founding
CEO of fabless semiconductor provider. Led architecture,
marketing, and capital formation for venture targeted at using VLIW processor
technologies to disrupt markets in image processing and consumer TVs. Raised Series A-C financing, assumed position
of CTO in 2000. In-depth
work with security and surveillance, videoconferencing, IP-TV, and TV markets. Coordinated across five vendors to bring Yahoo!BB’s BB!TV system into
production. Key customers included Xerox,
Polycom, Samsung, UTStarcom,
Pelco, IDIS, Sony. Worked with Tom Ridge, key
FAA Tech Center staff, and many homeland security integrators. Spoke often at NAB, IBC, China IPTV Summit,
SCTE Emerging Technologies conference, CES, Digital Hollywood, CableLabs members conferences,
World Television Forum and other events.
FOUNDER
AND PRESIDENT
Equator
Technologies Consulting, Inc.
Created a
new engineering services company which kept together some of the Multiflow team and provided engineering and analytical
services in the areas of computer architecture and compiler technology. Worked with Fujitsu and Sun
on 64-bit extensions to SPARC and Fujitsu’s VPP architecture. Delivered compilers to
Hitachi, NEC, and Fujitsu for supercomputers and workstation products. Developed binary code optimization and
translation for Java and x86 for Fujitsu.
Consulted on design of VLIW DSPs for TI (now C6000
program). Investigated
video DSP architectures and suitability for addressing large markets in joint
work with Hitachi which led to formation of semiconductor venture.
FOUNDER
AND VICE PRESIDENT, ENGINEERING
Multiflow Computer,
Inc.
Co-founded
company, led hardware engineering then from 1987 led
all engineering. Led architecture simulations,
hired a great team, designed processor’s integer unit and backplane system,
raised capital. Went on the road and
sold the first 40 machines alongside the sales force. Hired application specialists to give us
in-depth understanding of application fields; made Multiflow
the prime computing platform for John Pople’s
computational chemistry investigations, which won the 1998 Chemistry Nobel
prize.
DIRECTOR
OF OPERATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
Yale
University, Department of Computer Science
Worked
with multiple research groups, managing computer center and working with
granting agencies.
Built distributed computing environment around multiple local network
technologies. Co-taught Computer Architecture, taught Computer Networking seminar. Worked with Josh Fisher on
ELI-512 machine architecture.
LEAD
ENGINEER
Princeton
University, Plasma Physics Laboratory
Built
DOE award-winning networked data acquisition system, scheduler, and database
manager supporting real-time fusion experiments, based on DEC PDP-10, PDP-11,
and VAX systems.
Patents and Selected Publications
US Patent
6347344 David Baker, Christopher Basoglu, Benjamin Cutler, Richard Deeley,
Gregorio Gervasio, Atsuo
Kawaguchi, Keiji Kojima, Woobin
Lee, Takeshi Miyazaki, Yatin Mundkur,
Vinay Naik, Kiyokazu Nishioka, Toru Nojiri, John
O'Donnell, Sarang Padalkar:
Integrated Multimedia System with Local Processor, Data Transfer Switch,
Processing Modules, Fixed Functional Unit, Data Streamer, Interface Unit and
Multiplexer, All Integrated On Multimedia Processor
US Patent
6434649 David Baker, Christopher Basoglu, Benjamin
Cutler, Gregorio Gervasio, Woobin
Lee, Yatin Mundkur, Toru Nojiri, John O'Donnell, David Poole, John Poole, Ashok
Raman, Eric Rehm, Radhika Thekkath: Data Streamer
US Patent 7051123 David Baker,
Christopher Basoglu, Benjamin Cutler, Gregorio Gervasio, Woobin Lee, Yatin Mundkur, Toru Nojiri, John O'Donnell, Ashok Raman, Eric Rehm, Radhika Thekkath: Data transfer engine of a processor having a
plurality of modules
US Patent
6498816 Venkat V. Easwar,
John S. O'Donnell, Ramachandran Natarajan,
Robert J. Gove: Circuit and method for
formatting each of a series of encoded video images
US Patent
4833599 Robert P. Colwell, John O'Donnell, David B. Papworth,
Paul K. Rodman: Hierarchical priority
branch handling for parallel execution in a parallel processor
US Patent
4920477 Robert P. Colwell, John O'Donnell, David B. Papworth,
Paul K. Rodman: Virtual address table look aside buffer miss recovery method
and apparatus
US Patent
5307506 Robert P. Colwell, John O'Donnell, David B. Papworth,
Paul K.: High bandwidth multiple
computer bus apparatus
US Patent
5057837 Robert P. Colwell, John O'Donnell, David B. Papworth,
Paul K.: Instruction storage method with a compressed format using a mask word
US Patent
5179680 Robert P. Colwell, John O'Donnell, David B. Papworth,
Paul K.: Instruction storage and cache
miss recovery in a high speed multiprocessing apparatus
2008 DOE
Solar Annual Review Meeting, Austin, TX: O’Donnell, J: “Ausra
CLFR Project Update”
2006 Solar
Power International, San Jose, CA, Khosla, V, O’Donnell,
J: “Solar Flare: Sustainable or Not?”
2008 Woods
Institute on the Environment, Stanford University, O’Donnell, J: “Solar Thermal
Power”
2008 UNLV
Renewable Energy Symposium, University of Nevada Las Vegas, O’Donnell, J: “Solar
Thermal Power”
IEEE
Transactions on Computers, “A VLIW Architecture for a Trace Scheduling
Compiler”, August 1988
Colwell, R.P., Nix, R.P., O’Donnell, J.J., Papworth,
D.B., Rodman, P.K.
IEEE
transactions on circuits and systems for video technology ,
“The Equator MAP-CA DSP: An end-to-end broadband signal processor VLIW” 2002 v. 12 no.8 BASOGLU Chris (1) ; LEE Woobin
(1) ; O'DONNELL John (1) ;
Proceedings
of Hot Chips 1999. MAP1000A: A 5W, 230MHz VLIW mediaprocessor
The
Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 7 no. 1-2 (5/93) “The Multiflow
Trace Scheduling Compiler”, P. Geoffrey Lowney1, Stefan M. Freudenberger2,
Thomas J. Karzes3, W. D. Lichtenstein4, Robert P. Nix5, John S. O'Donnell6 and
John C. Ruttenberg7