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).