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). 
 
                        