Company Profile
ShadePlex is a supplier of colorful, flexible, high-power solar-electric building fabrics. ShadePlex products offer unique value to companies around the world which design, manufacture, install, or sell fabric buildings, shelters, structures, tents, and related products. Our mission is to expand the worldwide use of solar technology through innovative applications with industrial and architectural fabrics.

ShadePlex is headquartered in Toledo Ohio, near the University of Toledo campus.

ShadePlex Headquarters

Company Management
ShadePlex's management team has a combined 100 years of expertise in distributed and alternative energy production, product engineering, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. Our team includes:

		Brian Tell, President
		Mac Viers, National Sales Manager
		Nazoor Baig, Vice President for Research and Development
		Jeffery Peelman, Vice President for Manufacturing Operations
		Steve Calef, Chief Financial Officer

Advisors
ShadePlex's advisory team includes:

Steve Calef   Mr. Calef is a seasoned financial leader with almost 30 years experience in financial and operations management with start-up and Fortune 500 companies in several industries. Calef’s track record in early stage companies includes multiple rounds of venture capital funding, implementation of ERP systems, successful independent audits, and tax credit awards. He was most recently the Vice President of Finance at Accuri Cytometers, a manufacturer of life science research technology, where he played an integral role in helping the company transition from an R&D operation to product launch and full scale commercialization, including developing the financial framework for the launch of a European subsidiary. Calef brings considerable operations and supply-chain experience to his financial management work, providing a unique value proposition as someone who has had hands-on experience in all aspects of business growth. He earned an MBA in Financial Management from Mercer University. Raymond P. Dowd   Mr. Dowd is President & CFO of Mythos Solar Energy, Inc, the distributed, renewable energy monitoring software leader, engaged in selling solar / hybrid powered wireless, IP networked surveillance systems to governments and commercial integrators worldwide. He has over 20 years experience in financial and asset management in senior management roles such as VP, Paine Webber; Principal, La Jolla Capital; and President & CFO, DBK-Pinnacle, Inc., which merged to become US EURO Securities, Inc. in 2003. Mr. Dowd holds a B.A. from UCLA and NASD Series 3, 4, 7, 22, 24, 27, 63 & 65 licenses, CFA Level I Candidate, with expertise in equities trading, currency and commodity hedging strategies. Mr. Dowd is the designer, principal architect and co-patent holder of IRPS™, Mythos Solar’s patent pending Intelligent Remote Power Solution for governments worldwide. W. Eric Rowley   Mr. Rowley is Vice President Emeritus of Advanced Engineering for Conversion Technologies International. Eric has held many management level positions with this company over the last fifteen years. Conversion Technologies is a roll good converter located in northwest Ohio. Eric was formerly a board member for Invest America and an advisor to Investment Brokers of America. Eric held the Director of Marketing position with Income Builders International, developer of the Super Learning and Super Teaching concepts. Eric has attended Ohio University, The American College, Tri-State College, as well as the Northwest Technical College. Eric is the co-inventor of the Truman Nanoscope, a very powerful optical microscope. Paul Horst   Mr. Horst was the founder and CEO of Nematron Corporation, an industrial computer firm that pioneered video display based operator interfaces for factory floor aplications. After Nematron was taken public, Mr. Horst was recruited to manage DTE Energy Technologies, a wholly owned startup subsidiary of DTE Energy in Detroit. During Mr. Horst's tenure as president of DTE Energy Technologies, the firm grew to $40M in revenues from alternative energy products including fuel cells, Stirling engines, mini-turbines and other forms of distributed generation. Mr. Horst has served as a director on the boards of several public and privately held firms, and holds a B.S.E. (ChE) and M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Dave Strenski   Mr. Strenski is an Application and Systems Analyst for Cray Inc. He has over 20 years experience in the areas of parallel computing, numerical consistency, and genomic data searching algorithms and holds a patent on a meshing algorithm for threaded fasteners. He is an avid solar advocate and helps design, install, and raise funds for local demonstration projects. Prior to Cray, Dave held technical positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Supercomputer Systems, Inc. Dave holds degrees in Land Surveying, Civil and Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. James Quinlan   Mr. Quinlan is an owner and developer of commercial real estate in Florida.

Affiliations
ShadePlex is a member of the following organizations:

		Industrial Fabric Association International (IFAI)
		American Solar Energy Society (ASES)
		Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association (GLREA)