Professional Background

Mar­guerite Arnold
margueritearnold@yahoo.com

Desired Posi­tion

To apply exper­tise in Clean Tech or other area com­bin­ing gov­ern­ment investment/tax incen­tives,  and pri­vate equity.

Exper­tise

• Broad expe­ri­ence in finance, national media, and pub­lic pol­icy (national and state)
• Devel­op­ment of early stage tech­nol­ogy ventures
• Expe­ri­ence in all sec­tors of econ­omy (For­tune 500, small busi­ness, NGOs, government)
• Unique under­stand­ing of and expe­ri­ence with green and ADA tax incentives.

Pro­fes­sional Experience

Clean Tech Con­sul­tant, New York 2007-Present

• Con­sulted to a range of Clean Tech star­tups in New York State
• Assisted in respond­ing to RFPs
• Wrote var­i­ous busi­ness plans for both trans­porta­tion and hous­ing ventures
• Ven­ture cap­i­tal research and presentations
• An orga­nizer of NYC’s first Down­town Green Fair (pro­mot­ing green business)
• Pro­vided strate­gic thought lead­er­ship on state green­ing pol­icy initiatives
• Ongo­ing research in national pol­icy devel­op­ments (i.e. growth of green mort­gages) and inter­na­tional devel­op­ments in Clean Tech

Mor­gan Stan­ley, New York 2003–2007

Prod­uct Manager

• Prod­uct man­age­ment for Google Trans­fer­able Stock Option (TSO) program
• Team mem­ber in devel­op­ing TSO prod­uct (finan­cial and technical)

Con­tract Negotiator/Administrator

• Nego­ti­ated firm-wide ser­vice con­tracts with soft­ware, hard­ware, and telco firms includ­ing Avaya and IPC to build inter­nal Firm telco infrastructure
• Man­aged ven­dor rela­tion­ships, ser­vices, and SLAs with global firms
• Auto­mated large con­tract stor­age sys­tem within Firm

Light­works, New York 2002–2003

• Script writer/content man­age­ment for daily nation­wide tele­vi­sion broadcast

X Fac­tor, New York 2001–2002

• Prin­ci­pal in film finance startup
• Devel­oped inno­v­a­tive secu­ri­ti­za­tion model using dig­i­tal asset backed securities
• Devel­oped unique infra­struc­ture man­age­ment platform

Reuters, Wash­ing­ton DC National Bureau 1998–2001

• Free­lance media edi­tor and producer
• Wrote and edited daily busi­ness news seg­ment, national distribution
• Pro­duced wide vari­ety of spe­cial­ized media
• Man­aged end-to-end pro­duc­tion process

Hol­ly­wired, Wash­ing­ton DC/New York 1999–2001

• Prin­ci­pal in first digital/online/offline stu­dio startup
• Pro­to­typed dig­i­tal direc­to­ries, down­load­able con­tent and edit­ing software
• Planned inter­na­tional net­work of asso­ci­ated stu­dios (U.S., Europe, India, China)

Stu­dio 650, Wash­ing­ton, DC 1998–2001

• Founder of first dig­i­tal the­atre in U.S.
• Audi­ence share and media atten­tion greater than Viacom’s in same market
• Devel­oped growth strat­egy includ­ing national viral mar­ket­ing strategy

Dama Pro­duc­tions, Wash­ing­ton, DC 1993–2001

• Prin­ci­pal in full-service video pro­duc­tion firm
• Devel­oped video con­tent for diverse client base
• National client base

Cen­ter for Defense Infor­ma­tion, Wash­ing­ton, DC 1991–1994

• Doc­u­men­tary pro­ducer, direc­tor, writer for nation­ally broad­cast PBS doc­u­men­tary series
• Changed national pol­icy in Con­gress on many issues start­ing at age 23, includ­ing sav­ing the largest area of pris­tine, high desert ecosys­tem in lower 48 and home to the Shoshone Paiute Indian tribe from becom­ing a strate­gi­cally unnec­es­sary bomb­ing range for the Air Force.

Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union, Wash­ing­ton DC National Leg­isla­tive Office 1989–1991

• Wrote about civil lib­er­ties and con­sti­tu­tional issues for national audi­ence of over 50,000
• Con­gres­sional lob­by­ing and Supreme Court experience
• Self taught com­puter data­base pro­gram­ming in devel­op­ment and main­te­nance of Con­gres­sional vote track­ing system.
• Online dis­tri­b­u­tion via inter­net of niche based material

Edu­ca­tion

Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina at Chapel Hill 1985–1989
Bach­e­lor of Arts, polit­i­cal science/international economics

• John­ston Aca­d­e­mic Schol­ar­ship, hon­ors program
• Stu­dent Leader, Divest­ment move­ment.  Accom­plished state-wide divest­ment of all schol­ar­ship and state pen­sion funds in com­pa­nies doing busi­ness in apartheid-era South Africa.

Vol­un­teer Activities

Komen Foun­da­tion 1996–present

Pro­ducer, Race for the Cure, annual cor­po­rate spon­sor­ship video, DC and Miami

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