Company
Management
Executive Team
William J. Febbo
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Febbo is responsible for developing and overseeing the overall strategic direction of Panel Intelligence. Bringing more than 15 years experience in operations, sales, finance and manufacturing to the leadership of Panel Intelligence, Mr. Febbo has worked for three Fortune 500 companies, specializing in business development, merger and acquisition and global technology transfer in Europe, Central Asia and South America. He was also instrumental in completing mergers and acquisitions in multiple industries, as well as bringing several start-ups to profitability. Currently, Mr. Febbo is a Director of MCF and also serves as Treasurer on the board of the United Nations of Greater Boston. He received his B.S. in international studies with a focus on economics and Spanish from Dickinson College.
Howard Brick
Chief Operations Officer
Mr. Brick is responsible for all research and operations at Panel Intelligence. Prior to joining Panel Intelligence, Mr. Brick spent five years at Case Shiller Weiss. While there, he served as Vice President of Business Development, Finance & Legal Affairs and was a member of the company's senior management team. Mr. Brick played a leadership role in Case Shiller Weiss' sale of itself to Fiserv, an S&P 500 company, in 2002. Prior to joining Case Shiller Weiss, Mr. Brick practiced law in Boston for 12 years, both in private practice and as an Assistant Attorney General with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. Mr. Brick holds a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and received his Juris Doctor from Columbia University School of Law.
William Banks
President
As President, Mr. Banks oversees all commercial activities, including sales, marketing, and product development. Mr. Banks was most recently at Advisor Software, Inc. where he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to that, Mr. Banks was Executive Vice President of Marketing at Longitude, Inc. where he was responsible for strategy and market development for an innovative derivative trading technology, working with clients such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. Mr. Banks also served as U.S. General Manager and VP of Worldwide Marketing at Update, an enterprise software firm headquartered in Vienna, Austria. He began his career as an Institutional Fixed Income Associate with Kidder Peabody & Co. in San Francisco. Mr. Banks earned his M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and received a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Tim Newell
Senior Advisor, CleanTech
Tim Newell has more than 20 years of private equity, investment banking and government experience. He was most recently a partner with DFJ Element, a $280 million clean technology affiliate fund of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Prior to DFJ, he was managing director and head of investment banking for E*Offering, a technology investment bank launched in partnership with E*Trade and successfully sold in 2000. Mr. Newell also headed an investment banking group for Robertson Stephens & Co and was a founder of the New Resource Bank, the first U.S. commercial bank dedicated to financing sustainable businesses, and served as a founding board member of the California Clean Energy Fund. Prior to his investment career, Mr. Newell served in a number of positions in the U.S. government, most recently from 1993-1997 on the White House staff of President Bill Clinton, where he was deputy director for policy in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and co-director of the National Environmental Technology Initiative aimed at improving U.S. research and development and commercial deployment of clean technologies. Mr. Newell received his B.A. from Brown University.
Senior Research Staff
David H. Kurzman
Senior Vice President, CleanTech
David H. Kurzman is Senior Vice President of the Clean Technology Research Group at Panel Intelligence where he oversees business development, industry expert recruitment, and product delivery. Previously, Mr. Kurzman was Managing Partner of Kurzman CleanTech, L.P., a hedge fund investing in clean-technology companies. Mr. Kurzman worked for nine years as a Sell-Side Analyst, most recently with Needham & Co., and prior to that at H.C. Wainwright & Co. Mr. Kurzman's work has been recognized by leading news channels, including CNBC, PBS' Wall Street Week with Fortune, Bloomberg News, Reuters, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barron's Financial Weekly, Business Week, Bloomberg Magazine, and Wall Street Research. He was named "Best on The Street" by The Wall Street Journal in 2003 and rated a Zack's All-Star Analyst in 2001 and 2002. He received his B.A. from Grinnell College in Sociology.
Heather Kaufman Stein, MD, MPH
Vice President, Research Services
Heather Stein is responsible for the development and production of qualitative Healthcare sector research at Panel Intelligence. Prior to Panel, Dr. Stein worked for two years as a primary care physician and over three years as a specialist in Obesity Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed residency training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and has a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health.
Scott D. Packard, PhD
Vice President, Quantitative Research
Scott D. Packard oversees quantitative product development and all quantitative research projects for Panel Intelligence. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Packard served as a Director at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC. While with the Advisory Board, he authored syndicated research studies and helped launch and manage a clinical technology evaluation program. Mr. Packard holds his doctorate from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, a joint program between MIT and Harvard Medical School, following an undergraduate degree in physics from Cornell University.
Janet Bernard
Vice President, Community Development
Janet Bernard has more than 20 years experience building and managing expert networks. At Panel Intelligence Janet has developed a community of more than 300,000 physicians, medical professionals, CleanTech experts, telecommunications and other business executives worldwide and oversees the expert recruitment team. Before joining Panel Intelligence, Ms. Bernard was a founding partner of Equinox Group, where she managed recruitment efforts for global market research projects. Prior to that, Ms. Bernard was Director of Research Services for (Arthur D. Little) Decision Resources, Inc. She received her B.A. from Regis College.