Bret Adams

About Bret Adams

Sales, Marketing and Business Development professional with over 25 years of experience in development and marketing of high technology products. Help innovative, established and new businesses; build initial customer pipeline, establish and qualify new technologies; execute strategic plans; create a strong brand; and delight customers. Areas of Expertise: Strategic planning, team formation, initial market penetration, channel strategies, investor relations and budgeting, marketing communications, government relations, and enterprise selling. Semiconductor, advanced energy, energy storage, renewable energy, solar photovoltaics, computer disk drive, and lasers.

Experience

1. Management Consultant in Advanced Energy

   Kainos Consulting, Llc

   May 2015 — Present

   Providing senior level management in advanced energy companies with current clients in energy storage, solar, and smart grid. Specialize in start-up formation, launching new business unit in existing enterprises, creating new business models, and strategies to address markets segments profitably. Global experience working with leading companies in Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Canada, and developing nations. Over 25 years of success in technology related marketing, sales and business development management. Expertise in technology related, rapidly growing markets for innovative products and disruptive technologies. Start-up and large corporate experience; Led large professional organizations, small cross-functional teams, and individual contributor.Direct experience in business plan creation, strategic planning, organizational development, product marketing, IP management, branding, marcom, collateral, website, social media, events, press releases and media relations, public policy and government relations, market research and forecasting, sales strategy, missionary sales, customer negotiations, sales management, strategic enterprise selling, sales database management, mergers and acquisitions, fund raising, and investor relations.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BSME

  1983 — 1987

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  1992 — 1994

Skills

• Product Marketing
• Product Development
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Photovoltaics
• Product Management
• Solar Energy
• Process Simulation
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Marketing Strategy
• Thin Films
• Strategy
• Renewable Energy
• Management
• Solar Cells
• Semiconductors
• Business Development