Dave Bagshaw, a long-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has signed on
as a Senior Advisor to CalCars. He will be actively involved in
shaping key initiatives of the non-profit start-up, including
possible organization of a spin-of for-profit company. Bagshaw was VP
of Marketing at Silicon Graphics in its early high-growth days. He
was Senior Vice President at @Home Networks and Excite@Home. As CEO
of Shutterfly in 2003-2004, he helped grow the company to be a leader
of the online digital photo and printing industry.(Shutterfly had
its IPO in September, 2006.) Bagshaw has Masters degrees in business
and mechanical engineering from Stanford; as part of his
thermosciences focus, he worked on design of a low emissions
automobile engine design.

CalCars Founder Felix Kramer said, "Dave has a stellar
entrepreneurial, management and technical background. We've been
trying to recruit someone with this mix for a long time. Now that
car-makers are saying "plug-in hybrids make sense -- but..." and are
putting their toes in the water, CalCars' strategies aim to expand
and speed up their steps toward commercialization and prove their
value and performance. Dave can help make that happen."

Dave Bagshaw said, "My first entrepreneurial experience came as
co-founder of a solar and conservation engineering service company,
Pacific Sun Inc. Now, after years in technology companies, I decided
it was time for me to start working on something that's good for our
environment. I really enjoyed my early years in the alternative
energy world and I'd like to get back to making a contribution to
helping to save the planet. I've been on the sidelines rooting for
CalCars progress for a long time. Now I want to help CalCars motivate
car-makers to starting building thousands of PHEVs for public and
private fleets and early adopters. I'd also like to be first on my
block to power my car from my rooftop photovoltaic solar electric system."


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Felix Kramer fkramer@...
Founder California Cars Initiative
http://www.calcars.org
http://www.calcars.org/news-archive.html
http://www.hybridcars.com/blogs/power
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