Bob Danziger
Composer and musician since 1971. CEO, analyst, inventor, advisor, project manager for energy independence and a clean environment since 1974
"I first met Bob when a friend who was playing in his band around ten years ago invited me to a gig. From there I have used Bob as a percussionist on two albums in the last three years and was absolutely impressed with his ability to elevate any given theme to a level of greatness and the never ending supply of unexplored sonar landscapes. His contribution as a musician compare favorably to Ray Cooper or Christopher Lamb without the jacket."
— Reinhold Mack, Producer (Queen, Electric Light Orchestra, etc.)
"Bob's sound sculpture, "Nocture 1910," has been the audience hit of "Made in Monterey," our 50th anniversary exhibition. Danziger's keen intellect, savy technical expertise and wit produce an audio component which made our late 19th and early 20th century paintings come alive. This fruitful collaboration has proven to be a model for how we approach all future exhibition projects."
— Michael Whittington, Executive Director, Monterey Museum of Art
Summary
Thirty-five years experience in alternative energy and environmental technology, crafting creative and practical solutions. Served as consultant, CEO, inventor, advisor and in project manager roles. Technology, project finance and scale issues are areas where my unique talents and experience have fostered important alternative energy and environmental technologies.
Specialties
• Invent, research, develop, demonstrate, commercialize, make, sell, service and guarantee new energy and environmental technology
• Design, build, finance, own and operate pioneering alternative energy/independent power projects
• Energy price forecasting and policy analysis
• Scale
• Leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Ultra-low emissions
Experience
Consultant/Advisor/Lawyer at Bob Danziger Consulting Services
2008 -Present (1 year)
Consultant, inventor and/or member of Advisory Board. Examples are National Semiconductor (Smart Grid), Emerachem (Catalysis, nanotechnology), Calera (Cement from seawater and CO2), Gridpoint (Smart grid, electric and hybrid vehicles); Google (Electric and hybrid vehicles)and Carmel Highlands Inventions (Electricity from the non-carbon portions of coal, acid mine drainage remediation, in-situ coal gasification), Cogentrix (CO2 management options for coal-fired power plants focusing on making wood or masonry-substitute materials from greenhouse gasses), LanzaTech (Biofuels. Integrated gasification combined cycle, steel mills).
Musician/Composer at Music
1971 -Present (38 years)
Composer and Studio Musician. Percussion, sound design and unusual acoustic sounds, many using exotic metals like titanium are a specialty.
Founding CEO, Advisor at Goal Line Environmental Technology
1991 -2009 (18 years)
Goal Line Environmental was formed to market technologies originally developed for use at cogeneration power plants owned and operated by Sunlaw. Goal Line went from a start-up to counting 80 of the top 100 Power Producers, all of the major Boiler Manufacturers, as well as all of the major engine manufacturers as their clients.
Goal Line sold a full range of catalysts for natural gas-fired power plants, engines and industrial facilities. Among these are SCONOx (EM-x), which was co-invented by Bob and has the distinction of being the catalyst system on the cleanest fossil fuel power plants ever built.
Lecturer at Stanford University
2004 -2008 (4 years)
Lectured on a range of energy and environmental areas. Of particular note is a January 2005 lecture in which I publicly predicted that oil prices would fall under $35 within 3 to 5 years. Other lectures have covered grid-interactive vehicles; biofuels; potential climate change solutions; and, ocean issues.
Founder and CEO at Sunlaw Energy Corporation
1980 -2005 (25 years)
Pioneering alternative energy and independent power production company. Consultant to numerous entities pioneering a range of alternative energy and environmental technologies. Owner/operator of cogeneration power plants that established numerous production, environmental and safety records.
Energy Policy Analyst at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1979 -1988 (9 years)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California (consultant from 1981 to 1988).
Systems Analyst and Project Manager for energy and environmental programs. Selected Program Activities:
• Solar, wind and geothermal electric systems
• Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Program
• International Space Station
• Synthetic Fuels
• Climate Change
Adjunct Professor at Whittier College
1979 -1980 (1 year)
Developed and taught one of the first alternative energy law classes
Education
Whittier Law School
JD, Alternative Energy Law, 1975 -1978, Law Review
Private Tutors
Chemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics,, 1975 -1977
Committee of Bar Examiners, College Equivalency,1975
Honors and Awards
Established Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lowest Achievable Emissions Rate (LAER) designation for NOx, CO and ammonia and established new Best Available Control Technology (BACT) standard
Set several world records for safety, reliability, capacity factor and emissions reductions
Designated a "Pioneer Qualifying Facility" by the California Public Utilities Commission
Gold Medal for Best Original Music at the International Film and Television Festival of New York
Clean Air Award, South Coast Air Quality Management District (1998)
City of Los Angeles Commendation by the City Council (Council Members 6th, 10th and 11th Districts) “for good citizenship, social conscience and many contributions to making people breathe easier through the development of forward-looking innovative pollution-control equipment for industrial applications” (June 7, 1996).
Interests
Musician 1972 – present:
ASCAP Special Award for Adult Alternative; Jazz; World; Special Event; Movie; or Television -July
1996.
Gold Medal for Best Original Music by the International Film & Television Festival of New York
(1987).
iTunes, CDBaby and other music download websites:
“Never Dreamed” (2007), “Best of Bob Danziger 1” (2007), “Unspoken Dreams” (2007), “One Rock”
(2007)
Supertramp “Some Things Never Change” (1997) (studio engagement to play kalimbas), achieved
platinum sales in Germany and France.
Soundtrack for "Painting by Moonlight" and Exhibition of early California paintings at the Monterey
Museum of Art (2009)
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"I've known Bob since 1985. Bob is truly concerned about environmental issues and has repeatedly demonstrated his high level of commitment to improve the environment. It was a pleasure to work for Bob for 17 years and today he remains a dear friend."
— Dirk Day, CPM, GE Energy, worked indirectly for Bob at Sunlaw Energy Corporation
"It has been my privilege to know and work for Bob as a legal advisor for over 20 years. Thoughout this time, Bob has impressed me as one of the most innovative, principled and thoughtful individuals I have ever encountered. As the CEO of Sunlaw Energy Corporation, he created and managed two cogeneration plants in Vernon California that were among the most efficient, safe and clean facilities that that have ever been operated. In addition, as the co-founder of Goal Line Environmental Technologies (now known as EmeraChem, LLC) he was the originator of some of the most environmentally effective technologies that have been created to reduce the harmful emissions from power plants. Bob to his credit has always put the environment ahead of his own business and financial interests and his tireless efforts to improve the air quality in Southern California through the use of innovative technologies have been well documented. Rarely am I am impressed by anyone but Bob is unique in marrying ethical business practices with concerns for the environment with an overall view to exponentially improviing the health of our children and generations to come. I applaud him for all he is done and no doubt will accomplish in a career that has no horizons or boundaries. ."
— Nicholson. Thomas, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, worked with Bob at Sunlaw
Energy Corporation
"I met Bob through a mutual friend, who thought Bob’s and my shared interest in environmental science might lead to some interesting chemistry. Well it was like alchemy with our meeting leading to a collaboration, friendship and golden moments and golden accomplishments. Bob’s knowledge and grasp of environmental issues led to me to ask him to give a guest lecture in my class in marine pollution. And his interest in the class, the students and the subject resulted in his semester-long participation and an incredible experience for the undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students taking the course. Indeed, this led to his being recruited as a co-instructor with me when the course was offered the next year. What Bob brings to the table is intensity, commitment and creativity. Intensity and commitment were clear in his quick mastery of the regulatory issues on the government side, with Bob easily digesting an immense literature on legislative, advisory and political side of marine pollution issues. This combined with his knowledge and experience on the business side of these issues provided a wealth of experience to the class. Creativity is the other important side of interacting with Bob. I recount one example that has been extremely important in my research and teaching. It was Bob’s reframing of my research area. This area is on a cellular mechanism for keeping pollutants out of cells. My fellow scientists refers to these as efflux transporters, as molecular motors that act to pump pollutants out of cells. Bob reframed the way the entire field now talks about this mechanism. What Bob called them were “bouncers”. And this is now how all my colleagues refer to them. It is a brilliant metaphor, easy for the listener to understand that these are indeed bouncers, but instead of ruffians, the bouncers are keeping toxic things out of the cells. This renaming, reframing, recasting is an important aspect of Bob’s creativity. It is his quickness in understanding complex issues and then creating a simpler way of looking, understanding and solving the problem at hand."
— Dave Epel, Jane and Marshall Steel Professor of Biological and Marine Sciences, Stanford University, managed Bob indirectly at Stanford University
"Bob Danziger is a visionary. His willingness to take financial, personal and political risks to develp cleaner better energy technologies resulted in redefining "best" in best available technology. Without Bob's commitment to our ecological future we would clearly have a less healthy environment."
— Leon Billings, Hon. Leon G. Billings, MD House of Delegates, was with another company when working with Bob at Goal Line Environmental Technology
"Bob is truly the pioneer of our current private electricity infrastructure in the United States and Australia. He has pushed for open accounting in the power generation groups and pushed for environmental awareness and accountability back when the other companies pushed against it. Bob was instrumental in making Los Angeles's air cleaner and made it a much better place to live and work for hundreds of people. Many of those were children that needed that helping hand. Bob can do anything he puts his mind to but more importantly, he has taken on many tasks that people say cannot be done, but he gets them done. It has always been a pleasure working for and with Bob on many projects and task over the last 20 plus years. I would recommend Bob for any project but highly recommend him for the nearly impossible project!"
— Tim Smith, Vice President, Sunlaw Energy Corporation, reported to Bob at Sunlaw Energy Corporation
"I’ve recently renewed a working relationship with Bob that began in 1978 when JPL was helping lead the early U.S. efforts to develop renewable energy and hybrid vehicles, hoping to solicit his help in defining meaningful roles for JPL in the alternative energy arena. His insights, broad background, and real world experience and perspective have proven even more valuable than I had hoped. And his grasp of both the big and the small –global and local—perspectives was amply evidenced at the labwide JPL seminar he gave here recently."
— Bob Easter, Manager, Program Development Studies, JPL, worked directly with Bob at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
"Bob Danziger brings tremendous value to the table, including a unique combination of creativity, deep knowledge and seasoned experience in the alternative energy and environmental technology industries. I greatly admire his dedication to developing clean energy solutions, as well as his integrity and generosity --all of which are borne out in his numerous successes and recognitions in business and in life. It is no mistake that this Renaissance man has been termed brilliant. Bob is an antidote to the business as usual that has helped bring us to this climate change juncture, and a model for the kind of businessperson we need in this age. I highly recommend this wise man and exceptional person."
— Montina Cole, Counsel, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, was a consultant or contractor to Bob at Sunlaw Energy Corporation
"Bob is many things -a true renaisance man. A former client of mine, I have found Bob to be great to work for, and work with. He is beyond bright, a great strategist and outstanding musician. I can always rely on Bob to want to do the "right" thing. He is truly selfless. In the years that I've known him, I've found Bob to be a truly inspirational human being. We've continued a friendship, and Bob is one of those very few people that cause me to say, "I'm really glad to know that guy.""
— Mark Abramowitz, President, Community Environmental Services, was a consultant or contractor to Bob at Goal Line Environmental Technology
"Bob is one of the great business partners imaginable. He brings tremendous intellect, creativity, and energy to every project. His word is his bond , and loyalty and trustworthiness are among his strengths. We have been through good times and turbulent seas together and I look forward to the next opportuntity to work together."
— Bob Hilton, Vice President, Business Development, Alstom Environmental Control
Systems, was with another company when working with Bob at Goal Line Environmental
Technology
"Bob is my top Smart Grid advisor, Senior management consultant and reference energy expert, perfectly balancing these roles throughout his engagement with National Semiconductor. His superlative, out of the box strategic thinking, the experience of decades in executive roles in the energy industry, always dreaming of new possibilities and new worlds in the realms of both technology and business -are only matched by an exceptional insight into organizational, business and product development, and executive and board-level stellar influencing skills. Bob is a wonderful person to be around, he is the perfect mentor -his advice is invaluable to my business, and my personal and professional development."
— Lucian Ion, was Bob's client
"I have known Bob for roughly 20 years. I started working with him when I was a junior associate at Gibson Dunn (and he was the CEO of Sunlaw), and I kept working with him throughout my time at the firm. Currently, he is a terrific mentor and advisor, sharing some of his vast knowledge about alternative energy with me. He has been active in, and passionate about, alternative energy for decades now. He even sings about it! As I type this, I am listening to "Demand Clean Air," a great song he wrote 20 years ago, with lyrics such as: “Here’s a secret message from the inside – pollution-free power, electric cars and solvents can be done right now – DEMAND CLEAN AIR.” I recently worked with Bob on something involving the generation of electricity from landfill gas and, as always, he was very helpful."
— Greg Surman, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, was a consultant or contractor to Bob at
Sunlaw Energy Corporation
"Bob has probably been the finest client I've ever had the pleasure to work for. I often tell the story of being told that I would be doing a corporate video directly for the CEO of the company, and my heart dropped, not my ideal ... but, the next day, in walked Bob to my little production office, wearing a sweat suit and tennies, and he couldn't have created a more comfortable and creative working environment, right from the git-go."
— Tee Bosustow, Writer/Producer, Bosustow Media Group, reported to Bob at Sunlaw
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