Founded on the heels of the Gulf oil spill by serial entrepreneurs, E TRON brings leading-edge technologies, approaches, and methods to bear on clients’ toughest problems and biggest opportunities.
Sharon Amezcua
As a serial entrepreneur for the past 35 years, Sharon Amezcua (along with her team of other serial entrepreneurs) has created, built, accelerated, invested in and exited hundreds of companies across the globe. The beginning of Sharon’s career was focused on building and growing energy-related companies in lighting, HVAC control systems and alternative energy. After the successful exit of New Energy Ventures in LA, Sharon Co-Founded MCC Global NV, an old-style merchant bank that was listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 2006. MCC offered a proprietary incubation and acceleration “de-risking” process that Sharon developed and implemented with her global team to build, accelerate and exit hundreds of emerging and established companies with an unmatched track record of success. As Vice Chairman of Moore Clayton Capital Advisors, Inc. and Vice President of Equus II, MCC Global's fund management company and its NYSE-listed private equity fund, respectively, Sharon was instrumental in increasing the overall value and ROI of this highly regulated BDC.
Currently, Sharon is the Founder of ESE Partners, LLC and Co-Founder of ESE Fund Ltd., a future financial services company and associated private equity fund that builds and invests in emerging and established companies in targeted sectors across the world. With the leadership of her London-based business partner, Edward Fitzpatrick, ESE has created an unregulated stock exchange in Europe (European Stock Exchange) and a regulated stock exchange, AlliedSX (A Start-Up Stock Exchange) that is expanding globally. Sharon is also the Co-Founder of SSG, LLC, a technology transfer company managed by women at the top of their fields and initially created to build companies in the US and the Middle East/North Africa region of the globe. ESE and SSG both have a strong focus on traditional industries converging with new technologies particularly in new media, healthcare, alternative energy and financial services.
Sharon’s passion (besides dancing!) is working with young people through business and philanthropy to enhance their entrepreneurial skills and assist them in executing their dreams. She is also an active Board member of the British American Business Council and on the Advisory Boards of early stage companies in her portfolio and charities that she is passionate about.
Francis Béland, CEO
Francis Béland, CEO and co-founder of E TRON Technologies Francis focuses his time on his open innovation advisor role for organizations such as the WHO, WFP, European Commission and the private sectors of healthcare, automotive, biotech, medical devices, governments, oil & gas and energy industries. He previously served as a partner at Deloitte/Monitor Group (Los Angeles) from 2011 through 2013 where he was a member of the leadership team of Doblin/Monitor Innovation.
Francis has extensive experience developing large-scale innovation programs in healthcare, automotive, biotech, medical devices, governments, oil & gas and energy industries. He was an open innovation advisor to the European Commission, and an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Food and Drug Administration and he recently facilitated a discussion at the White House to develop new innovation pathways in the medical technology sector.
Francis holds a Masters of Applied Management and a Bachelors of Oceanography & Pure Physics from McGill University, Montreal.
Ashley Day, COO
Ashley has been active in the clean technology and sustainability community for 16 years as an Entrepreneur developing technologies and ventures focused on applying cutting edge technology for sustainable and profitable business solutions.
Prior to this company, Ashley started Vor-Tek Recovery Solutions (VTRsolutions.com) based in California, which developed and patented one of the worlds first integrated high volume oil spill recovery systems in the world.
From 1998-2009, Ashley was the Co-Founder and Vice-President in Metal-Tek Development LLC, based in Atlanta, GA. Metal-Tek holds over 15 patents in the developing automated solutions for the recovery scrap metal from Car Shredder applications around the world.
Ashley holds a BS in Business Administration from San Jose State.