One of the inventors of the Company’s breakthrough technology, Riggs Eckelberry brings his veteran technology management skills to the Blue Technology sector. As President and COO of CyberDefender Corporation from 2005 to 2006, he was instrumental in building the company and its innovative product line, helping to achieve initial funding and a public company filing. From 2001 to mid-2005, he helped launch and turn around technology companies as founder and President of TechTransform, a technology consulting firm. In 2004, he was a key member of the team that commercialized YellowPages.com, resulting in its sale for $100 million to SBC/BellSouth. In 2003, he helped make Panda Software a key player in the US market as the General Manager of its US unit. During the high-tech boom of the 1990s, he was responsible for the global brand success of the software product, CleanSweep; as Chief Operating Officer of MicroHouse Technologies, he drove record sales and a modernization of the company’s technology, helping to achieve a successful sale of the company to Earthweb; and as VP Marketing of venture-backed TriVida, he was a key member of the team that commercialized the company’s technology and achieved the sale of this technology company to BeFree, Inc. (now part of ValueClick: VCLK). AI-CEO-of-the-Year-SlugIn 2015, Biofuels Digest ranked Riggs Eckelberry one of The Top 125 People in the Advanced Bioeconomy. This was the fifth year of this recognition. The Los Angeles Business Journal has named him to the Who’s Who in Los Angeles Business for 2016, while AI Magazine recently named Riggs CEO of the Year for Renewables and The Environment in California.   Read more: http://www.originclear.com/about-us/company/riggs-eckelberry#ixzz4lNbNCQn7