Emerging Enterprise Series Featuring Bernie Burgener with Greenhouse Accelerator

Bernie Burgener is the executive director of the Greenhouse Accelerator. The objective of this non-profit is to help create sustainable jobs through the support of early-stage green startups. Early in his career Bernie helped fund and grow businesses in various countries and industries in South America in a financial as well as a consulting function, working for a private investment company out of Lima, Peru. He then worked for over twenty years with a water treatment company in Atlanta, leading its international business development, including strategic planning, identifying, negotiating and executing acquisitions, and managing key raw material contracts. Bernie is an economist by education and a sustainability consultant by avocation.