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Founder

Hydro-Vac, Inc.

HVI has been a family-owned and operated company since 2001. In 2020, Caleb stepped in on a truck and worked part-time at night and on the weekends to learn what it took to run the company from an operational and business standpoint. Caleb has started and sold his small businesses, so his experience as a young entrepreneur transfers over to his role at HVI.

- Caleb oversees ongoing business operations within the company. 
- Jobsite crews and office staff report directly to Caleb. 
- Caleb is reporting directly to the CEO.

Currently, Caleb oversees close to 20 employees and 7 service crews.

Chief Operating Officer

- Directing the day to day operations. 
- Directing 6-7 crews, fleet vehicles, and managing 12-14 people.
- Online job bidding and estimating. Proficient in several construction softwares.
- Fielding all company / customer calls and emails.
- Assisting in recruiting new employees, fielding resumes to the CEO
- Running advertising ads across platforms. 
Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and web platforms.
- Overseeing the Hydro Excavation division; invoicing, billing, vendors, and health & safety program.
- Daily, weekly, and quarterly reports for various organizations. Such as DOT, FMSCA, and various Unions.

—— ACHIEVEMENTS ——
- In 4 months, I have assisted in hiring, onboarding, and training 2 full-time crews. 
- Bringing in an additional 50-100k gross per month. 

- In 6 months, I completely took over bidding/estimating. 
- Largely contributing to the 400% increase in net income for the company.

Head Operations Manager and Coordinator

Framework - Construction Recruiting

Helping framework connect more people to more opportunities through online and social media initiatives.

Consultant / Contractor Role

- Creating videos
- Online campaigns 
- Assisting in the recruitment process

Marketing Outreach Consultant

Fouss Vending

Self Started a Vending Machine Company from my Dorm Room.

* Providing Vending Machines AND Micro-Markets to businesses sized Small to Medium 
* Scaling the business consistently 
* Donating a Percentage of Profits to various charities designed to help people out of crisis

—— ACHIEVEMENTS ——
Sold the company. Bought by a vending machine startup company. 
* Exited at 21 years old.

Ambassadors for Business

* Consistently served as a volunteer at AFB events
* Assisted in setting up and takedown of the event
* Assisted in maintaining the community and socializing of the events
* Engaged with numerous local professionals in their field
* Built long-term friendships with local business executives
* Spoke on the "Do Something Initiative" at an event

Ambassador

5 Things About ME ⬇️

- I’m a Christ Follower
- I’m a Husband
- I’m a Father 
- I’m a Business Owner
- I’m a Coach & Consultant 


CALEB Fouss 👷🏼‍♂️👨🏼‍💻

ADL Ventures

ADL Ventures specializes in new venture development for mid-cap companies. We radically increase the odds of new venture success by working for corporates as innovation consultants, learning our client's pain points and building companies specifically for to address them with our corporate partner's resources. In addition to our deep technical background, ADL specializes in product development, business model innovation and change management to builds new business units and spinouts in the building materials, construction and power, gas & water utility industries where its particularly challenging to start-up new ideas. ADL's innovation process has won multiple awards from the federal government.  ADL had extensive connections entrepreneur networks in Silicon Valley and Boston to staff up its portfolio companies and had deep connections with venture capital funds to get the ideas venture funded.

Founding Partner

General Radar Corporation

General Radar makes high resolution 3D imaging radar for autonomous machines. We use a patented solid state analog beamformer and off-the-shelf optical networking components to create a 3D high resolution representation of the world around us at the cost of conventional radars.

Autonomous things (car, drones, robots, etc.) will unleash the world's next economic boom, but navigation related safety issues are limiting their adoption. We are building the world's first sub-$500 4D high resolution radar system to help machines see better than humans at a viable price point for most applications. Our revolutionary system architecture allows the identification of objects from their reflection and has exciting implications for predicting how targets will behave in a scene.

Chief Executive Officer

Sto Corp.

Member of Board of Directors and Innovation Chairman helping the Sto Corporation introduce new products into its product line and introduce best practices into operations.  
- Developed an open source Building Materials Challenge to surface and co-develop promising new products for the Sto product lineup
- Secured 3 co-development partnerships to develop a low cost / non flammable insulation material, a self draining membrane to keep walls interiors dry and self-healing cementitious materials.
- Supported Sto's prefabrication and building automation system efforts
- Secured Sto participation in Integrated Hi-R Window Grant with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Presented at numerous conferences including Earth X about Sto's Open Innovation Platform to collaborate with material start-ups
- Organized Prefab Offsite Construction Workshop in Washington DC with thought leaders from across the US Federal government including FEMA, DOE, NASA, DOD, DOC - EDA, FANNIE MAE, DOI and HUD

Board Member & Innovation Chairman

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Designed and launched HPC4Mfg program with program team

Principal Consultant

capio.ai (acquired by Twilio Inc.)

Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding and Advanced Dialog Solutions for Automotive, Enterprise Voice, Robotics, Connected Home and Security

Director of Business Development

Plotly Inc.

Plotly (https://plot.ly/) is a start up SaaS company with a powerful graphing platform to let users analyze and visualize data, together. Using Plotly, you can copy and paste data; import data from files, Drive, and Dropbox; or stream in data. The Plotly grid allows you to analyze your data with fits, functions, stats, and more. Then, Plotly's graphing tools make it easy to make and style beautiful graphs. You can download graphs, share your graphs with a URL, embed them with an iframe, and invite others to collaborate with you. Your work is in the cloud, and your graphs and data always live together, so you and your team can work together from anywhere.

Co-Founder & Advisor

Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems

Co-founder and leader of the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE)

Built organization into one of the largest US Fraunhofer labs in four years with over 70 employees developing technologies for industrial partners in building energy efficiency, solar, and distributed energy management systems

Raised $22.5M to found a US-based sustainable energy research lab in partnership with MIT

Developed vision and raised funding for a living laboratory to validate and develop energy efficient building technologies. Recruited corporate sponsors / research partners and supervised construction of $26M historic building retrofit in Boston's Innovation District

Led & directed creation of Fraunhofer TechBridge start-up platform; developing clean energy ventures with world’s premier venture capitalists, government seed capital and fortune 500 strategic investors

Founder & Managing Director

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Worked as employee at MIT and Fraunhofer to form the MIT Fraunhofer CSE joint venture.

Visiting Engineer

Evergreen Solar

Sourced and developed polysilicon supply contracts with DC Chemical, Nitol and Silpro.

Located, evaluated potential locations for Evergreen Solar's  integrated solar factory expansion

Loaned to Fraunhofer USA in August 2007 at request of the Commonwealth in order to help attract Fraunhofer to set up its new lab in Boston.

Developed business plan, co-developed research plan and secured industrial support for the proposed Fraunhofer center

Manager, Business Development

Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Developed outline and demonstrated business case for the largest multi-client study developed by CERA. (Crossing the Divide)

Senior Associate

Nolan combines his deep background in CleanTech and ConTech commercialization for the Fortune 1000 with nearly a decade of venture-backed founder / executive experience in Silicon Valley and Boston to help the world’s leading companies find, develop and scale deployment of CleanTech and AI solutions to simultaneously become more profitable and sustainable. A corporate business developer and strategist by training, his extensive technology commercialization work with MIT, Fraunhofer, the US Department of Energy, the US National Labs provides a platform for America’s leading companies to coordinate with government and university to develop technologies that transform both balance sheets and the environment.  Most recently, through ADL Ventures, Nolan has been developing the DOE’s Advanced Building Construction Collaborative with RMI with the intention of creating millions of manufacturing jobs, retrofitting millions of homes and delivering trillions of dollars of value to the US GDP.   Developer of the first Living Lab for Building Energy Efficiency in the United States for the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems that he founded at MIT in 2008.

Co-founder of three successful startup companies, including a leader in corporate venturing with Fortune 1000 clients in power & gas, construction and information technology. Successfully founded and operated two CleanTech accelerators and invented ProblemSpace, a novel open sourced partnering platform for hard tech start-ups to co-develop and commercialize their innovations with manufacturing corporations.  Board seats in a number of sustainable energy related concerns and three time invited speaker at the National Academy of Science. Developer of “The Case for Prefab; Why the US Can Not Afford to Fail” and the vision for an American Sematech for Prefabricated Buildings. Winner of American Inventions Made Onshore Award and co-author of 2018 Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) award with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a USAF AFWERX award from the Department of Defense. Invited TEDx Speaker published in Harvard Business Review.

Nol co-founded the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems in 2008 where he and his team built a leading US sustainable energy R&D center supporting industrial and government research partners to discover and commercialize clean energy technologies.

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