James F. Groelinger

Mr. Jim F.
Groelinger is Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Heartland Bridge Capital, Inc. and Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Heartland Bridge Capital, Inc. (Private Equity).
He has extensive international corporate and business management experience with a strong focus on business development and value creation in all aspects of the energy field.
Since 2007, Mr. Groelinger has been the Managing Director at Bellegrove Associates where he provides strategic guidance to emerging clean energy entrepreneurs and companies.
This guidance includes evaluating potential energy-related investments, and assisting inventors with the commercialization of energy-related patents and products.
Since 2009, he has also been the Executive Director of the Clean Energy Alliance, Inc., a national association of clean energy incubators.
From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Groelinger was the Chief Executive Officer and a Director, and was President from 2007 to 2008, of EPV Solar, Inc., a photovoltaic module technology company that developed and marketed a proprietary technology for the production of thin-film photovoltaic products.
As CEO, Mr. Groelinger led the company and oversaw sales as they increased from nil to more than $20 million annually, developed products sales in the U.S., Germany, and Spain, oversaw joint ventures with foreign manufacturers, and managed a complex $60 million debt-for-equity recapitalization, setting the stage for a $70 million third-party financing and initial public offering.
Mr. Groelinger has an MBA-Finance from Temple University and a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from City College of New York.