Our Team


Paul Bradley
Advisory Board

Mr. Paul Bradley is the founder and managing director of PJB Energy Solutions Inc., a direct investment and financial advisory organization dedicated to the energy industry as well as all aspects of Corporate Finance, Project Finance, and Business Development activities.

Paul Bradley most recently served as Vice President, Electricity Resources for the Ontario Power Authority, from June 2005 to June 2007. At the OPA, Mr. Bradley was responsible for designing implementing and managing the OPA’s power generation procurement program. During his tenure, the OPA procured over 3,000 MW of power generation resources, including Demand Response, and managed over 116 contracts totalling 8,600 MW. As a result of this effort, Mr. Bradley was awarded the prestigious Hedley Palmer award by the Association of Power Producers of Ontario in November 2006.

Prior to founding PJB Energy Solutions in 2003, Mr. Bradley spent six years as Executive Director with CIBC World Markets’ investment banking Power and Utilities team, with his main focus on cross-border transaction origination as well as financial advisory in the power and utility industry. Mr. Bradley played key roles in a number of financial advisory engagements, examples include advising the Province of Ontario with respect to the electricity industry restructuring, advising TransAlta in the divestiture of their distribution and transmission businesses, the US$8 billion sale of Westcoast Energy to Duke Energy, and leading the initial public offering of the $264 million Calpine Power Income Fund.

For the eight years prior to CIBC World Markets, Mr. Bradley served in a number of roles at Duke Energy including the roles of Project Director for various international business development efforts, independent power project developments and acquisitions in the US and Asia. Mr. Bradley also worked extensively on the US$7.7 billion merger between Duke Power Co. and Pan Energy Corp. and developed the organization’s policies for treasury risk management.

Mr. Bradley has also served as a Senior Accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co. in the Small Business Client Services group which provided audit, tax and consulting services for small entrepreneurial and growth oriented companies.

Mr. Bradley holds a B.S. in Business/Accounting from Boston College and holds a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) designation in the U.S.

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Rich Osborne
Advisory Board

Rich brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the Helix team from his career at Duke Energy in a variety of executive positions including Treasurer, CFO, EVP Risk Management and Group Vice President Public and Regulatory Policy in Washington. In addition to his role in communicating and managing relationships with Wall Street, Congress, the EPA, the FERC and state industry regulators, Rich’s responsibilities have included the development of new energy and communications related technologies, management of Duke’s venture and real estate arms, management of Duke’s international and private power initiatives as well a host of other duties related to various aspects of the global energy industry.

Scott is a seasoned top executive with a broad spectrum of startup and operations experience directly related to business, consumer personal electronics and enterprise technology. During a 10 year career at Dell Computer, Scott held a number of high level executive positions and was responsible for product development (1st three generations of the PowerEdge and PowerVault servers), product marketing, supply chain management, manufacturing, sales, marketing and over $2.6 billion in revenue generation in the Server/Storage, Enterprise System Products and K12 Educational divisions. In addition Scott ran the Dell Ventures for the public sector for 12 months. After leaving Dell Scott cast a wide net with similar successes working as a Technology Consultant for Solana Capital Partners, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Systems Division and Senior Vice President, Gateway Business Division of Gateway Computer, and Entrepreneur In Residence for CONNECT San Diego. CONNECT San Diego is a program associated with the UCSD Business School dedicated to creating and sustaining the growth of innovative technology and life science businesses in San Diego. Since 1985 CONNECT has assisted in the formation and development of over 1,200 companies and is widely regarded as the nation’s most successful regional program linking inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources they need for success.

Ian holds a B.S. in Pre-Med from Davidson College in North Carolina and an MBA with a focus on technology and entrepreneurial studies from The Anderson School at UCLA. Ian's early career included extensive international private power work on Duke Energy's development team, acquiring and building large scale generation and distribution projects in Latin America, Australia, China and Southeast Asia. Subsequently Ian left Charlotte and headed West, where he was the lead analyst for the Boston Consulting Group's International Energy and Utilities practice group headquartered in San Francisco. For the next two years Ian lived and worked in Latin America, Europe and Australia on projects in the electric and natural gas industries. After completing his MBA from UCLA Ian's focus shifted to technology and he led several startups in the broadband media and wireless spaces raising over $10MM in funding. Two years of business planning and development work with The Esalen Institute in Big Sur rounded out a strong business background with broad exposure to sustainable technologies and construction as well the human development sector.

Ken Morgan
CTO / Chairman of the Board

Ken's keen technological vision and entrepreneurial zest has been a hallmark of his successful career spanning a remarkable breadth of industries and disciplines. Majoring in electrical engineering at Arizona State University and continuing with 4 years as an Air Force fighter jet technician, Ken is a passionate serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of starting and building companies in the technology, sustainability and design industries. From structural engineering to commercial and landscape design, to CNC manufacturing and net zero energy system development, Ken's broad knowledge base and applied experience give him a formidable edge in new technology design, development and commercialization. As an experienced fund raiser with over $14MM raised for various projects, Ken also has a wealth of solid experience bringing companies from concept to exit. Over years of working in the green and sustainable design field Ken has developed a deep technical understanding of sustainable technologies and best practices as well as a broad network of contacts with thought leaders, innovators and pioneers across the green technology industries.

Michael Slattery
Design Engineer

Michael holds a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) with a specialization in structural design. Michael's professional and technical development background includes work with the University of Massachusetts on radar assembly design and fabrication as well as work in statistical and mathematical data modeling, system design and integration, manufacturing and process control and light aircraft design and modeling.