Alan Tratner
Email: alan [at] smallbizentrepcntr [dot] org alan [at] green2gold [dot] org
Phone: (805) 879-1729
Alan Arthur Tratner, is President of the Inventors Workshop International and the Entrepreneur's Workshop, Director of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Center, a SCORE (US SBA) counselor, and was publisher of the Lightbulb Journal and INVENT! magazines. He is an inventor and serial entrepreneur, with 11 inventions/patents. Alan has been dubbed the "Minister of Ideas" by the media and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc, Entrepreneur, Business Week, TIME, USA Today, America Online Forum, NPR, and has appeared on OPRAH, CNN, Good Morning America, and CNBC. Alan has mentored and assisted thousands of inventors, new product developers and small biz start-ups. He was a former Professor of Environment and Energy, participated in the First International United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm Sweden, was staff member of Environmental Quality Magazine and helped establish Earth Day. He founded the Environmental Education Group Foundation with Nobel prize winner Dennis Gabor. Alan traveled the USA conducting the Ultimate Crisis seminars, led an environmental and alternative energy delegation to the former Soviet Union for the Citizen's Ambassador Program. He was editor of Energies Journal for the Solar Energy Society of America, published the Geothermal Energy magazine and Geothermal World Directory. In the 1990's he became Director of the Green Business Conference of the ECO EXPO, created the Eco Inventors and Eco Entrepreneurs Workshops, and the New Environmental Technologies Exhibits along with Derek Casari.
Alan also created the Young Eco Inventors Contest for kids. He founded the Green2Gold workshops and incubators for sustainable enterprises to foster new renewable energy technologies and green products/services. Alan has served on numerous boards and committees and projects in the public and private sectors and was appointed by the Governor of California as the Southern California Director of Sun Day--the international solar energy event.
He has presented over 3000 workshops from Stanford University to Moscow and has received recognition and awards from the White House, Governors and Mayors across the nation. He is a nominator for the annual Lemelson/MIT $500,000 award to American Inventors.