dwellings for a new planet
Lisa Copass, Founder + CEO: Lisa has been an entrepreneur, running companies and profitable business units for over 25 years. She has launched some of the most innovative companies in her career and dozens of products and services throughout the Bay Area and the United States. Some of them include SAP (Ariba), Xsigo (bought by Cisco), Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Ebay and more. She gained expertise in, and a love for; construction, real estate and home staging, providing business and marketing consulting services to various design-build firms, real estate agencies and home staging companies in the Bay Area. She also started her own staging firm, blu home staging + design in 2015. Lisa holds 2 BA degrees from the University of Colorado (Boulder): one in communications, the other in cultural anthropology.
Kelly Greenwell, Co-Founder, Operations Director, Community Liaison: Kelly brings over 25 years of professional expertise to CloudHauz. Her experience managing multiple departments, including business functions and systems, customer processes and procedures, marketing communications and community outreach for start-ups are invaluable assets to the company. As the CloudHauz community liaison, Kelly is responsible for outreach to various un-housed communities and organizations in order to accomplish the company mission of bringing safe, affordable, fast and eco-friendly dwellings to disenfranchised populations. In 2001, Kelly founded and built a school for the children of Gili Air, an Indonesian Island that at the time had no formal school or education programs for their youth population. Kelly was involved in every aspect of the project including sourcing and developing the land for the school, fund raising, design and implementation and helping to physically build the school from the ground up. The Gili Air School remains today and is the first and only school available to the community.
Quimby Melton, PhD, Co-Founder + CMO + CFO: Quimby has a background in marketing, customer acquisition, sales funnel intelligence, data analytics, technology development, project management, media production and literary studies. Since 2006, he's worked with and founded a number of early-stage companies, including Studio Hyperset (a marketing consulting firm), GoConvert (a sales funnel intelligence app) and Confection (a post-cookie data management solution). Quimby graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia (AB, English, 2000). He went on to receive his MA (English, 2003) and PhD (English, 2008) from UNLV.
Nick Copass, COO + VP of Global Sales: Nick has 30 years of experience in industrial manufacturing, operations, sales, and sales force development and training. He has a deep command of the sales process, the product development life cycle and supply chain in multiple industries including; aerospace, industrial composites and metallurgy, building and construction materials and agricultural manufacturing equipment. As a sales representative and expert installation technician for TiteFlex, Senior Flexonics and Flexaust, he regularly serviced the Spaceship Shuttle Endeavor and worked with Lockheed Martin and Boeing to service the Atlas V rocket family. Nick holds a patent and has received multiple awards and accolades in sales goal attainment and organizational growth and employee training. In addition to earning his BA in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, he served in the United States Army Reserve for four years.
David Goldsmith, PhD/Professor Chief Commercial Officer: David’s background has ranged from construction engineering, geotechnical engineering, aerospace and composite engineering in both the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the government. He’s been involved with start-up companies and entrepreneurship, founding his first company in 2002 and has been a board member, advisor, and coach to dozens of start-up companies throughout the country. David was also an Instructor and Assistant Professor of Building and Construction Engineering at Virginia Tech. Currently, David is the Director of Sales for ThermaSteel, Inc., a Virginia based composite construction materials technology developer and manufacturer. David’s academic background includes a Master’s in Building Construction, and Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, in Design, Construction, and Planning; both from the University of Florida.
Stephen Williams, Board Advisor: Stephen is an experienced communications professional and entrepreneur, spending over 40 years in government and legislative affairs for the state of California and the city and county of San Francisco. During his tenure, Stephen managed communications for the Department of Transportation, the Small Business Administration and two San Franciscan Mayors. Stephen also owned and operated a recruiting firm representing clients including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Tectronix, Stanford Research Institute and Pan Am Airlines. Notably, Stephen was one of the founders of the Cypress Mandala Training Center in Oakland, CA, an organization providing under-served communities with a pre-apprenticeship training program for the building trades. He was a planning commissioner for Contra Costa County in Northern California for two years. Stephen studied Public Administration at Sacramento State University where he also participated intercollegiate athletics.
Rob Adkison, Board Advisor: After graduating from the University of Oklahoma with BA degree in Business Marketing in 1975, Rob launched his career in marketing specializing in oil and gas instrumentation equipment. He sold equipment to national and international oil companies, with his Tulsa, OK-based company, Geophysical Research Corporation (GRC), which he bought with a group of investors 30 years later. In 1979 Rob opened his own oil equipment rental business, Tri-Petro, Inc. where he owned and operated the business for 25 years, establishing the company as an international leader. After selling Tr-Petro, Rob took on the roll of Executive Vice President Sales role was Executive Vice President Sales domestic and international at CRG. Rob grew the markets through training and grooming worldwide sales managers, agents and field service representatives in countries including; Aberdeen, Bahrain, Brazil, China, Dubai, India, Indonesia, Mexico, New Iberia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad Tobago, and UAE as well as in the US (Louisiana and Oklahoma).
Under Rob’s tenure, GRC annual sales grew from $6mm per year in 2005 to $48 mm per year in 2014. Rob and the group of investors sold the business in January 2012, but Rob stayed on as a consultant through December 2017.
Kelly Greenwell, Co-Founder, Operations Director, Community Liaison: Kelly brings over 25 years of professional expertise to CloudHauz. Her experience managing multiple departments, including business functions and systems, customer processes and procedures, marketing communications and community outreach for start-ups are invaluable assets to the company. As the CloudHauz community liaison, Kelly is responsible for outreach to various un-housed communities and organizations in order to accomplish the company mission of bringing safe, affordable, fast and eco-friendly dwellings to disenfranchised populations. In 2001, Kelly founded and built a school for the children of Gili Air, an Indonesian Island that at the time had no formal school or education programs for their youth population. Kelly was involved in every aspect of the project including sourcing and developing the land for the school, fund raising, design and implementation and helping to physically build the school from the ground up. The Gili Air School remains today and is the first and only school available to the community.
Quimby Melton, PhD, Co-Founder + CMO + CFO: Quimby has a background in marketing, customer acquisition, sales funnel intelligence, data analytics, technology development, project management, media production and literary studies. Since 2006, he's worked with and founded a number of early-stage companies, including Studio Hyperset (a marketing consulting firm), GoConvert (a sales funnel intelligence app) and Confection (a post-cookie data management solution). Quimby graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia (AB, English, 2000). He went on to receive his MA (English, 2003) and PhD (English, 2008) from UNLV.
Nick Copass, COO + VP of Global Sales: Nick has 30 years of experience in industrial manufacturing, operations, sales, and sales force development and training. He has a deep command of the sales process, the product development life cycle and supply chain in multiple industries including; aerospace, industrial composites and metallurgy, building and construction materials and agricultural manufacturing equipment. As a sales representative and expert installation technician for TiteFlex, Senior Flexonics and Flexaust, he regularly serviced the Spaceship Shuttle Endeavor and worked with Lockheed Martin and Boeing to service the Atlas V rocket family. Nick holds a patent and has received multiple awards and accolades in sales goal attainment and organizational growth and employee training. In addition to earning his BA in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, he served in the United States Army Reserve for four years.
David Goldsmith, PhD/Professor Chief Commercial Officer: David’s background has ranged from construction engineering, geotechnical engineering, aerospace and composite engineering in both the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the government. He’s been involved with start-up companies and entrepreneurship, founding his first company in 2002 and has been a board member, advisor, and coach to dozens of start-up companies throughout the country. David was also an Instructor and Assistant Professor of Building and Construction Engineering at Virginia Tech. Currently, David is the Director of Sales for ThermaSteel, Inc., a Virginia based composite construction materials technology developer and manufacturer. David’s academic background includes a Master’s in Building Construction, and Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, in Design, Construction, and Planning; both from the University of Florida.
Stephen Williams, Board Advisor: Stephen is an experienced communications professional and entrepreneur, spending over 40 years in government and legislative affairs for the state of California and the city and county of San Francisco. During his tenure, Stephen managed communications for the Department of Transportation, the Small Business Administration and two San Franciscan Mayors. Stephen also owned and operated a recruiting firm representing clients including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Tectronix, Stanford Research Institute and Pan Am Airlines. Notably, Stephen was one of the founders of the Cypress Mandala Training Center in Oakland, CA, an organization providing under-served communities with a pre-apprenticeship training program for the building trades. He was a planning commissioner for Contra Costa County in Northern California for two years. Stephen studied Public Administration at Sacramento State University where he also participated intercollegiate athletics.
Rob Adkison, Board Advisor: After graduating from the University of Oklahoma with BA degree in Business Marketing in 1975, Rob launched his career in marketing specializing in oil and gas instrumentation equipment. He sold equipment to national and international oil companies, with his Tulsa, OK-based company, Geophysical Research Corporation (GRC), which he bought with a group of investors 30 years later. In 1979 Rob opened his own oil equipment rental business, Tri-Petro, Inc. where he owned and operated the business for 25 years, establishing the company as an international leader. After selling Tr-Petro, Rob took on the roll of Executive Vice President Sales role was Executive Vice President Sales domestic and international at CRG. Rob grew the markets through training and grooming worldwide sales managers, agents and field service representatives in countries including; Aberdeen, Bahrain, Brazil, China, Dubai, India, Indonesia, Mexico, New Iberia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad Tobago, and UAE as well as in the US (Louisiana and Oklahoma).
Under Rob’s tenure, GRC annual sales grew from $6mm per year in 2005 to $48 mm per year in 2014. Rob and the group of investors sold the business in January 2012, but Rob stayed on as a consultant through December 2017.
